MAPPING INJUSTICE: A TOXIC TOUR OF TINSELTOWN
Communities for a Better Environment, a non-profit founded to improve public health and achieve environmental justice through activism in Northern and Southern California, battles overwhelming amounts of pollution from power plants, refineries, and industrial waste facilities.
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"EARTH MOTHER" WANGARI MAATHAI AND THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT
Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots tree planting program that has been effective as both a method for combating deforestation and as a tactic for economic self-sufficiency.
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PEOPLE OF COLOR DON'T CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT PANEL
Social and environmental activists gathered together to discuss how environmental issues impact different communities; an eye opening discussion exploring race, class, and the green movement.
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GREENSBURG: One Year Later
The residents of a 1400-person town on the Western Kansas prairie have transformed a catastrophe into an opportunity by rebuilding Greensburg into a green town.
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BRAHM AHMADI TACKLES FOOD INEQUITY AND BRINGS OAKLAND PEOPLE'S GROCERY
For decades, major grocery chains have steadily abandoned urban areas for the promise of perpetual growth through suburban sprawl. As a result, residents of low-income inner-city neighborhoods end up traveling great distances for everyday food items. In an attempt to break this vicious cycle, Ahmadi and his fellow food justice activists created People’s Grocery in West Oakland, California.
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THE "FATHER" OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ROBERT BULLARD
Dr. Robert Bullard, the "father" of environmental justice, has fought tirelessly to ensure that low-income and minority communities are not ignored when it comes to environmental protections.
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FROM ENERGY COLONIALISM TO ENERGY INDEPENDENCE: AN INTERVIEW WITH CLAYTON THOMAS-MUELLER
As a member of the Indigenous Environmental Network, which links some 250 indigenous communities throughout Canada and the United States, Cree activist Thomas-Mueller and his colleagues help native peoples prevent the usurping of their resource-rich lands while also empowering them to demand “clean air, clean water, and clean Earth.”
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ENVISIONING A GREEN ECONOMY WITH OMAR FREILLA
Omar Freilla wants to build a new economy—one that places its greatest value on green jobs and practices. Freilla discusses his vision for a new economy, the need for poor and minority communities to speak out against environmental injustices, and his hope to one day abolish the waste industry altogether, among other topics.
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WATER FOR ALL: AN INTERVIEW WITH DEBBIE DAVIS
Debbie Davis, a legislative analyst for the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, reveals how clean water is not only an environmental concern, but a matter of basic human rights.
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Communities for a Better Environment, a non-profit founded to improve public health and achieve environmental justice through activism in Northern and Southern California, battles overwhelming amounts of pollution from power plants, refineries, and industrial waste facilities.
Award-winning eco-expert and freelance journalist Simran Sethi is both a co-host and writer for Sundance Channel's THE GREEN and host of THE GOOD FIGHT.