Category Archives: Climate Crisis

MEET OLADUSU ADENIKE, AKA THE ECOFEMINIST

Oladosu Adenike
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.

ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION STARTS WITH GROWING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE – JUDY LING WONG OBE

[Photo courtesy of Judy Ling Wong, Black Environment Network]
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.

FRACK OFF. MEET THE ‘NANAS’ ACTIVIST OF LANCASHIRE – TINA ROTHERY

Tina Rothery, The Nanas
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

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.