Ej Action Project Apprenticeship Partner Organizations:
Apprenticeship Focus Area:
Decarbonization in schools, youth-led electrification efforts
Interest Areas:
Climate justice and Decarbonization
How to electrify a home/school
Climate change as an environmental justice issue
Advocacy within their school
Climate activism
Launching an advocacy campaign
Enacting systems changes through personal action
Apprenticeship Focus Area:
How to engage the youth in collaborating with lawmakers and policymakers to enact change.
Interest Areas:
Environmental law and policy
Political activism
Economics
Freshwater resources, protecting the Great Lakes
Working with local government to enact policy changes
Surveying youth, developing messages that resonate with young people
Enacting systems change through personal action
Collaborating with local and regional organizations
Apprenticeship Focus Area:
Engaging the youth in the lead movement. How to communicate effectively through social media, marketing, and using data to tell stories
Interest areas:
Telling stories through film, interview, and documentary
Safe and affordable housing
Toxicity and the developing brain
Environmental contaminants as an environmental justice issue
Clean water, lead-free water and soil
Surveying youth, developing messages that resonate with young people
Enacting systems changes through personal action
Supporting grassroots activism
Apprenticeship Focus Area:
Using fungi to decontaminate rubble from abandoned homes
Interest areas:
Engineering practices
Lab-based research
City planning, urban land use
Nature-based solutions
Housing as an environmental justice issue
mycology/ the study of mushrooms and fungi
Green architecture and design
3-dimensional art