“We believe that our University’s biggest impact on our planet is the students that graduate each year.” - The Campus Sustainability Fund to SAF, May 2011
CSF Resource Guide
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.