Archive for September 2014
Diversity Among Mainstream Environmental Leaders Just Took A Step Forward!
“Green 2.0 takes pleasure in congratulating Rhea Suh on breaking the “green ceiling” with her appointment as President of the Natural Resources Defense Council. The Diversity in Environmental Institutions report commissioned by Green 2.0 highlighted the deep diversity challenges, especially within the executive leadership, of the mainstream environmental movement. Today, we celebrate NRDC’s decision to hire a leader…
Read MoreThe Huffington Post Black Voices: Lack of Diversity Within the Environmental Movement Continues to Persist
A recent study of environmental organizations cast a spotlight on some real problems at the top of the environmental movement. “The current state of racial diversity in environmental organizations is troubling,” concludes the report by Professor Dorceta Taylor, who works at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment. “Despite the growth in…
Read MoreSIMEON GANT: Are the Environmental Insiders Shunning Blacks?
OPINION – Masud Cunningham, an African American college student and native of Sacramento, California, recently spent his summer in Bolivia, teaching people in an impoverished community how to develop “square gardens” to produce a wide variety of organic vegetables with a solar dehydrator. When I met Masud four years ago, he was a Junior at…
Read MoreThe Guardian: Environmental organizations lag behind the private sector on diversity
Environmental organizations lag behind the private sector on diversity While corporations have made strides in more diverse recruiting, environmental groups still have a long way to travel to overcome their insider club culture Autumn Spanne Thursday 4 September 2014 09.47 EDT Photograph: Guillermo Arias/Xinhua Press/Corbis Corporate diversity is still a problem within green industries –…
Read MoreLa Opinión: Ambientalistas se retrasan en diversidad
English translation: http://bit.ly/1r1yIUp Foto: New America Media Por: New America Media PUBLICADO: AUG, 8, 2014 1:28 AM EST Ngoc Nguyen. Traducido por Elizabeth Gonzalez. Grupos ambientales convencionales no están reflejando la creciente diversidad racial en los Estados Unidos, según un nuevo informe. Mientras que las minorías representan el 36 por ciento de la población, representan no más del 16…
Read MoreCaribbean Today: Environmental Groups Lag Nation in Diversity
By Ngoc Nguyen, New America Media Mainstream environmental groups are not mirroring the increasing racial diversity in the United States, according to a new report. While minorities make up 36 percent of the population, they account for no more than 16 percent of the staff of environmental organizations – a figure that hasn’t budged much…
Read MoreLeMonde.fr: L’écologie, chasse gardée des Blancs aux Etats-Unis
English translation: http://bit.ly/1CqgEvY L’écologie, chasse gardée des Blancs aux Etats-Unis LE MONDE | 26.08.2014 à 11h58 | Par Gilles Paris (Washington, envoyé spécial) Les chiffres sont sans indulgence : alors que les minorités (Afro-Américains, Latinos…) comptent aujourd’hui pour 36 % de la population américaine, elles restent faiblement représentées dans les organisations de défense de l’environnement, qu’il…
Read MoreKALW: Your Call – What can be done to break the environmental movement’s “green ceiling”?
(audio) Your Call: What can be done to break the environmental movement’s “green ceiling”? By Becca Hoekstra LISTEN HERE (53:04) On the August 28th, 2014 edition of Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about how people of color are under significantly underrepresented in environmental groups, especially at the leadership level. A recent study calls it…
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