Environmental Justice
- Immediate Actions To Take:
- Join a Local Hub with Sunrise Movement
- Call Your Reps To Support The Green New Deal
- Call Your Reps To Support HR9 to Keep the US in the Paris Climate Agreement
- Call Your Reps To Urge Congress To Act On The Climate Change Crisis
- Call Your Reps To Protect Alaska's Wildlife Refuge from Oil + Gas Drilling
- Organizations To Support + Follow:
- Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up:
- Start Here —
- Intersectional Environmentalism — Intersectional Environmentalist
- Articles —
- A #MeToo Guide for Outdoorsy Dudes — Emerald Lens Media
- A Quarter of Bangladesh is Flooded. Millions Have Lost Everything. by Somini Sengupta and Julfikar Ali Manik — NYTimes
- Environmentalism Must Confront Its Social Justice Sins by Brentin Mock — Outside
- Environmental Racism Video — Blavity
- Giving Mountains Back Their Indigenous Names by Cameron Fenton — Outside
- How Black Books Lit My Way Along the Appalachian Trail by Rahawa Haile — BuzzFeed
- Oil, Water, and Steel: The Dakota Access Pipeline — Earthjustice
- Pollution Is Killing Black Americans. This Community Fought Back. by Linda Villarosa — NYTimes
- Queering the Environmental Movement by Bani Amor — Earth Island Journal
- 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 by Erin Berger — Outside
- The Trump Administration is Reversing 100 Environmental Rules. Here's the Full List. by Nadja Popovich, Livia Albeck-Ripka and Kendra Pierre-Louis — NYTimes
- Think This Pandemic is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming by Rhiana Gunn-Wright — NYTimes
- This is Inequity at the Boiling Point by Somini Sengupta — NYTimes
- Transphobia and Ecofeminism by Brittany Shoot — Bitch Media
- White People Own 98 Percent of Rural Land. Young Black Farmers Want to Reclaim Their Share. by Tom Phillpott — MotherJones
- Books —
- 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
- 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
- Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and Decolonial by Sarah D. Wald
- On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- Standing With Standing Rock: Voices From the #NoDAPL Movement by Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon
- Tools for Grassroots Activists: Best Practices for Success in the Environmental Movement — Patagonia
- 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
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein
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 2020 focus areas. We'd love to hear from you.
This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated August 6, 2020.