Join the academic sub-committee of the Auraria Sustainable Campus Program (ASCP) as they continue to build programming around environmental justice. Following the successes of our Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 book clubs, we will be convening on Zoom this fall. We will read Michael Mendez's Climate Change from the Streets. Yale University Press describes this book as "an urgent and timely story of the contentious politics of incorporating environmental justice into global climate change policy." Mendez centers the voices of low-income communities of color in local policymaking spaces, demonstrating how activism against poverty and air pollution, combined with advocacy for green jobs, featured in their work.

As in our book clubs from 2020 and 2021, we will strive to create a dialogic space of deep listening. We will recognize that participants are likely affected in different ways and with different intensities, by environmental racism; and that participants are likely to have different access to, and experience with, the environmental exigencies and  We will prioritize in each session conversations about what each of us might do next, individually and collectively, to be responsive to environmental racism and creative toward environmental justice.

Our sessions are scheduled for Thursdays from 6:15-7:30pm on following dates/times (we will email a Zoom link and password within 3 days of session 1 to all who complete the form below):

October 21 (Chapters 1-2)
November 4 (Chapter 3-4)
November 18 (Chapter 5-6)
December 2 (Chapters 7 & Afterword)

Questions? Thoughts? Email Christina Foust (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at MSU-Denver) at cfoust2@msudenver.edu