Center for Environmental Justice

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY

Need Technical Assistance for Your EJ or Energy Justice Project? Check back mid-August.

Coming soon: Mountains and Plains Thriving Communities Collaborative will become one of 18 EPA TCTACS

Events

Vist News and Events for a full list of events

Contact

 

To sign up for our newsletter or contact the CEJ, fill out the form to the right.

Email: cla_environmentaljustice@colostate.edu

Please enter your name.
Please enter a message.
Send
Give here!                                          Your support for Environmental Justice makes a difference.

Vision & Mission

Environmental justice is necessary for the full flourishing of human and non-human nature.
The urgency is real and needed.
Structural inequalities lead to environmental disruptions affecting our food, soil, water, climate, work, and production and consumption systems that harm the most vulnerable. At the same time, those with class, ethnoracial, gender, and other privileges have greater access to environmental goods, such as pollution-free neighborhoods, healthy food, safe workplaces, and green spaces.
This is the essence of injustice, and we need to create spaces to counter these outcomes and address their root causes in our institutions.
The moment is now to identify and develop solutions to the environmental injustices that permeate all aspects of society. 

CEJ's approach is one of “next-level readiness”. We emphasize strategies to address environmental inequalities that are informed by community knowledge, interdisciplinary collaboration, and our focus on social justice outcomes. Each of our teaching, research, and engagement initiatives aims to advance environmental justice (EJ) capacity so that CSU and the communities we serve are ready to:

  • Pursue impactful funding
  • Develop transformative solutions
  • Coordinate with partners and networks to build lasting trust
  • Conserve and protect the systems and biodiversity that sustains us

Environmental Justice

DistibutiveInjustice-Icon2
Assumes that every social practice is also environmental and every environmental practice is also social, and aims for environmental justice between humans and between humanity and nature, across space and time.
ProceduralJustice-Icon2
Centers the perspectives of historically marginalized cultures and communities about environmental justice; engages with a broad range of critical theoretical perspectives across disciplines; employs a wide variety of methods and techniques.
RecognitionJustice-Icon2
Recognizes that systemic power relations within and across space and time privilege some and marginalize and oppress others. At the same time, the Center affirms that we must work towards just transitions, based on the visions of those engaged in frontline struggles for environmental justice.
RestorativeJustice-Icon2
Nurtures a holistic and critical examination of environmental justice, such as the distribution of benefits and harms, the recognition of various cultures and voices, inclusive and democratic participation, and the restoration of social and ecological damages.