Brooklyn Startup Addresses Gun Violence with Climate Jobs
BlocPower gives Brooklyn residents on the frontlines of climate change and gun violence a new opportunity via jobs in clean energy.
social justice
As Agencies Seek More Environmental Justice Data, Longtime Residents Are Skeptical
Environmental regulators hope new data-driven tools will help identify hotspots and drive environmental justice.
The Cannabis Industry Consumes Over 1% of Total U.S. Electricity
Most U.S. cannabis is grown in greenhouses with sophisticated climate-control systems and high-powered lights that require a lot of energy.
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: 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…