December 2022

Engineering Center

South Lobby

University of Colorado Boulder

Climate change disproportionately burdens the most vulnerable segments of our society, putting those with the fewest resources at greatest risk. Mass incarceration does the same, destabilizing families and communities, and derailing lives. You may be well aware of this – but have you considered the ways that these two phenomena are entangled? ​

This installation introduces visitors to the ways that incarceration and climate change intersect in the United States, with each amplifying the harms inflicted by the other. Scholars, activists, and the general public are only just beginning to contend with the urgent implications of these intersections and the feedback loops they create. ​

If you visit this exhibit, we ask you to keep these things in mind:

+ When we talk about incarcerated people, we are talking about people---human beings with lives, hopes, feelings, and dignity.

+ The U.S. criminal justice system is full of inequity, injustice, and systemic racism. People of color and people from impoverished backgrounds are much more likely to be incarcerated and be given harsher sentences than their white and/or wealthy peers. 

+ Mass incarceration touches us all, in ways you may not have considered. We all have a role to play in untangling this vicious cycle. 

This project is sponsored by: 

The Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change (C3BC),

the Center for Community Engaged Design and Research (CEDaR)

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and in collaboration with:

the Resilient Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RISE) Interdisciplinary Research Theme

and the Climate Incarceration Research Collective (CIRCol)

exhibit bibliography

Alexander, M. (2010). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press.

Bonds, A. (2019). “Race and Ethnicity I: Property, Race, and the Carceral State.” Progress in Human Geography 43 (3): 574-83.  

Cacho, L. M. (2012) Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected. New York University Press.

Camp, J. T. (2016). Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State. University of California Press.

Cassidy, K., Griffin, P., & Wray, F. (2020). Labour, carcerality and punishment: ‘Less-than-human’ labour landscapes. Progress in Human Geography, 44(6), 1081-1102.

Cowan, K. N., Peterson, M., LeMasters, K., & Brinkley-Rubinstein, L. (2022). Overlapping Crises: Climate Disaster Susceptibility and Incarceration. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(12), 7431.

Davis, A. Y. (2003). Are Prisons Obsolete? Seven Stories Press.

Foucault, M. (1975). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (A. Sheridan, Trans.). Random House, Inc.

Gilmore, R. W. (2022). Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation. Verso. 

Gilmore, R. W. (2007). Golden gulag: Prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizing California. University of California Press.

Glade, S., Niles, S., Roudbari, S., Pezzullo, P. C., Dashti, S., Liel, A. B., & Miller, S. L. (2022). Disaster resilience and sustainability of incarceration infrastructures: A review of the literature. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 80, 103190.

Golembeski, C. A., Dong, K., & Irfan, A. (2021). Carceral and Climate Crises and Health Inequities: A Call for Greater Transparency, Accountability, and Human Rights Protections. World Medical & Health Policy, 13(1), 69–96.

Gribble, E. C., & Pellow, D. N. (2022). Climate Change and Incarcerated Populations: Confronting Environmental and Climate Injustices Behind Bars. Fordham Urban Law Journal, 49(2).

Kaba, M. (2021). We Do This ‘til We Free Us: Abolitionist organizing and transforming justice. Haymarket Books.

Levenson, L. L. (2022). Climate Change and the Threat to U.S. Jails and Prisons. Villanova Environmental Law Journal, 33(2). 

Loyd, J. M., Mitchelson, M. L., & Burridge, A. (Eds.). (2012). Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis. University of Georgia Press.

McCauley, E., Eckstrand, K., Desta, B., Bouvier, B., Brockmann, B., & Brinkley-Rubinstein, L. (2018). Exploring Healthcare Experiences for Incarcerated Individuals Who Identify as Transgender in a Southern Jail. Transgender Health, 3(1), 34–41.

McGee, J. A., Greiner, P. T., & Appleton, C. (2021). Locked into Emissions: How Mass Incarceration Contributes to Climate Change. Social Currents, 8(4), 326–340.

Motanya, N. C., & Valera, P. (2016). Climate Change and Its Impact on the Incarcerated Population: A Descriptive Review. Social Work in Public Health, 31(5), 348–357.

National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. (2007). Abandoned and abused: Prisoners in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Race & Class, 49(1), 81–92.

Noonan, M. (2016). Mortality in State Prisons, 2001-2014—Statistical Tables (p. 22). U.S. Department of Justice: Bureau of Justice Statistics. 

Nowakowski, K. (2013). Landscapes of Toxic Exclusion: Inmate Labour and Electronics Recycling in the United States. In Moran, D., Gill, N., and Conlon, D. (Eds.) Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention. Ashgate.

Pellow, D. N. (2021). Struggles for Environmental Justice in US Prisons and Jails. Antipode, 53(1), 56–73.

Pellow, D. N., Austin, M. A., Le, M., McAlpine, S., & Roudebush, A. (2017). Exposing Deliberate Indifference: The Struggle for Social and Environmental Justice in America’s Prisons, Jails, and Concentration Camps. The Prison Environmental Justice Project. 

Pellow, D. N., Lake, F. R., Wilson, C. A., & Baker, E. J. (2020). Environmental Justice Struggles in Prisons and Jails Around the World: The 2020 Annual Report of the Prison Environmental Justice Project. The Prison Environmental Justice Project. 

Pellow, D. N., Vazin, J., Ashby, H., Austin, M. A., Kime, S., & Mcalpine, S. (2018). Environmental Injustice Behind Bars: Toxic Imprisonment in America. The Prison Environmental Justice Project. 

Pellow, D., Vazin, J., Johnson, K., & Austin, M. (2019). Capitalism in Practice: Free Market Influence on Environmental Injustice in America’s Prisons. The Prison Environmental Justice Project. 

Prins, S. J., & Story, B. (2020). Connecting the Dots Between Mass Incarceration, Health Inequity, and Climate Change. American Journal of Public Health, 110(51), 535–536.

Purdum, C., Henry, F., Rucker, S., Williams, D. A., Thomas, R., Dixon, B., & Jacobs, F. (2021). No Justice, No Resilience: Prison Abolition As Disaster Mitigation in an Era of Climate Change. Environmental Justice, 14(6), 418–425.

Purdum, J. C., & Meyer, M. A. (2020). Prisoner Labor Throughout the Life Cycle of Disasters. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 11(3), 296–319.

Savilonis, M. A. (2013). Prisons and disasters [Northeastern University].

Shabazz, R. (2015). Spatializing blackness: Architectures of confinement and black masculinity in Chicago. University of Illinois Press.

Skarha, J., Dominick, A., Spangler, K., Dosa, D., Rich, J. D., Savitz, D. A., & Zanobetti, A. (2022). Provision of Air Conditioning and Heat-Related Mortality in Texas Prisons. JAMA Network Open, 5(11), e2239849.

Skarha, J., Peterson, M., Rich, J. D., & Dosa, D. (2020). An Overlooked Crisis: Extreme Temperature Exposures in Incarceration Settings. American Journal of Public Health, 110(S1), S41–S42.

Story, B. (2019) Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America. University of Minnesota Press.

Veit, J. (2018). How Anthropogenic Climate Change Exacerbates Vulnerability in Prison Communities: A Critical Environmental Justice Analysis [Humboldt State University].

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WOMAN, LIFE, FREEDOM
supporting the Iranian women’s revolution
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
6-8 pm
Old Main Chapel
University of Colorado Boulder

Registration is free but required: 

Please join us for remarks from and discussion with local and state elected officials, campus leadership, and faculty as we identify actions to support the historic women’s movement unfolding in Iran. The Islamic Republic’s brutal suppression of protesters requires urgent action. This event is intended to identify ways that we can act to support this movement.
Guests are strongly encouraged to submit questions for our panelists in advance with the online registration form.

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DREAM PLAY BUILD

BOOK LAUNCH + LECTURE + MODEL BUILDING WORKSHOP

JAMES ROJAS
JOHN KAMPJOHN KAMP

Monday, September 26
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Environmental Design Building, Room 134Environmental 134
CU BoulderCU Boulder

James Rojas and John Kamp have been looking to art, creative expression and storytelling to shake up the classic community meeting.

Their approach, Place It!, draws on three methods: the interactive model-building workshop, the pop-up, and site exploration using our senses. Deceptively playful, this method is remarkably effective at teasing out community dreams and desires from hands-on activities.

Dream Play Build offers wisdom distilled from workshops held around the world and a deep dive into the transformational approach and results from the South Colton community in southern California.

Inspirational and fun, Dream Play Build celebrates the value of engaging with the dreams we have for our communities.

This event includes a lecture and a workshop as part of the celebration of Rojas and Kamp's new book, Dream, Play, Build (Island Press 2022). 

Hosted by Growing Up Boulder (GUB), The Program in Environmental Design (ENVD), and the Center for Community Engaged Design and Research (CEDaR).

reach us at CEDaRcenter@colorado.edu with questions and requests for accommodations 

https://calendar.colorado.edu/event/dream_play_build_lecture_workshop#.YyNyWnbMIYp

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The Adaptation Urbanism workshop, led by Andrés Duany, will explore principles of designing for climate change. Over the last few years, Duany and colleagues have been developing design responses to climate change building on New Urbanist tools and principles. In this workshop, Duany and others will unveil this new work and discuss how to apply these ideas to the Front Range. Join planners, architects and urban designers in this important discussion. 

Concepts used in the workshop include agrarian urbanism, climate comfort zones, co-housing, decanting, defensible space, equity, gift economy, light living, lean governance, local infrastructure, loose space, permaculture, pockets of resilient infrastructure, receiving regions and areas, relocation readiness, self-administration, self-sufficiency, sharing, slow city, slow food, slow money, subsidiarity, succession, third place, transect, urban farming and vernacular. 

Bio

Andrés Duany is a founder and principal partner at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, widely recognized as a leader of the New Urbanism, an international movement that seeks to end suburban sprawl and promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods.  As an architect, urban designer, planner and author, he has influenced planners and designers worldwide and produced plans for hundreds of new and renewed communities across the globe. 

Duany led the development of the plan and code for Seaside, Florida; the Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) zoning ordinance; the SmartCode, a form-based zoning code adopted by numerous municipalities seeking to encourage compact, mixed-use, walkable communities; the concept of the rural-to-urban transect; and inventive affordable housing designs, including Carpet Cottages and Cabanons. Locally, Duany also designed the popular Prospect development in Longmont, the state’s first new urbanist neighborhood. 

Who: Planners, designers, city officials, faculty, students and anyone interested.

What: Adaptation Urbanism Workshop with Andrés Duany

When: Saturday, Feb. 15, 9:30-6:30 p.m.

Where: CU Boulder, Environmental Design Building, 1060 18th St., ENVD 134, Boulder

Cost: New, reduced price $50, includes lunch! Space is limited and is on a first-come, first-serve basis. A limited number of scholarships are available for students, but must be requested in advance by first  and emailing the request to cedarcenter@colorado.edu.

Questions

Hosted by: Community Engagement, Design and Research Center (CEDaR) and the University of Colorado Boulder

He is the author of many essays and articles and co-author of several books including, "Suburban Nation: the Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream," "The SmartCode," "The Smart Growth Manual," Garden Cities: Agricultural Urbanism" and "The New Civic Art."
 

Tentative Schedule
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Presentation: Introduction and premises

10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Discussion: Recommendations and practice 
Adaptation concepts and patterns

12 - 1:30 p.m.
 Lunch (provided)

1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Presentation and discussion: Key concepts and patterns.

5 - 6:30 p.m.
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In 2019, Growing Up Boulder (GUB), Boulder’s child- and youth-friendly city initiative based out of the University of Colorado's Community Engagement, Design and Research (CEDaR) Center, created the United States’ first printed, child-friendly city map. GUB also created a digital version of the child-friendly city map, and under GUB’s supervision, a team of graduate students created a digital teen-friendly city map. These free, bilingual (the printed version) maps have reached more than 15,000 families, and they were co-created with local children and families. Learn how your community can create one of these maps as a tool for social justice, active living, empowerment and joy!

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Manufactured home communities face many challenges, and each community is different. From problems with basic infrastructure and water billing, to rent increases, unreasonable park rules, and unfair treatment - many areas of potential conflict between residents and park owners exist. Resident health and well-being can suffer. How can disputes be resolved? How can positive change be made?

Join us on Nov. 9, 2019 for lunch and a full afternoon of speakers, Q&A, brainstorming, and breakout groups as we explore past success and possibilities for future action. Learn, share, connect, and leave with motivation and resources to stay engaged.

Information and registration

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The Community Engagement, Design and Research Center (CEDaR) is a member of the planning committee for the fourth annual Colorado Pollinator Summit, “Protecting Colorado’s Biodiversity." The summit, which will be held at the Sustainability, Energy & Environment Center (SEEC) on the CU Boulder east campus, features plenary talks and panels on urban neighborhoods, landscaping for biodiversity, and holistic farming in Colorado. Kate Greenberg, Colorado commissioner of agriculture, will give opening remarks. The afternoon will include a participatory format and short inspiring talks to spur breakthrough thinking and action.

Friday, November 1, 2019 at 8 am-4:30 pm

—past summits have sold out in advance. Registration includes lunch and refreshments. Discount rates available for students.   

The event was planned by CEDaR, along with the Denver Botanic Gardens, the city of Boulder, the Butterfly Pavilion and other organizations.

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Many Coloradans - renters, immigrants, artists, students, seniors, mobile and manufactured homeowners, single-parent and working families, small business owners, and middle-class families - are financially stressed as a result of housing and urban costs. Coloradans are also concerned about quality of life - congestion, pollution, neighborhood character and shrinking green landscapes. 

Please join us Oct. 25 at the third annual Community Building Colorado-Style conference to explore creative solutions to the challenges of affordability, diversity and equity in rapidly-growing Colorado communities

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Visit Growing Up Boulder’s 10-year retrospective exhibit at Boulder Public Library during August and September (on the ramp between Seeds Cafe and the Canyon Gallery).

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