​A WEALTH OF WORDS

 

 

• Environmental Justice: The fair treatment and involvement of people of all race, color, national origin, and income to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.​
• ​Environmental Injustice: The unfair treatment and involvement of people of all race, color, national origin, and income to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.
• Social Justice: ​The fair and proper administration of laws conforming to the natural law that all persons, regardless of their ethnicity, gender, possessions, race, religion, etc., are to be treated equally and without prejudice.
• Fair Share: ​The equal distribution of burdens throughout a city.
• ​Food Desert:  A community with little to no access to healthy produce.​
• Food Sovereignty: ​Having access to the best quality produce you can possibly have.
• Sustainability: ​The quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources.
• Activist: ​A person that educates others about issues in the community and works with them to solve the issues.
• Advocate: ​A person that educates others about issues in the community but does not work with them to solve the issues.
• ​Advocacy: A plan in support of a case.
• ​Urban Farm: A garden or small farm in a community that has little to no space to grow its own produce.
• ​Gentrification: The buying and renovation of houses and stores in urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, thus improving property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
• ​Incarceration: The act of putting of one in prison.
• ​Rehabilitation: To be reformed to a citizen of good standing.
• ​Stop and Frisk: The act of being halted by a police officer and being searched under the suspicion of being in possession of illegal weapons, or illegal substances.
• ​Normalized Oppression: Being accustomed to acts or events that are unjust or oppressive in nature.
• ​Greenway: A connection of green streets that connects parks.
• ​Green Street: A street that has medians which includes trees and plants.
• ​Prejudice: An unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
• ​Privatization: Changing something from state to private ownership or control.
• ​Privilege:  A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste.
• ​Racism: Hatred of another race or other races.
• ​Community Organizing: A process where people who live in proximity to each other come together into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest.
• ​Accessibility: The quality of being at hand when needed.
• ​Stewardship: The conducting, supervising, or managing of something.
• ​Zoning: Where a town or city is divided into areas that’s subject to particular planning restrictions.
• ​Combined Sewage Overflow (C.S.O): When too much water goes down the sewer and causes the pipes to close and overflow into the river.
• ​Rain Barrel: A barrel that’s connected to a gutter system which collects rainwater.
• ​Greenroof: A roof of a building that is partially or completely covered by vegetation.
• ​Waterfront: A part of a town that borders a body of water.
• ​Quantity Over Quality: When people choose unhealthy foods because of the cheap price and the amount you can get rather than healthy foods because it’s more expensive for such little amount of it.
• ​Burdens: Things that hurt your community such as industries and jails.
• ​Protest: Opposing or going against someones idea.
• ​Community Supported Agriculture (C.S.A): An alternative, locally-based economic model of agriculture and food distribution.
• ​School-to-Prison Pipeline: The act of preparing future citizens for incarceration through unfair customs that accustom them to being treated as criminals such as but not limited to having to go through metal detectors and being searched immediately after entering school.
• ​Community Supported Fishery (C.S.F): An alternative, locally-based economic model of seafood and food distribution.

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Sources:   www.Businessdictionary.com, www.wikipedia.com, www.dictionary.com