Planetary Dysregulation & Disabled Communities
Disability justice is inextricably linked to environmental justice, and we cannot truly have either one without the other. Disabled people were some of the first to sound the alarm about the damage that seemingly mundane products cause and whose voices need to be heard in the climate space.
Planetary Dysregulation & Indigenous Communities
This project was created to showcase the lived experience of how colonisation has affected Indigenous Peoples in varied and unique ways, ripping some of us from Ancestral Lands, Peoples, and culture whilst others are currently fighting to keep their territories as colonisation continues to evolve.
Planetary Dysregulation & Transgender Communities
Nature can be a site of freedom, and an opportunity to extend our ideas of Transness outside of just humans: what if the ocean is non-binary? What could it mean to relate our genders to elements in nature rather than social norms?
Planetary Dysregulation & the Multi-Ethnic Working Class
This project was created to showcase the lived experience and expertise of the various marginalised, working-class communities being affected by the dysregulation of our planetary systems (climate change).
The Planetary Dysregulation
This report will focus on the pathways that are contributing to planetary dysregulation and their impacts on human health. With the purpose of updating policies that will support the work of environmental and health justice practitioners.
Depression as a Brain-Body Disease and its Links to Air Pollution
Depression is recognised as ‘a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease’ and has both a complex aetiology and symptomatology. It is often framed as a mental health problem, however, the more we understand the more we uncover its physical symptomology.
Decarbonisation, Natural Gas, and Health
A data-led article on the toxification of Land in the UK at the hands of industrialisation whilst the general public is shamed and gaslit for their systemic need to get into a motor vehicle. All the while, millions of tonnes of chemicals are churned out into the environment.
The Environmental Factors of Diabetes
Simply saying Black or Indigenous Peoples experience Type 2 Diabetes at a higher rate, leaves room for further racialisation as it could add to the narrative of genetic determinism, which blames a person’s biological make-up for disease rather than considering ecological factors.
The History of Disease
It's becoming increasingly clear that the relationship between human health and disease is a complex and dynamic interplay between the physical and social environment and the body.
Obesity & Trauma
This report will take an ecological approach, focusing on the bidirectional pathway between trauma and obesity to highlight the disparity between scientific evidence and communication around obesity, as well as the psychosocial factors that contribute to, and maintain, this disparity.
Health as Ecological
There is a need to understand the history behind framing health as individual choices or behaviours to better appreciate why an ecological health approach looks like and its significance in eradicating health inequities.
Using Data for Health Justice
The mission of this report is to reframe the culture around data to ensure that we understand its limitations, reframe from supremacy to a tool for justice, and introduce a more accurate lexicon so we can better our collective understanding of data.
Data Culture for Health Justice
Data does not operate in a vacuum as every part of the process is coloured by top down factors such as culture. Which data is collected, how it is analysed and the insights drawn from data are all decision points practitioners have to make and all practitioners belong to a specific culture which influences them.
Dear ‘Stop the Stink’ Campaign
This open-letter is a list of our thoughts and concerns based from attending a public meeting held between Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, Public Health England, Staffordshire County Council, the Environment Agency, and the community where Walleys Quarry Landfill site is located.
Lived Experience, Communities, and Health
This document will look at how industry gaslights communities, the mistakes science makes, and the significance of listening and acknowledging the lived experience. This report is for both practitioners and citizens who are experiencing environmental and health injustice.
Reciprocity, not Sustainability
We need environmental justice not sustainability. The destruction capitalism has done to natural habitats will now require a justice perspective, we have to fundamentally change our focus from consumption to conservation.
Equitable Urban Mobility
This report is for those working in transport planning and in policy and who are interested in understanding the link between equitable mobility and health. This report will lay out the need for equitable solutions around transport, how health is related to mobility, and a breakdown of equitable mobility zones.
Creating Ecological Health Infrastructure
We propose that to stop urban inequity our understanding of what regeneration means needs to evolve from one that is capital driven and spatially focused, to one that is health driven actively targeting the environmental, social, and governance barriers to health.
Place & Health
This report will focus primarily on the role of the built environment because practitioners have a significant influence on the ability of citizens to build healthy relationships between health and place.
Gaslighting Communities: Pathways to Injustice
In this essay, we will be detailing the pathways of oppression, including the role that science, policy, and city organisers play.