Mar 13, 2022
Environmental racism is the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on people of color. Environmental justice is the movement’s response to environmental racism. “Environmental equity” is not environmental justice. “Environmental...
Mar 11, 2022
While there are lots of different definitions of climate justice, they all agree that climate justice “connects the climate crisis to the social, racial and environmental issues in which it is deeply entangled. It recognizes the disproportionate impacts of...
Mar 11, 2022
I highly recommend Yale Professor Dorceta Taylor’s book Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility. The book analyzes the forces that constrain, compel, or encourage the movement of minorities. It examines the...
Mar 2, 2022
Communities populated primarily by ethnic minorities and economically disadvantaged people have long been burdened with a disproportionate number of environmental hazards such as garbage dumps, toxic waste facilitates, scrap yards, factories, and other sources of...
Mar 1, 2022
Ocean Connect has officially launched its website and we wanted to take a moment to welcome you and say hello. We realize that at this point we are probably just talking to ourselves, our friends, and a few family members, but just in case someone stumbled across our...
