Community climate resilience and environmental education: Opportunities and challenges for transformative learning

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Figure 1. Location of the analyzed community-led climate resilience initiatives in Barcelona.

Table 1. Description of the community-led climate resilience initiatives and corresponding educational actions.

Community-led climate resilience initiative	Community gardening of tree pits	E3: Energy empowerment at schools
Educational action	Gardening of tree pits in Carrer Girona, Eixample district	Pilot E3 project in Sant Martí and Sant Andreu districts
Leading grassroots organization	Espai Ambiental Cooperativa (a non-profit worker’s cooperative of 7 members with broad experience in community, socio-environmental projects)	El Risell (a non-profit worker’s cooperative of 8 members with strong expertise on housing and energy from a critical perspective and tightly linked to social and environmental issues)
Other organizations involved	Parks and Gardens municipal department (Urban Ecology Dept., Barcelona City Council)	Aiguasol and Tarpuna cooperatives; Barcelona More Sustainable Schools Network; Barcelona Education Consortium; Barcelona Energy Agency
Engaged actors	About 70 primary students and ten teachers from Sagrat Cor and Inmaculada Concepció schools (charter schools: privately owned schools with partial public funding); 7 shops from the Cor Eixample association (association of retailers and professionals); Dreta de l’Eixample neighborhood association; Sofia Barat Library	About 400 students and 16 teachers from Institut Doctor Puigvert, Barri Besòs, and Rambla Prim secondary schools (public schools); students’ parents and other neighbors
Duration	Two months each year (2018-2019)	Ten months (2017-2018)

Figure 2. Images of the analyzed community-led climate resilience initiatives. Source: (top) Espai Ambiental Cooperativa, (bottom) El Risell.