The Community, Environment, and Justice Research Group (CEJRG) is a group of faculty, students, and community members with a common interest in creating a just and environmentally sustainable local and global community. Our mission is to engage with the intersections of environment, community and justice through research, action, and collaboration. With our research we seek to generate empirical and practical knowledge that informs community-based efforts to climate change mitigation and adaptation with an awareness of and value for environmental justice. We support local environmental organizations and programs in conducting evaluations, planning and implementing events, and with strategic planning and program development as well as grant writing. We participate in and facilitate regional, provincial, national, and international efforts of collaboration and networking in order to create pro-environmental transformative change at multiple levels.

Current Research Projects:

• Reducing vulnerability of the urban homeless to climate change
• Homelessness and environmental justice
• Evaluation of Reduce the Juice
• Critical consciousness raising among high school students
• Creating just and sustainable communities: Exploring synergies between environmental justice, community psychology, and urban planning
• Course Development: Environment, Psychology, and Action