Cultural Acknowledgements
Climate Change Impacts and Climate Education
CLEAN recognizes the disproportionate impact climate change has on Communities of Color and the importance of incorporating social and environmental justice into climate education. CLEAN acknowledges the harms of white supremacy and colonialism, and is working to bring cultural and racial injustice awareness to our network. We are working to incorporate environmental justice and culturally relevant resources into our collection. We are creating tags for searching the collection based on these topics. Join our network and weekly video conference calls to continue the conversation with us.
CLEAN Acknowledgements
Indigenous Justice: CLEAN acknowledges the painful history Indigenous Peoples have experienced and the injustice they face with climate change. CLEAN highlights the Living Landscapes' culturally relevant climate literacy principles and climate teaching resources and is working to incorporate more culturally relevant resources into our collection. We will continue to partner with Indigenous Organizations and elevate Indigenous viewpoints within climate education.
Read CLEAN's Indigenous acknowledgment
Racial Justice: CLEAN acknowledges that environmental injustice has significantly harmed People of Color. We especially recognize how colonialism and US history dehumanized Black Peoples brought to these lands and subjected them to violence. CLEAN is working to tag resources that focus on environmental justice topics and incorporate more into our collection. To make our site more accessible, CLEAN has translated many of our teaching guidance pages into Spanish (Teaching Climate in Spanish / La Enseñanza de la Ciencia Del Clima; Teaching Energy in Spanish / Enseñar temas sobre energía). We hope to partner with Environmental Justice Organizations to elevate justice-based teaching within climate education.
Read the racial justice statement from the CLEAN Leadership Board