climate justice Tag Archive
Mental Health and Climate Change 101
The climate emergency is taking a toll on everyone, especially young people, marginalized communities, and our mental health. We are experiencing increased anxiety and trauma as we grapple with an uncertain future. It’s important to understand that no one is alone in this situation and that activism is a draining passion. Read this latest blog post to learn more about how climate change affects our mental health and learn some strategies to help ease eco-anxiety.
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ACE Campaign Alert: Let’s Talk About It: What’s Your Climate Truth
With the climate emergency threatening mental health along with the health of the planet, ACE is setting out to normalize conversations about climate anxiety and create a community of support for struggling young people. #Let’sTalkAboutIt and speak #OurClimateTruth together.
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ACE INTERVIEW: Bobby Zimmerman on Addressing Community Needs through Community Action
Bobby Zimmerman is a 16-year-old student activist located in Malvern, Pennsylvania (Southeastern PA). He works with his schools’ Environmental Enthusiasts club to clean up sites in their community which are heavily affected by pollution, fundraise for local organizations, like The Philadelphia Environmental Justice Initiative and national initiatives like Tree-Plenish, and educate his peers on pressing environmental issues. He is passionate about the power of local community action and the ways in which, together through collective action, we can all create profound change, starting at the grassroots level and growing to the national and international stage.
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Where It All Started: An Our Climate Our Future Live Assembly Reflection
ACE unlocks the power of young people and gives them autonomy to take their futures into their hands. It inspired me to become an activist long before I knew the term. About 10 years later, ACE and I would reunite on several occasions to continue amplifying the voices of young people in the climate movement.
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Women’s Health and Climate Change 101
Climate change is a worldwide issue that affects everyone. However, a growing list of studies and reports are showing that climate change is widening the gender gap with women facing more climate consequences than men.
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Environmental Racism and Climate Change 101
Climate change is a worldwide issue that affects every community. However, due to systemic racism, climate change consequences disproportionately affect Black, Indigenous, and other POC communities first and worst. Environmental racism is another intersection of the climate crisis that can no longer be ignored. Minority and low-income communities are burdened with poor living conditions, contaminated natural resources, and the price of the ongoing climate crisis.
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ACE INTERVIEW: Charlotte Stuart-Tilley on Climate Change and Consumption
Charlotte Stuart-Tilley (they/them and she/her) is a GenCLEO strategist with the CLEO Institute, working with fellow youth to make change in their communities. They are in their junior year of high school and hope to major in geology or environmental sciences when they reach college. Charlotte is currently based on Mvskoke-Creek land, in Tallahassee, Florida. Stuart-Tilley is particularly interested in focusing their work within the broader climate movement on the ways in which consumption culture contributes to the climate emergency.
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Women’s History Month: Youth Activists You Should Know
By many social, economic, and political measures, women around the world are disproportionately impacted by the climate emergency. They are also at the forefront of the movement to engage in urgent climate action and lead the world into a new era of sustainability. It is imperative we all think critically about how to center the women in our circles in all capacities, but especially in regards to climate leadership. Highlighted below are just a few youth women activists paving the way for a new generation of climate and community defenders.
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ACE INTERVIEW: Issac Smith on the Necessity of Local Youth Climate Action
ssac Smith is a former ACE fellow and now a member of the Youth Advisory Board, and a third-year student at North Carolina State University. Since joining the fellowship in 2018, Issac has worked on campaigns to encourage voter registration, end the Duke monopoly, and shut down the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
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ACE Youth Action Network Demands President Biden: Stop Line 3
The Line 3 pipeline is another step toward climate catastrophe.
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