Reducing soil toxics in community gardens
How different groups engaged in community gardens can cultivate partnerships and practices to reduce harmful chemical exposures.
It’s not just hair — fighting beauty injustice beyond the individual
Black people are bearing the brunt of the burden of the social, economic and physical costs of beauty. We need to shift conversations, research and interventions.
Tapping into the power of community to make informal settlements healthier
One billion people live in informal settlements in the Global South, yet these places remain largely invisible to policymakers and neglected in policy decisions.
Mourning family and climate change in the age of loss and damage
Grief is a consequence of the natural cycle of life and death, but it can be exacerbated by negligence and unjust approaches to climate change.
A radical solution to make US affordable housing healthy and community-driven
“The way we as a nation approach affordable housing should begin with centering the people in the homes.”
Farmworkers’ vicious cycle of precarious employment, exploitation and climate change
“We cannot be complacent with the exploitation of these vulnerable workers.”
When a home is not a sanctuary but a sickening, expensive trap
Expensive utilities and pests are deeply intertwined. Why is no one talking about it?
Public lands are not neutral. We must grapple with their racist roots
A lot of the racial and ethnic gap in federal land usage is blamed on indifference or lack of interest from people of color and people of other minority identities, but this viewpoint ignores critical context of how a person’s identities shape their relationship to public lands
Words of wisdom from three leaders in the environmental health and justice field
A Q&A with Black and Latina researchers about health equity research and career advice for early career scientists.
Op-Ed: The neglected role of food processing companies in shaping human and planetary health
Large-scale food conglomerates exert outsized influence over what is produced and eaten around the world. So why are they left out of public health research and policy?
How workers’ rights and environmental justice movements collide in California’s Central Valley
“The environmental justice term didn’t come until later. When the farmworker movement started it was already happening but it’s not what it was called.”
Replacing environmental despair with hope and action
It’s hard to avoid eco-anxiety. But by detoxing our social media feeds and focusing on community, we can all find good news and inspire change.
