Tom Dillon is a senior vice president at The Pew Charitable Trusts, leading the organization’s work on conservation and environment initiatives in the United States and around the world. Valérie Courtois is the executive director for the Indigenous Leadership Initiative, which supports Indigenous Nations in honouring the responsibility to care for lands and waters. She is a member of the Innu community of Mashteuiatsch, located on the shore of Peikuakami, or Lac-St-Jean and lives in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador.

Kat So is a campaign manager in the Energy & Environment Department at the Center for American Progress, a multi-issue policy think tank based in Washington DC. She is also the project coordinator for the Ocean Justice Forum. In this blog she discusses how we should measure conservation success and implement equitable 30x30 policies.

Mujeres de la Tierra is an environmental equity nonprofit founded with the guiding principles of respect, advocacy, self-determination, bravery, and creativity. Mujeres inspires the healing of La Madre Tierra by working to build grassroots community leadership and capacity among historically unrecognized communities, especially among those who are low-income, immigrant, and/or communities of color.

Green 2.0 Summer Fellow Andres Vivero is owner and founder of LB Glass Pickup, a curbside glass recycling company operating in Northern Virginia. In this blog, Andres discusses the complications of glass recycling and how his business works to increase recycling accessibility within his community and beyond.

Last Month, REI Co-op launched their Outside in 5 initiative with a mission to help get 100 million more people Outside in 5 minutes or less. In this blog, REI Co-op answers questions surrounding the history and implications of the nature gap and how Outside in 5 is working to ensure equal access to outdoor spaces for