New York, United States: the projects and people changemakers recommend

The selection

• Billion Oyster ProjectNew York, USA“Ecological restoration at the scale of a city, with schools at the heart of it. Few projects reconcile a city with its ocean like this one.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• BiofabricateNew York, USA“Suzanne Lee built the community that takes grown materials out of the lab and into actual products.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Ford FoundationNew York, USA“They aimed their giving straight at inequality and pulled their money out of fossil fuels. That is leadership, and it should be named.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Hannah ArendtNew York City, USA“Because she insisted on understanding politics as the realm of human plurality and action rather than administration, and because she never stopped asking what makes democratic life possible beyond bureaucratic processes.”Recommended by Alberto Alemanno
• Mellon FoundationNew York, USA“They put the arts and the humanities first in what they fund. It takes some nerve, and I respect it.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Nikole Hannah-JonesNew York, USA“Investigating, researching, and ultimately repositioning a date within the broader sweep of history can, in some cases, unsettle an entire chapter of a national narrative.”Recommended by Coralie Custos Quatreville
• Oceans 2050USA“Alexandra is building the data that lets ocean farmers prove how much carbon they store, and earn from it.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume