Students, faculty and administrators gathered to make posters and prepare for the Global Climate Strike before walking to Foley Square as a group. Sustainable materials for poster-making were provided as well as a breakfast for all participating members of the Cooper Union community.
Cooper Union X Climate Week 2019 is a student-led series of events that provides space for The Cooper Union and its broader community to explore and engage in themes, across a variety of disciplines, which examine the many facets of the climate crisis.
Students, faculty and administrators left from the Cooper Union Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues.
The Cooper Climate Coalition, an open body of students, faculty, and staff at The Cooper Union, facilitates conversations, events, and student projects within the institution that center the Climate Crisis and its intersections with races, classes, genders, sexualities, histories, economies, political structures and more.
Along with organizing Cooper Union’s Climate Week programs and events in the fall, the Climate Coalition takes responsibility for fostering interdisciplinarity throughout The Cooper Union in support of environmental action.
