Educational Resources

Find resources for teaching about Environmental Justice.

  • Environmental and Climate Justice Syllabus

    “The goal of the Environmental and Climate Justice Syllabus is to assemble readings, articles, case studies, and biographies from key writers, scholars, and activists working for environmental freedom.”

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  • The Emergence of EJ in General Plans

    The California Planners4Health Initiative has compiled resources regarding California SB 1000 and how it informs the future of EJ in planning.

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  • The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators

    “As feelings of eco-grief and climate anxiety grow, educators are grappling with how to help students learn about the violent systems causing climate change while simultaneously navigating the emotions this knowledge elicits. This book provides resources for developing emotional and existential tenacity in college classrooms so that students can stay engaged.”

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  • Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit (CJIT)

    Via the Wayback Machine, “the CJIT houses a wide-range of climate justice adaptable teaching modules, a starter guide for teaching climate justice, resources for students, and climate justice data sets that can serve as supportive tools to enhance professor and instructor teaching content and approaches across Departments, Labs, and Centers (DLCs) at MIT.”

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  • Internet Archive Wayback Machine

    As valuable online Environmental Justice resources continue to disappear, the Wayback Machine is an online archive which restores many of these sites.

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  • Voices from the Valley List of Syllabi

    From California's San Joaquin Valley, this site is a compilation of syllabi from various Environmental Justice related courses.

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