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Unlocking the Value of Circles

NonProfit Quarterly

Experts often overcomplicate lectures with jargon and references that may not be culturally relevant to the people they are trying to teach. Many communities fail, not because members have lost interest, but simply because nobody has the energy and time to take care of logistics and hold the space for the inquiry.

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Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

NonProfit Quarterly

12 GHGs such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide are naturally occurring gases that absorb energy from the sun and trap heat inside the atmosphere reflected from the earth’s surface. Educational institutions and industry leaders must actively work to dismantle systemic racism. degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.36

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On the Front Lines: How Campus Organizing Can Inform Movements Today

NonProfit Quarterly

Karma Chávez, a University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) professor who works with the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine Network (FSJP), has been an active participant in efforts to preserve diversity, equity, and inclusion in Texas higher education.

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Bringing Climate into the Classroom: New Hampshire Students Push for Increased Climate Literacy

NonProfit Quarterly

1 350NH was first launched in 2012 as a grassroots movement to fight climate change and support renewable energy in the Granite State. 3 The movement’s primary goal has been to attack climate change by growing grassroots support in New Hampshire for renewable energy while fighting the expansion of fossil fuels.

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Tackling Eco-Anxiety Through Experiential Education

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Taking Action Beyond Activism As researchers continue delving into the topic, a growing amount of evidence suggests taking action can help significantly in mitigating climate distress, particularly before it becomes clinically significant. In 2019, the Global Climate Strike saw over 7.6 million people participate across 185 countries.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

I love the energy that you bring to these and we have the energy in the chat box too, so that brings a smile to my face as well. . I could practically teaching this class. And so feel free to actively take notes, write on this piece of paper. They had to deal with their own students and their own curriculum.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision? 4 We see, too, movement energy in the organizing at Amazon, at the over 200 Starbucks branches that have unionized, in the new vigor behind the pursuit of worker cooperatives and community land trusts. Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision?