This week’s Climate Justice newsletter is about organizing to meet the moment. First, NPQ is inviting contributors to the spring 2024 issue of Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine. Next, 2023 is shaping up to be the year of banned books, with objections lodged against hundreds of books that deal with race, sexuality, gender, or climate change—and NPQ spoke to two writers of banned books about the work they’re doing to defend free speech. Then, every year, particularly during their fall migrations, thousands of birds die by crashing into buildings, thrown off course by artificial lights. This fall, the National Audubon Society and other environmental nonprofits are urging people to help protect endangered songbirds in the simplest way possible: by turning off the lights. Finally, solutions for the worsening impacts of climate change can and will come from Indigenous communities with deep regional knowledge and experience. But hindering access to that knowledge in Africa are language barriers and the deep-rooted Eurocentrism of scientists in the field. How can climate research be broadened?
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