In this series of interviews our volunteer interviewer and writer Louise Turner has been speaking with leading voices in climate activism, discussing why climate justice is a feminist issue.
SINGING FOR WOMEN’S CLIMATE JUSTICE!
Read our interview with musician Amanda Bogle - who shares how she got involved and her experience in the Climate Sisters project. ...
ECOFEMINIST ECONOMICS AND A RETURN TO GIVING
Interview with Genevieve Vaughan, an ecofeminist theorist-activist and writer working to reimagine socio-ecological relations. ...
ENDING MILITARISM FOR A SOCIALLY JUST WORLD
Read our interview with Jodie Evans, co-founder of CODEPINK, a women-led feminist organisation working to end U.S. militarism. ...
CAR FREE CITIES FOR CLIMATE AND HEALTH
Interview with Hirra Khan Adeogun who leads the Car Free Cities campaign for climate action charity, Possible. ...
LOCAL SOLUTIONS: REAL NAPPIES. A SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVE SUPPORTING FAMILIES TO USE REUSABLES – JOY VICK
Interview with Joy Vick founder of Nappy Ever After, the nappy laundry service giving parents the opportunity to try reusables. ...
IT’S TIME TO EDUCATE CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS ON THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY & THE KNOWLEDGE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES – PAULINE OWITI
Interview with Pauline Owiti, National Coordinator at the UN Climate Conference of Youth, COY16. She is a climate activist for KEAN, Kenyan Environmental Action Network, XR and Fridays for Future; and an organiser with Mock COP. ...
WHY YOUNG PEOPLE ARE CENTERING INTERSECTIONALITY IN THE CLIMATE JUSTICE MOVEMENT – DOMINIQUE PALMER
Interview with Dominique Palmer -organiser within Fridays for Future Int, the UK Student Climate Network & Launch Coordinator for Climate Live ...
CLIMATE CHANGE IS MORE THAN CO2 EMISSIONS. ALL SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION ARE DRIVING THE CRISIS! – DIPTI BHATNAGAR
Interview with Dipti Bhatnagar, Int Programme Coordinator on Climate Justice & Energy with Friends of the Earth Int based in Mozambique. ...
MEET OLADUSU ADENIKE, AKA THE ECOFEMINIST
Read our interview with Oladuso Adenike is a youth activist from Nigeria who goes by the name, The Ecofeminist. Named by the BBC as a key African activist and spoke at COP25. Oladosu talks about the severe impacts of climate injustice on women and girls and underscores that an ecofeminist understanding of the problem, and its solution, is essential. ...
THERE’S A CRISIS IN THE CARE INDUSTRY #CAREJOBSAREGREENJOBS – MAEVE COHEN
Read our interview with Maeve Cohen who along with Professor Sherilyn MacGregor, is authoring a UK Feminist Green New Deal policy paper to integrate feminist perspectives with the green agenda. ...
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION STARTS WITH GROWING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE – JUDY LING WONG OBE
Creator, artist and public figure honored for her commitment and pioneering work in the environmental sector, we spoke to Judy Ling Wong, founder of the Black Environment Network (BEN). Judy is a major voice in policy towards social inclusion and has worked for over thirty years in environmental participation, increasing access to the environmental sector, and nature itself, within Black and ethnic minority communities. Her philosophy around engaging people in environmental action is based on giving people the opportunity to experience and enjoy nature firsthand, particularly wild nature. ...
BRIDGING CLIMATE ACTIVISM AND POLITICS WITH EMMA GREENWOOD
Emma Greenwood is Youth MP for Bury and a climate activist. She is part of Youth Strike Manchester and is 16 years old. ...
THE POWER BEHIND ECO-FEMINISM – ZARINA AHMAD
We speak with Zarina Ahmad, a climate change communicator and trainer with CEMVO Scotland, a race-equality organisation and intermediary with Scottish government about why feminism is a climate justice issue. ...
WE NEED QUEER AND PEOPLE OF COLOUR-LED SPACES TO DISRUPT THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT – GUPPI BOLA
We speak to Guppi Bola, a climate organiser with Wretched of The Earth and co-founder of Working On Our Power, a leadership programme for trans, non-binary and women of colour. ...
FRACK OFF. MEET THE ‘NANAS’ ACTIVIST OF LANCASHIRE – TINA ROTHERY
We speak to Tina Rothery of The Nanas, an environmental movement for women of all ages, opposing hydraulic fracking giant, Cuadrilla. - to find out more about her and The Nana’s, as well as getting her views on why climate justice is a feminist issue. ...
WHAT WOULD A FEMINIST FUTURE AND RESPONSE TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS LOOK LIKE? – DR SHERILYN MACGREGOR
We speak to Professor Sherilyn MacGregor. Sherilyn is an academic at The University of Manchester whose research focuses on the relationship between feminist and environmental politics. ...

Louise Turner is an MSc Environmental Governance student at The University of Manchester and volunteer at Wen.