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TERC’s Statistics for Action Helps Adults Use Math for Meaningful Environmental Change

Have you ever heard the term “Environmental Organizer”? It is a new and exciting job category that describes a person who helps communities dealing with serious environmental issues. More than twenty of them from the Toxics Action Center (TAC), Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE), and the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) met at TERC in September to test new materials for Statistics for Action—an NSF-funded project aimed at improving quantitative literacy among environmental action groups. This unique project helps environmental organizers and the citizens they serve understand and communicate with data and statistics related to local environmental issues.