Check out Dr. Sacoby Wilson’s essay and photo at Allen Pond Park in Belonging: The Black Americans in Nature Photography Project.
Read More"The science is clear. Race is the biggest predictor of environmental hazard."
Read MoreCheck out the new white paper co-authored by Dr. Sacoby Wilson and Jessica Arriens and Sara Schlesinger from NWF called Environmental Justice Mapping Tools: Use and Potential in Policy Making to Address Climate Change.
Read MoreThe article emphasizes the need for more local air quality monitoring, explaining “…no one publicly tracks emissions near warehouses: not the EPA, not local governments and not Amazon itself. Environmental regulators monitor air quality around the country, but their sensors are too spread out.”
Read MoreDr. Sacoby Wilson connects the Amazon expansion to environmental racism, saying, “They [communities that host delivery facilities] get more traffic, air pollution, traffic jams, and pedestrian safety problems, but they don’t receive their fair share of the benefits that accrue from having the retail nearby. You can treat this pattern as a form of environmental racism.”
Read MoreCheck out “The Promise of Community-Driven Science” in the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Winter 2022 issue in which Dr. Sacoby Wilson speaks to the prevalence of extractive science and the marginalization of community science efforts and advocates in academia.
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