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Your Community
Essential components for any of us as we
seek to be effective advocates for a clean, healthy environment
are information and involvement. What follow are helpful
resources and links, where you can obtain important information,
as well as profiles of individuals who, motivated and sustained
by their faith, have made a positive difference to the health
of the environment in their own communities.
Resource Links:
Information on Environmental Health and Justice Threats
in Your Community
- Profiles of Community Leaders:
- Valorie Caffee
- Ana I. Baptista
- D. Kim Thompson-Gaddy
- Theodore R. Carrington
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"Growing up in the Ironbound neighborhood
in Newark , I experienced firsthand the impacts of environmental
injustice. Although I felt a great sense of pride for my
hardworking, diverse community I could never shake the deep
sense of resentment about the degraded conditions we lived
in – the abandoned sites, foul odors, lack of greenspace..."
Read more about Ana
Baptista and her work
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