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From 2018-2020, Environmental Justice students instructed by Professor Christie Manning conducted interviews with Minnesota based environmental justice leaders. All the interviews are available via an open access anthology published through the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project.
See highlights from the interviews here.
Oral history archive (2023)
Oral history archive (2023)
This second volume of interviews conducted by students of Professor Christie Manning is a collection of the stories and efforts of environmental justice activists at the forefront of the Minnesota environmental justice movement. It is a compilation of interviews, conducted by students at Macalester College in 2023, to understand the layers of environmental injustice in Minnesota and bring attention to the resilience and determination of activists and communities.
Access it here.
Professor Chris Wells in Environmental Studies developed the Introduction to Environmental Justice course and, in doing so, created a reader of primary sources. You can access the anthology digitally via the Macalester library here and or via the book's website.
Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018) presents a variety of primary sources from the postwar environmental justice movement, highlighting the complicated and frequently tense relationship between mainstream environmentalism and environmental justice.
Fossil Free Mac (FFM) was a student movement and a
chartered student organization leading a fossil fuel
divestment campaign at Macalester College from 2013
until 2019. In the following handbook, they seek to
document the lessons that they learned in their years-long
campaign. They want to make their knowledge and
experiences available to other student movements on
campus.
This is a podcast archive for Spring 2020 and Fall 2021 cohorts of Troubled Waters: Race, the Environment and Law Prof. Kiri Sailiata. Working in pairs or small groups, students researched a range of issues surrounding water policies. Topics include the local restoration of the Mississippi river, the rights of Manoomin, the history of the Rondo neighborhood, and the conservation of Chokan Tanka.
Image Credit: Ricardo Levins Morales.
reading List
reading List
A selected list of the readings covered in the Fall 2022 Introduction to Environmental Justice course with Professor Kiri Sailiata.
If you're looking for an introduction to environmental justice issues in the Twin Cities and around the world, we highly recommend this weekly calendar of curated readings compiled by staff and students at the Sustainability Office.
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