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Release of Guide Centering Justice in Embodied Carbon Policies

Year Completed: 2024

A new guide and workbook for applying justice principles to materials resource management, new construction, and alternatives to demolition.

Embodying Justice in the Built Environment: Circularity In Practice explores justice principles and provides a framework for centering justice in embodied carbon policies and planning. Exploratory questions, designed as a workbook, guide the user through a process which centers meaningful community engagement in considering social, economic, and labor impacts and opportunities rooted in an understanding of the local historical context. 

Created by researchers in the Just Places Lab, Reparative Praxis Lab, and Circular Construction Lab at Cornell University in partnership with the Susan Christopherson Center for Community Planning and the Circularity, Reuse, and the Zero Waste Development (CR0WD) Network.

  • Press Release
  • Webinar Recording of an information session on the workbook, presented with a panel discussion by the project team, and featuring questions and insights from webinar participants.
https://carbonneutralcities.org/press_embodyingjustice/