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Decarbonize your district!

We are forming district-level teams for our "Decarbonizing District by District" project. Let us know your district so we can alert you when we start working on decarbonizing it!

Take the meeting survey

Take a few minutes to complete this survey to help us evaluate our monthly meetings. Are they useful? Engaging? Could they be better? Let us know! 

Letters for $15B

Family-friendly activity to get $15B in climate funding.

Help mobilize people for 01/25!

Use this toolkit to spread the word about our first major Climate Can't Wait 2022 action on January 25th. If each of us mobilizes even just one or two people, we'll have a groundswell of support!

Call for $15 Billion for Climate Justice!

Call Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins to tell them that we demand not a penny less than $15 billion for climate justice in 2022.

The Power of a Just Transportation System: Hear Episode 4 of Climate Check

Vanessa Barrios, an urban planner with the Regional Planning Association Episode 4. The Power of a Just Transportation System is now live By Eva Dean Eva Dean is the host of Climate Check: Stories and Solutions, and is a member of Climate Idea Exchange. December 21, 2021•Listen now anchor.fm•Spotify•Google Podcasts•Radio Public•Breaker•Apple•website In episode 4 of […]

What’s The Media Missing? Hear Episode 3 of Climate Check: Stories and Solutions

Dr. Genevieve Gunther, founder and director of End Climate Silence Episode 3. What’s The Media Missing? is now live By Eva Dean Eva Dean is the host of Climate Check: Stories and Solutions, and is a member of Climate Idea Exchange. November 16, 2021•Listen now anchor.fm•Spotify•Google Podcasts•Radio Public•Breaker•Apple•website In episode 3 of Climate Check, host […]

Climate Justice Rally: 11/13

Where: Times Square When: November 13 @ 12pm What: Rally for climate justice Tropical Storm Ida made it abundantly clear: here in New York, climate change is not some future problem that we can deal with down the line. It is a matter of life and death, right here, right now. With the end of […]

WATCH: Bringing Solar Home

Watch the video from last week's installment of the Climate Wednesdays series, "Bringing Solar Home: A Town Hall for New Yorkers"

Climate Check: Stories and Solutions Presents Episode 2

Ceci Pineda, Executive Director of BK ROT Episode 2. Community, Compost and Climate goes live today By Eva Dean Eva Dean is the host of Climate Check: Stories and Solutions, and is a member of Climate Idea Exchange. October 20, 2021•Listen now anchor.fm•Spotify•Google Podcasts•Radio Public•Breaker•Apple•website In episode 2 of Climate Check, host Eva Dean chats […]

Pledge to vote YES on Clean Air, Clean Water Amendment

Pledge to vote YES on proposal 2 this November, to secure clean air, clean water, and a healthful environment as a right for every New Yorker, for generations to come!

Help bring climate Halloween to life!

Introducing Climate Check: Stories & Solutions

350Brooklyn’s monthly interview podcast launches today By Brynn Fuller-Becker Brynn Fuller-Becker is a member of Climate Idea Exchange. September 21, 2021•Listen nowanchor.fm•Spotify•website This has been a wild, crazy year. Not only has the pandemic swept across the world, but we are consistently seeing extreme weather batter our standards of living. From forest fires to flash […]

Stop the Line 3 Pipeline

Support the indigenous activists and allies opposing the Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline that would bring nearly a million barrels of tar sands daily from Canada to Wisconsin. Sign this petition urging President Biden to stop the pipeline! We will be delivering petitions to bank branches the morning of Thursday, September 16th. Email  if you are […]

Astoria NRG plant – Comments needed!

Public comments work! Submit yours now.

Tell Us How You Really Feel about Electric School Buses!

Please take a few minutes to fill this questionnaire that will help us represent Electric School Bus attitudes and opinions to our elected representatives. We are looking to get 100 questionnaires filled out in the next month so that we can raise awareness of our results around National Drive Electric Week.

Sign the Deadline Glasgow petition

Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition’s Deadline Glasgow initiative is gathering tens of thousands of signatures on a petition to demand that the US government and financial institutions stop funding the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure and the destruction of tropical forests before the Glasgow Climate Talks on November 1, 2021.

WATCH: I support the CCIA

Watch and share the new "I support the CCIA" video from NY Renews, showing New Yorkers’ strong support of the Climate and Community Investment Act.

WATCH: Financing a Fossil-free Future

WATCH: Red Hook Toxics Tour

Join Us to Bankrupt Line 3 – Stop the Money Pipeline on 4/17

STMP needs your help! On Saturday, April 17 a NYC Stop-the-Money-Pipeline coalition is planning a citywide action against banks that are funding the Line 3 pipeline. In the morning, the 350BK contingent will protest at multiple bank branches in Brooklyn and then join the larger rally at Blackrock headquarters and then Chase headquarters in Manhattan. The more people we have, the more branches we can hit!

Sign up for Climate, Jobs, and Justice Week

On April 5th-9th NY Renews is organizing a big week of action to push both the Climate and Community Investment Act in Albany and the THRIVE Act in Washington. Both of these would direct real money towards renewable energy, good jobs, and environmental justice. There will be phone calls to make, (virtual) lobby visits to […]

Say it with a song: Pass the CCIA!

The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, passed by the NY State Legislature in 2019, requires our state to move rapidly off fossil fuels – but the law can only reach its full potential if we also pass the Climate Community Investment Act. This new bill would make companies pay for their greenhouse gas emissions. NY Renews, the statewide coalition pushing this essential climate bill, is asking its member groups to send our legislators a musical message.

Write A Letter to the Editor to Pass the CCIA!

NY Renews is fully geared up to get the Climate and Community Investment Act passed in this legislative session and they could use your help. Can you write a letter to the editor to one of our many local papers? Local elected officials read their local papers and so your letter can have a real impact. […]

Ask Congress to support rooftop solar

Send a message to your legislators requesting they allow solar owners to take a cash grant option instead of a tax credit, which will help lower income bracket home owners.