|
| Headline |
Author |
Published |
Section |
It was inevitable
The Mustache discovers Van Jones |
David Roberts |
16 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Tom Friedman just introduced Van Jones to a large new audience. All he had to do to make it a great column was get out of the way and let Van speak. |
|
| Topics: environmental justice, green jobs, Van Jones (all these topics) |
|
|
Connecting the dots: Part I
From black to white: An argument for green-collar jobs |
Jon Rynn |
15 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| 'Spiritually fulfilling, ecologically sustainable, and socially just' is the title of a recent speech by Van Jones, who has been appearing in strategic places for a few years now. As cofounder of the Ella Baker Center in Oakland, he has been attempting to fight environmental pollution that has been poisoning the residents of inner-city areas in Oakland and all over the country. As such, he is in a unique position to bridge a rather wide chasm: the African-American community ... |
|
| Topics: business, environmental justice, green jobs, Van Jones (all these topics) |
|
|
Poisons in poor neighborhoods
EPA not up to par on environmental justice, GAO finds |
Brian Beutler |
04 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Charged with the minor task of informing minority and low-income populations about toxic facilities in their neighborhoods, do you think the U.S. EPA has: a). Done a thorough, admirable job, or b). Not For the correct answer, read this new GAO report [PDF]. |
|
| Topics: environmental justice (all these topics) |
|
|
The environmental justice braintrust
A dispatch from the Congressional Black Caucus conference |
Grist |
03 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The following is a guest essay by Lauren Trevisan, environmental justice program assistant for the Sierra Club. ----- Appropriately, the theme of this year's 37th annual Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., was "Unleashing Our Power." For the first time in history, the U.S. House of Representatives has four African-Americans serving as chairpersons of major committees. In addition, 17 African-Americans lead major ... |
|
| Topics: environmental justice, legislation, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
|
|
Environmentalism and economic justice, sitting in a tree ...
Van Jones has helped push equity to the center of the green discussion |
David Roberts |
26 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Back in March of this year, I interviewed Van Jones of the Ella Baker Center in Oakland, Calif. He was excited because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had adopted his "green-collar jobs" language and agreed to craft legislation around it. In August, such legislation was introduced in the House. Now things are taking off like crazy. Earlier this week the Senate Environment Committee held a hearing on green jobs, where Sen. Barbara Boxer brandished Jones' work and ... |
|
| Topics: business, environmental justice, green jobs, politics, Van Jones (all these topics) |
|
|
Shiny Happy People
Utility will pay for solar on Habitat for Humanity houses in California |
|
21 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 4:57 AM on 21 Sep 2007 Recognizing that solar electricity is a good investment in the long run but a bit spendy up front, utility Pacific Gas and Electric has agreed to pay for solar power on some 65 houses built by Habitat for Humanity in northern and central California next year. PG&E will donate about $1.2 million for panels and installation; low-income residents will see radically reduce ... |
|
| Topics: California, energy, environmental justice, news, placemaking, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
|
|
Don't Worry, White Billionaires, We Haven't Forgotten You
Native Americans likely to be hit especially hard by climate change, says report |
|
18 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 1:08 PM on 18 Sep 2007 Climate change is likely to hit disadvantaged groups the hardest, and that includes Native Americans, according to a new report. Researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder predict that rising seas will flood tribal lands in Florida and droughts will involve tribes in water wars in the Southwest; coastal towns in A ... |
|
| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, environmental justice, news (all these topics) |
|
|
Hintin' Clinton
Sen. Clinton will introduce eco-justice legislation |
|
04 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 10:06 AM on 04 Sep 2007 Senator Hillary Clinton -- perhaps you've heard of her? -- plans to introduce an Environmental Justice Renewal Act, providing federal funding to low-income communities that tend to house many of the nation's polluting facilities. While it may be resisted in Congress, the idea behind the legislation has been growing in the grassroots for decades. Says eco-justice advocate Majora Carter, "We ... |
|
| Topics: environmental justice, Hillary Clinton, legislation, news, politics (all these topics) |
|
|
A win for buses in L.A.
Los Angeles City Council OKs a peak-hour bus-only lane |
Eric Mann |
31 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| An update from me and my colleague Francisca Porchas of the Labor/Community Strategy Center: For the first time in L.A., the car capital of the world, a bus-centered public-transportation system has been given priority over the auto -- a big victory for environmental justice and the reduction of auto-based air toxins and greenhouse gases. On Aug. 15, the Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union secured an important environmental and public-health victory at the Los Angel ... |
|
| Topics: environmental justice, placemaking, politics, public transportation (all these topics) |
|
|
Mountaintop removal mining: Lonely opposition
The Branhams' mining permit protests |
Grist |
23 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| ((mtr_include))This week, Gabriel Pacyniak and Katherine Chandler are traveling throughout southern West Virginia to report on mountaintop removal mining (MTR). They'll be visiting coalfields with abandoned and "reclaimed" MTR mines, and talking with residents, activists, miners, mine company officials, local reporters, and politicians. We'll publish their reports throughout the week. ----- Driving to the north end of Mingo County, W.Va., we get lost a ... |
|
| Topics: environmental justice, mining, West Virginia (all these topics) |
|
|
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Crappiness
Navajo nation at odds over coal-plant plan |
|
27 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Crappiness Navajo nation at odds over coal-plant plan Members of the Navajo nation are at odds over a plan to build a $3 billion, 1,500-megawatt coal-fired power plant on reservation land in New Mexico. Tribal leaders say the plant -- whose juice would go to Las Vegas and Phoenix -- will generate $50 million in much-needed annual revenue and create ... |
|
| Topics: climate, coal, energy, environmental justice, New Mexico, news, Texas (all these topics) |
|
|
All Kinds of Sickening
Congress grills FEMA on toxic post-hurricane trailers |
|
20 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| All Kinds of Sickening Congress grills FEMA on toxic post-hurricane trailers The media have reported for at least two months that the trailers used to house refugees from hurricanes Katrina and Rita have been giving off fumes that are making some people sick. Now it seems the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has fended off those accusations, has known about the toxic trou ... |
|
| Topics: Congress, environmental justice, health, news, politics, severe weather (all these topics) |
|
|
Fighting transit racism: Building the environmental movement on the buses of L.A.
A perspective from Eric Mann |
Eric Mann |
12 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| A Latina woman addresses the board of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). She is part of a crowd of 1,500 people opposing the agency's proposed bus-fare increases. She holds her 3-year-old child up to the board and says, 'What would you like me to do? Take the clothes off his back or the food out of his mouth?' L.A., with 10 million people and 7 million cars on the road, is the freeway capital of the U.S. For more than 14 years, the MTA on o ... |
|
| Topics: environmental justice, Los Angeles, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics) |
|
|
A lead-pipe cinch for most underrated environmental story
Another reason the well-off do well |
JMG |
09 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Here's a story that tracks with older reporting (such as from Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly) about the pernicious social consequences of lead. Boy, there's a superhero quartet we could really use: Environmental Justice Crusaders, a band with superhuman powers to counteract our pervasive (and worsening) racial and economic segregation that puts the people on the bottom of the socio-economic divide into the places where the better off folks dump their environmental i ... |
|
| Topics: environmental justice, toxics (all these topics) |
|
|
E.O. Wilson on Bill Moyers Journal this week
Check it out |
Kate Sheppard |
05 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| On Friday, Bill Moyers profiles E.O. Wilson on the latest edition of 'Bill Moyers Journal.' (The show is his new spot on PBS that started airing in late April, and happens to have the same name as his old show that stopped running in 1981.) Moyers talks to Wilson about subjects ranging from his work cataloging every living creature on earth to religion to his vision for facing climate change. Check out a preview: The show also includes an update on the work of th ... |
|
| Topics: biodiversity, environmental justice, environmental movement, green living, messaging, religion and spirituality, TV (all these topics) |
|
|
Citgo Boom
Jury finds Citgo guilty of criminal Clean Air Act charges |
|
29 Jun 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Citgo Boom Jury finds Citgo guilty of criminal Clean Air Act charges In a legal first, oil refiner Citgo has been found guilty of criminal charges under the Clean Air Act. The case -- involving two open-air storage tanks in Corpus Christi, Texas, that released the carcinogen benzene into the air -- marks the first time criminal violations of the act have gone to trial; previous cases against ref ... |
|
| Topics: business, energy, environmental justice, news, oil, Texas (all these topics) |
|
|
Environmental Justice for All
Antonio Diaz, environmental-justice advocate, answers readers' questions |
|
22 Jun 2007 |
InterActivist |
| Antonio Diaz, director of environmental-justice organization PODER. Climate Dialogues is a grassroots coalition organizing around climate and just beginning to do outreach to Latino, immigrant, and related communities. Do you have suggestions for the best way to make the linkages between climate and more immediate issues in order to build these alliances? -- Phil Mitchell, Seattl ... |
|
| Topics: environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, San Francisco (all these topics) |
|
|
The Talk of the Bay
Antonio Diaz, environmental-justice advocate, answers Grist's questions |
|
18 Jun 2007 |
InterActivist |
| Antonio Diaz. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I work with a San Francisco-based grassroots environmental-justice organization called PODER: People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights. I'm the organization's director. What does your organization do? PODER works with Latino immigrant families in San Francisco to organize on environmental- and economic- ... |
|
| Topics: environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, San Francisco (all these topics) |
|
|
Western civilization?
What a nice idea |
James Dailey |
15 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| If Gandhi were around today, I think he would be less reasonable and tractable about the climate crisis; instead, he would challenge the moral integrity of so-called western civilization. The galvanizing march to the salt flats (the famous 'Salt March') would be a tour of threatened island nations: Inuit seeking redress for loss of habitat, mountain people facing bewildering change, deluges in Bangladesh, landslides in the Philippines, and masses of people in the Indus- ... |
|
| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, energy, environmental justice, severe weather (all these topics) |
|
|
Global warming envy
Who knew? |
Jon Rynn |
13 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Maybe some of you are not going to believe this, but a trend seems to be developing wherein some progressives seem to think that the issue of global warming is grabbing the 'spotlight.' For instance, in 'Why is peak oil politically incorrect?' Ugo Bardi compares the number of online searches that global warming receives versus peak oil, using Google's admittedly new 'Trends' system. The number of searches for global warming is rising rapidly, while peak oil lists along. ... |
|
| Topics: celebrity, climate, environmental justice, environmental movement (all these topics) |
|
|
Dems in Congress: 'Green-collar jobs' will fight poverty and global warming
A hearing in the House shows promise |
Van Jones |
23 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Hooray! Hooray! Finally! Yesterday, some House Democrats finally 'connected the dots' on ways to solve two of the nation's biggest problems: failing American job security and global climate security. By addressing both issues simultaneously, these congressional leaders may re-energize the anti-poverty movement -- and transform the debate on global warming. U.S. Representatives Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Hilda Solis (D-Calif.) both sit on the Select Com ... |
|
| Topics: Congress, environmental justice, environmental movement, green jobs, politics, Van Jones (all these topics) |
|
|
Vanity Fair: The unbearable whiteness of green
Where are low-income and minority greens in the media? |
Van Jones |
20 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Once again this year, the spring season brought a flood of green-themed magazines to super-market checkout stands and airport news racks all across the country. And once again, the faces of non-white and non-affluent Americans were almost entirely missing. Our new environmental movement is rapidly gaining visibility and momentum. That is very good news. Life-or-death ecological issues finally are starting to get the attention they so urgently deserve. And we can all ... |
|
| Topics: celebrity, environmental justice, environmental movement, green living, politics, Van Jones (all these topics) |
|
|
Not On My Botch -- Uh, Watch
Katrina refugees say FEMA trailers making them sick |
|
17 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Not On My Botch -- Uh, Watch Katrina refugees say FEMA trailers making them sick As states in the Southeastern U.S. brace for this year's hurricane season, new Federal Emergency Management Agency head David Paulison has a promise: "You won't see what happened with Katrina happen again in this country.'' Paulison assured a crowd of emergency responders in Florida that the &q ... |
|
| Topics: climate, environmental justice, green living, health, news, severe weather (all these topics) |
|
|
Mountaintop removal and clean water: Kinda at odds
DC lobbying effort May 12-16 |
Erik Hoffner |
11 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Citizens from Appalachia were at the UN's meeting on sustainable energy policy this week to challenge the clean-coalers, and were received really well by the other delegates. Coal advocates were hard-put to refute the evidence that coal kills communities. Now the effort moves to D.C. from May 12-16 for the 2nd Annual Mountaintop Removal Week lobbying effort. Organized by Appalachian Voices, the effort will advance the Clean Water Protection Act toward passage and he ... |
|
| Topics: coal, Congress, energy, environmental justice, legislation, lobbying, mining, politics, United Nations (all these topics) |
|
|
How do we restrain global warming?
Will it be adaptation, mitigation ... or neither? |
Kit Stolz |
11 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Despite a lot of talk, this nation has done little to restrain global warming, either in terms of mitigating carbon emissions or adapting to the climate changes that will come. Some nations around the world -- wealthy nations such as Australia and the Netherlands -- are beginning to adapt, while poorer nations -- such as Malawi and India -- can't afford to. In a superb piece of reporting last month in The New York Times, four writers reported on "the climate d ... |
|
| Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, environmental justice (all these topics) |
|
|
|
©2008. Grist Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. Gloom and doom with a sense of humor®.