| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 331 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Ana Isabel Baptista -- Editor's note / Audrea Lim -- Tar sands in Africatown : Mobile Environmental Justice Action Coalition / Nick Tabor -- "California's Flint" : Exide Technologies vs. Resurrection Church and East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice / Alejandra Molina -- Hookworm in the water : an interview with the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise's Catherine Flowers / Katherine Webb-Hehn -- The largest toxic waste dump in the west : an interview with People for Clean Air and Water of Kettleman City's Marciela Mares-Alatorre -- "We are the storm" : an exhibit of prints from JustSeeds and CultureStrike -- Toxic chemicals in America's biggest retailers : interviews with Lideres Campesinas, T.E.J.A.S., People Concerned About Chemical Safety, and the Los Jardines Institute on the Dollar Store Campaign -- Drilling the Arctic : an interview with the Gwich'in Steering Committee's Bernadette Demientieff -- Richmond, CA : interviews with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network's Pam Tau Lee and Torm Nompraseurt -- Newark, NJ : interviews with the Ironbound Community Corporation's Joseph Della Fave and Maria Lopez Nunez -- Savannah, GA : an interview with the Harambee House/Citizens for Environmental Justice's Mildred McClain -- Climate and environmental justic for public health : an interview with the National Nurses Union's Jean Ross -- Thoughts of a coal miner / Nick Mullins -- "Don't call us 'coal country'" : an interview with members of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth -- Just transition : an interview with the Mountain Association's Peter Hille -- Steel mills and wind farms : Turner Station Conservation Teams and Baltimore's Ironworkers Local 61 / Dharna Noor -- CERO Cooperative : how an immigrant worker center got into the business of recycling -- White Earth Land Recovery Project : interviews with Winona LaDuke, Maggie Rousu, the Pesticide Action Network's Willa Childress and White Earth Nation Food Sovereignty Coordinator Zachary Paige -- "You don't want to end up in the fields like me" : Community to Community and Familias Unidas por la Justicia / Elizabeth Alvarado -- A green new deal for the arts / Ashley Dawson, Creative Action Network and 350Arts -- Youth and culture vs. environmental racism : interviews with the East Michigan Environmental Action Council's Darryl Jordan, Will Copeland, and Piper Carter -- "Mining the Houston Museum of Natural Science" : an exhibit from T.E.J.A.S. and Not an Alternative -- Cry you one -- Sweet Water Foundation / Lori Rotenberk -- Food, farming, and healing after the U.S. Navy bombings : Finca Conciencia and Organizatión Boricuá in Vieques, PR / Melissa Alvarado Sierra -- Casa Pueblo : decentralizing electricity, decolonizing Puerto Rico -- Development for the people : UPROSE and the Just Transition for Sunset Park, Brooklyn / Audrea Lim -- Growing change : transforming a prison into a farm / Lewis Wallace -- Taro, tourism, and industry on the Wa'ianae Coast : an interview with Ka'ala Farms' Eric Enos & Wa'ianae Environmental Justice Working Group's Lucy Gay -- Sogorea Te Land Trust : reclaiming the "dead mall" and the Bay Area / Julian Brave NoiseCat -- Citizen science : an interview with Public Lab's Shannon Dosemagan and a guide to DIY environmental science for grassroots movements -- How the Yurok Tribe is reclaiming the Klamath River / Anna V. Smith -- CELDF's effort to decolonize the law / Simon Davis-Cohen -- Frack free in oil and gas country : an interview with Frack Free Denton's Adam Briggle -- Incinerator free Oneida : an interview with Oneida activist Leah Sue Dodge -- Minnesota youth vs. the Line 3 Pipeline : interviews with Youth Climate Intervenors Akilah Sanders-Reed and Margaret Breen -- Buidling a mass movement : an interview with the Sunrise Movement's William Lawrence -- Milwaukee Water Commons vs. the "Silcon Valley of Water" / Alexandra Tempus |
| Summary |
As the world's scientists have come together and declared a "climate emergency," the fight to protect our planet's ecological resources and the people that depend on them is more urgent than ever. But the real battles for our future are taking place far from the headlines and international conferences, in mostly forgotten American communities where the brutal realities of industrial pollution and environmental degradation have long been playing out. The World We Need provides a vivid introduction to America's largely unsung grassroots environmental groups--often led by activists of color and the poor--valiantly fighting back in America's so-called sacrifice zones against industries poisoning our skies and waterways and heating our planet. Through original reporting, profiles, artwork, and interviews, we learn how these activist groups, almost always working on shoestring budgets, are devising creative new tactics; building sustainable projects to transform local economies; and organizing people long overlooked by the environmental movement--changing its face along the way. Capturing the riveting stories and hard-won strategies from a broad cross section of pivotal environmental actions--from Standing Rock to Puerto Rico--The World We Need offers a powerful new model for the larger environmental movement, and inspiration for concerned citizens everywhere |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Environmental justice -- United States
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Environmental justice
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lim, Audrea, editor.
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Baptista, Ana Isabel, writer of introduction
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| ISBN |
9781620975169 |
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1620975165 |
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