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:
- 350.org
- 500 Women Scientists
- Brown Girls Climb
- Crowdsourcing Sustainability
- Dear Tomorrow
- Fire Drill Fridays
- GirlTrek
- GreenPeace
- Green New Deal Network
- Indigenous Environmental Network
- Intersectional Environmentalist
- Latino Outdoors
- March For Science
- Native Youth Alliance
- Navajo Water Project
- Soul Trak Outdoors
- Sunrise Movement
- This Is Zero Hour
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Youth Climate Strike
- 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.