Read the full story in GreenBiz. The following is excerpted from “Resilience for All: Striving for Equity Through Community-Driven Design,” by Barbara Brown Wilson (Island Press, 2018).
Category: Environmental justice
U.S. environmental groups are largely white. Here’s what some are — and come aren’t — doing about it.
Read the full story at Ensia. Talk of increasing diversity has not turned into widespread action, but some organizations are working to change that.
Opinion: We need to talk about how logging in the southern U.S. is harming local residents
Read the full story at Ensia. Deforestation in the American South is four times that of South America’s rainforests — and it’s disproportionately hurting low-income
Failure at the EPA
Read the full story in Pacific Standard. The agency has left immigrants and minorities to fend for themselves at toxic waste sites across the country.
The people who’ll be most hurt by climate swings did the least to cause them, study says
Read the full story in the Washington Post. It is no secret that not everyone on the planet is equally responsible for climate change. On
Latest Climate Threat for Coastal Cities: More Rich People
Read the full story from Bloomberg News. When Hurricane Irma reached Florida’s Big Pine Key in September, it caused the floor of Terry and Sharon
