Sentences with phrase «environmental justice movement»

He studies environmental justice movements and was an advisor on early stages of developing the new general plan.

Climate change is adding a new dimension to the three - decades - old environmental justice movement.

First, we aim to build a strong regional environmental justice movement led by indigenous communities and organizations.

PLAN is seeking a student that is inspired to build or develop a project that is focused on the intersectional framework of environmental justice movement and broader social justice work.

Richmond's environmental justice movement stretches back more than a quarter - century, making it one of the oldest in the country.

«These are environmental sacrifice zones that the environmental justice movement has been fighting for 30 years,» said Robert Bullard, dean of the Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University, who is considered the «father» of environmental justice.

Despite having had an African - American majority on the city council since 1988, ethnic communities had little voice in local politics, according to Corburn and others who follow the environmental justice movement in Richmond.

This is Richmond today: A dynamic, multi-cultural community that is transforming its political climate from a polluted company town to a vanguard in the environmental justice movement.

The United Church of Christ — a pioneer in the environmental justice movement in the early 1980s when it reported on the prevalence of toxic waste dumps in poor, black neighborhoods — has turned much of its attention to climate change.

They're part of the environmental justice movement, a crusade that grew out of the recognition that it was mainly the poor and people of color who were forced — by circumstance, finances, lack of political power and what activists call «environmental apartheid» that callously targets the disenfranchised — to live and work in some of the nation's dirtiest environments.

In the decades since, the environmental justice movement has grown from a scrappy army of the poor and disenfranchised into a powerful coalition that united the mostly white and college - educated traditional environmentalists, trade unionists, blue - collar workers and residents of some of the nation's most contaminated neighborhoods.

Dakin has also been an instrumental and sustaining figure over many decades in family and indigenous farmers» rights, nuclear disarmament, and environmental justice movements.

Dr. Robert Bullard (who is featured in NWEI's Seeing Systems: Peace, Justice and Sustainability course book) is often referred to as the «father of the environmental justice movement.»

And, as Dr. Bullard and the environmental justice movement remind us, «once we talk about people we have to talk about justice and equality.»

Much less systematic attention — again in the context of the global climate policy debate (as opposed to domestic debates, where thanks to the environmental justice movement the topic is very much in play)-- has been paid to the problem of inequality within nations.

We spent three beautiful days together to educate, inspire and strategize with one another, including a powerful plenary on the history of the environmental justice movement, some of which we captured on film.

Miya was a participant in the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in 1991, and was on the drafting committee of the original Principles of Environmental Justice, a defining document for the environmental justice movement.

Honestly, after the panel discussion I have not stopped talking, reading and thinking about it, trying to understand how to make the connections between the environmental justice movement and the potential impact that geoengineering could have on vulnerable communities and populations around the world.

The report concludes, «Ensuring that all citizens have a reliable supply of clean and affordable energy would represent a major step forward for the Environmental Justice movement in mitigating the effects of fossil fuel based power plants on low - income and minority communities.»

If it is to have any sustained political power, «the climate movement is going to be an environmental justice movement,» Kelley says.

On Sunday, September 9, 2012, the movement to end mountaintop removal mining and the environmental justice movement at large lost one of its most dedicated and inspired leaders, Larry Gibson.

As defined by Dr. Bullard, «The environmental justice movement has basically redefined what environmentalism is all about.

Father José Andrés Tamayo Cortez is a charismatic Catholic priest and a leader of the environmental justice movement in Honduras.

PLAN acknowledges that the zero waste movement is one (of many) methods that support not only the environmental justice movement, but also broader social justice movements.

In December 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder called King a father of the environmental justice movement and urged everyone to think about the environment as a civil rights issue — because minority and low income populations have the same right to be free of health hazards posed by unsustainable practices as everyone else.