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Voices for Justice
Stories of local and national leaders fighting for social justice and the Earth.
Being in nature is a health activity, even if it’s just sitting on a park bench. Urban populations, especially Black and Brown communities, don’t often get equal access to green space. These organizations are working to change that.
By Sytonia Reid
By Sytonia Reid
Native American producers have long been left out of the agricultural conversation. Now that regenerative agriculture is trending, these growers show that caring for full ecosystems isn’t a new idea, it’s deeply traditional.
By Eleanor Greene
By Eleanor Greene
Immigrants and migrant workers are overwhelmingly the people responsible for getting food from fields onto American plates. When they don’t make enough money for their own food, communities create solutions.
By Mary Meade
By Mary Meade
Telling the truth about history, apologizing, and paying long-owed debts are the start of healing and reparations for Black Americans.
By Sytonia Reid
By Sytonia Reid
Walmart, Victoria’s Secret, and even Whole Foods have used US prison labor to keep their production costs down. Are those workers being exploited?
By Sytonia Reid
By Sytonia Reid
Whether the events of 2020 have inspired you to activism or if you’re a lifelong advocate, when you raise your voice, you can change the world.
By Mary Meade
By Mary Meade
How urban gardening is regenerating L.A.’s soil—and community
By Sytonia Reid
By Sytonia Reid
Produce sold in US stores are picked with care by a largely immigrant farmworker force. The work is hot and exhausting, and too many farms cut corners on worker health, safety, and wages. But workers are showing farms exactly how they can improve.
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
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
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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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Trader Joe's needs to answer for its poor labor and climate practices and lack of transparency. Join us in holding them accountable!
Amazon’s exploitative practices extends to its workers as well as the planet. Workers in Amazon warehouses report grueling and dangerous working conditions. Workers at Amazon, throughout the supply chain and in the office, deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
Join Green America and our partners in calling on the world’s ten biggest chocolate companies, including Hershey, Godiva, Mars, and Nestle, to finally put an end to child labor in cocoa and an end to deforestation!
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