What is it like to be a young person at the forefront of climate activism? What lessons about urgency and justice can we learn from youth leaders? What intergenerational connections can we make to face the climate crisis more effectively together? Join Jade Lozada and Otto Moran, two youth strikers, Zina Precht-Rodriguez with the Sunrise Movement, and moderator Miranda Massie with the Climate Museum to explore these questions and others.

This panel will take place at the Climate Museum’s Taking Action exhibition, a show itself inspired by the youth climate movement, at Nolan Park, House 18 on Governors Island.

Space is limited; please RSVP via eventbrite.

There’s good news about the climate crisis every day—advances on solutions as well as growing awareness and political commitment—but the fundamental physical news is almost always bad. Climate impacts are worsening faster than predicted. A new book by top experts has just come out on this under-estimation bias: here’s the author's summary in Scientific American.

What is it like to be a climate scientist directly confronting these stark realities every day in your work? What lessons about resilience—and courage—can we draw from the practice of climate science? What connections can we make across disciplines and other boundaries to help us face the climate crisis?

Join Dr. Sonali McDermid to explore these questions and others on the social and psychological context for climate science. We will also hear her assessment of where climate science is advancing fastest and where it needs to catch up to what is happening in our world today.

Dr. McDermid teaches Environmental Studies at NYU, holds a PhD in Atmospheric Science and Climatology from Columbia University, and was a NASA Post-Doctoral researcher at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. She is a contributing author to the UN’s upcoming Land Report and an established expert on climate change and food security, among other subjects.

Space is limited. Please RSVP on our eventbrite page.

Dr. Sonali McDermid will also remain at the exhibition from 3:45pm - 6:00pm to field questions from the public.

Dr. Edward Maibach, an internationally renowned pioneer in the field of climate communications, will be offering a special program on communicating climate solutions and our exhibition Taking Action. Maibach, in dialogue with Climate Museum Director Miranda Massie, will discuss research findings regarding public opinion on the climate crisis and the challenges and opportunities presented by climate communications, with opportunities for questions and dialogue throughout. Maibach and Massie will discuss the climate communications techniques and ideas underpinning the content design of the exhibition Taking Action, how they respond to some of the identified challenges within communications about the climate crisis, and how they relate to broader trends in climate advocacy. Wine and light refreshments will be served.

Admission is free. Space is limited. Please RSVP on our eventbrite page.

Building on our recent work with climate poetry and performance, we will have a table at the The New York City Poetry Festival this year! Together, we will create a collective poem about the climate crisis and how we can respond to make a better future. For inspiration, we will also have printed versions of the poems of our 14 finalists from Climate Speaks. Come contribute a line!

Every year on the last weekend of July, The New York City Poetry Festival invites poetry organizations and collectives of all shapes and sizes to bring their unique formats, aesthetics, and personalities to the festival grounds. By uniting the largest community of poets in the country and offering a unique setting for literary activity, the New York City Poetry Festival electrifies arts and literature and brings poetry to new light in the public eye.