Correlation Between Environmental Racism and Gentrification in Urban Areas
About
Adam Haugeberg is the director of environmental justice at New City Church in Minneapolis. He has started a permaculture design and edible landscaping business in Atlanta, managed and helped design a 350acre permaculture demonstration site in southern Missouri, and worked with several churches and non-profits in the area of environmental justice. His calling is to create sustainable, equitable, and abundant systems that serve God, create justice for people, and harmonize with the earth.
The Rev. Tyler Sit is the church planter of New City Church, a Minneapolis-based church that focuses on environmental justice. New City has been featured in The New York Times, on Minnesota Public Radio, and on the website Patheos. The church’s ministry was named one of the “50 Environmental Projects to Watch” by online magazine Grist. Tyler is an outdoors enthusiast and on the side designs communications for an urban garden program.
This resource was designed with a United Methodist perspective, but we believe the content is also relevant for non-UMC seekers who are doing anti-racism work with a spiritual foundation.
