Watch Inspiring Films, Learn More, and Take Action!
Breaking Barriers
- The next time you buy gear for your outdoor adventures, seek out a BIPOC-owned company
- Check out American Trail’s accessibility hub to learn more about creating accessible outdoor recreation: https://www.americantrails.org/resources/accessibility-hub
- Join a local hiking group and invite a friend who may not have had as much exposure to the outdoors
- Articles on the “nature gap”:
Healthy Land, Healthy Communities (Reciprocity and regenerative food ways/land stewardship)
- Learn whose ancestral land you’re living on at https://native-land.ca/
- Prioritize heirloom crops designed for your local ecosystem when planting an edible garden
- Minimize your use of disposable plastics to prevent trash from escaping into waterways
- Reduce your consumption of meat products.
- Visit https://localharvest.org to find local farms, markets, and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) operations
- Reduce your food waste!
- In addition to using up valuable resources and contributing to food insecurity, food waste produces methane in landfill, a powerful greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. Up to 40% of food in America is wasted. Consumers produce the most waste compared to any other sector.
- Info on how to reduce your food waste:
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- Compost your food scraps!
- Freeze any perishable food that you will not eat in the next few days.
- Be aware that expiration dates are not an indicator of food safety, but of peak quality.
- When shopping, opt for dented packaging, “ugly” produce, and single bananas, because they will likely be thrown away. Find more info here.
Get involved with the films!
- Tahmina Martelly: Improving Food Access, Building Community, & Protecting the Puget Sound
- Bring the Salmon Home
- Salmon Science: Watershed to Ocean
- Long Live the Kings: https://lltk.org
- Produced by ZP Productions: https://www.instagram.com/zp.producti…
- Hood Canal Steelhead Project: https://www.pnwsalmoncenter.org/resea…
- International Year of the Salmon 2022 Winter High Seas Expedition: https://yearofthesalmon.org/2022exped…
- NOAA Fisheries: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/region…
- Follow LLTK for more salmon science and recovery actions:
- https://www.facebook.com/longlivekings
- https://www.instagram.com/longlive.ki…
- https://twitter.com/Longlivekings
Backyard Polluters
- Find out what cosmetic toxics you might be unknowingly interacting with at https://www.clearya.com/
- Check your local air quality and avoid high-energy activities on days when quality is poor. Learn more ways to spare the air with this tool.
- Explore your local area and its environmental justice impacts with the EPA’s EJScreen tool: https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen
- Consider switching to an energy supplier that supports the transition to, and democratization of, clean power. Learn more: https://www.localcleanenergy.org/
- Understand how you are impacted by industrial facilities: Look up a pollution map, or air quality index, of the area you live.
- Check out this study on air quality inequity.
- Support local campaigns to hold companies accountable with heavier regulations.
- Helpful information on industrial air pollution: https://cleanair.org/industrial-air-pollution/
- Reduce the need for excessive manufacturing and product transportation by shrinking your consumer footprint: Buy less.
- Avoid showering or doing laundry on rainy days: sewage can overflow from storm drains and run into waterways.
- See how Bay Keeper, Rose Foundation Grantee, is working to keep our bay clean: https://baykeeper.org/featured/-victories-protect-san-francisco-bay-industrial-pollution
Get involved with the films!
- The Sacrifice Zone
- No Place for a Mine
- Take a stand against mines:
- Cascade Forest Conservancy (founded the Green River Valley Alliance): https://www.greenrivervalleyalliance.org/
- https://www.cascadeforest.org/2022/03/03/whats-next-for-the-green-river-valley/
- Take a stand against mines:
Cohabitating: Sharing the Planet with Other Species
- Lower your consumption of meat. Factory farmed livestock are a primary driver of deforestation, land degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions.99% of meat produced comes from factory farms.
- Purchase animal-safe household products. Rat poisons and the like are poisonous for other animals too!
- Look for cruelty-free cosmetic products.
- Support restoration projects aimed at rewilding landscapes.
- Advocate for the protection of wild spaces in your community and around the globe.
- Examine ways you have normalized an extractive relationship with animals
- Learn which species are endangered in your state at https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/report/species-listings-by-state-totals?statusCategory=Listed
- Further information:
Get involved with the films!
- Tule Elk: the Killing of a Native Species
- Visit https://restoreptreyesseashore.org/elkfilm/ for information on how to get involved
- Shaba
- According to the World Wildlife Fund, there is an estimate that 20,000 African elephants are killed each year. That is an average of 55 a day.
- Check out the Retiti Elephant Sanctuary, featured in Shaba
Generation Climate Change
- Talk to the young people in your life about ecoanxiety and help them process their emotions. According to a climate change survey across 10 nations, 75% of young people say ‘the future is frightening.’
- Help youth from built environments connect to natural environments
- Support youth programs focused on environmental justice like New Voices Are Rising: rosefdn.org/new-voices
- Advocate for green policy that works towards a more sustainable future.