Roof Painters Reflect on Their Role Fighting Climate Change

Roof Painters Reflect on Their Role Fighting Climate Change

On top of a co-op building in Flushing, Queens, on a stark gray afternoon, more than two dozen workers armed with brushes and rollers applied a white coat of paint across the black roof.“It’s really for it to keep the roofs cooler, and it also makes the whole building cooler as well,” said Domonique Clotter, one of the painters. “It’s very effective, especially during the summer.”Wearing sunglasses and bucket hats to shield their eyes against th…

A New Concept for Fighting Climate Change

A growing number of climate activists are taking up a fresh idea as a rallying cry and a legal strategy: Nature, in all its manifestations, is alive.

The Plaza del Rey de San Fernando will host on June 1st, at 13.00, a large-format artistic intervention as the beginning of the European stage of ‘La Stampida’ (The Herds), an international initiative that uses art as a way of raising awareness about the climate emergency. The show will feature the participation of local flamenco artists under the title ‘Pisadas and Helmets’. ‘La Stampida’ is a project created by the British producer The Walk Pr…