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In this episode, we meet with Selassie Atadika - a Ghanaian chef, educator and food systems advocate. After over a decade working at the United Nations working in the humanitarian sector, Selassie completed a crash course at the Culinary Institute of America. It was then when her company, Midunu, a nomadic and private dining experience highlighting ‘New African Cuisine’ was born. This episode dives into food as a medium for storytelling, and the beauty of community surrounding food. We learn how we can focus on developing flavor in plant-forward dishes and learning about how in traditional dishes, animal protein was not necessary and limited. A lot of communities of color have been eating plant-forward for time immemorial. We can learn to focus on what to avoid instead of what to take out of our diets, to live and cook in abundance, and be open to trying new ingredients and foods.

You can follow Selassie on Instagram at @satadikaBe sure to also check out @midunuchocolates -

use the promo code browngirlgreen10 for 10% off your order on the website: us.midunuchocolates.com

Learn more about the benefits of a Plant-Based Diet here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9024616/

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In this episode, we meet with Emira Woods - the newest head of Green Leadership Trust - an organization working to tackle the lack of inclusion of BIPOC on climate/ environmental organizational boards. They are the first cross-organizational effort focused on building power and diversity in any advocacy sector.  They are guided first and foremost by their responsibility as fiduciaries of the organizations we represent.

Learn more and support the GLT here: https://www.greenleadershiptrust.org/

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Deep Sea Bed Mining Interview with the folks at Sustainable Ocean Alliance and featuring Marine Expert, Diva Amon. This episode dives into the political, social, and moral implications behind "deep sea bed mining," an emerging industrial field that involves extracting submerged minerals and deposits from the sea floor. To date, mining for sand, tin, and diamonds has been generally limited to shallow coastal waters - but now industries are starting to explore what could lie in the deep sea. Scientists are very concerned, however, about the implications of mining a part of the planet that hasn't been meaningfully explored in depth, and what this could mean for the future of the planet.

To learn more about what deep sea bed mining is and how to take action, learn more from the Sustainable Ocean Alliance

https://www.soalliance.org/campaign-against-deep-seabed-mining

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More info on fight toxic prisons here

www.instagram.com/fighttoxicprisons www.instagram.com/villainus_music https://abolitionistlawcenter.org/Our-Work/Projects/Campaign-To-Fight-Toxic-Prisons/ https://nationinside.org/campaign/prison-ecology-project/

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This episode draws connections between the prison industrial complex and environmental justice- Brown Girl Green sits down with Amanda Diaz from Freedom for Immigrants @migrantfreedom on instagram.

Here’s a petition from the Shut Down Glades Coalition to take action today:https://action.aclu.org/send-message/fl-tell-dhs-shut-down-glades-now

The list of books Amanda mentioned plus more if folks are interested: 

• “Are Prisons Obsolete?” by Angela Davis (PDFs can be found here on "The Anarchist Library" and here for a more book like version.)
• We Do This Till We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
• Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown 
• "Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement” Edited by Ejeris Dixon and LEah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• “Color of Violence” The INCITE! Anthology edited by INCITE! WOmen of Color Against Violence
• “Prison By Any Other Name” by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law
• "Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect” A Truthout Collection (PDF can be found here on "The Anarchist Library.")
• Abolition Feminism Now by Angela Davis

Other Resources:  

• Let’s Talk About Abolition 15 week self-guided community course by Nikita Oliver
• Short history of immigration detention" infographic (Freedom for Immigrants)
• Interactive Immigration Detention Timeline (Freedom for Immigrants)
• Detention 101 (Detention Watch Network
• Why Abolition? (Freedom for Immigrants)
• The State of Black Immigrants (Black Alliance for Just Immigration)
• Detained: How the U.S. Built the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System (The Marshall Project)
• Immigration Detention Syllabus (Freedom for Immigrants)
• History of Criminalization Webinars (ICE out of CA)
• Immigrant Justice Now! Curriculum (Catalyst Project)
• Dismantling Detention webinar (Immigrant Legal Resource Center)
• Immigration Detention in the United States by agency (American Immigration Council)

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Learn more at greenjobsboard on instagram and the website browngirlgreen.com/greenjobs!

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In this episode you will learn about:

-The connections between colonization and conservation -How conservation movements can displace Indigneous communities -How Indigenous people in Tanzania are resisting and reclaiming the narrative of conservation over their lands

Learn more and support the Maasai here:

bit.ly/maasaihelp bit.ly/maasaihelp2

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This episode of Brown Girl Green covers the issue of food waste - which currently contributes to 6% of global green house gas emissions (our world in data). Learn from Maen Mahfoud, an expert who is taking food surplus and using it to redistribute out to the communities who need it the most. Check out this live episode and learn more about his company, Replate - a non-profit tech organization working to address the food surplus crisis.

www.replate.org

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This episode of Brown Girl Green is focused on sustainable fashion. We discuss if/ why sustainable fashion is the path forward away from throw-away culture and mass over-consumption of clothing in modern society. Despite the benefits of more "sustainable" or environmentally friendly fashion, there are still a lot of gaps around diversity, equity, and inclusion within the movement. A majority of sustainable fashion only caters to a small demographic that excludes many different ethnic groups and body types from partaking in its ethical benefits. Further, some sustainable fashion brands don't necessarily prioritize racial justice or labor rights even if they are all "green" or "zero waste." So in this episode, I examine what some of the gaps exist around sustainable fashion, but also the benefits this framework of going more "green" with your clothing habits can have on society.

The interview features Samata, a British-born Ghanaian fashion designer, author, and journalist who is best known for her role as Global Campaign Director for Red Carpet Green Dress, a campaign that is pushing to showcase ethical fashion on the Oscars red carpet. She is also an award-winning womenswear designer whose work in the fields of fashion and sustainability has received coverage from BBC Radio 1Xtra, Essence, ITV's This Morning, E! Entertainment, Women's Wear Daily, ELLE, InStyle, Essence, Refinery 29, and Red Magazine.

The biggest topics covered in this episode are: -Discussing why sustainable fashion is useful and necessary -Redefining what sustainable fashion can be- beyond just luxury goods for the privileged, how can we own actions like wearing second-hand, clothing swaps, and DIY's to minimize our consumption? -What a more diverse sustainable fashion world would look like and why that's important

Sustainable Fashion brands/ initiatives mentioned in today's episode: Sustainable Brooklyn Project One Eighty Nine Sustainable Fashion Forum Soko Kenya Fashion Revolution Anthill Fabrics Pildora NYC Mate the Label The Front Lash

Some resources for further reading: Fashion Takes Action- Fashion's role in the Sustainable Development Goals

What COVID-19 means for sustainable fashion

Ethical Fashion on a budget

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On Earth Day, I had the pleasure to interview Black Millennials 4 Flint's Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and President LaTricea D. Adams and Sierra Club's community organizer Justin Onwenu. Together, we defined environmental racism and sacrifice zones; discussed their successful coalition practices and how to they take action for their communities; the realities of receiving funding and amplifying their narratives; and how to cultivate joy in a continuously daunting world. This has been one of the most special, important conversations I've had and I am elated to share it with you.

Key takeaways/ moments:

1. The environmental justice movement, in my mind, comes out of the Civil Rights Movement… the Sanitation Workers’ Strike, Dr. King… because of the history of industrialization, communities are faced with the false choice of “jobs” or “healthy environment.” - Justin Onwenu

Justin opens the episode discussing the significance of the environmental justice movement and stresses that its recognition means we can’t ignore systemic racism and the forks-in-the-road placed for BIPOC.

1. Democracy was robbed from the people of Flint -LaTricea D. Adams

The chronic lack of clean water in Flint, Michigan demonstrates how democracy has not served this community. LaTricea names the justice that’s owed to the people of Flint, along with steps to prevent this from happening again.

1. Flint, rocked the nation. This small city made places across the country look at their infrastructure, look at how our children are exposed to lead in schools. It is literally a movement that has rocked the nation and I think there’s too many people on the outside that’s kinda stealing their thunder. -LaTricea D. Adams.

This goes back to the episode’s theme of choices and creating autonomy without much wiggle room. LaTricea discusses the significance of activists, from Flint who work on the ground there, have control over their narratives and credit for their labor. Their demand and awareness for clean water serves as a model for cities around the nation to shift their infrastructure and meet their community’s needs.

Resources to continue the conversation: www.blackmillennials4flint.org https://browngirlgreen.org/blog/black-faces-green-spaces/ https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/502813-group-targeting-environmental-racism-relaunches-amid-coronavirus https://www.naacp.org/climate-justice-resources/resource-organizations/

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