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Environmental & Climate Justice

Communities of color are disproportionately impacted by climate change and toxic pollution. These communities are also forging the path toward environmental and climate justice for all.

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Turning Crisis into Creation with Green Affordable Homes

A new movement is creating lower-cost housing options with clean air, energy efficiency, and climate resilience in mind.
By Sytonia Reid

Eating in a Warming World

The climate crisis could cause staple crops to lose nutritional value. Food farmed regeneratively, on the other hand, experiences an increase in nutrition.
By Eleanor Greene

Turning “Food Prisons” into Gardens

How urban gardening is regenerating L.A.’s soil—and community
By Sytonia Reid

Environmental Justice, fossil fuels, and telecoms

By Ayate Temsamani, Green America's Climate Fellow A few years ago, a young boy named Kevin Brown made national news after pollution from an industrial factory near his home triggered repeated asthma attacks. Kevin was going to emergency rooms week after week. His mother, Lana Brown, said, "I…

man pulls kayak out of Menominee offshoot

Mining on Sacred Ground

Like the Standing Rock Sioux before them, the Menominee Nation has taken up the mantle of “water protectors” in the Midwest. They’re also trying to safeguard their Tribal history.
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy

Power to the People by Rosa Irene Betancourt for Alamy

Power to the People: Fueling the Revolution for Energy Justice

As we work toward Drawdown, it’s critical to address the impacts of climate change in communities of color, which are often hit “first and worst.”
By Jacqui Patterson, director of the NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice program

Interview with Father of Environmental Justice Robert Bullard

Photo credit Brittani Flowers via Wikimedia Commons. Note: This interview is from an article in published in the Fall 2007 issue of Co-op America Quarterly, now called Green American. Dr. Robert D. Bullard is Ware professor of sociology and director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at…
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy

ReZpect Our Water

Native youth run to draw attention to the impacts of pipelines on water supplies.
By Eleanor Greene

Courtesy of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network

Keepers of the Water

Local organizations are adopting rivers across the country, tracking pollution. and banding together to stop it.
By Eleanor Greene

Protect Our Water

Water supplies across the US have become contaminated by toxins from the energy, mining, and agricultural industries, among others—wreaking havoc on ecosystems and human health. But local communities are taking action to ensure clean water for all.
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy

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