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The metacrisis is planetary. Your life is local. This is the map of who is already doing the work in New York, and how to show up.
Reading about the metacrisis is step one. Step two is looking up from the page and noticing you live in a city of eight million people where thousands of them are already at work: growing food, hauling compost, running mesh networks, suing polluters, holding grief circles, making art about all of it.
None of these groups would call themselves metacrisis organizations. That is fine. Each one holds a piece. To be clear: we are not an organization and we are not fundraising. Our job is to send you to them. The map below sorts groups by the piece they hold, links each piece back to the ideas behind it, and tells you how to show up. New to the whole conversation? Start with Metacrisis 101.
The Bushwick Desk
Our salons happen in Bushwick. These are the neighbors already doing the work within walking distance of the room.
Bushwick
Arts in Bushwick / Bushwick Open Studios
Volunteer-run arts org behind Bushwick Open Studios, the neighborhood-wide open-studio weekend, plus vendor markets and youth programs.
Culture-making as sense-making. BOS keeps working artists visible and rooted while displacement pressure grinds on the same blocks.
Show up: Register a venue or volunteer via artsinbushwick.org/bos2026/.
Bushwick
Volunteer network of Bushwick neighbors supporting neighbors since 2020. Food and essential-goods distribution, plus referrals to trusted legal, housing and medical orgs. Bilingual by default.
Mutual aid as the neighborhood's shock absorber. This is what distributed care looks like when systems strain: neighbors, spreadsheets, groceries.
Show up: Sign up at bushwickayudamutua.com/volunteer or donate via their Open Collective.
Bushwick
13,000 sq ft volunteer-built public garden at 46-50 Goodwin Pl, reclaimed from a dumping ground in 2017 by Kofi Thomas and neighbors. Grows food that gets given away, hosts arts, education and cultural events April through December.
Free food, no gate, grown by seniors and neighbors on land nobody wanted. A working model of commons restoration.
Show up: Drop in during open season (April-December) or join a volunteer day.
Bushwick
New York's largest immigrant-led membership org, 30,000+ members, headquartered at 301 Grove St in Bushwick. Organizing, legal services, health access, adult education, youth power.
The communities hit first by climate, housing and immigration shocks, organized at serious scale. Polycrisis response as membership power, not charity.
Show up: Join as a member, volunteer, or route Know Your Rights resources through their We Protect Us hub.
Bushwick
Multi-story organizing center and social hub for grassroots groups, Bushwick residents, artists and activists, run alongside sister venue Starr Bar. Sliding-scale rooms host classes, trainings, screenings, meetings and benefit parties.
The physical commons where climate, housing, immigrant and labor organizing share one roof. Connective-tissue infrastructure, and right now it is fighting for survival.
Show up: Email info@maydayspace.org to volunteer or book space. Give to the #SaveMayday campaign via maydayspace.org/donate.
Bushwick
Bilingual Spanish/English bookstore and community center at 323 Linden St, volunteer co-op curating Black, Latinx and Indigenous heritage. Spanish classes, ethnobotany workshops, explicit anti-gentrification mission.
Language justice and cultural memory as infrastructure. The store doubled as a mutual aid node in the pandemic and stayed rooted.
Show up: Buy books there or via bookshop.org/shop/milmundosbooks; ask about hosting a bilingual event.
Williamsburg, works across East Williamsburg
Environmental justice and land-use watchdog since 1994 for Greenpoint, Williamsburg and East Williamsburg. Legacy toxics, Meeker Ave plume Superfund monitoring, soil testing, indoor air studies.
They know what is actually in the soil and air of the industrial zone that 245 Varet sits inside. Slow violence, measured block by block.
Show up: Join their mailing list, attend a town hall, or request soil testing info for a nearby lot.
Programs at Ridgewood Reservoir, the Greenbelt, Lemon Creek, and beyond
Water ecology education nonprofit. Tours, school field trips, and volunteer cleanups at reservoirs, creeks, and shorelines in all five boroughs.
Teaches New Yorkers where their water actually comes from and where it goes. Watershed literacy as a quiet form of civic grounding.
Show up: Pick a shoreline cleanup or reservoir walk from the events page and show up.
Bushwick
RiseBoro Community Partnership
Bushwick-born community development org, 50+ years old. Affordable and sustainable housing development, senior meals and homecare, sustainability services, adult education. HQ at 565 Bushwick Ave.
Proof that deep-green affordable housing and elder care can run at neighborhood scale. They build Passive House-grade buildings and deliver meals from the same org chart.
Show up: Volunteer and career pages at riseboro.org; their sustainability division takes partnership inquiries.
East Williamsburg
North Brooklyn community development nonprofit since 1975. Affordable housing for 7,000 families, eviction prevention, eldercare, youth education, and workforce training including environmental remediation courses.
Trains locals into remediation and green jobs while holding the affordability line. Livelihoods-in-transition, done unglamorously for 50 years.
Show up: Workforce, volunteer and donation pages at stnicksalliance.org.
Formerly Ridgewood, Queens; now 414 Broadway, 3rd Fl, Manhattan
Experimental hub for developing the practices, skills and tools to build autonomy. Talks, film screenings, reading groups, dinners, skillshares and benefit fundraisers since 2014. Born in Ridgewood; moved to 414 Broadway, Manhattan in December 2025.
The closest thing NYC has to a standing metacrisis institution: autonomy, collapse, care and political theory, practiced weekly for a decade.
Show up: Join the mailing list, attend an event, or propose a crossover session.
Climate & Environmental Justice
The neighborhoods hit first and worst, and the groups that have been fighting longest.
In the glossary: Externalities · Tipping Points · Planetary Boundaries
Williamsburg, works across East Williamsburg
Environmental justice and land-use watchdog since 1994 for Greenpoint, Williamsburg and East Williamsburg. Legacy toxics, Meeker Ave plume Superfund monitoring, soil testing, indoor air studies.
They know what is actually in the soil and air of the industrial zone that 245 Varet sits inside. Slow violence, measured block by block.
Show up: Join their mailing list, attend a town hall, or request soil testing info for a nearby lot.
Programs at Ridgewood Reservoir, the Greenbelt, Lemon Creek, and beyond
Water ecology education nonprofit. Tours, school field trips, and volunteer cleanups at reservoirs, creeks, and shorelines in all five boroughs.
Teaches New Yorkers where their water actually comes from and where it goes. Watershed literacy as a quiet form of civic grounding.
Show up: Pick a shoreline cleanup or reservoir walk from the events page and show up.
Brooklyn
Volunteer borough group running monthly meetings, legislative pressure, plastic reduction, and resilience workshops.
They translate the global carbon problem into things a Brooklyn resident can do this month.
Show up: Sign up for the newsletter (lands 2nd and 4th Tuesdays), then attend a monthly general meeting, usually at a Brooklyn library. Working groups from podcasting to legislation take newcomers.
Citywide
Restores oyster reefs in New York Harbor with students, volunteers, and shells recycled from over 90 NYC restaurants.
The harbor-ecology layer: rebuilding the living reef that once buffered the city's storms and filtered its water.
Show up: Public volunteer days on Governors Island (18+, or 16+ with a parent), membership, school programs for teachers.
Starlight Park / West Farms
Coordinated voice for the Bronx River. Restores and stewards the 23-mile river corridor with conservation crews, paddling, cleanups, and education from River House in Starlight Park.
A river the city treated as a sewer for a century is coming back. Living proof that patient multi-decade stewardship reverses damage everyone called permanent.
Show up: Join a Monday cleanup or a Paddle and Pick Up via the volunteer page. Group paddles bookable.
Manhattan
Trains volunteers to lobby members of Congress for bipartisan climate policy like carbon fee and dividend.
They bet on the persuasion layer: that trained constituents can still move Congress across party lines.
Show up: Sign up through the chapter form, attend the national monthly Zoom (second Saturday, 1pm ET), then get connected to local lobby work by the chapter leads.
Manhattan
Lower East Side watchdog nonprofit that fought the $2B East Side Coastal Resiliency plan and now monitors the rebuilt park, runs three LES air-quality sensors, and campaigns against synthetic turf.
Lives inside the hardest metacrisis question in NYC: when flood protection itself destroys what a community loves, who decides the tradeoff?
Show up: Open meetings and potlucks, newsletter, and citizen air-quality monitoring advocacy.
Williamsburg
Williamsburg human rights organization growing youth leaders through arts, schools, and its Green Light District environmental campaign.
The culture-and-youth layer: art and leadership development as climate justice tools.
Show up: Arts events, youth programs, alumni network, donations. Less built for drop-in volunteers than the water orgs.
Brooklyn
Direct action group that uses civil disobedience, art builds, and street theater to force climate onto the agenda.
They work the alarm layer: making collapse visible in public space when normal politics won't say it out loud.
Show up: Show up Wednesday 7pm at 68 Jay St, Brooklyn. Weekly meeting with free chili and a built-in newcomer orientation. No prep needed.
Citywide
Staffed national nonprofit running volunteer teams against gas pipelines and for the NY HEAT Act and building electrification.
They fight the infrastructure lock-in layer: every pipeline approved now is thirty more years of the old system.
Show up: Sign up for the New York volunteer team on their Mobilize page and check a box for what you want to do. An organizer contacts you. Regular open Zoom and in-person meetings.
Gowanus
Nonprofit steward of the Gowanus Canal watershed. Habitat restoration, street tree care, rain gardens, a native plant nursery, walking tours, and education around a live Superfund cleanup.
A toxic industrial canal getting cleaned up while luxury rezoning builds around it. Ecological repair, development pressure, and community stewardship all colliding in one watershed.
Show up: Email volunteer@gowanuscanalconservancy.org for weekly nursery, street tree, or rain garden shifts. Group volunteer days available.
Manhattan
Multi-faith climate justice network headquartered in NYC; trains local circles and runs actions targeting fossil fuel finance.
They pair spiritual practice with confrontation of fossil fuel finance, holding grief and action in the same container.
Show up: Email to find or start a GreenFaith Circle. They also run climate grief circles. No public NYC drop-in calendar, so the email is the real front door.
Flushing
Human-powered boaters and residents organizing for a clean, equitably accessible Flushing Bay and Creek in Queens.
Water justice in the city's most diverse borough: sewage overflows, waterfront access, and development pressure in one watershed.
Show up: Volunteer intake form, paddling and shoreline events, pollution reporting, newsletter.
Marine Park
Stewards Brooklyn's biggest park: nearly 800 acres of grassland, urban forest, and salt marsh. Volunteer invasive removal, shoreline cleanups, environmental education, teen leadership program.
Salt marsh is NYC's frontline flood buffer and carbon sink. Stewarding it is climate adaptation you can do with your hands.
Show up: Volunteer signups at marineparkalliance.org/volunteer/. Teens: leadership program apps due Aug 1.
Citywide
New York Interfaith Power & Light
Helps congregations statewide cut energy use, go renewable, and lobby on climate as a moral issue.
They work the meaning layer inside existing institutions: reframing climate as stewardship for communities that already gather weekly.
Show up: Individuals apply through the individual application on the site; congregations through the congregation application. Work happens through your own faith community, not drop-in meetings.
Greenpoint
Restores, reveals, and re-greens Newtown Creek, the Superfund waterway between Brooklyn and Queens.
The repair layer: turning an industrial sacrifice zone back into living habitat, one marsh at a time.
Show up: Walking tours, volunteer days, newsletter, student fellowships.
Citywide
Statewide coalition of nearly 400 climate, labor, and community groups that won New York's climate law and now fights to fund and enforce it.
The policy layer: turning street-level climate anger into binding state law, then defending it.
Show up: Join the mailing list for action alerts; organizations can apply to become coalition members.
Brooklyn
NYC Climate Justice Hub (CUNY + NYC-EJA)
Partnership where six frontline environmental justice groups set the research and advocacy agenda and CUNY supplies students, classes, fellows, and research capacity.
Inverts the usual power arrangement: communities on the frontline of the crisis direct the university, not the other way around.
Show up: The hub site has a Get Involved section. Public summits and symposia. For students: Climate Justice Fellowship and internships with NYC-EJA member groups.
Citywide
NYC Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA)
Citywide alliance of grassroots EJ organizations running joint campaigns on waste, energy, extreme heat, and waterfront resilience.
The coordination layer: stitches neighborhood fights into one citywide climate justice agenda.
Show up: Follow campaigns and attend public events like the gala. Most engagement runs through its member orgs.
Citywide
NYC-DSA Ecosocialist Working Group
The climate arm of NYC's Democratic Socialists; won the Build Public Renewables Act and organizes for public power.
They go after the ownership layer: who controls the grid, arguing you cannot decarbonize a system built to extract profit.
Show up: Email climate@socialists.nyc or join NYC-DSA and pick the working group. Signup form on ecosocialists.nyc for updates. Expect onboarding through the chapter, not a public calendar.
Citywide
Staffed statewide public interest group lobbying for climate laws like the Climate Superfund and against data center energy grabs.
They defend the legal layer: the laws already won that industry is now trying to unwind.
Show up: Three doors: join the Community Action Network for petition and call actions, join a campus chapter if you are a student, or take a paid canvassing job via Jobs for the Environment. Not a drop-in meeting culture.
Brooklyn
Youth-led direct action crew targeting fossil fuel financiers, Big Tech billionaires, and the super-rich.
They name the driver plainly: concentrated wealth, and disrupt the people holding it.
Show up: Email to get on the monthly onboarding call, then plug into action trainings and social events. Entry is relational, not calendar-based.
Citywide
Uses science, law, and advocacy to protect the Hudson River and NYC's drinking water, and runs the annual watershed-wide Sweep cleanup.
The enforcement layer: suing polluters and monitoring the water nine million people actually drink.
Show up: Sweep cleanup day each May, community science water sampling, ambassador tabling, volunteer form.
Marine Park
Friends group behind the Salt Marsh Nature Center in Marine Park: weekend open hours, ranger-led nature walks, education programs, and resident animal ambassadors.
Keeps a public nature center alive at the edge of Jamaica Bay. Attention and access as conservation tools.
Show up: Visit weekends, join a ranger walk, enter the 2026 nature photography competition, or volunteer via their contact page.
Mott Haven
Mott Haven and Port Morris residents fighting for clean air, waterfront access, and community land ownership.
The air, land, and health layer: a neighborhood carrying the city's truck traffic and asthma burden while building a land trust.
Show up: Join the Local Action Committee, sign up for the newsletter, attend events.
Tompkinsville / St. George
North Shore community development and environmental justice hub in a Bay Street storefront. Youth programs, art builds, open mics, EJ coalition, Tompkinsville Park revitalization.
Runs the North Shore's environmental justice coalition out of a storefront, mixing organizing, healing, and art. Community power on the borough the city forgets.
Show up: Attend an EJ Coalition monthly meeting or a Who Needs Healing open mic.
Citywide
Youth climate hub that runs electoral, legislative, and direct action campaigns for a Green New Deal.
They work the political power layer: electing people and passing laws before the window closes.
Show up: Fill the new member interest form on the site. They set up a 1:1 intro call, then place you on a team (actions, art, comms, electoral, legislation, political education).
Hunts Point
Hunts Point community development corporation using arts and environmental justice to revitalize the South Bronx peninsula.
Works where the city's food supply, freight pollution, and flood risk all pile onto one neighborhood.
Show up: Newsletter, community events, and their activism platform at act.thepoint.org.
Citywide
Organizes people over 60 to use their money, time, and voting power on climate and democracy.
They mobilize the generation holding most of the wealth and the voting power, aimed at both climate and democratic breakdown.
Show up: Join the monthly Zoom meeting, third Tuesday at 6pm, or drop into Zoom office hours the second Wednesday at 1pm. Join button on the site. In-person community meetups three times a year.
Citywide
Student-run climate organization with high school and college members across all five boroughs, focused on state and city climate policy.
They train teenagers to move state budgets, building the next cohort of organizers before burnout culture gets them.
Show up: Weekly policy and political team meetings every Thursday at 7pm. Join via the membership form on the site. Built for students; adults should partner rather than join.
Sunset Park
Sunset Park's intergenerational Latino-led organization pushing climate justice and a just transition on Brooklyn's industrial waterfront.
Builds the just-transition layer: converting an industrial waterfront into community-controlled green infrastructure.
Show up: Monthly newsletter, Take Action page, public events like the 60th anniversary celebration.
Manhattan
WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Organizes Northern Manhattan residents to fight air pollution and win environmental health policy at city, state, and federal levels.
Works the layer where pollution, race, and power meet: who breathes the bad air and who decides.
Show up: Formal membership program at https://weact.org/get-involved/membership/, environmental education courses, campaign volunteering.
Soundview / Bruckner
Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice
Soundview youth organizing and community development group. Brownfield remediation, the Southern Boulevard planning study, youth programs, immigrant services, and community markets.
Trains Bronx teens to take on the crises stacked on their zip code: brownfields, highways, disinvestment. Youth agency treated as infrastructure, not programming.
Show up: Show up to El Mercado de los Pueblos, or reach out about the Soundview Economic Hub campaign.
Resilience & Mutual Aid
The people building the systems that hold when the big systems wobble.
In the glossary: Bend Not Break · Deep Adaptation · The Great Simplification
Bushwick
Volunteer network of Bushwick neighbors supporting neighbors since 2020. Food and essential-goods distribution, plus referrals to trusted legal, housing and medical orgs. Bilingual by default.
Mutual aid as the neighborhood's shock absorber. This is what distributed care looks like when systems strain: neighbors, spreadsheets, groceries.
Show up: Sign up at bushwickayudamutua.com/volunteer or donate via their Open Collective.
Queens
Astoria Food Pantry / Astoria Mutual Aid Network
Volunteer-run pantry and mutual aid storefront at 25-82 Steinway St: twice-weekly grocery distributions, a free store, community fridges, and shared space for the People's Bodega, Astoria Tenant Union, and Rolling Library.
Shows the post-2020 evolution of mutual aid: a hotline became a permanent physical commons that several projects share.
Show up: Volunteer shifts at distributions (schedule on site), item donations, or money via GiveButter. No ID, no questions model.
Brooklyn
Neighbor-run mutual aid network in Bed-Stuy, born March 2020, that now does food distributions, political education, and a member community fund rather than a standing delivery hotline.
Proof that neighbor-to-neighbor networks can lie dormant and re-fire within days when a federal system breaks.
Show up: Join as a member at bedstuystrong.com/membership (open to anyone with ties to Bed-Stuy), then plug into Slack, distributions, and reading groups.
Park Slope / Gowanus
Fifty-plus years old soup kitchen and food pantry on Fourth Avenue. Breakfast and lunch six days a week, take-home groceries, and a residence for young mothers with infants.
The unglamorous base layer of community resilience: feeding people, every day, for five decades. What steady care looks like when it outlives news cycles.
Show up: Sign up for meal service shifts at chipsonline.org/volunteer. Group and food rescue slots too.
Citywide
Citywide volunteer network that maintains the directory and resource hub for NYC mutual aid groups: a borough-by-borough group map plus a curated library of food, housing, and immigration resources.
The connective tissue layer: it maps the mutual aid ecosystem so people find help and groups find each other.
Show up: Use the directory to find a neighborhood group, submit missing resources, or join their volunteer working groups.
Greenpoint / Williamsburg
Volunteer-run collective in Greenpoint and Williamsburg: community fridges, weekly compost at McGolrick Park, care kits, and a maintained list of free-food resources across North Brooklyn.
Pandemic-born and still running: fridges, compost and care kits as permanent neighborhood infrastructure, framed explicitly around intersecting injustices.
Show up: Stock a fridge, join the McGolrick Park compost crew, or volunteer via their site.
Citywide
NYC CERT (NYC Emergency Management)
The city's official volunteer emergency corps: free 11-session training in fire safety, search and rescue, traffic management, and first aid, then placement on a neighborhood team that deploys in emergencies.
The institutional layer of neighborhood preparedness: trained neighbors who act in the gap before agencies arrive.
Show up: Apply for the free basic training cycle; graduates join a local CERT and staff preparedness events year-round.
Citywide
NYC Emergency Management: Ready New York
The city's public emergency-preparedness education campaign. Free trainings, guides in many languages, and staff who will come present to your group.
The household-preparedness layer: go-bags, plans, and meeting places, the city's baseline answer to shocks.
Show up: Request a free preparedness presentation for any community space. Download the guides. Join NYC CERT to volunteer. Attend Ready Up NYC webinars.
Citywide
NYC Emergency Management: Strengthening Communities Program
City grants plus training that turn networks of local organizations into neighborhood emergency-planning hubs.
The community-resilience layer: the city funding neighborhoods to organize themselves before the next shock instead of after.
Show up: Community networks (groups of local orgs, houses of worship, nonprofits) apply as a cohort. Training covers needs assessments, resource directories, communications plans, and volunteer management.
Brooklyn
Nonprofit that builds and stocks community fridges: 9 NYC fridges of its own (Bed-Stuy, Flatbush, Gowanus, East Williamsburg, Bushwick, Alphabet City, Upper West Side) and stocking support for roughly 25 partner fridges.
Food waste and food insecurity are the same broken loop; fridges close it at the block scale with zero gatekeeping.
Show up: Individual and group volunteer shifts stocking and cleaning fridges, a junior committee, or donate a CSA bag for a family.
Prospect Park
Nonprofit that runs Prospect Park with NYC Parks. Restores 350 acres of natural areas including Brooklyn's last upland forest. Volunteer corps, youth woodlands crews, and a major ecological restoration pipeline.
Institutional-scale ecological repair: forest restoration, brush-fire recovery, and pollinator corridors managed inside a park serving millions. Shows what long-horizon stewardship looks like.
Show up: Sign up for volunteer corps events through the volunteer.prospectpark.org portal. Youth 2027 Woodlands Crew applications open early 2027.
Citywide
NYC-based research and convening nonprofit, born from the post-Sandy federal design competition, that now runs Rainproof NYC and pushes parks-as-climate-infrastructure and disaster-funding reform.
Works the systems layer: redesigning how money, agencies, and communities decide what gets protected before the next flood.
Show up: Newsletter, public events, and the Rainproof NYC network, which is open to community groups.
Brooklyn
Community nonprofit in the Red Hook Houses doing youth development, resident hiring, a 1.1-acre farm, and post-Sandy preparedness work including the Local Leaders emergency-preparedness course that has trained 250+ public housing residents.
The canonical NYC story of a community becoming its own first responder when Sandy cut Red Hook off.
Show up: Volunteer signup at rhicenter.org/support-us/volunteer/; farm stand and community events are open.
Brooklyn
Red Hook nonprofit founded after Sandy that runs green-jobs training (solar, CNC), community solar, floating gardens, and BlueCity, a floating climate lab on Gowanus Bay.
Ties climate adaptation to livelihoods: the neighborhood that floods gets the green jobs and the floating infrastructure.
Show up: Volunteer at the Columbia Street field station, attend solar and workforce info sessions, or show up to waterfront events.
Citywide
Convenes 1,100+ partner organizations across NY-NJ harbor and leads the Rise to Resilience coalition on coastal adaptation policy.
The convening layer: gets business, labor, design, and justice groups pulling one direction on flood resilience.
Show up: City of Water Day each July, the Waterfront Conference, coastal cleanups, newsletter.
Food & Land
Gardens, farms, compost, and co-ops: the shortest supply chains in the city.
In the glossary: Carrying Capacity · Regeneration · The Consumption Pyramid
Bushwick
13,000 sq ft volunteer-built public garden at 46-50 Goodwin Pl, reclaimed from a dumping ground in 2017 by Kofi Thomas and neighbors. Grows food that gets given away, hosts arts, education and cultural events April through December.
Free food, no gate, grown by seniors and neighbors on land nobody wanted. A working model of commons restoration.
Show up: Drop in during open season (April-December) or join a volunteer day.
Brooklyn
Runs two big secondhand stores in Gowanus and Bushwick, community composting operations, and street tree care.
Attacks the throwaway economy on two fronts at once: keeping materials in use and turning food waste back into soil.
Show up: Volunteer on compost or street tree crews, donate furniture and building materials, or shop the stores.
Brooklyn
Bike-powered food scrap hauling and composting service in Bushwick that pays local Black, brown, and immigrant youth to do the work.
Closes the nutrient loop at neighborhood scale while creating green jobs, fossil-free logistics included.
Show up: Subscribe to residential food scrap pickup at app.bkrot.org, sign your business up for hauling, or buy their compost.
Brooklyn
Commercial rooftop farms at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Sunset Park, and Long Island City that grow produce and host events, tours, and workshops.
Proof that food production, stormwater capture, and green jobs can sit on top of existing city buildings.
Show up: Book a Wednesday public tour, a workshop, or a farm dinner. They also rent their rooftops for events.
Crown Heights / Bed-Stuy
Free monthly pop-up where volunteer fixers repair small appliances, electronics, and clothing alongside their owners. Keeps stuff out of landfill and spreads repair skills.
Direct antidote to throwaway culture. Repair as a social practice, not a service transaction.
Show up: Bring a broken thing to a session, or email repaircafebklyn@gmail.com to volunteer as a fixer.
East Harlem
East Harlem youth outdoor education nonprofit since 2008. Gardens at NYCHA's Jefferson and Washington Houses, green exercise field trips, youth-led placemaking.
Puts public housing kids in charge of greening their own blocks. Placemaking as youth development rather than consultant deliverable.
Show up: Pre-register for a free Saturday garden session, or apply to PlacemakingCorps.
Governors Island
Compost nonprofit on Governors Island. Runs the Compost Learning Center, Soil Start Farm, and a livestock co-op, processing food scraps from residents and island partners.
Closes the food loop at demonstration scale. You can walk the whole cycle from scrap to soil to farm to food in one afternoon.
Show up: Take the ferry and drop in on weekend open hours May through October, or join a Monday work day.
Brooklyn
Youth-run urban farms, a farmers market, and community gardens in East New York, with a paid nine-month teen internship at the core.
Food justice run by the neighborhood it feeds, training the next generation of growers while it grows.
Show up: Volunteer for the growing season, shop the East New York Farmers Market, or spread the word on the paid youth internship.
Sunset Park
Textile recycling nonprofit at the Brooklyn Army Terminal. Collects fabric waste from fashion businesses, volunteers sort it for reuse and recycling, and a shop resells recovered material cheap.
Makes fashion's waste stream visible and physical. You sort the offcuts of an industry built on disposability.
Show up: Create an account on their DonorView portal and book a Tue-Sat sorting session. No walk-ins.
Gowanus origin, now roving
Brooklyn's original repair collective, going since 2008. Volunteer repair coaches run improvisational fixing sessions, now roving through venues including BPL branches with Big Reuse.
Material literacy as culture repair. Fifteen-plus years of teaching people their stuff is fixable.
Show up: Email info@fixerscollective.org or catch them at library repair events with Big Reuse.
Freshkills / Travis
Nonprofit partner building Freshkills Park, the 2,200-acre former landfill becoming NYC's largest new park in a century. Ecological research, restoration, tours, art, education.
The largest garbage dump on Earth becoming parkland over 30 years. The single best place in NYC to stand and think about waste, deep time, and repair.
Show up: Book a tour or field trip, join a volunteer day, or propose art and research projects.
Mott Haven
Community garden and cultural organizing in Mott Haven. Organic urban agriculture, arts and Indigenous cultural programming, youth work on South Bronx blocks.
A garden built as an antidote to nature deficiency in one of the poorest districts in America. Land, food, and culture held in one lot for 25 years.
Show up: Email to join a garden workday or catch the annual Bronx Food and Farm Tours.
Gardens across the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens
The original guerrilla gardening group, founded 1973. Supports 250 to 300 NYC community gardens a year with plant distributions, tool and seed libraries, youth internships, and a climate resilience toolkit.
Fifty years from seed bombs to seed libraries. The institutional memory of NYC's community garden movement, and a case study in radical tactics maturing without dying.
Show up: Join an open volunteer day or Open Garden Day. Community gardens can request plants, seeds, and tools.
Citywide
The city agency program that supports NYC's community gardens with land, materials, and training.
Holds the city's largest stock of community-controlled land, the physical commons where neighbors practice governing something together.
Show up: Join an existing community garden near you or apply to start one. Free public workshops all year.
Citywide
Runs the Greenmarket farmers market network, food box programs, food scrap drop-offs, school gardens, and a teaching farm on Governors Island.
The main institutional bridge between regional farms and city eaters, keeping a shorter and more resilient food supply chain alive.
Show up: Shop any of 45+ Greenmarkets. Volunteer at markets or the Governors Island Teaching Garden, open to the public weekends May to October with a donation-based farm stand.
Harlem
Youth-focused urban farming nonprofit with 14 sites across Upper Manhattan: farms, greenhouses, and school gardens plus mentorship and nutrition education.
Started with one man cleaning one abandoned lot across from a school. Now 14 sites. A compounding proof that food, mentorship, and place repair reinforce each other.
Show up: Drop in Saturday 10 to 3. No skills needed, age 7 and up, rain or shine.
Queens
Started as a network of backyard and rooftop micro-farms in Astoria and LIC; now centered on their Canaan, NY forest farm with an online store for hot sauce and pantry goods.
A test of whether scattered private backyards can be stitched into real food production, and of how hard NYC land pressure pushes farms out.
Show up: Buy their products online; historically a CSA and a Socrates Sculpture Park market stand, but confirm current NYC offerings directly.
Brownsville
Isabahlia Ladies of Elegance Foundation
Brownsville-rooted nonprofit running five community gardens, a student farm, and farmers markets. Trains women and youth to grow food, plus nutrition, arts, and computer programs.
Food apartheid answered with intergenerational land work. Lifelong Brownsville residents building their own food system rather than waiting for one.
Show up: Volunteer via the site's Get Involved page, or shop the Friday and Saturday markets through October 31, 2026.
Jackson Heights
Jackson Heights Beautification Group
Grassroots civic, environmental, and arts group. Runs JH SCRAPS community composting, Tree LC street tree care, Clean Streets, and Friends of Travers Park.
Neighborhood maintenance culture since 1988. Compost, trees, and clean streets as the unglamorous weekly practice of not letting a place fall apart.
Show up: Bring food scraps Saturday 11 to 1, or join the Tree LC street tree crew.
Citywide
Connects NYC neighborhoods to regional farms through a CSA network, trainings, and an annual food justice conference.
Works on who gets access to the shorter food chain, not just whether it exists.
Show up: Use their map to join a CSA near you, sign up for the newsletter, or attend the annual conference.
Manhattan
Runs community composting, e-waste recycling, and environmental education from the Lower East Side since 1987.
Nearly four decades of proving neighborhood-scale ecological infrastructure works, through multiple rounds of city defunding.
Show up: Drop food scraps, volunteer, bring e-waste to collection events, or join their workshop series.
Brooklyn
A member-owned and member-worked grocery store, one of the oldest and largest food co-ops in the country.
A 50-year stress test of cooperative economics and direct democracy at 15,000-person scale, including how it handles hard political conflict.
Show up: Join as a member: everyone works a shift roughly every four weeks in exchange for cheap, good food.
Randall's Island
Randall's Island Urban Farm (Randall's Island Park Alliance)
A one-acre teaching farm growing 200+ produce varieties, run by the Randall's Island Park Alliance with NYC Parks.
A public teaching farm that makes soil, food, and compost literacy free to anyone who takes the footbridge.
Show up: Show up Sundays 10am-1pm for drop-in farm and compost volunteering, ages 10 and up, no registration needed for groups of 5 or fewer.
Red Hook
Red Hook Farms (Red Hook Initiative)
Youth-centered urban farming and food justice program: two farm sites, a teen farm apprenticeship, weekly farm stands, a CSA, and community compost in Red Hook.
Food sovereignty run by teenagers in a flood-zone neighborhood that Sandy hit hardest. Youth power, food systems, and coastal risk in one program.
Show up: Fill out the volunteer intake on rhicenter.org for weekday and Saturday farm shifts, 14 and up. Groups up to 20 email volunteers@rhicenter.org.
Long Island City
Volunteer urban farm collective on abandoned rail tracks in Long Island City. Calls itself a community garden without a gate. Farming, composting, potlucks, education.
No gate, no fence, no boss. A running experiment in whether a commons can survive in the most developer-hungry neighborhood in the city.
Show up: Drop food scraps any day, or come to a Saturday workday. All-volunteer, no application.
Art & Culture
Where the story gets retold. Our home turf.
In the glossary: Sensemaking · The Meaning Crisis · The Naive Progress Narrative
Bushwick
Arts in Bushwick / Bushwick Open Studios
Volunteer-run arts org behind Bushwick Open Studios, the neighborhood-wide open-studio weekend, plus vendor markets and youth programs.
Culture-making as sense-making. BOS keeps working artists visible and rooted while displacement pressure grinds on the same blocks.
Show up: Register a venue or volunteer via artsinbushwick.org/bos2026/.
Bushwick
Bilingual Spanish/English bookstore and community center at 323 Linden St, volunteer co-op curating Black, Latinx and Indigenous heritage. Spanish classes, ethnobotany workshops, explicit anti-gentrification mission.
Language justice and cultural memory as infrastructure. The store doubled as a mutual aid node in the pandemic and stayed rooted.
Show up: Buy books there or via bookshop.org/shop/milmundosbooks; ask about hosting a bilingual event.
Citywide
Once the main NYC funder of socially engaged art fellowships, now a small artist-led group publishing Landscapes, a digital platform mapping socially engaged art ecosystems.
Works the infrastructure layer, and its collapse is itself a metacrisis lesson: the funding scaffolding for engaged art is fragile.
Show up: Read Landscapes online. Join the newsletter. No events or fellowships to join right now.
Manhattan
Arts & Climate Initiative (formerly The Arctic Cycle)
Uses live performance and storytelling to spark climate dialogue, and runs Climate Change Theatre Action, a worldwide festival of short climate plays every odd year.
Works the distributed story layer: hundreds of small self-organized performances instead of one big production.
Show up: Host a CCTA event: any group can stage the short plays using the for-organizers guide at climatechangetheatreaction.com. Attend listed events.
Manhattan
Greens the theater industry itself: a 1,600-strong Green Captain volunteer network, textile and e-waste collection drives, greening grants, and an annual Earth Day concert in Times Square.
Works the practice layer: making culture production itself sustainable rather than just making art about sustainability.
Show up: Become a Green Captain at any theater. Drop textiles and e-waste at collection drives. Subscribe to the quarterly newsletter.
Citywide
Commissions large-scale socially engaged public art and runs CTHQ, a free East Village gathering space for artists working at the intersection of art and politics.
Works the civic meaning layer: public art as a way for a city to think about its crises out loud.
Show up: Walk into CTHQ open hours Tuesdays and Thursdays. Attend free public programs. Join the newsletter.
Citywide
Runs fellowships that fund artists doing hands-on civic and social change work, including a dedicated Climate Justice Fellowship.
Works the support layer: paying artists to prototype utopian civic practice instead of just making objects.
Show up: Apply for a fellowship. Fill out the volunteer form. Join the newsletter.
Citywide
FUTURE RIVER (formerly Superhero Clubhouse)
An eco-theater company that makes plays, school programs, and artist fellowships about climate and environmental justice, now rebranding around the Hudson River estuary.
Works the imagination layer: using theater to rehearse just futures with the communities that live in them.
Show up: Follow the rebrand on Instagram. Attend free public workshops. Volunteer or donate.
Brooklyn
Builds climate action through arts and culture: Creative Climate Awards exhibitions, fellowships, and a Creative Climate Forum during NYC Climate Week.
Works the mobilization layer: turning climate feeling into climate action through creative community.
Show up: Apply for fellowships or internships. Volunteer. Subscribe to their Voices for Impact Substack. Attend the Creative Climate Forum during Climate Week.
Loisaida / Lower East Side
Puerto Rican multidisciplinary arts and community development center on the Lower East Side. Residencies, cultural archives, the annual Loisaida Festival, and the Ecolibrium environmental program.
Culture as survival strategy. A displaced community holding ground in a flood-zone neighborhood through art, archives, and an eco program.
Show up: Go to the festival or a Wednesday open mic. Ask about the Ecolibrium program.
Manhattan
Commissions socially engaged public art with education programs wrapped around each project.
Works the public pedagogy layer: every commission doubles as a neighborhood education program.
Show up: Visit free public art projects. Emerging artists can apply to the Engaging Artist Fellowship. Volunteer via the Get Involved page.
Brooklyn
A Red Hook cultural center mixing art, music, and science, with free monthly open houses and a Red Hook ecology series.
Works the reintegration layer: putting science and art back in one room, since siloed knowledge is part of how we got here.
Show up: Go to Second Sundays, the free monthly open house. Join ecology roundtables and classes.
The Bronx
Mary Mattingly's floating food forest barge where anyone can pick food for free, built to challenge rules against foraging on public land.
Works the commons layer: using an artwork to make food a shared civic resource and change city policy.
Show up: Join the mailing list. Visit the barge when it reaches city piers in late 2026. Visit the Bronx River Foodway at Concrete Plant Park.
Citywide
A center for climate, community, and culture on Governors Island running exhibitions, screenings, and events around climate storytelling, emotions, literacy, justice, and connection.
Works the emotions and meaning layer: one of its five core themes is literally climate emotions.
Show up: Visit weekends May through October. Volunteer. Submit a program proposal at climateimaginarium.org/submit. Join the mailing list.
Manhattan
The first US museum dedicated to climate, running exhibitions and public events that push climate into mainstream culture.
Works the narrative layer: making climate a normal subject of art and public life instead of a niche policy topic.
Show up: Attend free public events across the city. Subscribe to the newsletter. Visit the SoHo space.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn-founded experimental college and artist-thinker residency mixing art, philosophy, and communal living.
Rebuilds how thinking itself is done: collaborative, embodied, outside disciplinary silos.
Show up: Apply to Summer School classes or the residency; propose a class; join the newsletter.
Citywide
An artist-run organization and triennial for art made on, in, and with New York's water, plus artist residencies on Governors Island.
Works the sense-making layer: getting New Yorkers to actually see the water edges their city depends on.
Show up: Visit triennial exhibitions and workshops, all free. Artists can apply to the Governors Island residency.
Grief, Meaning & Sensemaking
Rooms where you can say the scary thing out loud and not be alone with it.
In the glossary: The Meaning Crisis · Solastalgia · Wetiko
Formerly Ridgewood, Queens; now 414 Broadway, 3rd Fl, Manhattan
Experimental hub for developing the practices, skills and tools to build autonomy. Talks, film screenings, reading groups, dinners, skillshares and benefit fundraisers since 2014. Born in Ridgewood; moved to 414 Broadway, Manhattan in December 2025.
The closest thing NYC has to a standing metacrisis institution: autonomy, collapse, care and political theory, practiced weekly for a decade.
Show up: Join the mailing list, attend an event, or propose a crossover session.
Brooklyn
Soto Zen community with daily meditation, retreats, and engaged practice groups on race, recovery, patriarchy, and parenting.
Trains the steadiness and undoing-of-separation that metacrisis work keeps asking for.
Show up: Drop into morning zazen (in person or online) or join an engaged practice group.
Brooklyn
Volunteer collective running free listening circles for climate emotions across the city, plus yoga, art, and service events.
Works the emotional layer: turning private climate anxiety into shared feeling and then into local action.
Show up: Pick an event off the Luma calendar and show up; most are $5-40 or free. They also recruit volunteer contributors.
Brooklyn
Climate Cafes at Brooklyn Public Library (with NYC Climate Action)
Free monthly climate-emotions gatherings at Brooklyn library branches, led by NYC Climate Action.
Puts climate grief work inside a trusted public institution instead of activist spaces.
Show up: Free, drop-in, at library branches. Check the BPL events calendar.
Manhattan
Death Cafe at the New York Society for Ethical Culture
Free monthly tea-and-cake conversation about death, run by NYC's humanist congregation.
Secular congregation infrastructure hosting mortality conversation, meaning-making without religion.
Show up: Free, RSVP via Eventbrite link on the event page.
Citywide
Local chapter of the effective altruism movement. Runs public events, one-on-one advising, and cause-area subgroups on global risk and doing good effectively.
Works on the risk layer: gets people to take catastrophic and existential risks seriously and act with rigor.
Show up: Book a free intro call with an advisor. Attend weekly events. Join the Slack or monthly newsletter.
Brooklyn
Green-Wood Cemetery Death Cafe
Free recurring group conversation about death, grief, and mortality in the cemetery's Modern Chapel.
Mortality literacy: practicing honest talk about endings, the skill every collapse conversation borrows.
Show up: Free with suggested $10 donation; register via Green-Wood's events calendar.
Manhattan
Paid global salon platform whose NYC community runs in-person meetups, writing groups, and hosted discussions.
Keeps the long-form conversation muscle alive: strangers reasoning together for three hours.
Show up: Join the community tier or buy a ticket to a public salon.
Citywide
Monthly Substack guide by Lynette Chiu listing every in-person death-related event in NYC.
Connective tissue: one person quietly indexing the city's entire mortality-and-grief ecosystem.
Show up: Subscribe to the newsletter; it is the map of the whole scene.
Manhattan
Sacred Earth Sangha at New York Insight
Monthly in-person Buddhist practice group focused squarely on the ecological and climate crisis.
The dharma-practice layer: meeting planetary emergency with contemplative training rather than news-cycle panic.
Show up: Attend the monthly gathering; register through the NYIMC events calendar.
Manhattan
Member-supported psychedelic community clubhouse running integration circles, monthly gatherings, and mixers.
Holds the integration layer: helping people metabolize consciousness-shifting experiences in community instead of alone.
Show up: Newsletter, ticketed public events on Eventbrite, or membership.
Civic & Systems
The coordination nerds: open data, participation, better decision-making.
In the glossary: Coordination Failure · Social Technology · The Epistemic Commons
Citywide
NYC-based nonprofit that convenes the global responsible tech field through summits, mixers, a 10,000-plus member Slack, and career pipelines.
Works on the technology layer: tries to align AI and tech platforms with human wellbeing before harms lock in.
Show up: Apply to join the Slack community. Attend NYC mixers and livestreams. Go to the Oct 29 summit.
Citywide
Civic tech nonprofit that teaches New Yorkers to use city open data, runs a data help desk (RADAR), and convenes the city's civic tech scene.
Works on the information layer: makes city data legible so residents can see problems and act on them.
Show up: Subscribe to the weekly Thursday newsletter (5,400 readers). Attend CityCamp NYC (Sept 19, 2026), School of Data, or Open Data Week. Join the new BetaBuilders membership.
Brooklyn
Volunteer-run community internet network. Members install rooftop antennas and share broadband at cost across the city.
Works on the infrastructure layer: a living proof that essential services can run as a volunteer commons.
Show up: Show up to Open Mesh Night any Tuesday at 7pm. Join their Slack. Volunteer on rooftop installs, no experience needed.
Prospect Heights
Participatory Budgeting Project
National nonprofit, headquartered in Brooklyn, that helps governments and institutions let residents directly decide how public money gets spent.
Works on the governance layer: rebuilds trust in democracy by handing real budget power to residents.
Show up: Newsletter signup. Free resource library. Organizations can request technical assistance to run a PB process.
Citywide
PiTech (Public Interest Tech Initiative, Cornell Tech)
Cornell Tech program that places graduate students inside NYC nonprofits and city agencies to build technology for public needs.
Works on the talent layer: redirects technical talent from pure industry toward public problems.
Show up: Nonprofits can apply to host a summer PhD fellow for a 12-week technical project. Newsletter signup on the site.
Movements
Chapters you can join this month. Meetings, actions, and door-knocking.
In the glossary: The Multipolar Trap · The Third Attractor · Arms Races & Races to the Bottom
Bushwick
New York's largest immigrant-led membership org, 30,000+ members, headquartered at 301 Grove St in Bushwick. Organizing, legal services, health access, adult education, youth power.
The communities hit first by climate, housing and immigration shocks, organized at serious scale. Polycrisis response as membership power, not charity.
Show up: Join as a member, volunteer, or route Know Your Rights resources through their We Protect Us hub.
Bushwick
Multi-story organizing center and social hub for grassroots groups, Bushwick residents, artists and activists, run alongside sister venue Starr Bar. Sliding-scale rooms host classes, trainings, screenings, meetings and benefit parties.
The physical commons where climate, housing, immigrant and labor organizing share one roof. Connective-tissue infrastructure, and right now it is fighting for survival.
Show up: Email info@maydayspace.org to volunteer or book space. Give to the #SaveMayday campaign via maydayspace.org/donate.
Citywide
Advocacy nonprofit pushing NYC to redesign streets, curbs, and public space for people instead of cars, through policy campaigns and local organizing.
Works on the built-environment layer: streets and public space are where daily civic life either happens or dies.
Show up: Newsletter and action alerts. Public events listed at openplans.org/events. Campaign volunteering.
Institutional Anchors
Universities, city programs, and big conveners with public doors.
In the glossary: The Limits to Growth · The Wisdom Gap
Bushwick
RiseBoro Community Partnership
Bushwick-born community development org, 50+ years old. Affordable and sustainable housing development, senior meals and homecare, sustainability services, adult education. HQ at 565 Bushwick Ave.
Proof that deep-green affordable housing and elder care can run at neighborhood scale. They build Passive House-grade buildings and deliver meals from the same org chart.
Show up: Volunteer and career pages at riseboro.org; their sustainability division takes partnership inquiries.
East Williamsburg
North Brooklyn community development nonprofit since 1975. Affordable housing for 7,000 families, eviction prevention, eldercare, youth education, and workforce training including environmental remediation courses.
Trains locals into remediation and green jobs while holding the affordability line. Livelihoods-in-transition, done unglamorously for 50 years.
Show up: Workforce, volunteer and donation pages at stnicksalliance.org.
Union Square
Fedcap-run digital skills training center and event venue. Free and low-cost tech classes for underserved New Yorkers plus 85,000 sq ft of conference space.
Works on the access layer: pulls left-out New Yorkers into the tech economy instead of leaving them behind.
Show up: Take free or low-cost digital skills classes. Membership tiers for individuals and orgs. Public-benefit gatherings can inquire about free community event hosting.
Citywide
Climate Week NYC (run by Climate Group)
The world's largest annual climate event program: 1,000+ events across NYC every September, coordinated by the international nonprofit Climate Group.
The convening layer: for one week a year, the whole climate ecosystem is visible and physically in the same city.
Show up: Attend: most events are free. Host: anyone from grassroots groups to companies can apply to put an event on the official calendar; submissions are reviewed before publishing.
Manhattan
Columbia's dedicated climate school. Runs research, degree programs, and a constant calendar of free public events.
The knowledge layer: climate science, risk, and policy research translated into public education.
Show up: Show up. Most events are free with open registration on CU Events. The Harlem conferences (Earth Day in April, Harlem Week in August) are the most community-facing. State of the Planet is their public news site.
Greenpoint
Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center (BPL)
Brooklyn Public Library branch purpose-built as an environmental education hub: rooftop demonstration garden, env programs for adults and kids, and partner events with local ecology and repair groups.
A public library doubling as climate infrastructure, funded out of the Greenpoint oil spill legacy. Free, non-commercial civic space doing ecological education.
Show up: Show up: garden programs and repair events are free and drop-in. Program calendar on the branch page.
Citywide
Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice (MOCEJ)
City Hall office that runs NYC's climate policy and programs: FloodNet flood sensors, Climate Strong Communities, NYC Accelerator, Resilient Acquisitions home buyouts, and the EJNYC environmental justice report.
The governance layer: where the city officially decides what climate adaptation gets funded and where.
Show up: Mostly a policy shop, not a volunteer org. Entry points: Climate Strong Communities engagement in high-risk neighborhoods and public comment on the EJNYC report and Environmental Justice Plan.
Citywide
Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS)
130-year-old urbanism advocacy nonprofit. Fights over land use, landmarks, and the public realm, and runs walking tours and the Jane's Walk festival.
Works on the built-environment layer: who the city is physically built for, and keeping public voice in decisions about land and space.
Show up: Jane's Walk is free and anyone can lead or join a walk each May. Paid tours year-round. Monthly newsletter and membership on mas.org.
Manhattan
NYU-wide interdisciplinary climate program. Runs public conferences, a climate film series, and Climate Week programming.
Notable for pairing climate science with storytelling and film, the meaning-making side of the crisis. Co-chair Eric Klinenberg is the leading scholar of social infrastructure.
Show up: Attend public events; several are open to the general public and some livestream. NYU also runs Earth Month and Climate Week at NYU programming through its sustainability office.
Citywide
Regional Plan Association (RPA)
Independent research and advocacy nonprofit for the NY-NJ-CT region. Publishes regional plans and pushes policy on transit, housing, energy, and environment.
The long-horizon planning layer: it thinks in 25-year regional plans while politics thinks in election cycles.
Show up: Newsletter, membership, and the annual Assembly (virtual sessions are the low-cost way in). Research is free to read on rpa.org.
Manhattan
Nonprofit consortium building a climate research and jobs campus on Governors Island. Operating now, before the campus exists, with programs in climate data, urban resilience, and climate finance.
The future-infrastructure layer: a bet that NYC needs a permanent physical hub for climate solutions and green workforce training.
Show up: Newsletter on the site. Pre-accelerator for early-stage climate founders. Larger public role (green jobs training hub) arrives with the campus in 2029.
Manhattan
Tishman Environment and Design Center (The New School)
University center that does environmental justice research, policy, and design work in partnership with EJ movement groups, organized around the Jemez Principles.
Works on the justice layer: who bears the environmental costs of the current system, and how universities can serve movements instead of extracting from them.
Show up: Monthly newsletter at tishmancenter.org/ournewsletters. Public events under the Centering Justice program. Aronson Scholarship for New School students opens Sept 2026.
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