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 03: Keep Lungs Active
When was the last time you tasted outside air without a mask on? How often do you open your window? Open it, if possible. How is the air today? Do you remember the air quality before the pandemic? Which plants and trees do you breath with today?
Participate: Keep Lungs Active
When was the last time you tasted outside air without a mask on? How often do you open your window? Open it, if possible. How is the air today? Do you remember the air quality before the pandemic? Which plants and trees do you breath with today?
Feel the air that comes into your nose and lungs. How does the inside air and the outside air feel? Do you sense any difference in the moisture and temperature? How much air do you take in and how much air do other species around breath in? Try to acknowledge all the plants and creatures you can see…Who appreciates your breath and who is not afraid of your breath?
Take a photo of the view out of your window, including the species you shared your breath with. Record a voice memo or audio recording describing the experience. Try to keep your audio or voice memo to under three minutes.
Good Air quality is key for both humans and nonhumans alike. Did you know the U.S. EPA loosened enforcement regulations as the pandemic intensified, giving corporations an open license to pollute?
Responses
- kim from park slope
- Matthew, Mineola, NY
- Angela, Chattanooga, TN
- Kensington, Brooklyn
- Jenny from Jersey City
- Dot from Winona, MN
- Nora & Jerry, Gowanus Brooklyn
- Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn
- Andrea from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
- Chris, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Further action
Is your state fighting to control transportation-related emissions?
Global temperatures are on target to rise at least 3°C (5.4 ° F) by 2100. On March 31, 2020, while the country was in lockdown due to the Covid19 pandemic, the US EPA passed a rule relaxing fuel efficiency standards through 2026 (based on spurious science). Transportation related greenhouse gas emissions will continue to rise as Americans get on the road again. While Federal agencies fail us, states are fighting to regulate emissions more aggressively. Twenty-two states have sued the EPA.
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.
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