Madison Kate Williams is a sophomore at UNC Chapel Hill majoring in environmental science and minoring in geography and Russian language and culture. She loves hiking, traveling, and arts and crafts. She hopes to go to law school and become an environmental lawyer after graduation.
Paging Earth is a climate communications blog dedicated to demystifying, depolarizing and educating the public about climate change activism and climate science. Each week, one of our GCP team members shares the content currently making their world go ‘round. This week, our Southern Communication’s Liaison and Law Analyst Madison Kate Williams shares their top picks:…
Empathy & Equity outlines historical and modern flaws that leave marginalized communities disproportionately vulnerable in the face of climate change. In highlighting healthier solutions, E&E weaves environmental justice into the fabric of the environmental movement to create a more equitable planet. North Carolina’s hog industry is more empire than industry. With more factory-farmed pigs than…
Whether or not you believe in climate change, environmental degradation is uncomfortable, distressing, or downright depressing to think about.
Through their tireless activism, these five Black environmentalists deconstructed the harmful narrative that climate action is exclusive to white folks. Their work spans across generations, great distances, and various environmental issues, but ultimately shares a fundamental commonality: shifting the trajectory of the environmental movement toward emphasizing inclusion, accountability, and justice. Read about Colonel Charles Young,…
Through climate media and communications, we have the power to empower, and we have to take this role seriously.
The South is stereotyped as uneducated and close-minded, but if we approach informing Southerners with this mentality, then they are not going to want to hear what we say about climate change.