Check out the folk over at the Alliance for Climate Education getting their flow on. Ummm…. not going to lie the cornball factor for this video is pretty high (sorry Ambessa). HOWEVER, the pure hilarity and good points about people being “Green” but not knowing what that that really means makes it worth watching. Find out more on how you can raise your voice and lower your carbon emissions at www.acespace.org
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So its been a while right since I’ve posted!!! Well lets remix my usual post!!! Today I got in the mail my U.S. Census Form!! Yes, I said it the United States Census Form!!! Now for me as a geographer, this is like crazy cool stuff, you can use Census data to make really cool maps that determine population, based off of racial identity, and addresses just to name a few!!! Why is this important, well population numbers decide how many congressional representatives we get!! Secondly, this form helps us learn about what services are needed, like bilingual services, increased schools and hospitals and so on!! When you think about it, if we get more moneys for schools, hospitals and other services we have also increased jobs in our local area indirectly!!! Now there is one other thing to really think about!! In the Environmental Justice debate there is always a question of racial intentionality, meaning did a company or entity, choose to dump in a site, because of racist ideals??? Many people/communities have loss legitimate cases because although the population is largely African-American and or severely underserved the Census numbers did not show a significant presence of that particular community. Many that they could not prove that the company meant to dumb or build harmful sources or substances in a community just because it was a community of color. See If we don’t fill out the form then we don’t COUNT or EXIST!!! In fact, we can’t really expect to complain about poor air and water quality, lack of transportation infrastructure, and other very important services that will lead to a greener economy if we do not fill out the form!!! So Lets help Define Our Decade and create a cleaner greener society by filling out the census form. I got mine in the mail today and made A video about it, so please watch and enjoy!!!!
2010 marks the 40th anniversary of the Environmental Protection Agency and for the first time in a long time that the EPA is on the J-O-B. One of the main reasons the EPA is getting it together, the Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. Checktheweather.net Video Blog Series “Word on the Concrete got a chance to get a few words with the Administrator before she went off to meetings on Capitol Hill.
Check out what she has to say about being the First African-American to head the Environmental Protection Agency. What she hopes for the future of going green. Plus a special message for the grassroots of America.
For more information on what’s going down at the EPA click here.
Also look out for future episodes of Word on the Concrete very soon….
Remember the artist, Messiah we featured last month? Well homie is getting that international love! The three-time Apollo Champ is featured in a song focused on empowering the people of Sudan to participate in the voting process for the up coming election in April 2010.
For those of you who have been under a rock or only watching Cartoon Network and playing Xbox for the past few years, Sudan has been going through a whole heap of conflict over the past decades. I mean everything from civil wars, loss of natural resources and droughts.The elections in Sudan this April will be the country’s first presidential, legislative and regional elections in 24 years. Many in the country see these elections as a sign of better times and a new direction for Sudan.
Good Job Messiah for using your words to support a good cause.
Over the weekend a counter culture known as the “Coffee Party” was officially launched after several weeks of gaining popularity through face book and coffee shops. What’s the Coffee Party you ask? Well it’s being billed as an organically grown answer to the conservative dominated Tea Party and has gained enough buzz to earn an article on CNN.Com.
Check the article and see who’s at the Coffee Party, including Checktheweather.net featured eco-advocate, Tony Anderson.
Today March 9, 2010 marks the 13th anniversary of Notorious B.I.G., AKA Christopher Wallace’s murder. Now we don’t know if BIG would get down with Climate Justice or Going Green but we do know that he shared one ideology with us and that is that the sky is the limit and you can have what you want and be what you want.
Check out the video for Sky’s the Limit below. RIP BIG We’ll always love Big Poppa!
The Joint Center For Political and Economic Studies recently released an opinion poll on African-American viewpoints on Climate Change and the Mid-Term elections that shows that YES African-Americans really do care about the environment and want our political candidates to also care about the environment. Reverend Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus put his two cents in on the matter and gave the mainstream enviro-world a big fat “I told you so” in an article he posted on the Huffington Post.
Visit the links to the article and opinion poll below and watch the video from the closing press conference of the Clean Energy Now Bus Tour featuring the likes of Biz Markie, Indianapolis Congressman Andre Carson, Rev. Yearwood and more.
Okay it’s official, Something crazy is going on with our environment. Yesterday yet another major earthquake hit, this time in Turkey. The 6.0 magnitude earthquake killed at least 51 people and more updates are coming in by the hour. Check out the CBS report below for more information.
