Environmental & Social Justice

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Golden integrates radical collaboration for climate justice into culture at Woodwell Climate

“Despite the weight of this moment, history has shown us that survival depends on working together—and doing it well. Collaboration is not just necessary; it is a liberatory act."
May 9, 2025
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Timnit Kefela: Putting communities at the heart of plastic pollution initiatives

From the production of plastics to their fates as waste or microplastics in the environment, marginalized communities are disproportionately impacted by them.
March 31, 2025
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Patterson receives Union of Concerned Scientists Defender award for Black in Environment

Each year, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) “honors several individuals and groups who use science to improve the world and help people, including those who have taken a stand to protect science and scientists from political or other...
March 31, 2025
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Kirk launches Rent Brigade to track rent-gouging in the wake of the LA fires

Following the Los Angeles fires, Chelsea Kirk launched The Rent Brigade: “a collective of tenant organizers, advocates, web programmers, designers, researchers, and other Angelenos using data to fight back against predatory landlords”...
March 31, 2025
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Diezmartinez and Short publish on climate justice imaginaries as tools for evaluation

By offering new “possibilities of policy evaluation” that emerge from climate justice imaginaries in Boston, this paper showcases how visions of the just and unjust city can serve as governing devices to transform policy evaluation practices and advance more just climate futures.
January 30, 2025
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Lewis appointed Agent of Thriving, Climate & Environmental Justice at Ormond Center

In this role, Michelle “leads Ormond’s initiatives in environmental justice, climate care, and food insecurity. She is also Ormond’s ecumenical portfolio coach for Pathways Towards Impact.
January 30, 2025
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Jade Johnson assesses public health impact of pollution crisis in Tijuana River

Jade Johnson was featured in a San Diego Union Tribune news article about a sewage pollution and monitoring crisis in the Tijuana River. Johnson is a researcher and project coordinator at SDSU Public Health. "We are conducting a...
December 17, 2024
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Sebastian Moreno: Understanding Barriers, Bringing People to the Natural World

How does inclusivity enhance bird conservation efforts?
December 17, 2024
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Melinda Adams proposes Indigenous Fire Justice as step toward environmental and climate justice

In an October 2024 paper in Environmental Justice, Melinda Adams and co-author Daniel Sarvestani propose Indigenous Fire Justice as steps to move toward environmental justice and climate justice. They present case studies in California...
November 26, 2024
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Abby Cunniff on the Nordic distraction: we need prison closures, abolition, and care

California’s effort to reform prisons is a dead end. What we really need is to close prisons and protect incarcerated people.
November 26, 2024