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What is the term for the practice of reusing and repurposing waste materials to reduce environmental impact?
What is recycling
Helps reduce the amount of waste that goes into landfills by turning materials like paper, plastic, and glass into new products.
What is waste management?
flints water source was switched from the Detroit water and sewerage department to what?
What is the Flint River ?
mobilize community members, raise awareness about environmental injustices, and organizes campaigns to demand accountability from polluters and government agencies
What is Grassroots movement
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which annual event promotes environmental awareness and encourages waste reduction and recycling?
What is Earth Day
Inequalities between different racial and ethnic groups in areas such as income, education, healthcare, housing, and environmental exposure.
What is racial disparities?
what contaminated the water on flint?
What is Lead
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) use ligation, policy advocacy to challenge environmental racism
What is the Civil Rights Organization?
long term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns
What is climate change?
Who was the civil rights activist known for her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and her right for racial and environmental justice?
Who is Rosa Parks
regardless of race, ethnicity, income or nationality people have the right to equal protection from environmental hazards and access to environmental benefits/
What is environmental justice?
the term used to describe the area along the mississippi river?
What is cancer alley
Environmental Justice Health Alliance (EJHA) and the Sierra Club's Environmental Justice Program work to conduct research and analysis and advocate for legislative and regulatory reforms
What is Advocacy group?
The continent with the most countries
What is Africa?
What term describes the unequal distribution of environmental burdens, such as waste disposal sites, in marginalized communities?
What is Environmental racism
a process that recognizes how different aspects a person's identity, and how they interact with one another plays a crucial role in understanding how environmental justice issues can affect the communities access to the environment
What is intersectionality?
what interstate in la dislocated several African Americans and latino communities in the 1960's
What is interstate 10 Freeway
addresses the cleanup of hazardous waste sites and holds responsible parties accountable
What is CERCLA?
The country making up nearly 30% of global emissions
What is China
What is the term for the intersection of racial and environmental issues, highlighting the disproportionate impact on marginalized communities?
Environmental injustice
unequal exposure to environmental hazards, health disparities, limited access to green spaces
What does racial disparities lead to?
where were the first environmental justice movement protests?
What is Warren County North Carolina
The establishment of the Sustainability Implementation Steering Committee (SISC). A team of interdisciplinary faculty and staff from multiple departments discuss approaches for integrating diversity, inclusion, and justice into sustainability efforts.
What is Yale's contribution?
the country most vulnerable to climate change
What is Chad