This video has got to be one of the favorites. It’s clear it’s concise and dog gone it, it’s really about environmental justice. Some of the finalist in the EPA Enviromental Justice video contest were about polar bears and whales and honestly, they are cool but that is not what environmental justice is all about. Environmental Justice is about saving the endangered human!
Check out this video from a great group based out of Austin called PODER. This is a great example of one thing you can do to protect your hood. To learn more about their work visit: http://www.poder-texas.org/
The EPA has announced the finalists for the agencies, Faces of the Grassroots Environmental Justice Video Competition. The videos range from 30 second Public Service Announcements to 5 minute Informational videos. Everyday until we run out of video’s Checktheweather.net will feature one of the nominees (Yea!)
Today’s video of the day: Pesticides: A Farmworker Perspective. This video was submitted by Toxic Free North Carolina a non-profit organization that has been fighting Pesticide Pollution since 1986. Check it out:
For more information on Toxic Free North Carolina you can visit their website at toxicfreenc.org
This weekend, youth from around New York City and the country will gather together for the first ever New York City Youth Climate Justice Summit. The event will be held at Urban Assembly High School For Green Careers 145 West 84th Street on April 16-17, 2010.
At the summit attendees will be able to partake in art presentations, free concerts from great NYC based artist such as Rebel Diaz and Climbing Poetree, skills trainings and workshops on a wide range of urban climate change issues including transportation, food, green jobs, immigration and gentrification.
This two day summit is hosted by Brooklyn based United Puerto Rican Organization of Sunset Park (UPROSE) with support from a number of leading social justice and environmental justice organizations. Founded in 1966 UPROSE is Brooklyn’s oldest latino-community organization. They utilize an intergenerational approach to organizing that helps community members think about their own lived in environment (what is the environmental impact of the concrete we walk on really?). Check out this video profile from Brooklyn Independent Television on UPROSE’s hybrid bus environmental justice tours through the Sunset Park Neighborhood of Brooklyn.
UPROSE’s work has gained the attention of major environmental and political leaders including EPA administer Lisa P. Jackson. Jackson will give a video address during the summit commending the youth and offering a call to action for the future of our planet.
This is definitely the dopest event in NYC this weekend and ITS FREE!. Hurry and register The first 100 folk to register online get a free T-shirt!
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….
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