Zip Code Matters: Racial and Economic Disparities in Green Space
Zip code matters when it comes to quality and length of life. Along with factors like pollution and healthcare, this disparity is driven by access to green spaces.
Zip code matters when it comes to quality and length of life. Along with factors like pollution and healthcare, this disparity is driven by access to green spaces.
Empathy & Equity outlines historical and modern flaws that leave marginalized communities disproportionately vulnerable in the face of climate change. In highlighting healthier solutions, E&E weaves environmental justice into the fabric of the environmental movement to create a more equitable planet. North Carolina’s hog industry is more empire than industry. With more factory-farmed pigs than…
When it comes to environmental justice, most of us automatically think of very visible problems like toxic waste or pollution. While these undoubtedly qualify, environmental injustices present themselves in various forms. For this reason, the food apartheid impacting low-income Black and Brown neighborhoods is particularly insidious.