Learn More About the Environmental Justice Movement
This timeline for the history of the Environmental Justice Movement in the United States from the 1960's through 2019 was put together by the ACRE-Duke Partnership to Improve Sanitation Access in Lowndes County, Alabama Bass Connections team. This comprehensive resource was written as both an educational tool and an appeal to bring awareness to environmental justice history and current issues in the United States.
This environmental justice interview series features Robert Bullard, Mustafa Ali, Cherri Foytlin, Sharmila Murthy, and Ryan Emanuel. It was put together by the ACRE-Duke Partnership to Improve Sanitation Access in Lowndes County, Alabama Bass Connections team. The series dives into the definition of environmental justice, its importance, and advice for environmental justice activists.
This 3 minute video from Grist describes the unique environmental justice challenges in urban areas in the United States, the policies that created these challenges, and how common solutions to these challenges fall short. It also briefly touches on environmental justice in rural areas in the United States and climate justice.
This webinar series from Duke University's Undergraduate Environmental Union dives into environmental justice in North Carolina. It includes interviews with Catherine Coleman Flowers, Kay Jowers, Darien Herndon, Naeema Muhammad, Sam David, Madeline Parker, Alexandra Valladares, Christopher Timmins, Rebecca Hoeffler, and Nicolette Cagle. The series covers the environmental justice impacts of housing policies, energy, CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations), sanitation, the wood pellet industry, and more.