Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

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

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you’re supposed to, or because it’s what you’ve always done — or it’s about giving until it hurts.

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 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.

It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility.

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