Take Action in New York City

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FFF strikers in Brooklyn on March 25, 2022. Photo by Teddy Ogborn

NYC hosts the original Union Square Climate Clock monument and is home to the project’s workshop and four of the project’s core staff, making the city ground zero for volunteer opportunities. 

Climate Clock is currently looking for local volunteers to support 3 main needs in New York City:

  1. Events deployment

  2. Workshop support

  3. Community engagement

Read more about the specific volunteer opportunities for each below.

Get involved by emailing becca@climateclock.world, CC-ing mae@climateclock.world and greg@climateclock.world.

Tell us a little bit about yourself, your availability, and when you might be available for an on-boarding call. 

1. Event deployment volunteers are tasked with: 

  • Getting an action clock from the workshop, 

  • bringing it to events, 

  • ensuring it gets to Climate Clock spokespeople, 

  • and ensuring it gets back to the workshop in one piece. 

The workshop is located in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, making it possible to loan Action Clocks to NYC climate events, including rallies, marches, and festivals. 

2. Workshop support volunteers are tasked with:

  • Prepping action clocks for events (this includes charging batteries, assembling event specific accessories such as tripods or straps, and making sure the clock functions)

  • Shipping action clocks (this includes printing labels, checking components, printing the appropriate documents, packaging the clock, dropping it off at a local shipping point two blocks away)

  • Building clocks! Experience in soldering, 3D printing, or robotics required

3. Community Engagement volunteers are invited to:

Brainstorm and execute NYC specific campaigns with Climate Clock staff. Meeting schedule will fluctuate pending numbers. Current community engagement campaigns include:

  • Climate Clock Curriculum— In partnership with XR Youth and FFF, the Climate Clock is planning a journey through local middle schools! Student Climate Clock “ambassadors” will welcome an action clock to campus by presenting the Climate Clock to their peers at assembly. Schools will host the clock for a month during which science teachers are invited to use the clock in their classrooms, administrators are invited to read the time left on the clock at the end of each week, and students are invited to take photos with the clock and share their thoughts about the crisis (to be shared on Climate Clock social media). At the end of the month, student ambassadors will bring the clock to the next school, present it to the campus, and pass forward their student ambassadorship.

  • Climate Clock in the Wild— Borrow a climate clock and:

    • Host it in your store front for a week 

    • Bring it to a popular area and engage the community in dialogue about climate change and climate solutions

    • Film video testimonials of community members holding the clock in front of NYC landmarks (testimonial scripts available upon request)

    • Use the clock to recruit folks to their events (this might look like using the climate clock subway talk script or asking to put the clock at local venues) 

  • YOUR IDEA HERE!