the 4Rs of Climate at AmeriCorps

How are federal service corps programs working to address the climate crisis? This paper provides an overview of the ways that climate-related work is being undertaken in our nation’s service and presents a framework that classifies how service corps programs are doing climate work. I integrate data collected from open-ended semi-structured interviews about the climate-related service being coordinated by AmeriCorps to map out the various ways that the agency is connecting individuals and organizations to support communities as they tackle the climate crisis.