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Brown vs. Sword of Education Law students help eco-groups for free and get educated in the process		27 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Brown vs. Sword of Education Law students help eco-groups for free and get educated in the process When a nonprofit environmental group with a shoestring budget seeks to confront big government or corporate foes in court, where can it turn? Increasingly, the answer is: law students. Some 30 law schools around the country now host environmental law clinics (nearly half found ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, news, politics (all these topics)

Diamond Is Forever Diamond chronicles how a small southern town made environmental history	Julie Sze	13 Jul 2005	Arts and Minds
When Margie Eugene-Richard won the Goldman Prize last year, it was a stunning public recognition of decades of struggle. Richard -- the first African-American to win the award, which some refer to as environmentalism's Nobel Prize -- had waged a 30-year campaign against Shell Chemicals with fellow residents of Diamond, La. Like the proverbial David, the African-American, working-cl ...
Topics: environmental justice, Louisiana, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Jail Spin An interview with activists at the Prison Moratorium Project	Adrienne Maree Brown	21 Jun 2005	Main Dish
Khaleaph Luis (left) and Prince Serna. Say "criminal justice" and very few people think of the environment. But in reality, there's a complicated relationship between the work of environmentalists, who are trying to encourage a more responsible attitude toward our planet and everything on it, and those moving in and out of the prison-industrial complex, who are fighting for a litt ...
Topics: environmental justice, interview, New York, New York City, politics (all these topics)

Just Breathe Facts and figures on air quality and Latino health in the U.S.	Kathryn Schulz	17 Jun 2005	Counter Culture
14 -- percentage of total U.S. population of Latin American descent in 2004 (projected)1 Shouldn't she be breathing easy? 92 -- percentage of the U.S. Latino population living in urban areas in 20002, 3 80 -- percentage of Latinos living in counties that violated at least one federal air-pollution standard in 20022 57 -- percentage of non-Latino whites living in counties that violate at leas ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, environmental justice, marine life, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Silence Is Beholden Are corporations hog-tying conservation groups in CAFTA fight?	Liza Grandia, et al	02 Jun 2005	Soapbox
Macaws and effect in Central America. A year ago, President Bush signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Since then, the controversial plan has inspired protests across the U.S. and in Central America. And while past trade agreements have been ratified by Congress in less than two months, the Bush administration has delayed the vote on CAFTA multiple times, unable to ra ...
Topics: business, Central America, Conservation International, environmental justice, globalization, Nature Conservancy, politics, United States, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Ain't I an Environmentalist? An environmental-justice advocate insists he's not dead yet	Ludovic Blain	31 May 2005	Soapbox
Ludovic Blain. "The Death of Environmentalism" should be called "The Death of Elite, White, American Environmentalism." A critique of the environmental movement that draws on neither the perspectives nor achievements of the environmental-justice (EJ) movement is, at very best, incomplete. That the DOE interviews and recommendations only focused on white, Ameri ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Why I Am Not an Environmentalist The environmental movement won't thrive until it addresses economic development in low-income communities	Orson Aguilar	31 May 2005	Soapbox
Growing up in east Los Angeles as the son of Central American immigrants, the everyday challenges faced by the people in my community seemed far removed from the American dream: the lack of good housing and jobs, failing schools, scraping together money for groceries, and all-too-common police brutality. If you had asked us, we ...
Topics: economy, environmental justice, environmental movement (all these topics)

Standing on Whose Shoulders? Why race and class matter to the environmental movement	Michel Gelobter, et al	27 May 2005	Soapbox
This piece is excerpted from the essay "The Soul of Environmentalism: Rediscovering Transformational Politics in the 21st Century." The full essay can be found here. Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me ... -- Public Enemy, 1989 Activists of color may not want to stand on John Muir's shoulders. Environmentalism in the United States has always b ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

The Soul of Environmentalism Rediscovering transformational politics in the 21st century	Michel Gelobter, et al	27 May 2005	Soapbox
An Introduction to the "Soul" of Movements Someday I hope you get the chance, To live like you were dyin' -- Tim McGraw, 2004 Can a Movement Really Die? In 1991, Dana Gioia, the poet who now heads the National Endowment for the Arts, published a magazine article proclaiming the death of poetry. He looked at a multitude of small-circulation 'zines and academic ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Spies Like Him Allan Thornton, environmental investigator, answers readers' questions		29 Apr 2005	InterActivist
Allan Thornton, Environmental Investigation Agency. Is the investigation of environmental crime as cool as it sounds? I'm picturing a foggy night in a dimly lit warehouse meeting a suited man smoking a cigarette. Do you ever encounter such nefarious characters and situations?�� -- Thad Miller, New York, N.Y. It's less of a film-noir scene, but painstaking research and extensive long-range targeting ...
Topics: Environmental Investigation Agency, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, logging, politics (all these topics)

Will & Disgrace Louisiana environmental advocate forced out of job by state attorney general	Amanda Griscom Little	28 Apr 2005	Muckraker
Willie Fontenot (center) surrounded by ExxonMobil security guards. Photo: Stephen C. Kowal. After scoping out an ExxonMobil refinery in Baton Rouge last month, Willie Fontenot, a community liaison officer for the Louisiana attorney general's office for 27 years, found himself faced with the option of forced retirement or getting the boot. A longtime environment ...
Topics: energy, environmental justice, health, Louisiana, Muckraker, oil, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Thornton. Allan Thornton. Allan Thornton, environmental investigator, answers Grist's questions		25 Apr 2005	InterActivist
Thornton. Allan Thornton. Allan Thornton, environmental investigator, answers Grist's questions 25 Apr 2005 Allan Thornton. What work do you do? I run the Environmental Investigation Agency, a nonprofit environmental group with offices in Washington, D.C., and London. I generally oversee the strategic development of the organization, which includes targeting research, deploying investigative teams to obtain documentary evidence, and exposing environmental crimes; I work in close cooperation wit ...
Topics: Environmental Investigation Agency, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, logging, politics (all these topics)

Quitters Never Win Civil-rights, suffrage activists didn't give up, and neither should environmentalists	Martin S. Kaplan	01 Apr 2005	Soapbox
This piece is adapted from a speech given before the Alliance for Global Sustainability last month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. The full speech -- "Reflections on Sustainability and Universities and Whether Environmentalism Has Died" -- can be found here. Are the reapers quitting too soon? The environmental communit ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental justice, environmental movement, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Reflections on Sustainability and Universities and Whether Environmentalism Has Died �	Martin S. Kaplan	01 Apr 2005	Soapbox
This speech was given at the Alliance for Global Sustainability annual meeting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., March 22, 2005. The environmental community in this country is presently in turmoil over the challenging paper entitled "The Death of Environmentalism," an essay by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, which was released at the Oct ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental justice, environmental movement, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Risky Business Four environmental funders join the debate over the movement's future		28 Mar 2005	Dispatches
When Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus delivered the talk that has everyone talking, they chose an influential audience: environmental grantmakers. Although the now (in)famous pair focused on mainstream advocacy organizations in their discussion of the death of environmentalism, others have contended that new thinking by the folks who write the checks is key to revitalizing the movement. We've invited four ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

A Transcendental Meditation Four environmental funders join the debate over the movement's future		28 Mar 2005	Dispatches
When Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus delivered the talk that has everyone talking, they chose an influential audience: environmental grantmakers. Although the now (in)famous pair focused on mainstream advocacy organizations in their discussion of the death of environmentalism, others have contended that new thinking by the folks who write the checks is key to revitalizing the movement. We've ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

And Now, a Word From Our Sponsors Four environmental funders join the debate over the movement's future		28 Mar 2005	Dispatches
When Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus delivered the talk that has everyone talking, they chose an influential audience: environmental grantmakers. Although the now (in)famous pair focused on mainstream advocacy organizations in their discussion of the death of environmentalism, others have contended that new thinking by the folks who write the checks is key to revitalizing the movement. ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

At Play in the Fields of the Board Four environmental funders join the debate over the movement's future		28 Mar 2005	Dispatches
When Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus delivered the talk that has everyone talking, they chose an influential audience: environmental grantmakers. Although the now (in)famous pair focused on mainstream advocacy organizations in their discussion of the death of environmentalism, others have contended that new thinking by the folks who write the checks is key to revitalizing the movement. ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Ken Ward: Response to "Death": Part III	David Roberts	16 Mar 2005	Gristmill
Today comes Part III of Ken Ward's response to 'The Death of Environmentalism,' in which Ken argues that environmentalists should resist efforts to make environmental justice the core tenant of the movement and instead refocus on the most successful weapon in their arsenal: protest. Don't forget to read Part I, Part II, Part IV, and Part V.A Response to 'Death of Environmentalism': Part III: Environmental Justice and Protest by Ken Ward Environmentalism as a Hum ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Rainbow Warrior Dramatizing the 'death' of environmentalism doesn't help urban people of color, or anyone else	Adrienne Maree Brown	15 Mar 2005	Soapbox
Dramatizing the "death" of environmentalism doesn't help urban people of color, or anyone else By Adrienne Maree Brown 15 Mar 2005 "Death" is such a harsh term -- can't we say "transition to a happier place"? Adrienne Maree Brown. Photo: Sophia Wallace. Or, how else can I put this ... You don't have to fall out of the tree. Just climb down and join us on the ground. Let's talk. If you work on environmental issues, chances are you don't know me. I ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Herbicidal Tendencies War-crimes suit against Agent Orange manufacturers dismissed		11 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Herbicidal Tendencies War-crimes suit against Agent Orange manufacturers dismissed A potentially historic class-action lawsuit accusing manufacturers of the herbicide Agent Orange of committing war crimes isn't looking so historic after all -- it was dismissed yesterday by a federal judge in New York City. Dioxin-containing Agent Orange was sprayed extensively in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971 by U.S. f ...
Topics: environmental justice, news, politics, toxics, Vietnam (all these topics)

Panel Surfing Enviro-justice activists send a dispatch from a panel with The Reapers		03 Mar 2005	Dispatches
Vivian Chang and Manami Kano are executive director and development director, respectively, of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, an environmental-justice organization that builds grassroots leadership in immigrant Asian communities and works in multi-racial and multi-issue alliances to build progressive power for equity, sustainability, and justice. � Thursday, 03 Mar 2005 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. The Asian ...
Topics: Asia, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental justice, environmental movement, grassroots activism, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Building a Better Babel Four emerging environmental leaders discuss the future of their field		22 Feb 2005	Dispatches
To continue the conversation about the ostensible "death of environmentalism," we invited four next-generation leaders to discuss the issue with one another via email. Herewith, in almost real time, we are publishing their thoughts in our pages. All the participants are fellows with the Environmental Leadership Program, which works with emerging activists and professionals to inspire social ...
Topics: business, Death of Environmentalism, Department of Energy, Dispatches, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Power Back to the People Four emerging environmental leaders discuss the future of their field		22 Feb 2005	Dispatches
To continue the conversation about the ostensible "death of environmentalism," we invited four next-generation leaders to discuss the issue with one another via email. Herewith, in almost real time, we are publishing their thoughts in our pages. All the participants are fellows with the Environmental Leadership Program, which works with emerging activists and professionals to inspire socia ...
Topics: business, Death of Environmentalism, Department of Energy, Dispatches, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Life After 'Death' Four emerging environmental leaders discuss the future of their field		22 Feb 2005	Dispatches
Life After "Death" Four emerging environmental leaders discuss the future of their field To continue the conversation about the ostensible "death of environmentalism," we invited four next-generation leaders to discuss the issue with one another via email. Herewith, in almost real time, we are publishing their thoughts in our pages. All the participants are fellows with the Environmental Leadership Program, which works with emerging activists and professionals to inspire s ...
Topics: business, Death of Environmentalism, Department of Energy, Dispatches, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

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