"This document serves as internal guidelines rather than a legal standard to be used by the public to determine CDOT's compliance with Title VI or Environmental Justice."--P. 4.

Colorado State University (CSU) and CDPHE engaged the community throughout the development of Colorado EnviroScreen version 1 ("v1") to ensure that the tool is as useful and impactful for the community as possible. This report summarizes the engagement process and outcomes and identifies how community input shaped v1. Between August 2021 and April 2022, more than 100 individuals participated in interviews, focus groups, online questionnaires, and...

"Zazu dreams is a fable for adults, written as a children's narrative. A tale of environmental justice, a Sephardic boy and his imaginary Malamute husky traverse the globe on a humpback whale. Their adventures unfold as they witness contrary human ecologies--experiencing symbiotic and contentious relationships between humans and the environment. Crossing temporal dimensions and international borders, past, present, and future overlap through phantasmagorical...

"Interrogating the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples, this book argues that a different framework must apply compared to other marginalized communities, while it also attends to the colonial history and structure of the U.S. and ways Indigenous peoples continue to resist, and ways the mainstream environmental movement has been an impediment to effective organizing and allyship"--

"Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. Drawing on decades of work that has helped expand our understanding of what it means to be human and what we all need to do to help build a better world, The Book of Hope touches on vital questions, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate...

Fierce consciousness is a way of perceiving and behaving that is both firmly grounded in the reality of our circumstances and able to meet it with wild, bold creativity and curiosity. When grief and anxiety beat us down, the struggle to cope can feel like it’s crushing us even more. To meet these challenges we need to develop habits of fierce consciousness. Trebbe Johnson gives us 34 practices for not only surviving tough challenges to our personal...

"Catherine Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly...

In the wake of the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, Indigenous People are using their newfound platform to shed light on the wide array of injustices committed against them to embark upon the process of decolonization.

"The dawn of the twenty-first century has witnessed two remarkable developments in our history: the appearance of systemic problems that are genuinely global in scope, and the growth of a worldwide movement that is determined to heal the wounds of the earth with the force of passion, dedication, and collective intelligence and wisdom. Across the planet groups ranging from ad hoc neighborhood associations to well-funded international organizations...