Many young people today experience a sense of helplessness and despair when learning about climate change, given the enormity of the crisis. But UCSC Education professor Emily Reigh and Regeneración Pajaro Valley Special Project Manager Eloy Ortiz are developing alternatives. Working with teachers and youth in Pajaro Valley and beyond, they are developing climate justice curriculum and pedagogy that links global climate change with local climate actions and successful advocacy efforts, helping students more easily envision transformation action. In this episode of the cutting edge, they discuss these efforts to date and plans for future efforts. Key resources referenced in this episode include a powerful photovoice project developed by Regeneración, a documentary film on the Pajaro levee breaches called Too Little Too late, and a dynamic 2019 Bioneers keynote talk by Isha Clarke, from Youth Vs. Apocalypse.
