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Category: Justice

Posted inDisaster Recovery

Can community gardens bring rural and urban farmers together after disasters? Q&A with Sprout NOLA’s Terence Jackson

by Autumn Jemison December 12, 2022December 12, 2022

Farmers face many challenges trying to grow quality food in the midst of rapid climate change, storms, and economic instability. Jackson sheds light on how community gardens can create a network for rural and urban farmers to build local food systems in their communities.

Posted inPublic Health

How we worked with an environmental justice group to create brochures on pollution in eastern N.C.

by Lyndsey Gilpin and Cameron Oglesby August 10, 2022September 8, 2022

Community leaders in Sampson County say the cumulative impacts of industry aren’t discussed enough. So we made a printed pamphlet about it.

Posted inInfrastructure

N.C. releases general biogas permit despite environmental justice concerns

by Cameron Oglesby July 12, 2022September 8, 2022

The permit allows farms to bypass individual water quality review and public hearing processes when installing an anaerobic digester.

Posted inAppalachia

Virginia landfill ordered to close, but air pollution is still making people sick

by Sarah Wade July 1, 2022July 1, 2022

Bristol, Va. must plan for the site’s permanent closure and follow an expert panel’s suggested improvements. Community members have demanded some of them for months.

Posted inJustice

The grassroots groups filling major gaps in disaster prep, recovery

by Amal Ahmed May 25, 2022June 1, 2022

A series of interviews with disaster preparedness and recovery advocates about the work they’re doing—and the work that’s still left—in low-wealth communities, rural regions, and BIPOC communities most at risk of climate change and extreme weather. 

Posted inAgriculture

This rural N.C. farm helps formerly incarcerated women build back their lives, careers

by Victoria Bouloubasis May 16, 2022May 17, 2022

At Benevolence Farm, residents live on site and help produce and sell food. Advocates say it’s a way to address major gaps in the rural justice system.

Posted inJustice

How a Tennessee housing policy concentrates poverty, denies opportunity

by Jacob Steimer April 4, 2022April 7, 2022

A little-known but powerful board steers affordable housing into segregated, poor neighborhoods where Black children have little chance to reach the middle class

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