Our Stories, Our Past: Afrocentric Ecophilosophy of the Climate Crisis, Action, Community and Healing

This study focuses on a nonprofit organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, Sustainable Georgia Futures (SGF). And documents how SGF approaches climate resilience with community-based solutions and an environmental justice framework. Furthermore, I investigate the possibility of SGF implementing Afrocentric ecophilosophy in their work and how identity influences the group's and their community's interaction with the current climate narrative. I argue that SGF's work illustrates how approaching climate issues from an environmental justice and perspectives based in community action can help not only broaden our understanding of what it means to be affected by climate change but also facilitate collective progress toward climate solutions.