Luminary: Carl Anthony

Luminary: Carl Anthony

Carl Anthony is the founder and for 12 years was executive director of the Urban Habitat Program, one of the oldest environmental justice organizations in the country. Until recently he was a Ford Foundation program officer in the Community and Resource Development unit. He is currently a Visiting Scholar/Ford Foundation Senior Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of California Berkeley.. The mission of Urban Habitat is to promote multicultural urban environmental leadership for sustainable, socially just communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a colleague, Luke Cole at the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, he published and edited the Race, Poverty and Environment Journal, the only environmental justice periodical in the country.

From 1991 through 1997, Anthony served as President of Earth Island Institute, an international environmental organization to protect and conserve the global biosphere. Congressman Ron Dellums appointed Carl Anthony Chair and Principal Administrative Officer of the East Bay Conversion and Reinvestment Commission in 1993. The Commission was charged with overseeing a National Pilot Project to guide the closure of 500 military bases in the US, to re-envision the role of the National Laboratories, and to implement the conversion of 5 military bases in Alameda County. He has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, the University of California Colleges of Environmental Design and Natural Resources. He has been an Advisor to the Stanford University Law School on issues of environmental justice. Anthony has a professional degree in architecture from Columbia University. In 1996, he was appointed Fellow at the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Carl Anthony’s work has appeared in the following:

1. Break Through Stories and Strategies for Sustainable Metropolitan Communities. Ed. Paloma Pavel [Up coming: MIT PRESS]
2. “Green Justice: Reclaiming the Inner City” in The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area. Richard Walker [A chapter devoted to Carl’s work and environmental vision].
3. Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Community, Environmental Justice and Regional Equity. Ed. Bob Bullard [MIT PRESS]
4. “Race, Poverty and the Human Metropolis” in The Human Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st Century
5. The Black Metropolis in the 21st Century: Race, Power and the Politics of Place.
6. “Reflections on the Purposes and Meaning of African American Environmental History” in To Love the Wind and the Rain by Dianne Glave Markstoll