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La 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…

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Caribbean 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…

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LeMonde.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…

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KALW: 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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The Washington Post: “Study: History of cultural bias has led to a lack of diversity at liberal green groups”

By Darryl Fears More than 50 years after the Kennedy administration found that the National Park Service had a single black ranger and bemoaned a serious lack of diversity in the federal conservation corps, not much has changed at public and private organizations that serve as stewards of the environment, according to a survey.A report released last month said…

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The Guardian: “Green groups too white and too male compared to other sectors – report”

By Suzanne Goldenberg The report by University of Michigan professor, Dorceta Taylor, was the most exhaustive survey to date on the state of diversity among the nearly 300 independent groups and government agencies making up America’s environmental movement. The report found: • More than 70% of the presidents and board chairs of environmental groups were male. At…

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Minorities Underrepresented at Environmental Groups, Report Says

By Megan O’Neil The Chronicle of Philanthropy Environmental organizations—overwhelmingly the domain of white professionals—must implement strategies to combat unconscious bias and a lack of diversity in hiring, a new report says. Commissioned by a diversity advocacy group called Green 2.0, the report found that while people of color make up about 36 percent of the U.S. population…

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NPQ: The Disturbing Lack of Diversity and Will in Environmental Nonprofits

WRITTEN BY RUTH MCCAMBRIDGE CREATED ON WEDNESDAY, 30 JULY 2014 13:57 A study released yesterday takes a look at gender, racial, and class diversity in three types of environmental groups—government agencies, grantmaking foundations, and nonprofits (in particular, conservation and preservation groups that could be designated “mainstream”)—and finds the landscape disturbing. The principal investigator of the study is Dorceta E.…

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