Environmental Justice and Financial Literacy with Natalia

It’s double Natalia, double the fun this week. First she’s giving you Environmental Justice 101, but make it podcast friendly. What does environmental justice mean? Why does it have to do with environmental racism? How is Martin Luther King, Jr. involved? Will Natalia ever learn to spell “environmental” without using spell check? Then she interviews Yasi Agah, Executive Director of the 5 Buckets Foundation for Financial Literacy Month. What does her foundation do? What even is financial literacy? Why is it a feminist issue? We gon’ learn today!

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Natalia – Instagram / Twitter

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Yasi Agah – Instagram

5 Buckets Foundation – Website / Instagram / Twitter

Sources for Environmental Justice:

• Melosi, M. (2000). Environmental Justice, Political Agenda Setting, and the Myths of History. Journal of Policy History, 12(1), 43-71. doi:10.1353/jph.2000.0008 
• As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Environmental Justice/Environmental Racism (EJ.Net)
• The Environmental Justice Movement (National Resource Defense Council)
• Environmental Justice Timeline (ArcGis) 
• History of Environmental Justice (Sierra Club)
• What is Environmental Justice? (Green Action)
• What is Environmental Racism? (We Forum)

Read More

• All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by: Katharine K. Wilkinson & Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
• Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial edited by: Sarah D. Wald
• Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Small Southern Town by: Melissa Checker
• Environmental Racism Has Left Black Communities Especially Vulnerable to COVID-19

This episode was edited by Phalin Oliver and produced by Renee Powers on the native land of the Dakota people.

Original music by @iam.onyxrose

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Renee Powers founded Feminist Book Club in 2018 to provide a space for intersectional feminists to learn, grow, and connect. When not reading or running the biz, you can find her drinking coffee and trying unsuccessfully to teach her retired racing greyhound how to fetch. Favorite genres: feminist thrillers, contemporary literary fiction, short stories, and anything that might be described as "irreverent"