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California League of Conservation Voters
http://www.ecovote.org/
Focus is on promoting environmentally responsible candidates and issues.  This watchdog group keeps a record of the environmental votes of elected officials.

Center for Health, Environment and Justice
http://www.chej.org/
Center for Health, Environment and Justice was founded in 1981, by Lois Gibbs, the community leader at Love Canal.  CHEJ seeks to help local citizens and organizations come together and take an organized, unified stand in order to hold industry and government accountable and work toward a healthy, sustainable future.  The site offers timely news releases and upcoming legislative action and especially emphasizes the safety of children.

Environmental Ethics / compiled by Prof. Ron Epstein
http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Environ/Enviroethics.htm
Originally developed as a Website resource for students of a particular professor at SF State University, this site is loaded with information all aspects of environmental justice and ethics.  Topics covered range form the environment effects of war to nanotechnology to global warming.

Environmental Justice/Environmental Racism
http://www.ejnet.org/ej/
This is an excellent and current website offering key documents in this field, as well as general background information on the issue.  There are also numerous links to other Web resources.  The site offers a global perspective on environmental justice.

Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University 
http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/
This is an excellent site from the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University.  It offers current news stories, hot topics, reports and articles and event listings.  The mission of the Resource Center is to serve as a research, policy and information clearinghouse for issues related to environmental justice. 

Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice
http://www.greenaction.org/index.shtml
Greenaction mobilizes community power to change government and corporate policies and practices to protect health and to promote environmental justice.  The organization's Web site gives very up-to-date information on issues of environmental justice mainly in California, but nationally as well.  It also offers information and advice on getting involved as an activist for environmental justice. 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy -- Environmental Ethics
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-environmental/
Environmental ethics is the discipline that studies the moral relationship of human beings to, and also the value and moral status of, the environment and its nonhuman contents.  This site is basically an encyclopedic entry that defines the various issues in the field of environmental ethics with excellent and thorough data.  The history and development of this issue are also included.

Online Databases (Rio Hondo Students only)    top

CQ Researcher
This database provides full text articles, many with pictures, graphs and statistics. http://library2.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/

Health & Wellness Resource Center
This database has full text articles in a good mix of scholarly journals as well ass more popular publications.

SIRS
This database provides current, full text article covering business, government and personal information for the U.S. and world-wide as well.

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The following books can be located in the Rio Hondo College Library.

Reference Books (2nd floor)
Non-circulating:

Encyclopedia of environmental issues
Call number: Ref GE10.E52 2000

Environmental activism : a reference handbook (Contemporary world issues)
Call  number: GE195.S88 2003

Environmental ethics (Contemporary ethical issues)
Call number: Ref GE42.P35 1997

Environmental health sourcebook : basic consumer health information about the environment ... (Health reference series)
Call number: Ref RA565.E484 2003

Environmental justice : a reference handbook (Contemporary world issues)
Call number: Ref JB578.N485 1998

Genetically engineered foods (At issue) (Opposing viewpoints series)
Call number: Ref TP248.65.F66G453 2004

Inequality : opposing viewpoints in social problems
Call number: Ref HN79.S6I53 1998

Suggested Subject Headings
For additional titles on this topic at Rio Hondo, click on the following Library of Congress subject headings:

Environmental ethics

Environmental justice

Environmental policy

Environmentalism

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use the box below to search for additional resources in Rio Hondo College Library:                          

Media     top
The following media can be located in the Rio Hondo College Library, to be viewed in the Library.

Witness to the future
Call number: Video 001068
Discusses how ordinary citizens transform themselves into environmental activists. Covers problems with radioactive gases released from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Hanford, Washington, large doses of pesticide in California's San Joaquin Valley, and particulates from the petrochemical and oil industries in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley".

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The Rio Hondo College Library provides online access to full-text articles through our online databases.  Please note:  you must be a Rio Hondo College student, faculty, staff or board member to use these services.

The sample searches and articles below are from the ProQuest database. If you are viewing this subject guide from an on-campus computer, simply click on the links below. To gain access if you are at home or off-campus, click here: https://rioweb.rh.cc.ca.us/library/. Input your student ID number and password [your birthdate]. You will see a list of  all the online databases to which you have access. Click on ProQuest and enter the database. You may conduct your own searches at this point or come back to this subject guide and click on any of the links below:

SUB(Environmental justice) [from Peer-Reviewed Journals only]
SUB(Environmental justice) AND (SUB (environmental policy))
SUB(Environmental justice) AND (SUB (location of industry))
SUB( Environmental justice ) AND SUB(Low income groups)
SUB( Environmental justice ) AND international
SUB( Environmental justice ) AND SUB (hazardous substances)

Researched and evaluated by:
M. Hogarth, Librarian 11/2001
last update: E. Ball, Librarian 7/2007

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