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Done, But Not Forgotten Our Poverty & the Environment series comes to an end, but our concern doesn't	Kathryn Schulz	31 Mar 2006	Soapbox
The sun sets on our poverty series. Photo: Clipart. There's something a little odd about ending a series on the subject of poverty -- as we at Grist are officially doing today -- when the issue itself will stubbornly continue to exist. That might seem, at first, like a laughable sentence. Of course poverty will persist -- when hasn't it? -- and of course o ...
Topics: environmental justice, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

L.A. Story A virtual walking tour through an L.A. neighborhood with activists from Pacoima Beautiful		31 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Click image to take the tour. Photo by Mary Wiltenburg. The tiny community of Pacoima, at the north end of Los Angeles, suffers from nearly every imaginable obstacle to a healthy urban environment. That means, for starters, lead paint, freeway traffic, airports, landfills, diesel trucks, chemical manufacturing, power plants, heavy industry, an ...
Topics: air pollution, California, education, environmental justice, grassroots activism, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Movement Shakers Two eco-leaders -- one mainstream, one radical -- debate the movement's past and future	Kathryn Schulz	29 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Eric Mann. When Eric Mann first encountered environmentalists, he saw them as a bunch of "arrogant, racist airheads." When Frances Beinecke first encountered environmentalists, she felt she'd found her cause. Frances Beinecke. Nearly four decades later, both are tireless proponents of environmental sanity, but they work in very different ways. Mann is ...
Topics: environmental justice, heroes, interview, NRDC, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Slum Like It Not In the world's slums, the worst of poverty and environmental degradation collide	Mike Davis	29 Mar 2006	Main Dish
This article was originally published in OrionOnline. Precarious dwellings in North Sulawasi, Indonesia. Photos: iStockphoto. A villa miseria outside Buenos Aires, Argentina, may have the worst feng shui in the world: it is built in a flood zone over a former lake, a toxic dump, and a cemetery. Then there's the barrio perched precariously on stilts over the excrement-clogge ...
Topics: environmental justice, placemaking, politics, population, Poverty and the Environment, sprawl, toxics, waste (all these topics)

ATLien Invasion Will an Atlanta parks and redevelopment project benefit low-income residents?	Na'Taki Osborne	28 Mar 2006	Soapbox
Atlanta, Ga.: the famous "Hot-lanta" of Southern heat and hospitality, home of "down-home" fried chicken and a growing black middle class, cradle of the largest historically black college community in the world, hotbed of the civil-rights movement, and ... the sprawl capital of the South. As Atlanta gets greener, who will benefit? Photo: iStockphoto. As ...
Topics: environmental justice, Georgia, green space, placemaking, politics, Poverty and the Environment, sprawl (all these topics)

Give Him a Farmhand Tirso Moreno, farmworker organizer, answers readers' questions		24 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Tirso Moreno, Farmworker Association of Florida. A note from Moreno: This interview is especially timely as next week (March 27 - April 2) is national Farmworker Awareness Week. I hope you will all take a few minutes to find out more about the actions, activities, and campaigns going on around the country and see what you can do to help make a difference for farmworkers in the U.S. Do you support bans ...
Topics: agriculture, environmental justice, Florida, health, InterActivist, interview, Poverty and the Environment, toxics (all these topics)

Gritty Woman On Hollywood's downtrodden eco-chicks, and how they've changed	Ken Eisen	23 Mar 2006	Arts and Minds
"A working-class hero is something to be," said John Lennon. But for Hollywood, it's more likely to be a working-class heroine -- at least when environmental issues enter the picture. Charlize Theron in North Country. Photo: 78th Academy Awards® This year, Charlize Theron's crusading miner-activist in North Country garnered an Oscar nomination, following in the footsteps of such Academy ...
Topics: celebrity, environmental justice, movies, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

When the Chippewas Are Down A virtual walking tour through Wisconsin's Sokaogon Chippewa community with Tina Van Zile	Mary Wiltenburg	23 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Click image to take the tour. Photo by Mary Wiltenburg. Like many tribal lands across North America, the Sokaogon Chippewa reservation in Northern Wisconsin faces environmental perils that threaten not only the land, but also the livelihood and culture of the people who live on it. The Sokaogon spent close ...
Topics: environmental justice, mining, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Integrate Expectations An interview with integration advocate Sheryll Cashin	Jon Christensen	21 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Space is the place where race, poverty, and the environment get sorted out, for better or worse. And the spaces where we live, work, learn, and play are the places where integration succeeds or fails, argues Sheryll Cashin. The Georgetown University law professor wrote 2004's The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream, one of the most important and p ...
Topics: education, environmental justice, heroes, interview, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

So Happy Together The environmental case for integrated communities	Sheryll Cashin	21 Mar 2006	Soapbox
The following passage is excerpted from The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream. (For more on this issue, read an interview with the author.) The growing concern with sprawl creates an interesting possibility for alignment of urban and suburban, white and minority, affluent and poor interests. Advocates for low-income people and for cities and older suburbs ...
Topics: books, environmental justice, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

The Not-So-Funny Farm Tirso Moreno, farmworker organizer, answers Grist's questions		20 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Tirso Moreno. What's your job title? General coordinator for the Farmworker Association of Florida. What does your organization do? We work to empower communities of farmworkers and the rural poor, focusing on a wide range of issues, from workplace and community organizing to disaster preparedness and response, from vocational rehabilitation to immigrants' rights advocacy for farmworkers and students. ...
Topics: agriculture, environmental justice, Florida, health, InterActivist, interview, Poverty and the Environment, toxics (all these topics)

Sense and Sensitivities Multiple Chemical Sensitivities can drive sufferers into poverty as well as ill health	Todd Hymas	17 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Consider the trappings of modern life: Calvin Klein Eternity, gasoline, Gore-Tex, Aveda hairspray, paint, particle board, polyurethane iPod cases. Is this the face of the future? Photo: iStockphoto. Now imagine that you're allergic to virtually all of them. Environmentalists usually think about chemical toxicity as either a dramatic local crisis (Bhopal, Lo ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, green living, health, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Fit to Be Ride Francisca Porchas, clean-bus campaigner, answers readers' questions		17 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Francisca Porchas of the Bus Riders Union. How is your organization working with the state of California and the feds to bring cleaner transportation options to your communities? I noted that you mentioned gas-powered buses -- how many? -- Bill Turner, Dillsburg, Pa. Our main focus to this day has been working with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, an agency with an annual budget of $3 bill ...
Topics: air pollution, California, environmental justice, grassroots activism, health, InterActivist, interview, Mexico, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Ward Up Houston kids living near a Superfund site tell their stories in pictures		16 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Click image to view a slide show of children's photos and collages. Collage: Wassim Elmetni (age 11). "Many Diversified Interests" sounds like a line from a college application, or advice from a responsible money manager. In fact, though, it's the name of a Superfund site in the Fifth Ward, one of the oldest and most disenfranchised neighborhoods of Houston, Texas. For the most part, children g ...
Topics: education, environmental justice, grassroots activism, Poverty and the Environment, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

That'll Anacostia A plan to spruce up D.C.'s Anacostia River has some residents anxious	Ethan Goffman	15 Mar 2006	Main Dish
In the southeast corner of Washington, D.C., the capital of the most powerful nation in history, lies a polluted, neglected neighborhood known as Anacostia. Slated for a grand renewal project centered on the local river that gives it its name, the area stands at the juncture of poverty and opportunity. If plans move forward, it will one day be a showcase of urban design, with revi ...
Topics: environmental justice, green space, placemaking, politics, Poverty and the Environment, public lands, Washington DC (all these topics)

Pyramid Schemes A little time in the lab could teach big business how to help the poor	John Elkington, Mark Lee	14 Mar 2006	Full Disclosure
By John Elkington and Mark Lee 14 Mar 2006
Topics: business, environmental justice, Full Disclosure, health, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Justice in Time Meet Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice	Gregory Dicum	14 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Robert Bullard says he was "drafted" into environmental justice while working as an environmental sociologist in Houston in the late 1970s. His work there on the siting of garbage dumps in black neighborhoods identified systematic patterns of injustice. The book that Bullard eventually wrote about that work, 1990's Dumping in Dixie, is widely regarded as the first to fully articulate t ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Here We Go Again Robert Bullard explains why the response to Katrina wasn't a fluke	Gregory Dicum	14 Mar 2006	Main Dish
In the course of my interview with environmental-justice scholar and leader Robert Bullard, we discussed his current work on the history of environmental racism in the South. He had plenty to say about the ways that inadequate government response to disasters has affected people of color over the past seven decades. I asked him whether Katrina was part of the norm or stood out somehow ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

The Bus Stops Here Francisca Porchas, clean-bus campaigner, answers Grist's questions		13 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Francisca Porchas. What work do you do? I am a lead organizer with the Labor/Community Strategy Center and the Bus Riders Union's Clean Air, Clean Lungs, Clean Buses Campaign, based in Los Angeles. How does it relate to the environment? The Strategy Center has engaged in environmental-justice and civil-rights campaigns for the last 17 years, combining grassroots organizing and policy work with a str ...
Topics: air pollution, California, environmental justice, grassroots activism, health, InterActivist, interview, Mexico, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

SWOP and Go Tomasita González, environmental-justice organizer, answers readers' questions		10 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Tomasita González, of SouthWest Organizing Project. Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and probably other cities and towns in New Mexico, are seeing lots of development of housing for new residents. What are the environmental implications? How seriously is the water supply strained? Are underprivileged or minority communities affected? -- Mark Stephen Caponigro, New York, N.Y. Thanks for the question ...
Topics: environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, New Mexico, politics, Poverty and the Environment, waste, water conflicts (all these topics)

Caste From the Past Environmentalism's elitist tinge has roots in the movement's history	Matthew Klingle, Joseph E. Taylor III	08 Mar 2006	Soapbox
By Matthew Klingle and Joseph E. Taylor III 08 Mar 2006 Pretty, yes, but what about the people? Photo: National Park Service. North Americans love their heroes, and environmentalists are no exception. The hall of fame includes some of the biggest hitters from our nation's past: John Muir, David McTaggart, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Paul Watson, David Brower, Rachel Carson, and Edward Abbey, to name just a few ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Walking the Line What Mexican activists can teach the U.S. about poverty and the planet	Oliver Bernstein	07 Mar 2006	Soapbox
As the border organizer for Sierra Club's Environmental Justice program, I bounce back and forth across the U.S.-Mexico border supporting grassroots environmental activists. More than the food, language, or currency, the biggest difference from one side to the other is what issues are considered "environmental." Perhaps nowhere else on earth is there such a long borde ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Mexico, politics, population, Poverty and the Environment, Sierra Club, sprawl, United States, waste, water conflicts (all these topics)

González in 60 Seconds Tomasita González, environmental-justice organizer, answers Grist's questions		06 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Tomasita González. What work do you do? I work as a community organizer at SouthWest Organizing Project, based in Albuquerque, N.M. What does your organization do? For over a quarter century, SWOP has worked to build an environmental-justice movement in disenfranchised, working, and people-of-color communities. In the '90s, we sought to challenge the mainstream "Group of Ten" ...
Topics: environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, New Mexico, politics, Poverty and the Environment, waste, water conflicts (all these topics)

Nursery Time Alan Hipólito, creator of green jobs for low-income people, answers readers' questions		03 Mar 2006	InterActivist
How can I and others help low-income people of color? -- Corey Paradis, Burlington, Vt. Well, that's a big question. Not to be too short, but I would ask them, the ones in your area. To me, and in my experience, and what I tell my students, the most important thing is to truly place yourself at the service of these communities. Seek out organizations serving or from these communitie ...
Topics: environmental justice, gardening, green jobs, InterActivist, interview, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Laid to Waste Portraits of loss in the wake of Katrina	Chris Jordan	02 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Click image to watch slide show. Photo by Chris Jordan. On a misty November morning in 2005, I was photographing in New Orleans' Ninth Ward neighborhood a few blocks from where one of the levees had failed 10 weeks earlier. Squatting in a driveway in foul-smelling mud, adjusting the knobs on my camera, I stood up to stretch my back and noticed a man sitting on some concrete s ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, environmental justice, health, Louisiana, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

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