People of Color Sustainability Campaign

Project Basics

Project Sponsor: Berkeley Student Cooperative (BSC)

Awarded: $5,950

Grant Awarded: Spring 2018

Project Status: Complete

Project Description 

The People of Color sustainability campaign aims to facilitate sustainable and environmental justice education for POCTH residents and Berkeley Student Cooperative students of color. Targeted outreach will be led by a paid resident from POCTH who will facilitate conversations, coordinate workshops and conduct outreach. The campaign will host a series of eight workshops in Fall and Spring, four per semester, devoted to topics of: indigenous food systems and sovereignty, zero-waste and compost, urban agriculture, and decapitalizing your health. Activists, students and community leaders of color from campus and the greater bay community who are in environmental justice and sustainable movement, will be invited to facilitate a workshop and be compensated.

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