environmental justice

An examination of environmental racism, the practice of locating environmental hazards in communities with high levels of poverty and/or non-white populations; discussing how the actions of grassroots activists, lawyers, and concerned citizens succeeded in bringing the problem to national prominence.

"Follows the stories of three young women activists of color fighting for some of today's most pressing movements of defunding the police, environmental justice, and arts education"--Provided by publisher.

"Explores the history, events, and aftermath of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline"--Provided by publisher.

". . . a vital and timely illustrated study of the climate crisis that tells us exactly what we can do to help save the world we live in"--Provided by person.

"Describes the history of climate and environmental injustice, including the history of climate and environmental injustice, climate issues today, key moments fighting climate injustice, and possible ways to end climate and environmental injustice"--.

"Two powerful phenomena are simultaneously unfolding on Earth: the rise of the climate movement and the rise of women and girls. The People's Climate March and the Women's March. School strikes for climate and the #MeToo movement. Rebellions against extinction and declarations that time's up. More than concurrent, the two trends are deeply connected. From sinking islands to drought-ridden savannas, the global warming crisis places an outsized burden on women, largely because of gender inequalities"--Provided by publisher.

"Shoulder to Shoulder tells the stories of five on-going environmental and social justice campaigns powered by ordinary people"--.

Tells the history of the corosive idea that whites are "clean" and minorities are "dirty," and the present day ideas about race and waste that have shaped where people have lived, where people have worked, and how American society's wastes are managed.

". . . a guide for educators ready to activate positive change in teaching and learning through innovative practices, meaningful use of technology and global collaboration. The book offers a human-centered approach with design- and empathy-driven practices that address many aspects of teaching and learning. Topics covered include constructing agile classrooms, digital storytelling and communicating across lines of difference, and prioritizing feedback and active listening"--Provided by publisher.

"Catherine Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets, and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers calls this America's dirty secret. In this powerful book she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions, not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West. Flowers's book is the inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative. It shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards, and not only those of poor minorities"--.