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Uptown Eye(tm) Newspaper (Latest Issue: Fall 2004)

Available Only As PDF Downloads.
The key tool that WE ACT utilizes to communicate with residents and community leaders and inform them of significant quality of life issues impacting Northern Manhattan. A bilingual, bimonthly newspaper a distribution of 10,000 copies, this publication focuses on environmental issues impacting the Northern Manhattan community.

Harlem on the River Planning Document (Draft: November 8, 2000)
Available As Online HTML & PDF Download.
Recognizing the enormous opportunity to improve the environment and promote economic and sustainable community growth, two community organizations, West Harlem Environmental ACTion, Inc. (WEACT) and Manhattan Community Board 9 (CB 9), sought funding to initiate a three phase planning process to guide development along the waterfront. In 1998, the U.S. Department of Energy agreed to fund a community-driven planing effort to develop a plan for the Harlem Piers area called Harlem on the River.

Environmental Health Perspectives (Volume 110, Supplement 2)

Abstracts Available As Online HTML Or PDF Downloads.
Full Copies Available As PDF or Hard Copy Purchases.
The Environmental Health Perspectives supplemental issue on Environmental Justice and Community-Based Research co-edited by Peggy M. Shepard, WE ACT Executive Director, and Swati R. Prakash, WE ACT Environmental Health Director, is now available. HTML abstracts are free to all viewers. The full issues and supplements are available for purchase online as hard copies or downloadable PDF's to subscribers, or you may chose to purchase this individual supplement.

People of Color Environmental Groups Directory

Full Copies Available As PDF or Hard Copy Requests.
The People of Color Environmental Groups Directory 2000 is the only resource guide of its type in the country. The current edition of the directory lists more than 400 people-of-color groups from 45 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, up from 200 groups in 1992. Created as a standard reference guide, the directory is designed to help environmental justice organizations network with one another, as well as aid public and private decisionmakers reach community constituents and stakeholder groups. The directory is free. Copies can be obtained from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation's Publication Request Line at (800) 645-1766 or by visiting their website at www.mott.org, or more directly, by filling out the following form on their website.

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