Advocacy

Green America is a national, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, membership organization founded in 1982. Our mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.

What Makes Green America Unique

SDUSC was created to address Southeast San Diego’s lack of representation in important discussions of sustainability, as well as to enhance local opportunities to enter the green job economy.

Today, we exist to bring together communities of concern, stakeholders and like-minded organizations through grassroots organizing to inform processes and policy, to improve the quality of life and to increase opportunities for residents of Southeast San Diego and other resilient communities.

Established in 1969, Northwest Environmental Advocates works through advocacy and education to use federal environmental laws to protect and restore water quality and habitat in the Northwest and nationwide.

NWEA uses a mix of approaches — including negotiation, litigation, education, community organizing, and advocacy — to obtain the best outcome for people and the environment:

Greenovate Boston is the City's community-wide initiative to engage all Bostonians in helping the City meet its climate and sustainability goals, while continuing to make Boston a thriving, healthy, and innovative city.

By laying out the necessary steps to reduce the causes of and to prepare for climate change, Boston's Climate Action Plan gives Greenovate Boston a framework for building a greener, healthier, and more prosperous city.

The Environmental Voter Project (EVP) works to get inactive environmentalists to vote.

Polls show that tens of millions of Americans strongly prioritize progressive environmental policies – but, in large numbers, these people do not express this priority at the ballot box.

We use state-of-the-art social-network incentives, big-data analytics, predictive modeling, and voter-mobilization tools to find inactive environmentalists and inspire them to vote - regularly and consistently.

The San Diego Climate Action Network is a non-profit organization focused on strengthening and accelerating climate advocacy in San Diego County, California.

Our non-partisan network facilitates resource sharing, focusing on coalition building and public relations, in order to amplify the efforts of our member organizations.

Recognizing each San Diego climate advocacy group’s unique contributions, we seek to discover ideal working practices between groups, as well as any vital solutions that may be currently unfulfilled by existing efforts.

Poder (People Organizing in Defense of the Earth and her Resources) brings East Texas communities of color together for decision-making and influence on pollution issues and economic development in our neighborhoods.

~ WHY PODER ~

As we look into our own backyard, we see a power plant, fuel storage tank farms, refineries, lumber companies, and most recently, high tech industries which emit their pollutants into the air we breath and the water we drink. That's why we're uniting to stand up for justice, our health, and our environment.

Slow Food's Chicago chapter offers a community garden, over 20 events a year, and provides workshops on local, sustainable food traditions. We strive to create a world in which all people can eat food that's good for them, good for the people who grow it and good for the planet.

ABOUT
The Slow Food movement started in Italy in 1986 as a grassroots response to the increasing industrialization of food and the standardization of taste. Today, Slow Food Chicago is one of the largest chapters of Slow Food USA, with more than 500 members and 5,000 supporters.