Sentences with phrase «environmental justice organizations»

Carl Anthony, founder of Urban Habitat, one of the nation's oldest environmental justice organizations, spoke to an energetic crowd packed into Civic Center Plaza.

The Environmental Justice Leadership Forum on Climate Change (The EJ Forum) is a national coalition of 41 environmental justice organizations (Coordinated by WE ACT for Environmental Justice) working together to advance climate justice and impact policy to ensure the protection and promotion of communities of color and low - income communities throughout the U.S.

Working with Law School clinics, Keepers, and environmental justice organizations, Daniel pioneered enforcement of the NPDES permits for industrial stormwater, municipal stormwater, and municipal sewage systems.

They were affiliated with a number of different environmental and environmental justice organizations that were relatively small in size, with relatively little power, and they decided to come together to form a coalition.

The letter represents one of the first times that such a broad range of California groups have banded together to bring the global struggle against REDD carbon credits to the Golden State — from national environmental organizations (such as Greenpeace, Center for Biological Diversity, and Rainforest Action Network), to indigenous rights organizations (like Indigenous Environmental Network, International Indian Treaty Council and Pachamama Alliance), to environmental justice organizations (such as Communities for a Better Environment, Center for Race Poverty and the Environment, and the Asian Pacific Environmental Network)..

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.

And we supported the creation of three new ecomodernist organizations — Mothers for Nuclear, Generation Atomic, to organize pro-nuclear students, and Environmental Hope and Justice, a new, pro-nuclear environmental justice organization that will launch next year.

Bill Gallegos, Executive Director of top environmental justice organization, Communities for a Better Environment, says more solar power would boost the health of residents and prosperity of the city.

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The Trade Justice Network (TJN) is a network comprised of environmental, labour, cultural, farming, social justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade Justice Network (TJN) is a network comprised of environmental, labour, cultural, farming, social justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade regime.

The Trade Justice Network joined over 30 labour, environmental, social justice and faith - based organizations in signing an open letter on NAFTA, the environment and climate Justice Network joined over 30 labour, environmental, social justice and faith - based organizations in signing an open letter on NAFTA, the environment and climate justice and faith - based organizations in signing an open letter on NAFTA, the environment and climate change.

The Trade Justice Network is a network comprised of environmental, civil society, cultural, farming, labour and social justice organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and their implicJustice Network is a network comprised of environmental, civil society, cultural, farming, labour and social justice organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and their implicjustice organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and their implications.

Chris Amato, a staff attorney for Earth Justice and former official with the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, said his organization has experienced delays at that agency and the Public Service Commission that have made it difficult to weigh in on policy proposals.

At 1 p.m., NY Renews, a coalition of community organizations, environmental justice groups, labor unions, faith groups, business leaders, and other advocates fighting for equitable climate policies, holds a telephone press conference to call on Cuomo to step up as a leader for communities hurt most by climate change.

Formed in 2000, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB) is an environmental health and justice organization working with communities that neighbor the state's oil refineries and chemical plants.

«Advances to increase yield must be accompanied by stricter regulation and legal limits to the amount of land that can or should be devoted to palm oil,» says Jeff Conant, who directs the international forests programme for Friends of the Earth, an environmental - justice organization in San Francisco, California.

In 2003, an academic - community collaboration called the Environmental Justice Partnership (EJP) was launched, bringing together faculty and staff from the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions with a community board that includes East Baltimore residents, leaders and members from local organizations.

Southwest Research and Information Center is a multi-cultural organization working to promote the health of people and communities, protect natural resources, ensure citizen participation, and secure environmental and social justice now and for future generations.

Progressive Christianity is a 501c3 non-profit organization that offers thoughtful and practical resources for individuals, families, and communities to explore and affect progressive Christianity, spirituality, community life, social and environmental justice.

Berkeley, CA About Blog Environmental Progress (EP) is a research and policy organization fighting for clean power and energy justice to achieve nature and prosperity for all.

The standard of political and moral performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of solidarity among the inhabitants of the country; 2) increase in the practice of social justice by organs of government and civil society; 3) increase in the distribution of income and wealth among the population; 4) increase of measures to preserve and care for nature; 5) increase in policies for integral development of education in accordance with the highest human values; 6) advances in the realization of the collective will of the citizens; 7) improvement of political institutions; 8) success in combating corruption measured by its reduction; 9) increase in the exercise of citizenship with the effective participation of citizens in government decisions and fight for expansion of their rights; and 10) increase of contribution of public and private organizations to the political, economic, social and environmental development of the country.

These two lessons examine how environmental issues such as deforestation are intricately linked to many other social issues, and how organizations such as the Green Belt Movement use certain strategies to mobilize citizen action toward social and environmental justice.

Kendler is co-founder of the artist website platform OtherPeoplesPixels, and created the The OPPfund, which gives grants to arts, environmental and social justice organizations, and awards the MAKER Grant each year to two socially or environmentally engaged artists in partnership with Chicago Artists» Coalition.

Andrew Beath is the founder of the EarthWays Foundation in Malibu, California, as well as several other nonprofit social justice and environmental organizations.

His latest work, E. Pluribus Unum, is an enormous mandala naming one million organizations from around the world committed to peace, environmental sustainability and social justice.

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If you are part of an environmental organization, social justice or environmental health organization that supports sustainability or a labor group that supports workers rights, we invite you to sign the Green Jobs Platform for Solar.

So existing organizations like the Evangelical Environmental Network, or Creation Justice Ministries, make sensible targets for such an effort.

Currently the Director of Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP, Jacqui Patterson, MSW, MPH, has served as a trainer, organizer, researcher, program manager, and policy analyst on international and domestic issues including women's rights, HIV&AIDS, violence against women, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP, Jacqui Patterson, MSW, MPH, has served as a trainer, organizer, researcher, program manager, and policy analyst on international and domestic issues including women's rights, HIV&AIDS, violence against women, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Color Justice at the NAACP, Jacqui Patterson, MSW, MPH, has served as a trainer, organizer, researcher, program manager, and policy analyst on international and domestic issues including women's rights, HIV&AIDS, violence against women, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Color justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Color justice, and environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Color justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Color United.

We support the Principles of Environmental Justice adopted by the Delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit (1991) and recognize the important work of the many organizations and individuals who have led in the struggle for justice and served as guides in our work to confront opprJustice adopted by the Delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit (1991) and recognize the important work of the many organizations and individuals who have led in the struggle for justice and served as guides in our work to confront opprjustice and served as guides in our work to confront oppression.

APEN has been fighting — and winning — environmental justice struggles for the past 18 years and remains one of the most unique organizations in the country explicitly developing the leadership and power of low - income Asian American immigrant and refugee communities.

The organizations represented in the People's Delegation include: SustainUS, Sunrise Movement, Indigenous Environmental Network, Global Grassroots Justice Alliance, and the Climate Justice Alliance as part of It Takes Roots, U.S Human Rights Network, Climate Generation, Our Children's Trust, ICLEI USA, NextGen America, and 350.org.

Gopal has been a campaigner for Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition on human rights and environmental justice in the high - tech industry and the Oil Campaigner for Project Underground, a human rights and environmental rights organization which supported communities resisting oil and mining exploitation around the world.

Dr. Martinez has also worked with a range of organizations from local grassroots groups to international organizations engaging in the promotion of sound environmental policy and environmental justice.

The organizations represented in the People's Delegation included: SustainUS, Sunrise Movement, Indigenous Environmental Network, Global Grassroots Justice Alliance, and the Climate Justice Alliance as part of It Takes Roots, U.S Human Rights Network, Climate Generation, Our Children's Trust, NextGen America, and 350.org.

Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface joined representatives of environmental justice and environmental organizations Thursday at a rally during the midday break from an Air Board hearing to protest expanding the state's cap - and - trade plan to include offset credits generated under the United Nations» Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation — REDD — program.

The letter, which was endorsed by national environmental organizations, local environmental justice groups, and indigenous rights organizations, describes several flaws with REDD offset credits.

Most environmental organizations accepted the criticism, reviewed recruiting and staffing policies, and added environmental justice issues to their program agenda.

It also flushed out the latent views of at least the Sierra Club, other environmental interests and the climate justice organizations.

Indigenous groups, labor, youth, scientists, food justice and clean water activists, religious groups, and civil rights organizations joined environmental groups in calling on world leaders attending the UN Climate Summit in New York this Tuesday to start taking real action to halt climate disruption.

In the midst of it all, I sat down with Jessy Tolkan, who, as one of the founders of the Energy Action Coalition, the coalition of 50 youth - led environmental and social justice organizations behind Power Shift, has had a front - row seat to the evolution of the event — and the youth climate movement.

While a student at UCLA, she led E3: Ecology, Economy, Equity, an environmental and social - justice organization, and helped launch the Green Initiative Fund, a grant - making fund for sustainability projects on the UCLA campus.

Recently, the Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy, a broad coalition of Washington State social justice, environmental, and labor organizations, put forward a climate plan that includes a carbon tax.

The organizations represented in the People's Delegation include: SustainUS, Sunrise Movement, Indigenous Environmental Network and Global Grassroots Justice Alliance as part of It Takes Roots, U.S Human Rights Network, Climate Generation, Our Children's Trust, NextGen America, and 350.org.

Jessie has a long - standing passion for environmental protection and social justice, and has volunteered for a variety of organizations including EarthCorps, Toastmaster, and Evergreen Retriever Rescue.

Comments from NC WARN, the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School, and other environmental and energy justice organizations «show the Plan grossly overstates any benefits from natural gas and rightly criticizes any reliance on nuclear energy,» wrote AttorneyEnvironmental Research, the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School, and other environmental and energy justice organizations «show the Plan grossly overstates any benefits from natural gas and rightly criticizes any reliance on nuclear energy,» wrote Attorneyenvironmental and energy justice organizations «show the Plan grossly overstates any benefits from natural gas and rightly criticizes any reliance on nuclear energy,» wrote Attorney John Runkle.

The organizations represented in the People's Delegation include: SustainUS, Sunrise Movement, Indigenous Environmental Network, Global Grassroots Justice Alliance, and the Climate Justice Alliance as part of It Takes Roots, U.S Human Rights Network, Climate Generation, Our Children's Trust, NextGen America, and 350.org.

Examples of UU organizations dedicated to environmental / climate justice are:

Our work will be centered on building stronger relationships among communities, organizations, and stakeholders in order to mobilize for climate action statewide around the environmental justice, the public health benefits of a clean energy, green jobs and a just transition, and increased political engagement of underrepresented communities.

The Put A Price On It DC Coalition is comprised environmental and justice advocacy organizations, faith groups, unions, consumer advocacy organizations, DC businesses, and more.

WASHINGTON — As the Obama administration prepares to sign the Paris climate agreement, 350 environmental, social - justice, health and faith organizations filed a legal petition today urging President Barack Obama to declare a national climate emergency and end all U.S. crude oil exports.