The Future of Energy! - A ferry talk and tour with Jk Canepa and Anna Tsomo

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Join us for a Ferry talk with longtime activist JK Canepa and Youth organizer and educator Anna Tsomo as we talk about better ways for our enerfy, in action and in policy.

This tour begins at the Ferry terminal at Corlears Hook in the LES and travels on the water to Governors Island, where we'll be joined by our closing program and ritual in collaboration with the American Indian Community House, Next Epoch Seed Library and Sacred Space. More info here.

Participants will be walking for 10-20 minutes as part of the walk.
Please contact us with any accessibility concerns.

Note: Participants are responsible for their own NYC Ferry ticket and late-comers will not be accomodated. Tickets are first come first served and there is no reserved seating. To ensure seating, please arrive 15 minutes before the departure of the Ferry.

Part of a city-wide program and Interactive Scavenger hunt.
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JK Canepa

Always a lover of animals and recognizing our own family relationships with all life from childhood, JK Canepa doveinto climate work, and for the past many years that has meant working intensely and full-on with Sane Energy Project,a predominantly female-led grassroots group passionately fighting pipelines and other fossil fuel projects that threaten todevastate New York's land, waters and people. She's also co-founded Rainforests of New York, which was able to get NYCto stop buying tropical timber for our miles of boardwalks and thousands of park benches, and is a long-standing member ofMore Gardens!, which served as the direct action arm of the community gardens movement, now focusing on natureeducation for kids in parts of the City where trees and parks are woefully missing or underserved..Right now she's working toward the creation of a thermal energy network for Loisaida in the East Village to help freethe neighborhood from the clutches of investor-owned utilities and off the gas; the intention is to serve as a model ofdecarbonization for other disadvantaged communities in New York City and State. She tends a couple of medicinalplots for the pollinator queens, and at her day job she advocates for residents of adult homes, those who are amongthe most vulnerable, forgotten and invisible people in the city, to help them know and exercise their rights to dignity andclaim their autonomy.

Anna Tsomo

Anna Tsomo (they/she) is a climate educator and mutual aid activist based in NYC. They are the Program Director of the Teen Climate Justice Program, which aims to empower high school students with information, skills, and relationships to become climate activists. Anna received her Masters of Community Health from CUNY School of Public Health, and her BS in Anthropology and Public Health from CUNY Baccalaureate and Macaulay Honors College. Anna began organizing in 2020, resisting fossil fuel expansion with the No North Brooklyn Pipeline Alliance, and went on to lead projects in citizen science, legislative advocacy, community gardening, youth empowerment, and mutual aid. Raised in Appalachia with roots in Brooklyn & Queens, they are passionate about nature, dance, mindfulness, and approaching life with the values of decolonization and pleasure activism.

Yessenia Funes is an environmental journalist born and raised in New York. She focuses on environmental and climate justice, always centering the lived experience of community in her writing. She's presently editor-at-large at Atmos, an independent climate and culture magazine. Her writing can be found in Vox, National Geographic, New York Magazine, Vogue, Scientific American, and more. She publishes a weekly creative climate justice newsletter called Possibilities where she shares her art and musings.

Holes in the Wall Collective

Holes in the Wall Collective takes on the big social challenges with joy, creativity and action by directly supporting and connecting people already doing the work.

They've been reimagining how to engage with our city and world for the last10 years.

This is part of their large initiative Imagined Futures, supporting Climate work happening right now in NYC to support a joyous and sustainable future.

More info HERE.

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