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The Role of EDI Officers in Weaving Together a More Just and Sustainable World
- Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (WA)
We know that diversity expands the collective. Beyond dimensions of race, diversity must involve the holistic engagement of peoples, systems of knowledge, experiences, and ideas. Commitments to equity that live ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Engaging Public Health Students in Environmental Justice Through a Collaborative Art Project
- Mercer University (GA)
Background. Environmental justice issues may be new to undergraduate public health students. While they are enthusiastic to learn about and engage in environmental justice issues they often do not know ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Climate Planning in Higher Education: From Action to Justice
- Northeastern University (MA)
- One Square World
In this session, you will learn about Northeastern’s unique and bold approach to centering justice and equity in its forthcoming climate justice action plan. You’ll also experience a ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Ground Truths: Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice
- Occidental College (CA)
- Santa Clara University (CA)
This open-access book is the first volume devoted entirely to summarizing the body of community-engaged research on environmental justice, how we can conduct more of it, and how we can ...
- Posted Feb. 13, 2024
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Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resource Use and the Environment (Minor)
- Cal Poly Humboldt (CA)
Engage with traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous science, and Place-Based learning through courses focused on sustainability, environmental science, and environmental justice. Learn best practices for place-based natural resource management and the ...
- Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Empowering students to confront environmental injustice: Dialogue, theory, empathy, and partnership
- George Washington University (DC)
- Iowa State University (IA)
- North Carolina A&T State University (NC)
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
Many students find environmental justice to be emotionally overwhelming and/or politically alienating, and there is currently little work that provides instructors with effective techniques for addressing these types of ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Justice in climate change education: a systematic review
- Colorado State University (CO)
- University of Cincinnati (OH)
Growing recognition of the multi-faceted injustices of climate change has resulted in shifting public and policy discourse around how to understand and address climate change, yet justice considerations are rarely ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Undisciplining Environmental Communication Pedagogy: Toward Environmental and Epistemic Justice in the Interdisciplinary Sustainability Classroom
- Allegheny College (PA)
This article moves beyond an understanding of environmental communication as merely the “translation” of scientific knowledge for the general public and advocates for environmental science and sustainability (ESS) educators to ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Six critical questions for teaching justice-based environmental sustainability (JBES) in higher education
- Beijing Normal University
- Universidade Federal de Sergipe
In this short article, we pose six key questions that we argue as essential to critically problem-pose in achieving teaching for justice-based environmental sustainability (JBES) in higher education (HE). We ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Justice-Oriented Learning: Reconfiguring Experiential Education with a California Farmworker Community
- Nova Southeastern University (FL)
- San Francisco State University (CA)
This community-based research project examines a land-based education program which creates opportunities for contextualized learning, acknowledging the value of immigrant farmworkers’ lived experiences. The study highlights how this culture of ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Transforming education for the just transition
- University of Dundee
- King's College London
- Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour
Society faces many challenges in promoting a just transition to a low-carbon economy, a transition that does not create or exacerbate injustices. Notably, the just transition can only be attained ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Understanding Environmental Justice Instruction in Higher Education: Activist Epistemic Orientations and a Continuum of Community Engaged Curricular and Pedagogical Practice
- University of Massachusetts Boston (MA)
Starting in the early 1980’s, the environmental justice (EJ) movement was critical in drawing much needed attention to how communities of color, low-income groups, Indigenous peoples, and other marginalized ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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USC Urban Trees Initiative
- University of Southern California (CA)
The USC Urban Trees Initiative (USC Trees) brings together faculty, staff, and student researchers at the University of Southern California to help the City of Los Angeles and local nonprofits ...
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Keynote: April Anson
- San Diego State University (CA)
- University of Oregon (OR)
"Nature will heal when we heal the white supremacist vision of nature as an object to be extracted, resource to be mined, concept to racialize, sacrifice, make killable." Dr. April ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Keynote: Kumi Naidoo
- Thunderbird School of Global Management (AZ)
- University Mohammed VI Polytechnic
"We need to go beyond the solo approach and work together and lend our voices across all sectors: environmental, human rights, health, education, etc. Only our collective voice will be ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Centering Justice and Equity in Environmental Center Work
- Mount Holyoke College (MA)
The US environmental field has long been plagued with egalitarianism and exploitation of populations already disenfranchised. Unfortunately, this has led to an exclusionary approach to tackling the world’s greatest ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Creating Institutional Change for Social and Environmental Justice
- Saint Joseph's College - ME (ME)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
- University of the Fraser Valley (BC)
Academics and observers have for decades called for holistic conceptions of higher education for sustainable development, environmental education, and related ideas, that go beyond relatively narrow projects of “greening their ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Environmental Justice & Nature Immersion: A Collaborative Partnership
- North Hennepin Community College (MN)
- YMCA of the North (MN)
GCST 1970 is a nature-based, credit-bearing program for North Hennepin Community College and high school students from Brooklyn Park, MN, in partnership with the YMCA and Three Rivers Park District ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Building Decarbonization Education for the Next Generation
- Howard University (DC)
- Stanford University (CA)
In order to prepare the next generation of building professionals, engineering education must adapt. The Stanford Building Decarbonization Learning Accelerator (BDLA) provides free teaching resources to professors so they can ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Endicott College's Environmental Justice Working Group
- Endicott College (MA)
The Environmental Justice Working Group at Endicott College was established in 2023 by Sophia Gosselin-Smoske, a student at Endicott College and a Fellow in the Office of Sustainability. The group ...
- Posted April 27, 2023
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Bending Towards Justice: Evolving Sustainability Education at Prescott College
- Prescott College (AZ)
- AASHE (MA)
The PhD in Sustainability Education at Prescott College, the first of its kind in North America, attracts a transdisciplinary cadre of students/scholars/activists committed to social and environmental justice ...
- Posted March 30, 2023
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Building a Circular Campus: Scope 3 Emissions, Community Resilience, & Justice
- Barnard College (NY)
- AASHE (MA)
As Barnard College defines a pathway to net zero emissions, we are paying particular attention to our Scope 3 emissions and using the principles of circularity to address them. Measuring ...
- Posted March 9, 2023
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Environmental Justice in Higher Education: From Intent to Sustainable Action
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Princeton University (NJ)
- AASHE (MA)
This webinar will trace shifts in the traditional framing of sustainability in higher education and how it is implemented, following the recent racial reckoning in the wake of the killing ...
- Posted Feb. 16, 2023
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Social Justice Studies Minor
- University of Victoria (BC)
The Social Justice Studies program helps advance UVic's vision by promoting civic engagement and global citizenship as well as valuing equal rights and dignity of all persons. The program ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Environmental Justice and Sustainability Minor
- City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (NY)
The Environmental Justice minor educates students about the need to provide for human well-being while conserving the natural resources and ecological balance necessary to meet the needs of current and ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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MA Public Policy - Environmental Policy Focus
- University of California, Riverside (CA)
The School of Public Policy offers an Environmental Policy focus in the new MA program addressing sustainability and environmental regulations and justice at the local, regional, state and national level ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Root: Centering Social Identity and Environmental Justice in First-Year Orientation
- Williams College (MA)
Root is one of 6 topical opt-in first-year orientation programs, called EphVentures, offered by Williams College. It runs for four days at the beginning of new student orientation and introduces ...
- Posted May 23, 2022
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Investigating critical community engaged pedagogies for transformative environmental justice education
- University of Utah (UT)
Effective environmental justice education poses unique challenges to both educators and students. For students, this pursuit is cognitively challenging at best and emotionally paralyzing at worst. It requires deconstruction of ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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A Discussion About Environmental Justice in Vermont
- University of Vermont (VT)
Project Green Schools was delighted to host A Discussion About Environmental Justice in Vermont in partnership with Vermont House Speaker, Conor Kennedy, Shelburne Farms, VT FEED, Hunger Free Vermont, VEEP ...
- Posted May 9, 2022
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Regeneration & Reclamation in Environmental Justice Projects by Contemporary Artists and Educators
- Colorado State University, Pueblo (CO)
- George Washington University (DC)
- Parsons (IL)
- ViVA Virtual Visiting Artists (OH)
For many years, internationally renowned award-winning contemporary artists around the country have been leaders of community-based social practice projects that feature creative approaches to urban renewal and communal agriculture, native ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Connecting Your Campus Across Intersections of Climate, Race, and Internationalization
- The GREEN Program (PA)
- Climate Action Network for International Educators (CANIE) (Victoria)
Environmental justice is racial justice. Sustainability necessitates addressing racism. Higher education must play its part to proactively strategize and foster interdepartmental collaboration to address environmental justice at our campus and ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Putting the Equity in Sustainability Curriculum
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
This session will address some of the successes and struggles of modifying environmental curriculum to address social justice. The Environmental Justice Collective of the University of Texas at Austin's ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Finding Intersectional Solutions to Environmental Sustainability & Social Justice
- Augsburg University (MN)
During the summer of 2021 and continuing into the 2021-2022 school year, Nyasa is conducting research with Monica McDaniel, the Sustainability Officer at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to identify ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Using a Sustainability Framework to Advance Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (TX)
Accredited social work programs in the U.S. train students to advance "social, economic, and environmental justice" (CSWE, 2020). Often, however, the curriculum addresses each type of justice independently, as ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Using the Pursuit of Equitable Tree Canopy to Combat Effects of Redlining in Lexington, Kentucky
- University of Kentucky (KY)
The historical housing policy of redlining reflected systemic racism in the home lending industry; it disproportionately impacted people of color and created socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods in intentional and negative ways ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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A Campus Framework for Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion-Centered Climate Resilience Planning
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
- Integral Group (CA)
"Climate resilience planning" has been a growing buzz phrase across the country for years. Although many municipalities are beginning to incorporate current and future climate realities into their planning efforts ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Healthier building materials and equity: the upstream and downstream impacts of material choices
- Williams College (MA)
- Integrated Eco Strategy
Materials used in current building construction often contain chemicals that at best have not been tested for human health impacts and at worst are actively harmful to human health. While ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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What's Missing? The Invisible Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color
- Howard University (DC)
- United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (NY)
Leaving No One Behind, the first priority of the Sustainable Development Goals, is an action agenda. It means addressing patterns of exclusion, privilege and unjust power relations that can recycle ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Encountering Unjust Transitions: Sustainability, Masculinities, and (m)Anthropocene Collapse
- College of Charleston (SC)
This session builds on the Just Transition insight that, 'The transition itself must be just and equitable' and must include 'redressing past harms and creating new relationships of power for ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Another Just Transition: Community-Engaged Research and Learning for Environmental Justice
- Santa Clara University (CA)
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI)
To contribute to a just transition to a regenerative economy and an equitable society, academia can accelerate its own shift toward conducting more community-engaged research (CER) for environmental justice (EJ ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Get in the Zone: A New Training Model to Build Environmental & Social Consciousness
- New York University (NY)
How do you foster dialogue about sustainability and the impacts on climate change on your campus? In 2019, NYU's Office of Sustainability began developing a Green Zone training to ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Producing Podcasts in the Classroom: A Case Study from ENST 300 - Environmental Justice
- Lawrence University (WI)
This session will focus on how to guide students through the process of scripting, recording, producing, distributing, and assessing podcasts as a course project. It will draw on specific examples ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Rethinking Your Campus: Creative Curriculum, Programs, and Policies that Address a Just Transition
- California State University, Chico (CA)
- Skyline College (CA)
- Strategic Energy Innovations (CA)
- University of California, Merced (CA)
Adapting to climate change and interrelated social crises is no easy feat, especially for campus systems with longstanding institutional frameworks. Key to this shift is to encourage broad student, campus ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Strategies, Priorities and Movement Building Tactics of the Environmental Justice Movement
- The New School (NY)
Climate change is one of the most significant threats to humanity. Frontline, environmental justice (EJ) communities will be the most impacted by these threats and are already facing the devastating ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Leaders of Color: Navigating Environmentalism and Sustainability
- University of Northern Colorado (CO)
This networking event is for, but not exclusive to, environmental leaders of color. It will start with a concise presentation on ecological leaders of color who have paved the way ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Environmental Justice Ethnography in the Classroom: Teaching Activism, Inspiring Involvement
- Allegheny College (PA)
- Rhode Island College (RI)
- San Francisco State University (CA)
- University of North Carolina, Wilmington (NC)
- University of South Florida (FL)
In this era of industry deregulation, gutting of environmental protections, and science denial, environmental justice applied anthropology is more important than ever. There is growing ethnographic research into the ways ...
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Will We Learn from COVID-19? Ecopedagogical Calling (Un)heard
- Beijing Normal University
‘(Un)heard’ in the title questions if we will learn from experiencing COVID-19 to counter unrestrained environmental devastation occurring, or will we remain largely untaught? I argue the need for ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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SCECon 21: Our World, Our Time, Our Voices
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
SCECon 2021: Our World, Our Time, Our Voices aims to recenter the environmental narrative around environmental justice by giving intentional space for students to learn about unique and intersectional environmental ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Inclusive Sustainability: Collaborative Approaches through UC Santa Cruz’s People of Color Sustainability Collective
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
The People of Color Sustainability Collective (PoCSC) works to make the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) a leader in sustainability and environmental justice, in recognition of our changing demographics ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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The Inclusive Sustainability Initiative at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM)
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
The Inclusive Sustainability Initiative (ISI) at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) is an example of innovation and investment connecting inclusive excellence and sustainability. The term inclusive sustainability whether applied ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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