Heat waves, wildfires, air-quality alerts… Undeniably we’re hit with more of these--and people where there’s limited investment are hit harder. 

We hear from Professor Sacoby Wilson, co-founder of  the University of Maryland’s ‘Center for Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health’, about the need to work from the bottom up to equitably and efficiently fight climate change:

“We have to focus on the most vulnerable populations. Those who are socially vulnerable, economically vulnerable those who don’t have health-care access. We then make sure our climate policies emphasize protecting them. If we do that, I think we’ll be able to protect everybody from climate change.”  

Plus, Shashawnda Campbell from the South Baltimore Community Land Trust, on why she’s educating and mobilizing neighbors … and is in it for the long game.

Links: South Baltimore Land Trust, The Center for Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health, University of Maryland Symposium on Environmental Justice and Health Disparities, Aug. 11-13.

Heat waves, wildfires, air-quality alerts… Undeniably we’re hit with more of these--and people where there’s limited investment are hit harder. 
We hear from Professor Sacoby Wilson, co-founder of  the University of Maryland’s ‘Center for Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health’, about the need to work from the bottom up to equitably and efficiently fight climate change:
“We have to focus on the most vulnerable populations. Those who are socially vulnerable, economically vulnerable those who don’t have health-care access. We then make sure our climate policies emphasize protecting them. If we do that, I think we’ll be able to protect everybody from climate change.”  
Plus, Shashawnda Campbell from the South Baltimore Community Land Trust, on why she’s educating and mobilizing neighbors … and is in it for the long game.
Links: <a href="https://www.sbclt.org/">South Baltimore Land Trust</a>, <a href="https://www.ceejh.center/">The Center for Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health,</a> University of Maryland <a href="https://www.ceejh.center/umd-ej-symposium">Symposium on Environmental Justice and Health Disparities</a>, Aug. 11-13.

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