Get Ready, Get Set And Go To WEACT’s Climate Week NYC, It’s Strong!

Harlem’s WEACT’s Climate Week NYC is just around the corner: September 22-29, 2024. 

This annual gathering of climate leaders and events offers a great opportunity to expand your knowledge.

And they have plenty of events for you to attend:
 
Sept. 19, 1:00-2:00 PM – Cumulative Impacts Implementation Webinar; Briana Carbajal will moderate with speakers from co-hosts South Bronx Unite, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, and Earthjustice; RSVP
 
Sept. 24, 1:00-7:00 PM – City & State New York’s Second Annual New York Climate Justice Forum: Navigating Uncertain Policies to Deliver a Sustainable Future; Peggy Shepard will be a featured speaker and Manny Salgado and Pamela Stewart-Martinez will be among the panelists at this event we are co-hosting with City & State New York and Rise Light & Power at MOMA PS1 (22-25 Jackson Avenue in Queens); RSVP
 
Sept. 24, 5:00-6:00 PM – One of our EPA Region 2 TCTAC partners, Clean Energy Group, will be hosting Navigating Energy Justice Funding Opportunities. This online training session is intended to help organizations and municipalities in New York and New Jersey better understand the different types of federal energy grants available, where to learn about these funding opportunities, and what it takes to apply for a federal energy grant. RSVP
 
Sept. 24, 5:30-8:00 PM – Toxic Beauty Film Screening & Panel discussion at the NAC Ballroom in the North Academic Center building on the City College of New York’s Harlem campus (160 Convent Avenue); Liz Reyes will moderate panelists including Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health’s Dr. Ami Zota, Clean+Healthy’s Sophia Longsworth, & Mane Moves Media’s Natasha Gaspard; RSVP
 
Sept. 25, 12:00-1:30 PM – Centering Equity in the Clean Energy Transition: A Focus on Renewable Energy Transmission; Charles Callaway will moderate the panel discussion with Minority Millennials’ Founder & President Dan Lloyd, Orsted’s Labor Relations Commercial Workforce Development Director Erik Antokal, New York Power Authority’s Vice President of Environmental Justice Kaela Mainsah, and New York Transco’s Director of Communications & Public Affairs Shannon Baxevanis; RSVP
 
Sept. 28, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM – Mother Clara Hale Bus Depot 10th Anniversary Celebration at the A. Philip Randolph Senior Center (108 West 146th Street); Charles Callaway will lead a tour of the facility and share what was learned from this historic WE ACT campaign; RSVP via the MTA
 
WEACT’s staff will also be participating in a number of events hosted by other organizations:
 
Sept. 21, 10:00 AM-7:00 PM – Caleb Smith will be a jury member and table with Liz Reyes at the Climate Film Festival
 
Sept. 22, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM – Pamela Stewart-Martinez, Sasha St. Juste, and Marieclaire Joseph will be tabling at Street Work Earth, a free street arts & climate action festival along 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens
 
Sept. 23, 11:00 AM-1:30 PM – Peggy Shepard will be on the Sabin Center for Climate Law’s Combating Myths and Misinformation about Renewable Energy panel
 
Sept. 25, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM – Eric Walker will participate be on ACE NY’s panel discussion of New York State’s 70×2030 goal, moderated by Marguerite Wells, at the Mezzanine (55 Broadway)
 
Sept. 25, 4:30-7:00 PM – Valentina Rojas will be tabling at Building a Resilient Future: New York’s Climate Education Movement, hosted by the American Museum of Natural History, Climate and Resilience Education Task Force (which we are a member of), and SubjectToClimate at the American Museum of Natural History (77th Street entrance, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue)
 
Sept. 25, 5:30-7:30 PM – Annie Carforo will be on the Building Energy Exchange’s Women in Sustainability & Energy: Bridging the Gap Between Equity & Electrification panel
 
Sept. 26, 4:00-5:30 PM – Eric Walker will participate in Collective Impact: Aligning Across Sectors for Environmental, a panel discussion exploring the intersections between environmental justice, climate justice, energy justice, and social justice; ConEd is hosting and Dr. Diana Hernandez moderate at 4 Irving Place
 
Sept. 26, 6:30-8:30 PM – Dr. Micaela Martinez will participate in a New York Climate Exchange panel discussion following the screening of Outside the Climate Bubble: Democratizing Conversations through the Lens of Health on Governors Island (309 Clayton Road)

• Diva, Vera Francis: A Journey From Boston To Harlem’s Heart, 1925- 2014
• Transforming Central Park’s North End: The Harlem Meer Center Project
• Leviev And Bach Mai Glamour At New York Fashion Week With Design Collab And Runway Show
• Westchester: Navigating Childhood Cancer, Gaining Strength Through Family, Self, And Your Child
• Harlem’s Shining Star: Michaela DePrince’s Extraordinary Journey Ends Too Soon (Video)

Sept. 27, 12:00-1:00 PM – Annie Carforo will be on the Waterfront Alliance’s Bringing Land Back to the People: The Importance of Community Land Trusts panel
 
Sept. 28, 4:00-5:30 PM – Cameron Clarke will be on the Human Impacts Institute’s Culture of Environmental Justice panel
 
Be sure to check our online calendar of Climate Week NYC events as we will be updating it regularly with additional events and new information!

Photo credit: HWM.