This glossary contains terms used throughout this toolkit. For additional definitions used by OpenTEAM, please visit the OpenTEAM Glossary
Using own positionality to address historical and current harms, it is an active and consistent practice of using power and privilege to achieve equity, collaboration, and justice while holding ourselves accountable
practices that learn from and mimic strategies found in nature to seek sustainable solutions human design challenges
the many and varied benefits that humans freely gain from the natural environment and from properly-functioning ecosystems such as air and water quality, habitat, esthetics and recreation.
proportional representation (by race, class, gender, etc.) in opportunities. Equity refers to the fact that different people have varying needs of support and assistance and strives to achieve fairness in treatment and outcomes.
everyday engagement to ensure equity is upheld in our systems; constant and incremental shifts that address historical and current perpetuation of harm
layers of discrimination; analytical framework for understanding how aspects of a person’s social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege. (The term was conceptualized and coined by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw in 1989).
methodology that requires individuals to identify their own degrees of privilege through factors of race, class, educational attainment, income, ability, gender, and citizenship among others for the purpose of analyzing and acting from one’s social position “in an unjust world”
a system of farming principles and practices that increases biodiversity, enriches soils, improves watersheds, and enhances ecosystem services. It includes local and indigenous knowledge and the culture and community related to the land
the recognition and honoring that Nature has rights. It is the recognition that our ecosystems – including trees, oceans, animals, mountains – have rights just as human beings have rights. It is the holistic recognition that all life, all ecosystems on our planet are deeply intertwined
racism which is embedded in a society or organization. Policy, law, and norms perpetuate racial inequity
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