Other Resources

Visit the links below to learn more about environmental justice topics, education, and advocacy.

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Books

• It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World by Mikaela Loach, 2023
• Rooted by Brea Baker, 2023
• It’s Not Just You: How to Navigate Eco-Anxiety and the Climate Crisis by Tori Tsui, 2023
• The Intersectional Environmentalist by Leah Thomas, 2022
• No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon, 2022
• Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò, 2022
• Nature is a Human Right: Why We’re Fighting for Green in a Gray World by Ellen Miles, 2022
• Fresh Banana Leaves by Dr. Jessica Hernandez, 2022
• Climate Justice, Adaptation, and Investing in Indigenous Power by NDN Collective, 2021
• Pollution is Colonialism by Max Liboiron, 2021
• A Bigger Picture by Vanessa Nakate, 2021
• The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation, 2021
• Consumed by Aja Barber, 2021
• Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet by Kinari Webb, 2021
• Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger by Julie Sze, 2020
• Climate Change from the Streets by Michael Mendez, 2020
• Poisoned Water by Candy Cooper and Marc Aronson, 2020
• Toxic Truths: Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a Post-Truth Age by Thom Davies, 2020
• A Terrible Thing to Waste by Harriet Washington, 2019
• As Long as Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker, 2019
• Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson, 2018
• Farming While Black by Leah Penniman, 2018
• The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham, 2017
• The Land is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State by Miranda Johnson, 2016
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2015
• What is Critical Environmental Justice? by David Naguib Pellow, 2017
• The River is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community by Elizabeth Hoover, 2017
• Unlikely Alliances by Zoltan Grossman, 2017
• The Rise of the American Conservation Movement by Dorceta Taylor, 2016
• Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney, 2014
• Toxic Communities by Dorceta Taylor, 2014
• The Environmental Justice of Affordable Housing book chapter by Eliot Tretter, 2014
• Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry by Camille Dungy, 2009
• From the Ground Up by Luke Cole and Sheila Foster, 2001
• Dispossessing the Wilderness by Mark David Spence, 2000
• A People’s Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living by Gregory Cajete, 1999

Videos and Documentaries

Video Series with UT Faculty, 2024

• Environmental Justice Perspectives with Paul Adams
• Environmental Justice Perspectives with Juliana Felkner
• Environmental Justice Perspectives with Cathryn Ploehn

More

• Remothering the Land, 2021
• We the Power, 2021
• Eating Our Way to Extinction, 2021
• They’re Trying to Kill Us, 2021
• Mossville: When Great Trees Fall, 2020
• Gather, 2020
• Unbreathable, 2020
• There’s Something in the Water, 2019
• The Candor and the Eagle, 2019
• Texas oil fields on fire with polluting flares from fracking, 2019
• Living without water: contamination nation, 2015
• Austin Revealed: Civil Rights Stories on PBS, 2014
• The Road Back Home: Environmental Justice and Wetland Restoration, 2012

Podcasts

• How to Save a Planet with Alex Blumberg and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
• Drilled with Amy Westervelt
• Cooler Earth
• Stories From Home: Living the Just Transition with Keenan Rhodes
• Living Downstream: The Environmental Justice Podcast with Steve Mencher
• The YIKES Podcast with Mikaela Loach and Jo Becker
• As She Rises with Leah Thomas
• Climate Talks with Sophia Li
• The Brown Girl Green Podcast with Kristy Drutman
• The Joy Report with Intersectional Environmentalist