Green Organizations

With more than 23,000 members, the Massachusetts Chapter of The Sierra Club is currently organized into a set of geographic groups and special interest ad hoc committees. Attending the meetings of a local group or an interesting committee is a great way to get more involved! Everyone is welcome.

The Sierra Club also offers educational outdoor experiences to Boston-area youth, with programming that is enriched by the contributions of volunteers.

Chapter Office
50 Federal Street
3rd Floor
Boston MA 02110
(617) 423-5775

ChicagoVeg is a nonprofit organization that supports all vegetarians/vegans and educates the public on the advantages of a plant-based diet. We regularly meet in the city and suburbs for dining, picnics, lectures, movies, local expos, and other events.

Join us for delicious meals and conscious living. Share your favorite recipes, discuss living a healthy and compassionate lifestyle, support the green movement, and make new friends.

The Evanston Ecology Center serves as a focal point for environmental education and volunteerism in Evanston and the surrounding community. We offer educational programs that foster a greater appreciation, awareness and knowledge of the environment.

Offerings include natural history classes in areas such as plant identification and animal study, summer camps that engage kids in environmentally focused outdoor activities, community gardening and our sustainable Tiny House.

Some of our other initiatives:

"The Big Blue & You" is a non-profit organization in South Florida that provides a GLOBAL PLATFORM for our young generation to CREATIVELY EXPRESS their passion for the ocean and help find solutions that will aid our precious oceans' survival.

We're dedicated to inspiring and educating youth about OCEAN conservation thru ARTS and MEDIA. We believe YOUTH are the leaders of TODAY.

We also organize the ARTSEA festival every year in Miami to increase awareness of the current state of the environment and to inspire youth to go for their dreams.

The Denver Permaculture Guild is a membership-based nonprofit working to build a more just, resilient, and ecologically robust city. We provide permaculture classes, advocate for a regenerative Denver, and foster the development of sustainable businesses and interdependent, hyper-local communities.

Permaculture is the quest for a permanent human culture, one not in debt to non-renewable resources and constant growth. Every action of our guild therefore strives to establish stable and regenerative human habitats that enrich and heal the greater environment.

Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC) connects the general public with stewardship projects in trail construction and maintenance, invasive species management, habitat restoration, gardening and planting, forestry management, flood and fire restoration, and more. Every year, we rely on thousands of people just like you to provide a volunteer workforce for essential environmental projects.

• At the San Diego Chapter of the U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce, our mission is to empower businesses and communities towards long-term prosperity through economic, environmental and social sustainability.
• We provide networking opportunities, offer education in sustainability and social responsibility, advocate for sustainable business policy, and are a resource for those seeking to be more sustainable.

EcoRise inspires a new generation of leaders to design a sustainable future.

We offer academically-aligned sustainability and design-innovation curricula for elementary, middle, and high school teachers. Because our materials are customizable to fit within—and enhance—existing scope and sequences, teachers are able to easily integrate EcoRise lessons without sacrificing important material assessed on standardized tests.