Posts Tagged ‘environmental justice’

Cap & Trade and Climate Change

20, Feb 2010

The Story of Cap and Trade was produced for December’s United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen. Also, a new article on climate change denial offers a fresh perspective on the new push to derail environmental justice. “Their sources may be murky, their claims dubious and their arguments decidedly potty, but that hasn’t stopped them from [...]

Cycling & Houston Sustainability

22, Jan 2010

Gina Mitteco, pedestrian-bicyclist coordinator of the Houston-Galveston Area Council, will talk on the future of bicycling in the region Tuesday, Jan. 26, at the Annual Meeting of BikeHouston, Houston’s organization that advocates making the city safe and accessible for cyclists. In addition to Mitteco’s talk, Robin Stallings, Executive Director of Bike Texas/Texas Bicycle Coalition from [...]

Anti-Capitalist Journal New Issue Here

30, Dec 2009

The new issue of the political magazine Turbulence: Ideas for Movement is out. Editors say, for many years, social movements could unite around rejecting neoliberalism. Those conversations and practices that defined movements. But the economic crisis has meant a crumbling of the common. This issue discusses what should happen now. Where once nationalized banks and [...]

Antonia Juhasz in Town to Discuss Oil

14, Dec 2009

Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services, a local non-profit, welcomes internationally recognized activist Antonia Juhasz to Houston for a speaking event. Antonia Juhasz appears in the Houston area tomorrow for a book reading and discussion. In The Tyranny of Oil: The World’s Most Powerful Industry–and What We Must Do to Stop It, Juhasz investigates the state [...]

Act on Anniversary of Bhopal Disaster

3, Dec 2009

Today is the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster and Students for Bhopal asks you to help bring it to the forefront in your local community, among your friends and in the media. At least 8,000 people died when a leak at Union Carbide’s Bhopal factory sent a barrage of toxic gases through the city [...]


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