Vanessa Keith Interview in A People’s Climate Plan for New York City?

Architect and UR author, Vanessa Keith, was interviewed as part of Climate Action Lab’s ‘living document’, A People’s Climate Plan for New York City?:

It crystallizes a year-long series of workshops with activists, researchers, and artists intended to reimagine climate politics through the lens of the city as both the frontline impact zone and the source of grassroots alternatives informed by the imperatives of climate justice, eco-socialism, and decolonization.

Inspired in particular by Aurash Khawarzad's Upper Manhattan Project (which in turn has its roots in the 2015 WE ACT for Environmental Justice's Northern Manhattan Climate Action Plan), this pamphlet aims to promote ongoing conversation, organizing, and speculation about popular climate planning at a city-wide scale beyond the important yet limited version of the Green New Deal that has been recently adopted by the city with the Climate Mobilization Act.

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A People’s Climate Plan for New York City? Released September 20, 2019 by Verso.

Earlier this year, Vanessa Keith, author of 2100: A Dystopian Utopia - The City After Climate Change gave a lunchtime lecture at CUNY Climate Action Lab (CAL). The event, organized by Ashley Dawson and Zeynep Oguz, brought together “activists, researchers, and artists to reimagine climate politics through the lens of the city as both the frontline impact-zone and the potential source of grassroots, artistic, and scientific alternatives informed by the principles of climate justice, for A People’s Plan for Climate Action for NYC”.

Watch videos of the day long event, which included UR authors, Vanessa Keith and Tom Angotti, on the Center for the Humanities - CUNY website.

"It's good to see that the onset of rapid global warming is nudging creative minds into action. Job one is to make sure we prevent as much change as possible, but that which we can no longer prevent will require us to adapt, and here are some provocative plans to stir your imagination!" — Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future