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  • An Introduction to Legacy Environmental Justice with Savannah Domenech

    An Introduction to Legacy Environmental Justice with Savannah Domenech
    2025/01/20
    For many, fighting for environmental justice means pushing polluters to stop poisoning our air and water. It means shutting down non-compliant factories and industrial facilities that refuse to follow the law. However, environmental justice issues can persist long after these facilities shut down or stop polluting. It's called "legacy environmental (in)justice", where the pollution of the past continues to impact our present. Not much has been said on this, but it's something that we need to discuss and confront wherever we see it.

    On this episode, we begin our discussion about legacy environmental justice with Savannah Domenech, a Senior majoring in Environmental Management at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. (And she promised to stay with us for several episodes on this topic.)

    So let's get into it!

    Resources:
    A Primer on Legacy Pollution - PBS
    Legacy Pollution and Health - University of Wisconsin

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    35 分
  • Welcome to Season 4 of the Environmental Justice Lab!

    Welcome to Season 4 of the Environmental Justice Lab!
    2025/01/18
    Happy New Year and welcome to Season 4 of the Environmental Justice Lab. We have a lot of amazing stories and analysis planned for this season. From thinking through the implications of a new president in the United States for EJ work to examining topics like legacy environmental justice to lifting up marginalized voices around the world, we are going to be getting deep this year. Stay with us! Connect with us! And support us!

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    12 分
  • Engineering Environmental Justice in Palestine - A Conversation with the El-Sayeghs, pt. 1

    Engineering Environmental Justice in Palestine - A Conversation with the El-Sayeghs, pt. 1
    2024/11/30
    It's the holiday season, and we are coming to the end of another amazing season of the Environmental Justice Lab Podcast. And to finish the year strong, we have a 2-part conversation with the El-Sayeghs. They are a dynamic father-daughter duo of Palestinian engineers who care deeply about environmental justice and equity. I hope you enjoy these episodes as much as I enjoyed recording them.

    So let's get into Part 1 of my conversation with the El-Sayeghs!

    Resources:
    Five Myths about Israel & Palestine
    Voices from Gaza
    Reports from B’Tselem (Israeli Human Rights Organization)


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    52 分
  • Environmental Apartheid, pt. 3 - Infrastructure Apartheid, explained

    Environmental Apartheid, pt. 3 - Infrastructure Apartheid, explained
    2024/11/21
    We are talking about infrastructure apartheid. Infrastructure can play an important role in social inclusion and economic growth. However, when infrastructure is inadequate, it can lead to social exclusion, poverty, and poor health. The fact that some people in some places have more better, more resilient, more effective infrastructure than others is not an accident. Decisions are being made that keep people from enjoying the quality of infrastructure that would allow them to live healthy, whole lives, while others have an overabundance of high-quality systems and infrastructure. It’s not right.

    So let’s talk about it on this episode of the Environmental Justice Lab.

    Resources:
    How infrastructure has historically promoted inequality - PBS News

    ‘Infrastructure apartheid’: Africatown’s fight against toxins, new toll bridge

    Green Apartheid: Urban green infrastructure remains unequally distributed across income and race geographies in South Africa - Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning

    Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians - Amnesty International

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    42 分
  • Environmental Apartheid, pt. 2 - Food Apartheid, explained (pt. 3)

    Environmental Apartheid, pt. 2 - Food Apartheid, explained (pt. 3)
    2024/11/01
    We are (still) talking about food apartheid. While the United Nations has the goal of a world free from hunger by 2030, the reality is that because of these inequitable food systems, we are far from that goal. From conflict to climate change, there is a lot that is keeping us from living in a hunger-free world.

    So let’s get into it on this episode of the Environmental Justice Lab.

    Resources:
    Food Apartheid - ReGeneration.
    Food Apartheid | Why we should change the way we talk about food deserts
    Global Food Crisis - World Food Programme
    Violence and the Right to Food - The Situation in Palestine
    The Question of Palestine: The Right to Food - United Nations (2003)


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    37 分
  • Environmental Apartheid, pt. 2 - Food Apartheid, explained (cont.)

    Environmental Apartheid, pt. 2 - Food Apartheid, explained (cont.)
    2024/10/09
    We are still talking about food apartheid. The fact that some people in some places have more food choices that they need, while others have no good food choices at all. And on this episode, we are focusing on how food apartheid shows itself in the United States. Trust me, it’s not an accident. People are making decisions that keep healthy foods in some neighborhoods and keeps them out of other neighborhoods. It’s not right.

    So let’s talk about it on this episode of the Environmental Justice Lab.

    Resources:
    USDA's Legacy of Discrimination - Environmental Working Group
    How corporations buy - and sell - food made with prison labor - The Counter
    Supermarket Redlining

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    37 分
  • Environmental Apartheid, pt. 2 - Food Apartheid, explained

    Environmental Apartheid, pt. 2 - Food Apartheid, explained
    2024/09/12
    We are talking about food apartheid. The fact that some people in some places have more food choices that they need, while others have no good food choices at all. And it’s not an accident. Decisions are being made that keep healthy foods in some neighborhoods and keeps them out of other neighborhoods. It’s not right.

    So let’s get into it on this episode of the Environmental Justice Lab.

    Resources:
    Food Apartheid: Racialized Access to Healthy Affordable Food
    Food Swamps Predict Obesity Rates Better Than Food Deserts in the United States


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    35 分
  • Waste Colonialism, pt. 1 - Plastic and the US (Presented by Co-host Sunny Chen)

    Waste Colonialism, pt. 1 - Plastic and the US (Presented by Co-host Sunny Chen)
    2024/07/21
    Since the early 20th century, plastic has been around and has dominated US consumerism. Unfortunately, it hurts the planet in all phases of its life cycle– from when it’s produced (emitting greenhouse gases), to when it’s used (releasing microplastics), to when it’s discarded (rotting in landfills). That being said, everyone knows its negative impact on the environment, but nothing major has been done to reduce this planet-destroying product. So today, we are talking about plastic pollution, but specifically zeroing in the last phase of its life and where it is discarded: developing nations.

    Let’s explore the research behind it. Join us!

    Resources:
    US generates more plastic trash than any other nation - National Geographic

    How the fossil fuel industry is pushing plastics on the world - CNBC

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    11 分