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Local and Regional NGOs
National and International NGOs
Governmental Agencies
Local and Regional NGOs
Alaska Community Action on Toxics — ACAT works to eliminate the production and release of harmful chemicals by industry and military sources; ensure community right-to-know; achieve policies based on the precautionary principle; and support the rights and sovereignty of Indigenous peoples. ACAT has four program areas: Military Toxics and Health; Northern Contaminants and Health; Pesticide Right-to-Know; and Water Quality Protection.
Alternatives for Community and Environment — Based in Roxbury, Massachusetts, ACE builds the power of communities of color and lower income communities to eradicate environmental racism and classism and achieve environmental justice.
Center for Neighborhood Technology — Based in Chicago, Illinois, CNT's mission is to invent and implement new tools and methods that create livable urban communities for everyone.
Coalition Against Environmental Racism — The goal is to educate people at the University of Oregon and in the community about the connections between environmental, health, and social inequities, and to build community capacity to achieve justice.
Communities for a Better Environment — Promoting clean air, clean water and the development of toxin-free communities through grassroots activism, environmental research and legal assistance within underserved urban California communities.
Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles — CCSCLA was formed in 1985 to help organize against the development of a mass waste incinerator planned for construction in their neighborhood, whose mission is to work for social justice and economic and environmental change within the South Central community.
Conservation Law Foundation — Since 1966, CLF has worked to protect New England's people, natural resources and communities, to promote renewable energy and fight air and water pollution; build healthy fishing communities and protect marine habitat; fight sprawl, promote public transit and defend public health.
Deep South Center for Environmental Justice — Like many other programs at colleges and universities in New Orleans, Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, while physically destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, there is an even greater need for their services. While current programs are continued, it is also necessary that DSCEJ shifts its major attention to the destruction caused by Katrina.
EarthMinistry — Earth Ministry was born in the Pacific Northwest out of a recognition of the underlying spiritual and moral roots of the environmental crisis, and the desire to help people of faith see more clearly the connections between their faith, their daily life and ecological concerns. Founded in 1992, Earth Ministry connects Christian faith with care for the Earth.
Environmental Justice Coalition for Water — A California network of more than fifty grassroots and intermediary organizations working to empower community members to become strong voices for water justice in their communities.
Felton FLOW — Believes that affordable water is a right, not a commodity and that local ownership with local accountability will keep it that way for everyone in the San Lorenzo Valley of Santa Cruz County, California.
Literacy for Environmental Justice — An urban environmental education and youth empowerment organization created specifically to address the unique ecological and social concerns of Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco, and surrounding communities.
Ohioans for Health, Environment and Justice — A project of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, since the 1990s the citizens of East Liverpool, Ohio have fought against a waste incinerator in their community.
Pesticide Watch — Pesticide Watch and Pesticide Watch Education Fund provide California communities with the tools they need to protect themselves and the environment from the hazards of pesticides.
Save Our Hills — Works to preserve the beauty of the Los Medanos Hills in Pittsburg and Contra Costa County, California for future generations.
TREES — A student-based, inter-religious organization at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley that seeks to raise awareness of the issues that surround the ecological demise of the earth.
Urban Ecology — Uses urban design, land use planning, and policy reform to help communities in the San Francisco Bay area plan and build neighborhoods that are ecologically healthy, socially just, and economically fair.
WE ACT — A community-based organization whose mission is to inform, educate, train and mobilize the predominately African-American and Latino residents of Northern Manhattan (New York City) on issues that impact their quality of life — air, water and indoor pollution, toxins, land use and open space, waterfront development and usage, sanitation, transportation, historic preservation, regulatory enforcement, and citizen participation in public policy making.
National and International NGOs
Blue Planet Project — An international civil society movement begun by The Council of Canadians to protect the world's fresh water from the growing threats of trade and privatization.
Catholic Conservation Center — The Catholic approach to environmental justice is based on the two commandments of Jesus Christ: to love God above all things and to love our neighbors as ourselves. Love of God requires respect for God's gifts and for God's will for Creation. Love of neighbor requires justice, which prohibits the selfish destruction of the environment without regard for those in need today or for the needs of future generations.
Center for Food Safety — Works to protect human health and the environment by curbing the proliferation of harmful food production technologies and by promoting organic and other forms of sustainable agriculture.
Center for Health, Environment and Justice — CHEJ's mission is to give people the tools they need to bring it about. We carry out this mission by providing people with technical information and the training to use this information to organize to fight for their rights.
Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences — An international organization dedicated to research, teaching and public service, focusing on the relation between the natural sciences including physics, cosmology, evolutionary and molecular biology, as well as technology and the environment, and Christian theology and ethics.
Clean Water Action — A national organization of diverse people and groups working together assuring supplies of clean, safe and affordable water for all Americans, now and for the future, preventing health-threatening pollution at its source, building an economy based on environmentally safe jobs and businesses, and empowering people to take charge of our environmental future.
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life — Protecting human health and the diversity of life is a value emphasized in Torah, Talmud, and rabbinic literature throughout the ages—beginning with the commandment in Genesis for Adam and Eve to serve and protect the Garden of Eden.
Corporate Accountability International — A membership organization that protects people by waging and winning campaigns that challenge irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world.
CorpWatch — CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization through education, network-building and activism, working to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization and a diverse movement for human rights and dignity, labor rights and environmental justice.
The Democracy Center — Works globally to advance human rights through a unique combination of investigation and reporting, training citizens in the art of public advocacy, and organizing international citizen campaigns, working to help build a global citizenry that understands the public issues before it and is able to take effective public action.
EcoEquity — Equal rights to common global resources.
Eco-Justice Ministries — An independent, ecumenical agency that helps churches answer the call to care for all of God's creation, and develop ministries that are faithful, relevant and effective in working toward social justice and environmental sustainability.
EnviroLink — Provides comprehensive, up-to-date environmental information and news.
Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative — An effort by U.S. environmental justice, climate justice, religious, policy, and advocacy groups to call for action from the Bush Administration and Congress on climate change. The EJCC Initiative supports energy efficiency, renewable energy, and conservation policies while seeking equitable measures to protect and assist the communities most affected by climate change.
Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University — Formed in 1994 to serve as a research, policy, and information clearinghouse on issues related to environmental justice, race and the environment, civil rights, facility siting, land use planning, brownfields, transportation equity, suburban sprawl, and Smart Growth. The overall goal of the center is to assist, support, train, and educate people of color students, professionals, and grassroots community leaders with the goal of facilitating their inclusion into the mainstream of environmental decision-making.
Environmental Law Institute — An independent, non-partisan environmental education and policy research center.
Food First/The Institute for Food and Development Policy — The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First shapes how people think by analyzing the root causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and developing solutions in partnership with movements working for social change.
Food & Water Watch — A spin-off from its former parent organization, Public Citizen, Food and Water Watch challenges the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.
The Forum on Religion and Ecology — The largest international multireligious project of its kind, with its conferences, publications, and website it is engaged in exploring religious worldviews, texts, and ethics in order to broaden understanding of the complex nature of current environmental concerns.
Grace Factory Farm Project — Works to create a sustainable food production system that is healthful and humane, economically viable, and environmentally sound.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy — Promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility — An international coalition of faith-based institutional investors including denominations, religious communities, pension funds, healthcare corporations, foundations and dioceses with combined portfolios worth an estimated $100 billion. As responsible stewards, ICCR members utilize religious investments and other resources to change unjust or harmful corporate policies, working for peace, economic justice and stewardship of the Earth.
Interfaith Climate Change Network — Why is the faith community concerned about global climate change? It is a matter of justice.
Just Transition Alliance — A voluntary coalition of labor, economic and environmental justice activists, Indigenous people and working-class people of color creating dialogue in local, national, and international arenas, seeking a process for the just transition of communities and workers from unsafe workplaces and environments to healthy, viable communities with a sustainable economy.
National Council of Churches of Christ Eco-Justice Programs office — The Eco-Justice Programs office of the National Council of Churches works in cooperation with the NCC Eco-Justice Working Group to provide an opportunity for the national bodies of member Protestant and Orthodox denominations to work together to protect and restore God's Creation.
National Farm Worker Ministry — An interfaith organization that supports farm workers as they organize for empowerment, justice, and equality.
National Religious Partnership for the Environment — The National Religious Partnership for the Environment is an association of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Council of Churches U.S.A., the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, and the Evangelical Environmental Network.
The Progressive Christian Witness: A Ministry of Pacific School of Religion — Aims to strengthen the voices of progressive Christianity in the public square and restore diversity to Christian ethical and theological discussion in America. PCW serves as a resource for Christian thought and an instrument for ministries of compassion and justice.
Organic Consumers Association — A public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability, the OCA deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children's health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics.
Pesticide Action Network North America — Works to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. As one of five PAN Regional Centers worldwide, links local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens' action network. This network challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to insure the transition to a just and viable society.
Polaris Institute — Designed to enable citizen movements to re-skill and re-tool themselves to fight for democratic social change in an age of corporate driven globalization.
Religious Witness for the Earth — A national interfaith network dedicated to public witness in defense of Creation. Seeing climate change and environmental devastation as issues of justice, RWE invokes the loving spirit, selfless courage, and moral authority of the civil rights movement.
Rural Advancement Foundation International USA — Dedicated to community, equity and diversity in agriculture, responds to major agricultural trends and creating a movement among farm, environmental and consumer groups to promote sustainable agriculture, strengthen family farms and rural communities, protect the diversity of plants, animals and people, and ensure responsible use of new technologies.
Science and Environmental Health Network — Engages communities and governments in the effective application of science to protect and restore public and ecosystem health. Since 1998, SEHN has been the leading proponent in the United States of the Precautionary Principle as a new basis for environmental and public health policy. SEHN has worked with issue driven organizations, national environmental health coalitions, municipal and state governments, and several NGO/government teams to implement precautionary policies at local and state levels.
The Shalom Center — Brings Jewish and other spiritual thought and practice to bear on seeking peace, pursuing justice, healing the earth, and celebrating community.
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition — A grassroots coalition that engages in research, advocacy, and organizing around the environmental and human health problems caused by the rapid growth of the high-tech electronics industry.
Governmental Agencies
California Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Justice Program
ICLEI--Local Governments for Sustainability — An international association of local governments and national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development.
United States Environmental Protection Agency
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