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The whitewashing of the environmental movement
2013-09-24 23:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The traditional environmental movement has a diversity problem. Thats according to Van Jones, founder of Green for All and environmental and civil rights advocate. But Jones says its not just that the staffs of many large, mainstream environmental organizations have been historically mostly white -- its that most of the smaller environmental justice groups are getting a fraction of the funding that the big groups receive. Jones says for the environmental movement as a whole to succeed, that...
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