EJ Principles
The ability of all people regardless of race, class, gender, ethnicity, status, and religion to live, work, play, worship, and learn in a safe and healthy environment.
What is Environmental Justice?
It is an example of a sanitation issue in the Washington Heights / Inwood neighborhood. **MULTIPLE ANSWERS ACCEPTED**
What is/are: insufficient garbage reciptacles, non-accessible compost bins, infrequent trash pickups, etc.
Any open piece of land that is undeveloped and is accessible to the public.
What is open space?
It is a tiny particle that gets into your throat, nose, and lungs and is a byproduct of burning fossil fuels (gas/oil/coal).
What is PM2.5?
A period of high heat and humidity with temperatures above 90 degrees for at least two to three days.
What is Extreme Heat?
When policies and corporations target and expose communities to environmental toxins and hazards based on race, class, gender, status, ethnicity, and religion.
Environmental Racism (will take "Environmental Discrimination)
A Puerto Rican political and social organization that organized in El Barrio/Spanish Harlem for Sanitation Quality and Management, known especially for their protest called, "The Garbage Offensive” in 1969.
What is / Who are the Young Lords?
Examples of this kind of space include Public Parks, Wetlands, Community Gardens, and Our Clean Air Green Corridor (eventually!)
What is Green Space?
It is a group that is disproportionately harmed by air pollution. **MULTIPLE ANSWERS ACCEPTED**
Low-income, or people of color
The idea that cities trap and retain heat faster and longer than surrounding areas with more green space and less buildings.
What is the Urban Heat Island Effect?
A discriminatory practice that involves denying or limiting access to financial services to certain neighborhoods based on the race, color, national origin, or other prohibited characteristics of its residents.
What is redlining?
This nonprofit works in Washington Heights and Harlem to provide harm reduction care for drug users and clean up disposed needles and hazardous materials in our neighborhood.
What is OnPoint?
It is a vision to have 182nd Street be a non-vehicle, open space for students.
What is the Clean Air Green Corridor?
___ are two potential health effects of PM2.5? **MULTIPLE ANSWERS ACCEPTED**
Respiratory (breathing) problems, asthma, cardiac (heart) issues, coughing, difficulty breathing, airway irritation, etc.
It is an area defined by having lots of buildings close together, and a lack of trees and green space.
What is "urban" space
This Indigenous tribe resided on the land that is now New York City (as well as other areas of upstate New York and New England.
What is the Lenape Tribe?
This Civil Rights pioneer was involved in the Memphis sanitation workers' strike in 1968, a 64-day labor conflict that sought better wages, working conditions, and union recognition for Black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Constructed in 1858, it is the largest Green Space in New York City.
What is Central Park?
It is a scale that measures air quality and the health effects of air pollution (**full name - not acronym**).
Air Quality Index (AQI).
Air or water that does not move, stays in one place for an extended duration of time.
What is stagnant aire/water?
This highway, which runs through Washington Heights and the Bronx, is currently undergoing an expansion project to make more lanes, increasing pollution and emissions in the neighborhoods it goes through.
What is the Cross Bronx Expressway?
In 1982, Warren County, North Carolina, environmentalists, civil rights activists, and leaders, like Rev. Benjamin Chavis, organized against THIS TYPE OF POLLUTING INFRASTRUCTURE ____ in Warren County due to health impacts, harmful pollutants, and environmental racism, drawing national attention to environmental racism and injustice in predominantly Black communities.
What is a PCB landfill?
This group led by Liz Christy, Amos Taylor and Martin Gallent in the early 1970s took vacant lots and used community resources to build community gardens and green space in run-down neighborhoods in NYC.
Who are the Green Guerillas?
Within this range of PM2.5, people with heart or lung disease, older adults, and children, should reduce prolonged or heavy exertion.
What is 35.5 - 55.4 (will accept "Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups")?
A country/farmland area with more abundant plant life, and less people / vehicles
What is "rural" / rural space?