Community Environmental Justice Forum re the MEE burnerToday at 5:00
From:
Carol Greenwood
Date:
May 09 19:59 UTC
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Phillips Community Environmental Justice Forum And Feast
Friday, May 9, 2008
Plaza Verde
1516 East Lake Street
Minneapolis, MN
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Agenda
5:00 pm Gathering, Networking, Food, Music
6:00 Song of welcome – Nekonis Singers
Welcome and Introduction – What Is Environmental Justice?
Karen Clark, Women's Environmental Institute
Robert Lilligren, Minneapolis City Council, WEI Board Member
6:20 pm Air Quality in the Phillips Community
Data from the Phillips Neighborhood
Mike Mondloch, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Greg Pratt, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Response and audience questions
Rosie Cruz and Carol Pass, Neighborhood Representatives
7:00 pm Environmental Health Issues in the Phillips Community
Maps of Community Toxic Exposures
Ian Greaves, University of Minnesota
Environmental Health Impacts on Women and Children – Precaution and
Environmental Justice
Dr. Ted Schettler, science director of the Science and Environmental
Health Network
Response and audience questions :
Lucy Arias and Osman Sahardeed, Neighborhood Representatives
8:00 pm What The Community Can Do To Make Our Environment Safer, Cut
Costs, and Address Environmental Justice Issues
White Earth Pesticide Action Network Activities – a Model
Robert Shimek, Indigenous Environmental Network
Taking It Forward - Reducing Pollution, Cutting costs and Creating Green
Jobs
Eleonore Wesserle, Womens Environmental Institute, Coordinator for WEI
and EJAM Climate Justice Project, Robert Lilligren and Bill Ziegler
.