The DEEP Collaborative RESOURCE page is a work in progress. If you have suggestions about resources you think should be added, please contact us.
General Resources
The Center for Diversity and the Environment has a tremendous resource page, spanning topics such as Environmental Voting, Environmental Justice, Tribes and the Environment, Diversity and the Environmental Movement, and Related Organization. The Aldo Leopold Foundation also has a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Resource List.
NatureBridge also has educator resources and offers a training program that seeks to increase representation in outdoor education and programming.
In addition, EENC has launched a justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion page and in August 2019, a “new “Equity and Inclusion in Environmental Education” online resource collection” that includes “articles, research, videos, podcasts, books, people, and organizations from across the internet into five categories:
- Making the Case for Equity and Inclusion in EE
- Helping You Learn More: Deeper Dives, Strategies, and Best Practices
- Teaching With Equity and Inclusion
- Inspirational People and Stories: Shining a Spotlight on Amazing Work by Phenomenal People
- Building Your Network: Organizations, Business and Agencies” – Lauren Pyle, EENC, 13 Aug 2019
Culturally Inclusive Teaching
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning – Classroom Practices for Student Success, Grades K-12 by Sharroky Hollie
Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice by Geneva Gay
Cultural Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally Diverse Students by Zaretta L. Hammond
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin
Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty by Paul C. Gorski and James A. Banks
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.
Diversity & Higher Education
The Department Chair as Transformative Diversity Leader: Building Inclusive Learning Environments in Higher Education by Edna Chun and Alvin Evans
What Makes Racial Diversity Work in Higher Education by Frank W. Hale and William E. Kirwin
Diversity & Environment/Outdoors
NYBG Humanities Institute Colloquia and Symposia on a range of topics from Black, queer, and Indigneous botany to accessing for people with disabilities.
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney
The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World by Alison Hawthorne Deming and Lauret E. Savoy (editors)
Diversity and the Future of the US Environmental Movement by Emily Enderle (editor)
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection by Dorceta Taylor
“This is what adventure looks like” by James Edward Mills (Outside Magazine, online here)
Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility by Dorceta Taylor
The May/June 2021 Issue of Wildlife Professional is entirely focused on diversity in the field. It includes articles on how to create a more inclusive workplace and the relationship between human diversity and Aldo Leopold’s conservation ethic. Learn more here: https://wildlife.org/tag/the-wildlife-professional/
Local Environmental Justice Resources
- Environmental Justice at Duke, Durham and Beyond – tons of resources!
- NC EJ Network
- Haw River Watershed Mapping Environmental Justice site.
- The Duke Human Rights Center has lots of programming on environmental justice, including an ongoing series on Indigenous Human Rights. Contact Emily Stewart (emily.stewart@duke.edu) for information for upcoming events.
- The Duke University Environmental Justice Network is spearheaded by graduate students Brandon Hunter, Katy Hansen, Walker Grimshaw, Wen Wang, and Elsa Haag. To date, this has been largely graduate students, but they are considering opening to the entire Duke community.
- A team of undergrads previously created links to EJ resources
Local Racial Equity Resources
we are (working to extend anti-racist education)
The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity
Office for Institutional Equity
Duke Teaching for Equity Fellows Program
