Needed: Design in the Public Interest
BY THOMAS FISHER
The world desperately needs a design version of public health, and so do architectural schools and the profession itself.
Carter speaks on green justice
Majora Carter, founder of Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training (BEST), spoke yesterday on how environmentalism can help create jobs and alleviate poverty.
Environmental justice activist Majora Carter spoke of the links between the poor, economic troubles and environmentalism, and called for the creation of renewable energy jobs to anchor an economic recovery, in a keynote speech for Greenfest 2009 last night in Annenberg Auditorium.
Local Health Officials Told of Birmingham’s Potential to Be a Healthier, Walkable City
BY ANNA VELASCO
The good news is that Birmingham and its oldest suburbs have all the makings to create walkable communities.
The bad news is that Birmingham has plenty of urban blight, too.
But if you turn key streets into attractive thoroughfares friendly to both cyclists and pedestrians, you can transform dead zones into thriving areas where exercise is a way of life, a national "complete streets" expert told community leaders Tuesday and Wednesday.
Students Pitch in to Reduce Emissions
BY MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN
Law students from around the country are assisting local volunteers with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade in investigating ways to reduce unauthorized discharges of air pollutants by the state's petroleum refineries.
Neighbors' Demands Met as Park Plans Develop: Residents say they feel empowered to make sure site is clean, safe.
By D DIANE DOUGLAS
The Little Village neighborhood is finally getting its first public park—but it’s planned for a hazardous waste site.
The folks at the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization told the City of Chicago and the Chicago Park District, “Not so fast.”
The site—the former Celotex plant at 28th Street and Sacramento Avenue—is part of the federal Superfund program, which identifies and cleans up abandoned hazardous waste sites. The soil on the 24-acre site is contaminated.
$300,000 Grant Will Help Savannah Residents Reduce Toxics in Their Neighborhoods
SAVANNAH, Georgia, March 5, 2009 (ENS) - The U.S. EPA has awarded $300,000 to Harambee House, a nonprofit organization in Savannah, for continuing work to help the low-income Hudson Hill and Woodville neighborhoods understand and reduce toxic air pollution from adjacent industries.
