Centering BIPOC Frontline Communities
IG Live: Climate Justice and Mental Health with Dr. Britt Wray
Watch our IG livestream with Dr. Britt Wray, author of “Generation Dread” and Director of CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry in the Stanford School of Medicine, where discuss the way that climate anxiety affects different communities. Dr. Britt Wray is the Director of CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry, a research and action initiative focused on Community-minded Interventions…
Curbing Pollution in Frontline Communities
Across the United States, Black, Indigenous, and communities of color are disproportionately impacted by pollution and environmental health disparities. Environmental health disparities exist when communities exposed to a combination of poor environmental quality and social inequities have more sickness and disease than wealthier, less polluted communities. Many of these environmental health problems and disparities are…
US Treasury Report identifies climate impact on household finances
Black and Latine adults are less able to pay their bills and are more impacted by climate disasters. Living paycheck to paycheck makes any disruptions caused by climate change far more devastating. Efforts to consider vulnerability in the Treasury’s report are missing important contexts, like the barriers for marginalized low-income communities to build generational wealth…
Climate Impact on Household Finances – Report from the US Treasury
Black and Latine adults are less able to pay their bills and are more impacted by climate disasters. Living paycheck to paycheck makes any disruptions caused by climate change far more devastating. Under President Biden’s Executive Orders, the US Treasury Department was required to “analyze and understand the impact of climate change on the financial…
Webinar: Exploring CCS and Environmental Justice in Louisiana
nvironmental and climate justice advocates have consistently emphasized the potential detrimental effects of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies on our communities. In the first installment of our CCS series, we delved into the intricacies of carbon capture and its use and storage, highlighting its immediate and long-term implications for environmental justice communities across the…
Tea Time with Just Solutions: Fostering Learning & Sharing with Environmental Justice Advocates
In the relentless pursuit of environmental justice, dedicated leaders and practitioners often find themselves expending a tremendous amount of energy, mental fortitude, and personal capacity. The passionate individuals at the forefront of this crucial movement frequently encounter exhaustion, frustration, and the daunting challenges of an ever-expanding scope of issues. Amidst the continuous demands, it is…
IG Livestream with Faithfully Sustainable
This is a recording of our Instagram livestream event with Faithfully Sustainable in September 2023. Tayler Ward, Communications and Education Programs Manager, had a conversation with Kadjahtou Balde, co-founder of Faithfully Sustainable, on how the Muslim community is impacted by the climate crisis and the solutions that an Islamic framework can offer. Faithfully Sustainable Website:…
LGBTQ History Month: Intersectionality with Climate Justice
October is LGBTQ History Month. As a queer and nonbinary person from the South, honoring and preserving my community’s history is more important than ever as attempts to suppress our civil rights increase in places like Florida, which I call home. While many people are perhaps more familiar with Pride Month in June with parades…
Community-Created Solutions to Climate Vulnerability and Resilience: A Case Study in Six Frontline Communities
Using a case study approach in six frontline communities, Just Solutions has developed a Prioritizing Frontline Communities Framework that assesses the “pre-existing” economic, health, and infrastructure conditions that affect the capacity of these communities to cope with, prepare for, and respond to climate change and to participate equitably in the transition to a clean energy…
Webinar: The Effects of Health and Housing Quality on Climate Vulnerability and Resilience
In part two of The Perfect Storm of Extraction, Poverty, and Climate Change Webinar Series, the authors of the report provided an overview of the health and infrastructure issues and findings highlighted in Just Solution’s recent report, “The Perfect Storm of Extraction, Poverty, and Climate Change: A Framework for Assessing Vulnerability, Resilience, Adaptation, and a…
