Session 1: Course Framing & Launch

• Session 1 Slides

• STEM Teaching Tool: Using science investigations to develop caring practices for social-ecological systems

Session 2: Overview of Environmental Justice

• Session 2 Slides

• Book: Braiding Sweetgrass, Preface & Planting Sweetgrass section (pp. ix - 59)

• Chapter: Murdock, E. G. (2020). A History of Environmental Justice: Foundations, Narratives, and Perspectives. In B. Coolsaet (ed.), Environmental Justice: Key Issues(pp. 6-17). Routledge.

• Short Article: Ecosystem Destruction Fueled the Pandemic. Pollution Has Made It Worse

EITHER (OR BOTH) OF THESE:

• Technical Article: Schell CJ, Dyson K, Fuentes TL, Des Roches S, Harris NC, Miller DS, Woelfle-Erskine CA, Lambert MR. The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments. Science. 2020 Sep 18;369(6510):eaay4497. doi: 10.1126/science.aay4497. Epub 2020 Aug 13. PMID: 32792461.

• Video Presentation: Dr. Chris Schell on Ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments (October 30, 2020, 47 min)

For the Schell et al. piece, there is also this Crosscut article summarizing the publication. We share it as another summary that might be of interest.

Session 3: Overview of Climate Justice

• Session 3 Slides

• Book: Braiding Sweetgrass, Tending Sweetgrass section (pp. 63-120)

• Chapter: Edwards, G.A.S. Climate Justice. In B. Coolsaet (ed.), Environmental Justice: Key Issues (pp. 148-160). Routledge.

• Short Articles:

  • White Allies, Let’s Be Honest About Decolonization by Dr. Kyle Powys Whyte

  • Social tipping points are the only hope for the climate by David Roberts

    • Underlying PNAS Article

  • The Great Climate Migration by Abrahm Lustgarten, Part 1 (of 3) (audio version available)

• Podcast Episode: Olúfémi O. Táíwò on Climate Colonialism And Reparations (For the Wild podcast)

Session 4 — Indigenous Systems of Responsibility & Environmental Education

• Session 4 Slides

• Book: Braiding Sweetgrass, Picking Sweetgrass section (pp. 121-204)

• Background Resources on Indigenous Resurgence & Settler-Colonialism:

  • Video: Change the Story, Change the Future (from Illuminative)

  • Background on Settler-Colonialism: review the definition on page 3 of this resource and also read this short article

• Chapter: Indigenous Prophecy and Mother Earth by Sherri Mitchell from All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

  • Alternative (podcast): Indigenous Wisdom & the Seed of Life with Sherri Mitchell

• Article: Reflections on the Purpose of Indigenous Environmental Education by Kyle Powys Whyte from the Handbook of Indigenous Education

• Short Article: Creating Science Learning Environments in Which Indigenous Students Can Thrive by By Megan Bang, Nikki McDaid-Morgan, and Alice Tsoodle (NSTA Next Gen Navigator)

• Optional Podcast: Conversations on the Climate Crisis (Episode 174 of Media Indigena)

Session 5 — Making Kin, Entanglement & Worlding

• Session 5 Slides

• Book: Braiding Sweetgrass, Braiding Sweetgrass section (pp. 205-302)

• Audio Interview: "Staying With the Trouble" interview with Donna Haraway (from the For the Wild podcast) (80 minutes)

• Speculative Fiction Chapter: The Camille Stories by Dr. Donna Haraway from Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (33 pages)

• Audio Interview: Reflections on the Plantationocene: A Conversation with Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing (from Edge Effects podcast) (80 minutes)

Session 6 — Ethics of Care & Black Feminist Ecological Thought

• Session 6 Slides

• Book: Braiding Sweetgrass, Burning Sweetgrass section & Epilogue (pp. 303-384)

  • Please also read and reflect on this Twitter thread by Dr. Zoe Todd

• Article: ‘Nothing comes without its world’: thinking with care by Dr. María Puig de la Bellacasa

• Short Article: Black Feminist Ecological Thought: A Manifesto by Dr. Chelsea Mikael Frazier

• Podcast Episode: Listen: How Beyoncé, Issa Rae, and other Black women lead on the environment (by Grist staff)

• Article: Make kin, not cities! Multispecies entanglements and ‘becoming-world’ in planning theory by Donna Houston, Jean Hillier, Diana MacCallum, Wendy Steele, and Jason Byrne

• Summary: Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds by María Puig de la Bellacasa

Session 7 — Centering BIPOC Worldviews & Disrupting White Environmental Imaginaries

• Session 7 Slides

• Book: The Mushroom at the End of the World, Prologue - Chapter 4 (pp. vii - 70)

• Article: Worlding beyond ‘the’ ‘end’ of ‘the world’: white apocalyptic visions and BIPOC futurisms by Audra Mitchell & Aadita Chaudhury

• Podcast Episode: The Colonial Genesis Of Climate Change, For the Wild interview with Kyle Powys Whyte

• Select Someone to Learn About: Select and listen to one person from the Mothers of Invention podcast series and be ready to summarize their climate-related work (in a few sentences) and how it relates to themes of the week / course

• Article: Too late for indigenous climate justice: Ecological and relational tipping points by Kyle Powys Whyte

Session 8 — Multiple Ways of Knowing, Valuing & Being

• Session 8 Slides

• Book: The Mushroom at the End of the World, Chapter 5 - Interlude (pp. 71 - 144)

• Article: Multiple Ways Of Knowing: Re-Imagining Disciplinary Learning by Beth Warren, Shirin Vossoughi, Ann S. Rosebery, Megan Bang, and Edd V. Taylor, In Handbook of Cultural Foundations of Learning

• Article: Nature–Culture Constructs in Science Learning: Human/Non-Human Agency and Intentionality by Megan Bang & Ananda Marin

• Explore a piece from this Collection of Science Education Resources Supporting Indigenous Resurgence.

Session 9 — Fighting Invasive Infrastructures of Empire & Rights of Nature

• Session 9 Slides

• Book: The Mushroom at the End of the World, Prologue - Part III - Chapter 16 (pp. 149 - 225)

• Article: Fighting Invasive Infrastructures: Indigenous Relations against Pipelines by Anne Spice

• Webinar: An Introduction to Rights of Nature by Thomas Linzey of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights and co-hosted by Wu Projects and Terran Collective

Session 10 — Group Project Presentations & Course Wrap Up

• Session 10 slides

• Book: The Mushroom at the End of the World, Chapter 17 - Spore Trail (pp. 226-288)

• Groups present their final design efforts.

Artwork by Rae Jing Han, 2021