Majora Carter was born on October 27, 1966. She is an American expert in helping cities improve and a radio show host from the South Bronx area of New York City. From 2001 to 2008, she created and led a nonprofit organization called Sustainable South Bronx, which focused on solving environmental justice issues.
Robert Doyle Bullard was born on December 21, 1946. He is an American professor who previously served as the Dean of the Barbara Jordan – Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs from October 2011 to August 2016. He is now a Distinguished Professor at Texas Southern University.
The United Farm Workers of America, often called United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labor union that represents farmworkers in the United States. It was formed by combining two groups that worked to protect workers’ rights: the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), led by César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Gilbert Padilla, and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), led by organizer Larry Itliong. In 1965, Filipino-American and Mexican-American farmworkers from AWOC in Delano, California, began a strike to protest unfair working conditions.
Hazel M. Johnson (born as Washington; January 25, 1935 – January 12, 2011) was an American environmental activist who lived on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. After she spoke at the first National People of Color Environmental Leadership conference, she was considered to be the mother of environmental justice.
Lois Marie Gibbs was born on June 25, 1951. She is an American environmental activist. As the main organizer of the Love Canal Homeowners Association, she brought attention to the environmental problem in Love Canal.
The environmental movement, also known as the ecology movement, is a group effort aimed at protecting nature from harmful activities to help people live in a way that lasts for many years. This movement sees humans as part of, not separate from, ecosystems. It focuses on topics like the health of the environment, human well-being, and the rights of people.
Environmental justice is a movement that works to fix unfair problems when poor or groups without much power are harmed by dangerous waste, taking natural resources, or other uses of land that do not help them. Many studies have shown that harm from the environment is not shared fairly. Also, groups like Black and racialized communities, as well as the LGBTQ community, are often affected more by natural disasters.
Ecofeminism combines feminism and political ecology. Ecofeminist thinkers use the idea of gender to study how people relate to the natural world. The term was created by the French writer Françoise d’Eaubonne in her 1974 book Le Féminisme ou la Mort.
Social ecology looks at how people and their environment are connected, including how people, groups, and organizations rely on each other. It studies how people interact with their surroundings, how they react to it, and how these interactions affect society and the environment. Social ecology developed from areas like biological ecology, human ecology, systems theory, and ecological psychology.
A shallow water marine environment is the neritic zone, which is the area between the shore and the edge of the continental shelf. This zone has specific ocean, land, and living conditions. The water here is shallow and clear, which helps form different types of rock layers, carbonate rocks, coral reefs, and allows some sea creatures to live and turn into fossils.