Environment, Justice, and the Politics of Emotion: A Symposium
As climate and ecological crises mount, so too are intense experiences of environmental emotions including eco-anxiety, fear, grief, guilt, skepticism, anger, and trauma, as well as less discussed affective experiences such as pleasure, joy, amusement, wonder, optimism, ambivalence, apathy, and embarrassment. In a society primed to frame uncomfortable emotions as individual failures, default responses to…
Read MoreEnvironmental & Climate Justice in Southeast Asia
Thursday, January 26, 2023 from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST Zoom Link: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/94128842687#success Guest Speakers Include: Sheila Coronel: Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. She is also concurrently Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. Learn more Demetrio Amaral Carvalho: Secretary of State for the Environment, Government of Timor Leste…
Read MoreLocal Health Department Climate Change Program and Policy Specialist
This position supports the California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) mission and strategic plan by promoting equitable social, economic, and environmental conditions to achieve optimal health, mental health, and well-being for all. The Health Program Specialist I (HPS I), Local Health Department Climate Change Program and Policy Specialist, position is an opportunity for meaningful contribution…
Read MoreThe Youth Climate Movement Around the World | Earth Focus | Season 3, Episode 1 | KCET
In 2019, sixteen children from across the world, including Greta Thunberg, filed a historical, global lawsuit petitioning the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to hold five of the world’s leading economic powers accountable for inaction on the climate crisis. All 16 young people are alarmed by the changes they see in…
Read MoreGeneration Now: The Fight For Climate Justice | TIME
Today’s young people are coming of age just as the stable climate that has allowed previous generations to thrive on our planet begins to visibly break down—and just before our last chance to stop it falls out of reach.
Read MoreSecond Nature Climate Justice Fellowship
Application Deadline: August 15, 2022 Second Nature is committed to centering climate justice/DEIAJ in all programming, member support systems, and internal organization operations. The Climate Justice Fellow will provide crucial thought leadership on Second Nature’s current and future climate justice initiatives and contribute value-added research toward the development of tools and resources for their Climate…
Read MoreJob Announcement: Co-Executive Director – California Environmental Justice Alliance
The California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) aims to hire the first of two Co-Executive Directors by the Fall of 2022. Once the first Co-Executive Director is hired, they will serve as the Interim Executive Director until the other Co-Executive Director is hired and will have a role in the hiring of the second Co-Executive Director.…
Read MoreIndigenous Peoples and Climate Justice by Kyle Powys Whyte
In his lecture “Indigenous Peoples and Climate Justice,” Kyle Powys Whyte showcases indigenous leadership in the climate justice movement and illustrates the unique and grave threat climate change poses to indigenous experiences and ways of life. Climate change is not a new phenomenon for indigenous people, he explains. There are long-standing traditions in indigenous cultures…
Read MoreThis is just how unfair climate change is
We’re all living through the climate crisis. But we’re not all in it together. So what exactly does climate change have to do with social injustice? And how can we fix it? This is climate justice explained. We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our new…
Read MoreHarriet Washington: Medical Apartheid, Environmental Racism, and Targeted Disinformation
May 24th at 8 PM Eastern RSVP: Tinyurl.com/ssu-hw Harriet Washington is an award-winning historian, medical ethicist, and author of multiple books including Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present and A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind. She…
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