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Voting

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How to register to vote
How to register to vote
When are voting days?
When are voting days?
How to vote by mail (get on it asap!)
How to vote by mail (get on it asap!)
How to vote early
How to vote early
How to write a letter to get out the vote
How to write a letter to get out the vote
Voting Day: where is my polling place and know your voting rights.
Voting Day: where is my polling place and know your voting rights.
Help get out the vote
Help get out the vote

Climate Action

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CLCPA: NY is legally bound to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050
CLCPA: NY is legally bound to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050

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.

Cap-and-Invest: Penalizing Polluters to Bring Down GHGs
Cap-and-Invest: Penalizing Polluters to Bring Down GHGs
CLCPA: What Happens if NY Fails to Meet Its Climate Law?
CLCPA: What Happens if NY Fails to Meet Its Climate Law?
How big banks fund climate injustice, and some ways to take action
How big banks fund climate injustice, and some ways to take action
Preparing for disaster
Preparing for disaster

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.

Resources to cope with extreme heat
Resources to cope with extreme heat

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.

Superfund: making polluters pay for the damage they've caused
Superfund: making polluters pay for the damage they've caused
NY HEAT: escaping from gas while keeping energy affordable
NY HEAT: escaping from gas while keeping energy affordable
Where to compost in NYC
Where to compost in NYC

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.

Why and how to compost: climate solutions at work
Why and how to compost: climate solutions at work

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.

Characteristics of effective CBAs

Ineffective CBAs have co-opted low-income communities and misled the public, by generating support for development projects without delivering real community benefits, notes this guide by the Partnership for Working Families. The guide walks through how to design effective CBAs — and spot signs of ineffectiveness.

Enforceability of Community Benefits Agreements

Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) have become a powerful tool by community groups in land-use planning, race equity, and environmental justice, notes author Hannah P. Stephan in Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality. But whether CBAs are enforceable in court depends on several factors, from the perspective of the community organizations.

Jemez principles for democratic organizing
Jemez principles for democratic organizing

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

How to electrify a home

Rewiring America estimates that to achieve zero emissions, we need to install 1 billion new machines, or 50 million machines a year for the next 20-25 years. We can do it!

Jemez principles of environmental justice
Jemez principles of environmental justice

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.

Climate change narratives don't support action

A study suggests that mainstream climate change news doesn’t spark change. Instead, it might be backfiring, provoking denial and avoidance.

Deciding whether a heat pump works for your home

Heat pumps are a cheap and efficient way to handle home heating and cooling. They’re also one of the best ways to reduce carbon footprint.

Climate change narratives haven’t served justice

How narratives have been shaped by techno-science analyses and solutions and left out or poorly interpreted the roles that colonialism, social structures, and worldviews have played in getting us to this point.

NYC local law 97: cutting building emissions
NYC local law 97: cutting building emissions

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.

What is a community benefits agreement?

A community benefits agreement is a contract between a developer and neighborhood group and/or coalition requires the developer to provide specific community benefits in exchange for community support.

Urbanization & carbon emissions

Cities are responsible for close to 70-80% of global CO2 emissions associated with energy consumption.

Farm bill is a climate bill

Major climate and conservation potential hang sin the balance as Congress reauthorizes the farm bill, enacted into law in December 2018 and expired in 2023.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ “Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!”
Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ “Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!”

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.