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What Exactly Is Environmental Justice?

“Environmental Justice” connects environmental concerns with other social justice movements. Like other social justice movements that focus on structural oppression (racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, etc.), environmental justice recognizes a problem of power in society.  Much like power in society has been misused to oppress various social groups...

Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Water

Animal Rights and Human Responsibilities

The simple act of eating expresses one of our most basic and profound relationships with Earth and life. For some of us, our main connection to non-human animals is through our forks and knives....

Domestic Food Security

In the year 2008, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that 49.1 million Americans lived in households con- sidered to be food-insecure. Of these people, 16.7 million were children....

Trade and Neo-Colonialism

Modern trade, immigration and foreign aid policies in Europe and the U.S. continue to exacerbate the historic ravages of colonialism for indigenous and subjugated peoples worldwide....

Global Hunger and Malnutrition

Globally, 4.3 pounds of food are produced daily for every woman, man, and child on earth--enough to make all of us fat. Yet every year, six million children across the globe die as a result of hunger and malnutrition—one child dies of starvation or malnutrition every five seconds. For the year 2003, Action Against Hunger estimated that 852 million people in the world do not have enough to eat....

Labor

Large farms in the United States have consistently depended on poorly paid labor, often to the point of exploitation. Much of the country’s agricultural system was built on the backs of indentured and enslaved agricultural workers, and in the twenty-first century farm workers remain among the lowest paid laborers in the economy....

How to Start a Community Garden

Many of these issues are addressed by eating locally.  Growing our own food builds community, promotes personal health and allows us to live gently on Earth.  This is a how-to guide to get you started in your congregation or neighborhood.