Get Involved: Organizations, Advocacy, and Local Initiatives

Organizations and Advocacy

• 350.org
• Climate Justice Alliance
• The Climate Mobilization
• Earthday’s 50th Anniversary Countdown
• The Environmental Working Group
• Extinction Rebellion
• Farm.One – Technology-powered urban vertical farm that grow a huge diversity of specialty crops for the world’s finest restaurants
• Food and Water Watch
• Greenpeace
• The Humane League
• Ironbound Community Corporation – Community organization located in Newark, NJ that has advocated to hold polluters of the Passaic River accountable and successfully resisted numerous proposals to build trash incinerators in Newark
• National Resource Defence Council
• New York Communities for Change
• NYC DSA Ecosocialist Working Group
• NYC Environmental Justice Alliance
• NYPIRG
• Organic Consumers Association
• People’s Climate Movement
• The Plantrician Project
• Prevention is the Cure
• Rainforest Action Network
• Rebuild by Design
• Sane Energy Project
• Second Nature – 12 college and university presidents initiated the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC); they were motivated by their conviction that higher education had the capacity and responsibility to lead on climate and sustainability action for the sake of their students and society
• Seeding Sovereignty
• Sierra Club
• Sunrise Movement
• Surfrider NYC
• Water for South Sudan
• We Act for Environmental Justice
• Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Local Initiatives

• Eagle Street Rooftop Farm – Rooftop farm and nonprofit in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
• Hellgate Farm – Started in Astoria, Queens, they run a network of greenspaces from rooftops to backyards for local food production
• LIC Roots – Our closest GrowNYC community garden (Right Behind the C-Bldg)
• Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space – Small site in the Lower East Side that covers the neighborhood’s history of grassroots activism in turning vacant spaces into community spaces and gardens
• NASA, Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
• The Newtown Creek Alliance – a community-based organization dedicated to restoring, revealing and revitalizing Newtown Creek
• PSC Environmental Justice Committee
• Queens County Farm Museum
• Red Hook Farms – Youth-centered urban farming and food justice program in Red Hook, Brooklyn
• Salt Tree Art – Creates community spaces that connect art and ecology
• Smiling Hogshead Ranch – LIC-based community farm and nonprofit community and educational space (Just Down Skillman Ave)
• Swale – Art installation of a public floating garden on a barge at Brooklyn Army Terminal

Learn More: Articles and Reports

List of Sources

• “ ‘A Message from the Future with AOC’: New Film Imagines a World Transformed by the Green New Deal.” Democracy Now.
• “ Air Pollution and Regulations.” NYC Department of Environmental Protection.
• Dawson, Ashley. “ The Global Calculus of Climate Disaster.” Boston Review. September 6, 2017.
• Dawson, Ashley. “ How Bad Politics and Bad Planning Make Hurricanes Even Worse.” In These Times. September 13, 2017.
• “ Deforestation. Child labor. Climate pollution. Is this what you want in your home?” Rainforest Action Network.
• Ellard, Peter. “ Don’t Think Your Campus Needs to Prepare for Climate Change? Here’s why you’re wrong.” Chronicle of Higher Education. May 3, 2019. (Available through LAGCC Library Databases)
• “ The Environmental Justice Movement.” National Resource Defense Council. March 17, 2016.
• Gardner, Lee. “ For Colleges, Climate Change Means Making Tough Choices.” Chronicle of Higher Education. May 3, 2019. (Available through LAGCC Library Databases)
• “ Global Climate Crisis and the City: An Interview with Ashley Dawson.” Metropolitics. April 3, 2019.
• “ Global Warming of 1.5 ºC.” United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. October 8, 2018.
• Gunn-Wright, Rhiana and Robert Hockett. “ The Green New Deal.” New Consensus. January 2019.
• Hopper, David. “ Edwin Stafford, Utah State University – Air Pollution Posters.” Academic Minute. April 19, 2019.
• Humes, Edward. “ The US Recycling System is Garbage.” Sierra Club. June 26, 2019.
• “ Key Facts about Plastic Pollution.” Greenpeace.
• “ Learn about Environmental Justice.” US Department of Environmental Protection.
• McKibben, Bill. “ At Last, Divestment Is Hitting the Fossil Fuel Industry Where It Hurts.” The Guardian. December 2018.
• Myers, Ben and Erica Lusk. “ Rising Threat, As the climate changes and seas swell, coastal colleges struggle to prepare.” Chronicle of Higher Education. December 6, 2017. (Available through LAGCC Library Databases)
• “ Preventing Plastic Pollution.” Greenpeace.
• “ Read a Chapter from ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ A Dire Warning on Climate Change.” PBS Newshour.
• “ Strategic Plan.” Second Nature.
• “ Tidal Wetland Assessment and Restoration.” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
• “ ‘Trash it. Don’t Flush It.’ Public Awareness Campaign Encourages New Yorkers to Properly Dispose of Waste.” NYC Department of Environmental Protection. February 21, 2019.
• Why Race Matters When We Talk About the Environment: An interview with Dr. Robert Bullard
• Environmental Justice
• Five years later: Flint water crisis most egregious example of environmental injustice, U-M researcher says
• The Flint Water Crisis. A Case of Environmental Injustice or Environmental Racism
• Pruitt has made environmental injustice the norm at EPA: 5 shocking examples
• 3 Environmental Injustices Happening Now
• New York City must end environmental racism
• Environmental Justice
• The world's top 10 battles for environmental justice
• Environmental Racism Case Study: New York City

LaGuardia Staff and Faculty Take Action

LaGuardia Staff and Faculty Work

• LAGCC Sustainability Council – Students, staff, and faculty at LaGuardia committed to making the college more sustainable and eco-friendly
• “ Newtown Creek Bulkhead Habitat Project.” City Parks Foundation. Features Professor Sarah Durand’s Work on the cleanup of Newtown Creek.
• Shantigar Collegiate Residency – Humanities Professor David Stott accompanied a group of 11 students and 1 faculty member to Shantigar, MA where they filmed the experience of being in nature for the first time.
• Shantigar Collegiate Residency - Testimonials (Shantigar Website)
• Shantigar Collegiate Residency - Testimonials (YouTube)
• Taking Action on Climate Change Video Contest – Natural Sciences Professors Maria Entezari, Na Xu, and Amit Aggarwal and English Professor Ximena Gallardo organized the contest and encouraged students across the campus from all disciplines to submit videos that highlight action being taken by governments, civil society groups, businesses, investors, the scientific community, and others around the globe to address the climate crisis. Links to the videos of the contest winners can be seen by logging into Digication.
• Climate Change by Tyesha Henry
• Climate Change and Sustainability by Elon Reyes-Dawson
• Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle by Reggie Lopez, Digonto Barua, and Angel Martinez
• “ Tiny Creatures Breathe New Life into a Toxic Waterway.” wnyc.org. March 10, 2016. Another story featuring Professor Durand’s great work.
• Study with the Best: Water and CUNY. CUNY TV. Features Professor Holly Porter-Morgan and her students and showcases her work on the water quality and restoration of Newtown Creek.