Climate Education and Policy with Elissa Teles Muñoz
Updated: 4 days ago
Hello and welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project. We have made it to episode 7! In this episode, the 2023 CAP interns Ethan Liu and Iradatu Sulayman join us to interview Elissa Teles Muñoz, a Coordinator at the Climate Resilience & Education Task Force (CRETF). CRETF is dedicated to increasing access to interdisciplinary climate education and professional learning opportunities in New York's K-12 schools. In this episode, we cover the importance of a strong climate education, current climate education policies in the United States, and what a comprehensive and accessible climate education entails for youth. We discuss the shared experience of being underwhelmed by our K-12 climate education and lay out frameworks for moving forward.
You can find more information on the people featured in this podcast episode on their LinkedIn pages, or contact them by the emails provided:
Elissa Teles Muñoz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elissa-teles-munoz
Ethan Liu:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-liu-2b569a236/
Iradatu Sulayman:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/iradatu-sulayman-15a22419a/
Other resources mentioned in the episode:
CRETF website: https://www.cretf.org/
A new green learning agenda: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-new-green-learning-agenda-approaches-to-quality-education-for-climate-action/
NYC scoping plan: https://climate.ny.gov/resources/scoping-plan/
NYC sustainability reports: https://www.nyc.gov/site/sustainability/about/reports-publications.page, https://climate.cityofnewyork.us/initiatives/planyc-getting-sustainability-done/
Climate change education act: https://climate-literacy.org/federal-policy/the-climate-change-education-act/
Books: Teach for Climate Justice by Tom Roderick, All About Love by bell hook