Posts by Green 2.0 Team

Black and Brown Want Green Jobs Too By Carlton E. Brown This week, hundreds of environmental experts will be descending on Washington, D.C. for the 15th National Conference and Global Forum on Science, Policy and the Environment. One topic that has received a recent flurry of attention and should continue at the convening: the lack…

Is the Tide Finally Going to Turn for Green Diversity?  Tate Williams The environmental movement has struggled to diversify its ranks for many years. A new coalition is building up some cold, hard facts on nonprofit and foundation staffing to increase accountability, and five major funders have opted in to the process. Are things turning…

Why it’s (finally) time for sustainability to diversify Barbara Grady Thursday, March 12, 2015 – 2:30am The sooty diesel emissions drifting into the air from the Port of Oakland settle thickly in the adjacent neighborhood of West Oakland. Children in the mostly African-American neighborhood are hospitalized for asthma at seven times the national average. In…

Not Adding to the Problem: Seven Ways Your Nonprofit Can Avoid Mirroring Practices That Perpetuate Inequality WRITTEN BY JON PRATT AND RUTH MCCAMBRIDGE CREATED ON SATURDAY, 21 MARCH 2015 Do the net effects of all activity across the nonprofit sector tend to: Increase the equality of conditions? Decrease the equality of conditions? Have no effect…

Green Leaders: Former Anti-Immigration Stance ‘Set Us Back’ BY EMIL GUILLERMO Goaded by a 2014 report showing abysmal representation of Latinos, Blacks and Asians in their ranks, leaders of the environmental movement have vowed to recruit more minorities to their cause, in an effort to create a new, more diverse “Green 2.0.” Michael Brune, executive director…

Environmental Movement Feeling the Heat – To Diversify New America Media, News Report, Anna Challet, Posted:

Foundations Must Promote a ‘Diversity Dividend’ at Green Groups 3/5/15 By Robert Raben and Robert Ross The 50 foundations that give the most to environmental groups shelled out more than $1 billion to green organizations in 2012. One might wonder: What exactly is the makeup of the boards and top leaders of those foundations who…

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