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Dr. Lesley Joseph
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Since the dawn of human history, the fight for environmental justice has always been a fight. Water wars between the people of Israel and herdsmen of Gerar in the book of Genesis, Chapter 26. The resistance of Native Americans to the pillaging of their land and resources at the founding of the United States of America. The refusal to allow a hazardous landfill to be built in the Warren County, a predominantly Black community in North Carolina, giving birth to the modern-day environmental justice movement. The struggle for clean water in places like Flint, MI and Newark, NJ and Jackson, MS. The struggle is real and the fight is on-going. And I'm here for it. My name is Dr. Lesley Joseph, a professor, an environmental engineer, and a fighter for environmental justice in our present day. Every other Tuesday, on this podcast, I explore issues related to environmental justice and the ways in which communities of color are impacted. Each episode will discuss a important environmental justice issue or situation and what we can do to fight for change. Let's learn, grow, and fight for a better world together! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-environmental-justice-lab--5583745/support.

  1. 11/30/2024

    Engineering Environmental Justice in Palestine - A Conversation with the El-Sayeghs, pt. 1

    It's the holiday season, and we are coming to the end of another amazing season of the Environmental Justice Lab Podcast. And to finish the year strong, we have a 2-part conversation with the El-Sayeghs. They are a dynamic father-daughter duo of Palestinian engineers who care deeply about environmental justice and equity. I hope you enjoy these episodes as much as I enjoyed recording them.  So let's get into Part 1 of my conversation with the El-Sayeghs!  Resources: Five Myths about Israel & Palestine Voices from Gaza   Reports from B’Tselem (Israeli Human Rights Organization)  Connect with our Environmental Justice Lab community:  Instagram: @envjusticelab YouTube: @envjusticelab Email: theenvironmentaljusticelab@gmail.com Don’t forget to subscribe and rate the podcast wherever you listen! Support our work by joining the Supporters Club: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-environmental-justice-lab--5583745/support

    52 min

  2. 11/21/2024

    Environmental Apartheid, pt. 3 - Infrastructure Apartheid, explained

    We are talking about infrastructure apartheid. Infrastructure can play an important role in social inclusion and economic growth. However, when infrastructure is inadequate, it can lead to social exclusion, poverty, and poor health. The fact that some people in some places have more better, more resilient, more effective infrastructure than others is not an accident. Decisions are being made that keep people from enjoying the quality of infrastructure that would allow them to live healthy, whole lives, while others have an overabundance of high-quality systems and infrastructure. It’s not right. So let’s talk about it on this episode of the Environmental Justice Lab.  Resources: How infrastructure has historically promoted inequality - PBS News ‘Infrastructure apartheid’: Africatown’s fight against toxins, new toll bridge Green Apartheid: Urban green infrastructure remains unequally distributed across income and race geographies in South Africa - Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians - Amnesty International      Connect with our Environmental Justice Lab community: Instagram: @envjusticelab YouTube: @envjusticelab Email: theenvironmentaljusticelab@gmail.com Don’t forget to subscribe and rate the podcast wherever you listen! Support our work by joining the Supporters Club: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-environmental-justice-lab--5583745/support

    42 min

  3. 11/01/2024

    Environmental Apartheid, pt. 2 - Food Apartheid, explained (pt. 3)

    We are (still) talking about food apartheid. While the United Nations has the goal of a world free from hunger by 2030, the reality is that because of these inequitable food systems, we are far from that goal. From conflict to climate change, there is a lot that is keeping us from living in a hunger-free world.  So let’s get into it on this episode of the Environmental Justice Lab.  Resources: Food Apartheid - ReGeneration. Food Apartheid | Why we should change the way we talk about food deserts Global Food Crisis - World Food Programme Violence and the Right to Food - The Situation in Palestine The Question of Palestine: The Right to Food - United Nations (2003)   Connect with our Environmental Justice Lab community:  Instagram: @envjusticelab YouTube: @envjusticelab Email: theenvironmentaljusticelab@gmail.com Don’t forget to subscribe and rate the podcast wherever you listen! Support our work by joining the Supporters Club: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-environmental-justice-lab--5583745/support

    37 min

  4. 10/09/2024

    Environmental Apartheid, pt. 2 - Food Apartheid, explained (cont.)

    We are still talking about food apartheid. The fact that some people in some places have more food choices that they need, while others have no good food choices at all. And on this episode, we are focusing on how food apartheid shows itself in the United States. Trust me, it’s not an accident. People are making decisions that keep healthy foods in some neighborhoods and keeps them out of other neighborhoods. It’s not right. So let’s talk about it on this episode of the Environmental Justice Lab.  Resources: USDA's Legacy of Discrimination - Environmental Working Group How corporations buy - and sell - food made with prison labor - The Counter Supermarket Redlining   Connect with our Environmental Justice Lab community: Instagram: @envjusticelab YouTube: @envjusticelab Email: theenvironmentaljusticelab@gmail.com Don’t forget to subscribe and rate the podcast wherever you listen! Support our work by joining the Supporters Club: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-environmental-justice-lab--5583745/support

    37 min

  5. 09/12/2024

    Environmental Apartheid, pt. 2 - Food Apartheid, explained

    We are talking about food apartheid. The fact that some people in some places have more food choices that they need, while others have no good food choices at all. And it’s not an accident. Decisions are being made that keep healthy foods in some neighborhoods and keeps them out of other neighborhoods. It’s not right. So let’s get into it on this episode of the Environmental Justice Lab.  Resources: Food Apartheid: Racialized Access to Healthy Affordable Food Food Swamps Predict Obesity Rates Better Than Food Deserts in the United States   Connect with our Environmental Justice Lab community:  Instagram: @envjusticelab YouTube: @envjusticelab Email: theenvironmentaljusticelab@gmail.com Support our work by joining the Supporters Club: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-environmental-justice-lab--5583745/support Don’t forget to subscribe and rate the podcast wherever you listen!

    35 min

  6. 07/21/2024

    Waste Colonialism, pt. 1 - Plastic and the US (Presented by Co-host Sunny Chen)

    Since the early 20th century, plastic has been around and has dominated US consumerism. Unfortunately, it hurts the planet in all phases of its life cycle– from when it’s produced (emitting greenhouse gases), to when it’s used (releasing microplastics), to when it’s discarded (rotting in landfills). That being said, everyone knows its negative impact on the environment, but nothing major has been done to reduce this planet-destroying product. So today, we are talking about plastic pollution, but specifically zeroing in the last phase of its life and where it is discarded: developing nations. Let’s explore the research behind it. Join us! Resources: US generates more plastic trash than any other nation - National Geographic How the fossil fuel industry is pushing plastics on the world - CNBC   Connect with our Environmental Justice Lab community: Instagram: @envjusticelab YouTube: @envjusticelab Email: theenvironmentaljusticelab@gmail.com Don’t forget to subscribe and rate the podcast wherever you listen! Support our work by joining the Supporters Club: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-environmental-justice-lab--5583745/support

    11 min

  7. 07/12/2024

    Environmental Apartheid, pt. 1 - Climate Apartheid, explained

    Climate Apartheid. This phrase, coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, describes the ways in which the wealthy and well-connected insulate themselves from the impacts of climate change, while the rest of are left to suffer from them. This two-tiered way of dealing with climate change leaves the vulnerable behind and creates a world where there are two different climate realities. We have to work to identify and dismantle climate apartheid wherever we see it. So let’s get into it on this episode of the Environmental Justice Lab. Resources: 'I dare not be quiet': What climate activist Ndelika Mandela learned from her granddad - National Public Radio UN expert condemns failure to address impact of climate change on poverty – United Nations Commission on Human Rights Climate Apartheid: The Forgetting of Race in the Antropocene   Connect with our Environmental Justice Lab community: Instagram: @envjusticelab YouTube: @envjusticelab Email: theenvironmentaljusticelab@gmail.com Support our work by joining the Supporters Club: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-environmental-justice-lab--5583745/support

    29 min

  8. 06/23/2024

    What is Environmental Apartheid?

    Apartheid. It’s not a word that you can just throw around. When it’s used, it suggests a systematic, deliberate, intentional effort to subjugate and oppress another group with full governmental support. It started in South Africa. It was present in the United States of America. It’s happening now to Palestinians. And now it’s happening to our environment. It’s called “Environmental Apartheid”. And we need to call it out. Name it. Dismantle it. But first, we need to educate ourselves and be aware of how it functions around us. So let’s get into it on this episode of the Environmental Justice Lab. Resources: A History of Apartheid in South Africa Environmental Apartheid: Eco-health and Rural Marginalization in South Africa - Journal of Rural Studies American Apartheid The Legacy of American Apartheid and Environmental Racism Infrastructure Apartheid with Dr. Maya Carrasquillo - Cities @ Tufts Podcast   Connect with our Environmental Justice Lab community: Instagram: @envjusticelab YouTube: @envjusticelab Email: theenvironmentaljusticelab@gmail.com Don’t forget to subscribe and rate the podcast wherever you listen! Support our work by joining the Supporters Club: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-environmental-justice-lab--5583745/support

    41 min
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Since the dawn of human history, the fight for environmental justice has always been a fight. Water wars between the people of Israel and herdsmen of Gerar in the book of Genesis, Chapter 26. The resistance of Native Americans to the pillaging of their land and resources at the founding of the United States of America. The refusal to allow a hazardous landfill to be built in the Warren County, a predominantly Black community in North Carolina, giving birth to the modern-day environmental justice movement. The struggle for clean water in places like Flint, MI and Newark, NJ and Jackson, MS. The struggle is real and the fight is on-going. And I'm here for it. My name is Dr. Lesley Joseph, a professor, an environmental engineer, and a fighter for environmental justice in our present day. Every other Tuesday, on this podcast, I explore issues related to environmental justice and the ways in which communities of color are impacted. Each episode will discuss a important environmental justice issue or situation and what we can do to fight for change. Let's learn, grow, and fight for a better world together! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-environmental-justice-lab--5583745/support.

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  • Creator
    Dr. Lesley Joseph
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    76
  • Rating
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    © Copyright Dr. Lesley Joseph
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    The Environmental Justice Lab

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