This resource is a news article from May 16, 2022. It shares the experiences of members living in Little Village in Chicago, Illinois and identifies the connections between traffic, air pollution, and health. It also names some specific areas where traffic related health pollution is the worst in Little Village. Organization: NPR NPR is an […]
This resource is an interactive map provided by the Illinois Public Health Department. Using the map, you can look at doctor visit rates for the health issues listed below. The map provides data on race/ethnicity, age, education, and household income in various community areas across the state of Illinois. The map provides data for the […]
This resource is an interactive map that shows the Air Quality Index in cities all over the world. It also provides a daily world AQI ranking. Organization: IQAir Every year, 7 million people die from air pollution, and billions suffer unnecessarily from the effects of poor air quality. Yet many of people don’t have access to […]
Emanating from smokestacks, vehicle engines, construction projects, and fires large and small, airborne pollution – sometimes smaller than the width of a human hair, and very often the product of human activity – is not just contributing to climate change. It is a leading driver of heart disease and stroke, lung cancer, and respiratory infections the […]
This interactive map shows the racial disparities in flooding by Chicago zip code. Click a location on the map to view underlying flood statistics within that zip code. You may also search for an address or zip code to locate a specific place of interest (Source). Creator(s): Center for Neighborhood Technology CNT delivers innovative analysis […]
The Bhil people of Central India are amongst the country’s oldest indigenous communities. To them, the natural world is not ‘a thing apart’, but exists in a seamless relationship to their home and the everyday. Gangu Bai, Bhil artist, explores this relationship through her memories and paintings of food, work, festivals, illness, medicine… Her tales […]
Climate Lit is a hub for building young people’s climate literacy with literature, film, and stories in other media. The website offers a literature database, curricula, and a climate glossary all of which are focusing on increasing students’ climate literacy. Organization: Climate Lit Climate Lit was founded in 2021 as a cooperative of educators, scholars, […]
Taking refuge from the coronavirus pandemic, wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn set out to record all the bees he could find in his tiny urban garden in Bristol, England, filming them with one-of-a-kind lenses he forged on his kitchen table. The documentary, which kicks off Nature’s 40th season on PBS, follows Dohrn during the COVID-19 lockdown […]
There are so many ways to inspire young people to care about the environment. It is essential that students are provided with relevant local information, but also that they can EXPERIENCE something of the beauty and fragility of the environment around them. So a call to teachers! Use this website as a resource to teach […]
This website mainly serves as a vacation planner, but it includes a lot of great cultural information as well. There is a lot of history with the natural resources in Laos such as the Konglor Cave, and it has short written prompts to accompany the photos. Organization: Ecotourism Laos This organization is the government agency […]