Document Your NeighborhoodEvery neighborhood has environmental impacts affecting its residents. Take a look around. Observe, measure, document, and film your results.
These are the types of issues that affect many neighborhoods. Document your issue. Bring the results of your research to the community's attention by publishing your film on this web site. Other neighborhood film activists can share info and strategies with you. It is the first step in taking action to solve your neighborhoods issues. |
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Why We Care About Our Neighborhoods
"To realize the potential of cities, we need to change the harsh reality that the neighborhoods into which Americans are born delimit their prospects in life: their chances of graduating from high school, of earning a decent living, of surviving into old age. In Chicago, the difference in average life expectancy for people born at the same time in different neighborhoods is as much as 30 years. Please pause to consider that number. Babies do not choose where they are born. In Streeterville, a neighborhood of white, affluent, college-educated families living comfortably in townhomes and high-rise condominiums along the shore of Lake Michigan, a baby born in 2015 could expect to live to 90. Eight miles south, in Englewood, a poor, black neighborhood of low-rise apartments in the shadow of Interstate 94, a baby born in 2015 could not expect to reach 60."
- New York Times Editorial Board, May 11, 2020
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