Posts under Youth Category
Community Movie Night
Posted on October 1, 2012 In: Environmental Justice, Events, Green Jobs, Uncategorized, Youth
Urban Renewal: an Ode to DWEJ
Posted on January 12, 2012 In: Advocacy, Environmental Justice, Green Jobs, Limelight, Youth
Dug up from the archives… Brandon Gatson, Green Jobs Class of 2009, wrote this poem during the program. Urban Renewal: an Ode to DWEJ by Brandon Gatson, June 18, 2009 Let’s clean up the ‘hood Rebuilding the homes Restructuring the infrastructure Refurbishing the furniture So the spirit blossoms Let’s plant seeds Not to just grow trees But rather produce more »
FTA to talk Transit & EJ with Detroiters
Posted on October 28, 2011 In: Environmental Justice, Events, Federal Policy, Planning, transit, Youth
Thursday, November 3, 2011 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm local time Considine Center, 8904 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202 Light refreshments will be served. Message from the Federal Transit Administration: The Civil Rights Office of the Federal Transit Administration just facilitated a large group of staff to draft two groundbreaking policy statements – a new document re: environmental more »
EPA’s Expanding the School Siting Conversation: A Webinar Series
Posted on October 7, 2011 In: Community Development, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, EPA, Federal Policy, Land Use, Planning, Youth
Announcement from the national Environmental Justice list-serv run by the EPA: To encourage healthy, sustainable schools and communities, the Council for Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI), the National Center for Safe Routes to School, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity, and EPA are offering a series of educational webinars, including more »
Connecting the Intergenerational Divide – EPA EJ Conference, Detroit 2011
Posted on August 8, 2011 In: Environmental Justice, EPA, Events, Federal Policy, Green Jobs, Youth
The EPA and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences are coming to Detroit this year to hold the National Environmental Justice conference August 23-26. (Register Here) DWEJ is participating on two panels – one on balancing workforce innovations and community needs in green jobs, and one on intergenerational connections in the EJ movement. I will be tweeting throughout the more »
Our new intern’s first day on the job…
Posted on May 27, 2011 In: Environmental Justice, Land Use, Youth
This spring, we got connected to Taylor Daugherty, a super-energetic, smart young lady this summer who is one of our new interns. She just finished her sophomore year at Western Michigan University, and juggles pageant competitions with a double major in environmental studies and broadcast journalism. Her first day on the job was helping out with the May 5 Environmental more »