Exploring Power, Privilege & Tools For Change Course Offering
This 2½-day, in-person immersion retreat engages environmental leaders with a thirst for bringing their change work to the next level.
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Center for Diversity & the Environment
We believe the environmental movement must evolve as a field to better care for the planet, people and all beings. It will require a system-wide shift in how we approach environmentalism, our relationships with each other, and our place within the natural world. Our work focuses on growing a strong and diverse network of leaders to envision, instigate and guide this transformation.
Upcoming Courses & Events
Decoding Whiteness Course Opening
Decoding Whiteness provides a critical opportunity for people to deepen their understanding of equity, diversity, inclusion, healing, justice, and liberation…
Building the Foundation Course Opening
Building the Foundation is the first step in a dynamic and rewarding journey. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or just starting…
Our Approach
Inspiring transformation rooted in love
We work from the inside out, engaging people’s minds, hearts and hands. Our minds bring us to new awareness and analysis; our hearts drive our motivation to engage in this work; and our hands lead us to action.
What We Do
For Individuals
We offer transformational leadership opportunities for individuals who wish to become effective change agents in their organizations and communities.
For Organizations
We support organizations along the change continuum, from the establishment of a solid foundation to customized programs that help them navigate this nuanced work.
Movement Building
We support coalition building, network coordination and community engagement to bridge the historical divide between the highly funded, white dominant environmental movement and Indigenous, Black and People of Color who have been excluded from decision-making tables, and whose cultural values have been silenced in mainstream dialogue.
Who We Are
Our growing community
Since our beginning in 2008, we’ve supported organizations and individuals to build their ability to shift power within the environmental movement. We believe everyone has a role in this evolution. We work with people of all backgrounds and identities, while centering the leadership of communities most impacted by environmental racism. We were founded and continue to be led by Indigenous, Black and People of Color.
Newsletters
Winter Solstice’s Deep Breath
Greetings! How do you sow clover? That’s a question posed decades ago in a different time of confusion and violence,…
How Much Time Will This Take?
Reflections from the Field In trainings and talks about equity, diversity, inclusion, healing justice and liberation, I’m often asked: “How…
Reflections during Winter Solstice
If you’re a reader of CDE newsletters, chances are you know I have a deep relationship with rivers. My love…
“Decolonizing is removing and breaking down long-established systems that maintain the power of the smaller group of people who have come in and taken power, and allowing for self-determination of the Indigenous communities.” —Manuel Oliva, CDE course participant, “In Their Own Words”