Guides: Redpath Book Display: Open Climate Justice

Climate change does not affect everyone equally. Access to information is a key part of connecting communities across disciplines and understanding the vast and imminent impacts of climate change. In conjunction with International Open Access Week, which focuses on Climate Justice, McGill Library will host a physical and virtual display starting the week of October 24, featuring books, films, and music that grapple with the inequities surrounding the climate crisis.

Canadian Environmental Law Association
A speciality legal clinic working to protect human health and the environment by seeking justice for those harmed by pollution and by working to change policies to prevent such problems.
Climate Justice Programme
An independent not for profit, non-government organisation that uses the law to expose environmental and human rights issues relating to climate change
ECOLEX: Environmental Law Database
An information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP.
EJAtlas - Global Atlas of Environmental Justice
The environmental justice atlas documents and catalogues social conflict around environmental issues.
Grist
A nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: Environmental and Climate Justice
An association dedicated to grassroots activism for civil rights and social justice.
Native Land Digital
An app to help map Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages.

Archivists Against the Climate Crisis
98.8%: that’s the percentage of American archives likely to encounter at least one climate risk factor by the year 2100, according to a 2018 article by Eira Tansey and Ben Goldman. In this episode, Nicole speaks with the archivists whose work SAA described as “tireless and… critical to addressing the impact of climate change on the archival profession.”
The Climate Justice & Inequality podcast series CONVERSATIONS ON PUBLIC POLICY, LAND DEFENSE, AND A GROWING MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE
In their latest series on the Below the Radar podcast, the team chats with five leaders of the climate justice movement in Vancouver, Canada. They each talked about their personal experiences as activists and how we can work towards mitigating climate change and systemic inequality.
Does it Matter? Cultural Memory and the Climate Crisis
Climate change is the biggest challenge facing humanity. It stands to disrupt every aspect of our lives, including our cultural heritage. But how much do records, buildings, artifacts, or even traditions matter in the face of extreme weather and massive human displacement? Join this season’s host, Nicole Kang Ferraiolo, as she speaks to all seven of this season’s guests about the risks climate change poses to our cultural memory and why we should care.
Let’s Talk Climate Justice, Y’all!
This podcast is dedicated to lifting up and centring the climate and environmental justice movement in the South.
Material Memory: Climate Displacement and Cultural Resilience
ictoria Herrmann, president and managing director at the Arctic Institute, speaks with host Nicole Kang Ferraiolo about climate change and forced displacement in the US and what it means for different communities and their cultural heritage.

The Nature of Things: Rebellion
Global temperatures are rising and so are we: millions of young people rise up to demand their right to a livable planet.
Environmental & Climate Justice Films Collection
a project of the Environmental & Climate Justice Studies Research Hub (EJ/CJ) at UCSB’s Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies — working to advance scholar-activism across the horizon of globalization, in defence of vulnerable human communities, fragile environments and a just climate future.
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution
A film by the international NGO Local Futures, shows a quiet and transformative revolution emerging worldwide. Away from the screens of the mainstream media, the crude ‘bigger is better’ narrative that has dominated economic thinking for centuries is being challenged.
Tomorrow's Power (2019)
Local activists in Gaza, Germany, and Colombia challenge fossil-fuel dependency and power structures in a struggle for social and climate justice.
Immuto (Change)
This Island Reach Foundation video features agents of change calling for mutual recognition and reciprocity across distance and cultural differences.