It's Time for Environmental Studies to Own Up to Erasing Black People
Many aspects of environmental scholarship are inaccessible to Black students, including textbooks that don't acknowledge our history, and field work requirements that are ignorant of Black criminalization in the outdoors.
Want to Be an Environmentalist? Start With Antiracism
Failing to recognize the plastic crisis as an environmental justice issue calls into question the integrity and effectiveness of the movement as a whole. In order to achieve a plastic-free world, we need to embrace the framework of intersectional environmentalism—in reimagining both disposability and a world worth fighting for.
Erin Brockovich Knows We Have to Save Ourselves
Wawa recently spoke with Erin Brockovich about her new book Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It. Here they discussed the importance of citizen science, the necessity of self-care, and the power people can harness when they trust their intuition and act out of the courage to love radically.
A Wave of Change: Wanjiku Gatheru and Peggy Shepard
Over the last few years, youth activists have taken on the climate crisis as the cause of their lives, largely because it will determine the course of them. And yet, as these leaders and organizers tell their environmental heroes—the ones who paved the way and inspired them to fight in the first place—they can’t do it alone. Here, activists Wanjiku Gatheru and Peggy Shepard discuss environmental justice and the legacy of pollution.