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Six Stories, One Fight
Bill Bigelow
Bigelow reviews Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance by Denali Sai Nalamalapu.
Teaching About the “Stuff That Is Actually Happening”
Moé Yonamine
Yonamine describes how learning about young people fighting against climate change energized her summer school students.
Parable of the Sower and Climate Futures
Mimi Eisen
Eisen explores themes for classroom discussion as well as disturbing similarities between our present moment and the dystopian future portrayed in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower.
Teaching the Culprits of Climate Chaos
Bill Bigelow
Using his updated climate crisis trial, Bigelow shows how students explore the forces behind climate chaos.
Teaching for Climate Justice: My Top 10 List
Bill Bigelow
Bigelow recommends 10 essential elements of a robust climate justice curriculum.
Why We Need to Teach the History of the Environmental Justice Movement
Tim Swinehart
A high school social studies teacher discusses ways to teach the rich history of multiracial, community-based environmental organizing in the United States.
Environmental Justice Activists Look Like My Students
Moé Yonamine
High school students envision alternative uses for a planned freight distribution warehouse near their school — and challenge their own conceptions of environmental activists in the process.
Debunking False Climate Solutions in Our Classrooms
Tim Swinehart
An environmental justice teacher encourages students to critically examine proposed solutions to climate change.
Teaching the Truth About National Parks
Tim Swinehart
An environmental justice teacher engages students in an examination of the problematic history of national parks.
Baltimore Students Fight for Climate Justice — and Their Own Lives
Bill Bigelow
Bigelow discusses a recent episode of the NPR podcast Code Switch focused on student organized climate victory in Baltimore.