Your 2025 Earth Month List – Climate Generation

Prep the garden for planting season, spend time alongside Mama Mississippi, and have morning conversations with the cardinals and the crows in the neighborhood. – Susan Phillips

I will be beginning my wildflower seedlings! – Gigi Kreibich

Picking up trash, writing my representatives, sending funds to front line protest groups, deepening my understanding of local Land Back movements, talking about Zero Waste – Lee Petre

Prepare for gardening season, start composting, bike more places! – Trevor Cobb

Plant seeds, get my hands in the soil, admire my bird friends – Danielle Hefferan

I’m always looking for fun ways to pass on the tradition of knowing natural history and practicing land stewardship to my young children. We spend time on walks looking for and identifying birds, plants, and insects; we work in the garden; we talk about the changing seasons and what crops will be coming into season; and we give gratitude to the earth and the people who tend it. – Lindsey Kirkland

I live in a neighborhood very close to Lake Michigan. Every day, I take a walk to watch how the lake changes. Nature unfolds so quickly when you take the time to witness it!  – Zoe Redfern-Hall

Books: What if we get it right? by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Podcasts: We are the Great Turning, For the Wild, How to Save A Planet. TV/Movies: Extrapolation (AppleTV), Youth VS Gov (documentary on Netflix) – Susan Phillips

I am reading “Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World” – Gigi Kreibich

The Red Nation podcast and the book The Red Deal; Podcast series with Timothy Morton through BBC “The End of the World has Already Happened” – Lee Petre

I really like the Local Energy Rules podcast by the Institute for Local Self Reliance. I love this active hope training: https://activehope.training/. Of course, Braiding Sweetgrass, Tending the Soil, and Undrowned are all great for books. – Claire Cooke 

I’m reading What If We Get It Right by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson with my book club! – Danielle Hefferan 

A Stone Sat Still by Brendan Wenzel, Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by  Kate Messner, Christopher Silas Neal, Mud by Mary Lyn Ray – Lindsey Kirkland

I’m reading Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer. I also must recommend A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. – Zoe Redfern-Hall

Ayisha Siddiqa, Mitzi Jonelle, Dallas Goldtooth, Leah Penniman, Favianna Rodriguez – Susan Phillips

Rebecca Lee Kunz is an indigenous artist and citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Her mediums are printmaking, paint, and natural materials – Gigi Kreibich

Stop Cop City movement, including forest defender Tortuguita, who was murdered by police – Lee Petre

Local activists working at the community scale in MN that I got to hear speak at MN lobby days at the capital this year. I think it is more critical than ever to be working at this local scale to protect each other and help the planet, so I found that really inspiring. – Claire Cooke

My current favorite follow on social media is @esthernewyork on Instagram! They are a drag queen that posts well-researched videos about the histories of colonization, capitalism, and exploitation of the environment. Super well-made informative content that I love sharing and recommending to people. – Trevor Cobb

I like to think about the movement history behind our celebration of Earth Month and Earth Day. I’m also inspired by the leaders in the food sovereignty and food justice space. In my local community, I’m inspired by leaders like Anton Seals Jr., the founder of Grow Greater Englewood, who I got to hear from at a recent food justice summit I attended. Learning the unique threads of the movement ecosystem and leaders like Anton who have been doing local-level, long-term organizing work inspires me and roots me during these times.  – Zoe Redfern-Hall

Getting the garden ready for pollinators! – Gigi Kreibich

I love to write poems about Spring and the Earth and spend the whole month making art to celebrate her. – Trevor Cobb

See the birds come back! – Danielle Hefferan

Going outside daily on my lunch breaks from my home office to see what’s blooming. – Lindsey Kirkland

Every year, I love to document with photos the new flowers popping up whenever I see a new one on my walks through the neighborhood. During spring, I am constantly swiveling my head to search for flowers or interesting plants when I’m outside. It’s one of my most favorite things I do every year. – Zoe Redfern-Hall