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Historical understanding of environmental and social change is vital to understanding current planetary challenges and imagining future possibilities and solutions. At a time of increased urbanization and focus on urban climate solutions, the New Haven Environmental History Project is addressing the need for an informed civil society cognizant of the deep roots of environmental challenges and inequalities, and the opportunities for place-based solutions. 

The New Haven Environmental History Project is developing educational resources to help New Haven students, teachers, and residents better understand the city as a dynamic urban ecological system evolving over hundreds of years of social, political, and cultural change. The project focuses on illuminating the component parts of the urban system, such as energy, water, transportation, and health and how they have developed over time. In addition to resource development, the project team is creating collaborative engagement between New Haven Public School instructors and Yale faculty. This initiative aims to serve as a replicable model of a university-city partnership for studying urban environmental history based on free, curated, and engaging historical primary sources and curricular materials.