Resources

Teaching that Food Justice Is Racial Justice

Tim Swinehart

Swinehart highlights the work of Leah Penniman to teach about the connection between food and racial justice.

What’s in the Water?

Teaching About Environmental Racism

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

In the spring of 2016, children in Portland, Oregon, walked into their school buildings to find the drinking fountains shut off, the fixtures dramatically wrapped in plastic and tape, and […]

“We Cannot Create What We Cannot Imagine”

Helping Students Picture Climate Justice

Suzanna Kassouf

To imagine a better future, high school students role-play activists at a visioning conference and then create murals.

Ecological Footprint Calculators Are Bad for the Environment

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

For years, I would coax my 9th graders into the dreary, windowless computer lab for 10-15 minutes so they could complete an online ecological footprint calculator. I wanted students to […]

The Attack on Anti-Racist Teaching Is an Attack on Environmental Justice Teaching

Bill Bigelow

In his magnificent new book, How the Word Is Passed, Clint Smith quotes the Rev. Dr. William Barber II: “The same land that held people captive through slavery is now […]

Teaching the Green New Deal: The Prequel

Suzanna Kassouf, Matt Reed, Tim Swinehart, Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, and Bill Bigelow

In an article introducing the student-friendly short video, A Message from the Future, about life after the Green New Deal, Naomi Klein points out: Almost every vision of the future […]

Necessary Trouble

Bringing the Climate Disobedience Movement into Our Classrooms

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

Wolfe-Rocca describes her mixer around the “Valve Turners,” a group of climate disobedience activists who put their bodies on the line to stop the harm of pipelines.

Teaching the Green New Deal: The Prequel

Suzanna Kassouf, Matt Reed, Tim Swinehart, Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, and Bill Bigelow

In an article introducing the student-friendly short video, A Message from the Future, about life after the Green New Deal, Naomi Klein points out: Almost every vision of the future […]

A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair

Let’s Not Ask Our Students to “Return to Normal”

Tim Swinehart

The latest installment of our regular Earth, Justice, and Our Classrooms column.

Protesting Pipelines

Teaching the Indigenous-Led Movement Against Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

There is something about oil and gas pipelines. The way you can look at a map of hundreds of thousands of miles of the terrible tubes, seeing how tightly the […]