Thursday, October 21, 2010

Our First Post!

This is our first blog post!

Our blog will be centered around Ecology and Social Movements all around the world.  Environmental Social Movements usually advocate sustainable management of resources and environmental stewardship by individuals and the public.

Modern movements have changed in multiple ways since their strong reemergence in the 1960's, largely because of a better understanding of environment issues and their intricate intertwining with social issues.  Some of the ways that these movements have grown is through expansion... in order to include ecofeminism and the movement against environmental racism.




One of my favorite types of environmental social movements is called ecofeminism. The concept of ecofeminism is based around the parallels between the rape and domination of the environment and the oppression and subordination of women by many of the same people.



Environmental racism refers to the enactment of public policy that negatively affects the environment of racially homogenous or low-income areas at a higher rate than areas of affluent majorities. A wonderful example of environmental racism is in this blog post about Nova Scotia.


Thanks for reading our blog! This is the first post of many to come.

-Alice S.

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