English:Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones. Sounds True, Incorporated, 2006.
Health:Becker-Lowe, Kayla. Health Mentor. Kayla is our health mentor. 2023-2024.
Social Studies:Sources for Climate Justice Research and Presentations:The Atlantic. “Environmental Racism Is the New Jim Crow.” YouTube, 6 June 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnF5I7lt6nQ. Accessed 4 January 2024.
Sources for Nepal and United States Climate Comparison:Arroyo, Martin. “,.” , - YouTube, 22 September 2021, https://socialchange.org.np/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Climate-and-Migration.pdf. Accessed 5 January 2024.
- Ella, Leela, and I read this book on writing and discussed it together - it taught me a lot about the concept of a writing practice.
- This is one of the memoirs that I read for my memoir fragments project, and I found this book the most helpful to take inspiration from for my own memoir writing (it was also in verse).
- This is a book I read over the summer and took notes on for the Reading standard.
- This is a book that I read for book group, and I am planning on writing an essay on it for Quarter 3.
- This is one of the four memoirs I read and took notes on for my fragmented memoir project, it was my favorite to read because it talked a lot about nature and environmental activism. It also talked a lot about regenerative farming, which is something I might want to write an essay about sometime during Semester 2.
- It was really cool to talk to an author, and I learned that she wrote her memoir over the course of a year between the hours of 4 and 7 in the morning!
- Linda has been a great writing mentor, and she has taught us a lot!
- This is another memoir that I read and took notes on for my fragmented memoir project.
- This is one of the memoirs I read and took notes on for my fragmented memoir project, which was written in verse.
Health:Becker-Lowe, Kayla. Health Mentor. Kayla is our health mentor. 2023-2024.
- Kayla is our health mentor, she has taught us about anatomy, menstrual cycles, energy balance and chakras, reproductive justice, and more!
- This is an article I read about the risks of vaping.
- This is an article I read about healthy, unhealthy, and abusive relationships.
- This is an article I read about alcohol’s effects on the body.
- This is a video I watched about substance abuse.
- I used the Planned Parenthood website as my source to learn about contraceptives and STD’s.
- This is a video I watched about analyzing influences.
Social Studies:Sources for Climate Justice Research and Presentations:The Atlantic. “Environmental Racism Is the New Jim Crow.” YouTube, 6 June 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnF5I7lt6nQ. Accessed 4 January 2024.
- Video about environmental racism.
- An interview with two female climate activists (one of them the creator of the All We Can Save Project), comparing the impact of the pandemic on women, and minority communities, and the impact of climate change.
- Article on environmental racism.
- Video on environmental justice.
- Video about climate justice and human rights.
- Video about feminist global climate action.
- Article about environmental racism, long article but lots of data and helpful information.
- Video explaining intersectionality, relating to Kimberle Crenshaw, and connecting it to the environmental movement.
- Video about climate justice.
- The Environmental Protection Agency’s page on environmental justice.
- Article on environmental racism.
- Article about racism in the climate activism movement.
- Article “climate change ‘impacts women more than men’”. About how women are disproportionately affected by climate change.
- An article about Biden and a legislative initiative related to environmental racism.
- Video about Eunice Foote’s discovery of the greenhouse effect.
- Article about how Jeff Bezos thinks space tourism is the solution to climate change. Sounds like he’s running away from the problem so he can keep causing it….
- Article about a model that ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine created to show predicted climate migration. Had a lot of information and data about climate migration.
- Article about sacrifice zones.
- Another article about how Eunice Foote did a study on the connection between carbon dioxide and global warming, before the more famous John Tyndall did.
- Article about pollution and environmental racism.
- Video on ecofeminism and ecofeminist Ineza Umuhoza Grace.
- Article about Amazon’s carbon emissions.
- Article on environmental racism.
- 2021 map, updated 2023, of air polluted cancer-causing hotspots - sacrifice zones.
- A collection of essays about climate change written by scientists and climate activists and compiled by Greta Thunberg.
- Greta Thunberg’s Ted Talk - from 2018, when she was 15.
- Article about Amazon’s “efforts to fight climate change”.
- Article by creator of the All We Can Save Project, about reflecting and thinking about your emotions and connection to climate change and activism, which I found very helpful and interesting and would like to go back to at some point.
- About Eunice Foote, a female scientist who published a paper on the connection between carbon dioxide and global warming, three years before the much more famous John Tyndall published his paper on a similar topic.
- An article, “Women hold the key to curbing climate change”. About how women are disproportionately affected by climate change and also how many climate activists are female.
Sources for Nepal and United States Climate Comparison:Arroyo, Martin. “,.” , - YouTube, 22 September 2021, https://socialchange.org.np/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Climate-and-Migration.pdf. Accessed 5 January 2024.
- A report on Nepal’s connections between climate change and migration.
- A BBC short film about increase in mosquitoes and malaria in Nepal, due to increased temperatures caused by climate change.
- A BBC short film about increase in water-borne diseases due to an increase in temperatures caused by climate change.
- An article about cop-28 that explains the climate conference is controversial because the president of cop-28 is the owner of a large fossil fuel company.
- An article about climate migration.
- Used to collect data on the United States.
- An article about people displaced by climate change who spoke at Cop-28.
- An article about Nepal’s climate commitments at Cop-26 in 2021.
- Article explaining that there are no international protections for climate migrants who are migrating due to slow-onset climate change (as in they are migrating because climate change is overall making their home hard to live in, but there is not one specific extreme disaster that has caused them to migrate), and this article was talking about how the Biden administration and the U.S. should work on their migrant policy so that it includes and supports and protects climate migrants.
- An article about climate migrants and refugees.
- This article explains the difference between climate migrants and climate refugees, and lists the reasons why climate migrants should be the term used (climate migrants is the current applicable term, and refers to people migrating internally or across borders because of climate change, both slow-onset, and specific climate-induced disasters; climate refugees is the term that would be used if there was an international policy change in the definition of refugees, that added climate refugees as a refugee status - the article explains why they think climate migrants is a better term and that it is more important to focus on action steps and preventative measures rather than changing the international refugee status to include climate migrants).
- Another article about climate migration.
- This article explains that climate migrants do not have international legal protections.
- An article about how the United Nations secretary general, Guterres, recently went to Nepal to deliver a message on the importance of climate action.
- Used to collect data on Nepal.
- An article on the myths and facts of climate change displacement.
- A UN Refugee Agency article about climate refugees.
- This article has a good description of how climate change is a threat multiplier: “Climate change does not itself lead to conflict, but it can magnify the impact of other factors that can spark conflict.” It also says, “UNHCR does not endorse the use of the term “climate refugee” and holds that “persons displaced in the context of disasters and climate change” is more accurate.”
- About how UNHCR has been pushing for the inclusion of people displaced by climate change at cop-28.
- An article about earthquakes in Nepal.
- A 2018 infographic based on a World Bank report on internal climate migration.
- A World Bank country climate and development report for Nepal, from 2022.
- Some data from a climate comparison between Nepal and the United States, showing that Nepal generally has a more consistent but usually higher daily maximum temperature and humidex, and the U.S. has more rainfall and precipitation than Nepal in the winter, but in the summer Nepal has a much higher amount of rainfall and precipitation than the U.S..
- A source I used for information about Nepal’s carbon dioxide emissions and GDP.
- A source I used for information about the United States’ carbon dioxide emissions and GDP.
- An article with explaining and answering questions about the 2021 White House Report on Climate Migration.