This event was called “Cracking the Zip Code: Decoding Environmental Justice” and was a zoom event. I was unable to go to the event live due to overlap in class, but I was able to watch the recording from my dorm room. My Intro to Environmental Issues professor sent out the zoom link for people to learn something important about where we live affecting people’s health.
I learned that social health can affect people just as much as going to the doctor’s for their well being, so having a community that supports you and you are involved in is very important. This is different from when people typically talk about ‘health’ in more of a medical sense of taking medicine to feel better, part of the presentation highlighted how important it was for other part’s of people’s lives intertwined to make them healthy.
Part of the presentation also focused on Maine specifically, and the environmental injustice happening to the Wabanaki people, and them not having enough access to the river and land. The Wabanaki need this access to remain sovereign from the United States. New legislature is trying to be passed to help the Wabanaki people.
*These topics were also discussed for my Intro to Environmental Issues course to understand what was going on in the presentation.
