A free online workshop from the Beyond Climate Collaborative (BCC) and the Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI) uses global maps to help you understand how climate change, migration, and environmental injustice connect — and how mapping can help imagine fairer futures.
The workshop walks participants through a series of global maps showing how climate change, supply chains, extraction, and inequality overlap. You will look at who bears the heaviest burden of displacement and environmental harm, and why. Researchers from OBI and BCC guide interactive exercises on topics like carbon responsibility, migration corridors, and debt relationships between countries. The session also explores how mapping itself can be a creative tool — a way to picture more just global relationships.
Use what you learn here to sharpen how you talk about climate change with neighbors, coworkers, or local leaders. The maps and frameworks from the workshop can help you move past general climate conversation into specific questions: Who is most at risk? Why? What systems created that risk? If you work in education, advocacy, or community organizing in Houston or beyond, the mapping approach is something you can adapt for local storytelling about environmental justice.
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Houston sits on the front lines of climate risk — from hurricane flooding to industrial air pollution in communities like Manchester and Galena Park. The patterns this workshop maps globally show up locally too. Environmental justice groups across the city are already asking the same questions about who bears the burden of a warming world.
Climate change does not affect everyone equally. Wealth, risk, and displacement are spread unevenly across the world. This workshop helps you see those patterns clearly — and think about how things could be different.
