A friend of mine recently said that for him social justice was righting an injustice rather than promoting a right. However, I believe I may be the opposite.
I am taking three courses: Environmental Planning in the Architecture department at Columbia, Anthropology of Property in the CUNY GC Anthro department, and American Political Culture and National […]
Filed under: observations and opinions, goals on March 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
Just a thought about what green consumerism is, isn’t, should or shouldn’t be.
In reading about green consumerism I have found that a disagreement exists about whether it is an answer or solution to problems of sustainability.
Green consumerism is the idea that an individual should and can choose to buy products made within fda approved […]
Filed under: observations and opinions on March 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
A couple of years ago I took a class on Participatory Action Research (PAR). At that time I was just interested in it as a research methodology and only heard about PAR being used in urban education settings. Lately, I have been wondering if PAR is used in other community settings (like environmental justice) and […]
Filed under: observations and opinions, social justice on February 27th, 2008 | No Comments »