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ENVS 435: Transformative Change in Building Sustainable Communities (Rev. C5 / C6) Report a Broken Link

ENVS 435 focuses on community-based approaches to environmental change through community development and its praxis.

Unit 1

Smith, M. K. (2013) What is community? The encyclopedia of pedagogy and informal education. https://infed.org/mobi/community
Brock, A. (2017). Going Home. In Change here now: Permaculture solutions for personal and community transformation (pp. 47–49). North Atlantic Books.
Sachs, W. (2020). The age of development: An obituary. New Internationalist, 523(Jan/Feb), 64–71.
Bhattacharyya, J. (2004). Theorizing community development. Journal of the Community Development Society, 34(2), 5–34.
Zdenek, R. O., & Walsh, D. (2017) Understanding the community development ecosystem. In Navigating Community Development: Harnessing comparative advantages to create strategic partnerships (pp. 53–73). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47701-9_4
Case Study: The History of Environmental Studies 435
Critical Community Development: The Origins of Environmental Studies 435. An Interview with Dr. Noel Keough and Dr. Mike Gismondi.

Unit 2

Cammarota, J. [Bridget Sampson]. (2012, September 15). Critical pedagogy learning from Freire’s pedagogy of the oppressed [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRiL7YSzMjg
Magro, K. M. (2001). Perspectives and theories of adult learning. In D. H. Poonwassie & A. Poonwassie (Eds.), Fundamentals of adult education: Issues and practices for lifelong learning (pp. 76–97). Thompson Educational Publishing.
Lucio-Villegas, E. (2015). Claiming adult education. In Adult education in communities: Approaches from a participatory perspective (pp. 1–24). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-043-7_1
Blackburn, J. (2000). Understanding Paulo Freire: Reflections on the origins, concepts, and possible pitfalls of his educational approach. Community Development Journal, 35(1), 3–15.
Case Study: The Métis Nation of Alberta’s Solar Project
Métis Crossing. (2022, August 2). Solar generation project to be established at Métis Crossing. https://metiscrossing.com/5-things-to-do-in-smoky-lake-2

Unit 3

Introduction and Ice Breakers
Leduc, A. (2022, January 15). Hosting Accessible Events: Building Accessible and Inclusive Virtual and In-Person Events [Slideshow]. FOLD Academy. https://thefoldcanada.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/HostingAccessibleEvents_Slides.pdf
York University [cass yorku]. (2019, January 2). Understanding the land acknowledgement [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNZi301-p8k
etfjohn. (2009, February 26). The magnificent icebreaker [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKG15BiYkUw
Community Development Resources
Smith, A., & Frank, F. (1999). The community development facilitator’s guide: A tool to support The Community Development Handbook. Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada (MP33-13/1-1999E). https://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.686539/publication.html
Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition (OHCC). (n.d.). Ten steps to community development. In Community development strategies [online course]. OHCC. Retrieved February 15, 2018, from https://web.archive.org/web/20180215124131/http://www.ohcc-ccso.ca/en/courses/community-development-for-health-promoters/module-two-process-strategies-and-roles/ten-steps
Community Tool Box. (n.d.). Toolkits. Center for Community Health and Development, University of Kansas. Retrieved April 19, 2023, from https://ctb.ku.edu/en/toolkits
Shelterforce. https://shelterforce.org
FoodShare Workshop Tools
FoodShare. (n.d). Guidelines for democratic participation. In Consultation & Engagement Activities: Workshop Outlines. www.foodshare.net
FoodShare. (n.d). Introduction. In Consultation & Engagement Activities: Workshop Outlines. www.foodshare.net
FoodShare. (n.d). Brainstorming. In Consultation & Engagement Activities: Workshop Outlines. www.foodshare.net
FoodShare. (n.d). Square wheels. In Consultation & Engagement Activities: Tools for Change. www.foodshare.net
Case Study: Dialogue Among Citizens on Edmonton’s Energy and Climate Challenges
Alberta Climate Dialogue [- abcd]. (2015, August 13). Reflecting on the Citizens' Panel on Edmonton's Energy and Climate Challenges [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWRJW6cCROE
Sorsa, L. (n.d.). Citizen's Panel on Edmonton's Energy and Climate Challenges [Infographic]. Alberta Climate Dialogue (ABCD). https://www.albertaclimatedialogue.ca/cl1cpeecc
Sorsa, L. (2015, October). Key events in the Edmonton Citizen's Panel [Infographic]. Alberta Climate Dialogue Annual Workshop. https://www.albertaclimatedialogue.ca/cl12key-events-in-edmonton

Unit 4

Collective Impact Forum. (2021, May 26). The role of narrative change in collective action [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBzfCJeDiHw
Lejano, R. P., Nero, S. J., & Chua, M. (2020). Introduction. In R. P. Lejano, & S. J. Nero (Eds.), The power of narrative: Climate skepticism and the deconstruction of science (pp. 1–16). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197542101.003.0001
TEDx Talks. (2015, July 14). Building resilient communities: A moral responsibility | Nick Tilsen | TEDxRapidCity [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Re-KrQNa4
Kretzmann, J. P. & McKnight, J. L. (1993). Introduction. In J. P. Kretzmann & J. L. McKnight (Eds.), Building communities from the inside out: A path toward finding and mobilizing a community’s assets (pp. 1–11). Institute for Policy Research. https://resources.depaul.edu/abcd-institute/publications/Documents/GreenBookIntro%202018.pdf
Cunningham, G., & Mathie, A. (2002, February 21). Asset-based community development—an overview [Conference paper]. Asset Based Community Development Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand. https://www.academia.edu/727922/Asset_based_community_development_An_overview?auto=citations&from=cover_page
Case Study: A Story About the Midnight Sun Mosque
Rahman, N. (2010, December 14). Journey of the Midnight Sun Mosque [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifgsY4wWl9c

Unit 5

Verso Books. (2017, March 15). Neoliberalism, climate change, migration: George Monbiot in conversation with Verso [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7MFJ4EFezQ
Action Chronicles. (2011, July 12). Encuentro: A popular education encounter [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FJg9_a3Ryo
Smith, M. K. (2019). Popular Education. infed. https://infed.org/mobi/popular-education
Chawa, A. F., & Grace, M. (2019). Demystifying power in community development practice. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, 15(1), 153–181. https://doi.org/10.21315/ijaps2019.15.1.6
Case Study: Flint Water Crisis
NRDCflix. (2017, November 13). Fighting for safe water in Flint [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsz_oDrDie8

Unit 6

Doha Debates. (2019, July 25). Globalization | Full debate | Doha Debates [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoMN0TCqsQM

Watch or listen to the first 38 minutes
Introduction to Sociology. (2016, April 6). Globalization and neoliberalism [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwGgLfu5aGs
Healy, H. (2021). The disappearing Senegalese sardines. New Internationalist, 533(Sept.–Oct.), 15–22.
10 Steps to end world hunger. (2021). New Internationalist, 533(Sept.–Oct.), 23.
Where does all the food go? (2021). New Internationalist, 533(Sept.–Oct.), 24–25.
Patel, R. (2021). No more green revolutions. New Internationalist, 533(Sept.–Oct.), 26–27.
Healy, H. (2021). “This land is beautiful to us” & What is agroecology? New Internationalist, 533(Sept.–Oct.), 28–31.
Hall. A. (2021). “Food is love” & A word from Ocean View’s farmers. New Internationalist, 533(Sept.–Oct.), 32–35.
Mooney, P. & Dowson, N. (2021). Digital dinners. New Internationalist, 533(Sept.–Oct.), 36–38.
Democracy Now! (2021, September 23). Raj Patel: Climate, conflict and capitalism drive global hunger. COVID Made It WorseFood [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlsuIAA_VOs
Case Study: Eco-Agriculture in Cuba
jeremy williams. (2012, June 3). The growing revolution ~ Reclaiming control of the food we eat [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIYGygPvccg
Ellwood, W. (2021, September 6). Cuba’s crossroads. New Internationalist 533(Sept.–Oct.), 58–60. https://newint.org/features/2021/08/09/feature-cuba-crossroads

Unit 7

Turner, N. (2020, September 24). Braiding ways of knowing [Interview]. Reconciling Ways of Knowing. https://www.waysofknowingforum.ca/dialogue3
Watts, V. (2013). Indigenous place-thought and agency amongst humans and non-humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!). Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 2(1), 20–34.
Salmón, E. (2000). Kincentric ecology: Indigenous perceptions of the human nature relationship. Ecological Applications, 10(5),1327–1332. doi:10.2307/2641288
Oumarou Ibrahim, H. (2019). Indigenous knowledge meets science to take on climate change [Video]. TEDWomen. https://www.ted.com/talks/hindou_oumarou_ibrahim_indigenous_knowledge_meets_science_to_take_on_climate_change?language=en
Hill, D. (2008, September 1). Listening to stones: Learning in Leroy Little Bear’s laboratory: Dialogue in the world outside. Alberta Views. https://albertaviews.ca/listening-to-stones
Case Study: The Mackenzie Gas Project
Global Energy Monitor Wiki. (2021, August 28). Mackenzie Gas Pipeline Project. https://www.gem.wiki/Mackenzie_Gas_Pipeline_Project
Nature Canada. (2010, December 6). Time to say NO to the Mackenzie Gas Project. https://naturecanada.ca/news/archived/time-to-say-no-to-the-mackenzie-gas-project
Hydrocarbons Technology. (n.d.). Mackenzie Gas Project. https://www.hydrocarbons-technology.com/projects/mackenziegasproject
Strong, W. (2017, December 28). Mackenzie Valley pipeline project officially one for the history books. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/mackenzie-valley-gas-project-no-more-1.4465997

Unit 8

The Institute of Art and Ideas. (2021, November 18). Kimberlé Crenshaw on intersectionality / The big idea [Video]. YouTube. 
Adichie, C. N. (2009). The danger of a single story [Video]. TEDGlobal. https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story
Anantharaman, M. (2018). Critical sustainable consumption: A research agenda. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 8(4), 553–561. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-018-0487-4
Baker, E., Goldstein, A. P., & Azevedo, I. M. L. (2021). A perspective on equity implications of net zero energy systems. Energy and Climate Change, 2, 100047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egycc.2021.100047
Case Study: The Bisasar Road Landfill
Gumede, P. R., & Savage, M. J. (2017). Respiratory health effects associated with indoor particulate matter (PM2.5) in children residing near a landfill site in Durban, South Africa. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health 10(7), 853–860. https://doi.org /10.1007/s11869-017-0475-y

Unit 9

Grist. (2016, January 26). Environmental justice, explained [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREtXUij6_c
Katz-Rosene, R., & Andrée, P. (Hosts). (2021, March 22). Episode 2.8: Environmental justice and the Anthropocene [Podcast]. The Ecopolitics Podcast. https://www.ecopoliticspodcast.ca/episode-2-8-environmental-justice-and-the-anthropocene
Pellow, D. N. (2018). Critical environmental justice studies. In What is critical environmental justice? (pp. 1–33). Polity.
Engle, J., Agyeman, J., & Chung-Tiam-Fook, T. (2022). Imagine shaping cities as if people, land, and nature were sacred. In J. Engle, J. Agyeman, & T. Chung-Tiam-Fook (Eds.), Sacred civics: Building seven generation cities (pp. 3–19). Routledge.

Scroll to or select Chapter 1
Lazard, O. (2022). The blind spots of the green energy transition [Video]. TED Countdown New York Session. https://www.ted.com/talks/olivia_lazard_the_blind_spots_of_the_green_energy_transition/transcript?language=en

Assignments

Learning Activity 2: Course Learning Assessment Rubric
Course Learning Assessment Rubric
Course Learning Assessment Rubric (alternate format)
Learning Activity 3: Exploring Your Worldview
Moon, T. R. (2011). Implicit Association Test. Project Implicit, Harvard University. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/user/demo.canada/ca.static/takeatest.html
MSW@USC Blog. (2020, November 5). Diversity toolkit: A guide to discussing identity, power and privilege. Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California. https://msw.usc.edu/mswusc-blog/diversity-workshop-guide-to-discussing-identity-power-and-privilege
Defining values: An interview with Dr. Cressida Heyes

Learning Activity 4: Positionality Map
Jacobson, D., & Mustafa, N. (2019). Social identity map: A reflexivity tool for practicing explicit positionality in critical qualitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 18. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406919870075
UCLA Library. (2021, March 16). “Positionality & Research: How our Identities Shape Inquiry” [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTHFud7fr8c
Learning Activities 5–8: Critical Dialogue Workshops
 Kelm, J. [Appreciative Living with Jackie Kelm]. (2011, October 4). What Is Appreciative Inquiry? [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwGNZ63hj5k
Bushe, G. R. (2013). The appreciative inquiry model. In E. H. Kessler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of management theory (Vol. 1, pp. 41–44). Sage.
Meslin, D. (2010). The antidote to apathy [Video]. TEDx. https://www.ted.com/talks/dave_meslin_the_antidote_to_apathy
Chung-Tiam-Fook, T. (2022, February 14). Two Row and Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenants. In Civic-Indigenous placekeeping and partnership building toolkit (pp. 42–46). Future Cities Canada. https://futurecitiescanada.ca/portal/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/fcc-civic-indigenous-tool3-teaching-twodishonespoon.pdf
Stall-Paquet, C. (2022, July 15). Why American fossil fuel companies and environmentalists are ganging up on Hydro-Québec. The Narwhal. https://thenarwhal.ca/hydro-quebec-us-transmission-line
Fionda, F. (2022, August 4). Eight years after the Mount Polley disaster, soaring prices mean Imperial Metals is gearing up to reopen … again. The Narwhal. https://thenarwhal.ca/mount-polley-mine-reopens
Gamage, M. (2022, August 4). A BC ship breaking firm lands in court. The Tyee. https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/08/04/BC-Shipbreaking-Firm-Lands-Court
Bullough, O. (2022, August 4). Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/04/sewage-sleuths-river-pollution-slow-dirty-death-of-welsh-and-english-rivers
Jones, L. (2022, January 12). The Indigenous grandmothers who stopped a pipeline. Maclean’s. https://www.macleans.ca/society/environment/the-indigenous-grandmothers-who-stopped-a-pipeline
McVeigh, K., & Thymann, K. (2022, August 10). ‘We borrow our lands from our children’: Sami say they are paying for Sweden going green. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/10/indigenous-sami-reindeer-herders-sweden-green-transition
Women for Change. (2009). Introduction to popular education methodologies: A Women for Change education module. Women for Change & 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World. http://videa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/WFC-PEM.pdf
Women for Change. (2009). "Development Tree." Introduction to popular education methodologies: A Women for Change education module. Women for Change & 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World, p. 11. http://videa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/WFC-PEM.pdf
The Story of Stuff Project. (2013, October 1). The Story of Solutions [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpkRvc-sOKk
Sawin, E. (2015, August). FLOWER. Climate Interactive. https://www.climateinteractive.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/FLOWER-Packet.pdf
Learning Activities 10–12: Self-Reflection Learning Journals
Self-Reflection Journal Templates
Course Learning Outcomes Map
Course Learning Outcomes Map (alternate format)