Environmental Joy: Writing the Future
The deep dismantling underway in 2025 calls for an equally deep rebuilding—one that centers environmental justice, prioritizes historically marginalized communities, and ensures equitable access to clean air, water, land, and decision-making power. People yearn for and need a modernization of these crucial intersections, comprising new concepts and laws for an emerging era of integrated solutions.
That is why Yale Center for Environmental Justice is thrilled to invite you the to Environmental Joy 2025: Writing the Future .
By November 2025, the time will be ripe for a new phase. Almost a year into attacking domestic and global solidarity and mutualism while stripping down the foundations of justice and environmental protections, Environmental Joy will convene. It will convene in a form more akin to a congress than a conference to confront and overcome these challenges.
Environmental Joy 2025: Writing the Future
Environmental Joy’s goal is to launch “Writing the Future” – a rethinking of frameworks, processes, practices, cultures, and policies needed to remake and accelerate the transition to a just and sustainable world. Environmental Joy 2025 will be a starting point for that rebuilding.
Join us on October 31 - November 1.
The conference is held in person, with hybrid components also available. For the full conference description and more information, visit: Environmental Joy 2025 | Yale Center for Environmental Justice.
Conference features:
- Networking opportunities: Connect with environmental and climate justice leaders, innovators, and influencers across the world
- Keynote and plenary speakers: Hear from prominent EJ figures such as the co-leaders of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and more
- Interactive breakout sessions: Participate in three hands-on sessions to co-create roadmaps that will detail EJ pathways for the next 3-5 years
- Art & Joy Showcases: Build environmental joy with one another through participatory art engagements throughout the conference
- and more!
Who should attend?
Everybody is welcome to attend this conference, though typical attendees include:
- Environmental and climate justice communities and members
- Policy makers
- Academics and researchers
- Thought leaders in faith and culture
Registration
- $20 for virtual attendees
- $25 for students
- $50 for grassroots individuals
- $50 for Yale affiliates (faculty, staff, etc.)
- $150 for professionals
- $250 for grassroots organizations
- $500 for Sponsoring Individuals (Includes registration for yourself and funds scholarships for one other participants)
- $5000 for Sponsoring Organizations (Includes registration for your organization, conference branding, and funds scholarships for 10 participants)
- For donations greater than $5000, please contact bennett.olupo@aya.yale.edu or zoe.kanga@yale.edu
- Donations help cover travel, food, and accommodations for the roughly 60 grassroots activists receiving scholarships!
What is Environmental Joy?
The work of environmental justice communities around the world would not be possible without the element of joy. Joy is not the opposite of sorrow, nor a repudiation of tragedy or grief. It is a transformative, necessary force that holds communities together in the face of injustice and adversity. Joy is what injustice can take, and what can be regained when healing and repair occur.