The Lupine Collaborative’s mission is to advance environmental and climate justice by abundantly resourcing Black women, non-binary, and transgender people to dream, ideate, and build toward a liberatory future.
We envision a world where these communities are able to access joy, liberation, and environmental/climate justice in their lifetimes.
Lupines are nitrogen-fixing plants. These plants, also know as facilitator plants, are critical to primary succession, as these species enrich the otherwise intolerable soil and allowother species to subsequently establish. Most notably on Mt. St Helens, lupines were the first plant to return after the volcano erupted. The lupines enriched the the soil with nitrogen, adding organic material, to create the conditions for other plants and then animals to return.
When Black women, non-binary, and transgender people are resourced they act as facilitator plants in society and provide rich soil for others to root and thrive.