Archive for February 2015

Lisa Garcia, Vice President of Litigation for Healthy Communities, for Earthjustice, discusses on CNN en Espanol’s Directo USA the lack of Latinos in mainstream environmental NGOs. http://edition.cnn.com/videos/spanish/2015/02/19/exp-dusa-web-climatechange.cnn

  No es fácil ser latino y verde posted on February 12, 2015 Por: Mark Magaña, Director Ejecutivo de la Coalición Latina sobre el Cambio Climático y GreenLatinos, e integrante del Grupo de Trabajo de Green 2.0 “Hay una gran población de ambientalistas natos que se puede involucrar” Soy un ecologista cultural. Yo no crecí…

How Can Philanthropy Support Leaders of Color in the Environmental Movement? By: Caitlin Duffy posted on: February 10, 2015 Even those outside the nonprofit sector are starting to notice the glaring lack of racial and ethnic diversity in the environmental movement’s leadership. In fact, one recent headline from The Guardian asked, “Why are so many…

It Isn’t Easy Being Green” and a Person of Color. A perspective on self-accountability and the environmental movement’s diversity binge. By Dorien Paul While it may come as a surprise to those entranced by the powerful images of Lisa Jackson, Van Jones, and Majora Carter in mass media, it seems the lack of black and…

Black, brown want green jobs, too By Carlton E. Brown The lack of racial and ethnic diversity in most mainstream environmental groups and government agencies is no revelation; for decades, it’s been a hushed issue that’s fractured the green movement and kept minorities out of the insider’s club. But we now have empirical evidence of…