As global environmental changes disproportionately impact disadvantaged communities, critical research documents subsequent environmental and climate injustices. Communicating these injustices in higher education university classrooms grows increasingly urgent as students are eager to engage with justice issues in professional and personal settings. We identify major challenges for teaching environmental and climate justice within interdisciplinary fields and propose a pedagogical framework based on relational scales of “sense of place” to communicate meaningful and culturally relevant environmental justice topics in university classrooms with multiple dimensions of student diversity. In response to a lack of accessible and tangible pedagogical environmental justice tools across all environmental fields, we highlight practical classroom applications situated at the intersection of individual, community, and place scales. Doing so shows that engaging pedagogical exercises in the sense of place scales can communicate an environmental and climate justice that is not just another academic term, but also an actionable opportunity for students within and beyond classrooms.

Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

We currently have a MSc graduate position at the UBC Faculty of Forestry available to start Jan or May 2026, co-supervised by myself and Tahia Devisscher for a project exploring the contributions of u...

An advisory opinion on responsibility for emissions means that Canada could be on the hook for major climate-change-related damages in the years ahead

We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.

Sharing a frustration: from a mom, PhD student, and immigrant with an accent in the U.S.—still unsure where to truly call home, yet constantly juggling too many roles within a 24-hour day.