Offshoring, Labor, and Environmental Racism (1980 – ongoing)
Book: “No Logo” by Naomi Klein (1999)
Report: UNEP, “Waste Crimes” (2015)
Report: Greenpeace, “Toxic Threads” (2012)
Documentary: DW, “Fast Fashion’s Real Cost”

IMF and World Bank PoliciesDeepen Inequality (1980 – 1999)
Report: UNDP, “Human Development Report” (1999)
Book:“The Shock Doctrine” by Naomi Klein(2007)
Website:World Bank Open Data(SAP case studies)
Video: “Debt and Development: Structural Adjustment Explained” (Al Jazeera)

Villach Conference and Rising Seas (1985)
Primary Source: “Villach Conference Statement” (1985)
Website: NASA, “Sea Level Rise Overview”
Website: WMO, “History of Early Climate Conferences”

The Rise of Greenwashing (1986)
Primary Source: “Jay Westerveld’s original essay”
Summary:“7 Sins of Greenwashing” (TerraChoice)
Website: FTC Green Guides

Montreal Protocol (1987)
Video: NASA, “The Ozone Hole Explained”
Primary Source: Full text of the “Montreal Protocol”
Website: UNEP, “The Ozone Story”

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (1988)
Website: Official IPCC website (ipcc.ch)
Video: UN, “What is the IPCC?”
Primary Source: “IPCC First Assessment Report” (1990)

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
Primary Source: United Nations, “Convention on the Rights of the Child” (1989)
Report: UNICEF, “The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis” (2021)
Lecture/Book: “The Rights of the Child” by Maria Montessori (1932, Geneva Lecture)
Legal Guidance: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, “General Comment No. 26” (2023)
Brief: UN Women, “Gender, Climate and Security Report” (2020)

The Ogoni Struggle Against Shell in Nigeria (1990)
Book: “A Month and a Day” by Ken Saro-Wiwa (1995)
Report: Amnesty International, “The Ogoni Struggle Against Shell” (2015)
Video: BBC Reel, “The Man Who Fought Shell and Died for the Environment”
Report: UN, “Environment Programme report on Ogoniland”

The First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit (1991)
Primary Source: “The 17 Principles of Environmental Justice” (UCC)
Proceedings: “1991 Summit Proceedings” Tool: EPA, “Environmental Justice Timeline”
Report: “Toxic Wastes and Race” (1987)

The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro & the Kyoto Protocol (1992)
UN Report: “Earth Summit official report” (1992)
Primary Source: UNFCCC text
Primary Source: “Kyoto Protocol” (1997)
Video:ì “UN Legacy of Rio 1992”
Book: “Environmental Skepticism and Global Warming” by Peter Jacques (2009)

The Second Green Revolution (1994)
Video: “Vandana Shiva: The History of the Green Revolution”
Primary Source: “The Declaration of the Forum for Neighborhood Sovereignty”
Books: The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics” by Vandana Shiva
ETC Group: “Who Will Feed Us? The Peasant Food Web vs. The Industrial Food Chain”
Interactive: “The Environmental Justice Atlas” (Agriculture), an interactive map documenting global conflicts over land grabbing and chemical pollution related to agricultural expansion
Podcast: “For The Wild: Vandana Shiva on the Seeds of Resistance” or “The Checkout: Food Sovereignty and Climate Change”

The End of Apartheid in South Africa (1994)
Video: “PBS Frontline: The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela”
Primary Sources: “The Nelson Mandela Foundation: The Digital Archive”
Books: “Country of My Skull” by Antjie Krog, a seminal work on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Interactive: “Apartheid Museum: Global Timeline”
Podcast: “BBC Witness History: The End of Apartheid”

The Sixth Extinction (2000 – ongoing)
Book: “The Sixth Extinction” by Elizabeth Kolbert (2014)
Report: “WWF, Living Planet Report” (2022)
Video: National Geographic, “The Sixthm Extinction Explained”
Interactive: “The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species”
Podcast: “Drilled: The Sixth Extinction”