Engineering Climate Justice (PDF) (PPTX)
This module combines engineering with concepts of climate justice, discusses how engineering decisions impact people’s lives, and encourages students to discuss how justice is at the heart of engineering.
Climate Justice in Biology, Exposure Science, and Epidemiology (PDF) (PPTX)
This module demonstrates how biology can inform climate justice and how climate justice can help create more inclusive biologists. Case studies span from general biology to microbiology and epidemiology and the broader field of exposure science.
Climate Justice for Inclusive STEM Research (PDF) (PPTX)
This module discusses the relevancy of climate justice across STEM fields and science communication. It aims to create more inclusive scientists, researchers, and communicators through a broad collection of STEM and climate justice case studies.
From Mining to E-Waste (PDF) (PPTX)
This module consists of a case study that introduces the three main stages of the global electronics hardware cycle. Students will learn how to utilize life cycle assessment and circular economics as a mechanism to assess and understand climate justice disparities.
Climate Justice and Environmental Data (PDF) (PPTX)
Contributors: Sanjana Paul and Camille Minns
This module addresses the interplay of environmental data and climate justice. It explores how current paradigms of data collection, analysis, and dissemination can both contribute to and hinder climate justice goals. Participants will learn about the ethical use and collection of climate data, the importance of community-driven data initiatives, and data gaps in areas affected by climate change.
Environmental Justice and Technical Innovation (PDF) (PPTX)
Contributors: Sanjana Paul and Camille Minns
This module explores current paradigms, goals, and cultures of technological innovation, and the intersection with environmental justice practices, or lack thereof. It explores case studies where technological innovation in sectors like agriculture and digital technology has had unintended negative consequences, particularly for marginalized communities, and then reviews emerging solutions.
Engineering Climate Justice 2.0 (PDF) (PPTX)
Contributor: Adriana Perkins
This module builds upon the first Engineering Climate Justice module by examining two major climate events through the lens of engineering and climate justice. Students will apply their engineering knowledge to real-world challenges. The goal is to encourage students to think critically about how engineering solutions can perpetuate or address disparities that affect different groups of people.
Computing and Climate Justice (PDF) (PPTX)
Contributor: Lelia Marie Hampton
This module provides a curriculum that integrates climate justice (CJ) and machine learning (ML) for practical real-world applications. Part 1 explores why ML is useful to advance CJ, ethical considerations, and sociotechnical frameworks. Part 2 discusses how to move from data to impact. Part 3 explores urban heat disparities as a case study for interpretable ML applications. Parts 4 and 5 explore climate health equity in heat-related illness.
Climate Justice and Socio-Technical Systems (PDF) (PPTX)
Contributor: Amelia Dogan
This module introduces students to the application of climate justice skills in the context of socio-technical systems. Students will learn how to analyze technology through a socio-technical lens, with real-life applications to machine learning, climate justice mapping tools, and small-scale research projects.
