Learn, Grow, Connect
These resources are provided to facilitate the development of individual, organizational, and community capacity to improve the wellbeing of our community and environment across the nine county Greater Rochester region. This section is still under development, please check back in the future or sign up for website updates. To contribute please reach out to contact@rocecology.org
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Frameworks and Mindsets
These materials provide a foundation for thinking about environmentalism in ways that acknowledge the interconnectedness of our natural, built, and social systems.
| Just Sustainabilities | Just sustainabilities recognizes that sustainability cannot be achieved without addressing the inequalities and injustices that exist within and between societies. |
| Just Transition | “Just Transition is a vision-led, unifying and place-based set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.” |
| Intersectional Environmentalist | “At Intersectional Environmentalist, we envision a world where the communities and voices most impacted by environmental injustice have the power, resources, and platforms to lead their communities into full liberation.” |
Environmental Justice
Links to essential resources for understanding what environmental justice is with particular attention on resources created by the people who are most impacted and fighting the hardest.
| Principles of Environmental Justice | “Delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held on October 24-27, 1991, in Washington DC, drafted and adopted 17 principles of Environmental Justice. Since then, The Principles have served as a defining document for the growing grassroots movement for environmental justice.” (ejnet.org) |
| EPA: Environmental Justice | “‘Environmental justice’ means the just treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of income, race, color, national origin, Tribal affiliation, or disability, in agency decision-making and other Federal activities that affect human health and the environment” |
| ejnet.org | Web Resources for Environmental Justice Activists maintained by Mike Ewall. |
Environmental Health
Environmental health covers a wide range of topics. These links provide a starting point for learning more about how the health of our environment affects human health.
| CDC: National Center for Environmental Health | “CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health plans, directs, and coordinates a program to protect the American people from environmental hazards.” |
| University of Rochester Environmental Health Sciences Center: Community Engagement Core | “The CEC of the University of Rochester’s Environmental Health Sciences Center (EHSC), which is located in the Department of Environmental Medicine, is a source of environmental health information for the entire community.” |
| National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | “NIEHS is committed to conducting the most rigorous research in environmental health sciences, and to communicating the results of this research to the public.” |
Collaboration and Partnership
These links provide key resources for working together and creating diverse coalitions to achieve shared goals,
| Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing | These “common understandings between participants from different cultures, politics and organizations” offer everyone a starting point for building norms and processes for working together in just and equitable ways. (ejnet.org) |
| SDG Partnership Guidebook | “A practical guide to building high-impact multi-stakeholder partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals” from the Partnering Initiative. |
| Developing Community Agreements | “Developing community agreements is a powerful strategy for coalescing a group into a team.” is the starting point for this guide from the National Equity Project |