'Green' Neighborhoods Reduce Mortality for the Poor

A new study from Scotland suggests that access to greenspace reduces mortality rates in low-income communities.

Use Google Earth to see Air pollution where you live

Thanks to Inhabitat for the link to this feature!

Diversity and the Future of the U.S. Environmental Movement

This is a new publication available from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies about the challenge of creating a more inclusive environmental movement- and how it ties into social justice issues. Download the PDF for free.

Use of photography to document environmental injustice

Mothers of pre-schoolers are using photography to document environmental abuses and injustices in Detroit, Michigan. Quite a nifty new tool in the internet age.

Rise in Environmental Racism

NPR interviews two professors, Robert Bullard (director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University) and Paul Mohai (professor of natural resources and the environment at the University of Michigan). The researchers' recent report claims that environmental racism is becoming worse.

More information here.