Fw: Environmental Literacy of Air Quality in Kansas City, KS with Richard Mabion on Mon, August 26 7 pm
Richard Mabion
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Event by Jayhawk Audubon Society on Monday, August 26 2019
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Dear Friends,I'm hoping you will help share this news.Lawrence Public Library is co-sponsoring a program about environmental literacy of air quality in Kansas City Kansas with Richard Mabion, an environmental literacy organizer.
Richard Mabion's presentation is titled "Diesel Emissions & the BNSF Railroad in KCK Neighborhoods".
Mabion is the founder of Building A Sustainable Earth Community, an environmental literacy organization and direct affiliate of Clean Air Now. He will discuss their work to protect community health by identifying and documenting environmental & health related problems caused by freight transportation (aka goods movement) in the Kansas City, KS region. Diesel exhaust, and other pollutants emitted by goods movement, warehousing, and related activities are a persistent, significant source of health problems in the area.
The group also works to create community-based environmental justice programming in after-school settings to educate future inner-city leaders about the causes of pollution and its effects on their life and in their neighborhoods. In 2011 the Midwest Sociological Society gave Building A Sustainable Earth Community its Social Action Award which recognizes exceptional grassroots organizations working to further social justice in the Midwest.
6 organizations are co-sponsoring this event, including: Jayhawk Audubon Society, League of Women Voters of Lawrence/Douglas County, the Water Advocacy Team, Lawrence Ecology Teams United in Sustainability, Sierra Club and Lawrence Public Library.
Link to details in the Jayhawk Audubon Society newsletter on their website
--I'm reading Inland by Téa Obreht, published Aug 13, 2019.
Thanks to Random House for my advance reader's copy!
Read what you like to read! Stop a book if you don’t enjoy it.
"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you." --- Langston Hughes, February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." --- Audre Lorde, February 18, 1934 - November 17, 1992
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I'm reading Inland by Téa Obreht, published Aug 13, 2019.
Thanks to Random House for my advance reader's copy!
Read what you like to read! Stop a book if you don’t enjoy it.
"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse
and cool the earth, the air and you." --- Langston Hughes, February 1, 1902 -
May 22, 1967
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." --- Audre Lorde, February 18, 1934 - November 17, 1992