Decolonisation

Season for Ex-Change: Justice

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Thimali Kodikara hosts a panel discussion for Season for Ex-Change on what justice means within, and beyond, and a climate context.

Creative Climate Justice Films

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JB's film series featuring 14 global voices from nine countries working across arts and culture and climate justice.

Centric Lab

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A research lab that uses neuroscience and geospatial data to understand how environmental injustice impacts our health.

Climate Heritage Network

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The Climate Heritage Network is a global network whose members, including JB, are committed to mobilising arts, culture and heritage to address climate change and support communities in achieving the ambitions of the Paris Agreement.

Wang Chau Village: (Non) Indigenous wisdom amidst eviction

Profile
An online paper and zine from artist Michael Leung detailing land injustice and dispossession in the Hong Kong village of Wang Chau.

Climate Justice in Creative Practice

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Rewatch our introductory webinar exploring issues of climate justice

On Loss and Damage

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Watch the Julie's Bicycle webinar exploring the concepts of Loss and Damage

Creative Climate Justice Guide

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JB's introductory guide exploring key climate justice ideas, concepts and issues.

The Colour Green Podcast

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A six-part series hosted by Baroness Lola Young, in conversation with artists and activists of colour, exploring the connections between nature, racial justice and climate change.

I Lead Climate

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A green democracy grassroots climate campaign, founded by Nigerian eco-feminist Oladuso Adenike focusing on the recharging of Lake Chad, youth climate education, and a green recovery post Covid-19.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and Teachings of Plants

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Indigenous author Robin Wall Kimmerer explores botany through Native American traditions and it's relationship to Western science.

Timespan

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Timespan, a gallery in Helmsdale, Scotland uses digital technology to track the history of the village and landscape surrounding the gallery, connecting those histories to Scotland's role in the transatlantic slave trade and environmental destruction in the Highlands.

Common Ground

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A round up from our event Common Ground: Culture, Climate and Social Justice.

We Make Tomorrow

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A round up and livestreams from our conference We Make Tomorrow, featuring discussions on climate and environmental justice and movement building.

Counterpoints Arts

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Helping to profile, support and produce art work of all types by and about refugees and migrants, advocating for social change. Dijana Rakovic is a project manager on the team and an alumni of Creative Climate Leadership.

Colonial Countryside

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A child led writing and history project exploring the African, Caribbean and Indian connections at 11 National Trust properties.

The London Mining Network

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The London Mining Network is a coalition of organisations researching the impact of mining and monitoring abuses of human rights, Indigenous rights and workers’ rights in mining-affected communities.

Shado Magazine

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A multimedia platform capturing the inspiring ways and creative approaches in which we can See Hear Act and Do, to cultivate a culture led system change towards social justice. Their third print issue was dedicated to climate justice.

Worm: Art + Ecology

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Worm: Art + Ecology is a growing online global community and curatorial project by Angela YT Chan, communicating intersectional climate change issues through creative practices.

The Principles of Environmental Justice

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The Principles of Environmental Justice were developed by delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held in Washington DC, in 1991. They are a defining set of guidelines for the environmental justice movement.

Rise: From One Island to Another

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Poets Kathy Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna collaborated on poem Rise: From One Island to Another, highlighting the disastrous effects of climate change on their homes in Greenland and the Marshall Islands.

Hot Take

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Hot Take is a podcast taking an intersectional, critical, but constructive look at climate coverage. Hosted by climate writer Mary Heglar and climate journalist Amy Westervelt.

No Environmentalism in a Silo: What it Means to Talk About Race in our Climate Crisis

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Yingbi Lee, one of the producers of The Colour Green podcast shares her reflections on why talking about race is crucial when considering social and climate justice.

Arts Practice as Climate Justice

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Watch a recording of JB's Farah Ahmed on 'Arts practice as climate justice', part of Season for Ex-Change

Tackling climate change and building an inclusive movement

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Revisit Zena Edwards' keynote talk for Season for Ex-Change, 'Tackling climate change and building an inclusive movement'

Intersectional Environmentalist

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A platform for resources and information to support an intersectional approach to environmentalism.

Climate in Colour

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Resources, articles and videos exploring the connection between climate science and social justice

Global Witness

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An organisation campaigning to end environmental and human rights abuses driven by the exploitation of natural resources and corruption in the global political and economic system.

Gender CC

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Gender CC is a directory of resources exploring the ties between gender inequality and climate injustice

The Environmental Justice Atlas

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An interactive tool documenting and cataloguing global conflict around environmental issues.

This Changes Everything

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Naomi Klein is an author who has written extensively about climate change and it's ties to Capitalism in her books This Changes Everything, The Battle For Paradise, and On Fire.

The Great Derangement

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The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh examines our society's collective inability to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.

Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology

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T J Demos explores how artists and activists have utilised culture for climate justice.

If Not Us Then Who

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An online directory of films made in participation with Indigenous communities around the world. The films span themes of activism, different knowledge systems, how the communities live in harmony with the planet, and how climate and environmental changes affect their lives.

Ken Saro-Wiwa

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Ken Saro-Wiwa was a writer, television presenter and environmental activist. He was killed, along with 8 others for protesting Royal Dutch Shell's oil extraction in his native Ogoniland. The activists are collectively known as the Ogoni 9.

N'dau Festival of the Arts

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Creative Climate Leadership participant Phillip Kusasa, founder of the N'dau Festival of the Arts celebrates his Indigenous culture through dance and performance, documenting environmental knowledge held in N'dau stories. This was developed into workshops and policy recommendations.

Ketemu Projects

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Ketemu Projects is an artist collective based in Indonesia and Singapore, led by Creative Climate Leadership alumn Budi Agung Kuswara. Their 'Kekasih Hati Sang Bumi' project connected young people with traditional local knowledges and expressions of gratitude with nature.

Oilwatch

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Oilwatch is a network focused on solidarity across the Global South, seeking to stop the expansion of destructive fossil fuel extraction activities.

Weaving land, life and justice within, through and beyond colonisation

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A webinar from the Global Environments Network, including a resource list shared by the speakers

The World at 1C

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News and resources from the young communications initiative of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice.

The Green Belt Movement

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Founded by Professor Wangari Maathai, The Green Belt Movement empowers communities, particularly women, to conserve the environment and improve livelihoods in Kenya.

Pacific Climate Warriors

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A youth-led direct action group taking on Australia's fossil fuel industry

Cecilia Vicuña

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A Chilean poet, artist, filmmaker and activist whose work explores climate change, decolonisation, and the relationship between humans and the environment

Small Island, Big Song

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A music, film, live project recorded in nature by over a hundred musicians across 16 island nations of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, a region in the frontline of cultural and environmental challenges.

Land In Our Names

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LION is a Black-led, grassroots collective committed to reparative justice in Britain by securing land for BPOC (Black people and People of Colour). They use events, video, photography and podcasts to build an ecosystem of BPOC stewards committed to the land.

INTERPRT

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INTERPRT investigates environmental crimes using geospatial analysis, design and architectural methodologies. Their work actively supports criminalizing Ecocide as an international crime.

Apocalypse Reading Room

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A library curated by The Colour Green podcast guest Ama Josephine Budge. Part of Season For Change, selected guests are invited to read a section of their "apocalypse survival guide" from their favourite reading rooms, and then share a provocation for the audience. Listen to her episode on The Colour Green podcast.

Squirrel Nation

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Installations and live events in public spaces which create memorable experiences and concepts that consider co-existence as an ethic.

The Institute for Queer Ecology

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A platform showcasing queer, feminist, decolonial and multi-species art practice.

Union of Justice

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A European, independent, people of colour (POC) led organisation dedicated to racial justice and climate justice, founded by former MEP Magid Magid.

Fridays For Future

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An international campaign started by Greta Thunberg, fighting to create a future for all by overcoming the climate and ecological crisis.

Our Climate Voices

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An anthology collecting the stories of those most impacted by climate change, supporting local solutions for collective impact.

Green Voices of Color

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Climate justice advocate and writer Mary Annaïse Heglar has compiled Green Voices of Color, a Twitter list of BIPOC in the environmental movement.

Creative Climate Leadership

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Find out more about the global network of alumni of JB's Creative Climate Leadership programme.

Climate Reframe

Network
This project highlights some of the people of colour and UK based Indigenous people who are climate experts, campaigners and advocates living and working in the UK.

UK Youth Climate Coalition

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UKYCC is an organisation whose goal is to empower and mobilise young people to take positive action on climate justice.

The International Indigenous People's Forum on Climate Change

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Established in 2008 as the caucus for Indigenous people's participation at COP talks.

The Child Movement

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A global movement for climate justice, child rights & providing education to children who are victims of armed conflict, founded by young Indian campaigner Licypriya Kangujam.

Wretched of The Earth

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A UK based grassroots collective for Indigenous, Black, brown & diaspora groups/individuals, demanding climate justice, and in solidarity with UK & Global South communities

The Gastivists Network

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A global collective of activists fighting against gas extraction

The Re-Earth Initiative

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A global, youth-led digital campaign, gathering climate pledges from people around the world.

La Via Campesina

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A global movement of peasants, small and medium size farmers, landless people, rural women and youth, Indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers working to defend food sovereignty, social justice and nature.

Ama Josephine Budge

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In this episode of The Colour Green, we meet Ama Josephine Budge, a Speculative Writer, Artist, Curator and Pleasure Activist.

Zena Edwards

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In this The Colour Green episode we meet multidisciplinary performer, poet and writer Zena Edwards, who has been involved in performance for over 20 years – as a writer/poet performer, educator and creative project developer.

Global Tapestry of Alternatives

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GTA is an initiative seeking to create solidarity networks and strategic alliances amongst communities creating alternative ways of being on local, regional and global levels.

Women Hold Up The Sky

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Through the eyes of women impacted by extraction projects in South Africa, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Women Hold Up the Sky explores stories of resistance and communities in active struggle to regain control of their land, their rights and their bodies.

Creative Climate Chats

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A series of conversations with leading thinkers in culture and climate for discussions covering the just transition, new economics for a regenerative economy, museums, health and climate, and justice.

COP26 Coalition

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The COP26 Coalition is a UK-based civil society coalition of groups and individuals organising towards mobilising around climate justice during COP26.

Creative Climate Chats with Araceli Camargo

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We spoke to Araceli about her research, how public health policy can drive climate action, and how the arts and cultural sector can support public and planetary wellbeing.

Can I Live?

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Why don't we talk about it? Fehinti Balogun asks this urgent question and offers an invitation in Can I Live?, a vital new digital performance about the climate catastrophe, sharing his personal journey into the biggest challenge of our times.

CeCe's Speakeasy

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CeCe's Speakeasy is an immersive music and poetry experience exploring how climate injustice manifests through coffee and chocolate production.

Planet-People-Power

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Planet-People-Power explores how the South Asian diaspora experience the climate crisis, via grassroots radio networks and an audio peice from Balraj Singh Samrai and Farah Ahmad Khan.