Happy Earth Day! We only have one planet, and these women are doing everything they can to save it:
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While their specific interests and approaches may differ, many of these environmental activists share a common goal: government action. Sena Wazer, a Connecticut native, has been fighting for cleaner oceans since she was five and her parents read her a book about whales.
One of the original grassroots activists, she showed city government how attention must be paid to low-income communities.act local” was a trendy catchphrase, Peggy Shepard embodied the maxim. In 1988, she cofounded West Harlem Environmental Action , the community organization where she continues as executive director and which has made her a pioneer of the environmental-justice movement and grassroots activism.
WE ACT focuses on community-based activism and education to battle local insidious environmental hazards and promote initiatives to improve the quality of life for the community’s residents. The West Harlem Piers Park is one such project of which Shepard is particularly proud. “It was a Fairway parking lot,” she says. “I was able to make the case to [then-Mayor] Bloomberg that we had so much of the pollution, we needed some of the benefits.
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