In 2019, New York passed one of the most ambitious climate laws in the US: the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. Under CLCPA, New York must be off fossil fuels, the drivers of climate change, by 2050. Spoiler: As of 2025, we are not on track.

Disasters don’t befall all communities equally, and public infrastructure for disaster relief doesn't either: BIPOC communities are more likely to be hit harder on both fronts. We hope some of these tips help us take steps and build community along the way.

Extreme heat is a serious threat, and it is likely to get worse with climate change. To prepare, we share a few things you can do.

NYC still sends to landfills or incinerates food scraps that could be composted instead. See a list of places to compost and grow systems of access.

What is composting? And why do it? Learn about the science, its effects on climate change, and how our post industrial garbage practices poison BIPOC and lower-income communities.

Be inclusive; organize bottom-up; let people speak for themselves; solidarity and mutuality; just relationships; commit to self-transformation.

Principles to build a BIPOC movement to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, re-establish spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of Mother Earth; respect and celebrate our cultures and beliefs about the natural world and our roles in healing ourselves; promote economic alternatives; and more.

NYC Local Law 97 places carbon caps on most buildings larger than 25,000 square feet. Caps phase in starting in 2024 and get more stringent from there.

About Mierle Laderman Ukeles' "Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!", which describes an art practice that reveals the invisible labor of daily care — in homes, public spaces, institutions.

Image: Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Washing/Tracks/Maintenance Outside, 1973. Performance view, Wadsworth Atheneum, 23 July 1973. From Wikiart.