Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day: A Reading List
With scholarship on Indigenous knowledge, environmental justice, resistance, and decolonization, this list honors Native sovereignty and self-determination.
Is AI Good for the Planet?
The algorithms that promise to predict wildfires and optimize energy grids are powered by servers that drink up rivers and belch out more carbon than cars.
Who Owns the Ground Beneath Your Feet?
Carbon removal, a proposed solution to climate change, will require the injection of CO2 underground—but under whose property?
Did “Big Oil” Sell Us on a Recycling Scam?
Our focus on recycling to save the planet may be missing the mark.
Toxic? But It Has a Leaf on the Label!
Is it possible to produce common household products that are sustainable and safe?
Survival Strategies: The Next Chapter of Environmental Justice
The environmental justice movement may look to the past to determine how to move forward during times of austerity.
The Art of the Deal or the Dirt?
Will so-called Trump Tariffs ensure that the United States has the minerals it needs to transition to sustainable energy?
The Logic and Legality of Growth
Economic growth is closely linked to profit maximization, which is central to the functioning of global market-based economies.
Voting as a Tool for Environmental Justice
Casting a vote at your local polling place helps elect candidates who can enact environmental policies while in office. But is voting enough to bring change?