Resources

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?
• Intersectionality according to Kimberlé Crenshaw
• How climate change and environmental justice are inextricably linked
• From ally to co-conspirator: How organizations can further their commitment to racial equity
• 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
• 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 Dr. 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
• Youth Development Theory & Practice: Integrating a Trauma Framework — A Social Justice Approach by Dr. Darlene A. Hall
• Heirloom: Collected Poems by Ashia Ajani

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