Environmental professions can be alienating for Black people due to exclusion & lack of diversity. This #BlackHistoryMonth, we're profiling Black British people who are breaking the green ceiling, inspire us to go outdoors & demonstrate how powerful representation is.
There is no invention or innovation that will solve climate change for us. All we have to do is stop over-extracting resources, creating waste thru over consumption, and reestablish our habitats thru acute and long term stewardship practices. That’s it.
This Ramadan, help us continue creating safe, inclusive spaces for Muslim communities in the outdoors. Your support fuels our hikes & community projects that make a real difference!
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My keynote address at the 10th Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference this morning in New Orleans provides a brief backstory of the 18 books I've written over the past four decades. It's actually 18 volumes of one book, but don't tell anybody. The books connect fairness, justice and equity as related to environment, climate, education, health, land use, planning, finance, development, housing, segregation, racism and redlining, infrastructure, transportation, disasters, sustainability, resilience, civil rights and human rights. Check out the book titles. Now you know! @BullardCenter@EJHBCU@DSCEJ@HBCUBuzz#HBCUClimateChange#HBCUalum
Through the eons of human existence, trees had souls, mountains told stories, bees whispered secrets to us, the wind helped us make decisions. The world was literally filled with miracles. 500 years ago, a blip in time, a handful of people tried a brainwashing experiment:
In 2024, trusts & foundations are wasting their time on this burning planet while people die, consulting to come to the conclusion that the best, most reparative way to return resources to Black orgs & communities is through miniscule grants & leadership development programmes.
ALT A person taking a photo of a misty landscape, using a smartphone.
ALT Two people are sat on a snowy hill top, inspecting a map.
ALT Two people smiling and looking to the left of the image. They are wearing walking clothes and rucksacks, the background is a green, rolling hillside.
ALT Three people sat down and laughing during an outdoor walk. The sun is shining.
The fight for Palestinian liberation is also the fight for climate & ecological justice.
Two vital lessons from the student protest movement against the genocide, which all of us who care about climate & global justice must heed urgently:
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Job alert! 🚨 It can be hard to find vacancies in the climate sector. As an employer, it can be hard to reach BAME candidates.
So here’s @BCPF_UK's Thursday Thread: A Spotlight on Climate Vacancies💡
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Join us next month for our nature walk, in collaboration with Epping Forest Heritage Trust. Come and connect with fellow eldest daughters and enjoy the outdoors.
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Before the British arrived around the 1600s, Barbados was basically all forest... The deforestation that followed to make way for plantations completely changed the ecology of the island within something like 100 years.
Colonialism, genocide & ecocide go hand in hand!
The Israeli military has relentlessly bombed farmland in Gaza and killed Palestinian farmers and agricultural workers. This is intentional. This is ecocide. This is creating conditions of long-term famine. 🧵
“A tree is a little bit of the future.”
Wangari Maathai was born on this day in 1940 and went on to become the first African woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, by planting trees as resistance and empowerment. Her remarkable story, illustrated: themarginalian.org/2019/06/0…
Disturbing evidence of rural racism, says Countryfile's John Craven. For Black and Muslim families going on a staycation, each trip has to be assessed for security as to the extent of race hate. You don't want to be the only Negroe in that village. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03…