This post contains a few notes and resources about the status of environmental equity in Evanston. Understanding the map The 2022 Evanston Process for Local Assessment of Needs (EPLAN) helps set the baseline for understanding the legacy impact of discriminatory housing policies and practices on community well-being. The map below (Source: Evanston EPLAN) compares the … Continue reading Notes on Evanston environmental equity
Author: Jeff Merrell
Retired lecturer and administrator at Northwestern University's Master's Program in Learning & Organizational Change.
Finding (people) capacity for climate change
A couple of recent conversations about climate change and green energy efforts led to the topic of capacity. People capacity, not green energy capacity. People capacity to learn, and then to do. How might we build the capacity to learn and do things (differently) that move us forward to address climate change? The conversations were … Continue reading Finding (people) capacity for climate change
My three elements of community listening work
Early on in my community-listening learning journey this year, I wrote that I was interested in working with groups in three related areas: How a group listens to the community members it serves. How a group makes sense of what it is hearing from community members. How community members move from only sharing ideas and … Continue reading My three elements of community listening work
Notepad: Thinking through how to teach environmental equity
A opportunity may open up, to work on how how a collection of environmental groups consider environmental equity as integral to their practice. This post is some early thinking about how to address this opportunity. The context. The groups are part of a not-for-profit collective organized to advance climate-change initiatives in Evanston. Groups run their … Continue reading Notepad: Thinking through how to teach environmental equity
Monthly update (August): Be present and do stuff.
What gets lost in my weekly thinking-out-loud routine here is the through-line of activity generated by Environmental Justice Evanston (EJE), the group with which I became associated earlier this year. A lot is happening behind the scenes and I want to honor that work. For what it accomplishes in environmental justice, and for what it … Continue reading Monthly update (August): Be present and do stuff.
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