Barred from the Climate Conversation
By Serag Heiba, Green European Journal
Without equal representation from the Global South, where these effects will be most severely felt, there is no hope that just solutions will be found and met.
Tag: environmental racism
Building a culture of health in the era of climate change
By Samantha Hamilton, Environmental Health News
Live Well Springfield offers an innovative model of the future direction of multi-sector climate justice coalitions. Indeed, the Coalition will share its work with other public health professionals at the 2022 National Network for Public Health Institute Conference.
Our struggles are your struggles: stories of Indigenous resistance and regeneration
By Robert Raymond, Shareable
Standing Rock was a pivotal moment in regards to Indigenous resistance — but it was just one in a long line of battles that Indigenous peoples have been fighting against the twin forces of colonialism and capitalism since first contact.
Thirst for Justice: Film
By Leana Hosea, Bullfrog Films
Thirst for Justice Focuses on three battles for clean water—on the Navajo Reservation, in Flint MI, and at Standing Rock—united in the belief that Water Is Life.
The case for climate reparations is now irrefutable
By Daniel Willis, Open Democracy
As reparationist Esther Stanford-Xosei argues, reparations are not simply a matter of financial compensation, but must include bigger, more radical changes that help us build “new economic systems that don’t produce and reproduce inequality”.
Testing Justice: New Ways to Address Environmental Inequalities
By Michelle Montgomery, Paulette Blanchard, Solutions Journal
Indigenous Knowledges (IK) are embedded in relationships to specific lands, cultures and communities. The misconceptions of IK often represent a static pan-Indigenous framework without acknowledging the interconnected responsibility of place-based knowledge.
From Trashing Black Lives to Treasuring Each Other: A Journey From Incineration Toward Zero Waste
By Hasan Alquaid, Alessia Myles, Transition US
One way we can all help the people of Chester and all around the world is to promote and support the zero-waste resolution.
Army Corps Orders Environmental Review of Proposed Formosa Plastics Plant in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
By Sharon Kelly, DeSmog Blog
The Formosa Sunshine Project in St. James Parish, Louisiana, will undergo a full formal environmental review, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced in a memorandum issued today and posted on Twitter.
Green space in cities can bring considerable health benefits for communities, but access is unequal
By Ambika Chawla, Ensia
Compared to affluent white communities, lower-income communities and communities of color are missing out on the advantages urban greenery provides. What does it take to level the playing field?
New York City considers a bold idea to keep people from being pushed out of homes
By Abigail Savitch-Lew, The Appeal
Now the question, in New York and elsewhere, is whether this growing call for community-controlled development can overcome the still widespread belief that the private sector does things best.
Drought, Disease and Isolation: The Urgent Situation of the Wayuu in La Guajira, Colombia
By Daniel Henryk Rasolt, Weave News
Why is it that the peoples that hold the least responsibility for the problems inflicted upon our living planet, are the ones who always seem to suffer the most?
Review: Shalanda H. Baker, Revolutionary Power: An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transition
By Jane K. Brundage, Resilience.org
Shalanda Baker’s Revolutionary Power: An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transition (Island Press, January 2021) presents readers with quite a ride!