Why Do Men Get to Make the Climate Decisions?
Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we talk about women, art, climate, and guinea pigs.
Environment
Queering Climate Activism
“At the end of the day, how does the gender binary and heteronormativity support the extraction and moving of wealth to this handful of global elites?”
Indigenous Leadership for Transformative Climate Action
Native Hawaiian organizer Kaniela Ing on the moral path forward.
The Gentrification of Wilderness
“Maybe people are indeed loving places and species to death, but since BIPOC are largely disconnected from the organized outdoors, it’s white people who are spreading this toxic form of tough love.”
Justice at the Heart of Climate Activism
The modern environmental justice movement understands the health of the planet and well-being of people are connected.
The Healing Work of Returning Stolen Lands
The Wiyot Tribe regained its sacred island home after decades of unrelenting prayer and relationship-building.
100 Things You Can Do to Help in the Climate Crisis
In case you needed help getting started.
At COP26, Indigenous, Black, and Brown Activists Offer Radical Solutions for Climate Change
While elites fixate on technological fixes such as “net zero” emissions, communities of color fear it will disproportionately impact them and instead demand a just phasing out of oil and gas—and a seat at the table.
A Road Trip to Explore Race Along the Nez Perce Trail
“I felt a kinship with the Nez Perce who, like my Japanese American community, were banished to less desirable land.”
We Need a Global Treaty for Climate
To urgently drive down carbon emissions, we need a worldwide, and equitable, fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty.
Noam Chomsky Talks Climate and Racial Justice
A conversation about the roots of our current climate crisis and humanity’s prospects for emerging into a livable future.
3 Indigenous Women Talk COP26 and What Real Climate Solutions Look Like
“It’s not just swapping out oil and gas. It’s about changing the system so that it’s sustainable for everybody.”
Indigenous Leaders Call for Landback Reforms and Climate Justice in “Required Reading”
The authors, who are taking part in COP26 this week, discuss ways to support Indigenous communities and their allies in healing the planet and moving forward to a post-oil future.
10 Reasons to be Optimistic (Without Being Naive) About Climate Change
These are dark times, but hope is not lost nor foolish, and change has already begun.
Immigrants Like Me Experience Two Ends of the Climate Crisis
While my family lives under existential threat from catastrophic cyclones in Mozambique, immigrant communities in the diaspora, like mine in London, also have to face toxic air quality.
Whose Voices Are (and Aren’t) Being Heard at COP26?
“COP26 is looking like one of the most inequitable, White, and segregated COPs to ever occur.”
Every Fraction of a Degree of Global Warming Matters
“The climate crisis is here and with 1.2°C bringing so much suffering already, fighting for 1.5°C is already a compromise.”
Vanessa Nakate on What Irks and Inspires Her Climate Activism
A conversation with the Ugandan activist about her new book and how it helped her see climate change differently.
The Global South Widens the Frame on Climate
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate on the necessity of real representation in the climate movement.
The Hidden Side of Fossil Fuel Investments: Private Equity
These investment firms face fewer disclosure and transparency rules. So their investors—public pension funds—need to hold them accountable.
Building a Beautiful Climate Future Starts with Imagination
“If we’re going to make the world over, let’s do it right. Let’s make a masterpiece.”
Hearing the Language of Trees
The author of "Braiding Sweetgrass" on how human people are only one manifestation of intelligence in the living world.
What Are the Trees Saying About Us?
Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish newsletter about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we listen to what nature has to offer in the conversation around climate solutions.
Planting a Life—and a Future—After Prison
The residential and employment program on a North Carolina organic farm helps formerly incarcerated women find a new path.
Can Detroit Return its Brownfields to the Indigenous Sacred Sites They Once Were?
The destruction of burial mounds in Detroit paralleled the displacement and genocide of Indigenous peoples throughout the United States.
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