{"id":1307,"date":"2005-12-01T12:40:38","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T11:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/12\/01\/ethnic_minorities_and_the_environment"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:31:10","slug":"ethnic_minorities_and_the_environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/12\/01\/ethnic_minorities_and_the_environment","title":{"rendered":"Ethnic minorities and the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/society.guardian.co.uk\/\">Society Guardian<\/a>, a supplement to the London <em>Guardian<\/em>, yesterday published two features on ethnic minority participation, and specifically Muslim participation, in environmental campaigns and in rural activities.  <a href=\"http:\/\/society.guardian.co.uk\/societyguardian\/story\/0,7843,1653344,00.html\">Cause for all cultures<\/a> explores why ethnic minorities are so under-represented in such campaigns; the possible answers obviously include the predominanly urban setting in which most non-white people live in the UK which leads them to be more interested in urban regeneration rather than &quot;green&quot; issues.  It does mention unfamiliarity and the fear some people might have of being attacked, but the real issue of racism in the countryside (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacklondon.org.uk\/news\/2002\/20021002a.htm\">[1]<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/talking_point\/3726602.stm\">[2]<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stranger-mag.com\/life_0601.aspx\">[3]<\/a>) isn&#39;t mentioned.  <a href=\"http:\/\/society.guardian.co.uk\/societyguardian\/story\/0,7843,1653345,00.html\">The greening of Islam<\/a> is, as you might expect, about Muslim involvement and Muslim environmental campaign groups, including a protest in London by Bengalis to draw attention to the effect of rising sea levels &quot;back home&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society Guardian, a supplement to the London Guardian, yesterday published two features on ethnic minority participation, and specifically Muslim participation, in environmental campaigns and in rural activities. Cause for all cultures explores why&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-l5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42693,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/42693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}