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Hispanics are Interested in the Green Movement

HAF helps communities to integrate “green thinking” into their homes, workplaces, and local environments. Poverty and other factors marginalize Hispanics in this country, and as a result, Hispanics are disproportionately affected by changes in energy costs, rising food prices and other impacts of climate change.

Hispanics’ quality of life is being negatively affected by pollution. Poor air quality is disproportionately harming Hispanics.

According the American Lung Association, Hispanic-American children have a higher rate of asthma than Caucasian children. In the Northeastern United States, Hispanics have an asthma death rate more than twice the rate of Caucasians.

HAF’s beneficiaries from around the country have called in to express their interest around the following environmental issues:

- clean water

- reducing waste/ proper waste disposal

- cleaner transportation options

- green construction

- energy savings

- healthy food production and consumption

- and green jobs that grow out of the demand for all of the above.

HAF increases Hispanics’ access to information, natural resources, environmental benefits, participation in decision making, and access to justice in cases of environmental injustices.