{"product_id":"holy-ground-on-activism-environmental-justice-and-finding-hope-hardcover","title":"Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCatherine Coleman Flowers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*ONE OF \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2025*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn inspiring collection of essays, personal and political, from the leading environmental justice activist of our time, that frames the challenges we face as a society and--with grace, generosity, and hope--charts the way toward equity, respect, and a brighter future.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed by Bryan Stevenson as \"the center of the quest for environmental justice in America,\" Catherine Coleman Flowers has dedicated her life to fighting for the most vulnerable communities--rural, poor, of color--who have been deprived of the basic civil right to a clean, safe, and sustainable environment. Both deeply personal and urgently political, the essays in \u003ci\u003eHoly Ground\u003c\/i\u003e draw on history to illuminate and contextualize the most pressing issues of this moment: from climate change to human rights, from rural poverty to reproductive justice, from the notorious history of Lowndes County, Alabama, to the broader crisis of racialized disinvestment in the South. Flowers maps the distance and direction toward justice, examining her own diverse ancestry as evidence of our interconnectedness. She reflects on trailblazers who have fought for social and environmental justice. She writes about her mother, a civil rights activist who lost her life to gun violence, and her own deeply personal experience with reproductive justice. And in a remarkably candid and moving piece, she writes about a traumatic attack that occurred at a moment of collective triumph, in which she weighs her fight for the common good against her own well-being. Flowers's faith shines throughout the collection, guiding her work and inspiring her vision of our responsibility to one another and to our shared home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn from a lifetime of organizing, activism, and change-making, \u003ci\u003eHoly Ground\u003c\/i\u003e equips us with clarity, lights a way forward, and rouses us to action--for ourselves and for each other, for our communities, and, ultimately, for our planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Coleman Flowers \u003c\/b\u003eis an internationally recognized environmental justice activist and founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ). A MacArthur \"Genius Grant\" recipient, Flowers sits on the board of directors of the Climate Reality Project, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and RMI. She has served as the co-vice chair of the inaugural White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and is a practitioner-in-residence at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Flowers is the author of \u003ci\u003eWaste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret\u003c\/i\u003e and has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. In 2023, she was recognized as one of the \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e 100 most influential people in the world and one of the \u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e 50 Over 50.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.18 x 8.27 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53756867445069,"sku":"9781954118683","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/SdlHF4inD89781954118683.webp?v=1776754655","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/holy-ground-on-activism-environmental-justice-and-finding-hope-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}