Through connections with companies, we are committed to supporting the adoption of best practices with regards to corporate environmental, social and governance practices. The Environmental Collaboratory is partner to a robust network of community-based organizations, governmental and non-governmental organizations, research networks and more. Facilitation of follow-on policy or funding based on communication campaigns with partners.Documentation of barriers, best practices and areas of follow-on research or implementation.Capacity and network building for community-based organizations.Community-driven, deeply researched on-the-ground projects.Through an inaugural research grant, seven funded projects led by Drexel faculty members incorporate strong multidisciplinary and multi-college engagements with external partners, as well as community-centered approaches to solving environmental problems.Ī forthcoming initiative, Experiential Research Projects - so called because they will both center the lived experience of community members and incorporate experiential learning for our students - will be co-designed and co-implemented with community partners to conduct deep analyses of environmental justice solutions and barriers to a just climate transition. Critically, the projects will link environmental issues to systemic equity issues such as housing, transportation and broader infrastructure.
The Environmental Collaboratory funds projects that demonstrate strong multidisciplinary and multi-college engagements with external partners, as well as community-centered approaches to solving environmental problems.
The Environmental Collaboratory seeks to co-fund, co-design, and co-implement replicable, transdisciplinary on-the-ground solutions with community partners that drive systemic change and align climate transition and environmental justice with the needs of our communities. The Environmental Collaboratory is centrally positioned in the Office of the Provost of Drexel University to facilitate the expertise in environmental sciences, engineering, data, law, health care, public health, policy, social sciences, and humanities and the capabilities of its faculty, researchers, staff and students. The consequences are escalating and intensifying, while the most vulnerable among us are bearing the brunt. Over the last half-century alone, our species’ unsustainable way of life has initiated a sixth extinction, advanced widespread environmental degradation, and changed the climate of the entire planet. The world is facing environmental catastrophe, and time is running out.
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