Emory Environmental Report

Justice

  • Corn is In Everything (and why that’s a bad thing)

    Author: Natalia Freeze Editor: Sonya Doubledee It can feel overwhelming, standing against the monolith of industrial agriculture, a system so vast and entrenched that individual action seems insignificant and helpless.  For over ten millennia, corn has been a vital staple of human agriculture, first cultivated by the Indigenous peoples of ancient Mexico. Among the Iroquois…

  • One on One with Dr. Ajibade: ‘The Pursuit of ‘Care’

    Author: Sonya Doubledee Revised by Dr. Ajibade Editors: Clara Conry and Jared Shirts “I don’t place the climate crisis above everything else. I place human relations and our care for one another much higher.” “How can we bridge the gap between conservation and environmental justice advocates when the two groups have very different goals and…