Stanford's EJWG continues to advocate for integrating EJ into the foundation of the new school focusing on sustainability and climate.

We've compiled a list of specific, recorded remarks (embedded videos cued appropriately) by new school leadership on integrating EJ at various events:
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 Dean Arun Majumdar, Fireside Chat at GSB Alumni Reunion, September 9, 2022

"Environmental justice is an international issue. I think we need to pay attention to this.

"This is an unbelievable global transition that we're going to face... The transition that we're going to have, we can't leave people behind. At the end of the day, this is about humanity. And I think it's going to be very important that we look at this globally. Stanford is a global platform.

"[Among] my senior associate deans and leadership, we have someone looking at international partnerships. We have someone looking at environmental justice... So this is something that we are trying to create the culture in the school to make sure that it is inclusive."

President Marc Tess-Lavigne, opening of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, September 30, 2022

"Ensuring the sustainability of our world requires transformative action. With the opening of this new School, we are taking action in a way that is true to Stanford's mission. And the School also points toward a new model for how research universities can contribute deeply to solving the world's problems."

​John Doerr, opening of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, September 30, 2022

"Climate change is the greatest single issue facing humanity. It is a cruel and wicked problem. Those who contributed the least to it will be hurt the most."

"... We have the chance to address long standing inequities to reinvent and strengthen our economy, to come together as a global community in ways that are unprecedented. Together, we just might save this amazing planet."

Dean Arun Majumdar in prepared remarks for the Dean's Lecture Series on Environmental Justice, December 6, 2022

"Real change cannot happen if we aren't actively and deliberately working for equitable access to environmental benefits and preventing the disproportionate effects of the environmental harm. 

"And so, environmental justice has to be one of the universal touchstones in which we measure our success. And that is going to be an integral element of the Stanford School of Sustainability.

"This lecture series is critical because it builds on the scholarly context of our efforts in environmental justice. We have already worked on it, but we need to do more.

"Dr. Pellow and our colleagues who are active in this field have built and are building the knowledgebase and the conceptual frameworks that can be leveraged across a range of disciplines to achieve environmental justice goals. Only through the scholarship do we enjoy the evaluation, assessment, measurement tools necessary to understand if you're really making progress. 

"We are seeking to do no less than reimagine academia. The immense challenges of climate change cannot be addressed with traditional academia. We need to reimagine and question some of those traditions to that, and we are rethinking how we teach, how we learn, how we research, then apply knowledge and make an impact. 

"What topics do we elevate in this process? Today's topic and this broader lecture series is so critical to this effort by elevating environmental justice. In all our work, we will make the progress that is critical to ensuring a livable planet for all."

Dean Arun Majumdar, prepared remarks for the Dean's Lecture Series on Environmental Justice, February 8, 2023

"I've always talked about climate change as a giga ton scale problem. Requiring gigaton scale solutions. It is also Giga people problem. There are 8 billion human beings on earth. And by the end of the century, they're likely to be 11 billion people. So while we solve the gigaton scale problem, we cannot leave anyone behind.

"Environmental Justice is a local issue, as we have heard. 
It is a national issue, as we also heard. 
It is also a global issue.

"It is also Giga species problem.We cannot leave any species behind.

"As we embark on this journey to transition or economy and all the things that we do that gives us the quality of life, we have to address these Giga problems simultaneously. That is the real challenge of sustainability.

"And so we have, of course, scholarship going on out here, but we need to do more, which is why we are launching a School level faculty search focused on environmental justice, and we hope to bring together other talents into our school."

Dean Arun Majumdar, Breaking the Wall to Holistic Sustainability, at the Falling Walls Science Summit, Summer 2022

"How do we reimagine academia? Do we throw away everything? No, there are some traditions which are good. But we also need to break down some walls...

"We have to change the way we teach. We cannot teach in silos. There are new departments we are creating, but this is highly interdisciplinary.

"We have Institutes, luckily, for the last 20 years, where we bring together faculty and students from different parts of campus because it transcends the whole campus. 

"We felt that this is necessary, but not enough. We have got to be a little more disruptive. We added something called the Accelerator, which is all impact. These are solutions impact at scale. Because if things don't scale, it doesn't matter."

"... We cannot do this alone. We need to partner, and that's the global network of partners that we are starting to create right now... We have to partner. We have to co-develop solutions. We can't throw solutions over the wall. We have to bring down the wall and co-develop solutions and then take it to scale."
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Prof. Rodolfo Dirzo, Senior Associate Dean for Environmental Justice, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Feb 8, 2023

“Let me also recognize the inspiring effort of a collective of people from the Stanford community who have created tremendous active and passionate environmental justice. I want to make special emphasis on the outstanding work of my friends and colleagues, Dr. Sibyl Diver and Dr. Emily Polk. Thank you so much. 
 
“They have catalyzed these efforts, and consolidated a vibrant group of students, faculty and staff committed to environmental justice. Thank you so much. 


“Although many members of the University at large, myself included, are deeply committed to and passionate about education, environmental education, environmental justice, many of us do not have a formal training in environmental justice per se. 


“Clearly, becoming better informed, inspired and involved in environmental justice work is a critical agenda in our aspirations for sustainability and for combating the social inequalities engendered by the social environmental issues of the Anthropocene.