KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
We deliver accessible climate education to drive justice-centered action.
Our mission is to transform climate curiosity into a catalyst for environmental justice through education and engagement.
WHY?
At the urging of climate-vulnerable nations, the 2015 Paris Agreement set the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. The global scientific community agrees that climate change is caused by human activity and the 1.5°C threshold was established to "significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change" (Paris Agreement).
Since the signing of the landmark Paris Agreement, the global response to climate change has been woefully inadequate leading to the predicted increases in disasters and unrest we are experiencing today.
Injustice is built into the climate crisis with exploitation of people and the planet going hand in hand. The richest among us continue to produce the most emissions while the impacts of those emissions harm low-income communities and communities of color the most. Those who have contributed the least to the problem bear the brunt of the impact and have the fewest resources to fight its effects.
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What do we need to do to change our current trajectory, distribute wealth and resources more equitably, and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals? We believe that if each of us understands the gravity of these interconnected problems and the abundance of available solutions, we can leverage our individual strengths to collectively advance justice-centered climate solutions across all sectors and levels of society.
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CLIMATE EDUCATION
LAND AND LABOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We acknowledge the violent systemic injustices upon which our settlement came into being.
We extend our respect to the past, present, and future Luiseno, Cahuilla, Cupeno, Kumeyaay, and Northern Diegueño people who have lived on and cared for this land since time immemorial. We honor their continued legacy of stewardship and reciprocal balance with the land and we uphold their knowledge that we are part of, not separate from, the natural world.
We acknowledge that our nation was built by the enslavement of Black and Indigenous people, families, and communities. We also recognize the many workers from China, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Philippines, as well as countless women and children whose forced or underfunded labor continues today.
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It is our shared responsibility to face these Truths and to actively dismantle their ongoing impacts.