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Planting with Pride: Nurturing Community Roots for Food Justice
Steph Niaupari is the Founder of Plantita Power, a DC-based collective led by and for Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPOC). Plantita Power fosters community connections where QTBIPOC can nurture their own personal sustenance, relationship to food, and reclaim food sovereignty.
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Read MoreHOT & COLD NYC: Revealing the Faces and Places of Energy Insecurity
Shane Araujo is a research assistant and the junior editor for the Hot & Cold NYC team at the Energy, Equity, Housing, and Health program (E2H2 at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health) led by Dr. Diana Hernández.
Read MoreMobilizing for Environmental Change – How Infrastructure Can Accelerate Progress
Jennifer is a Program Officer for Mosaic, a national grantmaking initiative focused on building a bigger, more influential environmental movement.
Read MoreCatch Me Outside with my Dark Skin, Sapphic Gaze, and Feet covered in Soil
In this blog, Green 2.0 Fellow Ki’Ana Speights explores how their identity as a Black, Queer person intersects with the ecological world, and how they work to reclaim their space in nature. They dissect how White-heteronormative binaries were designed to exclude BIPOC people and make them feel othered. Through the lens of queer ecology, they imagine a future where society can accept and reflect the fluidity of nature.
Read MoreEmbracing Your Heritage Doesn’t Mean You Need To Eat Meat
In this blog, Green 2.0 Fellow Kevin Hernandez discusses the colonization of Mexico and how it streamlined Mexican food becoming meat-centric along with his experience as a vegetarian Mexican-American. He proposes that people try to understand their culture and encourages them to try a plant-based diet.
Read MoreThe Ethical Echoes of Oppenheimer and Our Climate Crisis: A Call for Collective Responsibility
Through the lens of the award-winning film Oppenheimer, Good Energy Collective’s Michael Mouton argues for a reevaluation and departure from the ‘great man’ narrative. He calls for a collective approach to far-reaching crises and problems — like the climate crisis.
Read MoreBreaking Barriers and Empowering Women of Color in Environmental Policy
Marilyn serves as the Public Engagement Director for the House Committee on Natural Resources Democrats. She leads the Committee staff work on all stakeholder engagement on issues that fall under the jurisdiction of the Committee.
Read MoreAdvancing Justice from the Classroom to Capitol Hill
Josephine Amusa serves as a policy advisor for Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08). In this capacity, she leads all issues related to energy, climate, natural resources and public lands, science and space, animals, and Tribes.
Read MoreOur History and The Why
Serving as the Diversity and Justice Senior Vice President at The Climate Reality Project, Jamiah held DEIJ leadership roles within the political space and worked for progressive organizations and civil rights, before her almost 3-year tenure at The Climate Reality Project.
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