Difference between revisions of "Category:Environmental Justice"

Environmental justice asserts that everyone should be able to live in a clean environment and be healthy, not just those who can afford it.

Robert Bullard, sociologist widely regarded as the first to articulate the concept of environmental justice. One of the leaders of the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in 1991. Most recently has been writing about Hurricane Katrina as the latest environmental sacrifice zone. Professor Bullard was featured in the July 2007 CNN People You Should Know, Bullard: Green Issue is Black and White - CNN.com

In this interview Bullard explains why the environmental justice movement is different than mainstream environmental organizations.

How have hurricane responses also created Superfund sites in poor neighborhoods? Bullard discusses this in an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now.

See Majora Carter, Van Jones, Winnona LaDuke and others on the Eco-Heroes page, as well as the links below.

Majora Carter video ***** Environmental Justice

Van Jones (Oakland CA Environmental Justice). Jones, civil rights leader and founding and executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Jones has made a name for himself linking prisons and environmental injustice, working in a pro-active way to ensure that marginalized inner city youth will not miss out on the next wave of “green capitalism.”In this short one page article Van Jones argues against the environmental limits idea, but showing that the damage from Hurricane Katrina was not just the force of nature, but the negligence of the U.S. government. Good simple article for considering how environmental justice gets defined. Interview 2008 book on greening the economy. Book Excerpt. Here is an Oct 2008 interview (audio).

Winona LaDuke Native American activist. article on native rice and GMO's.

Pablo Fajardo and Luis Yanza are fighting for justice after what has been called one of the most catastrophic environmental disasters in history. They leading an unprecedented community-driven legal battle against a global oil giant. According to the plaintiffs, beginning in 1964 and through 1990, Texaco dumped nearly 17 million gallons of crude oil and 20 billion gallons of drilling wastewater directly into the Ecuadorian Amazon.