Energetic in New York
We work on energy literacy as a path to decarbonization. To prevent climate change from getting worse, we have to build new infrastructure quickly and…
Energetic in India
From the fall of 2023 to the summer of 2024, through Deepak’s initiative, we have been testing ENERGETIC in cities in India to explore the…
Teacher feedback
Letters of support from teachers. Survey results from NYC public high school students (255 completed surveys). Energetic in The Science Survey, the student newspaper of…
Energetic links
“I kept thinking, ‘Oh, they thought of that? Wow, they thought of that!’” Sam Arons, Sustainability Director of Lyft, quoted in Grist 3/17/20 Energetic 2025 Instructions Energetic 2025 Educator’s Guide…
Energetic teachers and students
Accurate information about energy is important. To prevent climate change from getting worse, we have to build new infrastructure quickly and for that to happen,…
Students in South Carolina race to build a zero carbon NYC
Dr. Jennifer Bradham teaches climate change and energy in South Carolina.
Bringing Citizens’ Assemblies to NYC
On February 25, 2020, Archie Kinnane and Richard Reiss of City Atlas gave testimony to the NYC Council on two new bills intended to strengthen…
City-scale climate education for NYC
The top 10% by income – in New York, about 860,000 people – can begin to contribute answers. We need a war effort, and New Yorkers can lead it.
The Green New Deal is the real deal
Like the original New Deal, the Green New Deal is extremely wide-ranging. It addresses agriculture, energy, transportation, economic security, the environment, and the entire social sphere besides.
We turned the future of New York City into a board game
“I am evangelizing about the game to fellow faculty at Vanderbilt.” Jonathan Gilligan “Energetic is an invaluable energy policy tool for understanding the complexity of…
Percent for Climate, a proposal for NYC
Our idea is to duplicate existing Percent for Art programs, which are currently part of the City’s budget process and the MTA’s budget process, and…
Carbon, the city, & Local Law 97
City Atlas plans for 2019 were sketched out during our December 2018 testimony to the NYC Council on Local Law 97. While praising the decarbonization…
Teaching low-carbon living
Law professor Karl Coplan reached the Pacific in June, 2019, after riding his bike from the East Coast. And now he’s written a book about how to live extremely well, and on a tiny footprint.
Chile: a case study in the tension between economics, ecology, and democracy
Last spring, Isadora Nogueira, Barnard college senior and City Atlas intern, studied at the University of Santiago. This summer, Isadora explained to us Chile’s contradictions…
V. Ramanathan’s Lecture “Climate Change Morphing Into an Existential Threat”
Veerabhadran Ramanathan of Scripps Institute University of California San Diego Speaking at Creighton University, February 21, 2018 [see full video here] Introductory remarks by Professor…
The idea of citizens’ assemblies appears in New York
A citizens’ assembly is among the methods often proposed to move progress on climate change forward more quickly. Addison Luck participated in the April protest…
NYC Commitments to the C40 Consortium of World Cities
Is New York City meeting its own commitments to the Paris Agreement goals?
Artist As Citizen
For visitors from artistascitizen.org, that project has turned into newyork.thecityatlas.org, where you are now. More information and an archive of AAC work from 2006 to…