Environmental Health Justice: Exide Battery Recycling Plant Case Study

  Environmental Health Justice: Exide Battery Recycling Plant Case Study  by   Naomi J. Antinarelli    Professor Deike Peters    Senior Capstone Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of B.A. in Liberal Arts  Environmental Studies Concentration    2020   Abstract This capstone investigates the significance of the Exide battery recycling plant …

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Asthma Disparities: A sociological perspective

  Asthma in the U.S.  Uncontrolled Asthma and Racial Disparities   Soka University of America  Professor Danielle Denardo  Adv. Sociology: Health Inequalities Naomi Antinarelli  November 26, 2019   Introduction  Asthma is a chronic non-communicable disease in which recurrent attacks of breathlessness, wheezing and inflammation of the lung airways occur. The severity of asthma varies individually; …

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Rethinking Environmentalism: Capitalism, Colonialism, and The Built Environment

Introduction to Settler-colonialism and The Environment Environmentalism that only aims to “protect” the environment does not adequately address the pressing needs of marginalized communities (ex. Native Americans) who have been the first to feel the effects of environmental degradation. A definition of environment that limits itself to pristine nature or ecology of natural systems is …

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Climate Change and Gender Inequality

Retrieved from https://www.madre.org/programs/advancing-climate-justice Climate change threatens the existence of society as we know it. In the next 50 years, humanity will face potentially the most challenging and rapid environmental changes. Extreme weather events, heat waves, decreased food productivity, sea-level rise, and resource scarcity will have economic, social and political effects. Community-based adaptation and resilience are …

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Intersectional Feminism in Spiritual Spaces

White Silence Is Not Empowering  Currently, in the U.S., the predominant spiritual women’s culture does not include intersectionality or social justice activism through the denial of white privilege which is harmful to non-white womxn (womxn explicitly includes trans women and women of color). An empowering womxn’s culture must be inclusive, diverse, and actively dismantle oppressive …

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Revitalizing the LA River – Ecological Urbanism & Green Gentrification

Revitalizing The LA River If you ask a resident of Los Angeles where the LA river is, they may not know that there is one and if they do, they most likely have never seen it. Before the Europeans and Spanish arrived the LA River was home to the Gabrielino-Tongva tribe for centuries (Christensen, 2018). …

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