Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice

Nyema Clark, founder and director of Nurturing Roots Farm, holds a white chicken while a youth reaches out to pet the chicken's feet.

South End Groups Provide Food and Farming Opportunities for Youth

Jan 03, 2026

8 min read

Collage reflecting environment stories in 2025, featuring wildlife research, habitat restoration work, environmental advocates, kayaking on an urban waterway, and text reading “2025 Reflections: Environment.”

2025 Reflections: Looking Back at Environmental Justice Coverage

Dec 29, 2025

3 min read

A shot of overlapping sandbags on top of decorative steps in the park

Preparing the Duwamish Valley for Future Flooding

Syris Valentine

Dec 19, 2025

7 min read

View through the Gathering Space glass into Recompose’s Greenhouse, showing a wall of illuminated hexagonal vessels and a small potted plant below, where bodies undergo the human composting process to become soil.

COLUMN | How Human Composting in SoDo Challenges Class-Based Death Care

Dec 04, 2025

6 min read

Small bat on a blue knitted blanket with its mouth open as a gloved hand gently holds it under bright light.

Death in the Dark: The PNW's Race to Stop the Bat Plague

Caroline Guzman

Nov 15, 2025

6 min read

Two men work on painting a large outdoor mural shaped like a raised fist on the ground, using black paint and paper stencils at a community park site near a street and power lines on a sunny day.

Skyway's 'Black Panther Park' Grows From Food Justice to Freedom Art

Nov 04, 2025

4 min read

Edwin Alberto Hernández-Reto stands with David Goldberg from the City of Seattle (to his left), Bryce Hesterman from NextCycle Washington (to his right), and youth students with DVSA in front of the biodigester.

South Park Biodigester Fuels Model for Community-Led Sustainability

Oct 25, 2025

5 min read

Southeast Asian-presenting woman in a red jacket standing beside a colorful outdoor mosaic art installation made of vibrant tiles in blue, red, yellow, and white patterns at a park.

South End Gem Awards | Maria Batayola: Leading With Love and Justice in Beacon Hill

Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero

Oct 22, 2025

3 min read

Indigenous woman holds a red, white, yellow, and black flag featuring an Indigenous hand symbol in front of the Athenian restaurant at Pike Place Market in Seattle.

South End Life: In New Children's Book, South End Author Honors the Spirit and Leaders of Standing Rock

Oct 16, 2025

5 min read

Group of seven people smiling under a yellow canopy at a Skyway Coalition community event, gathered around a 3D terrain model.

A Groundbreaking Skyway Project Will Create Permanently Affordable Homes

Jadenne Radoc Cabahug

Sep 16, 2025

6 min read

Beaver resting among lush greenery and wildflowers at the edge of Meadowbrook Pond in Seattle, with calm water and dense vegetation in the background.

Beavers Build Bridges: How These Seattle Critters Are Connecting Communities to Climate Solutions

Sep 04, 2025

5 min read

From left: 3936 S. Angeline St. on Aug. 11, and the same site on Aug. 28.

As Seattle Is About to Review Its Tree Ordinance, a Private Lot in Columbia City Loses a Grove of Trees

Aug 30, 2025

3 min read

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