Equity is climate justice

Equity is love, sometimes suffering love, but not blaming the students who we are loving on but aren’t doing their work

Equity is the right to good, nutritious, carbon sequestering, local food

Equity is bringing everything to bear--on the ground, in the air--on making the educational experience dignifying and relevant to the life giving forces of nature

Equity is access to the science and engineering, to the communications and history, to the design and financing, access for all of our students to they can go change our Wall Streets, Fortune 500s, Infrastructure and Narratives to save the planet 

Equity can’t abide departmental turf wars, complexes, passive aggressive behavior, small egos or big fears all playing out in the foreground while nature and students fall into the gap

Equity is a struggle, a political act: even our climate scientists are saying the most important battles for the planet are on the streets

Equity is our new grad school, our pedagogy--we know how to teach our subject, provide our service, let’s say, but we don’t know how to close the gap and face this existential crisis, together

Equity is all the students elsewhere on campus that we haven’t yet engaged: only students can solve the white supremacist legacy of our institutions that have destroyed cultures and nature alike

Equity is fresh air and clean water; biodiversity and microbiomes

Equity is exposure, inspiration, role models

Equity is a just transition to net zero. Equity is not driving past environmental hazards in the flats on your way to eradicate invasive non-native species in the hills

Equity is not pity, it is rage and love, listening to how all things connect

Equity is often a battle waged on the streets, yet we are inside the force field of the institution, the office, the classroom, without even the help of mother earth