Category What’s Hot

7 Feb

2/9 – People Over Plastics Albany Day

5 Feb

2/26 – Battery Energy Storage Systems: What You Should Know

1 Feb

3/7 – Let’s play Energetic!

31 Jan

3/26 – “Home Green Home” event

Home Green Home: Clean Affordable Energy for Everyone Low- and no-cost energy improvements can add up to real savings, whether you rent, live in a coop or condo, or own a private home. 350Brooklyn and NYC 2030 District present an evening designed to help everyone save money and improve the environment without making big changes […]

18 Dec

Climate Check Podcast December 2025: North Brooklyn Mutual Aid

Our host, Audrey, is joined by Erika Jozwiak and Katie Zwick — two incredible administrative members of North Brooklyn Mutual Aid. 💛 North Brooklyn Mutual Aid is a fully volunteer-run collective built on one powerful idea: neighbors helping neighbors. The group first came together during the pandemic, focusing on getting food and medical supplies to […]

25 Oct

Power Hour for SUNNY Act!

Join the Power Hour crew and allies on Monday, November 10 at noon for the kickoff of one of our newest campaigns: the Solar Up New York Now (SUNNY) Act!

24 Oct

Sign the petition for Green and Healthy Schools

Join the Climate Works for All coalition and sign the petition to tell our next mayor: we need Green, Healthy Schools to ensure the future of New York City’s climate, children, education system, and workforce.

23 Sep

Here Comes the Sun – Panel on Solar Energy

22 Sep

Facing the future: Microplastics

18 Sep

September 2025: The Climate Science Behind Extreme Weather

Our host Eva is joined by Dr. Anton Seimon, climate scientist. From a home base in the Hudson Valley, Anton leads research programs on diverse themes in the atmospheric and environmental sciences. Current projects include classifying a new type of windstorm and developing warning systems for it, monitoring climate change impacts in alpine watersheds of […]

25 Jul

Climate and Your Closet

23 Jul

Our Own Asher’s Great Op-ed: Speaker Heastie Blocked Key Climate Bills

  Our own Asher has a great new op ed that is turning up the heat on Speaker Heastie to do his job because Albany failed us. Speaker Heastie blocked key climate bills with massive public support—including packaging reduction & NY HEAT. We won’t forget. New Yorkers want climate justice. If you ignore us, you […]

23 Jul

🚨 08/09: Tell Hochul: No Trump Pipelines in New York!

Tell Hochul: No Trump Pipelines in New York! 🚨 Trump wants to revive fracked gas pipelines in NY — and Hochul might let it happen. On Aug 9, we’re standing up to say: NO Trump Pipelines in NY! Our health, climate & future are on the line. Join us & speak out. RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/no-trump-pipelines-in-ny  

10 Jul

07/19 – “Tiny Plastics, Big Problems” Forum

30 Jun

Join the Plastic Free July Challenge

Sign up to the Plastic Free July Challenge to get a weekly email in July to support your plastic-free endeavors!

20 Jun

June 2025: Planting Hope in Coney Island

  🎧 Dive Into Resilience: Listen to Abby Jordan on Climate Education, Coastal Justice & Healing After Sandy Our host Eva is joined by Abby Jordan, Climate Education Program Manager at the National Wildlife Federation. Abby Jordan is a Brooklyn native, the daughter of immigrants from El Salvador who settled in Brighton Beach. She was an Environmental Fellow at […]

7 Jun

06/21 – Make a splash at the Mermaid Parade!

5 Jun

06/07 – Community Art Build for Mermaid Parade

  Join us to make our human-powered “float” for the 2025 Mermaid Parade. Our theme is “Water Is Rising. So Are We.” We’ll create city buildings, rising waves, and threatening storm clouds to carry and costumes to wear in the parade on Saturday June 21. Come to the library to paint and glue and drape […]

29 May

05/30 – Rally for NY HEAT Act now!

Rally with us on the Upper West Side to call for passage of the NY HEAT Act now! May 30th at 1 pm at 96th Street subway station (Broadway & West 96th Street) With the state budget finally done, Albany lawmakers must prioritize passing the NY HEAT Act in the waning weeks of the legislative […]

29 May

05/30 – Breathe Easy: Cleaner Air & Lower Bills

🌀 Breathe Easy: Cleaner Air & Lower Bills with Assemblymember Brian Cunningham 📍 Family-friendly event | 🎨 Kids activities | 🍕 Pizza on the roof! Come on May 30th at 5:30 PM at BKLYN Commons location on495 Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11225 Join us for a FREE community gathering focused on making your home healthier, […]

21 May

May 2025: Talking Trash with the Sanitation Foundation

The latest guest on the Climate Check podcast is Julie Raskin, Executive Director of the Sanitation Foundation, the official nonprofit partner of New York City’s Department of Sanitation. Julie explains how our waste is actually full of valuable resources that can save energy and money if properly sorted and processed. Educating everyone from toddlers to […]

14 May

Testify for Cap & Invest!

  Tell NYS you want real investments in climate action. Testify in person at the NYC hearing on June 12 or virtually at hearings on June 12. Here’s more information on testifying and crafting your testimony.

1 May

Climate Check Episode April 2025: Winning the Fight for Sustainable Transportation

Audrey is joined by Jaqi Cohen, Director of Climate and equity Policy at the Tri-State Transportation Campaign. TSTC advocates for increased mobility in the greater NYC region. Its priorities are expanding public transit, creating safer streets, transitioning away from fossil fuels, and fighting for equitable funding of transportation projects. Their approach is talking to communities […]

27 Apr

5/14 – Climate and Your Closet

27 Apr

Hochul: Build public renewables now!

Sign the petition to urge Governor Hochul to build publicly owned renewable energy! We've fought long and hard for the 2023 Build Public Renewables Act and the landmark 2019 CLCPA law but Hochul is not enforcing them. That has to change!