5 Things to Know About Communities of Color and Environmental Justice (Jasmine Bell – Center for American Progress, 4/25/2016) “Environmental racism and failing infrastructure have plagued communities of color for decades. The environmental justice movement seeks to rectify the problems created from these issues by ensuring the fair treatment of all people from different races, ethnicities, and incomes with the…
CEC, along with several of its member organizations, is participating in the first Big Give Houston. Big Give Houston celebrates 24 hours of Houstonians coming together to give local. CEC member groups which are participating include Artist Boat, Avenue CDC, Bayou Preservation Association, Buffalo Bayou Partnership, Galveston Bay Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, Houston Peace and Justice Center, Houston Community Tool…
Featured “The new abnormal†– the latest Houston flood disaster’s climate context (Bill Dawson – Texas Climate News, 4/20/2016) “This week’s catastrophic flooding in and around Houston – which claimed at least eight lives, officials reported – calls for climate context. It’s way too early, of course, for any scientific analyses of the sort that researchers call ‘attribution studies’ –…