Cooper Climate Coalition

Artist, Helen O'Leary talks about her application of sustainability in her practice including an Open Source Solar Dye Cart!

Nikki Romanello describes her process of working with Mycelium in her art practice.

Sander Mann shares new developments in solar technology.

Erin Jane Nelson shares her art and social practice and explains the ways that her work both formally and conceptually interacts with the climate crisis.

Katie Holten, an artist and activist, presented her practice, her tree alphabets and the intersection of art and activism in the current climate.

Sam Anderson, staff writer for the New York Times Magazine, spoke to us on his research on the last two remaining white rhinos.

Natania Meeker and Antónia Szabari, both associate professors of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, spoke on their recent book, Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fictions (Fordham University Press, 2019).

Erum Sattar spoke on the rush in Asia in particular to build large dams in the context of climate change and the impact of melting glaciers on the long term viability of infrastructure such that other types of transition and adaptation are precluded or slowed down.

Scott Z. Burns spoke on his journey into the world of the climate crisis and the importance of telling the story of Climate.

Activist, designer, and Brooklyn Grange team member Cecilia de Corral presents on the design and construction process, as well as the benefits of urban green roofs.

Writer and artist Ingrid Burrington focuses on geology’s often overlooked relationship with the climate crisis, and the various nuances of how global markets, and the extraction of the earth’s minerals exacerbate the issue.

Writer, architecture professor and historian Esther Choi discusses the overwhelming state of the climate crisis, it’s relationship to the fabricated world, and how climate Solutions may not be as out of reach as they seem.

Creative technologist, designer and researcher Austin Wade Smith discusses the rituals and technologies through which individuals perceive and perform their role as actors in ecological networks. Smith focuses on the myriad of ways we embody the environment through the practices of everyday life.

Architecture Professor and critic Elisa Iturbe gives a brief history on carbon’s deep integration in our global economies and our built environment, and expands on how one can overcome their carbon addiction within their professional and/or creative practice.

Jessica Martinez (A’20), Christien Vargas (A’20), and Ana Hierro (A’20) joined us for a conversation on Agroecological farming practices and their trip to Puerto Rico to discover the changing attitudes on food consumption and its connection to the land.

Cornelia Walther, a communications specialist at UNICEF, joined us to discuss her recent book. Development, Humanitarian Aid, and Social Welfare — Social Change from the Inside Out. In it, she examines how human behavior is shaped, and how the experiences that result from our behavior impact ourselves, others and the planet.

A discussion with Houston-based artist and educator Anna Mayer, whose practice directly links material to climate as it continues to change our ecosystems at home and across the globe. She presented some of  her recent works and discussed how her practice has been shaped by the climate crisis.

A discussion with Gernot Wagner, professor of climate economics and policy at NYU, on lessons we can take from the coronavirus pandemic and his recent piece in Times, Pausing the World to Fight Coronavirus Has Carbon Emissions Down— But True Climate Success Looks Like More Action, Not Less.

A discussion with Matthew Hayek, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at NYU, on his research into the land use requirements of food production, examining regional and global opportunities for reforestation and negative carbon emissions entailed by shifting toward more efficient consumption patterns and production systems.

Entrepreneur and philosopher, Tamen Jadad Garcia, spoke to us on her new piece, What if we pursued more ‘enough’?, where asks what would happen if we gave ourselves permission to pause and consider a radically different option to judge what it means to have “made it”?

A conversation with climate writers Rachel Riederer and Abby Rabinowitz on the psychology of climate change and COVID-19. This discussion was centered around Rachel’s piece in the New Yorker, The Other Kind of Climate Denialism.

Professor of Chemical Engineering, Amanda Simson, provides an introduction to birdwatching for wherever you are in the world.

In celebration of Earth Day, The Race & Climate Change Reading Group had its final meeting of the semester. The group, started by Dean Nada Ayad, provides space for students, faculty, and staff to explore texts that address the intersection of race and climate. This month we read Kathryn Yusoff’s A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None.

A conversation featuring Cooper Union student Jessica Martinez, alumni Jasper Kerbs, and the Director of the Writing Center, Kit Nicholls, on growing food and composting within their homes.