Inside the Greenhouse Newsletter Issue #17

This summer – amid many intersecting challenges in our world – we have continued to move forward with Inside the Greenhouse  efforts in the spaces of research, teaching and engagement in the spaces of creative climate communications in the public sphere. 

Among those intersections, we recognize that successfully advancing climate change engagement in the 21st century requires confrontation with environmental and institutional racism. With that in mind, Inside the Greenhouse expresses its profound support of Black Lives Matter (and the many movements towards racial justice that improve our world) by sharing these sources to support the integration of anti-racism into the communication of climate change.

• The Environmental Movement Needs to Reckon with Its Racist History  - by Julian Brave NoiseCat
• Why Every Environmentalist Should Be Anti-Racist  - by Leah Thomas
• Racism and the Environment  - by Somini Sengupta
• Teach Climate Justice Campaign  - by the Zinn Education Project
• Can We Talk? Difficult Conversations with Underrepresented People of Color: Sense of Belonging and Obstacles to STEM Fields  – a film by Kendall Moore, PhD

In newsletter #17, we share some highlights of our many ongoing activities. Visit our website for further details and more information. We continue to carry out these projects through valued collaborations and partnerships linking campus and community as well as the local with the global.