Chris Whitehead, Senior Environmental Justice Consultant
34 episodes
4 weeks ago
Send us a text NIMBY - Not in my backyard. If you let that play out for long enough, eventually you risk running out of backyards, and running out of trust. I have been wanting to do this episode for at least a year and was excited to be able to sit down with Roishetta Sibley Ozane (Founder, Vessel Project of Louisiana) and Sharonda Allen (Founder and Executive Director, Operation Grow Inc.). I spend an obscene amount of time looking at modeling, EXCEL sheets, and reading papers that st...
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Send us a text NIMBY - Not in my backyard. If you let that play out for long enough, eventually you risk running out of backyards, and running out of trust. I have been wanting to do this episode for at least a year and was excited to be able to sit down with Roishetta Sibley Ozane (Founder, Vessel Project of Louisiana) and Sharonda Allen (Founder and Executive Director, Operation Grow Inc.). I spend an obscene amount of time looking at modeling, EXCEL sheets, and reading papers that st...
S2 E10: EJ Icons: Decades of Protecting Community and Public Health
Perspectives on Sustainable Development
48 minutes
5 months ago
S2 E10: EJ Icons: Decades of Protecting Community and Public Health
Send us a text About four years ago I was giving a talk in Ohio and someone in the crowd asked me, "EJ just kind of sprang up, where did it come from, how did this start?" At first I was pretty taken back by the comment since the environmental justice movement began around the time I was born, but this gentleman simply had not heard about it until that point, until it was tied into his operations. My two guests this episode are Vernice Miller-Travis (EVP of the Metropolitan Group and Co...
Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Send us a text NIMBY - Not in my backyard. If you let that play out for long enough, eventually you risk running out of backyards, and running out of trust. I have been wanting to do this episode for at least a year and was excited to be able to sit down with Roishetta Sibley Ozane (Founder, Vessel Project of Louisiana) and Sharonda Allen (Founder and Executive Director, Operation Grow Inc.). I spend an obscene amount of time looking at modeling, EXCEL sheets, and reading papers that st...
