Heros/She-ros: Black leaders in Climate Justice
Black figures in environmentalism听
Environmentalism has a difficult history riddled with injustices, but these members of the Black community have not let that stop them from making their voices heard.听
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Dr. Bullard is known as the father of environmental justice. He has 15+ publications on environmental justice issues, has won multiple awards, and the Sierra Club even named an award after him. He is the director of the听, a Texas Southern University center that addresses issues such as systemic racism and structural inequality.听
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Camille Dungy is an 鈥渆co-poet鈥 responsible for Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. According to its听, 鈥淏lack Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature听writing by African American poets.鈥澨齀n addition to the anthology, Dungy has also published another anthology, four poetry collections听and two novels, including听. This book metaphorically highlights diversity after growing up in Fort Collins, baby直播app, where the city had regulations on what could and could not be planted in one鈥檚 garden.听
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George Washington Carver was born into slavery but made black history. He earned his Bachelor of Science at what was then the Iowa State Agricultural School, the first-ever African American to do so. From a young age, he helped farmers keep their crops healthy. His work led to many different forms of synthetic materials, along with making crop rotation a mainstream practice.
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Professor Maathai is the founder of the Green Belt Movement (GBM), a movement based out of Kenya that encourages a holistic approach to sustainability.听She is the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. GBM has planted over 51 million trees thanks to her involvement.听听