ACT JUST is a platform for dialogue, scholarship, and activism in the broad field of environmental and social justice.

More and more people are increasingly challenged in their everyday lives to secure meaningful opportunities for sustaining themselves, their families, and the environment.  These opportunities ultimately translate into access to quality food, water, air, energy, and green space, as well as sound management of waste, pollution control, and the protection of habitat for biodiversity. The recent global economic crisis has increased the challenges, and global climate change is increasing them further still.  At the same time, the wealth of opportunity for a very small percentage of the world's population has been expanding resulting in a tremendous rise in social inequality manifested as limitations on access to environmental goods (food, water, air, etc.) and disproportionate exposure to environmental risks.  We seek to understand the processes through which these changes have occurred and how various groups are responding to them.  Finally, we seek to explore and establish ways to steer away from this worrying trend in social inequality to improve environmental and social justice.