Our Green Mosaic

Our Green Mosaic showcases a vibrant mosaic of solutions for bold climate action that tackles systemic oppression and inequality. Together, we can raise awareness of climate justice and transform it into positive climate action.   In this episode, we talk about why climate justice has to be intersectional in order to be effective. We delve into sexism, classism, racism, ableism, homophobia and transphobia to illustrate how the climate crisis makes marginalised groups more vulnerable to its impacts, and why climate justice has to be inclusive. If climate action isn't intersectional, it is incomplete at best and harmful at worst.   Key Sources: Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (1984), linked here. Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics, by Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989), linked here. Extreme Carbon Inequality by Oxfam (2015), linked here. Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, More than Two Decades Later by Columbia Law School (2017), linked here. Climate change and the right to health of people with disabilities by Penelope JS Stein and Michael Ashley Stein (2022), linked here. Confronting Injustice: Racism and the Environmental Emergency by Greenpeace and the Runnymede Trust (2022), linked here. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas (2022), linked here. Climate Change's greatest victims are women and girls by UNICEF (2023), linked here. Disability in a Time of Climate Disaster by Rachel Reed (2023), linked here. How will the climate and nature crises impact people from Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority Communities? by The Race Equality Foundation and NPC (2023), linked here. A review of intersectionality and climate change and the potential of intersectional participatory methods and storytelling to co-produce climate justice by Andrea Rigon (2025), linked here. How gender inequality and climate change are interconnected by UN Women (2025), linked here. There's No Place Like Home: The Reality of LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness by akt (2025), linked here. About LGBTQ+ homelessness by Crisis UK, linked here.   You can find this podcast on socials at Our Green Mosaic.   I’m Hannah, your host, and I am passionate about safeguarding the environment to benefit people and our planet. You can find me on socials at Hannah for Climate.

Our Green Mosaic showcases a vibrant mosaic of solutions for bold climate action that tackles systemic oppression and inequality at its roots. Together, we can raise awareness and transform it into positive climate action.   In this episode, we cover some of the worst effects of war on environmental and human rights, along with the actions we can all take to mitigate against the devastating impacts of conflict. With the US and Israel waging war on Iran, this conversation is highly relevant at this time.   Key Sources: Conflict and Environment Observatory, Environmental briefing on the Conflict in Ukraine, October 2022 (linked here) Tania S. Shoukair, How to care for your diasporic and immigrant friend, partner, colleague, employee, neighbor … who is from a war, sanctions, or disaster-affected area, 3 March 2026 (linked here) International Committee of the Red Cross, The imperative to protect water and water systems during armed conflict, 24 April 2025 (linked here) International Crisis Group, A Broken Canopy: Deforestation and Conflict in Colombia, 4 November 2021 (linked here) The Guardian, Gushing oil and roaring fires, 11 December 2021 (linked here) United Nations Environment Programme, Environmental Impact of the Escalation of Conflict in the Gaza Strip, 23 September 2025 (linked here) United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 10 December 1948 (linked here) United Nations Human Rights Council, Report A/HRC/60/CRP.3 (on Israel’s actions in Occupied Palestine), 16 September 2025 (linked here) United Nations Human Rights Council, Report A/HRC/RES/48/13 on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, 18 October 2021 (linked here) United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, Green financing – a just transition to protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples A/HRC/54/31, 21 July 2023 (linked here) World Health Organization, Yemen reports the highest burden of cholera globally, 23 December 2024 (linked here) World Wildlife Fund, Living Planet Report, 2024 (linked here) Further Resources: Fossil fuel treaty initiative (linked here)   You can find this podcast on socials at Our Green Mosaic.   I’m Hannah, your host, and I am passionate about safeguarding the environment to benefit people and our planet. You can find me on socials at Hannah for Climate.

Our Green Mosaic showcases a vibrant mosaic of solutions for bold climate action that tackles systemic oppression and inequality at its roots.   Together, we can raise awareness and transform it into positive climate action.   I’m Hannah, your host, and you can find me on socials at Hannah for Climate, and you can find this podcast at Our Green Mosaic.