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Simply, we've had too much knowledge to keep to ourselves — and our communities have waited long enough. The climate space is a vessel — a window of opportunity for our communities to leapfrog the systemic barriers that were never supposed to be moved. In this space, the rules are still being written.

We got tired of waiting for a seat at the table in rooms that lacked culture, representation, and creativity — so we built our own. And we intend to create more spaces where we set the tables and hold the pens. These courses exist because the knowledge, jobs, and opportunities have always belonged to us. We're just bringing them home.

The Environment Is Us — We Free Trees Foundation
Climate & Clean Energy 101 — Course
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The Environment Is Us

Building our relationship with the environment.

We move through five stops on this journey — from rooting ourselves in history, to understanding climate change, and finally to seeing the real opportunities in front of us.

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Session 1
What We'll Cover
01
The Environment Is Us
Before we can step into the opportunities that exist in the climate and clean energy space, we must first see ourselves in this space — and remember that we have always been here. This is a homecoming journey. We ground ourselves in our ancestral and cultural relationship with the environment, especially through the lens of people of color. We will explore the historical mechanisms — such as capitalism, colonization, and systemic displacement — that severed communities of color from the land and from each other, and that have catalyzed the environmental justice movement as we know it today. Understanding that history is not just context. It is the foundation for everything that follows.
Roots & History
02
Climate Change: The Basics
A quick, plain-language overview of what climate change is, what causes it, and how it impacts us and our communities through an environmental justice lens. No jargon — just a shared foundation so we're all grounded in the same understanding.
Knowledge
03
Clean Energy 101
What clean energy is, why it matters, the key mechanisms driving it — from policy and technology to market forces — and how it connects directly to our communities, our jobs, and our future.
Clean Energy
04
How the Climate Economy Works
The fundamental building blocks that create economies — charting how innovation drives workforce, which drives community, across all industries.
Innovation
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Workforce
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Community
Economy
05
Opportunities for Our Communities
We explore climate-critical clean energy sectors and the current trends driving policy — then ground it in real jobs and ownership opportunities through global and state case studies, with special focus on Massachusetts. This is where understanding becomes action.
Opportunity
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