Environmental Health Justice Tech Group

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/