Category: Blog entry

  • People’s Gas and Oil Summit in Pittsburgh

    For those of you who haven’t watched Gasland, I would strong­ly rec­om­mend check­ing it out. Besides the cool shots and excel­lent ban­jo accom­pa­ni­ments, the sto­ry at the heart of the film is extreme­ly com­pelling and well told. There are hon­est and admirable pro­tag­o­nists in the movie, as well as shad­owy cor­po­ra­tions. The movie was cre­at­ed by Josh…

  • First Newsletter

    Newslet­ter Edi­tion — Thurs­day, June 18th, 2010 Join Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work at the US Social Forum 2010 in Detroit! ——————————————————– Work­shop #1 Map­ping for Jus­tice: Open Source, Dirty Ener­gy and Waste Facilities ——————————————————– http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/mapping-justice-open-source-dirty-energ… Wed, 06/23/2010 — 10:00am — 12:00pm Wood­ward Acad­e­my Room 1449 Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work is cre­at­ing a space to share critical infor­ma­tion about all…

  • When Zero Waste is Environmental Racism

    - by Kaya Ban­ton, Chester Envi­ron­men­tal Justice My name is Kaya Ban­ton and I have been a res­i­dent of Chester, Penn­syl­va­nia all of my life.  Chester is a small city right out­side of Philadel­phia known as one of the worst cas­es of envi­ron­men­tal racism. There are a num­ber of pol­lut­ing facil­i­ties in and sur­round­ing Chester.…