Environmental Performance Agency
Multispecies Care Survey
In a time of pandemic crisis, how do we re-value what care means for all living beings? About the project →
Protocol 01: Temperature Check
Do you look out the window more since the quarantine? Which window do you look out the most? Go to that window and do a temperature check.
Participate: Temperature Check
Do you look out the window more since the quarantine? Which window do you look out the most? Go to that window and do a temperature check.
Try contacting the glass with other parts of your body, like your forehead, cheek, or palm. How do you feel your body’s temperature change? What temperature does the glass offer? What temperature does the sunlight offer? How do you feel the climate’s temperature?
Take a photo of your body contacting the glass of your window and create an audio recording (e.g. voice memo) describing the experience. Try to keep your audio or voice memo to under three minutes.
Global Temperatures are rising. Is your state fighting to control transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions?
Responses
- Garden City, New York
- Jessica from Hicksville, NY
- Melitta from Dix Hills, Long Island
- Matt Vang from New York
- andrea,Lenapehoking land, Brooklyn, New York
- Madelyn Sarver from Garden City, NY
- dev from long island
- Matthew, Mineola, NY
- Julia Lafferty - Long Island, New York
- Angela Dittmar, Chattanooga, TN
- Bowie from 97 :) Brooklyn, NY 5/18/2020
- Alyssa from Williamsburg,Brooklyn, NYC 5.17.2020
- Andrea from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
- Claire from Hopewell Junction, NY
- Quincy from Bed-Stuy, NYC
- Deanna from Manorville NY
- Isabella from Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey
- Lissette from Blairstown, NJ
- Georgia from Greenwich Village, NYC
- Nora Almeida & Jerry Luna, Gowanus Brooklyn
- Andrie Irons from Chico, CA
- Sara from Belvedere, California
- Dory, Placerville California
- Luis from Hamilton Heights, NYC
- Dot from Winona, MN
- Nathan from Hansville, WA
- Beth from South Slope
- Catherine, Ridgewood, Queens
- andrea, Lenapehoking territory, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
- Chris, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
- Ellie from Troy
Further action
U.S. EPA is trying to omit vital Public Health Data- Tell them what you think!
In early March 2020, the U.S. EPA announced further amendments to it’s “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” policy proposal, which has been dubbed the “Censor Science Rule” by the scientific community, as it disqualifies all anonymous medical data – effectively the data that measures the health impact of environmental pollution. We now know that the respiratory illness caused by Covid19 has brought the unsettling correlation between death rates and the POC and immigrant communities most exposed to environmental pollution further to light.
ADD YOUR VOICE TO THE PUBLIC COMMENTS: Due to continued pushback on this proposal commenting is extended until May 18th. Visit regulations.gov to give a public comment, search by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OA–2018–0259.
Don’t let the U.S. EPA get away with using the pandemic as an open license to pollute
Good Air quality is key for both humans and nonhumans alike. On March 26th, 2020, the U.S. EPA released a letter titled “COVID-19 Implications for EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Program”, announcing that it would not be enforcing its compliance regulations, giving industry a pass to pollute freely during this global health crisis. Former US EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy, called it “an open license to pollute.”
How are bird and multispecies communities being impacted by US EPA rollbacks?
This March the U.S. EPA gutted the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which now no longer holds individuals or companies (for example real estate companies) accountable for the incidental killing of migratory birds. In New York City, 90,000 birds collide with buildings every year, many of these are migratory birds, as the city is located on a major migratory pathway. One more reason to stand up against massive real estate developments in the city!
MAKE A PROTEST POSTER FOR YOUR WINDOW! And if you happen to live in a highrise, or any building with glass:
We want real climate justice policy! What Energy Policy would your Street Tree Endorse?
In 2017 former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt issued a notice proposing a repeal of the Clean Power Plan, which requires utilities to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. The rule was replaced in 2019 with the “Affordable Clean Energy” (ACE) rule which weakens emissions standards. The U.S. EPA, over the past 4 years, has rolled back over 95 rules put in place to protect environmental health, supporting the interests of the coal, gas, and oil industries, along with Big Agriculture. How has this changed the role and pressure we place on so-called green infrastructure? What kind of energy policy would street trees endorse? Read about the Red New Deal, and A Peoples Climate Plan for NYC.
Almost ⅔ of Earth’s biodiversity is bacterial. How do we deconstruct and unlearn human supremacy?
The U.S. EPA endorses the use of powerful herbicides and pesticides like glyphosate (Round Up) and chlorpyrifos. In 2019, the U.S. EPA announced that it would not ban chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide that its own experts have linked to serious health problems in children, and farmworkers. Now more than ever our food supply depends on supporting and protecting farmworkers.
Visit Beyond Pesticides to learn more.
Tell Congress to provide essential benefits to essential workers