The Climate Museum Presents Talking Climate: Food, a Discussion on Climate, Inequality, and Food
New York, NY (May 19, 2021) — The Climate Museum is presenting Talking Climate: Food, a panel discussion on climate, inequality, and food from 1-2pm EDT on Friday, May 21. This free, online, public education program will look at how climate affects every aspect of our food systems including how we get our food, where it comes from, what we eat, and whose work ensures that food is available in the first place. Like all of the Climate Museum’s programming, Food aims to create ground for community-building, democratic engagement, and civic action on the climate crisis. Panelists will discuss food at the intersection of climate and inequality, including food access and sustainability; farmworkers’ rights; prospects for agricultural regeneration; and more.
The distinguished panel, moderated by Climate Museum director Miranda Massie, includes:
Tony Hillery, Founder and Executive Director of Harlem Grown
Arcenio J. López, Executive Director of Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project
Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist at The Earth Institute at Columbia University and at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
The program will open with a reading by the celebrated poet Craig Santos Perez.
Food is the fifth installment of Second Fridays at the Climate Museum, a series featuring interdisciplinary panels delving into themes—Displacements, Grief, Infrastructure, and Identity—at the intersection of the climate crisis and different forms of inequality. For further information, or to register visit: climatemuseum.org/second-fridays. Past programs can be found on the Museum’s YouTube channel.
About the Climate Museum
The Climate Museum’s mission is to inspire action on the climate crisis with programming across the arts and sciences that deepens understanding, builds connections, and advances just solutions. In its public programming to date, it has created an activist cultural approach to community engagement with climate, recognizing that most Americans are worried about the climate crisis but are unsure how to take meaningful action. The Museum’s free, accessible exhibitions, art installations, events, youth programs, and more have touched tens of thousands of New Yorkers and visitors and received extensive recognition, broadening the climate movement with an emphasis on community, justice, equity, and inclusion. Programs are presented at the museum’s exhibition hub on Governors Island, in parks, galleries, in venues citywide and, in 2020-2021, through virtual events. The Museum is currently scaling out to a permanent, year-round presence in New York City. Additional information is available at climatemuseum.org.
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