FRACTURED: Artist Graupe-Pillard Tackles Environmental Threats
Graupe-Pillard delivered the cautionary note, “The paintings are a precursor to a devastating scenario if individuals remain uninvolved.”
Category: Environment
Diane Wilson, 2023 Goldman Prize Winner: “The Plastic Age Needs to End”
Wilson changed the equation when she contacted Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid lawyers to help her prove that Formosa had been dumping plastic waste in the Gulf Coast of Texas. They won a $50 million settlement for the pollution of bays encompassing the Point Comfort factory.
Joe Biden: “Environmental Justice will be the Mission of the Entire Government”
President Biden has announced his run for office in 2024, and he isn’t wasting any time promoting his climate agenda. On April 21, he delivered a fundamental building block in the fight to ensure environmental justice for all Americans.
“State by State, There’s No Place Where There Are No Environmental Justice Concerns”
In January 2023, a research paper outlined how pollution emitted from cars driven by “commuters from majority-white tracts disproportionately drive through non-white tracts–compared to the inverse.”
The ABCs of Climate Change at School
In Connecticut, almost 90% of schools have embraced the topic of climate change as part of the science syllabus.
Drought, Conservation, and Our Children
Scientists underscored that human activity had made the adverse effects of the drought 72% worse.
Voting Rights and Environmental Justice Are Intertwined
It’s an overwhelming time. Seeing elected representatives trying to turn back the clock to when individual state statutes severely impeded the ability to vote is unimaginable. But it’s happening.
The Climate Museum: Culture for Action
The museum implements new approaches for examining the challenges of the climate crisis. The advisory board encompasses scientists, creatives, activists, business and museum professionals, guaranteeing that innovation is at the core of engagement philosophy.
UNICEF: “Every Child Deserves a Livable Planet.”
Children are less physically able to withstand and survive severe weather occurrences. Ironically, they contribute the least to factors creating the climate crisis while suffering the most significant impacts.
Tree Equity for Climate, Health and Social Justice
I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree. When American poet Joyce Kilmer wrote these words in 1913 as a tribute to nature, he didn’t presume that over a century...
