Design a Toxic Tour

Design a Toxic Tour: Using Sightseeing to Call Attention to Local Pollution Sites Toxic Tours, in general, are defined as an educational tool for individuals within and outside of the community used to gain a further understanding of environmental justice issues.

Toxic tours are a way to get community members aware of their neighborhoods’ environmental hazards. These tours can show how environmental racism and classism have impacted the community.

The environmental justice movement has offered toxic tours — non-commercial trips intended to highlight people and local pollution in efforts to create a new understanding of environmental justice and to increase participation in environmental decision-making process.

Assignment Description Design a toxic tour by completing the following:

1. Go to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Cleanups In My Community (CIMC). (https://www.epa.gov/cleanups/cleanups-my-community)Here, you will see that you can view the data in a map or list/table. Read through this page.

2. Then, learn about the: a. CIMC Datasets (https://www.epa.gov/cleanups/cimc-about-data) b. Map Hints and How Tos (https://www.epa.gov/cleanups/cimc-map-hints-and-

how-tos)

3. Now that you understand the data and how to use the map, go back to the Cleanups In My Community Map (https://www.epa.gov/cleanups/cleanups-my-community#map)

4. Select a neighborhood or community near where you live and learn about the different environmental clean-up types or potential sources of pollution in that area.