Videos
The U.S. is segregated, and so is pollution. These words come from the so-called “father of environmental justice,” Robert Bullard. As a sociologist, he has proved that minority communities in Houston suffer most from pollution and has written more than a dozen books on sustainable development, environmental racism and climate justice. He sits down with Walter to discuss his life’s work.
New Resources
- Environmental Issues Online This link opens in a new windowThis databases brings together multimedia materials (text, archival primary sources, video and audio) around key environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture, deforestation and more.
Podcasts
- Environment and Race - Sarah AkersThis podcast studies different instances of environmental racism across the U.S.
- Liminal SpacesLiminal Spaces is a podcast featuring interviews between Ravi Rajan, Olga T. Griswold Chair and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and some of the world’s leading scholars, practitioners and change makers in the field of environmental and climate justice and human rights. T
- Living Downstream: The Environmental Justice PodcastLiving Downstream explores environmental justice in communities from California to Indonesia and is hosted by NCPM News Director Steve Mencher.
- Race & HealthMinoritised populations disproportionately experience ill-health from racism and xenophobia. The Race & Health Podcast explores this relationship by looking at different issues across public health and medicine.
Global Environmental Justice Observatory
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