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This community-based learning course is in partnership with Baltimore Green Justice Workers Cooperative and the African School of Storytelling in Arusha, Tanzania. In centering African perspectives on human-environment interaction, students are challenged to reimagine how we can live, work and play in beautiful places. Through partnerships with Baltimore farmers and environmental justice advocates and Tanzanian filmmakers and research artists, students come together with local and global communities to advance solutions to conserve the natural beauty all around us. Through a focus on water, food, and education, students will be able to connect the increasing climate challenges to everyday public health impacts on communities. Indigenous communities across Africa have grappled with changing climatic environments for centuries and have built adaptive cultural strategies to sustain the health of their communities. Students will explore the affective and sensorial dimensions of planetary health through topics including: water conservation, food as medicine, and land rights.