Activities include making energy-efficient appliances affordable for low-income families to making sure that the people are trained for the green-job market, including cleanup efforts in their own communities.

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These women understand that everything affecting the quality of life is in most ways political, said the keynote speaker Majora Carter,

whose activism began with a major effort to block plans for a waste facility in her South Bronx, N.Y., neighborhood.

“They understand that from a soul level,” Carter said.

The women also included Azalea Blalock, GreenSoul Movement; Maria De La Parra, BMB Construction; Phaedra Ellis-Lampkins, Green for All; Maisha Everhart, Alliance for Climate Change; Iyalode Kinney, Communities United Restoring Mother Earth; Joy Moore, The Ecology Center; Jannat Muhammad, Neighborhood House of North Richmond; and Kemba Shakur, Urban Releaf.

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