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The Climate Museum Presents Talking Climate: Infrastructure, a Discussion on Climate, Inequality, and Infrastructure, and Overview

New York, NY (March 8, 2021) — For its March installment of Second Fridays on Friday, March 12, the Climate Museum presents Talking Climate: Infrastructure, a panel discussion on climate, inequality, and infrastructure from 1-2pm EST; and Overview, a conversation on the satellite and aerial imagery project, Overview, from 2:10-2:55pm EST.

Talking Climate: Infrastructure, a free, online public education program, will confront how current infrastructure locks in the compounding crises of climate and inequality in the United States, and what is needed for a transition to a just, resilient, and climate-stabilized future. Like all of the Climate Museum’s programming, Infrastructure aims to provide a foundation for community-building, democratic engagement, and civic action.

The distinguished panel, moderated by Climate Museum director Miranda Massie, includes: 

  • Jainey Bavishi, Director of the New York City Mayor's Office of Resiliency

  • Julian Brave NoiseCat, Vice President of Policy & Strategy for Data for Progress and Narrative Change Director for the Natural History Museum

  • Justin J. Pearson, Co-Founder of Memphis Community Against the Pipeline and environmental justice activist

Second Fridays programming will continue from 2:10-2:55pm EST with Overview, a conversation with Benjamin Grant. Ben founded and created Overview, which uses satellite imagery to highlight human impacts on the Earth. The Climate Museum’s Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow Dilshanie Perera will facilitate the discussion.

Infrastructure and Overview make up the third installment of Second Fridays at the Climate Museum, a series featuring interdisciplinary panels delving into themes—Displacements, Grief, and Infrastructure—at the intersection of the climate crisis and different forms of inequality. For further information, or to register visit: climatemuseum.org/second-fridays.  

About the Climate Museum

The Climate Museum is the first museum in the U.S. dedicated to the climate crisis. The museum’s mission is to inspire action on the climate crisis with public programming across the arts and sciences that deepens understanding, builds community, and advances just solutions. Most people in the U.S. are worried about the climate crisis, but remain silent and inactive. The Climate Museum offers public programming to meet the rising demand for multiple pathways to civic engagement and climate action. Through exhibitions, panels, workshops, educational initiatives, and youth programs, it builds community around just solutions, mobilizing people to join the fight for a brighter future. Additional information is available at climatemuseum.org. 

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