Environmental Health Justice Tech Group
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Environmental Health and Justice Group - messaging, education, tech etc....
- kinkini Banerjee kbanerjee@sagetransformations.org
- Tracy Perkins, UCSC/25 Stories from the Central Valley teperkins@me.com
- Mariko Drew, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, mariko@apen4ej.org
- Ue Yang, Center for Multicultural Cooperation, ueyang@cmcweb.org
- Jasmine Leiva, Fresno Barrios Unidos, Jasmine@fresnobarriosunidos.org
- Selgie Arroyo, Community Water Center, selgie.arroyo@communitywatercenter.org
Cool examples
- San Joaquin Valley Cumulative Health Impacts project maps: http://www.sjvchip.org
- Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment is mapping brownfields with mobile devices (coming soon?)
- example of using google earth screenshots to show environmental inequality through tree coverage: http://persquaremile.com/2012/05/24/income-inequality-seen-from-space/
- 25 Stories from the Central Valley: http://twentyfive.ucdavis.edu (new version of site available soon)
- Invisible 5 audio toxic tour: http://www.invisible5.org
Projects we could support eachother on
- virtual toxic tours
- maps to embed on our websites
Data sources on pollution
- Scorecard: http://scorecard.goodguide.com
- Pesticide Action Network Pesticides Database: http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Index.html
- EJ View (from the EPA): http://epamap14.epa.gov/ejmap/entry.html
- Air pollution near schools: http://content.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/smokestack/methodology
- Groundwater data: http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/gama/geotracker_gama.shtml
Toxics Release Inventory: http://www.epa.gov/tri/