This essay explores the relationship between california State Parks and Indigenous groups and individuals. Using sociological techniques and perspectives, including interviews, it explores issues of environmental justice, white privilege, and decolonization.

An exploration of the links between COVID, climate change, and capitalism. Using the treadmill of production as the theoretical framework, this essay explores the ways in which societal structures may have contributed to COVID-19's emergence and spread and the subsequent environmental impacts.

This short theory application paper looks at the injustice of environmental waste through a three-prong environmental justice framework. This framework incorporates distributive justice, procedural justice, and justice as recognition.

This policy brief examines the juvenile justice system at the intersections. It looks at the experiences of crossover and dually-involved youth -- those youth involved in both child welfare and juvenile justice systems, with a particular interest in LGBTQ+ youth -- to understand how a whole portion of youth have become "throwaway" youth.

This is a short theory application paper which looks at the economics of waste through the lens of the "treadmill of production" and the "tragedy of the commons" to explain why, despite the obvious and growing environmental harms, we continue ramping up production.