Over the summer, we will transition the name of our work group from Cultural and Linguistic Diversity to Social and Environmental (In)Justice.  We’ll still be focused on CLD issues in education, but we’re expanding to explicitly include environmental issues in education.  We see this as a way to further expand partnerships on campus and in our community.  We also see a connection in skill sets for influencing change, advocacy, building systems of resilience, etc.

In the spirit of this name change, I recommend reading “Don’t Worry about that Collapsing Ice Shelf – Just Book Your Beach Week in Arizona,” which quotes an Oregon State University study about the Antarctic ice shelf.  This Grist article is very tongue-in-cheek, but the science demands our attention and does imply future environmentally-driven immigration and land-/water-rights issues that certainly have social justice ramifications.