About
Greenceed
Greenceed has answered the call to help propel our nation into a new era of sustainability by implementing an innovative and comprehensive national program aimed at raising awareness about how we can build greener communities through Advocacy, Outreach, and Capacity-Building. This initiative, GREEN EMPOWERMENT PROJECT℠ is focused on ensuring environmental sustainability and environmental justice in all communities particularly communities that have historically been negatively impacted due to benign policies, diminished support systems and educationally disengaged from sustainability discussions and decisions. We have observed that disadvantaged communities of color have historically been overburdened by environmental hazards and unhealthy land uses, and underserved by health-promoting infrastructure such as parks, open space, healthy food outlets, good housing stock, medical care facilities, and other amenities due to environmental injustice. The Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty report provides evidence about the disproportionate burden of environmental hazards, unhealthy land uses, and other built environment problems such as hazardous waste sites, landfills, refineries, petrochemical plants, industrial facilities, and large highways on poor populations, people of color, and disadvantaged groups. The report reveals:
People of color are approximately three times more likely to live in neighborhoods that host a commercial hazardous waste facility than whites, nationally.
Greater numbers of African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asians in host neighborhoods than non-host neighborhoods in metropolitan areas.
Greater number of poor people lived in host neighborhoods than non-host neighborhoods in metropolitan areas.
Specialties
sustainability indicators policy development economic urban careers curriculum strategy environment cities jobs business network climate change conference education training
Subjects or
exams this organization teaches
Environmental Justice (Others)
Language of Instruction:
English
Environmental Justice
Environmental Economy (Others)
Language of Instruction:
English
Environmental Economy