Thank you AG Campbell

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has secured $100,000 for Everett to improve its overall air quality.

The money will go to two community based non-profit organizations – the Mystic River Watershed Association, and Everett Community Growers, Inc.

The money is to be used to magnify the discussion and the physical effort of addressing air quality problems in Everett.

Campbell spoke about places like Everett being left to fend for itself for generations and bearing the brunt of environmental injustice.

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Grant heading for Everett to protect low-income tenants

Special to the Leader Herald

Everett has received $25,000 in federal resources to help protect residents of low-income communities from environmental hazards.

Everett Community Growers was among three other groups awarded a combined $100,000 by the State Department of Public Health to be split up equally in $25,000 amounts.

Pilot initiatives that promote health equity by reducing harmful levels of exposure to environmental hazards are being aided with these grants.

Everett Community Growers is beginning with six community workshops to explain to residents how to promote development that is climate resilient without displacing people.

Everett Community Growers is a food justice organization.

It’s mission is to improve health and racial equity. Through urban agriculture, and workforce development for youths, while promoting equitable policy change.

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Building a Healthier and More Equitable Food System in Everett

Everett-based food justice organization Everett Community Growers (ECG) is convening a small group of Everett residents to share their experience of the City’s local food environment through a camera lens. Participants are taking to the streets as community photojournalists, and capturing images that tell stories about issues in Everett’s food system, and features that make it great. They’re doing this to identify ways to improve health and racial equity in Everett’s food system. Continue reading “Building a Healthier and More Equitable Food System in Everett” →