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Environmental Justice

Collected by: Tufts University

Archived since: Jul, 2016

Description:

This collection contains websites, media, blogs, and social media feeds of citizen groups and organizations that deal with environmental justice issues. The collection focuses primarily on the United States, with an emphasis on the Boston area and the Northeast. In addition to sites covering environmental justice issues broadly, the collection contains topical subgroups focused on the City of Boston & Greater Boston; indigenous peoples; housing & urban issues; women; food justice; and water justice. Sites were identified by searching a series of topical keywords; by following related links from websites and Facebook “Liked by” pages; and by students in two Fall 2016 courses researching topics in environmental justice. Sites hosted at other educational institutions or governmental sites that otherwise meet the selection criteria are not included.

Subject:   Society & Culture Science & Health Environmental justice

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Title: Alternatives for Community & Environment, ACE

URL: http://ace-ej.org/

Description: Incorporated in 1994 and located in Roxbury, MA, ACE builds the power of communities of color and low-income communities in Massachusetts to eradicate environmental racism and classism, create healthy, sustainable communities, and achieve environmental justice. Since 1994, they have partnered with more than 40 neighborhood groups representing over 3,500 people throughout Greater Boston, Lowell, Lawrence, and New Bedford. ACE actively builds coalitions and serves as a primary resource for the growing movement for environmental justice in Greater Boston and throughout New England.

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Subject:   Local transit accessibility Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) Community organization Sustainable development

Title: On the Move

URL: http://bostononthemove.org/

Description: On the Move (OTM) is a coalition of community-based organizations in greater Boston that came together in 2000 to advocate for transportation justice. Its goal is an environmentally-sustainable and socially just transportation system that is integral to the preservation and creation of livable communities.

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Subject:   Local transit accessibility Community organization Boston (Mass.) Urban transportation

Title: Chelsea Green Space & Recreation Committee

URL: http://chelseacollab.org/who-we-are/programs/chelsea-green-space-recreation-committee/

Description: Chelsea Green Space and Recreation Committee (Green Space) began in 1994 and works to achieve environmental justice by engaging residents, environmentalists and health advocates in air quality, open space and waterfront access campaigns.

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Subject:   Chelsea (Mass.) Open spaces Air quality Waterfronts

Title: Creation Coalition

URL: http://creationcoalition.org/

Description: Founded by the Rev. Fred Small, the Creation Coalition is a nonpartisan, interfaith education and advocacy organization that inspires and empowers people of faith to respond to the climate crisis through political engagement.

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Subject:   Nonprofit organizations Environmentalism--Religious aspects Climate change

Title: Stop The Bioterror Lab

URL: http://fairfoods.org/stopthebiolab/stopthebiolab/

Description: The Safety Net is a community group established to promote environmental justice and community control over development in the Roxbury, MA area. In the spring of 2003, local residents began fighting plans for Boston University to build a a BioSafety Level 4 (BSL4) laboratory in the Roxbury/South End area. This website documents Safety Net’s opposition to the lab. The site appears to no longer be maintained as of approximately 2009.

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Subject:   Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (U.S.) Laboratories

Title: Fairmount Indigo CDC Collaborative

URL: http://fairmountcollaborative.org/

Description: The Fairmount/Indigo Line CDC Collaborative was founded in 2004 and includes three community development corporations (CDCs)–Dorchester Bay EDC, Codman Square NDC and Southwest Boston CDC—serving the predominantly low- and moderate-income neighborhoods along the Fairmount Commuter Rail Line from Hyde Park to North Dorchester in Boston. The group aims to bring more reliable and affordable public transit options and new investments in housing, commercial development, and open space to benefit the residents living within the Fairmount Corridor.

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Subject:   Dorchester (Boston, Mass.) Mattapan (Boston, Mass.) Hyde Park (Boston, Mass.) Local transit accessibility Sustainable development Economic development Transit-oriented development

Title: GenderCC - Women for Climate Justice

URL: http://gendercc.net/home.html

Description: GenderCC – Women for Climate Justice is a global network of organisations, experts and activists working for gender equality, women’s rights and climate justice.

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Subject:   Climate change Women political activists Women's rights

Title: Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative, GFJI

URL: http://growingfoodandjustice.org/

Description: Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative (GFJI) is an initiative aimed at dismantling racism and empowering low-income and communities of color through sustainable and local agriculture.

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Subject:   Sustainable agriculture Food security

Title: Homes For All

URL: http://homesforall.org/

Description: Homes For All is a national campaign against gentrification and displacement. Homes For All aims to protect, defend, and expand housing that is truly affordable and dignified for low-income and very low-income communities by engaging those most directly impacted by this crisis through local and national organizing, winning strong local policies that protect renters and homeowners, and shifting the national debate on housing.

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Subject:   Low-income housing Housing Housing policy Gentrification

Title: Indigenous Rising

URL: http://indigenousrising.org/

Description: A project within the Indigenous Environmental Network, Indigenous Rising defends the rights of indigenous peoples, the earth, and future generations.

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Subject:   Environmentalism Indigenous peoples

Title: Green Justice Campaign

URL: http://massclu.org/green-justice-campaign

Description: Community Labor United’s (CLU) Green Justice Campaign is a partnership of community groups, labor unions, environmental groups, and other organizations that support a sustainable, equitable, and clean energy economy in the Boston region.

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Subject:   Boston (Mass.) Sustainable development Clean energy

Title: New England Environmental Justice Forum, NEEJF

URL: http://neej.wikidot.com/

Description: The New England Environmental Justice Forum (NEEJF) is comprised of many organizations and individuals that are working on environmental justice issues in New England and is working to create a structured way for environmental justice activists and professionals in New England to come together, to share ideas, and learn from each other.

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Subject:   Environmentalism New England

Title: Global Alliance Against REDD

URL: http://no-redd.com/

Description: A project within the Indigenous Environmental Network. Contains news & resources for indigenous people fighting against REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation).

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Subject:   Environmentalism Deforestation Indigenous peoples

Title: East Boston Environmental/Grupo Ambiental Latino and Chelsea Creek Action Group, EBE/Grupo Ambiental Latino/CCAG

URL: http://noahcdc.org/programs/chelsea-creek-action-group-partnership/

Description: The East Boston Environmental/Grupo Ambiental Latino and Chelsea Creek Action Group (CCAG) are grassroots organizations. EBE/Grupo Ambiental Latino look to restore and protect the East Boston environment, and build resiliency within the community-at-large. CCAG seeks to reclaim the neglected and contaminated Chelsea Creek as an environmental, recreational, economic, and educational asset for the people of the region.

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Subject:   East Boston (Boston, Mass.) Community development Water--Pollution

Title: Pacific Institute

URL: http://pacinst.org/

Description: The Pacific Institute is a think tank focused on sustainable water systems. The website has open access reports, articles, and more.

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Subject:   Water

Title: Right to the City

URL: http://righttothecity.org/

Description: Right To The City is an organization that helps to empower residents in the fields of housing, human rights, urban land, community development, civic engagement, criminal justice, environmental justice, and more.

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Subject:   Housing Gentrification

Title: Science and Environmental Health Network, SEHN

URL: http://sehn.org/

Description: The Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN) focuses on using science to improve public and environmental health through education, research, and policy. SEHN approaches environmental justice issues from a science perspective to ensure that science is used appropriately as a tool for environmental justice. Their blog and ‘Updates of Interest’ sections capture current and pressing environmental justice issues.

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Subject:   Environmentalism Science--Study and teaching

Title: Environmental Justice at Tufts University

URL: http://tuftsejaction.blogspot.com/

Description: A blog created by Tufts students to analyze situations of environmental injustice with a hope to “define environmental justice on a large scale, deconstruct those social practices that cause environmental injustice and take action against these systems.” The blog was created in April 2015 and contains 11 entries.

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Subject:   Tufts University Blogs College students

Title: Toronto Youth Food Policy Council

URL: http://tyfpc.ca/

Description: The Toronto Youth Food Policy Council (TYFPC) is the world’s first youth-run food policy council, that works in concert with the full Toronto Food Policy Council to build a movement for an equitable, regionally focused food system.

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Subject:   Food insecurity Food industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects

Title: US Food Sovereignty Alliance, USFSA

URL: http://usfoodsovereigntyalliance.org/

Description: A US-based alliance of food justice, anti-hunger, labor, environmental, faith-based, and food producer groups that works to end poverty, rebuild local food economies, and assert democratic control over the food system.

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Subject:   Food industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects Food security

Title: Facts About Women and the Water Crisis

URL: http://water.org/water-crisis/womens-crisis/

Description: This webpage details the global "sanitation crisis" and explains the need for women to have proper access to sanitation in order to gain adequate educational access.

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Subject:   Sanitation Water Women

Title: Black Mesa Documentary

URL: http://waterstoneinc.com/Flash/Black_Mesa.html

Description: A documentary produced by an environmental hydrology and engineering firm on the environmental impact of mining on the Navajo Aquifer.

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Subject:   Black Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County, Ariz.) Coal mines and mining--Environmental aspects Water Aquifers Indigenous peoples

Title: Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice & the Environment

URL: http://watertowncitizens.org/

Description: Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment was founded in 1979 to protect the environment, promote sound environmental practices, oppose war and aggression, cultivate peace and security, and advocate for social and economic justice in Watertown, MA and in the world.

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Subject:   Watertown (Mass.) Social justice Environmentalism Peace movements

Title: Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, WECAN

URL: http://wecaninternational.org/

Description: WECAN is a climate justice-based initiative established to unite women worldwide as powerful stakeholders in sustainability solutions, policy advocacy, and worldwide movement building for social and ecologic justice. It engages women grassroots activists, Indigenous and business leaders, scientists, policy makers, farmers, academics and culture-shapers in collaboration with the goal of stopping the escalation of climate change and environmental and community degradation.

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Subject:   Climate change Women political activists

Title: WEDO

URL: http://wedo.org/

Description: WEDO is a global women's advocacy organization established in 1991 that advocates for a just and sustainable future.

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Subject:   Sustainable development Women political activists

Title: Black Mesa Water Coalition

URL: http://www.blackmesawatercoalition.org/

Description: The Black Mesa Water Coalition was started by a group of Navajo and Hopi activists from Black Mesa in response to the Peabody Western Coal Company’s mining operations on Black Mesa. Black Mesa is sacred in Navajo and Hopi traditions, and the communities faced environmental damage, particularly impaired groundwater quality, from the mining operations. The Black Mesa Water Coalition now works to not only bring attention to environmental justice issues against Indigenous people, but also to build community capacity to address climate change, particularly in the arid Southwest, through education and leadership trainings.

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Subject:   Black Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County, Ariz.) Coal mines and mining--Environmental aspects Indigenous peoples

Title: Water Justice Toolkit

URL: http://www.blueplanetproject.net/index.php/water-justice-toolkit/

Description: An online toolkit with tools to support local campaigns for water justice. The first module available is Public Water for All, which has tools to defend and reclaim public water and sanitation services.

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Subject:   Water

Title: Environmental Chelsea Organizers

URL: http://www.chelseacollab.org/who-we-are/programs/environmental-chelsea-organizers/

Description: Environmental Chelsea Organizers (ECO) is a seven member youth crew working on environmental justice and activism projects. ECO’s goal is to create a youth movement working toward social and environmental justice in Chelsea and beyond. It is a program of the Chelsea Collaborative, an organization dedicated to the needs of the community of Chelsea.

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Subject:   Chelsea (Mass.) Youth Environmentalism Social justice

Title: Detroit Food Justice Task Force

URL: http://www.detroitfoodjustice.org/

Description: A consortium of People of Color-led organizations and allies that share a commitment to creating a food security plan for Detroit that is: sustainable; that provides healthy, affordable foods for all of the city’s people; that is based on best-practices and programs that work; and that is just and equitable in the distribution of food and jobs.

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Subject:   Food security Detroit (Mich.)

Title: Environmental Justice Leadership Forum on Climate Change, EJ Forum

URL: http://www.ejleadershipforum.org/

Description: A national coalition of 41 environmental justice organizations (coordinated by WE ACT for Environmental Justice) working together to advance climate justice and impact policy to ensure the protection and promotion of communities of color and low-income communities throughout the U.S.

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Subject:   Climate change

Title: Environmental Justice / Environmental Racism

URL: http://www.ejnet.org/ej/

Description: Collection of resources with information about the EJ movement and a copy of the constitution formed at the First People of Color Environment Leadership Summit, among other important documents from the movement throughout the years.

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Subject:   Environmentalism

Title: Energy Justice Network

URL: http://www.energyjustice.net/

Description: The Energy Justice Network provides community organizing support and advice, student organizing, network-building, research on corporations, policies and technologies, limited legal and technical guidance, and a dirty energy and waste facility mapping project.

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Subject:   Clean energy

Title: GreenRoots

URL: http://www.greenrootschelsea.org/

Description: GreenRoots is a community-based organization, previously part of the Chelsea Collaborative, dedicated to improving and enhancing the urban environment and public health in Chelsea and surrounding communities through community engagement and empowerment, youth leadership and implementation of innovative projects and campaigns.

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Subject:   Chelsea (Mass.) Public health Community organization Environmentalism

Title: Groundwork Somerville

URL: http://www.groundworksomerville.org/

Description: Groundwork Somerville is an environmental 501(c)3 non-profit organization that strives to bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement and management of the physical environment through the development of community-based partnerships which empower people, businesses and organizations to promote environmental, economic and social well-being.

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Subject:   Somerville (Mass.) Environmental sustainability Nonprofit organizations Environmentalism

Title: Women in Transit: Analyzing Gender for Transportation Justice

URL: http://www.honolulutraffic.com/womenintransit.pdf

Description: A report that "examines the implications and challenges of a gender analysis in order to achieve greater social equity for all communities in regard to transportation. Through a review of data, travel patterns, existing national and international programs and personal stories, the report presents key recommendations that underscore the need for balanced solutions that incorporate affordability, reliability and flexibility." Written by the Women’s Foundation of California and Odyssey, a statewide transportation advocacy organization seeking to improve access and mobility choices for all Californian, and made available on the website of Honolulu Traffic.

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Subject:   Local transit accessibility Urban transportation Women

Title: Honor the Earth

URL: http://www.honorearth.org/

Description: Honor the Earth is a Native-led organization, established by Winona LaDuke and Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, in 1993. It works to works to raise public awareness and raise and direct funds to grassroots Native environmental groups.

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Subject:   Environmentalism Native Americans

Title: Just Transition Alliance

URL: http://www.jtalliance.org/index.html

Description: Just Transition Alliance was founded in 1997 as a coalition of environmental justice and labor organizations, with a focus on contaminated sites that should be cleaned up, and on the transition to clean production and sustainable economies.

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Subject:   Community organization Employee rights Climate change

Title: Livable Streets

URL: http://www.livablestreets.info/

Description: Livable Streets advocates for innovative and equitable transportation solutions that create safe, affordable and convenient options for everyone in Metro Boston.

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Subject:   Local transit accessibility Boston (Mass.)

Title: Newtown Creek Alliance

URL: http://www.newtowncreekalliance.org/

Description: The Newtown Creek Alliance is based in Greenpoint Brooklyn. The organization has fought to improve conditions in and near the Newtown Creek, has made a point to keep residents involved in the revitalization process, and worked to preserve the affordability of the neighborhood.

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Subject:   Gentrification Newtown Creek (Kings County-New York County, N.Y.) Greenpoint (New York, N.Y.) Oil spills Water--pollution Waterfronts

Title: Women More Vulnerable Than Men to Climate Change

URL: http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2012/women-vulnerable-climate-change.aspx

Description: This publication from the Population Reference Bureau asserts that women are, in many ways, more vulnerable to climate change than their male counterparts. In the text, there is an in-depth explanation of the factors that contribute to this inequity, which include limited educational access for women, poverty and issues of fertility.

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Subject:   Climate change Women and the environment

Title: Resist the Pipeline

URL: http://www.resistthepipeline.org/

Description: Through a sustained campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience, Resist the Pipeline is fighting against the West Roxbury Lateral (WRL) high-pressure gas pipeline and the metering and regulation station that would be located on Centre and Grove Streets in West Roxbury, Mass. The WRL is a segment of the larger Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) project being constructed by Spectra Energy.

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Subject:   West Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) Gas pipelines Civil disobedience Fossil fuels--Environmental aspects

Title: Somerville Climate Action

URL: http://www.somervilleclimateaction.org/

Description: Somerville Climate Action is a grass-roots collaborative working for a safe and stable climate while helping to build a resilient, just, and sustainable community. They are focused on transitioning from fossil fuel dependence, ecological degradation, economic instability and social disconnection to low carbon lifestyles, ecosystem restoration, a local living economy and a vital close-knit community.

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Subject:   Somerville (Mass.) Environmental sustainability Sustainable development Fossil fuels--Environmental aspects Climate change

Title: Tim DeChristopher - "Stop Spectra"

URL: http://www.timdechristopher.org/tags/stop_spectra/

Description: A webpage created by Tim DeChristopher, founder of the Climate Disobedience Center. Blogs posts tagged with "Stop Spectra" document DeChristopher's involvement with the #StopSpectra movement and the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline.

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Subject:   West Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) Gas pipelines Civil disobedience Fossil fuels--Environmental aspects

Title: Climate Justice & Women's Rights

URL: http://www.womenandclimate.org/

Description: In August 2014, nearly 100 grassroots leaders and representatives from environmental and women’s funds gathered for an international Summit on Women and Climate Change, hosted by Global Greengrants Fund, the International Network of Women’s Funds and the Alliance of Funds. A report was written to facilitate collaboration between women's and environmental movements. This site presents that report and some of the guidance found within.

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Subject:   Climate change Women and the environment

Title: Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network

URL: https://bangentrification.org/

Description: The Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network is a network of organizations fighting gentrification in Brooklyn, New York. BAN works to organize residents to make their voices heard against the influx of development that Brooklyn has seen over the past decade.

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Subject:   Gentrification New York (N.Y.) Housing Housing policy

Title: Boston Climate Action Network, BostonCAN

URL: https://bostoncan.wordpress.com/

Description: BostonCAN is a climate justice organization that works to broaden the constituency for a green economy and frame climate concerns to resonate with Boston residents’ daily lives. They focus on work related to gas leaks and a clean energy future.

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Subject:   Gas pipelines Boston (Mass.) Climatic changes -- Economic aspects Climate change

Title: City Growers

URL: https://citygrowers.wordpress.com/

Description: City Growers is a for-profit urban farming company whose mission is to transform vacant lots in Boston into intensive urban farms that are economically and environmentally sustainable. In the 2012 growing season, they operated 4 plots in Dorchester and Roxbury, MA. The website no longer appears to be active.

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Subject:   Urban agriculture Boston (Mass.) Environmental sustainability Sustainable development Vacant lands

Title: Environmental and Food Justice

URL: https://ejfood.blogspot.com/

Description: A blog featuring posts and news stories on topics of environmental justice and food justice.

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Subject:   Food security Food industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects

Title: Food in the 'Hood: Healthy Food Access in Bowdoin Geneva

URL: https://foodinthehood.wordpress.com/

Description: A blog (active 2011-2013) by the Food in the 'Hood Committee focused on healthy food access in the Geneva Bowdoin neighborhood of Dorchester.

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Subject:   Dorchester (Boston, Mass.) Public health Urban health Food security

Title: Friends of the Malden River

URL: https://maldenriver.wordpress.com/

Description: Friends of the Malden River is a citizens group committed to drawing the Malden River (connecting Malden, Everett, and Medford, MA) back to vibrant, civic life. The group was initiated by community organizations Tri-City Community Action Program (Tri-CAP), the Mystic River Watershed Association (MyRWA), environmental and urban justice advocates, and Tufts University’s interdisciplinary graduate program in Water: Systems, Science & Society (WSSS) in 2012.

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Subject:   Malden (Mass.) Medford (Mass.) Everett (Mass.) Rivers Waterfronts

Title: If You Really Care About Environmental Justice, You Should Care About Reproductive Justice!

URL: https://nwlc.org/resources/if-you-really-care-about-environmental-justice-you-should-care-about-reproductive-justice/

Description: This page from the National Women's Law Center draws parallels between the environmental justice and reproductive justice movements and explains why each impacts the other. The page explains that threats to the environment often pose direct threats to reproductive health, and asserts that the goals of the environmental justice and reproductive justice movements have large areas of overlap.

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Subject:   Reproductive rights

Title: ‘Water, Water Everywhere’: Racial Inequality and Reproductive Justice in Detroit

URL: https://rewire.news/article/2014/07/22/water-water-everywhere-racial-inequality-reproductive-justice-detroit/

Description: This article from Rewire discusses the issues of reproductive and environmental injustice that faced many women, particularly women of color, during the 2013 water shut-offs in Detroit, MI. The article has examples of women who were adversely impacted by the shut-offs, and explains that many citizens in Detroit who could not afford to pay for their water were met with cruelty and shame rather than compassion. In addition, the harmful impacts of the shut-offs also caused women in Detroit to suffer from reproductive health-related complications.

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Subject:   Detroit (Mich.) Reproductive rights Water

Title: Stop the Biolab

URL: https://stopthebiolab.wordpress.com/

Description: The Safety Net is a community group established to promote environmental justice and community control over development in the Roxbury, MA area. In the spring of 2003, local residents began fighting plans for Boston University to build a a BioSafety Level 4 (BSL4) laboratory in the Roxbury/South End area. This website includes news stories about the Biolab project and information about community events. The site appears to no longer be maintained as of 2011.

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Subject:   Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (U.S.) Laboratories

Title: Stop the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline

URL: https://swrl.info/

Description: SWRL is an ad hoc neighborhood organization opposed to the installation of the West Roxbury Lateral (WRL) high-pressure gas pipeline and to the metering and regulation station that would be located on Centre and Grove Streets in West Roxbury, Mass. The WRL is a segment of the larger Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) project being constructed by Spectra Energy.

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Subject:   West Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) Gas pipelines Fossil fuels--Environmental aspects

Title: ACE - Twitter

URL: https://twitter.com/AceEJ/

Description: Twitter feed for Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE). Incorporated in 1994 and located in Roxbury, MA, ACE builds the power of communities of color and low-income communities in Massachusetts to eradicate environmental racism and classism, create healthy, sustainable communities, and achieve environmental justice. Since 1994, they have partnered with more than 40 neighborhood groups representing over 3,500 people throughout Greater Boston, Lowell, Lawrence, and New Bedford. ACE actively builds coalitions and serves as a primary resource for the growing movement for environmental justice in Greater Boston and throughout New England.

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Subject:   Local transit accessibility Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) Community organization Sustainable development Twitter

Title: City Growers - Twitter

URL: https://twitter.com/CityGrowers/

Description: Twitter feed for City Growers, a for-profit urban farming company whose mission is to transform vacant lots in Boston into intensive urban farms that are economically and environmentally sustainable. In the 2012 growing season, they operated 4 plots in Dorchester and Roxbury, MA. The Twitter feed no longer appears to be active as of November 2014.

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Subject:   Urban agriculture Boston (Mass.) Environmental sustainability Sustainable development Vacant lands Twitter

Title: ECO Youth of Chelsea - Twitter

URL: https://twitter.com/Eco__Crew/

Description: Twitter feed of Environmental Chelsea Organizers (ECO), a seven member youth crew working on environmental justice and activism projects. ECO’s goal is to create a youth movement working toward social and environmental justice in Chelsea and beyond. It is a program of the Chelsea Collaborative, an organization dedicated to the needs of the community of Chelsea. The Twitter feed no longer appears to be active as of November 2015.

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Subject:   Chelsea (Mass.) Youth Twitter

Title: On the Move - Twitter

URL: https://twitter.com/OTMBoston/

Description: Twitter feed for On the Move (OTM), a coalition of community-based organizations in greater Boston that came together in 2000 to advocate for transportation justice. Its goal is an environmentally-sustainable and socially just transportation system that is integral to the preservation and creation of livable communities. The account appears to be inactive as of June 2016.

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Subject:   Local transit accessibility Community organization Boston (Mass.) Urban transportation

Title: Watertown Citizens - Twitter

URL: https://twitter.com/WCPJE/

Description: Twitter feed for Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment, an organization founded in 1979 to protect the environment, promote sound environmental practices, oppose war and aggression, cultivate peace and security, and advocate for social and economic justice in Watertown, MA and in the world.

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Subject:   Watertown (Mass.) Social justice Twitter Environmentalism Peace movements

Title: Boston Climate - Twitter

URL: https://twitter.com/bostonclimate/

Description: Twitter feed for BostonCAN, a climate justice organization that works to broaden the constituency for a green economy and frame climate concerns to resonate with Boston residents’ daily lives. They focus on work related to gas leaks and a clean energy future.

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Subject:   Gas pipelines Boston (Mass.) Climatic changes -- Economic aspects Climate change

Title: GWSomerville - Twitter

URL: https://twitter.com/gwsomerville/

Description: Twitter feed for Groundwork Somerville, an environmental 501(c)3 non-profit organization that strives to bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement and management of the physical environment through the development of community-based partnerships which empower people, businesses and organizations to promote environmental, economic and social well-being.

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Subject:   Somerville (Mass.) Environmental sustainability Nonprofit organizations

Title: Resist the Pipeline - Twitter

URL: https://twitter.com/stopspectra/

Description: Twitter feed for Resist the Pipeline. Through a sustained campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience, Resist the Pipeline is fighting against the West Roxbury Lateral (WRL) high-pressure gas pipeline and the metering and regulation station that would be located on Centre and Grove Streets in West Roxbury, Mass. The WRL is a segment of the larger Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) project being constructed by Spectra Energy.

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Subject:   West Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) Gas pipelines Civil disobedience Fossil fuels--Environmental aspects

Title: Stop the WR Lateral - Twitter

URL: https://twitter.com/swrl_info/

Description: Twitter feed for SWRL, an ad hoc neighborhood organization opposed to the installation of the West Roxbury Lateral (WRL) high-pressure gas pipeline and to the metering and regulation station that would be located on Centre and Grove Streets in West Roxbury, Mass. The WRL is a segment of the larger Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) project being constructed by Spectra Energy.

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Subject:   West Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) Gas pipelines Fossil fuels--Environmental aspects Twitter

Title: La Via Campesina

URL: https://viacampesina.org/en/

Description: La Via Campesina is an international movement which brings together peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world and defends small-scale sustainable agriculture as a way to promote social justice and dignity.

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Subject:   Sustainable agriculture Food sovereignty Social justice

Title: Water for the Ages

URL: https://waterfortheages.org/

Description: A blog (active 2007-2014) covering topics in water, sanitation, justice, and sustainability in the "Global North" and "Global South".

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Subject:   Water Sanitation Blogs

Title: Environmental Justice Tour in Chelsea

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAPxGIaHlyk

Description: A 2011 video of an environmental justice tour of Chelsea, MA led on bicycles by Catherine Maas, a member of Chelsea Collaborative, Board of Health, and Healthy Chelsea. Video runs 3 minutes 47 seconds.

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Subject:   Chelsea (Mass.)

Title: Youth Food Justice Zine

URL: https://youthfoodjusticezine.wordpress.com/

Description: A zine that looks at youth food justice advocates across the US.

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Subject:   Food industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects Zines

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