Sentences with phrase «environmental justice work»

Presented at two national religious ethics conferences regarding environmental justice work with the Lummi Nation against coal export; spoke at two denominational conferences

Jasmine Thomas, a youth organizer for the Yinka Dene Alliance and a community leader in the fight against the Tar Sands Northern Gateway Pipeline, challenged conference participants to do environmental justice work in a decolonial context.

Not exact matches

Environmental Justice Take part in ride shares to work and the store.

But however influential Schumacher's work may have been a decade ago, Rubin would have done better to offer a detailed analysis of the current strains influencing environmentalism, including «environmental justice» or the animal rights movement.

To encourage and empower the work of social and environmental justice by the Association and Unity ministries.

We are well used to such Evangelicals, sharing with them the doctrinal and moral essentials of classical Christianity, a commitment to the Augustinian patrimony of the West, recent remarkable joint statements on justification, and much common work for the sanctity of life, Biblical standards of sexual morality, social justice, environmental responsibility and world peace.

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.»

Ms. Colon has worked for NYPA since 2011, most recently as Director of Administration and Environmental Justice.

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.

The path to an electoral majority for the Green Party is enlisting alienated working class non-voters in the fight for social, economic, and environmental justice,» Hawkins said.

«We need a regime that provides enough confidence for access, and in exchange the access is facilitated and facilitates interesting research and use,» says Johanna von Braun of Natural Justice, an environmental law firm that's working on the rooibos issue.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Contaminants affect the ability of tribes to live and raise children in their traditional ways, said Elizabeth Hoover, an assistant professor of ethnic and American studies at Brown University who has worked with the Anishinaabe and other tribes on environmental justice issues.

And, at the federal level, President Trump is actively working to dismantle the EPA's climate science and environmental justice programs.

Previous governors have embraced Faber's work and the environmental justice issue, but Faber says progress has stalled under Governor Charlie Baker.

Much of her work has examined this environmental justice question in the context of ambient air pollution and indoor chemical exposures, prenatal exposures and effects on birth outcomes and children's health, often using community - based participatory research approaches for data collection and risk communication.

In collaboration with scientific colleagues and regulatory scientists, she has worked to develop scientifically valid and transparent tools for assessing the cumulative impacts of chemical and non-chemical stressors to improve regulatory decision - making and environmental policy in ways that advance environmental justice.

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.

Collaboration is the latest buzzword for what many in the environmental / social justice community have been doing for decades — working together toward a common goal.

She has worked to reduce emissions especially around port areas and environmental justice communities.

She attends the Santa Fe Community College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and has been involved in environmental and social justice / activist work since high school.

She also led an international working group on ecological debt and environmental justice.

We have been working for social, economic, and environmental justice in Tennessee for more than 40 years.

Across the country there is a growing movement being led by students who are working with adults from their communities and schools to contribute to school improvement by calling for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice in schools.

Global competence also involves critical examination of systems and institutions that create, and perhaps perpetuate, inequity so that people can work toward social, economic, and environmental justice.

This is a unique opportunity to work at a school that prioritizes leadership development and experiential learning focused on the environmental and social justice.

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) work with state departments of transportations, MPOs, transit providers, and other local agencies to ensure Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and environmental justice considerations are integral to all surface transportation activities.

She serves as Co-Chair of the National Environmental Policy Act Committee of the Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice (IWG) and the Rural Committee of the IWG.

The team also works on issues of historic preservation, environmental stewardship, efficient project delivery, and environmental justice.

The Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice (EJ IWG), which provides leadership and direction to Federal agencies on efforts to address EJ, requested that DOT and all other participating agencies release updated EJ strategies in 2016.

I exited law school having only worked in the non-profit, environmental justice ream.

Prior to joining Equal Justice Works, he was a Fellow at Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP in San Francisco, where he represented citizen groups and local agencies in environmental litigation and land use and planning issues.

She is currently working toward a degree in global studies and biology, with a focus on social justice and human / animal / environmental rights.

This «augmented reality» is part of a major survey (more than 70 works) of the career of Mr. Chin, a conceptual artist whose work comments on environmental issues and social justice.

LaToya Ruby Frazier's honorary degree will be conferred in recognition of her insightful work exploring social and environmental justice issues.

Daniel received his formal training at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and over the years his work has evolved to respond to his work in social justice and environmental preservation.

LaToya Ruby Frazier is a photographer who creates work about industrialism, Rust Belt revitalization and environmental justice.

«A 2015 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, LaToya Ruby Frazier is a photographer whose work documents her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and addresses issues of rustbelt revitalization, environmental justice, and family.»

LaToya Ruby Frazier (b. 1982) works in photography, video, and performance in order to build visual archives that address industrialism, rustbelt revitalization, environmental justice, health care inequity, family, and communal history.

LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER works in photography, video, and performance in order to build visual archives that address industrialism, rustbelt revitalization, environmental justice, health care inequity, family, and communal history.

Crafting Resistance Opening Reception: January 26th, 2017 5 - 8 pm Exhibition continues through March 28th, 2017 Visual Arts Center — Gallery One (Liberal Arts Building) The Visual Arts Center gallery at Boise State University has organized the exhibition Crafting Resistance featuring the work of twenty artists from around the United States as well as Canada and Mexico whose work creates awareness of political issues, examines issues of racial and social justice, or calls for change in environmental issues and human and equal rights.

The curator is seeking works for the exhibition that create awareness or call for change in political issues, racial and social justice, environmental issues, and human and equal rights.

LaToya Ruby Frazier is an artist whose work in photography, video, and performance builds visual archives that address industrialism, Rust - Belt revitalization, environmental justice, healthcare inequity, and family and communal history.

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.

The seeds to all of the great environmental and social justice movements were planted long, long ago so let's just take a minute to honor all the great men and women over the past several thousands of years who have worked so hard and sacrificed so much so that we could be here right now reading blogs about it on our laptops at work.

Today, we continue to inspire people to take responsibility for Earth while also working to integrate environmental and social justice as an essential part of our sustainability vision.