This week, we would like to highlight and honor the work of Carl Anthony, environmental and social justice leader. Among his many accomplishments and important work, Carl was the founder of Urban Habitat, one of the oldest environmental justice organizations in the country, and he founded and published the Race, Poverty and the Environment Journal, the only environmental justice periodical in the US. Carl is also the author of The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race (New Village Press, 2017). Along with his esteemed colleague, Paloma Pavel—editor of Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis (MIT Press, 2009)—he founded the Breakthrough Communities Project. You can read more about Carl and Paloma and their work here.
We’re very pleased to announce that the Forum and the Thomas Berry Foundation will be presenting Carl and Paloma with the Thomas Berry Award at the 2021 CIIS Religion and Ecology Summit next month. See the video below of Carl in conversation with Mary Evelyn Tucker at the 2018 CIIS Religion and Ecology Summit.
Also of interest:
See this Spotlights episode with Chris Carter, and his article, “Blood in the Soil: the Racial, Racist, and Religious Dimensions of Environmentalism”