Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one.

Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the same way.

You know, I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It starts happening when we start telling the young, hard-working, quote-unquote "smart" kids that they need to measure success by how far they get away from our communities.