Environmental Justice


As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (Critical America, 34)
Silent Spring
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection
Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality
New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism
Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots
Dave Eggers
Don't you know that what you can do, I can do? Don't you know that I can summon your own winds, move the plates of this earth, just as you do? This earth is not yours; it's ours. Don't you fucking know this? Why do you play with us when you know I will do the same, and worse, to you? I will bring the winds of your world to bear against you. I will take your winds and twist them and throw them to you. I will mix them with your oceans, I will wrench them together and send them up to you and watch ...more
Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

Dropping down dead, the birds, like Fe’s chemical, are heavier than air. Once Fe does comprehend her incomprehensible world, she realizes her own unintentional but harmful actions. She recollects how she had “more than once dumped [the chemical] down the drain at the end of the day,” which meant that it “went into the sewage system and worked its way to people’s septic tanks, vegetable gardens, kitchen taps and sun-made tea”. In this work of marvels, mysteries, and myths, it is the invisible yet ...more
Stacy Alaimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self

More quotes...
Burning Issues Book Club A book club to read and discuss non-fiction works related to climate change, environmental degra…more
39 members, last active 6 years ago
Tree Huggers Book Club Tree Huggers Book Club, a program run by the Highland Neighbors for Sustainability in Highland, …more
20 members, last active 40 days ago
book shortlist for Terraphase Bookclub
3 members, last active one year ago
Agroecology Book Club A book club dedicated to communally exploring together sustainable agriculture, community, ecolo…more
6 members, last active 9 months ago