Climate action sometimes starts in your own neighborhood.
In a virtual course co-taught by Kari Fulton and Janelle Burr at Howard University, high school students at Title I schools across the country—from Flint to Los Angeles—are digging into what environmental justice means where they live. Using mapping tools, students are connecting climate and environment to real places and real patterns, not abstract concepts.
And for many, the biggest realization is this: the “environmental justice community” they’re assigned to study isn’t somewhere else—it’s their neighborhood, their street, their backyard. That kind of local awareness is power, and it’s how the next generation learns to turn climate concern into informed action.
Kari Fulton of Howard University says this work helps students see their communities clearly—and start imagining what it looks like to change them.
From an event at the Reservoir Center in Washington, D.C. Learn more at https://bit.ly/waterloopReservoir
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