City-scale climate education for Paris
Julien Dossier of the consulting firm Quattrolibri, Raphael Menard of the engineering firm Elioth, and their supporting team are authors of the 2017 sustainability plan…
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?
Fighting climate change in California
Edgar McGregor is an amateur climatologist and founder of WhereWeStand.info. He’s also a high school senior in Pasadena, California. This essay is an entry in the…
New York Society for Ethical Culture
The New York Society for Ethical Culture is a humanist community that has been dedicated to social justice and education since its founding in 1876.…
The conscience of a graphic novelist
Given the imperative of fast action on climate, 2018 must be a year that prioritizes decisions rather than simply adds more detail to a story…
C40 at Climate Week: Cities have a 2020 deadline
In his speech at C40 Talks, Mayor de Blasio said, “We do not have the luxury of time when it comes to climate action.”
Why do we live by the water, and what should we do now?
Workshops for Lower Manhattan’s Coastal Resiliency Project let the members of public speak up about what kind of seawall we want to have.
Peter Kalmus
Peter Kalmus has reduced his personal carbon emissions from roughly 20 tons to 2, and he’s written a book about what he’s learned.