Front And Centered

MARCH 16, 2021

Powerful Women on the Frontlines: Ophelia Noble Imagines Justice in Southwest Washington. It may be the end of the day when she settles in for a Thursday interview, but Ophelia has just begun to tell us about how she imagines justice in Southwest Washington – and it is expansive.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 12, 2020

Stories discussed this week. Voices of the clean energy equity movement (48:25). Environmental Justice. Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity. Heather Clancy. Fri, 06/12/2020 - 02:15. Week in Review. Leading the sustainability transformation. E-mail us at 350@greenbiz.com. Contributors.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 27, 2021

This post by Lumi Youm was originally published for Environmental Defense Fund. My story is not unique. So why is it that we don’t see AAPIs represented in the environmental movement? It’s worth stating that people of color have been excluded from environmentalism for a very long time.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

We’re suddenly talking again about structural racism in policing and criminal justice. But the story of race, energy and the environment is also very important to understanding the anger of the moment.

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Defend Our Future

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Here is my story of rediscovering the environment and learning about the many challenges I couldn’t quite see and understand as a child. This experience was unforgettable, so much that it inspired me to return to grad school four years later and study Environmental Policy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

DeSmog published dozens of in-depth investigations looking at the money and power behind efforts to derail climate action, campaigns of misinformation, corporate-backed lobbying efforts to influence legislation and public discourse, the grassroots movements fighting for environmental justice, and more. 1: ‘Fraudulent’ Behavior.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

One of the biggest stories of 2020 was the rise of the corporate tree-planting movement, with dozens of multinational businesses from virtually every industry pledging millions of dollars to one of nature’s most effective carbon sequestration solutions. . Heather Clancy. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:00.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South. This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Danielle Purifoy.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

She thought the climate movement as a whole could benefit from putting a greater emphasis on relationships. According to data from OKCupid , climate change was the top issue that daters cared about in 2022, with a 368 percent increase over the previous five years in climate and environmental terms on users’ profiles.

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Defend Our Future

JULY 1, 2019

.” – Diego Guadalupe Loredo, 15 years old, Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services. 15-year old high school student Diego Guadalupe Loredo shares his story of living most of his life living next to an Exxon refinery in Baytown, Texas and breathing toxic air. Jacqueline Patterson : NAACP Environment and Climate Justice.

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Defend Our Future

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Step back and pass the mic : The mainstream environmental movement has historically excluded the voices of Black people — who are still today disproportionately impacted by environmental issues across income levels. Yet these are the same people that have been fighting for environmental protection for decades.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 5, 2020

Environmental organizations have released statements — us included. We wholeheartedly stand with the movement for Black lives. And we are committed to doing the work to support the fight for racial justice. Sign the Justice for George Floyd Petition. Sign the Justice or Breonna Taylor Petition. •

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taylor joins Greentown from the nonprofit industry, having spent the past decade as a leader in the education reform movement. I am excited to join the Greentown team and am thankful for the opportunity to serve as the first-ever full-time CFO in the organization’s storied history,” said Taylor. “I About Greentown Labs.

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Grist

JUNE 28, 2023

The vision “Every movement organization, every social justice organization across this world should have resiliency, climate justice, and education tied into their plans. For Gunder, it’s also the foundation of community action for climate and justice. Believe your community when they say something.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 29, 2021

We create intersectional stories and content addressing issues of immigration, climate, gender and racial justice. We engage movement groups in cultural strategy and organize artists around issues that inspire them. working at the intersection of activism and culture, with a commitment to climate, gender, and racial justice.

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Defend Our Future

JULY 23, 2020

Check out some of the pieces that have been written about his legacy if you want to read the story of a full life lived with grace and integrity. Lewis was still serving in Congress when he died, still working and fighting for justice for all. His courage and conviction were limitless. Every one of these accomplishments listed above?

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 1, 2023

Through this program, we have deepened relationships with three other environmental organizations: Vote Solar, Colorado Rising and Our Climate. This way, every person has the chance to participate in and learn from the discussion about the health and environmental impacts of two gas peaker plants located in their neighborhood.

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2021

This story was produced in collaboration with InvestigateWest. Of the issues posed, he said: “There’s racial justice in here, climate justice, and economic justice.”. The second is seeing the community become activated around justice and equity. The heavy wind woke Niria Garcia about 5 a.m.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Front and Centered is moved by Martha’s leadership story, as she shared what brought her to this work with our coalition and her current work co-leading the Washington State Coalition of African Community Leaders (WSCACL). Her organization’s two strategic focus areas are economic empowerment and civic engagement.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

It’s a real horror story and since our civilization has been built up almost entirely during this climate envelope, if you will, that has persisted since the end of the last ice age, the fact that we’re changing those conditions so radically poses an existential threat to the survival of human civilization as we know it.". Social Justice.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2021

Within companies, the primary person responsible for understanding and defining how a company will respond to these pressing social and environmental issues is the chief sustainability officer. Ten years later" is a reference to Weinreb Group's seminal CSO Back Story published a decade ago. Who occupies the CSO job also has changed.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Britain's right-wing tabloids have historically not been champions of action on climate change and other environmental issues. In fact they have prominently opposed such action, regularly providing space for climate scepticism and running frontpage stories that challenged the existence of global warming and its relationship to human activity.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 25, 2020

Check out how Planet imagery has helped reporters follow stories and bring news to readers. Environmental disasters hit the Arctic Circle and Indian Ocean. This summer, two major oil spills have polluted the world’s oceans and caused widespread environmental devastation. Black Lives Matter movement seen from space.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Xiye Bastida is a 20-year-old climate activist from the Otomí-Toltec community in central Mexico, a leading organizer with the Fridays for Future movement in New York City, a co-founder of the Re-Earth Initiative , and a champion of Indigenous and immigrant engagement in climate activism. The question is, how can you be part of this movement?

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Is your environmentalism intersectional? And we have a website as well that aggregates a lot of educational resources that look at different topics and look at different communities for people who are interested in learning more about intersectional environmentalism. So we’ve been focusing on community building there.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

These 20 books provide insight into food access and justice in Black communities, food relief and school nutrition programs, the effects of technology on global food supply chains, the relationship between climate change and food production, and much more.

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Grist

JUNE 7, 2023

As a longtime environmental activist, he hated to be “wasteful.” The idea of personal responsibility is fraught within the climate movement. From birth to death, here are stories of how individuals have used their life’s milestones to create an outsized impact from their personal choices.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Some of those can be found in the top GreenBiz stories of the year, as “measured” by reader traffic. While COVID-19 cut through almost all of our coverage — just like it cut through our everyday lives this year — other hopeful stories shined through. READ THE FULL STORY: 8 electric truck and van companies to watch in 2020. .

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Grist

JUNE 14, 2023

Today’s story, from news and politics fellow Akielly Hu, shares the perspective of one young person who witnessed the effects of climate change on the places she loved and decided to take what some might call a drastic measure — suing her state government. (A I hope to use my computer science [background] for environmental work.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Such tactics have inevitably proved divisive, but it is not the first time environmentally-motivated civil disobedience has captured public attention in the UK. One of the film's leading protagonists is international environmental lawyer Farhana Yamin.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 18, 2021

Within companies, the primary person responsible for understanding and defining how a company will respond to these pressing social and environmental issues is the chief sustainability officer. “Ten years later” is a reference to Weinreb Group’s seminal CSO Back Story published a decade ago.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Speaking on behalf of the predominantly white corporate sustainability movement, how can we, individually and collectively, better engage, serve and learn from communities of color, the tens of millions of our fellow humans who may not look like us? You can watch his entire 10-minute talk here. We need all hands on deck.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2021

Indigenous peoples in Canada and a coalition of environmental groups launched a “Global Week of Action” for June 14-21 , aimed at pressuring an array of insurance companies to cut ties with a long-distance tar sands pipeline under construction in Canada. Credit: Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition. Insure_Future) June 16, 2021.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Episode 247: Biden wish lists, supporting ‘intersectional environmentalists’ Heather Clancy Fri, 12/04/2020 – 02:00 Week in Review Stories discussed this week (7:35). In the quest for carbon offsets, (almost) anything goes Recycled plastic: There’s market demand, but where’s the supply? E-mail us at 350@greenbiz.com.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Speaking on behalf of the predominantly white corporate sustainability movement, how can we, individually and collectively, better engage, serve and learn from communities of color, the tens of millions of our fellow humans who may not look like us? You can watch his entire 10-minute talk here. We need all hands on deck.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

To recall some of the key developments, as I have done each December for more than a decade, I’ve plumbed the nearly 1,300 stories, columns and analyses we've published on GreenBiz.com since the dawn of 2020 — a.k.a. All links are to stories published on GreenBiz.com during 2020.) But it was much, much longer than that. Remember 2019?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 12, 2020

Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity Heather Clancy Fri, 06/12/2020 – 02:15 Week in Review Stories discussed this week. E-mail us at 350@greenbiz.com.

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