Tag: environmental justice

Activists rally to close Smith Foundry in Minneapolis's Phillips neighborhood

'We want to get people into these service programs, to get them employed, working in areas that they're passionate about.'

'What’s big to us is the amount of waste that is generated. That’s culturally part of the capitalist system we ...

Unless we act fast and significantly, we are the allegorical frog in slowly warming water, except we are turning up ...

'The climate crisis impacts everybody, but it does not impact all communities equally.'

We need to acknowledge that our continued reliance on fossil fuels is subsidized by the physical and mental health of ...

The City of Minneapolis recently indicated it may sell land earmarked for a water facilities expansion in the East Phillips ...

'We can’t have climate justice. We can’t have racial justice. We can’t have gender justice, in the context of an ...

'These communities with environmental justice concerns face even greater burdens due to climate change.'

'They're running away from some of the pollution, some of the additional barriers they face over there.'

'The City has never really responded, never been interested in the community’s vision.'

The City of Minneapolis is close to demolishing an abandoned warehouse in the East Phillips neighborhood against the wishes of ...

The Lake Street Council in Minneapolis and two other groups have been offered to join the Solar Energy Innovation Network, which ...

'There's a long history of toxic substances being in this community. We have an opportunity to change that.'

When industrial planning meets minority communities it’s never an equitable process regarding whose health will suffer.

'I want Black folks to know that climate is about Black lives.'

'In areas that are heavily populated with people in buildings in urban areas, they experience greater heat compared to a ...

How and when local advocates of environmental justice will see the impacts of these federal policy initiatives in Minnesota remains ...

'We deserve to have, you know, clean air, clean water, healthy land.'

Studies show that spending time in nature, including urban green spaces, can improve your relationship with nature and with others.