Autumn Thoyre, a co-director of San Francisco State’s Climate HQ, which advocated for the university to incorporate climate change and climate justice themes into its existing sustainability requirement, said the update is a response to student demand as well as engagement with faculty. The hope is that it will appeal to prospective students, too.

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Although numerous other colleges and universities across the nation require climate change–focused coursework, SF State officials said in a news release that its focus on climate justice, or “the unequal impacts of climate change on marginalized and underserved populations,” is novel.

San Francisco State University will be the first major public university in the United States to require students to complete coursework on climate justice, not just climate change, officials announced Tuesday.

The Great Lakes water supply lured Jamie Beck Alexander and her family to Duluth. Alarmed by three consecutive, destructive wildfire seasons in California, Ms Alexander, her husband and two young children piled into a camper van and drove across the country to Minnesota in 2020.

San Francisco State University is swapping in an Environmental Sustainability and Climate Action graduation requirement to take the place of the existing Environmental Sustainability requirement. “We are responding to the understanding that all jobs in the future will be climate jobs in some way,

The 67-year-old mother of three adult daughters, who grew up in Terre Haute, serves as mayor of Corte Madera, California. That city of 9,947 residents sits just north of the Golde

WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires, a scientific study found.

I’ll be the first to acknowledge the counter arguments. There are areas where the Trump presidency is bound to slow things down. Companies will be less likely to invest in nascent sectors that rely on supportive government dollars or policy, meaning that technologies like hydrogen and biofuels may take a hit.

San Francisco officials expect to put a plan aimed at improving flood resilience along the shoreline before Congress next year, with pre-construction, engineering and design taking place over the ...

Starting this fall, every new student at San Francisco State University will be required to take a course on climate justice in order to graduate, the university announced Tuesday. The Environmental Sustainability and Climate Action (ESCA) graduation requirement makes SFSU the first major public university to require a course explicitly incorporating climate justice,