Recaps · September 21 to 27, 2026
Climate Week at Caravan of Dreams
Every talk from the Climate Week takeover at Caravan of Dreams in the East Village, written up in plain English with transcripts and audio.
Monday, September 21
Climate Week #1
The Science and Art of Regenerative Economics
John Fullerton
John Fullerton opens Climate Week. He argues that neoclassical economics was built on Newtonian physics by men who wanted to control society. He offers a compass, eight living-systems principles, and no solutions.
Climate Week #2
We Already Have the Solutions. So Why Aren't We Using Them?
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, interviewed live for Better Future on the first afternoon of Climate Week. Move your money, vote, bring your neighbor muffins, and stop waiting for a perfect solution.
Climate Week #3
Putting Together the Pieces of Systemic Change
Rosie von Lila, Jessica Wade, Elisa Haggarty, Carolina García Arbeláez, Charlotte Binns, Erin Axelrod, Josh Nussbaum, Félix de Rosen, Roxi Shohadaee, Douglas Rushkoff
Climate Week at Caravan of Dreams opens with a night hosted with Denizen. Ten lightning talks start inside a single person. They end with Douglas Rushkoff on lessening the severity of the decree.
Tuesday, September 22
Climate Week #4
Our Crises Call for Re-enchantment
Sadie Rittman, Jeremy D Johnson, Sophia Rokhlin, Henry Kramer
An equinox panel takes re-enchantment as an approach to the metacrisis. It covers threshold beings, three metaphors for disenchantment and a fish that drinks yagé. Five breaths let an image into the room. A grounding ritual in a garden down 6th Street closes it.
Metacrisis Salon #15
What to Do as the World Falls Apart
Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens brings The Great Simplification to Salon 15 at Caravan of Dreams. He draws four scenarios out of 256 combinations. He expects a famine in 2028. He names the five things a nervous system needs before cognition can do anything.
Wednesday, September 23
Climate Week #5
East Village Tour: Energy and Innovation
Wendy Brawer, Haym Gross, Amy Berkov
Wendy Brawer of Green Map leads a ninety-minute walk through the East Village and Loisaida during Climate Week. She covers housing money, the SUNNY Act, Passive House, the squats and the gardens. Amy Berkov speaks on trees at 6 & B.
Climate Week #6
Mapping the Climate Ecosystem
Vincent Arena, Wendy McLean, Rob Hurwich
The team demos the Climate Week knowledge graph built on the Arcos Earth platform infrastructure and walks through its open source Collaborative Operating Agreement. They argue that a commons, unlike a map, keeps growing after Climate Week ends.
Climate Week #7
Community Gardens of the Future
Daniela Sweet-Coll, Anthony Reuter, Ena McPherson
A panel on New York's community gardens, from street tree beds in Crown Heights to GreenThumb and the Bed-Stuy gardens that fought for their land. Six tables then pick a future and name a first step.
Thursday, September 24
Climate Week #8
Aligning AI Safety with Earth
Natalia Vasquez
A working session on Earth alignment: what values an AI model should hold toward the living world, and who gets to decide. Five groups report back on evaluations, data, governance and design.
Climate Week #9
Krill Baby Krill: Piloting an Activist Investment Trust for the Antarctic
Overstories, Collective Capital Lab
A working session on an activist investment trust for the Antarctic krill fight, held under Chatham House rules. Campaigners, investors and organizers split into four groups: algae, litigation, retailers and culture.
Climate Week #10
Biodiversity Love and Law
Eva Frye, César Rodríguez-Garavito, Ben Levitan, Roxi Shohadaee
Whale recordings open a panel on how stories, art and law protect living things. It covers whale rights, Endangered Species Act lawsuits, a forest rule open for comment, and design built on love.
Climate Week #11
Dreaming a World that Works for All
Jeff Wells
The Ecocivilization Coalition sets out its plan to link the world's islands of coherence into one movement. Then about twenty-five people say what they are building and what they need.
Friday, September 25
Climate Week #12
True Human: A Story Big Enough to Carry Us
Samantha Sweetwater
The author of True Human names separation from nature as the cause under the crises and offers a larger story in its place. The morning ends with red threads tied from wrist to wrist.
Climate Week #13
The Climate Engagement Lab
Jonathan J. Halperin
A demonstration of the Multi-Sensory Climate Center: ten climate images in a darkened room, each rated fast on word pairs. Then the room questioned the method, from AI images to missing anger.