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How Brave Trails Creates Safe Spaces For Queer Youth
Avocado is proud to donate 100 percent of the proceeds of our Natural as Love Organic T-shirt to Brave Trails and LGBTQ+ youth.
Why the Number of Climate Migrants Will Continue to Rise
AdvocacyHow ‘Black Folks Camp Too’ Is Making the Outdoors More DiverseIf climate change continues to worsen, scientists and researchers predict as many as 200 million people could become climate migrants by 2050. If you’ve read any climate news lately, you’ve probably come across the year 2050. This year is significant for a couple of reasons. […]
Why Creative Agencies Are Boycotting the Fossil Fuel Industry
AdvocacyHow ‘Black Folks Camp Too’ Is Making the Outdoors More DiverseBy refusing to work with fossil fuel clients, creatives and ad agencies can single-handedly dismantle the industry’s decades-long disinformation campaigns about their impact on the climate crisis. Big oil and gas are responsible for three-quarters of global carbon emissions. And a recent study found that […]
Climate Change Is Causing Animal Species to Shrink
AdvocacyHow ‘Black Folks Camp Too’ Is Making the Outdoors More DiverseScientists have found a direct correlation between warming temperatures caused by climate change and smaller-sized animal species — and it may end up affecting their population sizes, too. Evidence has been mounting for decades that climate change and its human causes have devastated the natural […]
The Most Important Climate Legislation Ever
AdvocacyHow ‘Black Folks Camp Too’ Is Making the Outdoors More DiverseIf passed, the proposed $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package would drastically reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, mitigate the effects of climate change, and put the U.S. on the path to universal clean energy. We’re running out of time. The climate crisis is the most […]
The Team Helping Female Farmers Rebuild in Central America
AdvocacyHow ‘Black Folks Camp Too’ Is Making the Outdoors More DiverseAvocado partnered with Trees, Water, and People to help female farmers plant and harvest new crops after Category 4 Hurricanes Eta and Iota devastated Central America. Agriculture is a way of life in most of Central America — it provides job opportunities and reliable income to […]
How Environmental Racism Makes Urban Heat Islands Worse
AdvocacyHow ‘Black Folks Camp Too’ Is Making the Outdoors More DiverseAs a result of environmental racism and policies like redlining, urban heat islands disproportionally affect low-income, non-white city neighborhoods. The daily temperature may seem like a mundane and immovable part of our daily lives, but in many cases, it’s affected by circumstances that are within […]
How ‘Black Folks Camp Too’ Is Making the Outdoors More Diverse
AdvocacyHow ‘Black Folks Camp Too’ Is Making the Outdoors More DiverseBlack Folks Camp Too is on a mission to promote unity in the outdoors while getting more of the Black community out enjoying nature. In October 2019, Earl B. Hunter, Jr. stepped onto the stage at the Outdoor Economy Conference in western North Carolina and, […]