In July 2018, the City Council in Arvin—an agricultural town nestled in the San Joaquin Valley—voted unanimously to update their oil and gas ordinance for the first time in half a century. [More….]
Ernesto Arevalo is the Northern California Program Director for Communities for Better environment (CBE). In this interview with Jess Clarke he talks about CBE organizing for Green Zones planning for neighborhoods in East Oakland, California. [More….]
The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice is leading a fight against a new warehouse that would be built 70 feet away from a residential community and less than a tenth of a mile from a high school in the small town of Bloomington in San Bernardino County. [More….]
In Fresno California the city council recently permitted three million square feet of construction in what the California EPA measures as the most environmentally burdened census tract in California. [More….]
Dania De Ramon is a senior at Jurupa Valley High School and a member of the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ). She wrote this opinion piece as part of CAAEJ’s organizing for the September 2018 climate march in San Francisco. [More….]
Tracing the Trajectory of CEJA’s Green Zones Initiative In 2010, CEJA published our first concept paper on our vision for a Green Zones Initiative. The original team who launched our initiative included Antonio Diaz, executive director at PODER; Diane Takvorian, executive director at the Environmental [More….]
Los Tres Cochinitos has been owned by the Montes family since 1973. Their aim was to have a space to highlight their Mexican culture through music and food that can cater to a mix of community members. The Montes family is dedicated to the Wilmington area and hopes to set a good example by being a green business. [More….]
Photos of National City, San Francisco, and Richmond featuring CEJA member organiztions such as APEN and CBE, EHC. [More….]
Lorena Chavez has been involved with EHC since 2005, mostly because she lives in Old Town, where industry is mixed with residential land uses. This inappropriate zoning affects the health of the families living in Lorena’s neighborhood, since most of the industry there consists of [More….]
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