3 Climate Activists Making Change in Their Frontline Communities
BIPOC leaders pursue visionary solutions proportional to the climate emergency we face.
Environment
The Work of Breaking Free
A conversation with 精东影业 Media Executive Director Christine Hanna and Casey Camp-Horinek, Environmental Ambassador, Matriarch and Hereditary Drumkeeper of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma.
How to Get Rid of Throwaway Culture
Waste is built into modern culture. But it doesn鈥檛 have to be this way.
View From a Tiny Deep-Sea Diver
I hope to inspire people to want to change, to cut off their plastic usage little by little.
The Fallacy of Our Carbon Footprint
Big Oil says citizens should do more to stop climate change.
What to Do With Piles of Plastic Waste?
Other countries get creative.
One of the World鈥檚 Biggest Cities Outlawed Single-Use Plastic
Mexico City鈥檚 22 million people discovered change is not that simple.
What Comes After This Plastic-Filled Pandemic?
A new generation of medical professionals is tasked with undoing decades of hospitals鈥� easy reliance on single-use plastic.
Toward Eco-精东影业
The disconnection and buried shame that hold us back.
Should I Wear Plants or Plastic?
Textiles are the second largest source of plastic waste.
Don鈥檛 Let Consumerism Co-opt the Zero-Waste Concept
The movement began as anti-consumerist. Yet now there are marketing ploys, feelings of inadequacy, and misplaced responsibility.
Plastic World or Plastic-Free World?
The plastic crisis is tied not only to ecological destruction, but also drives systemic injustice.
With plastic鈥檚 fall, will we rise?
How to Actually Achieve Climate Goals: Policy
鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, the myopia of climate metrics.
Imagine a World Without Borders
Walls and fences at national borders enforce inequality, racial divides, and climate catastrophe. But most of them began as invisible lines in the sand.
A Denver Neighborhood Creates Green Space to Improve Community Health
Once a dumping ground for trash and industrial pollution, Platte Farm Open Space now has gardens, trails, and play areas enjoyed by the whole community.
To Decarbonize the Economy Equitably, Start With Schools
When schools achieve environmental justice, the whole climate benefits.
What Solar Energy Policies Can Do for Low-Income Households
Two words: energy justice.
The Positive Climate Tipping Point We Don鈥檛 Talk About
Typically, we read about tipping points with dread. But they鈥檙e not all negative.
Life Is Abundant, Even as the Climate Is Changing
Climate change is dangerous and disorienting. But building new relationships with the landscapes around us will allow us to survive鈥攁nd give the other species we still share this planet with the chance to thrive.
10 Examples of Environmental Racism and How It Works
Here鈥檚 what to know about the unexpected effects of discriminatory environmental policies.
The Queer-Led Groups Modeling a New Form of Land Access
Changing ownership and wealth distribution, even at a small scale, presents a model for how to ultimately address the climate crisis.
How Recycled Glass Could Help Restore Louisiana鈥檚 Eroding Coastline
A Louisiana nonprofit is working to turn empty bottles into free sandbags for residents to protect their homes from floods and, eventually, to mitigate coastal erosion.
How a North Carolina Pastor Uses Faith to Mobilize Climate Action
Hardin-Nieri believes scripture can help religious communities better comprehend the unfolding environmental catastrophes happening around them鈥攁nd do something about it.
Replacing Fossil Fuels with Community-Led Clean Energy
鈥淲e must move funds to frontline communities for clean energy projects and stop fossil fuel developers from perpetuating conventional investments in dirty energy and injustice.鈥�
How Native Communities on the Front Line of Climate Change Are Feeling the Heat
For Indigenous people threatened by climate change, the choice is not an easy one: Move away from a place to which families have been tied for centuries, or stay and remain at risk.
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