Resources

Additional Resources

50 Black Voices in the Green Space
https://www.permacrafters.com/50-black-voices-in-the-green-space/

 Black voices are underrepresented in the environmental movement. Take the time to discover these incredible Black eco-influencers doing impactful work in the many fields of environmental protection.

Closing the Adventure Gap: Women of Color are Reshaping the Outdoors Travel Industry
https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/women-color-reshaping-outdoors-travel/?fbclid=IwAR1sKusuLABIHed7WCGRDq8_xAS471tveZ2khbsReYMPSsDdjyfPpilK_i8

Meet three women who had to become their own role models in a field where, historically, the stories about outdoor adventure almost always centered the experiences of white men. Women of color are challenging those stereotypes and claiming their space in the outdoor industry. Their efforts contribute to a movement to close “the adventure gap”- the wide disparity in representation for people of color in the outdoor industry.

Giving Mountains Back Their Indigenous Names
https://www.outsideonline.com/2277891/giving-mountains-back-their-indigenous-names?fbclid=IwAR3-4DPJR8k3uaN_IdqM46z1jNYlIfK9d24GMAOoa3DFUJfyrzoNJKOF-9o

Learn about the efforts of Navajo climber, Len Necefer, who is using indigenous geotagging to honor the sacred names of mountains he summitted, including sacred mountains of the Navajo Nation: Sisnaajiini (Blanca Peak) in Colorado, Dook’o’ooslííd, Nuvatukya’ovi, and Wi:munakwa (the San Francisco Peaks) in Arizona. Since beginning, Necefer has worked to create indigenous place-name geotags for more than 40 mountains.

Diversity in Climbing with Brown Girls Climb
https://youtu.be/UfvlbXoCKQE

Brown Girls Climb aims to promote and increase visibility of diversity in climbing by establishing a community of climbers of color, encouraging leadership opportunities for identified women climbers of color, and by creating inclusive opportunities to climb and explore for underrepresented communities. In this podcast, Brown Girls Climb leaders Bethany Lebewitz, Monserrat Alvarez, and Sasha McGhee as they share more about their work in the world of climbing. 

Video Resources

Race: The Power of an Illusion- The House We Live In (6:05 min)
http://youtu.be/mW764dXEI_8

This video clip uncovers how race resides not in nature but in politics, economics, and culture. It reveals how our social institutions “make” race by disproportionately channeling resources, power, status and wealth to white people. The clip is taken from a full 3-part documentary series which is a foundational introduction to the science, history, and current disparities around structural racism.

TEDx- Jay Smooth- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Talking about Race (11:57 min)
http://youtu.be/MbdxeFcQtaU

Jay Smooth is host of New York’s longest running hip-hop radio show, the Underground Railroad on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York, and is an acclaimed commentator on politics and culture. In this talk, he discusses the sometimes thorny territory of how we discuss issues of race and racism, offering insightful and humorous suggestions for expanding our perceptions on the subject.

TED Talks: Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story (19:17 min)
http://youtu.be/D9Ihs241zeg

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells a story of how she found her authentic cultural voice- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.