Environmental justice on the Web.

Phone calls, flyers and word-of-mouth have been drawing attention to environmental justice issues for decades. But with more than 100,000 online documents devoted to environmental justice issues, activists are now turning to the World Wide Web for information and support.

EcoNet, part of the Institute of Global Communications' network of activist-oriented sites, hosts the EcoJustice Network (http://www.econet.apc.org/envjustice/). It provides information on current issues "facing communities of color in the U.S.," as well as contact information on activist groups, a calendar of eco-justice events and links to related websites. Other sites accessible via EcoNet include: The Indigenous Environmental Network (www.alphacdc.com/ien/), EPA's Office of Environmental Justice (es.inel.gov/oeca/oej.html), The Cesar Chavez Web Page (latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/research/chavez/), Chicano-Latino Net (latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/community/environment.html), The Environmental Inequality Homepage (www.cruzio.com/~meuser/EI/index.html), The South African Exchange Program on Environmental Justice (www.igc.apc.org/saepej/), The Urban Habitat Program of the Earth Island Institute (www.earthisland.org/ei/uhp/uhp.html) and RTK NET (rtk.net/), whose Right-to-Know (RTK) Network provides coverage of toxic, health and economic data, access to EPA documents and an extensive bibliography.

The South Central Oklahoma Environmental Justice Resource Center (student.ecok.edu/~polsci/envrjust/envrjust.html), in addition to its original material (including an interesting newsletter), also hosts links to related sites, offering documents, regional coverage and governmental resources. Explorative sites for Native American issues include Native Americans and the Environment (www.indians.org/library/subenvl.html) and Native Americans and Environmental Justice (pubweb.ucdavis.edu/Documents/GWS/EnvIssues/EnvJust/native.htm).

Other sites focusing on environmental racism are the Department of the Navy's Environmental Justice Program (enviro.navy.mil/checklst.htm), the Environmental Justice Database (www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/modej/modejj.html), the Whittier College Environmental Justice Project (keck.whittier.edu/%7Eejproj/) and the Environmental Justice Clinic Home-page hosted by the Thurgood Marshall School of Law (www.tsu-law.edu/environ/environ.htm).

Since new sites are being added all the time and addresses change, the most current information can be had by browsing Alta Vista (www.altavista.com) or Excite (www.excite.com) and entering the search words "environmental justice." And there's online activity outside the World Wide Web, too, including the Usenet newsgroup misc.activism.progressive.

CONTACT: The EcoJustice Network, Presidio Building 1012, First Floor, Torney Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129-0904/[phone]/[e-mail].