Climate Justice and Climate Consequences: Education and Action for Social Justice and Regeneration part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This graduate climate justice course brings clarity to the structural dimensions of climate change. It is designed around the belief that community-based action and contemplative processes to redress structural ...

Service Learning and Food Security part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
Service Learning and Food Security is a two-credit course that uses practical examples, local demographics, and community connections to examine issues of food security. Students connect classroom learning with ...

Ethics and Climate Change part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This course addresses ethical issues related to climate change such as: Why is climate change an ethical issue? What would constitute a just allocation of the burdens of climate change? In what ways does ...

Environment and Society: Science & Values part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
The course uses approaches from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities to introduce the ways in which human social, political, economic, and cultural systems interact with systems in the non-human ...

An Intentional Media Diet part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
It's not just that we are what we eat, it's that we are what we consume. In the same way that the food we eat becomes our bodies, the media to which we pay attention, and the conversations in which we ...

Climate Change: An Elective for the "Natural World" Requirement part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
Climate Change is a quarter-long course offered to both science majors and non-majors as a general university requirement elective. The course uses classroom activities to explore evidence of climate change and ...

Writing Mount Tahoma: Place-Based Writing part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
In this discussion-based creative writing course, we take Mount Rainier / Tahoma / Ta-co-bet as topic, text, and inspiration. Students read a variety of literary texts about Mount Tahoma, by a wide range of authors ...

Buddhist Environmentalisms part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This course examines the intersections of a Buddhist worldview with environmentalism, broadly understood. It asks what affinities exist between the two, and what the implications of such affinities might be for ...

Writing to Explore Food Systems and Food Justice part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This is a theme-based English 101 course that explores our food consumption habits and connects those habits to local and global food systems in order to understand issues of food justice personally, in our local ...

Sustainable Activism: The Hanford Nuclear Reservation part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation is a complex and multi-dimensional issue that demands new ways of thinking and living, rooted in what is local—the unique history, environment, culture, economy, story of a ...