Dr. Elaine (Lan Yin) Hsiao (Associate Professor, School of Peace and Conflict Studies) and Olivia Eader (Environmental Studies and Geography Student) provide an explainer about environmental justice and climate justice - what they are, why they're important, and ways they show up in the world.

Resources Mentioned:

• ⁠KSU Environmental Design and Research Institute
• KSU Environment, Peace and Justice Minor
• Rural Action
• LANDBACK Movement⁠
• Rematriation⁠
• 'Black Poachers, White Hunters' A Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya' by Edward Steinhart
• 'Pollution is Colonialism' by Max Liboiron
• 'Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility' by Dorceta Taylor
• 'Braiding Sweetgrass' by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Intro/Outro Music: 'Fate' by Marquice Turner