Geoscientists are using remote sensing to gather data on risks including increased exposure to air and soil pollution, excessive heat, wildfire, and flooding.
Highlighted by a keynote address by Georgetown Professor Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on climate reparations, the annual Global Environmental Justice Conference explored difficult environmental justice issues including the growing scale of climate refugees, the burden food insecurity places on women, and implementing cultural preservation measures in climate action.
I am waiting for the moment when I will be evicted because trees will be planted where my apartment building is right now. I am also waiting for the moment when I will pay a fine for eating steak. I am waiting for the day I will be encouraged to take contraception so that I […]
Hilary Jacobs speaks with Professor Achinthi Vithanage, Associate Director of Environmental Law Programs at Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law; Jesse Glickstein, Environmental & Human Rights Counsel for Hewlett Packard Enterprise about global environmental justice.
Community Environmental Council is a local nonprofit that was awarded a $300,000 grant to monitor and share findings on air pollution in the Santa Maria Valley and Guadalupe areas.