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California State University System-wide Climate Justice and Intersectional Sustainability Speaker Series
- San Diego State University (CA)
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
- California State University, Channel Islands (CA)
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
- California State University, Chancellor's Office (CA)
- California State University, Chico (CA)
- California State University, Fullerton (CA)
- California State University, Long Beach (CA)
- California State University, Northridge (CA)
- California State University, Sacramento (CA)
- Cal Poly Humboldt (CA)
- California State University, Los Angeles (CA)
- California Polytechnic State University (CA)
- California State University, Stanislaus (CA)
During the 2020-21 academic year, Sustainability Officers from across the 23-campus California State University (CSU) system, the largest public university system in the U.S., joined forces to coordinate a ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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DEI and Social/Environmental Justice Planning at University Sustainability Offices
- Tufts University (MA)
This document is a memo written by an intern at the Tufts Office of Sustainability. The memo benchmarks 22 institutions of higher learning, noting the plans and initiatives that related ...
- Posted April 21, 2021
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Locating a Course on Environmental Justice in Theories of Environmental Education and Global Citizenship
- University College London (London)
Environmental education is an increasingly important concern for policymakers and universities, as it is critical to the success of the broader agenda represented by the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Achieving ...
- Posted April 8, 2021
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An exploratory study of students’ perceptions of environmental issues as social work practice and their understanding of environmental justice
- Boise State University (ID)
- Indiana University
As environmental crises continue to rise, the profession of social work in the US is being called to incorporate environmental justice content in the training and education of social workers ...
- Posted Feb. 19, 2021
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Exploring just sustainability across the disciplines at one university
- State University of New York at Plattsburgh (NY)
- University of Vermont (VT)
We examined The University of Vermont’s new sustainability requirement for undergraduates through the lens of just sustainability. We found that sustainability courses are proposed in diverse disciplines. Regardless of ...
- Posted Feb. 8, 2021
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A Case Study of Sustainability and Civic Engagement in a Sociology of Food Course
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
This article presents a case study of a ‘Sociology of Food’ course premised on issues of social justice and ethical and sustainable food practices. Through sustainability-inspired service-learning projects, students learn ...
- Posted Feb. 8, 2021
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Critical Sustainabilities: Negotiating Sustainability’s Discursive Maze in the Classroom
- Texas State University, San Marcos (TX)
“Sustainability” features in numerous discourses, each of which frames the issue according to its particular worldview(s). Thus there is no singular sustainability conception, but multiple sustainabilities that compete with ...
- Posted Feb. 8, 2021
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“Just Sustainability” Environmental Justice Campaign Case Study
- University of Vermont (VT)
The UVM Eco-Reps have long existed to encourage sustainable behaviors in UVM students, faculty, and community members. After a summer of Black Lives Matter protests, six months of a global ...
- Posted Feb. 8, 2021
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Environmental Justice Minor
- San Jose State University (CA)
The minor in Environmental Justice is offered by the Department of Environmental Studies. The minor requires a minimum of 18 units across courses in community-based participatory research, environmental racism, and ...
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
- Dillard University (LA)
The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice is dedicated to improving the lives of children and families harmed by pollution and vulnerable to climate change in the Gulf Coast Region ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
The Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, and Health is dedicated to examining how and when racism affects health, providing tools to improve the rigor with which researchers ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Center for Environmental Justice & Sustainability
- Seattle University (WA)
CEJS serves as a clearinghouse for Seattle University’s environmental programs and sustainability initiatives. If you have any questions about CEJS, campus sustainability, CEJS events, or have an interest in ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Environmental Justice Toolkit - American University
- American University (DC)
This toolkit can be utilized by students to learn more about environmental justice and share with others. Students are encouraged to engage with campus departments and organizations who host events ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Environmental Justice Toolkit - University of Connecticut
- University of Connecticut (CT)
This Environmental Justice toolkit was created by students of the United Nations Association University of Connecticut Chapter. The resource provides the definition and history of environmental justice, as well as ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Draft Environmental Justice Framework
- Princeton University (NJ)
We in the Office of Sustainability, as a primarily white staff in a predominately white field, recognize the inherent privilege assigned to us by a broken system. While we cannot ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Harvard College Women's Center Commitment Environmental Justice
- Harvard University (MA)
The Harvard College Women’s Center values environmental sustainability in our programming and office work/space/management. We acknowledge that neglect and destruction of the natural environment disproportionately affects women ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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When Kids Fight for Environmental Justice, Words Have Power
- Antioch University, New England (NH)
- Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (MD)
“Why aren’t all kids taught civics in schools?” Jaysa Hunter-Mellers asks. There has never been a more critical time in our history for young people, especially those from marginalized ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Just Sustainability - Julian Agyeman Keynote from AASHE 2010 Conference
- AASHE (MA)
Julian Agyeman Keynote from AASHE 2010 Conference.
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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The Path to Environmental Justice is Local
- Antioch University, New England (NH)
- Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (MD)
The time has never been more urgent for environmental advocacy. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequity are creating an increasingly unstable and impoverished world. The magnitude of the problems ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Learning and Teaching Through the Online Environmental Justice Atlas: From Empowering Activists to Motivating Students
- McGill University (QC)
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona)
The chapter analyzes how the Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas.org), an online interactive platform developed to visualize and study struggles against environmental injustices worldwide, is used in higher education curricula ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Creating a Digital Environmental Justice Toolkit
- University of Connecticut (CT)
With the help of University of Connecticut (UConn) students, staff and faculty members, and local and national rights-based organizations, I created an environmental justice toolkit. This novel toolkit addresses what ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Expanding Sustainability: University of California, Santa Cruz’s Diversity and Inclusion Certificate Program featuring the “Intersections Between Diversity & Environment” course
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
The UC Santa Cruz Diversity and Inclusion Certificate Program (DICP) educates staff, faculty, and graduate students to undertake in-depth examinations of how we, through recognizing and understanding of our differences ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Swarthmore College Sustainability Research: Equitable Zero Waste
- Swarthmore College (PA)
A year long research project developed by students to help and develop an equitable zero waste mindset and framework of thinking.
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Diversity Content in STEM? How Faculty Values Translate into Curricular Inclusion Unevenly for Different Subjects in Environmental and Sustainability Programs
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of Virginia (VA)
- Vincent Evaluation Consulting (OK)
While addressing racial inequality in the higher education curriculum and promoting an inclusive curriculum in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) remain contentious issues, little is known about the processes ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Environmental Issues and Social Work Education
- Universidad Católica del Maule (Maule)
Environmental issues have been well-documented in recent years, paying particular attention to the anthropogenic climate change impact. To date, research addressing the relationship between environmental issues, environmental justice and sustainability ...
- Posted March 6, 2020
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Institutionalizing Environmental Justice
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- AASHE (MA)
Over the past few years, the Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) has been working to institutionalize environmental justice operations, programs, and projects for ...
- Posted Feb. 27, 2020
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Environmental Policy and Decision Making major, BS in Environment and Natural Resources
- The Ohio State University (OH)
Environmental policy and decision making explores the protection of long-term natural resource use and environmental quality through changes in human behavior and policy. Students study the economic and social forces ...
- Posted Feb. 3, 2020
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Closing Keynote with Bill McKibben - Author, Environmentalist, Activist
- 350.org (NY)
In his heartfelt, hopeful talks, McKibben offers realistic approaches to saving our planet, as individuals, certainly, but also as thoughtful members of a mobilized group. When it comes to building ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Recipes for Effective Campus-Community Partnerships: Perspectives on Food Security & Justice
- College of Charleston (SC)
- University of Utah (UT)
This combined session will present two cases of campus-community partnerships centered on food. The Stone Soup Collective College of Charleston Chapter is comprised of dozens of collectivists and volunteers who ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Institutionalizing Environmental Justice
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Are you looking to implement environmental justice at your campus but unsure how to start? How can environmental justice programs and services be institutionalized in higher education? Over the past ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Linking Infamous History and Sustainability - 50 Years Since the 1969 Cuyahoga River Fire
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
- Cuyahoga Community College (OH)
- Kent State University (OH)
2019 marks 50 years since the last and most well-known time the Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1969. Much has changed for the better in Cleveland and across the United ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Award Winner Session: Cultivating Environmental Education for Students of Color
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Students of Color Environmental Conference is the first ever conference for students of color that was also created and run by students of color. When traditional environmental spaces are ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Graduate Certificate in Environmental Justice
- University of Kansas (KS)
Environmental justice emerged from an increased awareness of the disproportionately high impacts of environmental change and degradation on economically and politically disadvantaged communities. It addresses issues such as social, economic ...
- Posted July 11, 2019
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Environmental Policy/Environmental Justice Concentration, Management (MS)
- Thomas Edison State College (NJ)
The John S. Watson School of Public Service and Continuing Studies offers areas of study under the Master of Science in Management (MSM) focusing on issues of management and public ...
- Posted July 11, 2019
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Graduate Certificate in Environmental Justice
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
Environmental justice (EJ) refers to the conditions of or right to a safe and healthy environment for everyone, regardless of race, class, gender, ability or other considerations. From this perspective ...
- Posted July 10, 2019
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Social and Environmental Justice Concentration, Liberal Studies (MA)
- The City University of New York (NY)
Social problems and Environmental problems are seen as separate issues, making it difficult to see how thoroughly intertwined they are and how often they both involve issues of Justice. The ...
- Posted July 10, 2019
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Social and Environmental Justice Concentration, Geography (BA)
- Ohio University (OH)
Geographers use nature-society frameworks and spatial analysis to understand how inequality and inequity are built into everyday life for individuals based on where they live, work, go to school, and ...
- Posted July 10, 2019
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Social & Environmental Justice Concentration, Geography (MA)
- Ohio University (OH)
Geographers use nature-society frameworks and spatial analysis to understand how inequality and inequity are built into everyday life for individuals based on where they live, work, go to school, and ...
- Posted July 10, 2019
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Hope and Empowerment: Navigating Grief, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice Through Train-the-Trainer Workshops
- Portland Community College (OR)
- Portland State University (OR)
- Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network (GPSEN) (OR)
In these times of accelerating change, environmental crises, and social injustices, we are bombarded with negative news that can numb and overwhelm the spirit. How can we build hope and ...
- Posted May 20, 2019
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Students of Color Environmental Conference
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The first ever Students of Color Environmental Conference (SCECon) was intended to bring together students of color from across California to connect and build with local environmental justice activists. This ...
- Posted May 17, 2019
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Union College Collaborates with the SEAT Center for an Environmental Justice Event
- Union College - NY (NY)
Union College Students from Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. and SEAT Center collaborated on an event to provide free air filter installations, information on free weatherization, and registration for community ...
- Posted April 29, 2019
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PCC, Sustain Me! A Higher Education Sustainability & Environmental Justice Podcast
- Portland Community College (OR)
This has been an ongoing project that has blossomed from a local/regional production and has now been promoted, recognized, listened to, and presentations have been given nationally and internationally ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2019
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Sustainability and Justice Minor
- California State University, Bakersfield (CA)
Sustainability and Justice is a General Education program pathway that a student can complete to be granted a minor in Sustainability and Justice.
Goal 1: Students will understand how social ...
- Posted Jan. 11, 2019
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Social and Environmental Justice Minor
- University of Wisconsin-Platteville (WI)
Given the many ways both humans and our planet's environment suffer grievous harm, it is fitting to provide an examination of some of the major kinds of harm as ...
- Posted Nov. 20, 2018
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Learning from our Future: Engaging Youth in Climate Justice
- University at Buffalo (NY)
How do we build a truly inclusive climate justice movement that values every voice and experience? Engage young people. They have a lot to say, and are eager to say ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Where civil rights fit into sustainability: an environmental justice workshop
- Ithaca College (NY)
An in-depth exploration of how civil rights and environmental justice fit into the global sustainability framework, this presentation will utilize case studies from across the US to exemplify how environmental ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Moving Past Tokenization: Integrating Social Equity Internally and Programmatically
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
What does environmental justice programming really look like in higher education? How do we avoid tokenization of marginalized groups within the environmental movement and move beyond buzzwords such as diversity ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Turbulent Winds: Addressing 'Climate' at the Intersections of Diversity and Sustainability
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
This session explores the intersection between diversity and sustainability efforts within two California State University campuses. Beginning with a focus on the forces that divide the sustainability and diversity communities ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Environmental Social Justice's Role in the Sustainable Development Goals
- University of Arizona (AZ)
At the University of Arizona campus, the Environmental Social Justice (SoJo) committee of the student government-sponsored program Students for Sustainability works on projects that raise awareness for environmental justice issues ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Nation's First Community-Based Culinary Medicine Garden and Sustainability Curriculum
- University of Utah (UT)
We have the nation's first Culinary Medicine (CM) course pairing community members and Health Sciences (HS) students together to research, design, and implement community-based CM curricula, the inclusion in ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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