Rev. Yearwood Unites Hip Hop Culture With Climate Justice
Rev. Yearwood from the Hip Hop Caucus is shedding light on the culture problem within the climate justice movement.
Climate Justice
Freedom to Breathe: Can We Have A Green New Deal?
States are adopting better policies thanks in part to the national conversation around the Green New Deal, a plan that -- while hasn’t made progress in congress yet -- addresses both climate catastrophe and economic inequality
Freedom to Breathe: Food, Farming and Climate Change
Climate change impacts like drought and extreme heat means greater health risks for farmers and larger economic costs across the country.
Freedom to Breathe: Fossil Fuels and Your Health
In Karnes County, Texas, residents live in a big oil and gas county and find themselves choosing between their jobs and their health.
Freedom to Breathe: Climate Gentrification Is Changing the Country
Climate change, immigration and affordable housing intersect in Miami's historically black and brown communities.
Freedom to Breathe: Social Justice Is Climate Justice
For residents of the Texan city of Port Arthur, living next to the country's largest oil refinery has imposed severe health impacts onto the majority Black/Latino community. This is only one example of environmental racism that low-income communities of color…
Freedom to Breathe: Trailer
Climate change can feel like an abstract, far-away issue explained through melting ice or temperature graphs. But it’s already affecting all Americans. So how does our warming planet impact us in our day-to-day lives? In this five-part digital series, we…
Freedom to Breathe: About the Series
“All communities are not impacted the same by climate change. And if we are to develop real plans and strategies and protocols to deal with climate change, then the justice part has to be front and center.” – Dr. Robert…
Freedom to Breathe: Climate Justice in America
Climate change can feel like an abstract, far-away issue explained through melting ice or temperature graphs. But it’s already affecting all Americans. So how does our warming planet impact us in our day-to-day lives? In this five-part digital series, we…
Climate at the Second Democratic Debate: What New Topics Were Introduced and How Did the Candidates Respond?
Here are four new climate points that were discussed and what the candidates are or aren’t saying about them.
Bill McKibben on climate change: “If we don’t solve it soon, we won’t solve it.”
Thirty years after he published “The End of Nature," journalist and activist Bill McKibben has a new book with a sobering message.
Six leading Black advocates share their thoughts on the fight of our lives.
This is part of a series for Black History Month on Black scientists, activists and entrepreneurs who are tackling the greatest problem of our time.