Putting communities at the heart of plastic pollution initiatives

From the production of plastics to their fates as waste or microplastics in the environment, marginalized communities are disproportionately impacted by them.
Why funding for the environmental justice movement must be anti-racist

We must prioritize minority-serving institutions, BIPOC-led organizations and researchers to lead environmental justice efforts.
Toxic prisons teach us that environmental justice needs abolition

Prisons, jails and detention centers are placed in locations where environmental hazards such as toxic landfills, floods and extreme heat are the norm.
The Blue Economy is failing small-scale fishers

For the Blue Economy to succeed, its policies must respect and incorporate the traditions and values of the communities it aims to benefit.
The common ground between labor and climate justice is the key to a livable future

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.
Rethinking policing and parks

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.
Labor and environmental groups can both win in the clean energy transition. Here’s how.

The conflicts betweeen labor and environmental groups can be addressed in the clean energy transition. Here’s how.
This Atlanta urban farm tackles hunger, joblessness, crime — and a tense history of policing

How the Mother Clyde Urban farm transformed the West End of Atlanta’s food deserts, and serves as a model for community empowerment.
“I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley

For communities plagued by energy extraction and petrochemical buildout, struggles of environmental justice often fall on deaf ears.
Turning air pollution sufferers into experts in California’s Inland Empire

For too long, data collection, knowledge production and scientific authority have been controlled by people outside of environmental justice communities. I want to change that.
Black lives matter in Africa’s National Parks too

At its core, militarized conservation is a dehumanizing way to look at poachers. Conservation rooted in care, for both people and wildlife, will be more successful than conservation predicated on violence.
How my family’s culinary traditions opened my eyes to invisible environmental threats

Lead-tainted clay pots like my grandmother used in Mexico underscore the need for better environmental education among healthcare professionals.