Van Jones, Beyond EcoApartheid

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Van Jones, Beyond Eco-Apartheid
(1968-)
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Three Waves of Environmentalism

• Conservation (oriented to the past)
• Regulation (oriented to the present)
• Investment (oriented to the future)

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For More Information on Eco-Apartheid and
Eco-Equity

• www.vanjones.net
• www.ellabakercenter.org

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What is Eco-Apartheid?

• A situation in which white and affluent
  communities reap the tremendous benefits of clean
  and green economic development, while poor
  communities and communities of color fall further
  behind. In a state of Eco-Apartheid, benefits of
  the new economic activity that the Green Wave
  generates will bypass the very communities most
  in need of new investment, new jobs, and better
  environmental stewardship.

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What is Eco-Equity?

• The opposite of Eco-Apartheid. In a state of
  Eco-Equity, poor communities and communities of
  color (people who were locked out of the old,
  pollution-based economy) are locked into the new,
  clean, and green economy.