Brown University Professor of Modern Culture and Media Macarena Gómez-Barris explains “extractive zones” and ways that local communities and artists work to heal the harm caused by extraction across Latin America.
Jaime González
Jaime González, the Community and Equitable Conservation Programs Director for the Texas chapter of the Nature Conservancy, shows regenerative practices and natural projects in use in local communities. By exploring the history of the Gulfton community in Houston, González reveals how historical inequities shape our natural and human-made ecosystems exacerbating climate threats. Simultaneously, he points to how nature-based solutions can help mitigate these inequities and build stronger, more environmentally sound, communities.
Gökçe Günel
Meet Gökçe Günel, associate professor of Anthropology at Rice and a member of the university's Center for Environmental Studies faculty steering committee, and some of her fantastic Rice students as they explore legacies of extraction through a myriad of frames in their research methods class.
Cath Conlon
Cath Conlon, executive director of Blackwood Educational Land Institute, and Sophie Sapp Moore, the Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Justice in the Center for Environmental Studies and Humanities Research Center, tour Cath’s traditional family farm turned educational center. Together they explore the role of regenerative agriculture not only in solving contemporary climate challenges, but for building community and reconnecting with the world around us.
Aaron Ambroso
Tour the Houston Climate Justice Museum's latest exhibit, "Creosote Stories," with co-founder Aaron Ambroso. Ambroso discusses how the exhibit conceives of the ideas of “Extraction” and “Regeneration” and provides insight into the history of the problem and local actions around the toxin.
