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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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!
By Shalanda H. Baker, Resilience.org
We must view the battle for the design of the new, clean energy system through the same lens we use to view broader struggles for economic and civil rights.