He is currently working with the M.C. Mehta Environmental Foundation, an NGO that provides training programs for aspiring environmental attorneys and runs numerous
environmental justice campaigns.
Not exact matches
and also join the global
campaign for a toxic - free world by reading the FAQ Sheet, Towards Healthy Environments for Children: Frequently asked questions about breastfeeding in a contaminated environment which emerged out of the combined efforts of breastfeeding and
environmental health and
justice groups in addressing breastfeeding in a contaminated environment.
Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance,
Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New York, League of Women Voters of the City of NY, League of Women Voters of New York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers
Campaign, NYS Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation
Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for
Environmental Justice, Women's City Club.
«We know we won't always agree, and we're ready to work hard to press her to deliver on the economic,
environmental and racial
justice promises she made during the
campaign.»
Some say the bill seeks to stifle contributions to issue advocacy groups that
campaign for changes to
environmental, education, criminal
justice, government ethics, and other policies.
Elvin Garcia has worked for Friends of Brook Park, an
environmental justice organization, as a community representative for New York State Assemblyman Marcos A. Crespo, as a field organizer for Obama's re-election
campaign in 2012 and then as a Community Affairs Representative for State Senator Gustavo Rivera.
Luis Cabrales, who worked for many years as a
campaign director for the Coalition for Clean Air, a venerable green group that was instrumental in the passage of California's historic vehicle Smog Check Program in the early 1970s, has spent most of his adult life fighting for
environmental justice.
Having spent a year working for a charity that
campaigned on
environmental and social
justice issues, Jennie Dodson decided to return to academia as a PhD student at the University of York.
In the third and final part of our three part series on
environmental justice and
environmental racism, we hear from 2013 Goldman Prize winner Kimberly Wasserman about her successful
campaign... Read More
However, after I became involved with the «Put A Price On It, D.C»
campaign I realized that climate
justice and
environmental justice don't have to be either / or they can be both.
Beyond Pesticides works regularly with the Center for Food Safety;
Environmental Working Group; Pesticide Action Network North America; Xerces Society; EarthShare; Combined Federal
Campaign; American Bird Conservancy, Beyond Toxics, the Endocrine Disruption Exchange, Haereticus
Environmental Laboratory, Institute for Fisheries Resources, the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, Organic Farmers Marketing Association; Bio-Logical Pest Management; Roseland Farms; Kids for Saving Earth Worldwide; PEST Education Project; Pesticide Watch; Children's Health
Environmental Coalition; Horizon Organic Dairy, Inc.; Donaldson - McMahon Family Farms; Lideres Campesinas en California; Kansas Chapter, Sierra Club; Farmworker
Justice Fund; Maryland Pesticide Network and others.
ActionAid, International Adivasi Mulvasi Astitva Raksha manch, India AKSI, Indonesia Alliance Sud, Switzerland All Nepal Peasant's Federation, Nepal All Nepal Womens Association, Nepal ARENA, Asia Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, Thailand Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development, Regional Bangladesh Jatiyo Sramik Jote, Bangladesh Bangladesh Krishok Federation, Bangladesh BankTrack, Netherlands Beyond Copenhagen Collective, India Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha India Both ENDS, Netherlands Brighter Green, United States Bulig Visayas, Philippines
Campaign for Climate
Justice Nepal CARE International Center for Biological Diversity, United States Center for
Environmental Justice, Sri Lanka Center for Participatory Research and Development, Bangladesh Centre for 21st Century Issues (c21st), Nigeria Climate Action Network — France Climate Action Network Europe Climate and Sustainable Development Network, Nigeria Climate
Justice Programme, Australia CNCD - 11.11.11, Belgium Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, United States COECOCEIBA — FoE Costa Rica Community Development Library, Bangladesh Co-ordination Office of the Austrian Episcopal Conference for International Development and Mission (KOO), Austria Debt Watch, Indonesia Digo Bikas Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal Earth Day Network, United States EcoEquity, United States EKOenergy, Finland / Europe
Environmental Rights Action / Friends of the Earth Nigeria EquityBD, Bangladesh Finance & Trade Watch, Austria Freedom from Debt Coalition, Philippines Friends Committee on National Legislation, United States Friends of the Earth Canada Friends of the Earth England, Wales and N Ireland Friends of the Earth International Friends of the Earth Malaysia Friends of the Earth Norway Friends of the Earth Sierra Leone Friends of the Earth U.S. GAIA — Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, International GEFONT — Trade Union Federation, Nepal Gitib, Philippines GreenLatinos, United States groundWork, Friends of the Earth South Africa Heinrich Boell Stiftung North America, United States Himalaya Niti Abhiyan, India Human Rights Alliance Nepal IBON International, Philippines Indian Social Action Forum, India Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, United States Institute for Policy Studies, Climate Policy Project, United States Interamerican Association for
Environmental Defense, Latin America International Forum on Globalization, United States International Rivers, United States Jagaran Nepal Jatam Indonesia Jubilee Debt
Campaign, United Kingdom Justica Ambiental / Friends of the Earth Mozambique KAU — Anti Debt Coalition, Indonesia Kerala Independent Fishworkers Federation, India KRUHA — Peoples Right to Water Coalition, Indonesia Labour, Health and Human Rights DEvelopment Centre, Nigeria LDC Watch, International Les Amis de la Terre, France Les Amis de la Terre - Togo Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, United States Migrant Forum in Asia mines, minerals and People (mmP), India Monitoring Sustainability of Globalisation (MSN), Malaysia Nadi Gati Morcha, India National Federation of Hawkers Bangladesh National Federation of Women Hawkers, India National Hawkers Federation, India Nature Code — Centre of Development & Environment, Belgium NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark Our Rivers Our Life, Philippines Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (Farmers) Pan African Climate
Justice Alliance, Africa PAPDA Haiti Philippine Movement for Climate
Justice Rainforest Foundation Norway River Basin Friends, India Rural Reconstruction Nepal Sanlakas, Philippines Sawit Watch, Indonesia SEAFISH for
Justice, Asia SOL — People for Solidarity, Ecology and Lifestyle, Austria Solidaritas Perempuan, Indonesia South Asian Alliance for Poverty Eradication Southern Oregon Climate Action Now, United States SUPRO, Bangladesh SustainUS, United States Task Force Detainees of the Philippines Tebtebba, Philippines The Development Institute, Ghana Third World Network, International Trade Union Policy Institute (TUPI), Nepal VOICE, Bangladesh Women's Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO), United States Worldview - The Gambia Zero Waste Europe
The coalitions of racial
justice, labor, and
environmental groups that will be needed to win price - and - invest
campaigns in the states might also be the template we need for rebuilding progressive power nationally.
The report is a joint production of NAACP, Little Village
Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), the Indigenous
Environmental Network and lead author and researcher Adrian Wilson, and will serve as a launching point for NAACP's
campaign to address the issue of the pollution from coal fired power plants and disparate impacts on communities of color.
For eight years (2009 - 2017), he served as the Vice President for Policy, directing issue
campaigns on climate change,
environmental, high road workplace, social
justice and economic development issues.
But what is one to make of a climate - change law that withstands a $ 35 million
campaign supported by conservative oil interests only to be thrown off course by a legal challenge from the leftier edges of the
environmental movement, particularly its
environmental justice wing?
For further details of the NMBI
campaign and the model NMBI legislation drafted by
Environmental Justice Australia, see the pages under the NMBI tab on this website.
The
campaign also says she would create an
Environmental and Climate Justice Task Force to focus on the «health, economic, and environmental impacts of pollution and climate change in vulnerable commun
Environmental and Climate
Justice Task Force to focus on the «health, economic, and
environmental impacts of pollution and climate change in vulnerable commun
environmental impacts of pollution and climate change in vulnerable communities.»
Miya has an extensive background in community organizing,
campaign strategy, leadership development and training, organizational development, and fundraising, and a long history of working in the
environmental justice movement.
Created in 1970, they helped build the French ecological movement and helped found the world's largest grassroots
environmental network, Friends of the Earth International, Friends of the Earth France forms a local network gathering 30 autonomous local groups that act according to their own priorities and support the national and international
campaigns with a shared vision for social and
environmental justice.
If you're interested, the NGOs I've been following are listed below: [note] 350.org, Breakthrough Institute, Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Earth
Justice, Earth Policy Institute,
Environmental Defense Fund, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace USA, National Audubon Society, Natural Resources Defense Council, Ocean Conservancy, Oceana, ONE
Campaign, Oxfam International, Rainforest Action Network, Resources for the Future, Rocky Mountain Institute, Sierra Club, World Resources Institute, World Watch, World Wildlife Fund [/ note]
With a long history of reducing its
environmental impact, improving its energy efficiency and
campaigning for social
justice, it was important for
She was dedicated to merging
environmental and social
justice movements, and building
campaigns that inspire transformational changes in forest protection, climate change and human rights.
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - Today
environmental justice advocates launched a new translocal
campaign to push for a resilient recovery for Puerto Rico.
The jewelry industry «leaders» named by the No Dirty Gold
campaign have endorsed human rights,
environmental, and social
justice principles that call for responsible practices in producing gold and precious metals.
In the past two years, UUMFE has brought Earth
justice education and action
campaigns to their members and congregations (NWEI serving as a primary delivery model) and created an advocacy coalition for
environmental justice issues in collaboration with other Unitarian Universalist (UU) partners.
Sparked by a national
campaign led by the Center for Health, Environment and
Justice (CHEJ), together with a coalition of health and
environmental organizations, today Sears Holdings (Sears and Kmart) has announced its plans to begin phasing out products and packaging containing the toxic polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic, commonly known as vinyl.
But last week, over 60 international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots
campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from
environmental and social
justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more public awareness about the issue prior to the next climate change convention slated for December.
Hughes claims that by removing him from an
environmental remediation case involving contributors to his
campaign, his fellow
justices violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
A time of civic activism for social and
environmental justice, labour
campaigns were also protesting unregulated workplace health hazards and lack of worker rights over their own safety.