Timeline: Formosa Plastics and Whitney Plantation
This is a timeline of news and magazines articles focused on Formosa Plastic's purchased and proposed development of the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana.
What expertise, capacities, and skills do you bring to the EcoGovLab?
wypark89Annotation of
I am a (science) education researcher and look at most things in the world through the lens of education. On disaster (or anything else), the questions I ask are - e.g., why should we teach about it? What should we teach about it, and how? How can we support teachers to teach about disasters in their classrooms? My training in educational research has equipped me with the theories, tools and methods that can be utilised to approach these questions. I am hoping that these knowledge, experiences and skills can cross-fertilise with EcoGovLab's expertise in anthropology, SPS and environmental governance.
Fresno CEC Purpose & Mission
wypark89Our Purpose
One of our greatest responsibilities is to prepare the next generation to meet the challenges they will face in the 21st Century, with a deep commitment to the rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship. We have a unique opportunity for a community dialogue about the civic values, knowledge, and skills that K-12 students should learn and practice in our public school system. We will create strong community support for our schools to provide effective civic education for students to be successful in college, career and citizenship.
OUR MISSION
The mission of the Civic Education Center is to restore civility in America by creating opportunities for youth to learn and practice civic values and democratic skills.
Fresno CEC Summer Institute for Secondary Teachers
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Goals
- Teach the vision of the Founders and the triumphs and tragedies of our history.
- Teach civil dialogue on controversial issues and democratic deliberation.
- Integrate science, technology, literature, media, arts and math with civic projects.
- To promote teacher understanding of connections with the State Seal of Civic Engagement, Social Emotional Learning, and Ethnic Studies.
CV YEA Mission Statement
wypark89The Mission of CV YEA is "Our mission is to fight environmental injustices in the Central Valley through connecting like-minded individuals".
CV YEA is based in Fresno, CA and led by Executive Director Kamryn Kubose (interview), who we met during our visit to Golden Charter Academy. CV YEA takes part in Clean Vehicle Empowerment Collaborative. The board consists of master's students and environmental activists based in California.
South LA community emissions reduction plan
South Los Angeles Community Emissions Reduction Plan; can be useful for pointers when building the AB617 case for Santa Ana
Fieldnote Mar 20 2023 - 6:18am
AB617 meeting
South LA
March 9th 2023
Asking community members about stories in south LA (SLA) and any initiatives they are taking
Air Pollution, human health and environmental injustice
Zotero bibliography: connecting pollution, health, and social Indicators as a measure of environmental injustice
Fieldnote Mar 10 2023 - 2:44pm
Jill started by discussing Environmental injustice
Envt equalities also stem from well-intended advocates in the non-profit sector
The literature presented here has tried to focus on impacts of human health owing to air pollution to better measure environmental injustice.