Environmental Justice

Immediate Actions To Take:

Join a Local Hub with Sunrise Movement
Call your reps to Urge Congress to Act on the Climate Change Crisis
Sign the petition to tell Biden to take executive action to end the era of fossil fuel production, protect communities reeling from the climate and COVID-19 crises, and #BuildBackFossilFree
Support activists traveling to northern Minnesota to work with Indigenous water protectors to stop the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline — Cashapp: $dcmnwaterprotector l Venmo: dcmnwaterprotector

Organizations To Support + Follow:

Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up:

Start Here —

Intersectional Environmentalism — Intersectional Environmentalist

Articles —

A Guide to Gender Equity for Outdoorsy Dudes — Emerald LaFortune via Emerald Lens Media
A Quarter of Bangladesh is Flooded. Millions Have Lost Everything — Somini Sengupta and Julfikar Ali Manik via NYTimes
Decolonize Sustainable + Ethical Fashion — Anti-Racism Daily
Fight Against Pesticides in Communities of Color — Anti-Racism Daily
Giving Mountains Back Their Indigenous Names — Cameron Fenton via Outside
Hoodwinked in the HotHouse: Resist False Solutions to Climate Change — climatefalsesolutions.org
How Black Books Lit My Way Along the Appalachian Trail — Rahawa Haile via BuzzFeed
Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon — Dallas Goldtooth, Alberto Saldamando, and Kyle Gracey via Indigenous Environmental Network and Oil Change International
Just Transition Zine — Movement Generation
Oil, Water, and Steel: The Dakota Access Pipeline — Earthjustice
Pollution Is Killing Black Americans. This Community Fought Back. — Linda Villarosa via NYTimes
Queering the Environmental Movement: Two Spirits are reclaiming their collective identity in the battle to protect Turtle Island. — Bani Amor via Earth Island Journal
Support the Indian Farmers’ Protest — Anti-Racism Daily
The Green Movement Is Talking About Racism? It's About Time. by Brentin Mock — Outside
The Green New Deal — Read the Bill here.
To Diversify Outdoors We Have To Think About Who We're Excluding — Erin Berger via Outside
The Trump Administration is Reversing 100 Environmental Rules. Here's the Full List. — Nadja Popovich, Livia Albeck-Ripka and Kendra Pierre-Louis via NYTimes
Think This Pandemic is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming — Rhiana Gunn-Wright via NYTimes
This is Inequity at the Boiling Point — Somini Sengupta via NYTimes
Transphobia and Ecofeminism — Brittany Shoot via Bitch Media
White People Own 98 Percent of Rural Land. Young Black Farmers Want to Reclaim Their Share. — Tom Phillpott via MotherJones

Books —

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K Wilkinson
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet by Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change by Aja Barber
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming — Project Drawdown
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal by Eric Schlosser
From The Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement by Luke Cole
Ecofeminism by Maria Mes and Vandana Shiva
How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other by Naomi Klein with Rebecca Stefoff
Indigenous Resurgence: Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice edited by Jaskiran Dhillon
Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and Decolonial by Sarah D. Wald
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Standing With Standing Rock: Voices From the #NoDAPL Movement by Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon
The Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
The Case for the Green New Deal by Ann Pettifor
The Adventure Gap: Change the Faces of the Outdoors by James Mills
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth — The Red Nation
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein
Tools for Grassroots Activists: Best Practices for Success in the Environmental Movement — Patagonia

Watch + Listen —

Chasing Coral — Netflix
Cowspiracy — Netflix
Dolores Huerta Talks Climate and Labor Movements with Jane Fonda — Youtube
Environmental Racism Video — Blavity
India's Green Revolution: More Harm Than Good by Vandana Shiva — Youtube
Let’s Be Real Episode 10: UPROSE — New Economy NYC Podcast
Mission Blue — Netflix
Our Planet — Netflix
Rotten — Netflix
Story Snapshots: Living the Just Transition — Climate Justice Alliance Podcast
The True Cost — Free Online

NOTE: Our focus areas are informed by community input. If there is an issue you'd like to see included or would like to share input, please email us at community@the-outrage.com with questions, comments, or concerns on our 2021 focus areas. We'd love to hear from you.

This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated Mar 1, 2022.