I draw from bell's work often in my graduate classes at Antioch University's Urban Environmental Education Program. In her deeply personal book, bell hooks focuses on a fundamental pillar of…
Multicultural Environmental Education draws on many sources of scholarship, popular culture, art, storytelling, myth, and literature for understanding the many ways people express their experience of the natural world and their lived environments. Scholarship on Environmental Justice, race and culture in education, ecological studies, and the expansion of “nature writing” by people of color has grown to unprecedented dimensions. This section contains some of the reading–from newspapers, magazines, books, historical documents and other printed sources–we are reading currently.
Christine E. Sleeter, Miguel Zavala, Teachers College Press Ethnic studies has gathered considerable momentum in schools and school districts across the U.S., particularly since Arizona declared war on the highly…
Black Women Are Leaders in the Climate Movement. Environmentalism, in other words, is a black issue.
By Heather McTeer Toney View the New York Times Editorial Here
Resources Radio Host Daniel Raimi talks with Professor Dorceta Taylor of the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability. Daniel asks Professor Taylor about her research on the history of…
Today, Green 2.0 released new data on the movement’s top 40 NGOs and top 40 foundations. The data shows that the professional leadership within these organizations continues to leave out people…
Listen to the their story by Kevin Kniestedt on Sound Effects at KNKX https://www.knkx.org/post/i-was-only-black-girl-there-two-big-city-women-find-solace-glimpses-nature Rasheena Fountain and Tiffany Adams met at Antioch University in Seattle, where they were both working…
Let's say you are planning to teach a course that explores colonization and decolonization with prospective teachers. You know the white teacher candidates will want to learn how to teach…
By Josh Parker Josh Parker, M.A.Ed., Urban Environmental Education. Josh Parker is an educator whose work and studies have focused on equity, urban education, and the environment. Josh's work has…
by Denaya Shorter Denaya Shorter currently working with Seattle Parks & Recreation supporting the Trails Program. She is a California transplant, originally from the greater Bay Area, who recently received her MA.…
by Rasheena Fountain Rasheena Fountain is Communications Manager at Seattle Audubon and a Chicago native who finds inspiration in exploring nature in cities. Through her work, she hopes to counter…
Mitchell Thomashow has recently completed a monograph for Philanthropy Northwest titled Pacific Northwest Changemakers: Innovative Approaches to Community-Based Sustainability. From the forward by Kiran Ahuja, CEO: “In ‘Pacific Northwest Changemakers’,…
Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was…
Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental…
Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, California State University, Monterey Bay, has written many books on multicultural education and has recently published her first novel. White Bread tells a story of a white teacher…
Shortly after 11 p.m. on the night of Thursday May 30, 2013, a truck with five passengers slowed to a halt in the stillness of Costa Rica’s Moin Beach. With…