News & Events
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EVENTS
August 26: Baylor Community Garden Resurrection!
10am - 12pm at the Baylor Community Garden
Did you know Baylor has a community garden? This year, classes, student groups, and volunteers are reviving the garden as a center of learning, growing, and community nourishment—including Waco’s new SCRAP Collective. Volunteer to come to the garden on August 26 and help us get ready!
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September 6: Environmental Humanities R&R (Relate & Regenerate)
2pm at the Creekmore Conference Room (2nd floor of Jones Library)
All Environmental Humanities faculty and contributors are invited! Come share coffee and tea while relating and regenerating ideas for teaching, collaboration, and investigation.
September 12: Saving Truth and Beauty - The Destruction of Nature and the Islamic Solution
4pm at the Great Hall, Truett Seminary
with Rhamis Kent (Permaculture Expert and Scholar in Residence, Zaytuna College)
Cosponsored by Philosophy, the Theology, Ecology, and Food Justice Program (Truett), and the Environmental Humanities Minor
September 18-19: Green Communities Conference
Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend Waco’s Green Communities Conference, which brings together local and regional leaders pursuing sustainability and environmental justice.
September 20: Workshop - Compost to Care for the Earth & Your Neighbor!
3pm at the Baylor Community Garden
For all Baylor students, faculty, and staff interested in learning why composting is good for the earth and our neighbors, and how to practice it at home or by supporting SCRAP, a community partnership fighting the climate crisis and promoting food justice. Participants will receive a free composting bucket. Limited to 20.
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October 4: Hearing the Cry of the Earth and the Cry for the Poor
Join us for events linking care of the earth to social justice. Fittingly, this is the feast day of the patron saint of ecology and servant of the poor, St. Francis of Assisi.
- 3pm at Hankamer Treasure Room, Armstrong Browning Library - Panel Discussion with Local Practitioners and Baylor Professors
- 4:30pm at the Baylor Community Garden - Open House for Programs of Study and Groups Promoting Care of the Earth and Environmental Justice in Waco
November 17: Environmental Humanities R&R (Relate & Regenerate)
2pm at the Creekmore Conference Room (2nd floor of Jones Library)
All Environmental Humanities faculty and contributors are invited! Come share coffee and tea while relating and regenerating ideas for teaching, collaboration, and investigation.
NEWS
Environmental Humanities Professor and SCRAP Receive Grant!
Dr. Joshua King (English) and Dr. Stephanie Boddie (Social Work, Education, Truett) are part of SCRAP (Sustainable Community and Regenerative Agriculture Project), a collective that has received a $300,000 grant from the Cooper Foundation and the Funders Network, which each contributed $150,000. This grant will allow SCRAP to address the climate crisis and food justice in Waco in collaboration with the new Environmental Humanities minor. Read the full press release here.
Environmental Humanities and SCRAP in the Wacoan Magazine
The SCRAP Collective and Environmental Humanities Minor have been featured in a recent article in the Wacoan magazine. Click here to read more!
Talk on Food Justice and Black Churches
In Sept. 2022, EH faculty partnered with several departments and Truett's Theology, Ecology, and Food Justice program to sponsor a talk by Rev. Dr. Heber Brown, Executive Director of the Black Church Food Security Network. A large crowd from across the campus and the wider region attended. Click here to see a recording of Rev. Dr. Heber's dynamic presentation.