FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 2024
The Earth Bill Network partners with socially-driven art project Meta Betties to co-host exhibition event
with notable guest speaker Chad Frischmann at Westfield World Trade Center
As the UN climate chief calls for faster action on climate change efforts, this event is a call to action at a crucial time for The Earth Bill
Video created by Andrew Lyman-Clarke
New York, NY – The Earth Bill Network partners with socially-driven art project Meta Betties to co-host an exhibition and event, with notable guest speaker Chad Frischmann, on April 20, 2024, 4:00 – 8:00 PM, at The Canvas 3.0 Gallery at The Oculus: Westfield World Trade Center. The event comes at a crucial time, with the UN climate chief recently calling for faster action on climate change efforts and ahead of this year’s Earth Day.
Founded by artist Blakelee Pieroni, Meta Betties is a multidisciplinary digital activism project that intersects art, fashion, performance and the blockchain with monthly events and activations that bring together art, technology and community activism to create catalysts for social change. A provocative subversion of 1940s pin-up imagery, Meta Betties examines ongoing social issues with aggregated, activist-based tools that not only inform its collectors but also incentivize community action. The launch of Meta Betties socially-conscious collectibles and activations begins with a themed exhibit centered on climate change and a rally in support of The Earth Bill (H.R. 598, currently on the floor of Congress).
The event is co-hosted by The Earth Bill Network, the organization working to pass scientifically-based federal climate legislation. The event raises awareness for The Earth Bill (H.R. 598) in Congress with an exhibition of digital art and activism, live performances, and scientific information about this flagship bill designed to build a movement powerful enough to save the future. Subject matter experts will speak about the science behind the bill, while orchestrated digital, physical and performance art will thematically raise awareness and mobilize real-time advocacy from visitors in the gallery.
Chad Frischmann will be speaking at the event. He is CEO and Founder of Regenerative Intelligence (RegenIntel), the co-creator of Project Drawdown, co-author of the book Drawdown, and the architect and lead researcher of the Drawdown Solutions Framework, the engine behind the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to solve global warming. As a renowned steward of planetary change, he has spoken at hundreds of major events globally and his TED talk has over 2.3m views.
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About The Earth Bill Network
The Earth Bill Network is an open association of activists, organizations and coalitions weaving our power together for results on stopping our GHG pollution.
To join the network please review the Principles & Action Agreements below and take The Earth Bill Pledge. Welcome all!
We organize inclusively and transparently facilitated by seasoned volunteer professionals leading various fronts: Administration, Adopt-A-District, Legislative, Faith, Youth AAD, Websites, Social Media and more.
Our Team leaders come from dozens of groups, including Climate Crisis Policy (lead facilitator), Fridays for Future, Unitarian Universalists, Metro NYC Climate Catholic Movement, and more.
We’re active in several coalitions including 100% Clean Energy Group, Climate Action Campaign, Ad Hoc Environmental Lobbying group, Build Back Fossil Free Coalition, The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, and Break Free From Plastics coalition. Core to our mission, we provide a flow of high-level information from major groups to the grassroots network through our open meetings.
The goal is to weave us all into a united movement working together for real political power. Welcome to the campaign to stop our pollution and save the planet! We’re here to work against the clock!
Website: https://earthbill.org/
Instagram: @theearthbill
About Chad Frischmann
Chad Frischmann is the CEO and Founder of Regenerative Intelligence (RegenIntel), a global ecosystem superpowered by a network of world class system thinkers and doers creating a virtuous cycle of collaborative intelligence, we enable the effective implementation of the highest impact ‘system of solutions’ for the planet and for people at scale.
From 2014-2022, prior to launching RegenIntel, Chad was the co-author the New York Times best-seller Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Penguin, 2017), and the lead researcher and architect of the Drawdown Solutions Framework, the engine underpinning the book, the Drawdown Review (February, 2020), and all communications and engagement efforts at Project Drawdown, one of the world’s leading resources for climate solutions. Leading a global team of solutionists, Chad designed integrated global tools to assess the world’s most effective climate solutions and determine if, when, and how the world can reach “drawdown,” the point in time when the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gasses begins to decline on a year-to-year basis. As the creator and head of Drawdown Solutions since Project Drawdown’s inception, Chad was the key spokesperson and coalition-builder dedicated to sharing the message and model of the Drawdown Solutions Framework to the world.
Chad’s interdisciplinary background in public policy, human rights, sustainable development, and environmental conservation, informs his work as a systems strategist to build a new, regenerative future with cascading benefits to human and planetary well-being.
Website: https://www.chadfrischmann.com/
Instagram: @chadonclimate
About Meta Betties
Meta Betties is a concept art collectible that serves as a running social commentary on current events and cultural conflicts. Inspired by classic pin-up girls of 1940s America, Meta Betties are reborn as modern evangelists that call attention to social issues and injustices through iconic symbolism and message. The art is provocative and chaotic, and minted on the Ethereum blockchain each Meta Bettie serves as a timestamp of social issues and human progression as real-world events unfold. The IRL subject matter feeds the project endlessly from year-to-year and collectors get to invest, trade and act on the issues that drive the culture towards progress, or to ruin. The Brand seeks to pioneer new models for using art + the blockchain as a catalyst for social change.
Website: https://www.metabetties.com/
Instagram: @metabetties
Twitter / X: @MetaBetties
About Blakelee Pieroni
Pieroni holds a dance media degree from Marymount Manhattan, complemented by training in oil painting and Sound Design. Integrating these mediums, she has shaped a unique artistic practice showcased in NYC over the past decade. Recognized for choreography, painting, and digital performance art, her work has garnered attention in publications like Time Out, Creatrix, Up Mag, Blockster, SuperChief, and ChaShaMa. In 2023, Pieroni curated “m OTHER,” a group exhibition for stepmothers, evolving into a documentary premiering at the 25th Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival in March 2024. Invited to perform at Art Basel Miami, she presented “Labor of Materiality,” encouraging audience engagement through a chipped egg that scanned to a petition for the Women’s Protection Act of 2023 advocating reproductive freedom.
Currently in residency at The Canvas 3.0 in The Shops at the Oculus in Westfield World Trade Center, she utilizes “Meta Betties,” her concept art collectible minted on the Ethereum Blockchain, to pave the way for digital activism. Pieroni plans to curate exhibitions in the space to creatives of all mediums exploring tech’s intersection with movement, human behavior, and fashion.
Website: https://www.fortheobserver.com/
Instagram: @blakelee_mover