Learn about access to nature and environmental justice
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/environmental-justice
https://www.ncel.net/environmental-justice
Learn about silence
“Lower neighborhood socioeconomic status or a higher proportion of minority race/ethnicities is [also] associated with higher noise levels: significant associations between increased proportions of Asian, black, and Hispanic individuals and higher levels of noise in urban and suburban/rural areas…
…analysis of estimated outdoor noise exposures throughout the contiguous United States found evidence of higher noise exposures in groups characterized by higher proportions of American Indian, Asian, black, and Hispanic residents.”
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP898
https://onbeing.org/programs/gordon-hempton-silence-and-the-presence-of-everything/
Learn about nature & health
We love nature because we learned to love the things that helped us survive. We are hard wired to affiliate with the natural world and just as our health improves when we are in it, so our health suffers when we are divorced from it.
-E.O. Wilson
https://natureandhealth.uw.edu/
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaax0903.full
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/01/call-to-wild/
https://www.motherearthliving.com/health-and-wellness/mind-and-body/nature-and-health-zmfz16mazolc
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-healing-power-of-nature?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Learn about trauma
When we’re talking about trauma, when we’re talking about historical trauma, intergenerational trauma, persistent institutional trauma, and personal traumas — whether that be childhood, adolescence, or adulthood — those things, when they are left constricted, you begin to be shaped around the constriction. And it is wordless.
- Resmaa Menakem
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287267277_The_Trauma_of_the_Incarceration_Experience https://www.coablog.org/home/2018/3/13/the-power-of-books-incarceration-and-trauma