CommUniverCity: Katherine Cushing
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CommUniverCityCommUniverCity’s model originated with an idea that bringing the collective resources of major institutions together to bear on local, community development issues, the potential for sustainable, meaningful change would be great. Since our early years, we have sought to establish a solid foundation of trust between partners, a relationship that was built from the ground up, with every project developed by community residents, faculty, students and City staff working side by side.
Based on existing community-identified needs, our projects are categorized in three core pillars, “Engage,” “Learn” and “Build.”
Environmental Racism: Megan Thiele
Whether we want to or not, whether we are aware of it or not, our "industrialized" daily lives produce large amounts of environmental harm and environmental racism. Environmental racism is the concept that explains how, globally, the most devastating environmental abuses assail the lives of BIPOC (Black people, Indigenous people and people of color) and their communities.Collectively, we need to organize, demand and create new ways of being in order to become sustainable for future generations and to stop environmental racism. Instructors can engage in this work by introducing and working with the commodity chains that are specific to their discipline and by discussing how these commodity chains, and our involvement with them, produce not only environmental harm, but also environmental racism.
Join Professor Thiele and others to dialgoue about white supremacy and racism.https://anti-racist-dialogues.
Why Every Environmentalist Should Be Anti-Racist" by Leah Thomas
World Economic Forum: What is Environmental Racism?
Better World Shopping Guide What grades do your favorite companies earn and why?
Environmental Working Group Track contaminants in the products you buy and the water you drink
Food Waste & Insecurity: Yinghua Huang
Green Building Design & Sustainability: Peggy Cabrera & Elizabeth Carroll
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King Library LEED certificationOverview of sustainability, importance of buiildings, LEED criteria, and information on green buildings, LEED certification, and suggested databases for additional research
The Green Ninja: Eugene Cordero (Meteorology & Climate Change), Alejandro Garcia (Physics & Astronomy), David Chai (Animation & Illustration)
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Green Ninja ProgramGreen Ninja educational materials originated from research at San José State University that focused on connecting middle school students to science subjects through personal engagement. Support from NSF and NASA helped us better understand student engagement and the powerful role that motivation plays in student learning.