black lives matter

By Priyanka Jaisinghani COVID-19, “stay-at-home” orders and enforced physical distancing has made us more dependent on digital when it comes to connection and communication at both a local and global level. In the early months of the pandemic, marginalized communities were disproportionately affected and the realities of a widening inequality gap were apparent. What was […]

By Michael Svoboda, Ph.D Like the amplifying effects of climate change, which is already delivering once-in-a-century storms every four or five years, America’s increasingly divided politics have created three once-in-a-lifetime elections in just the past 20 years. But the stakes in 2020 seem another order larger than in 2000, 2008, or 2016. And who Americans […]

By Rasheena Fountain The topic of energy rarely came up during Alexis Cureton‘s childhood, split between Tulsa, Oklahoma, Duluth, Georgia, and Indianapolis. Nevertheless, Cureton can still recall his mother’s reminders to turn off the lights and not to overuse the dishwasher. Those pleas gave him an awareness of the scarcity, necessity, and costs of energy—heightened […]

By Michelle D. Holmes Most Americans know about the Dietary Guidelines for Americans primarily through their colorful representations: the original food pyramid, which a few years ago morphed into MyPlate. The guidelines represent the government mothering us to choose the healthiest vegetables, grains, sources of protein, and desserts, and to eat them in the healthiest […]

As climate activists, we can’t fight the climate crisis without considering the systemic impacts that environmental racism and White supremacy have on the frontline communities most affected by pollution and our warming world. Over the last few months, many around the world have taken time to recognize and educate themselves about the fight against police […]