People of color are exposed to more air pollution, in part due to the proximity of segregated neighborhoods to industrial areas, but also across all income levels.
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Housing load policies once limited where people of color could live (a practice known as redlining) and still affects those neighborhoods through the urban heat island effect.
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From coal ash to mine tailings to asphalt shingles, poor communities have often become dump sites for toxic waste created elsewhere.
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Whether you identify as an environmental educator, classroom teacher, naturalist, professor, or ranger, environmental justice is relevant and appropriate to teach. This interdisciplinary topic includes elements of social studies, policy, and science. To help your students become "JEDI warriors," who can recognize and analyze Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion issues in the context of environmental problem-solving, consider engaging students in collecting and analyzing data for themselves, using tools provided in the next section, or teaching these lessons.
Lessons from Teaching Tolerance
You can also check out EEA's instructional strategies for culturally responsive teaching or sign up for one of our workshops on this topic. |
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