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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

  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…