Focus Area: Healthy Communities

Jul 09, 2025

Two Stories, A Scent of Déjà Vu

Across regions, people are standing up for their health, culture, and environment – pushing back on unjust waste infrastructure and reclaiming power over their communities’ futures. In Old Town, Maine, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, residents are confronting a familiar pattern – and showing what it takes to break the cycle and build lasting change.

Aerial view of Juniper Ridge Landfill in Maine, central to ongoing environmental justice concerns.
Jun 19, 2025

What Juneteenth Reminds Me About Sustainability and Food Security

Conservative media and even some conservation spaces want you to believe that Black people don’t care about the environment, nor do they vote for the environment. I find that ironic, considering I was raised by farmers and environmentalists on both sides of my family. They cared about taking care of the environment because it was the only thing they had. 

Jun 11, 2025

Conservation Matters: Summer 2025

With more boots on the ground than ever across all six New England states, we will be undaunted in these fights and the many others to come.

Magazine cover showing an underwater net filled with fish. Text reads Conservation Matters, a journal of Conservation Law Foundation. Beneath the Surface of Factory Fish Farms
May 29, 2025

The Truth About Indoor Air Quality

We spend so much time indoors, working, studying, exercising, or just lounging around on the couch that indoor air quality – or the lack of it – can profoundly affect our health.