Dion’s Chicago Dream delivers weekly boxes of healthy fruits and vegetables to households in need. In his Chronicle of Philanthropy opinion piece, founder Dion Dawson calls on food charities to take a fresh approach to tackling food insecurity.

In Environment+Energy Leader, Reshma Singh, senior advisor at the Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office, explains the opportunities & challenges associated with making buildings the heart of climate action.

Reshma is also the director of Berkeley Lab’s IMPEL & Cradle to Commerce programs, two cutting-edge initiatives designed to accelerate the process of getting important clean technologies to market.

When Rep. Donald McEachin (D-VA) passed away, the environmental justice movement lost a powerful champion in the House of Representatives. In Newsweek, renowned environmental justice leaders Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali of the National Wildlife Federation & the Rev. Leo Woodberry of Kingdom Living Temple urge Congress to build on Rep. McEachin’s legacy.  

Ahead of his meetings at the White House and Capitol Hill, the Reverend Leo Woodberry pens an op-ed for The Hill outlining key ways federal policymakers can advance environmental justice and ensure community-based environmental justice groups have a fair shot at accessing Justice40 Initiative funding.

In an op-ed in the Fresno Bee, the mayor of Huron – one of the poorest communities in California – urges Gov. Newsom and the California Public Utilities Commission to reject changes to the state’s rooftop and community solar net-metering program. The proposed changes would put solar out of reach for many of his constituents, and jeopardize the city’s proposed community solar microgrid and energy storage project.

Ahead of COP27, environmental justice pastor the Reverend Leo Woodberry explains in Common Dreams that climate justice groups are ushering in a new era of IRON will (Innovation, Resolve, Opportunity, New approaches) to protect disadvantaged communities around the world from the impacts of the climate crisis.

By putting equity at the center of California's lithium development plans, the state has an opportunity to turn the Salton Sea environmental disaster into a catalyst for environmental justice, green jobs and economic development. With the support of The Solutions Project, Luis Olmedo of Imperial Valley's Comite Civico del Valle calls on state leaders to listen to the experts - those who represent Imperial County government, unions, environmental justice and public health groups and local chambers of commerce - as the Golden State plans and develops this vital clean energy resource.

As heat waves become longer, hotter, and more dangerous in California, vulnerable people need cooling immediately. Dr. David Eisenman of the David Geffen School of Medicine and the UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions and V. Kelly Turner of UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation explain how chief heat officers can save lives if they direct their efforts first and foremost to frontline communities.

U.S. forests are under attack. Government leaders and even giants in the environmental movement like The Nature Conservancy seem to have a willful blind spot about just how damaging logging and the wood products industry are for frontline communities. With the support of The Solutions Project, Rev. Leo Woodberry of New Alpha Community Development Corporation and Katherine Egland of the NAACP and EEECHO (Education, Economics, Environmental, Climate and Health Organization) call for the advancement of real climate solutions that put people - not profit – first.

Considered a laggard when it comes to community solar, California is now moving to make solar more accessible for low-resource and communities of color. AB2316 would create a new statewide Community Renewable Energy Program – a program aimed at bringing solar to low-resource Californians, communities of color and renters. In an opinion article in the Fresno Bee The Solutions Project grantee the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), explains why the law would be a climate and environmental justice win for low resource Californians and communities of color who are struggling with high utility bills.