Anyone interested in learning more about environmental justice may want to consider taking this online course from Sierra Club. ~NjS
 
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TIPPING THE SCALES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
An Online University-Style Learning Experience
”Tipping the Scales for Environmental Justice” is for Sierra Club activists (or potential activists) who are concerned about the inter-related environmental and social justice issues that face many of America's communities. 
 
The mission of the course is to engage in dialogue, deepen our understanding of the issues facing many of our country’s poorest communities, and begin to learn how to take effective action.
 
APPLY NOW for October 7th to November 12th Session.  Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance in application.  Please note that there is a $30 cost for application, refundable upon course completion. Follow link above for payment instructions.
Course Technology Note:  This course is best-viewed using a high-speed (Cable-modem, DSL, or Network) connection to the internet.  Those with a dial-up connection may still participate, but may need to access alternate computers for some of the multimedia presentations.
During the course, you will interact with professional Sierra Club Environmental Justice activists, learning peers, and content in a variety of mediums.  You will gain compelling insight into the connections between environmental pollution, poverty, racism, and class inequity.  You will develop your understanding of the EJ issues in your own area, and the Sierra Club resources that can help address them.  
 
Together, we will explore the connections between environmental quality and social justice.  We’ll create a community of learners, in which all can contribute insight, share experience, and build a network of peers to carry us forward as we work toward environmental justice.  We will:

Review the Sierra Club's Principles of Environmental Justice, and apply them to local and national issues
Familiarize ourselves with the role of environmental justice in the Sierra Club's mission and activities 
Explore the relationship between race, class, and environmental injustice 
Analyze and describe the social justice dimensions of environmental issues for the communities that are impacted 
Analyze successful Sierra Club Environmental Justice initiatives to learn what led to success
Review Executive Order 12898 so that we understand and can describe its mandates
Please note that your participation will take at least two hours a week, and possibly four or more hours.  Be prepared to make that commitment, so that you and your classmates can obtain the full benefits.
 
Your course facilitators,
 
          Rita Harris                                Bill Price
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