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Green Groups Make Pay Equity Pledge to Combat Racial Wage Gap
Many of the biggest environmental groups such as the National Wildlife Federation, Nature Conservancy, and the Sierra Club are pledging to tackle the racial wage gap, particularly disparities affecting women of color, under a Pay Equity Pledge campaign announced Wednesday.
Read MoreDear White Enviros: You can’t fight climate change without communities of color
In the summer of 2020, amid America’s national reckoning with its white supremacism and systemic racism, lovers of nature and conservation began to ask questions about how our national parks and other public lands fit into this reckoning.
Read MoreWhat’s next for the Civilian Climate Corps?
All last year, the promise of a new Civilian Climate Corps galvanized young, progressive voters, with the Democratic base energized around President Biden’s support for the initiative.
Read MoreEnvironmental NGOs inch forward on racial and ethnic diversity
Green 2.0 was established in 2014 as a watchdog on diversity in the environmental sector. The organization works to diversify the racial and ethnic face of the movement by providing research, data and education to environmental organizations, foundations and other stakeholders.
Read MoreEnviro groups slowly diversify; funding gaps remain
The environmental movement has made some progress in diversifying its ranks, a watchdog group said today, but much more work needs to be done.
Read MoreEnvironmental Groups Showing Steady Diversity Gains, Group Says
Environmental groups are showing slow but steady progress in hiring people of color as full-time staff—though increasing diversity among board members and senior positions has been more modest, according to a report released Wednesday.
Read More‘Come on, it’s 2021’: Advocates demand diversity in hearings
“There are some committees that continue to not be diverse,” Andrés Jimenez, the CEO of Green 2.0, told E&E News recently, “and have all white panelists, all males. And it’s like, ‘Come on, it’s 2021. How can you bring someone in to talk about communities of color if you don’t have that background?’”
Read MoreHow green organizations can hire more people of color
I am deputy director of Green 2.0 and a Latina. I am also an exception to the rule. From 2017 to 2020, major environmental organizations added just two people of color and two women to their senior teams, according to Green 2.0’s recent Transparency Report findings.
Read MoreThe Unbearable Whiteness of Congressional Environmental Panels
In late June, 2021, Green 2.0 sent a letter to 15 Congressional committees with jurisdiction over policy involving climate and environmental issues. “Hearings are an integral element of the policy making process, and the inclusion of witnesses of color is key to ensuring that people across our nation have their voices heard,” the letter states. “As committees discuss pollution, water, energy, infrastructure, conservation, and many other environmental policies there must be greater inclusion and collaboration with communities of color.”
Read MoreWatching for birds, diversity: Audubon groups pledge change
By Philip Marcelo, Read on The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — When Boston socialites Minna Hall and Harriet Hemenway sought to end the slaughter of birds in the name of 19th century high fashion, they picked a logical namesake for their cause: John James Audubon, a naturalist celebrated for his stunning watercolors of American birds. Now, 125…
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