[This summer, my older son is extending his prior efforts to help combat climate change by interning with the amazing Climate Just Cities project. That project is part of the long legacy of American environmental activism, so this week I’ve highlighted a handful of such activisms. Leading up to this special weekend post on Climate Just Cities!]
On a few
links (beyond the interview hyperlinked above) that help frame the many layers
of this vital 21st century initiative.
Professor Joan Fitzgerald:
As that interview also reflects, the Project was started by Joan Fitzgerald, a Professor of
Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University (and the
supervisor for my son’s internship). That first hyperlink leads to her profile
with the Scholars Strategy Network and its Boston Chapter (of which I’m a
co-leader), a page that captures much of her writing and activism and also
itself illustrates her commitment to truly public scholarship, research, and
service. That’s all at the core of the Project as well.
Greenprint
for a Climate Just City: That 2021 working paper embodies a great deal of
what the Project is working for and toward, and many of the practical and
tangible initiatives through which it and all of us can achieve those goals.
Greenovation:
Urban Leadership on Climate Change (2022): Like most of us trying to do
public scholarly work, Fitzgerald is doing so through a wide variety of forms
and media, including this recent Oxford University Press book which includes
not only her own research and analysis and arguments, but also “interviews with
practitioners and elected officials” among other resources.
The
Boston Climate Progress Report: While of course these issues and challenges
face every American and every global community, it’s not a coincidence that the
Project is located in Boston, a city that both faces
climate crisis with particular urgency and that features many individuals
and communities (including the
new Mayor) at the forefront of the efforts to confront that crisis. I’m
very excited for my son to become more and more connected to those local and
regional as well as scholarly and global efforts this summer!
Next
series stars Monday,
Ben
PS. What
do you think? American environmental voices or efforts you’d highlight?
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