Teaching the Sociology of the Climate Crisis, is a google document of resources I prepared for a teaching workshop on climate justice at the 2018 meeting of the American Sociological Association. It includes many of the activities and readings I use in environmental studies courses and emphasizes a climate justice approach to teaching the climate crisis.
- Our article on the topic is also a good resource: Foran, John, Summer Gray, Corrie Grosse, and Theo LeQuesne. 2018. “This Will Change Everything: Teaching the Climate Crisis.” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 28(2):126-47. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/trajincschped.28.2.0126
Water Protector Curriculum – syllabus focused on Minnesota, designed in collaboration with Winona LaDuke – this is a work in progress, please send ideas our way!
- LN 3 – film about the Line 3 tar sands pipeline (38 min)
- 8th Fire Solar – film about Native-built solar thermal panel manufacturing on the White Earth Nation (6 min)
- Welcome Water Protectors – guide for how to be a water protector in MN, developed by my students in collaboration with Honor the Earth
Honor Native Land Guide – how to give a land acknowledgement
Indigenous Water Justice Course by Kelsey Leonard
Standing Rock Syllabus – a collaboratively designed syllabus on Standing Rock, sovereignty, and Indigenous histories and presents.
Intersections of Climate Justice. A resources guide prepared by my students and I for anyone interested in connecting climate crisis to social justice issues. Access word and PDF versions of the document, as well as all of 1 page fact sheets here. Use the word versions if you’d like to edit for your community – this version is focused on Minnesota.
Climate Justice Alliance and Indigenous Environmental Network. 2017. Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance – great resource laying out the arguments on why carbon pricing and market-based mechanisms are false solutions to climate crisis.
UC Santa Barbara Environmental/Climate Justice Hub: programming, resources, and research teams.
Organizing Cools the Planet – great how to guide on climate justice organizing. Their website has a number of activist resources.
Solve Climate by 2030 – three experts from each state speaking on climate solutions in 2020. See the MN solve climate I organized here.
UC Case Studies in the Environment – peer reviewed short articles that come with learning goals and discussion questions. See mine on fracking and tar sands resistance.
Environmental Justice Syllabi compiled by Voices from the Valley