Local Solutions: Transportation Justice (pgs

OTHER RESOURCES

• Catalyst Miami - EJ Series

• Miami Climate Alliance

• FRIDA Fund - How Do Feminism and Climate Activism

Connect?

Video About Environmental Justice

• Teen Vogue: 4 Activists Explain Why Climate Activism Needs

Feminism

• Harvard Study Links COVID19 to Air Pollution Exposure

• First EJ Organization: WeAct

• Green Action: Environmental Justice & Environmental

Racism

• DeJusticia: Feminism & Environmentalism

• Climate Accountability Institute: Carbon Majors

Instagram: @CatalystMiami; @MiamiClimateAlliance; @Prii_Barbosa; @queerbrownvegan

GLOSSARY

These terms are related to the EJ Movement, and you may encounter them in this zine or elsewhere:

• Activism: action with the goal of bringing about social/political change • Climate Refugee: An person who is displaced by climate change due to famine, natural disasters, rising sea-levels, etc. • Economic Justice: The idea that the economy will be more successful if it is fairer. There should be a universal basic income, and income equality regardless of identities. • Environmentalism: pg. 9 • Environmental Justice (EJ): pg. 4 • Environmental Racism: pg. 7 • EPA: Environmental Protection Agency of the US government. • Executive Order 12898: Signed by President Clinton. Took

Federal action to address environmental injustices in communities of color and low-income communities. • Feminism: The advocacy of women’s rights based on the equality of the sexes (and all people). • Frontline Community/EJ Community: Communities that are disproportionately impacted by environmental injustices. Tend to be communities of color and/or low-income communities. • Greenhouse Gas Emissions/Climate Change: CLICK HERE • Just Transition: A transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy resources in a way that is just to vulnerable communities. • Robert Bullard, Ph.D: A Professor at Texas Southern University credited as being the “father” of Environmental Justice. MORE HERE • Social Justice: Justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. • Toxic Wastes & Race: pg. 7 • Transportation Justice: pg. 16 • Warren Sit-In: pg. 6 • WeAct: The first official EJ organization in the US, started in 1988.

It is located in New York.

REFERENCES

Ash, M., & Boyce, J. K. (2018). Racial disparities in pollution exposure and employment at US industrial facilities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(42), 10636 LP – 10641. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721640115

(UC) Berkeley Earth. (2014). Know the Facts: A Skeptic’ s Guide to Climate Change. Accessed here: https://static.berkeleyearth.org/pdf/skeptics-guide-to-climatechange.pdf

Brown, E., et al. (2014). Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. California

Environmental Protection Agency. Accessed here: https://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/riskassessment/report/2014legreport.pdf

Brulle, R. J., & Pellow, D. N. (2006). Environmental justice: human health and environmental inequalities. Annual Review of Public Health , 27, 103-124.

Bullard, R., Mohai, P., Saha, R., & Wright, B. (2008). TOXIC WASTES AND RACE AT TWENTY: WHY RACE STILL MATTERS AFTER ALL OF THESE YEARS.

Environmental Law, 38(2), 371-411. Retrieved May 8, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/43267204

California Environmental Justice Alliance. (2015). 2015-2018 Strategic Plan: Powering Up Healthy Hoods Throughout California. Accessed here: https://caleja.org/wpcontent/uploads/2015/07/CEJA_strategicplan_9.pdf

Commission for Racial Justice. (1987). Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States.

United Church of Christ. Accessed here: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1310/ML13109A339.pdf

Dankelman, I. (2002). Climate change: Learning from gender analysis and women's experiences of organising for sustainable development. Gender & Development, 10(2), 21-29.

Environmental Protection Agency. (2013). Environmental Justice. US Government. Accessed here: https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice Goldenberg, S. (2013). Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions. The Guardian. Accessed here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/20/90-companies-manmade-global-warming-emissions-climate-change

Lippi, A. (2019). Two fights in one: feminism and environmentalism. DeJusticia. Accessed here: https://www.dejusticia.org/en/column/two-fights-in-one-feminism-andenvironmentalism/

Merino, J. (2017). Women Speak: Bringing Gender to the Forefront in Environmental Justice. Ms. Magazine. Accessed here: https://msmagazine.com/2017/11/01/welcoming-the-launch-of-women-speak/

Neimark, B., et al. (2019). U.S. Military Produces More Greenhouse Gas Emissions than up to 140 Countries . Newsweek. Accessed here: https://www.newsweek.com/usmilitary-greenhouse-gases-140-countries-1445674

Pailthorpe, B. (2020). On Earth Day, activists call for environmental justice in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. KNKX. Accessed here: https://www.knkx.org/post/earth-day-activists-call-environmental-justice-facecoronavirus-pandemic

Peters, J. M., Avol, E., Gauderman, W. J., Linn, W. S., Navidi, W., London, S. J., ... & Thomas, D. C. (1999). A study of twelve Southern California communities with differing levels and types of air pollution: II. Effects on pulmonary function.

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine , 159( 3), 768-775.

Plumer, B. (2018). You’ve Heard of Outsourced Jobs, But Outsourced Pollution? New

York Times. Accessed here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/climate/outsourcing-carbonemissions.html

Purdy, J. (2015). Environmentalism’s Racist History. New Yorker. Accessed here: https://newyorker.com/news/news-desk/environmentalisms-racist-history

Tessum, C. W., Apte, J. S., Goodkind, A. L., Muller, N. Z., Mullins, K. A., Paolella, D. A., … Hill, J. D. (2019). Inequity in consumption of goods and services adds to racial–ethnic disparities in air pollution exposure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(13), 6001 LP – 6006. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818859116