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| Environmental Justice Resources Communities of color and low-income communities are often more adversely affected http://www.ccej.org/ Community Coalition For Environmental Justice. This local organization provides community education, speakers, activism opportunities, and an EJ library. http://www.ecoss.org Environmental Coalition of South Seattle. This group provides education and other resources on environmental health issues in south Seattle. http://www.clearcorps.org/seattle.htm A community organization working to protect children from lead poisoning. They recently toured an excellent play about Lead Poisoning (called Jimmy's getting better) especially pertaining to EJ issues starring local student actors. http://www.weact.org West Harlem Environmental ACTion (WEACT) is a non-profit working to improve environmental policy, public health, and quality of life in communities of color. WE ACT advances its mission through research, public education, advocacy, organizing, government accountability, litigation, legislative affairs and sustainable economic development. WE ACT works for environmental and social justice on issues of land use, waterfront development, brownfields redevelopment, transportation and air pollution, open space, and environmental health. http://www.indians.org/library/subenv1.html Native American EJ issues webpage. http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/ Environmental Justice Resource Center of Clark Atlanta University. Great resource for reports, news, books, other resources. http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/ej/ EPA's Environmental Justice in Waste program. Good source for laws, regulations, programs, and resources. http://www.ccaej.org/ Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice. Resource center for community groups working on EJ. http://www.ejhu.org/disparities.html The Environmental Justice and Health Union. They just announced the release of "Environmental Exposure and Racial Disparities" an analysis of racial exposure to environmental chemicals, which documents how people of different races living in the United States are exposed to different chemicals in the workplace and the home. See summary article at www.rachel.org (July 31, 2003 issue) Web Sites with EJ Content http://www.scorecard.org Go to this site and type in your zip code; you will get detailed information on who is polluting in your area, cancer risks, environmental justice data (e.g. how people are affected by toxins sorted by ethnicity, income, education, etc). http://www.ejnet.org/chester/ Environmental racism in Chester, PA. This website provides excellent information about a city that is an example of severe environmental racism. The website provides background about EJ, articles, and many resources. There is also a downloadable curriculum based on this situation, available at: http://www.terrificscience.org/risks/dailyplanet/index.shtml It is Case 2 (towards bottom) entitled: "Homesick? The Case of Chester, PA". http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/links.htm A-Z links to EJ resources from the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. Lots of great links! http://www.umich.edu/~umej/ The Environmental Justice Information Page from students at University of Michigan. Good resource- check out the case studies in particular. News Stories Related to EJ Georgetown's battlefronts 7/14/99 Article from the Stranger about toxic waste in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood. Toxics in the air: monitoring station should be retained 12/26/02 A good letter to the editor of Seattle PI about toxics in Georgetown. SouthPark Stinks 8/23/01 Article in Seattle Weekly about closing of Long's Paints, and other EH issues in S. Seattle Seattle toxic-waste plant to shut down early 1/18/02 Closing of Philip Services in Georgetown. Waste firm fined over $1 million 8/8/01 Story about fining of Philip Services in Georgetown. South Seattle pollution trail hard to follow 6/13/01 Complaints by folks in SouthPark in Seattle - surrounded by 40 toxic waste facilities! Environmental Justice: The View from Seattle Interviews with African American leaders in Seattle show that a broad conception of environmental issues is required to bring together those concerned with both the environment and social justice. Hutch study: Breast cancer more deadly for minorities 1/14/03 http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?St=1 7/03 Article about a report just release by the Environmental Justice and Health Union showing that blacks and Hispanics are exposed to exotic industrial poisons more often and with greater intensity than whites. Other Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) Resources http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/what-is-elsi.html Great explanation of what ELSI is, from Lawrence Berkely Laboratory's ELSI Project. http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/Frames/pollution-ELSI-activity-f.html Good debate activity centered on EH implications of building an oil refinery. http://smccd.net/accounts/skyline/NCBC/bioethics/bioethics2.html An excellent model for ethical decision making, using a case-study step-by-step approach. This is written for community college students, but could be simplified for middle school level. The Human Genome Project This page provides links to many ELSI resources. Presenting Ethical Dilemmas in the Classroom Lesson for high school from the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation. Case study about the Love Canal From the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science at Case Western Reserve University. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html Go to the NY Times learning page and search on the keyword, "ethics." |
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