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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

4 The Cambodian government’s stated aim is for the dam to provide enough energy to stop power outages and further develop the country. Notes See “Hydropower Lower Sesan II,” Royal Group, accessed July 13, 2024, royalgroup.com.kh/ business-portfolio/energy-division/hydropower-lower-sesan-2. 2 (Spring 1998): 417–28.

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Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

NonProfit Quarterly

12 GHGs such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide are naturally occurring gases that absorb energy from the sun and trap heat inside the atmosphere reflected from the earth’s surface. According to NASA, the average surface temperature of Earth “was about 2.45 degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.36 degrees Fahrenheit (1.30 Sources: S.

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Eliminating Biphobia Through Breath, Brotherhood, and the Arts

NonProfit Quarterly

We need physical, social, cultural, and mental space to understand what it means to live at this complicated and wondrous intersection of ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality that is Black bisexuality+ on our own terms and within value systems that give our experience meaning, our lives purpose, and our realities affirmation.

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Building Boundaries in Love for Equity and Justice: An AI Manifesto

NonProfit Quarterly

AIs ecological footprint extends through water-intensive demands, energy consumption, carbon emissions, and resource extraction, all of which pose serious risks to human health and fragile ecosystems. The data centers that power AI systems consume vast amounts of water for cooling, exacerbating water insecurity in vulnerable regions.

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Building Youth Power

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Primed by the undocumented youth movement at the beginning of the decade, and drawing energy from the allied Movement for Black Lives in the latter half, these groups engaged growing numbers of adolescents in addressing local, regional, and even statewide issues. Use of intersectional frameworks.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. Climate change as an undesirable side-effect of the fantastic innovation of using fossil fuels for energy is an example. The problem has gotten worse.”

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

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If your nonprofit is working on climate justice, for example, a diverse advisory committee can help ensure your work considers the way climate policies and practices impact populations differently across age, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, gender, sexual orientation, ability, and other important identity categorizations.