Environmental justice’s formative document turns 30 this year, and like a fledging adult, the movement is finally putting down roots. The seeds of the movement emerged in October, 1991 at the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, held in Washington, D.C. During that event, organizers released the Principles of Environmental Justice, which detail how
Everything we are and everything that happens to us moves through a thin blue layer of breathable air, just a few thousand feet thick, that encompasses the Earth. From afar, it’s easy to understand that every breath we inhale connects us to the planet and each other. That’s why the emissions that are creating air
Catherine Coleman Flowers is talking about something that we don’t hear about too often: waste and sanitation. Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur Genius grant recipient, is the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, which seeks to address the root causes of poverty by seeking sustainable solutions. In her work she’s taking on a lack
I learned early that a path to equity starts in agriculture and the soil. My history with dirt is long and, in many ways, tied to centuries of knowledge borne both of necessity and practicality. Before she was part of the Women’s Army Corp. (WAC), my grandmother learned how to grow food from her sharecropper