Introduction

Welcome to our living anthology of student-generated research, creativity, and activism on environmental justice issues! We’re so glad you’re here.

We developed and use this open educational resources (OER) in a classroom project in G209: Environmental Justice at Linn-Benton Community College. The text grows every term as new students contribute their final projects to supplement the core learning materials.

The open pedagogy project cycle behind this text was developed by Deron Carter and Elizabeth Pearce in the HDFS201/GS106 co-teaching collaboration captured in the open textbook Contemporary Families. Thank you to Open Oregon Educational Resources and the Linn-Benton Community College Foundation for the grant support required to develop this project.

The book is structured around how we teach in our 11-week term. The first chapter outlines the final project, which we introduction to students in week 2. It also includes chapters from the Open Pedagogy Student Toolkit, as we spend multiple class sessions exploring open pedagogy for students who are new to publishing their works with open licenses. Further support materials for that scaffolding are available in an ancillary folder.

The second chapter is instructional content exploring climate change as a social problem through the lens of colonization, power, intersectionality, and justice-seeking. It is from Who Gets Environmental Justice? The Social Problem of Climate Change by Patricia Halleran; Kimberly Puttman; and Avery Temple in Inequality and Interdependence: Social Problems and Social Justice, facilitated by Open Oregon Educational Resources.

The third chapter is the growing anthology of works students produce for the final project.

We hope you find inspiration in the following pages. If you adopt this resource, please let us know! We’re especially keen for feedback, notifications of broken or outdated content, and seeing what remixes

-Deron Carter & Colleen Sanders