Anthony, Carl

Organizational History/Biographical Information

Urban Habitat Program

The Urban Habitat Program (UHP) was founded in 1989 by Carl Anthony, Karl Linn, and David Brower of Earth Island Institute to build multicultural urban environment leadership for socially just, sustainable communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. UHP fosters and supports initiatives for social and ecological justice taken by historically disenfranchised communities: African, Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, Native American, working and poor people.

UHP projects include; Transportation and Social Justice, working for regional transportation reform and working with the Bayview Hunters Point Community in San Francisco on a community design for light rail linked community revitalization; Environmental Justice and Healthy Communities, convening a Bay Area wide Brownfields Working Group to support, provide leadership training and technical skills for community-based approaches to redevelopment projects; A Park for All People, working with others to develop strategies and recommendations to ensure that the Presidio becomes a park for all people; Envisioning Social and Ecological Justice, promoting ecological literacy to solve the social and ecological challenges facing communities of color, low income, and working people.

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Anthony, Carl

Carl Anthony is an African American urban planner, architect, 1989 founder and Executive Director for twelve years of the Urban Habitat Program (UHP). Anthony and UHP have provided important links between environmental and social justice advocates by encouraging the environmental justice movement to include principles of sustainability and brings a vision of social justice to traditional environmentalists. In 1990, he co-founded the Race, Poverty & Environment Journal.

Anthony was a member of the Presidio Council for the National Park Service advising on the conversion of the Presidio. From 1991-1997 he was President of Earth Island Institute. He also served on the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council of the US Environmental Protection Agency, and chaired, from 1993-1995 the East Bay Conversion and Reinvestment Commission, a nonprofit created as a national pilot project to guide federal policy in the conversion of military bases. He also served on the Bay Area Government's Regional Planning Committee, Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Metropolitan Forum, and the Trust for Public Land, and appointed to the California Legislature's Speaker's Commission on State and Local Government Finance.

In 2001, Anthony joined the Ford Foundation as Director of Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Initiative & Regional Equity Demonstration. He founded Breakthrough Communities, a project of Earth House Center to build multiracial leadership for sustainable communities in California and the nation. He has been a Senior Ford Foundation Fellow at U.C. Berkeley Department of Geography, working on a book examining the connections between fields of environmental justice, community development and the changing face of global urbanization.

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From the guide to the Urban Habitat Program records, 1970-2001, (The Bancroft Library)