Carl Anthony

Anthony visited traditional towns and villages in West Africa, studying the ways in which people utilized their few resources to shape their environments.

[9] In 1989, Anthony founded Earth Island Institute's Urban Habitat Program with David Bower and Karl Linn,[10] the mission of which is to combine education with advocacy and coalition building to advance environmental and social justice in low-income communities in the Bay Area.

Anthony worked to reduce patterns of concentrated poverty in the United States while promoting conservation of natural resources by creating strategies to connect guarantees in a collaborative environment and have a community-based national learning network.

[12] In 2008, Anthony co-founded Breakthrough Communities, a project of Earth House Center,[13] an advocacy nonprofit for regional equity and environmental and climate justice and is serving as the co-director.

Anthony included personal experiences as an architect/planner, environmentalist, and Black American with urban history, racial justice, cosmology, and the challenge of healing the environment from past damages.

The memoir also provides insight into his research on the African Slave trade, civil rights movement, environmental degradation, urban gentrification, and grassroots organizations.