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Environmental Justice House Course

Members of the UEU and Environmental Alliance have come together to create a house course focusing on climate justice:

HOUSECS 59 -04, CLIMATE JUSTICE & GLOBAL INTERSECTIONALITY

Available Fall 2022, this course aims to provide students with a strong understanding of climate justice. It highlights the connections between environmental justice internationally and within the United States. This course is set up as a series of guest lectures given by prominent academics and environmental justice advocates as well as small group discussions. It is a deep dive into the relationship between people, culture, justice, climate, and the environment. It touches upon the intersection of climate justice and health, energy, migration, disability rights, LGBTQ+ rights, transgender rights, and food systems, in the hope to amplify the voices and experiences of the diverse cultures, races, and identities fighting on the front lines to address these issues globally.

Class sessions meet on Thursdays from 7:00-8:30 PM EST.

Register for this course on DukeHub under HOUSECS!

To expand EJ offerings and opportunities at Duke, this class doubles as an environmental justice webinar series so that interested students, faculty, staff, and community members not enrolled in the course can participate. Webinars take place on Thursdays from 7:00-8:00 PM EST. A schedule for the series is available below!

For those not enrolled in the course but interested in attending guest speaker sessions, register for any and all webinars here: LINK COMING SOON

For those who are not available at the scheduled webinar time but would still like to learn from our speakers, webinar recordings are available below or here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0DNaSNetzSEkLWAysAV_w/videos

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Webinar Recordings

Check back Fall 2022!

Coming Soon!

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Webinar Schedule

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What It's Like to Live in Cancer Alley | NowThis
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What It's Like to Live in Cancer Alley | NowThis

People are dying of cancer at an alarming rate in this county — and their own hometown is killing them. » Subscribe to NowThis: http://go.nowth.is/News_Subscribe In this cancer documentary, NowThis News tackles the important issue of environmental injustice. Factors in our environment might lead to cancer. Louisiana residents in 'cancer alley' discovered this first hand. They're feeling the effects of environmental racism and the illness brought on by living in cancer alley. Mississippi River factories, the Petrol corridor specifically, might have made them sick. This cancer alley documentary explains how residents feel about it all. #CancerAlley #Louisiana #EnvironmentalInjustice #EnvironmentalRacism Connect with NowThis » Like us on Facebook: http://go.nowth.is/News_Facebook » Tweet us on Twitter: http://go.nowth.is/News_Twitter » Follow us on Instagram: http://go.nowth.is/News_Instagram » Find us on Snapchat: http://go.nowth.is/News_Snapchat Direct from the NowThis newsroom, NowThis Reports will deliver new short documentary-style videos each week, exploring a wide range of topics and featuring people and stories from all around the world. NowThis is your premier news outlet providing you with all the videos you need to stay up to date on all the latest in trending news. From entertainment to politics, to viral videos and breaking news stories, we’re delivering all you need to know straight to your social feeds. We live where you live. http://www.youtube.com/nowthisnews @nowthisnews
One reason why coronavirus hits Black people the hardest
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One reason why coronavirus hits Black people the hardest

Toxic air can weaponize the coronavirus. Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-lab Across the US, black people are dying from Covid-19 at disproportionately high rates. While there are many different factors at play behind the stark racial disparities — there’s one possible reason that’s been lurking in the air for decades: pollution. The long history of segregation and housing discrimination has long put black people at greater risk of living near chemical plants, factories and highways, exposing them to higher levels of air pollutants. These pollutants have had a chronically negative impact on health, leading to conditions like hypertension and asthma. Now, those same diseases are associated with severe cases of Covid-19, and showing that where you live can determine whether you survive from Covid-19. Read the full study on air pollution exposure and Covid-19 mortality: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/covid-pm Read the study on historic redlining and emergency room visits due to asthma: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(19)30241-4/fulltext Read the study on Disparities in Distribution of Particulate Matter Emission Sources by Race and Poverty Status: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5844406/ To learn more about the experiences of residents in St. John the Baptist Parish, check out the Concerned Citizens of St. John website: https://www.ccosj.com/ To learn more about some of the air pollution risks in the Midwest, check out the Environmental Law & Policy Center: http://elpc.org/. They also run an air monitoring site for Chicago that highlights some of these disparities: https://airqualitychicago.org/ Read more about Cancer Alley from ProPublica/ The Times-Picayune and The Advocate: https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_49fe4540-f74a-11e9-8d20-eb0f97323b91.html https://projects.propublica.org/louisiana-toxic-air/ And The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2019/may/06/cancertown-louisana-reserve-special-report A lot of our data comes from the National Air Toxics Assessment Cancer Risk map, which you can check out through the EPA: https://ejscreen.epa.gov/mapper/ The Covid Tracking Project also regularly compiles Covid-19 data on race: https://covidtracking.com/race Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com. Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o Or Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H
How Black Lives Matter And Environmental Justice Are Connected
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How Black Lives Matter And Environmental Justice Are Connected

"The people who are currently facing the harshest impacts of climate change are people of color." Why this woman's post about Environmentalists For Black Lives Matter went viral. Special thanks to Leah: https://www.instagram.com/greengirlleah https://www.greengirlleah.com/ Subscribe to Goodful: https://bzfd.it/2QApoPk About Goodful: Feel better, be better, and do better. Subscribe to Goodful for all your healthy self care needs, from food to fitness and everything in between! Connect with Goodful: Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialgoodful/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodful/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/goodful Check out our website: https://www.goodful.com/ Subscribe to the Goodful Newsletter: https://www.buzzfeed.com/newsletters/goodful Credits: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bfmp/videos/106973 MUSIC Licensed via Audio Network STILLS Houses next to oil refinery UniversalImagesGroup / Contributor/Getty Images Houses next to oil refinery UniversalImagesGroup / Contributor/Getty Images Cracked asphalt road - stock photo Simon McGill/Getty Images Fracking operations along the Front Range of Colorado. Helen H. Richardson / Contributor/Getty Images VIDEO “Justice for Eric Garner – Fire NYP Officer Daniel Pantaleo” – Protesters in NYC Tomas Abad - Footage/Getty Images Air Polluiton From Coal-Fired Power Station - stock video captamotion/Getty Images Refinery in Wilmington, California at Sunset - Drone Shot - stock video Hal Bergman/Getty Images Smoke Bombs and Tear Gas Fired in Streets During Protests in Ferguson Scripps - WPIX, New York/Getty Images Smoke pours out of smokestacks at the Navajo Generating Station's coal-fired power plant in Arizona. - stock video Aerial Filmworks/Getty Images Mother Holding Young Daughter At A Doctors Appointment - stock video FatCamera/Getty Images News Report Offers New Details Of Encounter Between Michael Brown And Ferguson Cop Joe Raedle/Getty Images Ferguson Protestors Run From Tear Gas and Riot Police Scripps - WPIX, New York/Getty Images Technical university Munich -colloquium - stock video Christian Ender/Getty Images Reads a book - stock video Beer1024/Getty Images Women shopping Christmas presents online from home - stock video Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images To get it done, just get it started - stock video Rowan Jordan/Getty Images EXTERNAL CREDITS Leah Thomas https://www.greengirlleah.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/Goodful

**For more information, please reach out to our course instructors or faculty sponsor (see information below)**

Fall 2022 Instructors

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Ariel Chukwuma
Class of 2024

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Ariel is a sophomore planning to major in Environmental Sciences with a minor in Inequality Studies. Ariel is passionate about studying environmental degradation and its socio-political impacts on minority populations. Outside the classroom, she participates in three research projects. One of which involves researching how Indigenous knowledge has been excluded from fishery management in West Coast Vancouver Island, British Columbia. In the future, she aspires to aid in conservation efforts that prioritize the protection of Indigenous knowledge and the health of minority populations. Ariel's research will allow her to make space for voices that are often oppressed or disregarded in environmental protection efforts.

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Leah Roffman
Class of 2023

Leah is a junior studying Public Policy with a minor in Statistics. She is the President of Environmental Alliance and is interested in environmental policy applications.

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Yujin Kim
Class of 2025

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Yujin is a first year student planning to major in Environmental Sciences(BS). She hopes to eventually go into ecological research and wildlife conservation. She has been organizing with Youth 4 Climate Action Korea since 2019, pushing for a just transition to a climate safe future. Yujin is especially interested in the ways different fields of study come together to implement policies and solutions that address the big challenges we face as a society, and is looking forward to exploring the diverse academic and civic engagement opportunities available at Duke.

Fall 2022 Faculty Advisor

Nicki Cagle 

Lecturer in Environmental Science and Policy

Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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Dr. Cagle is a dedicated ecologist and environmental educator with a passion for writing. She works as a Lecturer in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University where she teaches courses emphasizing natural history and environmental education & communication. She is also the Director of the Environmental Science Summer Program at Duke and Director of the NSOE Communications Studio.

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