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Tune in to KPFT radio and hear Sierra Club organizer Reginald Adams deliver news, interviews and insight into the people, places and events that are shaping the environmental movement in Houston and the surrounding region. Learn more... |
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"Everyone deserves a safe and healthy community."
The inner-city of Houston is experiencing tremendous growth, revitalization
and redevelopment. With growth come challenges. Some of these challenges are
the presence of the alarming number of Superfund sites, brownfields and landfills
that are polluting our urban environments and waterways. The Houston area alone
has 16 active Superfund sites, 30 landfills and 1,000’s of known brownfields.
These types of properties are worst-case scenarios for how we should be utilizing
our most valuable resource, the Earth. Large and small companies operate on
these sites and tremendous profits are made from their businesses. These
profits often times come at the expense of the health of the community and
the environment. These same companies relocate, go out of business
or file for bankruptcy and usually end up leaving their mess behind. Read more...
Sierra
Club and Houston's Fifth Ward residents take the future of a superfund site
and the community
into their own hands. Read more in our Changing Places blog.
Will you volunteer to work with us? Click here to
learn about our rewarding volunteer opportunities, and/or check out the gray
box below. Thanks!
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| Sign up here, via the web, to get more information or volunteer to help with the Building Environmental Community campaign in Houston. Or, if you prefer, download this volunteer form and fill it out so we can match your interests with our campaign goals. Fax it back to 713.521.3493 or send to 908 Wood St. Suite 130, Houston, TX 77002. | ||||
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Read
the results of our MDI Superfund site redevelopment survey. We wanted
to find out more about your interests and needs in the community. Download
the results here (PDF) and see what
we learned.
Read our newsletter. Find out about our volunteers and learn about how Superfund sites are affecting our communities. Download the current issue here. (PDF)
Check out these volunteer opportunities.
Our local organizer, Reginald Adams
Contact: 713.521.3981
reginald.adams@sierraclub.org
Or use the gray box above and we'll get in touch with you.
Reginald Adams was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming on September 4, 1972. He
is
an artist and environmental activist currently living in Houston, Texas.
His
interest in art and the natural environment is nurtured by his travels
around the U.S. and abroad. Growing up in the southwest, he spent much of
his childhood hiking, camping and exploring the forests, canyons, deserts
and mountain ranges of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.
He has
traveled extensively abroad and some of these destinations include West
Africa, France, Spain, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, Mexico
and Central America. These travels greatly influenced his interest in
traditional and cultural art forms as well as his pursuit towards advocating
for the environment on behalf of under-represented communities.
Aside from
being an organizer for the Sierra Club, he serves as a commissioner on the
City of Houston's Municipal Arts Commission. He is
the
board president of the Land Assemblage Redevelopment Authority and he is
a
member of the Houston Independent School District Community Advisory
Council
District II. He has received numerous grants and awards for his artistic,
social and environmental advocacy.
Reginald shares his private time advocating
for the environment, producing
community-based public art, running and traveling abroad with his wife,
Rhonda Radford-Adams, along with their son, Jahlani Charif Adams.
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