Project Overview:
As a class we explored the topic of environmental justice, both locally and abroad. Locally, we separated into groups and went out into the field to conduct interviews with the residents of our assigned communities: Barrio Logan, City Heights, National City, and Southeastern San Diego. From there we transcribed the celebrations and environmental injustices of the residents into our Voices of the Neighborhood part of our research paper. Next, we gathered scientific data on the environmental conditions of our neighborhoods, testing for things like air pollution, water quality, traffic congestion, and access to quality food. Then we began the research part of our final paper, as well as created an Action Plan to give solutions to environmental injustices that we uncovered. Lastly, to showcase the celebrations and environmental injustices we uncovered, we created a mural of these communities.
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Links to our Ethnographic and Health Reports:Select one of the links here to access more information about the health of these neighborhoods
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"This project hinged around the idea of environmental justice. Environmental justice is the intersection of environmental health and social justice; it is the extent to which the quality of someone's environment is determined by social factors such as race, class, or political power. An environmentally just city, for example, would be one in which different neighborhoods only have to deal with the environmental issues that their residents have created, while in an environmentally unjust city, one community might benefit from industries that harm another. In order to grasp the concept of environmental justice, we must question the ineffability of the society we live in, a society where the success of one so often comes at the expense of another." - Gabriel Goering