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Contents below:
· About environmental justice (selected webpages)
· Audio-visual materials, including documentaries
· Conferences
· Institutional JEDI-DEI statements
· Select readings in environmental justice
Also see:
· Just Transition & Green New Deal (GND)
· Equal opportunities & environmental justice listings @ Opportunities, internships, employment, volunteer, etc.
General information
Black Birder's Week @ Wikipedia
· "...a communication hub for the Environmental Justice Health Alliance for
Chemical Policy Reform (EJHA)."
Environmental justice / Environmental racism
· Though this site seems a bit dated, it contains some very useful resources.
ejolt: Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade
· “...a global research project bringing science and society together to catalogue and analyze
ecological distribution conflicts and confront environmental injustice."
Environmental Justice Atlas @ EnvJustice
· "...documents and catalogues social conflict around environmental issues.... It also attempts
to serve as a virtual space for those working on EJ issues to get information, find other groups
working on related issues, and increase the visibility of environmental conflicts."
· "...intended to serve as a common baseline and risk management framework for financial
institutions to identify, assess and manage environmental and social risks when financing
Projects.”
Intersectional Environmentalist
· "...a platform for resources, information and action steps to support intersectional
environmentalism and dismantle systems of oppression in the environmental movement, led
by environmental activists and sustainability advocates."
Sustainability @ inequality.org
What is environmental justice? @ Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
About environmental Justice (selected webpages)
Environmental justice @ Britannica
Environmental justice @ DEOHS, University of Washington
Environmental justice @ Elsevier Science Direct
Environmental justice @ Harvard Law Human Rights Program
Environmental justice @ Science Direct
Environmental justice @ Sierra Club
Environmental justice & environmental racism @ GreenAction
Environmental justice fact sheet @ CSS
Environmental justice @ Wikipedia
News & blogs
Black Agenda Report ⇾ Nature & the environment
Conversation ⇾ Articles on environmental justice
Inside Climate News ⇾ Environmental justice
African American Intellectual History Society → Black Perspecitves → Black Ecologies
Periodicals
Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin
· Vol 151 No 2-3 (2020): Narratives and practices of environmental justice
International Journal of Environment Research and Public Health
· Special issue on Environmental Justice Research
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment
Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability
NPQ [Nonprofit Quarterly]
Bibliographies
Environmental Justice Annotated Bibliography @ Yale
16 Essential Books About Environmental Justice, Racism and Activism @ The Revelator
Turner, Robin L, and Diana Pei Wu. 2002. Environmental justice and environmental racism:
· An annotated bibliography and general overview, focusing on US literature, 1996-2002. Berkeley
Workshop on Environmental Politics, Institute of International Studies, 1.
Social media & email lists
Environmental justice studies mailing list
Audiovisual materials, including documentary films
Films & videos @ Global Environmental Justice Observatory @ UC Santa Cruz
Global Environmental Justice Documentaries
Community voices on environmental justice @ USEPA
YouTube channels
Intersectional Environmentalist
Conferences
ECODIVE (Evaluating Conferences for Diverse Engagement)
· "...goals are to evaluate how conferences are serving ecologists and environmental scientists, and how
future conference design in these fields can best meet the needs of diverse organizations and individuals.
Our research investigates how virtual and hybrid conference formats can facilitate access and inclusion."
Institutions
Action Center on Race and the Economy
Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE)
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Black Environmental Network (BEN) [UK]
Center for Diversity & the Environment (CDE)
· "...harnesses the power of racial and ethnic diversity to transform the U.S. environmental
movement by developing leaders, catalyzing change within institutions & building alliances."
Center for Earth, Energy & Democracy (CEED)
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)
· "...a feminist, anti-colonial, marine science laboratory. This means our methods foreground
values of equity, humility, and justice. We specialize in community-based and citizen science
monitoring of plastic pollution, particularly of plastics in food webs.
Climate Reframe [UK]
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
BIPOC Climate and Energy Justice PhDs
Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF)
Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform (EJHA)
Environmental Justice Index @ USTSDR
Environmental Justice Research Collaborative
New England Environmental Justice Research Project
Environmental Law Institute (ELI)
Environmental Justice Initiative
· “...a research project to study and contribute to the global environmental justice movement"
Global Environmental Justice Observatory @ UC Santa Cruz
Global Environmental Justice Group @ University of East Anglia
· "...an initiative dedicated to increasing racial diversity across mainstream environmental NGOs,
foundations and government agencies."
Green Justice Coalition [Massachusetts]
· "To increase equity, GLT effects change at the structural level, beyond campaigns of diversity. We act
together as fiduciaries of color and indigenous peoples identifying and confronting practices of bias,
cultural preference and homogeneity, to transform the environmental sector. We do this because it is
necessary to reaffirm the narrative about who cares about the environment, who bears the burdens of
degradation, and who benefits from inclusiveness at every level. Everyone cares. Burdens are
disproportionate. Everyone benefits. Practices of exclusion keep the environmental profession from
achieving its highest potential: healing and sustaining all communities."
Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice
GreenRoots [Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA]
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy
· Now Taproot Earth (website archivally maintained)
HECHO: Hispanics Enjoying Camping, Hunting, and the Outdoors
Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Climate Change Consortium
Intersectional Environmentalist Council
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
Madison Environmental Justice / Midwest Environmetal Justice Organization [USA]
Midwest Environmental Justice Network [USA]
Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project (mg)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Environmental & Climate Justice
National Black Environmental Justice Network
National Wildlife Federation
Environmental Justice
Network for Strong Communities
People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Justice (PODER-San Francisco)
Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
· "What began in 2013 as a call for what’s possible is now a movement that has changed the standard
for clean energy. And our grantee partners have led the way and are still working to make sure every
100% commitment is rooted in equity. 160 cities. Over ten counties. Eight states. 242 companies.
All have committed to 100% renewable energy — and now must commit to a just transition."
Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP)
Agrarian & Environmental Justice
Institutional JEDI-DEI statements
American Bird Conservancy (ABC)
Bat Conservation International (BCI)
Center for Biological Diversity (CBD)
Citizens Climate Education (CCE)
Endangered Species Coalition (ESC)
Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI)
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
National Audubon Society (NAS)
National Wildlife Foundation (NWF)
Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)
US Climate Action Network (USCAN)
Xerxes Society for Invertebrate Conservation
International areements
· Full title: Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making
and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
Environmental justice ~ USA
Government
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
· Environmental Justice page
· National Environmental Justice Advisory Council
· EJSCREEN
· EPA's Environmenal Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (Version 2019)
Health and Human Services (HHS)
· Environmental Justice Progress Report
Initiatives
Equitable and Just National Climate Platform
National Environmental Justice Conference & Training Program
Select readings in environmental justice
Siting of Hazardous Waste Landfills
· June 1, 1983, United States General Accounting Office. Full title: Siting of Hazardous Waste
Landfills and Their Correlation with Racial and Economic Status of Surrounding Communities
· Completed at the request of Representative Walter Fauntroy, then-chair of the Congressional
Black Caucus, in order to determine whether communities of color bore the brunt of harms
associated with hazardous waste landfills
· Fauntroy's request was sparked by protests against hazardous waste dumping near the largely
Black community of Afton, North Carolina
· Found that three out of four hazardous waste landfills studied were located in majority African
American communities
· 1987, United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice
· Presents the results of two demographic studies of communities surrounding commercial hazardous
waste facilities and uncontrolled toxic waste sites
· Determined that the racial composition of local communities was the number one variable asociated
with placement of commercial hazardous waste facilities
· Served as a call to action to understand racial justice and environmental action as profoundly intertwined
Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality
· 1990, Robert D. Bullard
· Investigates five case studies of Black environmental activism in the American South, surveying
activists and providing the first comprehensive documentation of Black environmental action
· Bullard finds that Black environmentalists tended not to affiliate with environmental groups; rather, their
activism was structured around existing sources of community organization such as churches
Principles of Environmental Justice
· Drafted in October, 1991 at the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit,
an unprecedented three-day summit of prominent environmental justice activists from across
North America.
· Presents 17 principles to guide the environmental justice movement in seeking two primary goals:
(1) liberating people from oppression and (2) promotion of sustainable relationships to natural systems
· These principles include economic, political, and cultural self-determination and equitable representation
in environmental planning processes.
Unequal Protection: The Racial Divide in Environmental Law
· 1992, Marianne Lavelle and Marcia Coyle, The National Law Journal
· Analyzing every U.S. environmental lawsuit over the previous 7 years, the authors identify racial imbalance.
· Describes how in environmental law cases the federal government favors white communities
(which tend to win) and tends to take longer to deal with issues in minority communities
· February 11th, 1994, Federal Register
· Promulgates a strategy to implement environmental justice
· Advocates nondiscrimination and antiracism in federal programs that directly impact human health and the environment
· One goal of the Executive Order is ensure that people from low income neighborhoods are able to
participate and have access to resources that will help improve their communities.
Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty
· 2007, Robert D. Bullard, Ph.D.; Paul Mohai, Ph.D.; Robin Saha, Ph.D.; Beverly Wright, Ph.D.
· United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice
· An update on the seminal 1987 report Toxic Wastes and Race, which introduced the term
“environmental racism” and exposed shocking disparities between exposure to toxic waste in
white communities and communities of color
· Finds that such disparities persist and that government officials continue to disregard the
environmental health concerns of communities of color, as demonstrated by a case study
of the Dickson County Landfill in Dickson, TN
DC's Waste and Environmental Racism
· 2014, Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network
· Describes how DC's waste is sent to the nation's fourth largest incinerator in Lorton, Virginia, a
BIPOC community that has been impacted by environmental racism
· Highlights that trash incinerator industry facilities are primarily located in BIPOC communities
· 2017, Astrid Ulloa, Environmental Justice
· Discusses a call for incorporating Indigenous Peoples' land rights into the definition of environmental justice.
· This article explores how the concerns of Indigenous Peoples and Latin America are creating a more
inclusive definition around environmental justice. While in the past the conversation mostly surrounded
territorial autonomy, nowadays the conversation has broadened and encompasses questions of environmental ethics.
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind (book)
· July 23rd, 2019, By Harriet A. Washington
· Analyzes the impacts of environmental racism in America, including average income discrepancies,
the effects of lead poisoning, and the healthcare system
Subsistence protection and mitigation ambition: Necessities, economic and climatic
· 2019, Henry Shue, British Journal of Politics and International Relations
· Discusses factors that play into accessibility of fossil fuel alternatives. Specifically asks, are
low-income individuals aware of the various affordable ways to purchase green energy?
· Discusses this core principle of “starting slow and ratcheting up” in the context of renewable
energy as well as the role of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to begin scaling back reliance on fossil fuels for energy
The Environmental Justice Wake-Up Call
· 2020, Lisa Friedman and Julia Rosen, New York Times
· Explains the inseparable entwinement of the fight for racial justice in the United States and climate justice
· Draws comparison between George Floyd “I can't breathe” and the disproportionately high
instances of poor air quality in predominantly black and brown neighborhoods
· Explores need to understand the interconnectedness between police brutality, health disparities, and
built environment when enacting policy change
Environmental justice (EJ), environmental racism & JEDI
Acronyms
EJ ~ Environmental Justice
DEI, JEDI, IDEA, DEIJ and other
variants incorporate:
A ~ Access
D ~ Diversity
E ~ Equity
I ~ Inclusion
J ~ Justice
Definitions
Environmental justice has been defined as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies (USEPA, 2017).
Environmental racism has been defined as racial discrimination in environmental policy making, the enforcement of regulations and laws, the deliberate targeting of communities of color for toxic waste facilities, the official sanctioning of the life-threatening presence of poisons and pollutants in our communities, and the history of excluding people of color from leadership of the ecology movements (Bullard 2000).
