Washington, DC—The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies today announced a partnership with AME Church Bishops Vashti Murphy McKenzie and Adam Jefferson Richardson, Jr., and GREEN DMV to help local congregations raise their environmental awareness, make their churches more energy efficient and redirect cost savings to carry out the churches’ mission. GREEN DMV, a [...]
Washington, DC – The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, one of the nation’s leading research and public policy institutions, has announced the appointment of Danielle Deane as the first Director of its Energy and Environment Program. Deane, who recently completed the full eight-year term as an Environment Program Officer at the Hewlett Foundation [...]
We did it for a fourth year in a row! UNCF has been honored by the NAACP with another Image Award nomination for our nationally televised UNCF An Evening of Stars® celebration. UNCF’s nomination is for Outstanding Variety Series or Special, specifically for the 2011 An Evening of Stars® Tribute to Chaka Khan. As a [...]
On Wednesday, January 18, 2012, from 1-2:15 pm (EST), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Green Power Partnership will host a webinar focusing on green power use in communities. GPP will co-host this webinar with EPA’s State and Local Climate and Energy Program to highlight how municipalities from around the country are leveraging EPA programs [...]
EJ Conference, Inc. invites you to submit papers, posters, and presentations for the upcoming 6th Annual State of Environmental Justice in America Conference, April 3-5, 2012. The Conference has identified the following list of research topics for the Call. Abstracts should offer innovative, theoretical and practical solutions to improve EJ planning, implementation and problem solving [...]
People who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to buy food for their families sometimes hit an unnecessary wall: they can’t use those benefits at farmers’ markets. The problem is easily fixed. The United States Department of Agriculture provides retailers with free EBT machines, the machines that allow people to pay from a [...]
Washington, DC – A new report issued today by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies provides an expanded review of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) cost-benefit analysis of six new air quality regulations that have been proposed or implemented by EPA, and finds that the benefits of implementing the rules outweigh the [...]
It went far into overtime, but the UN climate summit hosted and steered by South Africa finally delivered the deal the world has been waiting for – a clear pathway to a legally binding instrument that will compel all countries, including the biggest polluters, to take action to slow the pace of global warming. The [...]
by Robert Bullard – Climate change is not only an environmental issue–it is also an issue of health, social justice, and human rights. Climate change amplifies existing inequalities–especially inequality that has left African Americans, Africa, and the African diaspora behind. Ironically, communities that contribute least to climate change, feel the negative impacts first, worst, and [...]
By Izabel Loinaz (Triple Pundit) – 2011 has been a big year for the cause of sustainability in sports and athletics. In March, we saw the launch of the Green Sports Alliance, a nonprofit organization founded by a collection of Pacific Northwest pro-sport teams and facilities in partnership with the NRDC. Since then, the coalition [...]
