Events

Wes Gillingham, Program Director of Catskill Mountainkeeper, uses the Watershed Model to illustrate the potential impact of fracking of NYC’s water supply.

Shifting strategies–from denialism to obfuscation, advertising, and public relations–mislead the public. People become cynical and uncertain, mistrusting of any and all efforts to confront the changing climate. With science under attack, what is to be done? How might we break through the propaganda fog and into collective action?

Corporate sponsorship of museums and science education can compromise the basic idea of museums as reliable sources of common knowledge. By considering historical as well as contemporary examples of museum funding, we look at the power structures embedded in practices of collecting and display.

On the institution as a site of collective power that can be leveraged to advance a just and sustainable future for all.