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Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage

With a basis in environmental history, this groundbreaking study challenges the idea that a meaningful attachment to nature and the outdoors is contrary to the black experience.

Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States

Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene.

Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

The MacArthur grant–winning environmental justice activist's riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America's most vulnerable.

Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors

Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans.

Audiobooks

Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice

The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made headlines around the world in 2016. Activists rallied near the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota for months in opposition to DAPL, winning an unprecedented but temporary victory before the federal government ultimately permitted the pipeline.

A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis

A manifesto and memoir about climate justice and how we can—and must—build a livable future for all, inclusive to all, by a rising star of the global climate movement.

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism.

Fehinti Balogun: How to Find Your Voice for Climate Action

Books

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement- leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration. To change everything, we need everyone.

Braiding Sweetgrass

An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss , was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing.

Sustainability: Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power

Across the industrialized West and the Global South, unsustainable practices and social inequities exacerbate one another. How do social justice and sustainability connect? What does sustainability mean and, most importantly, how can we achieve it with justice?

Climate Change is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice

'Will open the minds of even the most ardent denier of climate change and/or systemic racism. If there's one book that will help you to be an effective activist for climate justice, it's this one.' - Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, author of This is Why I Resist

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: How to Find Joy in Climate Action

Podcasts

Angela Mahecha: The People Who Caused the Climate Crisis Aren't the Ones to Fix It

Organizations