About Us

We envision a world where everyone feels empowered to take action in solving climate change. To create this future, climate action begins in the classroom.

Our Story

In June 2022, SubjectToClimate was introduced to the New York chapter of the National Wildlife Federation through their existing partnership for the New Jersey Climate Education Hub. By February 2023, NWF's Climate and Resilience Education Taskforce (CRETF) proposed a budget to the Governor and State, including a resource hub developed by SubjectToClimate. In October 2023, CRETF organized an event where the success of the New Jersey Climate Education Hub was presented, generating support. SubjectToClimate also began building ties with NYC Public Schools, leading to the official partnership between SubjectToClimate and NWF to establish the New York Climate Education Hub.

OUR SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONs

The National Wildlife Federation (NWF), America's largest and most trusted conservation organization, works across the country to confront the interrelated crises of rapid biodiversity loss, accelerating climate change, and pervasive environmental injustice. NWF is committed to providing youth, educators and communities with the knowledge and skills they need to understand the climate crisis and take action to protect our common future.

NYC Parks’ vision is to equitably strengthen our city’s health, environment, and communities through our parks. We are committed to growing, maintaining, and programming a world-class park system that provides all New Yorkers with vital access to green spaces that are clean and safe; alive with nature, people, and community; and resilient to climate change.

STEMteachersNYC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting a community of STEM teachers across the NYC region and beyond. Since 2011 our mission has been to cultivate excellence in STEM teaching and to promote deep understanding and success for students through innovative, teacher-led professional development workshops, working groups, events and partnership opportunities for current and preservice teachers in the community. Building on past climate change focused workshops and current microcredential offered in collaboration with the City College of New York, CUNY, STEMteachersNYC looks forward to supporting the work of SubjectToClimate' NY Climate Education Hub!

NYC Public Schools Office of Energy & Sustainability works across the entire school system to implement sustainability at every level. We aim to modernize our buildings to be more energy efficient, improving comfort for students and staff and contributing to our city’s climate goals. We connect sustainability to our school communities through outreach, training, education, and programs. Staff, students, and partners are champions of sustainability.

The Center for Sustainable Futures (CSF) at Teachers College envisions a regenerative world in which we achieve a balance between planet, people, and prosperity.

Our mission is to promote learning, awareness, attitudes, and skills to work individually and collectively toward long-term sustainability of complex living systems. CSF supports and conducts original research, engages in research-practice partnerships, mentors and trains graduate students, and uses data to inform evidence-based policy, practice, and communication.

Our mission is to ignite an enduring passion for nature that inspires action to ensure a thriving natural world. We are committed to a future where people and the natural world thrive together. We invite you to discover the story of the Adirondacks, and to explore new ways that people and nature can thrive in the same place.

We provide high-quality resources and programs for teachers, students, and the general public. Our programs include teacher professional development workshops and in-person activities at the Museum of the Earth and the Cayuga Nature Center in Ithaca, NY. Our resources include The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change, YouTube videos, exhibits at our public venues, online resources on Earth@Home, and more.

CFR Education provides accurate, accessible, authoritative resources that build the knowledge, skills, and perspective high school and higher education students need to understand and engage with today’s most pressing global issues.

OCM BOCES (Onondaga-Cortland-Madison Board of Cooperative Educational Services) is a regional public school district that provides shared educational programs, services and professional development to 23 component school districts.

Our State Lead: Rachel Arbor

Rachel Arbor is a Presidential Award winner whose work has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, the EPA, and the White House. She is the CEO and Founder of Gaia Scholastic and the NY State Lead for SubjectToClimate. For both of these roles, her mission is to cultivate a generation of environmentally-literate global citizens by integrating nature and environmental concepts into the learning experiences of students of all ages and abilities. With a Masters in Education, she builds interdisciplinary content in a way that challenges students to make connections: with themselves, with each other, and with nature, across content areas. She trains teachers across the country on how to re-shape their curriculum through an environmental lens, coaches students on how to turn their climate anxiety into climate action, and fosters environmental connection in and out of the classroom.

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