Prior to June of 2021, Justice Outside was known as Youth Outside. As a result, many of the resources shared here contain our previous name. We invite you to learn more about our name change here.
JUSTICE OUTSIDE REPORTS
A Guide to Racial Justice in the Environmental and Outdoors Space
To Get Started
Videos
- The Intersectional History of Environmentalism by the Intersectional Environmentalist
- The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights by Robert D. Bullard There’s Something In The Water Documentary
- Living Without Water: Contamination Nation by Vice News
- The Road Back Home: Environmental Justice and Wetland Restoration at the Lower 9th directed by Reynaldo Morales
- Honor the Earth by Eryn Wise
- How to Find Joy in Climate Action by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
- Maintaining joy as an environmental activist with Arielle V. King, host of The Joy Report podcast by Sustainable Brown Girl
- Re-Imagining Environmental and Outdoor Summer Camp by the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education
Audio
- Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science w/ Jessica Hernandez on The Red Nation Podcast
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- What is a Frontline Community?
- Soaring Temperatures Pose Dangerous Risks to Low-Income, Vulnerable Communities
- Resource extraction responsible for half world’s carbon emissions
- Racism and the roots of conservative philanthropy in the US
- ‘They chose us because we were rural and poor’: when environmental racism and climate change collide
- An Indigenous Systems Approach to the Climate Crisis
- Study: Indigenous resistance has staved off 25% of U.S. and Canada’s annual emissions
- Outdoor recreation has historically excluded people of color. That’s beginning to change
- The Mental Health Benefits of an Inclusive Outdoor Escape
- Eco Anxiety, Climate Change, And BIPOC Mental Health
- At COP26, Indigenous, Black, and Brown Activists Offer Radical Solutions for Climate Change
- Why This Youth Climate Activist Insists on the Importance of Joy
- My Pursuit of Happiness in Afro-Environmentalism
- Partnering for Equitable Environmental Literacy: A Conversation with Justice Outside
A Deeper Dive
Videos
- What It’s Like to Live in Cancer Alley by Now This
- Food Deserts in D.C. by NPR
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- Find out which Indigenous territory you’re living on
- What is the Land Back movement?
- Indigenous people and nature: a tradition of conservation
- Memo: The Climate and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives Crises: Intersections, Root Causes, and Immediate Steps Towards Ending Both
- Intersectionality according to Kimberlé Crenshaw
- How climate change and environmental justice are inextricably linked
- Humanity and nature are not separate – we must see them as one to fix the climate crisis
- Breaking Barriers Report:Understanding Motivations & Barriers to Youth Participation in the Outdoors
- California Children’s Outdoor Bill of Rights
- Healthy Parks, Healthy People
- The Outdoor Recreation Economy Report
- The Science of Awe
- Toxic Communities by Dorceta Taylor
- Our History is the Future by Nick Estes
- The Intersectional Environmentalist by Leah Thomas
- Pollution is Colonialism by Max Liboiron
- Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez
- Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future by Candace Fujikane
- The Adventure Gap by James Edward Mills
- Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
- Serving Culturally Diverse Visitors to Forests in California by Nina S. Roberts
- The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
- Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature by William Cronon
Additional Recommended Resources, Organizations, and Affinity Groups
- NDN Collective
- The Red Nation
- Intersectional Environmentalist
- Climate Justice Alliance’s Stories from Home Podcast
- The Green Dreamer Podcast
- Queer Brown Vegan
- Power Shift
- Nuestras Raíces Verdes Podcast
- Media Indigena Podcast
- Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT)
- California Regional Environmental Education Community
- Latino Outdoors
- Outdoor Afro
- Transforming Youth Outdoors
- Natucate