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RT @Shareable: ✨New: Check out the latest @CitiesAtTufts podcast episode, "Reimagining Urban Planning" with Jose Richard Aviles from @oandb….

An ethnographic analysis from Oslo, Norway, adds to research on neighbourhood social sustainability/residential preferences. The concepts of cultural security/insecurity may pose a challenge to policymakers’ visions for socially sustainable development.

Older people, esp. those with disabilities, face mobility exclusion due to physical barriers around public transit. This has been further intensified as existing mobility accessibility initiatives have not involved vulnerable groups such as older people.

RT @Shareable: Next week: @CitiesAtTufts will host Ginette Wessel for "Mobilizing Food Vending.". Join us on Wednesday, November 13 at noon….

Food insecurity is a leading measure of well-being in the US, and SNAP is key to alleviating it. Many food insecure households are ineligible/do not participate in SNAP (570,00 in MA alone). If SNAP were a UBI, food insecurity would be reduced by up to 98%

RT @Shareable: 🎧A new @CitiesAtTufts episode is here!. Listen, watch, or read "Urban Environmental Marronage: Connecting Black Ecologies" w….

Good to see the excellent work of "The Rural Racism Project: Towards an Inclusive Countryside" in the UK. 35 years ago, we raised these questions questions through the Black Environment Network.@NeilChakraborti @LeverhulmeTrust @uniofleicester @RuralRacism

RT @Shareable: Join @CitiesAtTufts this Wednesday, October 30, at noon ET for "Reimagining Urban Planning" with Jose Richard Aviles!. The e….

Kudos @TuftsUEP @TuftsNutrition dual degree alumna Allie Wainer for co-authoring this report which investigates the connection between the food system and the climate crisis and offers strategies for FPCs to integrate climate change into their work.

It’s easy for land acknowledgments to become another form of optical allyship. They can lack a call to action and next steps and are just empty words. This guide helps you move beyond written land acknowledgment into action.

The word ‘hurricane’ comes from Huracán, a Taino/Mayan word denoting the god of wind. The colonial powers, having learned from them, changed how Caribbean people interacted with the land, where they lived and how they recovered from natural hazard events.

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RT @Shareable: Join us & @TuftsUEP this Wednesday, October 23 at noon ET for the next @CitiesAtTufts lecture with Charisma Acey on "Urban E….

“Perhaps most importantly, neoliberalism has proved inadequate to deal with emergent developments like climate change, changes in gender and race relations, and a workplace transformed by the very technologies it catalysed.”

Annabel Rabiyah's family are from Iraq. Managing engagement for Trustees of Reservations community gardens she said heritage plants at markets have moved neighbors to tears on seeing crops they thought had been lost. “It’s like seeing a long-lost relative”

41-quarter courses meet the climate change goal: “The Astronomy of Climate Change”, “Gender and Climate Justice”, “Indigenous Approaches to Climate Change” and “Environmentalism in Arts and Media”. Many of the classes overlap with courses that focus on DEI

In the past decade, there were more dedicated lectureships created, and broader curriculum development in black history, culture, politics and philosophy in higher education. In the US, the discipline of black history and arts is more established.

RT @Shareable: The first episode of the fifth @CitiesAtTufts podcast season is here!. 🎧 Check out "Urban Mobility for Human Autonomy" with….