Place, Community and Campus
This fruit lead to Bon Appetit’s lead to their Farm to Fork program?
What is a tomato
This term refers to the process of challenging and dismantling the legacies of colonialism, including its environmental impacts, and acknowledging Indigenous perspectives in the context of climate change.
What is decolonization?
This term describes the social, political, and environmental movements that aim to return land to Indigenous peoples, challenging the colonial structures that took it away.
What is Land Back?
In the United States these communities tend to bear the disproportionate burdens of environmental costs and injury.
What are low-income and minority/communities of color
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frontline communitiesWhat is 2015
The prairie section of the St. Olaf Natural Lands an example of: conservation, restoration, or preservation?
What is restoration
A material marker that indicates the start of a new geological epoch in Earth's history.
What is a "Golden Spike"?
This phrase, used by Indigenous climate activists, highlights how the climate crisis is not just an environmental issue but a human rights and colonial justice issue as well.
What is climate justice?
This author discusses the "uneven racial geographies" of the Anthropocene.
Who is Laura Pulido
This podcaster and writer has also written for the television shows Reservation Dogs and Resident Alien
Who is Tommy Pico
As part of the Farm to Fork program, this is the number of a miles that at least 20% of Bon App’s chef’s budget is to be spent on food coming from small, owner-operated farms and artisans.
What is 150
This term used to describe human-driven global trends that began after World War II. These trends include population growth, energy use, greenhouse gas release, technological advancement, and cultural interconnection.
The Great Acceleration
In the 1980 U.S. Supreme Court decision, the government offered the Lakota Nation $105 million in compensation for the seizure of the Black Hills, which the Lakota refused.
What is United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians (1980)?
The EPA's interactive tool to examine environmental justice issues is called:
What is EJ Screen?
A literary movement that highlights connections between environment and human activities
What is ecopoetics or ecopoetry
In 2020’s Fossil Fuel Divestment campaign, this percentage of the College’s Endowment was invested in fossil fuels.
What is 12%
According the International Commission on Stratigraphy this is the current geologic era we are currently in.
The Holocene
Mount Rushmore, often viewed as a symbol of American pride, has been critiqued by some scholars and activists as a symbol of this, due to its connection to the displacement and oppression of Native peoples and its association with U.S. presidents who upheld policies of racial segregation and imperialism.
What is White Supremacy?
This is the number of treaties with Native Americans that the United States Government has followed
What is none
This author cautions the language used to describe biological processes such as fertilization
Who is Emily Martin
750 million
The authors Zoe Todd and Heather Davis suggest the date of 1610 as a "golden spike" for the Anthropocene. 1610 is also referred to as:
The "Columbian Exchange"
This event in 1876, in which Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho forces defeated the U.S. Army under General George Custer, is often seen as a major victory for Native American resistance.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
The Israeli government forbids Palestinians from foraging these two foods
what are za'atar and akkoub
This term or notion by scientist George Lakoff is what he says helps us make sense or understand the world around us.
What is framing