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College Football, Ariana Grande, and Water

Humanitarian Side of Everything: The True Cost of Your iPhone

Is there an end to rising gas costs? How the energy crisis hurts consumers and climate change efforts

iPhone open to home screen with apps displayed.

How Social Media Fuels Fast Fashion

Livestock and Land Use: How Are We Feeding The Planet? Impactfull April 2022

Amazon Labor Conditions Climate Pledge Friendly

Are ‘Climate Pledge Friendly’ Products on Amazon Really Sustainable?

A Dose of Climate Optimism from 2021

Beef. It’s What’s Not for Dinner. – Plant-Based “Meat” and the Climate Crisis

How Will We Beat Covid-19 if We Never Learned to Recycle?

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Corporate Action

Are ‘Climate Pledge Friendly’ Products on Amazon Really Sustainable?

A Dose of Climate Optimism from 2021

How Does Amazon, LLC Affect the Amazon Rainforest?

The Impact of Overtourism & Practicing Sustainable Tourism

#RestoreOurEarth: Take Part In Earth Day 2021!

The Environmental Impact of Coffee From Bean to Cup

What Exactly is Greenwashing?

LEED: Greenwashing or Good for the Planet?

100 Companies Produce 71 Percent of Global Emissions— But What Does That Really Mean?

What is a Triple Bottom Line? Integrating Impact into Business

Innovation in Agribusiness: How ACRE supports agricultural entrepreneurs

Ecopreneurship & Sustainable Brands with Erika Rodriguez of Nadi Marketing

What We Can Learn from the Search Engine that Plants Trees

Innovation in manufacturing to curb climate change

Economy + Development

Ecological Footprint: From Local to Global Impact

To Divest or Not to Divest from Fossil Fuels: An Interview with Emily of DivestVU

Ecological Footprint: What’s Your Shoe Size?

What Does Water Mean to You? World Water Day 2021

Ecological Footprint: How Much Nature Do We Have Left?

The Circular Economy: Turning Waste into Treasure

Ecopreneurship & Sustainable Brands with Erika Rodriguez of Nadi Marketing

Sustainable Development: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter?

What We Can Learn from the Search Engine that Plants Trees

Economic Growth and Sustainability Are Not A Zero-Sum Game

Environmental Justice

“Environmental justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies.”
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Often, the negative effects of climate change and pollution land disproportionately on the shoulders of those who are poor, people of color, and those who bear the least responsibility for environmental harm. Here at Novel Hand, we’re exploring the history of the environmental justice movement and its successes and failures, as well as current problems and solutions to injustice.

Articles on Environmental Justice

When It Comes To Climate Change, Language Matters. Here’s Why.

What is COP26? Your Guide to the Largest Conference on Climate

The EPA Wants To Take A Few Years To Regulate PFAS. Here’s Why.

Podcast: The Plastic Problem with Jennifer Congdon

To Divest or Not to Divest from Fossil Fuels: An Interview with Emily of DivestVU

A Review of Seaspiracy: An Exploratory Documentary on the Seafood Industry

Beyond Cities: Uncovering the What and Why of Rural Environmental Justice

Green Homes for All: Environmental Justice and Affordable Housing

What Does Water Mean to You? World Water Day 2021

What is Ecofeminism, and Why Does it Matter?

Women Farmers Can Run the World, But How Do We Give Them Credit?

Promise and Peril of Oil Reform in Venezuela

For Small Islands, It’s Too Late to Mitigate

For People and Planet: How Slavery and Ecocide are Linked

Native American Natural Lands and Resources: How They are Exploited and What Can Be Done

Community Conservation Explained: Saving the Duwamish River

Climate Migration: A Crisis of Coffee in Guatemala

The Green New Deal is an ambitious climate solution

Charting the Course of the Green New Deal

COVID 19 and Water Quality on Reservations

One in 1,220: COVID-19 and Water on Native Reservations

Five Takeaways from the Right To Harm Documentary

Environmental Justice: What is the Path of Least Resistance?

The Drawbacks of Tourism: Native Hawaii’s Environment, Culture, and Economy

The Privatization of America’s Public Lands: Why It’s a Humanitarian Issue

What You Wear is a Humanitarian Issue. Here’s Why.

Environmental Justice, Revisited

How People of Color are Excluded from Outdoor Space in America

What is Environmental Justice, Anyway?

The Water Will Come - What Are Climate Refugees?

Climate “Refugees” Explained

Environmental Policy

A Dose of Climate Optimism from 2021

When It Comes To Climate Change, Language Matters. Here’s Why.

What is COP26? Your Guide to the Largest Conference on Climate

The EPA Wants To Take A Few Years To Regulate PFAS. Here’s Why.

Podcast: What is the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act?

Combating Climate Change: The Great Green Wall

To the Moon: Sustainability in Space and Why It Matters

Ecological Footprint: From Local to Global Impact

Carbon Farming: The Future of American Agriculture and Carbon Trading

#RestoreOurEarth: Take Part In Earth Day 2021!

Before We Drown in Plastic: Examining Solutions to Indonesia’s Plastic Waste Problem

Does the U.S Really Need a Fashion Czar?

The Water Dilemma: Can Privatization Aid the Government in Providing Water?

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: What’s Happening with Oil and Gas Development in Alaska

5 Things To Celebrate: Environmental Success Stories

Charting the Course of the Green New Deal

Sustainable Development: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter?

The Elusive Nonpoint Source Pollutant: What It Is and How It Is (Or Isn’t) Regulated

Let’s Talk Agricultural Exceptionalism

Economic Growth and Sustainability Are Not A Zero-Sum Game

Fossil Fuels + Energy

How Truly “Green” are Electric Vehicles? Exploring Costs of the Solution

100 Companies Produce 71 Percent of Global Emissions— But What Does That Really Mean?

Promise and Peril of Oil Reform in Venezuela

China and the Petroleum Industry Revisited: Solutions, Replacements, and Innovation

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: What’s Happening with Oil and Gas Development in Alaska

5 Things To Celebrate: Environmental Success Stories

Nuclear Fusion, Bionic Weeds, and Biofabrication: Three New Technologies in the Fight Against Climate Change

China and the Petroleum Industry: How it Affects Your Recycling

Green Technology

To the Moon: Sustainability in Space and Why It Matters

Gene Editing for Crops with Environmental Superpowers

Build Your Plastic Waste: Are Plastic Bricks a Magic Fix?

How Truly “Green” are Electric Vehicles? Exploring Costs of the Solution

China and the Petroleum Industry Revisited: Solutions, Replacements, and Innovation

Nuclear Fusion, Bionic Weeds, and Biofabrication: Three New Technologies in the Fight Against Climate Change

What We Can Learn from the Search Engine that Plants Trees

Innovation in manufacturing to curb climate change

Health + Hunger

Climate Change and Mushrooms: Here’s How Fungi Can Save the Planet

Local for Whom?: Evaluating Farmers’ Markets Within the Alternative Food Movement

A Review of Seaspiracy: An Exploratory Documentary on the Seafood Industry

The Threat Climate Change Poses to Food Security

Deforestation and Disease: Exploring the Connection

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: How Does Your Mask Impact the Environment?

One in 1,220: COVID-19 and Water on Native Reservations

Food Waste in a Land of Hunger

What Does a Global Pandemic Mean for Climate Change?

Indigenous Knowledge

Who Invented Zero Waste? Acknowledging Indigenous Wisdom in Modern Environmental Practices

Native American Natural Lands and Resources: How They are Exploited and What Can Be Done

Regenerative Agriculture: Back to the Basics

One in 1,220: COVID-19 and Water on Native Reservations

Learning to Fight Fire with Fire: Turning to Native Burning Practices for Help in Fire Season

The Drawbacks of Tourism: Native Hawaii’s Environment, Culture, and Economy

The Privatization of America’s Public Lands: Why It’s a Humanitarian Issue

Land Use + Agriculture

A Dose of Climate Optimism from 2021

Climate Change and Mushrooms: Here’s How Fungi Can Save the Planet

Gene Editing for Crops with Environmental Superpowers

The Impact of Overtourism & Practicing Sustainable Tourism

mighty earth chocolate campaign child labor in cooca

Chocolate & Deforestation: Sam Mawutor of Mighty Earth

Ecological Footprint: From Local to Global Impact

Carbon Farming: The Future of American Agriculture and Carbon Trading

The Environmental Impact of Coffee From Bean to Cup

Women Farmers Can Run the World, But How Do We Give Them Credit?

For Small Islands, It’s Too Late to Mitigate

Native American Natural Lands and Resources: How They are Exploited and What Can Be Done

Regenerative Agriculture Model as an Avenue for Institutional Justice

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: What’s Happening with Oil and Gas Development in Alaska

Regenerative Agriculture: Back to the Basics

Agriculture and climate change: five takeaways from new Kiss the Ground documentary

The Privatization of America’s Public Lands: Why It’s a Humanitarian Issue

How People of Color are Excluded from Outdoor Space in America

Sustainable Living

When It Comes To Climate Change, Language Matters. Here’s Why.

Climate Change and Mushrooms: Here’s How Fungi Can Save the Planet

A World Free of Plastic: Let’s Talk Solutions

Podcast: Is Going Zero Waste Actually Possible?

Waste Not, Want Not: Exploring the Zero-Waste Movement

Podcast: Ocean Plastics and You

Podcast: The Plastic Problem with Jennifer Congdon

What’s the Problem With Plastic?

Eco-Anxiety and You: Building Resilience in the Face of Climate Doom

What’s in Your Water? How to Reduce Household Water Pollution

How You Can Heal the Ecosystem From Your Own Backyard

A Review of Seaspiracy: An Exploratory Documentary on the Seafood Industry

#RestoreOurEarth: Take Part In Earth Day 2021!

Before We Drown in Plastic: Examining Solutions to Indonesia’s Plastic Waste Problem

What Exactly is Greenwashing?

Ecological Footprint: What’s Your Shoe Size?

Build Your Plastic Waste: Are Plastic Bricks a Magic Fix?

LEED: Greenwashing or Good for the Planet?

Simple Actions You Can Make to Move Toward a Sustainable Closet

Does the U.S Really Need a Fashion Czar?

How Truly “Green” are Electric Vehicles? Exploring Costs of the Solution

Who Invented Zero Waste? Acknowledging Indigenous Wisdom in Modern Environmental Practices

what plastic straws do to the environment

#StopSucking: How Plastic Straws Became the Face of the Anti-Plastic Movement

The Circular Economy: Turning Waste into Treasure

Reducing Food Waste One Plate at a Time: Solutions to a Global Dilemma

What’s the Problem With Palm Oil?

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: How Does Your Mask Impact the Environment?

Sustainable Eating: Buying Locally, Veganism, and the Impact of Agriculture on the Environment

The Drawbacks of Tourism: Native Hawaii’s Environment, Culture, and Economy

Putting Eco-effectiveness Into Practice

What We Can Learn from the Search Engine that Plants Trees

What You Wear is a Humanitarian Issue. Here’s Why.

Five Things You Didn’t Know About Your Favorite T-shirt

How burgers cause climate change (and what you can do about it)

All My Thoughts on Zero Waste: Waste Equals Food

All my thoughts on Zero Waste: Eco-effectiveness

All My Thoughts on Zero Waste: Eco-efficiency

All My Thoughts on Zero Waste: Sorry Mom, I Had to Throw it Away

All My Thoughts on Zero Waste: What is Zero Waste?

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Want more resources to further your learning? Check out some of our team’s favorites below!

Books

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. | Book | Alexa’s reviews |
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom. | Book |
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh. | Book |
Tales of Two Planets, edited by John Freeman. | Book |
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. | Book |
Rising by Elizabeth Rush. | Book |
How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum. | Book |
Storming the Wall by Todd Miller. | Book |
Don’t Even Think About It by George Marshall. | Book |
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal. | Book |
Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution by Peter Kalmus | Book |
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein | Book |

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