Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
During Climate Week 2024, Stacey Abrams, senior advisor to Rewiring America, and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, gave the keynote talk Better Worlds Ahead: Realizing Our Brighter Climate Futures. The talk focused on imagining better futures, finding hope and motivation for continued action, and examples of where climate solutions are already taking root.
Esteemed multidisciplinary artist Aisha Shillingford of Intelligent Mischief, guided an interactive visioning exercise to collectively articulate the climate futures we want and how we can start building them now. The musical component was performed and composed by the multi-Grammy-awarded pianist Arturo O’Farril.
Presented by:
Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School (tishmancenter.org)
Rewiring America (rewiringamerica.org)
Grist (grist.org)
Mother Jones (motherjones.com)
This event was supported by Concern Worldwide US, Dream.org, Oatly, Nia Capital, and WWF, in Media Partnership with Free Speech Television and WNYC.
Learn more about:
Urban Ocean Lab: urbanoceanlab.org
The Latin Jazz Alliance:afrolatinjazz.org
Intelligent Mischief: intelligentmischief.com
During Climate Week 2024, Stacey Abrams, senior advisor to Rewiring America, and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, gave the keynote talk Better Worlds Ahead: Realizing Our Brighter Climate Futures. The talk focused on imagining better futures, finding hope and motivation for continued action, and examples of where climate solutions are already taking root.
Esteemed multidisciplinary artist Aisha Shillingford of Intelligent Mischief, guided an interactive visioning exercise to collectively articulate the climate futures we want and how we can start building them now. The musical component was performed and composed by the multi-Grammy-awarded pianist Arturo O’Farril.
Presented by:
Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School (tishmancenter.org)
Rewiring America (rewiringamerica.org)
Grist (grist.org)
Mother Jones (motherjones.com)
This event was supported by Concern Worldwide US, Dream.org, Oatly, Nia Capital, and WWF, in Media Partnership with Free Speech Television and WNYC.
Learn more about:
Urban Ocean Lab: urbanoceanlab.org
The Latin Jazz Alliance:afrolatinjazz.org
Intelligent Mischief: intelligentmischief.com
