ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Climate and environmental justice are intricately connected and necessary for an equitable, just, and sustainable future.
Climate touches everything. These resources will help you understand how climate touches your profession and your role for climate action.
“We had no power in creating the systems that are destroying our world and futures — and yet we are and will be paying the biggest price for the older generations’ recklessness.” -Jamie Margolin, Zero Hour
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Access to Nature Articles
Access to nature and outdoor recreation critical, under-appreciated EJ issues (Inside Climate News, 2020)
Energy Articles
Black households spend almost 50% more on utilities than white households (Grist, 2020)
Solar power benefits aren’t reaching communities of color (Grist, 2019)
Environmental Justice Articles
Can FEMA save the "poorest town in America" from drowning in its own poop (Grist, 2021)
There’s a clear fix to helping Black communities fight pollution (Vox, 2021)
Hunger strikers seeking environmental justice win air pollution delay (Scientific American, 2021)
Chicago hunger strike against recycling plant grows (Guardian, 2021)
The Legacy of EJ Titan (Grist, 2021)
America’s dirty divide: How environmental racism leaves the vulnerable behind (Guardian, 2021)‘
Dispatches from a CA prison amid climate and coronavirus crises (The Intercept, 2020)
Pioneer of EJ explains why he sees reason for optimism (Inside Climate News, 2020)
Across America, 5 communities in search of environmental justice (Inside Climate News, 2020) Mustafa Santiago Ali describes the path forward for environmental justice (Mother Jones, 2020)
Cancer alley rises up (Earthjustice, 2020)
The case of climate reparations (Mother Jones, 2020)
Gender Articles
These women environmental leaders are fighting for their communities (EarthJustice, 2021)
Tackling gender inequality is ‘crucial’ for climate adaptation (Carbon Brief, 2020)
6 experts on the dawning of a feminist climate renaissance (Grist, 2020)
Geoengineering’s gender problem could put the planet at risk (Grist, 2019)
Heat Articles
Dangerous heat, unequal consequences (The Center for Public Integrity, 2021)
Indigenous Articles
Indigenous people by far the best guardians of the forests - UN Report (Guardian, 2021)
Deb Haaland makes history as first Indigenous cabinet secretary (Grist, 2021)
One tribe’s fight to protect the Great Lakes (Earthjustice, 2021)
‘Piecing together a broken heart’: Native Americans rebuild territories they lost (Guardian, 2021)
‘It’s cultural genocide’: Inside the fight to stop a pipeline on tribal lands (Guardian, 2021)
A decade of fending off fossil fuels (Associated Press, 2021)
"Our survival utterly depends on living in nature, not apart from it,’ Indigenous rights advocates say (The Globe and Mail, 2021)
This land is our land (Mother Jones, 2021)
Indigenous song keepers reveal traditional ecological knowledge in music (The Conversation, 2020)
Just Transition Articles
Strengthening communities, shifting power in pursuit of a just transition (Yes! Solutions Journalism, 2021)
Justice in the time of COVID and climate crises (Earthjustice, 2021)
Principles of climate justice (Mary Robinson Foundation)
Racism and Climate Articles
UN says environmental racism in Louisiana’s cancer alley must end (Grist, 2021)
John Muir: The godfather of Seattle’s spiritual life, and a racist (Crosscut, 2020)
As protests rage over George Floyd’s death, climate activists embrace racial justice (Inside Climate News, 2020)
What does the fossil fuel industry have to do with police brutality? (Grist, 2020)
Racism dictates who gets dumped on: how environmental injustice divides the world (Guardian, 2019)
Climate Change Isn’t the First Existential Threat (Zora, 2019)
Wealth Articles
How closing tax havens can fund climate policy (Vox, 2021)
Which countries are responsible for all that ocean plastic? (Grist, 2020)
Social change leader on philanthropy (Grist, 2020)
Climate chaos is displacing the world’s poor communities (Grist, 2019)
Study: Climate change makes rich countries richer and poor countries poorer (Grist, 2019)
Books
Braiding Sweetgrass (2019)
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind (2019)
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection (2016)
Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility (2014)
Podcasts
Climate Colonialism & Reparations Podcasts
OLÚFÉMI O. TÁÍWÒ on climate colonialism and reparations (For the Wild 2021)
Kyle Whyte on the colonial genesis of climate change (For the Wild 2020)
Energy Podcasts
Dirty energy: polluting and providing (Climate One)
Oppressive heat (Climate One)
Climate equity (Climate One)
Environmental Justice Podcasts
On training activists on environmental justice (Climate Pod, 2020)
On the past, present, and future of environmental justice (Climate Pod, 2020)
How the Biden administration should fight environmental racism (Climate Pod, 2020)
Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali - Environmental justice during COVID-19 (Climate Pod, 2020)
Dr. Robert Bullard -- Father of environmental justice (Climate One, 2019)
Supporting community-based organizations for environmental justice (Green Dreamer)
Full Podcast Series
Hot Take (adult language)
Gender Podcasts
A feminist climate climate renaissance (Climate One, 2020)
Climate solution: empowering women (Climate One, 2020)
Environmental disruptors: Global Water Girls (People Place Planet Podcast, 2019)
Empowering women to chill out the planet (Warm Regards, 2019)
Hidden clash between environmentalism and feminism (Warm Regards, 2018)
Learning environmentalism through the lens of Black feminism (Green Dreamer)
Indigenous Podcasts
The Red Deal (Democracy Now, 2021)
What our ancestors saw in the stars (Raíces Verdes, 2021)
Indigenizing environmental science and mutual aid (Raíces Verdes, 2021)
Tribes, Indigenous People and the False Urgency of Climate Adaptation (America Adapts, 2019)
Indigenous perspectives on just transitions (Climate Conversations, 2018)
Preserving cultural and language diversity to protect biodiversity (Green Dreamer)
Equity, Equality, and a Just Transition Podcasts
The Moral Case for Climate Reparations + Climate Justice (America Adapts, 2020)
What is a just transition? (Climate One, 2020)
Climate action failure, equality, and the climate crisis (Shaping the Future, 2020)
Climate change as a civil rights issue (Climate One, 2017)
Human health and social equity in a hot world (Climate One)
Climate disasters and inequality (Climate Conversations)
Justice, equity, and climate change (Climate Conversations)
Pollution Podcasts
Protests, pollution, pandemic and solutions (Political Climate, 2020)
How is pollution connected to race and inequality? (Terrestrial, 2017)
Privilege and White Supremacy Podcasts
The role privilege and accessibility play in sustainability (Green Dreamer)
Ecofascism and dismantling white supremacy in environmentalism (Green Dreamer)
Racial Justice Podcasts
Radical Black ecology (Raíces Verdes, 2020)
Black environmentalism and settler colonial education (Raíces Verdes, 2020)
Latinx, Muslim, and sustainable (Raíces Verdes, 2020)
On fighting climate and racial injustice in Minneapolis (Climate Pod, 2020)
On fighting racial injustice in the climate movement (Climate Pod, 2020)
Real talk: racism and climate (Climate One, 2020)
Racially just Adaptation (America Adapts, 2020)
Black Lives Matter and the climate (How to Save a Planet, 2020)
BLM, climate justice, and carbon removal (Reversing Climate Change)
Videos
How fracking is taking its toll on indigenous people (Guardian 2021)
Katherine Morris - How to collaborate for environmental justice (Tedx, 2020)
David Lammy - Climate Justice Can't Happen Without Racial Justice (Ted, 2020)
Jill MacIntyre - Climate Justice Now! How? (Ted, 2019)
Our national parks belong to everyone. So why are they so white? (Grist, 2018)
Dr. Atyia Martin - Racism and climate change are about you (TedX, 2017)
What do racism and poverty have to with pollution and climate change? (Grist, 2016)
Environmental Justice, Explained (Grist, 2016)
Rusty Gillette - Fight for humanity (Ted, 2016)
Communities of color for climate justice (Communities of Color for Climate Justice, 2015)
Nixiwaka Yawanawa -- We are all connected with nature (TedX, 2014)
Robin Wall Kimmerer -- Questions for a resilient future (Center for Humans and Nature, 2014)
Peggy Shepard - Environmental Justice (Ted, 2012)
Video Collections
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians: Tribal Climate Change Videos