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STREET WORKS EARTH 2024
With the support of Make Justice Normal in celebration of 2024 Climate Week, the All Street Collective is creating an archive of how local communities respond to climate change. Due to its vast scale and universal impact, it can be difficult to grasp how climate change affects individuals, families, and local communities, and possibilities for intervention on a more manageable scale. This can lead to feelings of disempowerment for individuals dedicated to our environment who may not know what actions they can take to make a difference within reach.
Despite New York City's often progressive political leanings, the city faces continued struggles in developing accessible green spaces, clean energy and improved air quality, sanitation services, as well as efficient transportation across all five boroughs. These challenges disproportionately affect BIPOC and lower income communities throughout the city. This archive is meant to center climate interest on a hyper local level and foster hope, and a path forward, providing a template for ways to get involved.
On Sunday September 23rd, on 34th Ave in Jackson Heights Queens, Make Justice Normal organzed a communiuty arts festival to raise awareness and expolore creative solutions for climate change.
In addition to All Street, some of the featured artists were Sabina Sethi Unni, Remember Y(our) Connection/Tandand Ang Ating Ugnayan, Kaleidospace, Veggie Nuggets, Ellen (Jing) Xu, Bayete Ross Smith, Nitin Mukul. For the isntalltion The All Street Collective created a zine making workshop where passerbys had the opportunity to reflect on their relationship to climate change and make artwork in relation to these themes. All of the materials and paper used for the workshop and for the zines were recycled and sourced from discarded paper materials. A template for the zine can be found below as well as some of the responses from partipants.
ONE PAGE ZINE
PRINTABLE FILE
COLORING BOOK
PRINTABLE FILES
HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT YOU?
“I’m very conscious of the fact that my childhoood home, three blocks from the Hudson River, may well be underwater in a couple of decades. Anyone who lives in New York is keenly aware that sea levels are rising and extreme weather—specifically hurricanes—is growing more frequent. I feel we are grossly unprepared as a city, which is scary.” - resident of soho“it doesn’t. at least not in a day to day lived way. like i know it’s all around me and it’s coming but i don’t really think about it. it’s like an out of sight out of mind kind of thing.” - resident of ridgewood
WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST PRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE?
“inflation and cost of living. as long as i’m working like a slave to stay on top of groceries and crazy electric bills, I can’t worry about anything else. nothing is more pressing than survival. ” - resident of soundview“in new york city? probably the heat or water rising or storms. it feels like the city floods a lot more than it used to and the summer is pretty unbearable. there’s a lot of bad things happening it seems like.” - resident of astoria
DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
“yes, i don't think there's necessarily a linear path towards change but i think through various small actions anyone can make a difference, because you never know how your behaviors will influence someone else.” - resident of jackson heights“not really. outside of recylcing i don’t really know what i can do. and who evern knows if what i’m recylcing actually ends up getting recycled so it all feels out of my hands honestly.” - resident of brownsville
WHAT DON'T YOU THINK PEOPLE CONSIDER ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?
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How far gone we are, and soon things will be hopeless if a lot of change isn’t made. Since it isn’t obvious and drastic right now, or is dumbed down by politicians, people aren’t really aware of the impact it’ll have and the massive loss of quality of life.” - resident of the upper west side
“a lack of money prevents a lot of people from being able to care or make a difference in their lifestyles. so there’s a lot of focus on small actions that regular people should be doing but in reality it’d be much more significant if the worlds wealthiest were a little bit more concious with how they consume resources.” - resident of williamsburg
ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE?
“ yeah, I think it’s easier than ever to educate oneself and get involved with organizations working to make an impact. also i think there’s a greater sense of urgency to preserve nature and take better care of our environment.” - resident of morningside heights
“ I believe that climate change will result in global catastrophe (as we're already seeing), but I'm optimistic about my generation and the people working against global warming. ” - resident of south street seaport
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