This summer, I learned that Facebook is no longer cool and climate change is depressing. I was standing in a room of Oakland high schoolers, attempting to teach them about how to use social media to spur action and understanding of climate change, instead thinking, “I guess I’m not cool anymore”. I had been talking about Facebook Live and its potential for talking about climate change, a platform for getting your voice out there with facts presented in a digestible way. But the response I was getting was, “No one even uses Facebook anymore! Only my mom…We just use Instagram”. My social media knowledge was clearly out of date and I had to adapt to new formats of thinking and demonstrating ideas visually and textually.
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Rachel Stern
Review: Democratizing the Green City: What Environmental Improvement Means for Gentrification
Rachel Stern reviews the Democratizing the Green City symposium, hosted by the Urban Democracy Lab at NYU Gallatin on January 23rd.