Reading Time: 4 minutesAs climate-related research warns us, the need for a transition towards fossil-fuel-free ways of producing energy is undeniable at this point in history.
Environmental History Now.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Mobilizing the Energy Crisis for Racial Justice
Reading Time: 7 minutes[…] looking at Black discourses around the energy debates of the 1970s indicates a sense of continuity rather than change. Black activists pointed out that many people in the U.S. had never, in fact, had access to middle class lifestyles.
We Are All Seeds: Heirloom Seed Saving, Multispecies Justice, and Resisting Colonial Erasures in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Reading Time: 10 minutesScholars of multispecies justice are increasingly turning toward plants, animals, fungi and complex other-than-human organisms as subjects of justice in our shared worlds.
The Containable Quagmire? Colonial Environmental Legacies and Continued Attempts to Control Swamps
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn August 1938, nearly 12,000 majority-white New Deal laborers employed by the federal government began clearing land, relocating communities, and erecting a forty-two-mile system of dams and dikes under the direction of the South Carolina Public Service Authority.
Green Space Versus the Police State: The Future of Weelaunee People’s Park
Reading Time: 7 minutesAtlanta—a twentieth-century hub for the Black middle class, a battleground over segregation, and now … the destination for brunch?
