Green Daily

This post is part of a series about environmental justice, or EJ for short. For a few in-depth definitions of EJ, visit the EPA, Justice Net, or the Sierra Club.

Here's a nicely written piece from Atlanta Magazine about someone who has been working on environmental justice issues for a long time; Faye Bush has, for years, been investigating the relationship between the high proportion of illnesses in her neighborhood in Gainesville, Georgia, and the waste dump that the neighborhood sits atop, along with several nearby factories.

This article also offers just one example of the intimate relationship between justice and environmental issues. The Newtown Florist Club, which now focuses its work on environmental issues, originally formed as a sort of charity to help buy funeral flowers for families in the area. Newton's mother was one of the eleven housewives that founded that group. Social, environmental, and health problems are so intimately linked that as soon as we begin addressing one, it seems that inevitably we start seeing connections to the other two.

If you really want to see what's going on in this town, take one of Bush's "toxic tours." You can do those in person or online--just don't drink the water.