Environmental & Social Justice

Network Innovation Grant Grant

North American Community Environmental Leadership Exchange

Melissa Nelson, a professor of Native American Studies at San Francisco State University and Executive Director of the Cultural Conservancy, and Susannah McCandless, International Program Director of the Global Diversity Foundation, will...
September 10, 2013
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Health impacts of global trade

Most likely the items in your home or office came from overseas. Today's report focuses on the question how those products got to you, and what is the impact on the environment and workers?
August 3, 2013
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Isella Ramirez

2013 Fellow
Isella Ramirez is currently a Project Manager with Hester Street Collaborative in New York City. Ramirez grew up in the City of Commerce; a community overburdened with industrial pollution a few miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. For...
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Elisabeth Stoddard

2013 Fellow
Elisabeth Stoddard, or Lisa, is an Associate Professor, TRT, and the co-Director of the Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Worcester, MA. She teaches courses focused on environmental...
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Caroline Howe

2013 Fellow
Caroline works with communities to address local environmental and social challenges through interventions that combine technology, social enterprise, and education. Working both in urban and rural areas, internationally and in her own...
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Mike Antos

2013 Fellow
Mike helps people and institutions navigate place, time and culture to achieve sustainable, just, and equitable outcomes. His experience includes extensive work and research about effective engagement between agencies and communities...
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Jia-Ching Chen

2013 Fellow
Jia-Ching is Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD in City & Regional Planning at the UC Berkeley. His research examines China’s emerging role in the...
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Vorhees on why pollution risks worse for developing world women

Standing ankle deep in black oil in a green field in Nigeria, Donna Vorhees was startled not by the pollutant inching up her boots, but by the two barefoot women inching past her.
May 28, 2013
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Climate Change Hits Disadvantaged Hardest

Low-income neighborhoods are more often exposed to poor environmental quality when compared to wealthier communities, and scientists are saying this gap will increase as climate change is more widely felt.
May 15, 2013
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Ditching Dirty Diesel

Diesel-powered vehicles are a significant source of pollution, impacting health and contributing to climate change. The Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative, a coalition of community, environmental advocacy and public health departments, is working together with the Pacific Institute to reduce the impact of this pollution on low-income communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
April 17, 2013