Integrative Learning: Earth Justice: Resources

With the Climate Reality Project, Al Gore is helping mold future leaders to build the movement for climate survival and social justice from the ground up. TED Talk 2020 6:48 min.

Tzeporah Berman, has been designing and winning environmental campaigns in Canada for two decades. She discusses these campaigns, including the 5-month-long protests of old-growth logging at Clayoquot Sound, the protection of the Great Bear Rain Forest, pressure on Victoria's Secret. She discusses her approach to working with industry once she has forced it to negotiate. 1:06 min.

MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx -- and shows how minority neighborhoods suffer most from flawed urban policy. TED Talk 2006 18:17 min.

We can't rely on those who created climate change to fix it, says climate justice organizer Ozawa Bineshi Albert. An Indigenous woman living in the heart of oil and gas country in the US, she's observed an alarming disconnect between empty promises made by corporations and the actual needs of communities on the ground. TED Talk 2022 13:59 min.

Everyone has the right to a clean environment -- but major disparities exist when it comes to who faces the consequences of pollution. Environmental justice leader Peggy Shepard points to the disproportionate impact that hazardous environmental conditions have on Black, brown and Indigenous communities and challenges us to build a truly equitable future that turns "sacrifice zones" -- where community health is sacrificed for the sake of development -- into "green zones" that redress the legacy of pollution and harmful policies. TED Talk 2022 11:17 min.

On December 7th, 2005, federal agents conducted a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front — an organization the FBI has called America’s “number one domestic terrorism threat. IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT is the remarkable story of the group's rise and fall, told through the transformation and radicalization of one of its members, Daniel McGowan. 86:00 min.

On the banks of Louisiana, fierce Indigenous women are ready to fight — to stop the corporate blacksnake and preserve their way of life. They are risking everything to protect Mother Earth from the predatory fossil fuel companies that seek to poison it. 25:00 min.

Assassinated Nigerian activist and a martyr, who fought for the Ogoni people's struggle against the decades-long defilement of their land by oil companies but ended up paying for it with his own life. 29:00 min.

Highlights historic citizen efforts that have resulted in saving over half of the Ballona Wetlands in Los Angeles, Bolsa Chica in Huntington Beach and part of Madrona Marsh in Torrance. It includes new footage covering the excavation of Native American remains and artifacts at the development site and presents views and actions of scientists, environmentalists, Native Americans, politicians and community activists. Approx. 22 min.

Fueling young people to change the world fighting for racial equity in the fight against climate change.

NAACP's stand. Environmental injustice, including the proliferation of climate change, systematically impacts communities of color and low-income communities in the U.S. and around the world.

Films, resources, training for environmental activism.

Natural Resources Defense Council's historical overview of the Environmental justice movement struggle to improve and maintain a clean and healthful environment, especially for those who have traditionally lived, worked and played closest to the sources of pollution.

IEN was formed by grassroots Indigenous peoples and individuals to address environmental and economic justice issues.

NRDC has worked to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.

We lift the voices of low-income, communities of color through our work on: Clean air, climate justice, and healthy homes.