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Sustainability is intrinsically diverse Diversity is embedded in the definition of sustainability Sustainability is both global and local in scope Environmental impacts are as global as carbon footprint and as local as litter in our neighborhoods. There are so many ways diversity comes into the picture as we think about today’s businesses. From the footprint of global supply chains to multinationals’ locations in communities around the world, companies are intrinsically linked to the people they employ and places in which they operate. Environmental justice and sustainability The costs and benefits associated with environmental impacts aren’t always equally distributed among people . According to the National Resources Defense Council, people who live, work and play in America’s most polluted environments are commonly people of color and disadvantaged communities. Increasingly, businesses have the duty to help reconstruct how resources – and environmental impacts – are shared among communities. 2
According to the 1987 UN Brundtland Commission, sustainability is defined as: “Development which meets the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” 3
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The Cost of Inequities and Disparities • Pipelines • Environmental racism is a concept in the environmental • Water crisis (Flint, MI; justice movement, which Newark, NJ, Mississippi developed throughout the Delta) 1970s and 1980s in the • Latinx farm workers poisoned United States. The term is by pesticides used to describe • Cancer, terminal illnesses environmental injustice that occurs in practice and in policy within a racialized context. 5
Where Did All the Black Farmers Go? 6
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Contact Information Black Soil: Our Better Nature Ashley C. Smith, Co-founder and Owner info@blacksoil.life (859) 312-7877 Farmer Brown tha MC Trevor Claiborn, Founder and Owner fbtmc23@gmail.com (859) 285-3638 9
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