Past Events and Programs

Climate Change is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice

Join us to read and discuss the important book Climate Change is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice (2021) by Jeremy Williams. The book highlights the intersection between white supremacy and environmental destruction to show that the two crises are symbiotic and reinforcing.  As the publisher's summary notes "In this eye-opening book, ...

Climate Justice Book Discussion: As Long As Grass Grows

As we transition from a focus on climate change to climate and environmental justice, we can better understand all the ways in which racism has fueled and exacerbated the climate crisis. Join Christina Sciabarra (Political Science) and Elizabeth Harazim (English) for this book discussion to engage with Indigenous history and environmental movements. We will learn ...

Climate Justice Book Discussion: What Climate Justice Means

Please join us for a discussion of What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care (2022), in which philosopher Elizabeth Cripps approaches climate justice not just as an abstract idea but as something that should motivate us all. Using clear reasoning and poignant examples, Cripps starts from the irrefutable science and uncontroversial moral rules ...

Climate Justice Book Discussion: “Pollution is Colonialism”

Join facilitators Ferdinand Tablan (Philosophy) and Alice Jenkins (iBIT) to discuss Max Liboiron’s “Pollution is Colonialism.” The book presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, environmental science and activism are often premised on ...

Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community

The Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community is an asynchronous workshop focused on climate issues. The learning community, which is modeled on a teaching square, is designed to help participants hone their knowledge of climate justice issues and, with significant support, to teach one lesson in an existing course that addresses the looming threats of climate ...

Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community

The Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community (FLC) will be fully online this Fall. It involves three synchronous two-hour workshop-style sessions in Fall quarter during which participants hone their knowledge of climate justice issues and learn about ways to bring this issue into one of their courses and involve students in civic engagement around this issue. ...

Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community

This fully asynchronous, online Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community helps participants hone their knowledge of climate justice and civic engagement*, and brainstorm ways to bring them into one of their courses along with positive stories of change. Readings and videos help participants recognize the intersections between climate justice and racial, economic, gender, intergenerational, and other ...

Climate Justice Online Book Discussion: Braiding Sweetgrass

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants In this book discussion, we will be exploring some chapters of the book Braiding Sweetgrass, which is written by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Robin is a citizen of the Potawatomi Nation, a scientist, and a decorated Professor of Environmental Biology. This text explores the relationship ...

Climate Justice Roundtable

We want 1 hour of your time to hear your feedback and suggestions! As we near the end of the second year of the Climate Justice in the Curriculum initiative at BC, we want to connect faculty interested in becoming involved with faculty already involved with the project. If you are new to the project, ...

Climate Justice Summer Institute

The Climate Justice Summer Institute is an intensive three-day, workshop-style institute designed to help faculty participants hone their knowledge of climate justice issues and, with significant support, emerge from the Institute with one lesson created and ready-to-go for an existing course that addresses the looming threats of climate disruption and mitigation. Participants are not required ...