Live Like You Belong Here
In 1970, Earth Day didn’t begin as a feel-good holiday. It began as an interruption — 20 million Americans walked out of schools and jobs to protest the poisoning of their air, water, and land. The environmental movement was born from urgency and refusal. The skies were choked with smog. Rivers caught fire. Wildlife was vanishing. And climate change wasn’t even part of the conversation yet.
That same year, women were rising — not just in the U.S., but globally. Across the Global South, newly independent nations were working to reclaim their resources, even as Cold War power games redrew borders and pipelines. Decolonization, extraction, and environmental collapse were already intertwined.
Today, the story continues. We live on a plastic-clogged, over-extracted, overheated planet. But we also live in a moment of real possibility. Young women are organizing mutual aid, running for office, designing new economies, and mobilizing entire communities to act.
This year marks the 55th anniversary of Earth Day, and the call is clear: triple renewable energy by 2030. The tech is here. The urgency is here. And in places like Iceland, Denmark, and Brazil — it’s already happening. Clean, affordable power from the sun, wind, tides, and earth is not a dream, it’s the plan.
Let’s stop pretending fossil fuels are the only way forward. Let’s make “people power” literal — from battery storage to policy change. Let’s plug into a future that works for the planet and the people on it.
Add your voice. Sign the petition to demand a global shift to renewable energy by 2030.
And if you’re ready to go deeper this Earth Day, here are a few things we think are worth your time — articles to read, films to watch, and podcasts that just might shift your perspective.
Read: Girls Who Green The World –Thirty-Four Rebel Women Out to Save Our Planet
Taking Kathleen Rogers words to heart, we begin in a place we usually do; with girls and women who not only head a good many of the movements, but work tirelessly to make change.
Both biography and guidebook to the contemporary environmental movement, this book is for future and current change-makers. Girls Who Green the World features the stories of 34 revolutionaries upending stasis while reclaiming the planet as a space to thrive.
From the Publisher: Journalist Diana Kapp has crisscrossed this country writing for and about empowered girls, girls who expect to be leaders, founders and inventors. This book takes it a step further. It says to girls: while you’re striving to be CEOs and world leaders, consider solving the biggest challenge of our lifetime, too–because you can do both at the same time, and here are 34 women doing just that.”
Get it here or at your local library.
Watch: The Human Element
“Young people – they care. They know that this is the world that they’re going to grow up in, that they’re going to spend the rest of their lives in. But, I think it’s more idealistic than that. They actually believe that humanity, human species, has no right to destroy and despoil regardless.” –Sir David Attenborough
How glorious and how fragile is our planet? As the human entanglement with the 4 elements — air, earth, water and fire — radically alters this place we call home, can we reevaluate our relationship to the natural world? These are the questions environmental videographer James Balog grapples with. From climate chaos to hope, this compassionate film puts us on the front lines of the change and argues we can, by recognizing we are a part of and not apart from these natural systems, heal them. Watch on APPLE
Listen: What if We Get it Right? Ayana Elizabeth Johnson’s podcast featuring Cameron Russell on Sustainable Fashion and the Art of Care
We love Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and we love activist/model Cameron Russell so were thrilled that Cameron was recently featured on What If We Get It Right? As Johnson shares “Cameron has been an activist and organizer her entire adult life – particularly on workers rights in the fashion industry and on climate. She co-founded Model Mafia, a network of hundreds of models to use their platforms to advocate for “a more equitable, just, sustainable industry and world.” “
And ahem feel free to read our interview with Russell here and our article about her memoir here and about Johnson’s book All We Can Save here. If I think about it, you could spend your whole day just on the above! (but wait: there’s more. Keep reading…)
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Listen: The Jane Goodall Hopecast With Robin Wall Kimmerer
When the grandmothers speak, the earth will be healed. (a Hopi saying)
Join Dr. Jane Goodall and Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer (revered author of Braiding Sweetgrass and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation) in a thoughtful conversation about plants – what we can learn about and from them. They share the ways their mothers encouraged their love of nature and journeys through academia. While both are rigorous scientists viewing the world through analytical lenses, they nonetheless embrace the totality of the “ways of knowing,” emphasizing the wisdom offered from indigenous cultures. They focus on the urgent need to reconnect with the natural world through stories. As Robin puts it, “in my own evolution I have gone from scientist to storyteller because it feels like that’s what we need right now.
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-KL Dunn
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