MLK Symposium 2009: Environmental Justice

Hint: It's related to NIMBY (not in my backyard).

Jerome Ringo's hometown of Lake Charles, Louisiana, was hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Ringo spoke about the disproportionate impace of global warming on people of color, including the devastation of Katrina, in "Nature's Fury, Man's Interference."

Ringo also addressed the Committee on House Transportation and Infrastructure of the U.S. House of Representatives as chair of the National Wildlife Federation on the Strategy for Rebuilding New Orleans on October 18, 2005.

For more information about Katrina and climate change, see Grist Magazine's Storm Front and Center: The Environmental Take on Hurricane Katrina.

For DVDs about Katrina in the Greenwood Library, click here.

• Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being, and Why No One Saw It Coming (2007)
• Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change (2006)
• Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement (2005)
• Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice (2005)
• Environmental Justice in America: A New Paradigm (2003)
• Environmental Justice: Creating Equity, Reclaiming Democracy (2002)
• Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (2002)
• From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (2001)

For all books and audiovisual materials about MLK in the Greenwood Library, click here.

Selected milestone documents in the environmental justice movement.

Use the terms "environmental justice", "environmental equity" or "environmental racism" when searching the following databases: