2007 a Banner Year for Environmental Justice Resource Center

2008 HIGHLIGHTS
MILESTONES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER
CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY
ATLANTA, GEORGIA

The Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University (EJRC) is a multi-disciplinary center that serves as a bridge among the social and behavioral sciences, health professionals, natural and physical sciences, engineering, management, and legal disciplines to address health problems related to the built and the natural environment. The following highlights summarize the some of the major accomplishments of the EJRC in 2008.

Awards (2008)
Co-op America presented its Building Economic Alternatives (BEA) award to Robert D. Bullard for his work at the EJRC. This is the 19th year this award has been given to those who exemplify the socially responsible activities closest to the heart of Co-op America's goals of advancing social justice and environmental sustainability (September 3, 2008), http://www.coopamerica.org/about/newsroom/releases/2008.09.03.cfm.

Association of Humanists Sociologists (AHS) recognized Robert D. Bullard’s Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice and Regional Equity (MIT Press 2007) as a finalist for its Book of the Year (August 2008). http://www.altrue.net/site/humanist/

Newsweek named Robert D. Bullard as one of 13 “Environmental Leaders of the Century” (April 2008), http://www.newsweek.com/id/130264.

Books (2009)

Bullard, Robert D. Race, Place and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (forthcoming Spring, 2009). http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/westview/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0813344247

Bullard, Robert D. Deadly Waiting Game Beyond Hurricane Katrina: Government Response, Unnatural Disasters, and African Americans. New York: New York University Press (forthcoming Spring, 2009).

Articles and Presentations (2008)

Robert D. Bullard, “Transportation, Race and Regional Equity,” in M. Paloma Pavel, Building Sustainable Metropolitan Communities: Breakthrough Stories. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (forthcoming July 2009). http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11800

Robert D. Bullard, “The African Diaspora in a Changing Metropolitan Region: The Case of Atlanta, Georgia,” in J.W. Frazier, J.T. Darden, and N.F. Henry, The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century. Binghamton, NY: Global Academic Publishing at Binghamton University (Forthcoming Winter 2008).

Robert D. Bullard, “Differential Vulnerabilities: Environmental and Economic Inequality and Government Response to Unnatural Disasters,” Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences, Vo. 75, No. 3 (Forthcoming 2008). http://www.socres.org/

Bullard, Robert D. “Growing Smarter to Achieve Livable Communities and Regional,” Equity,” Race, Poverty & the Environment Journal, Fifteenth Anniversary Special Issue on Race and Regionalism (submitted August 2008).

Bullard, Robert D. “Equity, Unnatural Disasters, and Race: Why Environmental Justice Matters,” Research in Social Problems and Public Policy (RSPPP) Special Issue on Equity and the Environment, 15 (Winter 2008): 51-85.

Bullard, Robert D. and Beverly Wright, “Disastrous Response to Natural and Man-Made Disasters: An Environmental Justice Analysis Twenty-Five Years After Warren County,” UCLA Journal of Law and Environmental Policy 26 (2): 2008.

Bullard, Robert D. “Just Transportation in the Era of Suburban Sprawl,” Journal of Community Development, 39 (3): 2008.

Bullard, Robert D. Paul Mohai, Robin Saha, and Beverly Wright, “Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: Why Race Still Matters After All of These Years,” Lewis & Clark Environmental Law Journal 38 (2): 2008. http://www.lclark.edu/org/envtl/38-2_archive.html

Robert D. Bullard spoke as the keynote speaker at the Human Rights Day Celebration for the City of Seattle on December 11, 2008.

November 18, 2008 Dr. Robert D. Bullard gave the keynote address at the "Rebuild the Gulf Coast, Rebuild America" conference hosted by the Deep South Center on Environmental Justice at Dillard University. http://southernstudies.org/2008/11/gulf-watch-college-students-organize.html.

October 18, 2008. Dr. Robert D. Bullard participated on two panel discussions at the Society of Environmental Journalists hosted at Virginia Tech. http://sej2008.typepad.com/sej2008/2008/12/saturday-october-18-robert-bullard-rep-nick-rahall-james-burger-biofuels-much-more-.html

October 5, 2008. Robert D. Bullard "Blacks and Latinos on the Frontline for Environmental Justice: Strengthening Alliances to Build Healthy and Sustainable Communities." Working Paper for the National Black-Latino Summit. Los Angeles, California. http://www2.nationalblacklatinosummit.org/bls_environmentaljustice.pdf

Robert D. Bullard, “Dr. King's Legacy Four Decades After His Death in Memphis,” Black Agenda Report (April 2, 2008), http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=575&Itemid=1.

Beverly Wright and Robert D. Bullard, “Government Response to New Orleans’ Environmental Problems in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina,” in The State of Black New Orleans. New Orleans: New Orleans Urban League (March 2008). http://www.urbanleagueneworleans.org/SBNO_index.html

Media Interviews (2008)

October 17, 2008. T. Rees Shapiro, “Race, Environment and Politics Go Toxic After Katrina: Interview with Robert Bullard,” Collegiate Times (Virginia Tech University), http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/2008/10/17/race__environment_and_politics_go_toxic_after_katrina.

Fall, 2008. “An Outside View from An Environmental Justice Insider,” George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Social Impact No. 4, p. 27, http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/Documents/SI_GreenDream.pdf.

August 2, 2008. The Audacity of Corporate New Orleans; Name Change an insult to memory of Mayor Ernest N. Morial by Vincent Sylvain, The New Orleans Agenda. http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/african/politics_law/sylvain_morial0308.asp.

June, 2008. Kenneth R. Fletcher, “Robert Bullard: Environmental Justice Advocate,” Smithsonian Magazine, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/atm-qa-bullard.html.

April 24, 2008. The Green Gap By Kate Sheppard for The American Prospect.
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_green_gap.

April 2, 2008. Dr. King's Legacy Four Decades After His Death in Memphis by Dr. Robert D. Bullard for Black Agenda Report. http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=575&Itemid=1

March 10, 2008. Water Contamination Suit Filed Against Dickson County, Tennessee by ENS. http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2008/2008-03-10-097.asp

February 13, 2008. Marcia A. Wade. "Seeing Green under a Different Light: The National Conference of Black Mayors oppose stricter clean air standards," BlackEnterprise.com, http://www.blackenterprise.com/cms/exclusivesopen.aspx?id=4156

January 8, 2008. Diversity Conversation: Dr. Robert Bullard, The Grand Rapids Community College. http://raidercast.grcc.edu/flash/diversity/bullard_conv/flv_standA_Player.html

January 8, 2008. The Smithsonian 23rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance Presenting Dr. Robert Bullard. http://www.anacostia.si.edu/webcast.htm.

January 1, 2008. “Talking Environmental Justice, with Dr. Robert D. Bullard,” Waterkeeper Magazine Volume 4 Number 3, Winter 2008. http://www.switchstudio.com/waterkeeper/issues/Winter08/talking-env.html.

January, 2008. Ranjit Arab, “The ‘Father’ of Environmental Justice Robert Bullard,” Sundance Channel, The Good Fight, http://www.sundancechannel.com/thegoodfight/projects/robert_bullard/. EJRC’s Work Cited in Media and Press Coverage (2008)

EJRC’s Work Cited in Media and Press Coverage (2008)

December 22, 2008. Brentin Mock. Will Environmental Justice Finally Get Its Due? The American Prospect. http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=will_environmental_justice_finally_get_its_due.

November 4, 2008. Lolly Bowean, “Little Village teen wins environmental activism award,” Chicago Tribune, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-brower-award-04-nov04,0,4438188.story.

Marcia A. Wade. Seeing Green under a Different Light: The National Conference of Black Mayors oppose stricter clean air standards. BlackEnterprise.com.
http://www.blackenterprise.com/cms/exclusivesopen.aspx?id=4156, February 13, 2008.

January 1, 2008 Talking Environmental Justice, with Dr. Robert D. Bullard feature on Waterkeeper Magazine Volume 4 Number 3, Winter 2008. http://www.switchstudio.com/waterkeeper/issues/Winter08/talking-env.html.