Vlad Tchompalov
Voices for Justice
Stories of local and national leaders fighting for social justice and the Earth.
Color of Change is a giant community standing up for racial justice in the US. We talked to a senior campaign director about how economic justice connects to civil rights.
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
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
By Jacqui Patterson, director of the NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice program
Native youth run to draw attention to the impacts of pipelines on water supplies.
By Eleanor Greene
By Eleanor Greene
Water shut-offs in Detroit hit overburdened Black families the hardest.
By Eleanor Greene
By Eleanor Greene
Learn more from this 15-year-old Miwok student
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
More from Harjo, the poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate, who has helped Native Peoples protect sacred places
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
The unemployment rate for trans workers is high; but new programs are helping businesses into the trans community, which helps companies and workers both find their full potential.
By Eleanor Greene
By Eleanor Greene
Matthew Bucher didn’t like what some candidates were saying about immigrants, refugees, and people of color, so he took his frustration and turned it into action.
By Eleanor Greene
By Eleanor Greene
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the first Indian-American woman in the House, talks with Green America about her history-making election win and her ongoing work against Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric and actions.
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
Muslim environmental activists are organizing the Islamic world to renew the global transition from a fossil-fuel economy to one powered by renewable energy.
By Eleanor Greene
By Eleanor Greene
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We have had many big breakthroughs recently. Major companies across all industries are changing -- proof of the power of consumer pressure. We are witnessing how our economic power is truly changing the world for good and towards a simpler, more sustainable way of living. We are winning and we are opening doors for more businesses to go green.
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While forward-thinking tech companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google have committed to running on 100% renewables and are investing in facilities powered by renewable energy, AT&T and Verizon continue source the majority of their energy from dirty energy sources.
Unlike actual clouds, which float in a mist above our heads, “the cloud”, as its known, is a physical network of many computers housed in warehouses all over the world. The servers in these data centers rely on massive amounts of energy to operate. This energy is generated by coal, natural gas,…
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