I attended the last half of an environmental injustice lecture on why minority groups tend to be left out of the green movement today. The different movements happening in and around campus and the city: students distributing donated (compact flouresence light) CFL bulbs and educating about them to underpriveleged neighborhood, sustainable food development, etc. Here are some of the reasons why the green movement have been inaccessible to underprivileged or minority groups:
1. Sustainable food alternatives isn't really sustainable when you have no money to sustain it with.
2. They grow boring foods. Where's my bok choy or water spinach.
3. CFL are... an investment, but expensive.
*Note: I missed a decent part of the presentations, so what I put here is probably a skin deep review of the problem*
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thanks for writing about this. Sounds interesting, wish I'd gone to it.
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