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Urban Planning in a Time of COVID
In Dallas, Dr. Eric Anthony Johnson is not letting last year s crises go to waste. April 13, 2021, 12pm PDT | Laurie Mazur |
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Dr. Eric Anthony Johnson was up for a challenge when he stepped into his new job as chief of economic development and neighborhood services for Dallas, Texas. It was early March 2020 and fresh from a stint as community development director in Bloomington, Minnesota
Stories of Resilience From 2020
A year of intense challenges also offers a chance to break from the unsustainable, inequitable status quo. March 10, 2021, 8am PST | James Brasuell | 2020 brought a deadly pandemic, crippling recession, protests against racial injustice, and bitter political division all against a backdrop of unprecedented climate change impacts, according to the promotional material for the e-book. All of those disruptions and challenges allowed a new vantage point, however, and many people have used the new perspective to imagine a new kind of future. The book collects original articles and op-eds that do just that kind of productive work.
Authors included in the book include Angie Schmitt, Daniel Parolek, Mustafa Santiago Ali, Calvin Gladney, Jacqueline Patterson, Bechara Choucair, Corinne Kisner, and Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. The entire work is edited by Laurie Mazur.
Beyond “Checking the Box” Laurie Mazur
December 11, 2020
In July, Andrés Jimenez took the helm at Green 2.0, an independent advocacy campaign to increase racial diversity among environmental organizations. Previously, Jimenez served as senior director of government affairs at Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL), and as associate director of government relations at Ocean Conservancy. The timing was right, as the nation engaged in a long-overdue reckoning with racism that prompted considerable soul-searching within the (very white) mainstream environmental movement. Here, Jimenez talks with Laurie Mazur of the Island Press Urban Resilience Project about progress made, challenges unmet, and reasons for hope.
“There needs to be an understanding that organizations need to change from bottom to top,” says Andres Jiminez, Green 2.0’s new executive director. Photo provided.