Included are slides from our teach-ins and specific resource guides intended to extend conversation and learning on core topics/themes/skills covered.
February 28, 2024. Climate Justice Teach-In: Exploring a Just Transition Framework and Collective Action in Washington State
Slides (includes an overview of the Just Transition Framework, Washington Policy Landscape [CCA, HEAL Act, IRA], UW-Seattle decarbonization examples, thinking beyond decarbonization [false solutions], and concrete actions for engagement).
Resource guide (includes readings on Lithium Mining, cobalt extraction in the Congo, hydroelectric dam impacts on salmon runs, environmental policy in King County and Washington State, EJ websites, climate justice tools, and other resource guides).
October 24, 2024. HuES Intersectional Sustainability: A Lesson on False Solutions
- Slides (includes a reflection on personal identity x sustainability, adding "identifying false solutions" to our toolkit, applied learning to the Makah tribe case study, how to create justice-centered climate solutions, offering a question guide, and further learning with CSF resources).
- Question Guide on Identifying False Solutions (quick 2 pager that includes how to identify false solutions, how to create justice-centered solutions, and traps to look out for!)
- All related resources (includes Makah case study)
(early release) 3-part series to a Just Transition
- Just Transition Definition Guide
- The Ultimate Just Transition Slide Deck (covers three key parts with bonus slides for added learning. P1: Origins of the Just Transition and the extractive economy // P2: The extractive economy's impacts and how we shift to a regenerative economy // P3: How the CSF is leading a Just Transition on the UW-Seattle Campus).
- Short version Slide Deck (a condensed version on the very basics of the Just Transition Model pillars and how to read it)
- Short version Video (14 min run time on the Origins of JT and basics of model, pairs with slide deck)
The CSF Resource Guide is meant to serve as an accessible entry into our justice-centered sustainability programming. It is a living document that will continuously be updated and added as we learn more from those around us. Our hope is for this guide to become a community-driven base of knowledge that can serve as the first step for those interested in learning beyond mainstream environmentalism and understanding sustainability from a justice-centered approach. We are excited to learn from you and promote education beside you.
First introduced In October 2022, the CSF staff released a collection of recommendations with the intention of formalizing a "Resource Guide" for the UW Community on the counter-narrative for sustainability. In many ways, the CSF staff hopes to offer the materials we would hope to have access to while at UW and what we have spent hours curating. Many of our staff come from interdisciplinary areas of study and we seek to elevate conversations that happen between disciplines that may not otherwise have a platform.
Included are:
- Various books, podcasts, and documentaries.
- UW Seattle courses, articles, and people to learn from within the intersectional environmentalism movement.
- One pagers for some of the most request intro topics like Food Sovereignty, Equity in Outdoor Spaces, and Intersectional Environmentalism.
The guide outlines various frameworks, principles, movements, and sources of knowledge that continue to inform our understanding of justice-centered sustainability including but not limited to:
- Community resilience
- Cultural sustainability
- Elevating BIPOC voices
- Environmental justice
- Indigenous rights
- Labor rights
- The Just Transition Framework.
Compiled by our staff, organized by topic, and updated each year.
Course | Course Name | Quarter Offered | Credits | Prerequisites? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
AIS 385 | Indigenous Ecologies and Climate Change | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
ESS 201 | Earth’s Climate System | Spring | 3 | Yes |
ENVIR 100 | Introduction to Environmental Studies | All | 5 | N/A |
JSIS B 351 | The Global Environment | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
ATM S 111 | Global Warming: Understanding the Issues | All | 5 | N/A |
Course | Course Name | Quarter Offered | Credits | Prerequisites? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
HSTAA/ENVIR 221 | US Environmental History: Ecology, Culture, Justice | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
ENVIR/ESRM 460 | Power, Privilege, and Preservation | Spring, Summer | 5 | N/A |
CEP 460 | Planning in Context | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
GEOG 272 | Geographies of Environmental Justice | Spring | 5 | N/A |
Course | Course Name | Quarter Offered | Credits | Prerequisites? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
DIS ST/CHID 230 | Introduction to Disability Studies | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
AIS/JSIS A 270 | Native Peoples of the Northwest Coast | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
DIS ST/GWSS/ 335 | Sex, Gender, and Disability | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
GWSS 392 | Asian American and Pacific Islander Women | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
GWSS 496 | Global Feminisms: International and Indigenous Communities | Autumn | 5 | Yes |
CHID 485 | Comparative Colonialism | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
Course | Course Name | Quarter Offered | Credits | Prerequisites? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
PUB POL 201 | Introduction to Public Policy and Governance | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
ENVIR/SMEA 201 | Climate Governance: How Individuals, Communities, NGOs, Firms, and Governments Can Solve the Climate Crisis | Spring | 5 | N/A |
ENVIR 439 | Attaining a Sustainable Society | N/A | ||
CEP 470 | Tools for Sustainable Cities | Spring, Summer | 4 | N/A |
SMEA 430 | Development and the Environment | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
Course | Course Name | Quarter Offered | Credits | Prerequisites? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ENGL 199 | Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Science | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
AIS 307 | Indigenous Literature and the Environment | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
ENVIR 302 | Communications for Environmental Studies | Autumn, Winter, Spring | 5 | Yes |
COM 289 | Communication Power and Difference | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
ENVIR 400 | Professional Environmental Communication | Winter | 5 | N/A |
ENGL 207 | Introduction to Cultural Studies | Autumn, Summer | 5 | N/A |
ENVIR/COM 418 | Communication and the Environment | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
Course | Course Name | Quarter Offered | Credits | Prerequisites? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ENVIR 480 | Sustainability Studio | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
L ARCH 212 | Designing for the Future | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
CEP 200 | Introduction to Community, Environment, and Planning | Autumn, Winter | 5 | N/A |
B E 200 | Introduction to Built Environments | Autumn | 3 | N/A |
Course | Course Name | Quarter Offered | Credits | Prerequisites? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
GEOG 271 | Geography of Food and Eating | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
ANTH 361 | Anthropology of Food | Autumn | 5 | Yes |
NUTR/ENVIR 312 | Food System Sustainability and Resilience | 3 | N/A | |
NUTR 302 | Food Systems: Harvest to Health | Autumn, Spring | 5 | Yes |
Course | Course Name | Quarter Offered | Credits | Prerequisites? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ENVIR 280 | Natural History of the Puget Sound Region | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
LSJ 401 | Field Experience in Law, Societies, and Justice | Autumn | 5 | N/A |
Course | Course Name | Quarter Offered | Credits | Prerequisites? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
G H/LAW 305 | Global Health and Justice | Winter | 3 | N/A |
ANTH 325 | Indigenous Knowledge and Public Health in Mexican and Latinx Origin Communities | 5 | N/A | |
ESRM/PSYCH 431 | Ecopsychology | 5 | N/A | |
GEOG 180 | Introduction to Global Health: Disparities, Determinants, Policies, and Outcomes | Autumn, Winter, Spring | 5 | N/A |
ENV H 306 | Health and Sustainability | Autumn, Spring | 5 | Yes |
Course | Course Name | Quarter Offered | Credits | Prerequisites? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ENVIR 239 | Sustainability: Personal Choices, Broad Impact | Autumn, Winter, Summer | 5 | N/A |
ENGL 121 | Composition: Social Issues | Autumn | 5 | Yes |
COM 364 | Media Responsibility in a Diverse Society | Autumn | 5 | Yes |
The CSF Team is hard at work to bring forth a curriculum that will cover topics not often discussed together, but are essential in drafting justice-centered climate solutions (think renewable energy + tribal treaty rights, rising temperatures + urban planning, carbon reductions + growing carbon sinks through ocean restoration).
Arriving here December 2024.