Environmental Justice at Western

Gratitude After Colonization

Each quarter, a group of students, faculty, and staff at WWU convene an environmental justice reading group to read and discuss recent texts. This quarter (Fall 2019) the group is reading Robin Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. The following entry reflects the group’s discussion last week. Gratitude After Colonization By: Lauren Sanner and Kenzi Garner The…

We are the Basket and the Basket Weavers

Each quarter, a group of students, faculty, and staff at WWU convene an environmental justice reading group to read and discuss recent texts. This quarter (Fall 2019) the group is reading Robin Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. The following entry reflects the group’s discussion last week. We are the Basket and the Basket Weavers By: Amelia Flores…

Care About Environmental Justice? Don’t Eat Meat!

Each quarter, a group of students, faculty, and staff at WWU convene an environmental justice reading group to read and discuss recent texts. This quarter (Fall 2019) the group is reading Robin Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. The following entry reflects the group’s discussion last week. Care About Environmental Justice? Don’t Eat Meat! By: Mars Well,…

Radical Contentment

Each quarter, a group of students, faculty, and staff at WWU convene an environmental justice reading group to read and discuss recent texts. This quarter (Fall 2019) the group is reading Robin Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. The following entry reflects the group’s discussion last week. Radical Contentment By Yeshaia Van Leeuwen, Maddie Smith, and Jamie…

Knowing the Salish Sea Through 3 Strands

Each quarter, a group of students, faculty, and staff at WWU convene an environmental justice reading group to read and discuss recent texts. This quarter (Fall 2019) the group is reading Robin Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. The following entry reflects the group’s discussion last week. Knowing the Salish Sea Through 3 Strands By: Morgan Scott…

Spatial Perceptions of Environmental Racism: Bellingham by the Data

This quarter, graduate students enrolled in ENVS 597: Power, Privilege, and the Environment are writing short responses emerging from readings and/or discussions in class. Spatial Perceptions of Environmental Racism: Bellingham by the Data By: Andy Basabe “Geographic studies of environmental racism have focused on the spatial relationships between environmental hazards and community demographics…

The Seed of Change

Each quarter, a group of students, faculty, and staff at WWU convene an environmental justice reading group to read and discuss recent texts. This quarter (Spring 2019) the group is reading Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy. The following entry reflects the group’s discussion last week. The Seed of…

Mending Relationships for a Viable Future

Bodies & Burdens

This quarter, graduate students enrolled in ENVS 597: Power, Privilege, and the Environment are writing short responses emerging from readings and/or discussions in class. Bodies & Burdens By: Rebecca Williams Narratives of health in our society all too often pin the responsibility of disease on the person experiencing it: cancer, diabetes, obesity, depression, anxiety,…