environmental justice

Sticking the Poor with Climate Change: People, Power, and Privilege

Posted on November 8, 2013November 8, 2013 by Yaira Robinson

As I write this, I am sitting at my kitchen table while my ten-year old, home from school today with a fever, watches a movie upstairs. It is a bright, beautiful fall day in Austin, Texas—and part o... Read More

The Yoga of Ecology: A Day In The Life of the Green Wheeling Initiative

Posted on August 7, 2013August 6, 2013 by Christopher Fici

In my previous “Yoga of Ecology” post, I shared the truly brilliant and compassionate work of the Green Wheeling Initiative (GWI), a grassroots ground-up local food movement in Wheeling, W... Read More

Touring the Ironbound: Environmental Justice Made Real

Posted on November 29, 2011December 4, 2011 by Yaira Robinson

I was on a chartered bus with about 40 other people—Christians, Jews, Muslims, Unitarian Universalists, one Buddhist, and one Wiccan priest. We were united in being people of faith, in being mostly ... Read More