CARB Environmental Justice Blog

Gilbert Rosas, Energy Specialist at Stockton Unified School District is championing green advocacy work through quick adoption of electric school buses. Their bus fleet acts as a model for other school districts and opens the students’ eyes to environmentally-friendly careers. “Not only do I understand the demographic of Stockton Unified, but I look like the demographic,” Rosas said. “I think it's important for kids to realize that we have cool green career path choices, and they have the ability to be anything they want to be.” See full story and videos on Gilbert's work:  https://www.planetforward.org/environmental-education-green-advocacy https://medillonthehill.medill.northwestern.edu/2021/12/students-lead-in-green-advocacy-with-environmental-education/ Battery electric buses - First field trip to the Port of Stockton:  https://www.stocktonusd.net/Page/11087

My Introduction to the Low Cost Sensor and DIY Box Fan Air Purifier  A Storytelling by CARB Staff  (This post is just my experience over the last week/nothing in the post should be considered an endorsement of any particular brand or guarantees of similar results) Whenever I hear of low cost sensors for air monitoring, it is always in relation to their value, or lack of, as tool for promoting policy or regulatory changes.   In addition to other recent events, the recent California wildfires highlighted other inequities that communities of color suffer. The maps of air monitoring sensors that I looked to for air quality information indicated that most are away from the communities that are the most impacted by cumulative burdens.   Lack of awareness on the part of government, or EJ advocates, did not lead to this; it was a lack of awareness on the part of residents. These low cost air sensor monitors exist in other communities, without their use having any i...

Please join us on August 20th for the Third in the series of CARB EJ Storytelling Events.   This Storytelling Session will feature the young people who are working with, or graduated from, youth programs as part of the great work of the following non-profits: Groundwork Richmond  New Voices Are Rising/ Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment (East Oakland) Green Tech (Sacramento) Lil Manila's Youth Program (Stockton) The meeting will run from 1-4 on August 20th.  It will be held via zoom.  [RECORDING COMING SOON]

https://zoom.us/rec/share/z51XLLLg5zNLf53W2V3DV6IQDo27eaa8gCJM-fJZn0e0uSde0pNQHE96WgwyQhPi   Password: TVh?cd8n (you'll need this to access the video).

Presenters will be Maricela Mares Alatorre and Miguel Alatorre (El Pueblo and Greenaction), and Bradley Angel, Executive Director of Greenaction.   Miguel Alatorre is a Community Organizer and Policy advocate for Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. Miguel is a third generation environmental justice activist who has been involved since he was a child in numerous battles against pollution and injustice in the San Joaquin Valley farmworker town of Kettleman City, California. Miguel helped found two Kettleman City youth groups KPOP, (Kids Protecting our Planet) and YPOP (Youth-Protecting our Planet) and he is co-coordinator of Greenaction’s Kettleman City Youth Environmental Justice Leadership Academy program. Maricela Mares Alatorre is Coordinator of El Pueblo Para el Aire y Agua Limpia/People for Clean Air and Water of Kettleman City, and a Community Organizer/Policy Advocate for Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. Miguel and Maricela are co-coordinators ...

Environmental Justice Storytelling Series Stories from the frontlines by El Pueblo Para el Aire y Agua Limpia/People for Clean Air and Water of Kettleman City, and Greenaction for Health and En vironmental Justice