Black and Green: Black Insights for the Green Movement

by Jamal Ali

Overview

Black and Green is a call to action for the Black community to join the green movement. The book offers insights, ideas, and strategies that demonstrate how Black people can benefit from this movement and also fuel the go-green effort. Ali builds on the premise that the call to "go green" has not quite resonated in the Black community and discusses several reasons as to why. Ultimately, he offers tangible benefits that Black colleges, churches, and even cities should be eager to embrace. These include better health, neighborhood crime reduction, and new jobs. This book clearly broadens the "go green" discussion to include the Black community in a way that is both compelling and engaging.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761847212
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	08/13/2009
Pages:	90
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jamal Ali has always taken an active role to better his community and he views "going green" as a major way to continue this effort. He is working to make sure the information flow and the benefits of going green reach the Black community. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two children. This is his first book.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introduction: Reuse Is Not New to Black People
Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Going Green Starts at Home
Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Rediscovering Your Neighborhood
Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Food and Its Environmental Impact
Chapter 7 Chapter 4: The Electric Car is Here
Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Invoking Green in Education
Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Cashing In on Green
Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Black Institutions That Should Be Green
Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Bury Me Green
Chapter 12 Chapter 9: The Future of Green
Chapter 13 End Notes
Chapter 14 Resource Guide
Chapter 15 Index

Editorial Reviews

The further we get away from nature the more troubles we encounter in health and education. Going green will be returning to our natural instincts. Clearly Jamal Ali understands this and has expressed it as it has never been expressed or explained before. This is a must read.

Tyrone Powers Ph.D.

A marketer's gold mine! Ali combines an entertaining, yet skillful approach of connecting Black-American cultural insights with smart, well thought-out strategies, and examples to help increase Green Movement Participation among both Black and mainstream audiences....A must read for our planet and effective marketing!

Pepper Miller

A book from the heart and for the heart of the Black community. Make sure everyone you know reads this compelling book about saving the planet.

Lester R. Brown

Jamal Ali has provided an essential framework of how we can tackle this issue with the assistance of all communities in a sustainable and practical way.

Pamela Daniels-Halisi