Popular Education

This program is designed to provide participants with an understanding of the numerous challenges and inequities that exist in our water systems from a cultural, historical, and political lens while exploring community-based approaches to deal with these challenges.

This program is designed to provide participants with an understanding of the building sector, the current practices that create negative impacts for Black communities, and strategies to include more equity-based approaches that consider the needs of impacted communities.

This program is designed to provide participants with an understanding of the various climate impacts that threaten Black frontline communities. Participants will obtain knowledge around intersecting causes of these disproportionate impacts, how the resulting adaptive measures differ and ways to develop more resilient communities. 

This program is designed to provide participants with an understanding of the current energy system, its extractive nature and the resulting environmental burdens on Black frontline communities. Participants will learn ways to develop resilient energy systems that are rooted in just transition framework and explore democratic models of energy governance.

This program is designed to provide participants with an understanding of the history of the conservation movement with an analysis of what and who is protected and basics of biodiversity protection. Participants will also be equipped with knowledge on how to develop justice-centered conservation efforts.

This program is designed to provide participants with an understanding of the underlying vulnerabilities and inequities that affect Black women and femmes and the ways these factors contribute to disproportionate climate impacts.  Participants will learn about the interconnections with gender justice and climate justice and ways to create more inclusive spaces for Black women and femmes.

This program is designed to provide participants with an understanding of ways that systemic racism perpetuates environmental injustice in Black communities. Participants will learn about the history of the environmental justice movement, disproportionate environmental issues Black communities face and analyze key policies and how they have fallen short of the needs of Black communities. These policies include the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Superfund Act and National Environmental Protection Act.

This program is designed to provide participants with an understanding of the anatomy of the emergency management response framework and equity analysis of local, state, and national policies that govern this framework.  This program further highlights how to navigate public and private emergency management systems and ways that the inequitable emergency response affects Black communities and creates disproportionate impact when disasters strike.

This program provides an assessment of the placement of transit infrastructure and the resulting environmental impacts that Black communities experience. Throughout the course, participants will explore transit access, affordability and considerations for vehicle electrification and charging infrastructure to make the green transition one that is truly just and equitable. 

This program explores the ways environmental racism shows up in food systems and creates long lasting food injustices in Black communities. Participants will gain knowledge around key definitions, role of agencies and ways agricultural companies have disadvantaged Black farmers/communities. This program will also outline local community-based initiatives to combat inequitable food policies and practices.

This program is designed to explore the historical context around urban disinvestment, the distribution of green spaces and how this disinvestment led to the development of sacrifice zones. The program further outlines the associated environmental issues that result from the absence of green spaces in Black communities and how collective community visioning and transformational climate finance can support the increase of green spaces.

This program discusses the racial underpinnings/founding of the environmental movement and the disparities of funding for environmental organizations and organizational leadership that exist across the environmental movement.  Participants will also explore how Justice and Equity have been coopted in the environmental movement and ways to move towards a more equitable JEDI movement across the environmental space.

This program explores the impacts of the current extractive energy model and fossil fuel infrastructure on Black frontline communities. It provides an insight on the necessary tools and information to guide society away from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.

This program is designed to explore the history surrounding land and property injustices experienced by Black communities. It further highlights various community-based approaches to conserving land, building relationships with land and provides strategies for Black communities to maintain their land ownership.

This program is designed to assess the causes and impact of sea level rise on Black communities and the factors that cause these communities to be more at risk and vulnerable to flooding. Participants will also explore different tools like Risk Finder to conduct risk assessments and conduct equity analysis on various policies related to sea level rise.

This program is designed to provide participants with an understanding of state of current financing, the historical elements that have led to inequities in funding mode, and how to build a Transformational Climate Finance approach that truly invests in Black Frontline Communities.