ESSAYS
This isn’t your average science writing. Fellows share their personal struggles and their professional achievements to illustrate where we’ve made progress—and where we must continue to create a healthy environment for all.
recent essays
From the production of plastics to their fates as waste or microplastics in the environment, marginalized communities are disproportionately impacted by them.
We must prioritize minority-serving institutions, BIPOC-led organizations and researchers to lead environmental justice efforts.
Prisons, jails and detention centers are placed in locations where environmental hazards such as toxic landfills, floods and extreme heat are the norm.
For the Blue Economy to succeed, its policies must respect and incorporate the traditions and values of the communities it aims to benefit.
The tale of “jobs versus the environment” does not capture the full story. Throughout history, we’ve seen glimpses of what can be achieved when labor organizing and environmental justice activism work together.
To fully engage with the question of a world without police, we need to address the social ways we police and patrol our neighbors and greenspaces.
The conflicts betweeen labor and environmental groups can be addressed in the clean energy transition. Here's how.
How the Mother Clyde Urban farm transformed the West End of Atlanta's food deserts, and serves as a model for community empowerment.
For communities plagued by energy extraction and petrochemical buildout, struggles of environmental justice often fall on deaf ears.