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Resilience, community, and other lessons I’ve learned from my plants
Plants can be our greatest teachers, says biologist and mentor Beronda Montgomery. We just need to listen.
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For Indigenous communities, protecting traditional knowledge means reimagining how it is preserved
From digital libraries to fully immersive schools, Indigenous leaders are reclaiming and spreading cultural knowledge to ensure it doesn't get lost.
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‘Each one teach one’: 6 environmental leaders of color imagine how mentorship can be more inclusive
The definition of mentorship is changing as climate and environmental justice leaders strive to reach the disconnected, the disenfranchised, and the vulnerable.
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What happens when communities and academics teach each other? ‘Communiversity.’
Dismayed by the “repulsive and immoral” way academia often collaborates with frontline communities, environmental justice leader Beverly Wright pioneered an innovative, equitable approach.
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School or be schooled: How Gen Z is mentoring their elders on climate action
When it comes to fighting for the planet, the young have the loudest voice — and they’re making sure those in power hear it.
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Temperature Check S2E6 full transcript: The power brokers
Valencia Gunder of the Red Black and Green New Deal, and Tamara Toles O’Laughlin, CEO of Environmental Grantmakers Association discuss what it means to build a coalition and work the levers of policy to combat environmental racism.
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Temperature Check S2E5 full transcript: The connectors
NDN Collective’s Jade Begay and Eriel Tchekwie Deranger of Indigenous Climate Action talk about the consequences of holding in trauma, and the relief that comes from sharing it with their communities.
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Temperature Check S2E4 full transcript: The scientists
Herpetologist Earyn McGee and science journalist Tien Nguyen bonded over their experiences as women of color in STEM and finding their paths from academia to media. Says Tien, “This industry needs our stories.”
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Temperature Check S2E3 full transcript: The joy-givers
Bringing as many people as possible into the environmental movement is the goal for drag queen Pattie Gonia and science writer Spencer R. Scott. And the best, most inclusive way to do that? “Collaboration, community, and joy.”
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Temperature Check S2E2 full transcript: The intersectionalists
Leah Thomas, founder of Intersectional Environmentalist, and Teresa Baker, founder of the African American National Park Event, talk about friendship and intersectionality in the outdoors.
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Temperature Check S2E1 full transcript: The collaborators
Activist and hip hop artist Xiuhtezcatl, and Josué Rivas, a photographer and visual storyteller, document the struggles of Indigenous communities through powerful lyrics and images.
