NR 6 Readings
Fall 2012

Aug 30   No class

Sept 4   Giller: Generating Change: Why reaching a diverse environmental citzenry is important for the future of the environmental movement

Sept 11  Hanley: Beyond the tip of the iceberg: Five stages toward cultural competence
              Ukpokodu: Multiculturalism vs Globalism

Sept 18 Andreatta: Your Developing Values (selection from Navigating the Research University)

Sept 25  Work on your draft autobiographical essay draft.

Oct 2  Finney: Preface from Black faces, white spaces: African Americans and the great outdoors
           Outside Magazine: What's right with this picture: Diversity in the outdoors

Oct 9 Please choose ONE of the following readings based on your interests - read it and provide a description of it for your paper this week. While we have related each to one of the majors in the Rubenstein School, you do NOT have to choose based on your intended major.

Floyd: Managing National Parks in a Multicultural Society (Parks, Recreation, and Tourism)

Fougères: Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and Human Rights in California’s Central Valley: A case study (Environmental Sciences)

Elbakidze: Implementing Sustainable Forest Management in Ukraine's Carpathian Mountains: The Role of Traditional Village Systems (Forestry)

Unger: Exploring Diversity in the Wildlife Profession (from the Wildlife Professional) (Wildlife/Fisheries Biology)

McGurty: Warren County, NC, and the Emergence of the Environmental Justice Movement (Natural Resources Curriculum - Resource Planning)

Middendorf: Ecology and Environmental Justice (from the Ecological Society of America) (Natural Resources Curriculum - Resource Ecology)

Pellow & Matthews: Immigrant Workers in Two Eras (compares labor organizing by immigrant women in California in the fruit & electronics industries)(Environmental Studies)

Oct 16 Visit the website for the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center
             Visit the website for the American Anthropological Association exhibit, Race: Are We So Different?
            View the 5-minute YouTube video - Introduction to the Race Exhibit

            We will distribute a Guide for our field trip as you enter ECHO on Tue morning. This guide contains questions that we would like you to consider while in the exhibit and prompts for your reflective writing after the exhibit. You can view this Guide here.

Oct 23 Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty, Excerpts from UCC 2007 Report

             (If you are interested in seeing the entire report, go here)

            Also, check out the Hastings Center Report on state level Environmental Justice Policy. It is quite lengthy, so go to your home state in the report and see what EJ policy has been established there. You can find your home state by going to the "Table of States" - on the 19th and 20th pages of the .pdf file, with hot links to each of the states reviewed in the report.
            PowerPoint slides from today's plenary session.

Oct 30 Here are some resources for draft action plan:

Rubenstein School Office of Experiential Learning with links to jobs, internships, study abroad information
RSENR Diversity Plan
 RSENR Diversity website

UVM Diversity website
Alternative Spring Break 
Next Step Retreat a social justice retreat for UVM students
Community University Partnerships and Service Learning at UVM
Global to Local/Local to Global Opportunities, Resources for Community Engagement
Office of International Education for study abroad programming
Global Village Residential Learning Community
Social Justice Resources: from the University of Vermont
Our Common Ground: University of Vermont

Self-Survey: Commitment to Combat ISMS
Speak Up! Responding to Everyday Bigotry: from the Southern Poverty Law Center

Ecological Society of America, SEEDS program (Strategies for Ecology Education, Diversity and Sustainability)
Chill Foundation, provides opportunities for at-risk and underserved youth to build self-esteem and life skills through boardsports
Healthy City Youth Initiative, hands-on farm-to-school program designed to teach basic cooking and gardening skills, boost physical activity and increase healthy lifestyle choices for Burlington K-12 students

Nov 6    Allen: Mining for justice in the food system: Perceptions, practices, and possibilities
              and Golden Cage website. Be sure to view the Audio Slide Show (about 5 minutes)

                PowerPoint slides from today's plenary session.

Nov 13 Stanfield-McCown et al. Beyond Outreach Handbook: A Guide to Designing Effective Programs to Engage Diverse Communities