▶️ Environmental Racism and Justice in Canada: Episode 4
In Episode 4 of the EcoPolitics podcast, they talk with Dr. Andil Gosine, professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, and Tzazná Miranda Leal, Workers Rights Organizer and Community Artist with Justice For Migrant Workers about the ways in which racism is woven throughout Canadian environmental history and its impacts on Canadian environmental policy and research.
Visit the episode website for additional teaching resources to integrate this discussion into your class.
MassGIS Data2020
Published in November 2022, the MassGIS Data: 2020 Environmental Justice Populations embedded above is based upon three demographic criteria developed by the state's Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA). Environmental Justice populations are the focus of the state's Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs' (EEA) Environmental Justice (EJ) Policy, which establishes EJ as an integral consideration in all EEA programs, to the extent applicable and allowable by law. For more information, please visit EEA's Environmental Justice Web page, which includes a detailed fact sheet as well as text of the full policy. For more details on the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool see the expanded description in the table below.
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Justice40 tracts, Living Atlas |
Living Atlas by esri. These maps are made with important data from the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and help anyone see maps of communities that are disadvantaged according to Justice40 Initiative criteria in the U.S. and its territories. Tracts have been identified as disadvantaged across eight different categories:
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Potential Environmental Justice Areas (PEJAs), New York State |
Potential EJ Areas are U.S. Census block groups of 250 to 500 households each that, in the Census, had populations that met or exceeded at least one of the following statistical thresholds:
The federal poverty level and urban/rural designations for census block groups are established by the U.S. Census Bureau. The thresholds are determined by a statistical analysis of the 2014-2018 American Community Survey (ACS) data, which is the most recent data available as of the time of the analysis in 2020. See DEC Commissioner Policy 29 on Environmental Justice and Permitting (CP-29) for more information.
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Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, U.S. territories |
This tool has an interactive map and uses datasets that are indicators of burdens in eight categories: climate change, energy, health, housing, legacy pollution, transportation, water and wastewater, and workforce development. It shows information about the burdens that communities experience. It uses datasets to identify indicators of burdens and shows these burdens in census tracts. Census tracts are small units of geography. Census tract boundaries for statistical areas are determined by the U.S. Census Bureau once every ten years. The tool utilizes the census tract boundaries from 2010. This was chosen because many of the data sources in the tool currently use the 2010 census boundaries. The tool also shows land within the boundaries of Federally Recognized Tribes and point locations for Alaska Native Villages. The tool ranks most of the burdens using percentiles. Percentiles show how much burden each tract experiences compared to other tracts. Certain burdens use percentages or a simple yes/no. A community is considered to be disadvantaged if they are located within a census tract that meets the tool’s methodology or are on land within the boundaries of Federally Recognized Tribes. Federal agencies will use the tool to help identify disadvantaged communities that will benefit from programs included in the Justice40 Initiative. The Justice40 Initiative seeks to deliver 40% of the overall benefits of investments in climate, clean energy, and related areas to disadvantaged communities. |
The Environmental Justice Index: Measuring the Cumulative Impacts of Environmental Burden on Health
In this video from the from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, speakers Sharunda Buchanan, MS, PhD | Interim Director, Office of Environmental Justice (HHS) and Benjamin McKenzie, MS | Geospatial Epidemiologist; Coordinator of the Environmental Justice Index, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR) provide an overview of the ATSDR's Environmental Justice Index and how to use it.
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A Dialogue on Climate Crisis with Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot |
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Top Picks for Netflix and Chill Activism
2040: Join the REGENERATION
Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream. Structured as a visual letter to his 4-year-old daughter, Damon blends traditional documentary with dramatised sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board of how these solutions could regenerate the world for future generations.
You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment
Identical twins change their diets and lifestyles for eight weeks in a unique scientific experiment designed to explore how certain foods impact the body.
All That Breathes
As legions of birds fall from New Delhi’s darkening skies, and the city smoulders with social unrest, two brothers race to save a casualty of the turbulent times: the black kite, a majestic bird of prey essential to their city's ecosystem.
Thank You For the Rain
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Five years ago, the Kenyan farmer Kisilu Musya started to document his family, his village and the impact that climate change is having on both. They face and film floods, droughts, storms and when Kisilu's house is destroyed by a storm, he starts a communal farmers' movement and calls for action against the extreme consequences of the weather. Kisilu makes it far in his struggle – all the way to both Oslo and the high circles of COP21 in Paris. More info about Kisilu's work: http://thankyoufortherain.com
How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change
Documentarian Josh Fox ("Gasland") travels the globe to meet with global climate change "warriors" who are committed to reversing the tide of global warming. Funny and tragic, inspiring and enlightening, the film examines the intricately woven forces that threaten the stability of the planet and the lives of its inhabitants.
Common Ground
Sobering yet hopeful, ‘Common Ground’ exposes the toxic interconnections of American farming policy, politics, and health, by sharing stories of destruction and healing across the United States and beyond, and how regenerative agriculture and soil health plays a vitally important role in changing these systems for the better.
At its root, it explores how people from different walks of life, different political backgrounds, and different places share one thing in common – the very soil beneath their feet. The film is directed by Josh and Rebecca Tickell, who have created bold and inspiring environmental films for many years (Kiss the Ground, On Sacred Ground, Regenerate Ojai, Fuel, The Big Fix), while winning coveted awards along the way from Sundance, Cannes, Red Nation, and Tribeca.
