…enemy when the turpentine industry destroyed the forests. When a plantation was being used, overseers used controlled burning, a technique Native American communities used first, to kill competing plants. Once…
…artists, entertainers, community leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians, and other climate experts. Nakisa has built a local to national track record as a community organizer, with years of experience in corporate, community…
…thinking through the ways opportunities were distributed in my community. I mean, I struggled as I watched affluent transplants come to my community while the people who I knew and…
…it is an issue of environmental justice when we take a look at the most often low income Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities where these forests are being destroyed. Here…
…our forests and rural communities from destructive industrial forestry practices? That was the question of the day in the North Carolina state capitol. Yesterday afternoon leaders from communities that have…
