environment

Environmental Expenses: The Multifaceted Costs of Period Products

Three young women in sunglasses and coats (one Brown woman with a brown braid and two white-passing women with their brown hair pulled off their faces) hold boxes of tampons and pads in August's advertisement.

July 6, 2021 at 12:47pm

Many people with periods are forced to pay sales tax on already expensive, disposable products for their periods. August and Rael are just some companies that are making period products accessible.

photo of a slender Black woman with long pink braids and a short-haired curvy Black woman sitting back-to-back in front of a waterfall in a lush, tropical setting wearing garments from the Chromat Spring 2019 Saturated collection

On the Mend: The Future of Fashion Is Sustainable

by Adwoa Afful

September 17, 2020 at 9:34am

While “sustainability” might sound like a trendy buzzword, it is actually a movement that brings together people committed to honoring what we love about clothes. Read more »

A pair of hands raised in protest with the words “Our lives are in your hands”

Our Only Home: Mapping a More Socially Just Earth Day

by Charlotte Levy

June 11, 2020 at 9:33am

Collective action in this critical moment can set the stage for a truly inclusive environmental movement. Read more »

World on Fire: Like Natural Disasters, Pandemics Reveal How Fragile Our Systems Are

by Izzie Ramirez

April 24, 2020 at 3:10pm

The systems meant to protect us are floundering. Read more »

A woman wears a protective mask and walks at the nearly-empty Beringharjo market

World on Fire: People Aren’t Bad for the Planet—Capitalism Is

by Izzie Ramirez

March 27, 2020 at 5:09pm

Coronavirus isn’t a “detox” of the Earth; it’s a disruption of the systems powering capitalism. Read more »

A young resident holds a flag in protest.

World on Fire: You Can Value Healthcare and Climate Change at the Same Time

by Izzie Ramirez

February 28, 2020 at 10:53am

It’s so easy to see climate change as a separate issue, especially when activists have painted it as such in the past. But we do not live apart from our environment. Read more »

Aditi Mayer, a brown-skinned woman with long black hair, poses in a forest in a linen suit

Popaganda: Climate Anxiety, but Make It Fashion

by Carmen Rios

January 16, 2020 at 1:19pm

Building a fashion economy where the environment and the workers along the supply chain are treated with respect is possible. Read more »

image of an Australian fire fighter in front of a huge blaze of fire

World on Fire: Fanning the Flames of Climate Change as Australia Burns

by Izzie Ramirez

January 13, 2020 at 9:58am

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been historically careless when it comes to safeguarding the environment. Read more »

a photo of three clear cups full of beer on a wooden table

The Personal Will Not Save You: What’s Really at Stake When We Partake in Performative Environmentalism

by s.e. smith

January 7, 2020 at 4:09pm

Sometimes the individual things we do, and how we frame them, are actually harmful, whether they worsen a problem or distract from a larger issue. Read more »

children wearing bee costumes stand above a yellow Give Bees a Chance sign

Poison Control: Where the 2020 Candidates Stand on Regulating Pesticide

by Amy Roost

December 5, 2019 at 11:14am

Women in Latinx-majority agricultural communities are most vulnerable to pesticide exposure because of prolonged exposure in their workplace environment. Read more »

Harriet A. Washington, a Black woman with long, black hair, stands in portrait

(Mis)measuring Intelligence: Environmental Racism Is Assaulting the Minds of People of Color

by Bani Amor

October 23, 2019 at 3:02pm

Harriet A. Washington argues that intelligence is malleable rather than fixed or inherited, and that it’s possible to solve the problem of poisons and pathogens attacking the nervous systems of people of color. Read more »