CLEAR: Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research
The Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) is an Indigenous-led feminist and anticolonial laboratory conducting research on social and natural sciences related to environmental justice, especially plastic pollution.
CLEAR. (2021). CLEAR Lab Book: A living manual of our values, guidelines, and protocols, V.03. St. John’s, NL: Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Available at: < https://civiclaboratory.nl/clear-lab-book/> [Version 3.0/Summer 2021]
CLEAR: Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research. (n.d.). Available here: < https://civiclaboratory.nl>
Community consultations and meetings
Participatory research
Reciprocal learning
Data collection and analysis
Policy analysis and recommendations on natural and social sciences
The Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) is an Indigenous-led feminist and anticolonial laboratory conducting research on social and natural sciences related to environmental justice, especially plastic pollution. Their work ranges from in-situ research and laboratorial analysis to the production and dissemination of knowledge on anti-oppressive, feminist, and decolonial science studies.
CLEAR Lab has developed an extensive set of documents (lab book, research guidelines, guide on lab values, and more) on how they conceptualize and practice ethical and anti-oppressive actions in academic settings. In their CLEAR Lab Book, they highlight how they do research with humility, accountability, equity, and in good land relations.
Through the research based and educational materials (academic publications, guides, manuals, protocols, videos, datasets) and direct engagement with environmental issues through natural science lab work, CLEAR Lab promotes ethical research (though land-based and Indigenous values), capacity building, and community engagement on environmental topics, especially with regards to plastic pollution.
Documentation produced in community consultations and meetings
Reports on human and environmental health
Academic publications on pollution, environmental health, environmental justice, and related fields
The results of the research projects are arranged in detailed reports, manuals, and guides on how to choose ethical values for a research lab, how to run a feminist anti-oppressive lab meeting, citational politics, guidelines for research with Indigenous groups, community peer-review, collective consent, and open science manuals on how to build hardware and wetware for plastic pollution monitoring. The CLEAR Lab also provides open access licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License to their datasets on plastic pollution and related topics.
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Science and Technology Studies
Environmental Sciences
Education Studies
Discard Studies
Pollution Studies