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On April 24, people from across campus and Waco gathered for the second annual celebration of the Baylor Community Garden (BCG) as a nucleus for learning across disciplines, cultivating care for the living world through art and cultural events, and relieving hunger on campus and in the community.  Normally held at the BCG itself, rain moved the party inside this year, but the garden was refreshed and everyone enjoyed a wonderful evening reflecting on a year in which students, faculty, and community organizations have come together to seek flourishing for all.  

All Baylor instructors are invited to apply to the Community Change Teaching (CCT) Fellows Program funded by a Community Change Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Federal Award No. 02F7601). The CCT Fellows Program offers mini grants for two cohorts of Fellows (2025, 2026) to create student projects in partnership with local community organizations. Projects will advance and/or raise awareness about food security, sustainable agriculture, and/or climate resilience in disadvantaged Waco communities. 

With the support of Student Government, and in collaboration with Environmental Humanities and Creative Waco, the Baylor Community Garden invites student artists and organizations to contribute to an exciting mural painting project!

Director of Environmental Humanities Joshua King and Senior Director of Sustainability Gary Cocke offer five tips for embracing sustainability during the holidays to help us reconnect with simpler, more meaningful traditions.

Baylor has been awarded a nearly $1 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to drive community initiatives focused on food security, sustainable agriculture and climate resilience in underserved areas of Waco. Led by Stephanie Boddie, Ph.D., Joshua King, Ph.D., and Kevin Magill, Ph.D., the project will work with the Sustainable Community and Regenerative Agriculture Project (SCRAP) to implement composting, community gardening and waste reduction efforts to promote local and regenerative food systems. Baylor is one of several partners involved in the $17.9 million Community Change grant awarded to local non-profits, led by Mission Waco Mission World, and the City of Waco.

Several faculty in and supporting Environmental Humanities just spoke at the UN Habitat World Urban Forum 12 (Nov. 4-8) in Cairo, Egypt.  Dr. Stephanie Boddie (Social Work, Environmental Humanities faculty affiliate) and Dr. Joshua King (English, Environmental Humanities Director) shared about their work with the Sustainable Community and Regenerative Agriculture (SCRAP) Collective, and Dr. Paul Martens (Religion, Director of Baylor's Ethics Initiative and Interdisciplinary Programs) organized an interdisciplinary panel focused on interfaith human dignity.

Environmental Humanities, the Office of Sustainability, and the College of Arts and Sciences are uniting for Baylor's first celebration of Campus Sustainability Month. From community gardening to film screenings, we will celebrate environmental stewardship and inspire local action for global impact.  

Check out Environmental Humanities Director Dr. Joshua King's recent interview on KWBU.

This summer, Environmental Humanities faculty and students joined others on campus and from the community to keep veggies and creativity growing at the Baylor Community Garden.

This May, Joshua King (Director of Environmental Humanities) and Paul Martens (Director of Interdisciplinary Programs) led a weeklong Summer Ethics Seminar for fourteen Baylor faculty on connecting classes and student projects to local food and environmental justice.  

On April 25, 125 guests from across campus enjoyed a locally sourced dinner at the Baylor Community Garden to celebrate a year of interdisciplinary environmental education and nourishment of local food ecosystems.  The meal was prepared by Baylor chefs using ingredients sourced from the Baylor Community Garden (BCG) and local sustainable farms.

See this new article by Media and Public Relations on the Baylor Community Garden and the great work that Environmental Humanities students and faculty have done there in coordination with over 700 students, faculty, staff, and community supporters since August 2023.  

Check out this story on Earth Week in the Wacoan, which features the Environmental Humanities and one of our events on Earth Day.

Check out this story, originally published on the Waco Tribune-Herald website, about SCRAP (Sustainable Community Regenerative Agriculture Project), a city-wide initiative to which the Environmental Humanities is contributing.

Check out this Lariat article on the Environmental Humanities minor!

Check out what Drs. Josh King, Julie King, and Stephanie Boddie have to say to the A&S Magazine about the Environmental Humanities minor!!

The SCRAP Collective and Environmental Humanities Minor have been featured in a recent article in the Wacoan magazine.

Dr. Joshua King (English) and Dr. Stephanie Boddie (Social Work, Education, Truett) are part of SCRAP (Sustainable Community and Regenerative Agriculture Project), a collective that has received a $300,000 grant from the Cooper Foundation and the Funders Network, which each contributed $150,000. This grant will allow SCRAP to address the climate crisis and food justice in Waco in collaboration with the new Environmental Humanities minor. 

In Sept. 2022, EH faculty partnered with several departments and Truett's Theology, Ecology, and Food Justice program to sponsor a talk by Rev. Dr. Heber Brown, Executive Director of the Black Church Food Security Network. A large crowd from across the campus and the wider region attended.