Part Two: Race, Environment, and Sustainability
Abstract
Part Two Roundtable Race, Environment, and Sustainability Participants Jeanine M. Canty, Ph.D. Core Associate Professor, Environmental Studies Director, School of the Natural and Social Sciences Naropa University, Boulder, CO Randall Amster, J.D., Ph.D. Professor Prescott College, Prescott, AZ Founder and Contributing Editor New Clear Vision Carl Anthony Co-Founder Breakthrough Communities Suzanne Benally Executive Director Cultural Survival Drew Dellinger, Ph.D. candidate Founder Planetize the Movement Belvie Rooks Founder Growing a Global Heart Moderator Part two of this roundtable dialogue is a continuation from the last issue, which brought together scholars, practitioners, activists, and leaders whose work deeply integrates the relationship between race and environment, to discuss crucial questions that the sustainability movement needs to understand and address. Part one of the dialogue focused on framing the intersections between race, class, and environment both globally and within the United States; identifying the present opportunities that are arising when we adopt an integrated, multicultural consciousness; and beginning to address the healing. In this second installment, participants address the system of globalization as a system of both ecological and human oppression, the role of indigenous peoples within the sustainability movement, the politics of race and urban environments, the movement of localization and