Press: This Houston Museum Teaches About Climate Change

A small black velvet purse which has survived Hurricanes Katrina and Harvey, contributed by Chanté Davis to the Living Library project.

Aarohi Sheth profiles the museum in a piece for Sierra Magazine and writes,


"Nature is political, especially in Houston, a city plagued by supersized highways, the remnants of slavery, gentrification, little to no flooding infrastructure, rampant air pollution, and hurricanes. And the Houston Climate Justice Museum wants to reveal how all these issues are interconnected. “In this city, your zip code still determines your life expectancy,” Ambroso said. “And that has a lot to do with not just fossil fuels, but railroads, dredging, the histories of plantations, the petrochemical industry, redlining—they’re all part of environmental justice.”


Read the rest of the article on the Sierra Magazine website, or download the pdf here.

Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland, Géographie des plantes Équinoxiales: Tableau physique des Andes et Pays voisins, from Essai sur la géographie des plantes, 1805, hand-colored print, 24 x 36 in., Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, © Copyright The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Arpillera made by women from the town Melipilla. Women make wool and cook in the foreground, 1995. From Art Against Dictatorship: Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet by Jacquiline Adams