Climate and Environmental Justice

350.org

350.org is an international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-centered renewable energy for all. Named after the safe atmospheric limit of 350 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide, it calls for a deeper transition, one which places energy justice at the beating heart of its values, and provides training to communities throughout a global network—connecting local and national campaigns to confront injustice, challenge our fossil-fueled economic systems, and showcase a groundswell of support for renewable energy. 

American Forests

Since its founding in 1875, this environmental conservation organization has been the pathfinders for creating healthy forests from coast to coast. It championed the creation of the U.S. Forest Service and has persuaded Congress to provide stable funding for fighting and preventing forest fires. The group's deep knowledge of forests and track record of collaboration position it to build a reforestation movement in America.

American Prairie

American Rivers

For more than 50 years, American Rivers has been a leader in protecting and restoring rivers throughout the country. Its inclusive approach starts with collaboration and delivers results that improve people’s lives.  

Arbor Day Foundation

Founded in 1972, the Arbor Day Foundation is the world’s largest member nonprofit dedicated to planting trees. Its strength resides in its network—a diverse group of individuals, municipalities, corporations, and planting organizations—that plant trees around the world. It collaborates with partners who are deeply engaged in the areas they serve to plant the right trees in the right places to have the greatest impact. The group has helped plant more than 500 million trees in neighborhoods and forests across more than 50 countries. 

As You Sow

As You Sow is the nation’s nonprofit leader in shareholder advocacy. Founded in 1992, its mission is to promote environmental and social corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy, coalition building, and innovative legal strategies. It envisions a safe, just, and sustainable world in which protecting the environment and human rights is central to corporate decision making.

Beyond Pesticides

Beyond Pesticides is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. that works with allies in protecting public health and the environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic pesticides. The founders, who established Beyond Pesticides (originally as National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides) in 1981, felt that without the existence of such an organized, national network, local, state and national pesticide policy would become, under chemical industry pressure, increasingly unresponsive to public health and environmental concerns. The group believes that people must have a voice in decisions that affect them directly—not by chemical companies or by decision-makers who either do not have all of the facts or refuse to consider them. 

Canary Media

Canary Media is an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to the climate crisis. It reports on how the world is decarbonizing—in electricity, transportation, buildings, and industry—with a critical focus on finding out what works and what doesn’t. Its journalists dig into the ways policymakers, businesses, investors, and communities are moving toward a clean and equitable energy future.

Center for Biological Diversity

The Center for Biological Diversity believes that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature, and works to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. It does so through science, law, and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and climate that species need to survive.

The Center for Plant Conservation

The Center for Plant Conservation (CPC) unites plant conservationists from botanical gardens, arboreta, and other plant-focused organizations that collaboratively work to save the imperiled plants of the United States, its territories, and Canada, throughout their native range. CPC Participating Institutions maintain the CPC National Collection of Endangered Plants, a living conservation collection of imperiled plants, by working to collect and manage living seeds and plants, and advancing the understanding of threats to save these species.

Clean Water Action

Since its founding during the campaign to pass the landmark Clean Water Act in 1972, Clean Water Action has worked to win strong health and environmental protections by bringing issue expertise, solution-oriented thinking, and people power to the table. Its mission is to protect our collective environment, health, economic well-being, and community quality of life. Clean Water Action organizes strong grassroots groups and coalitions, and delivers on campaigns to solve environmental and community health problems and get environmental candidates elected at all levels of government.

Climate & Community Institute (CCI)

The Climate & Community Institute (CCI) Central is a progressive climate and economy think tank that works with movements and progressive policy makers to pass new policy, improve implementation, shift narratives, and deepen coalitions. Its transformative agenda includes rapidly decarbonizing the economy, protecting communities from climate disasters, and materially benefiting working people.

Climate Central

Climate Central is the only climate communications group that produces and disseminates localized and visual content weekly and at national scale; co-houses scientists, journalists, and technologists; and conducts and catalyzes original, peer-reviewed scientific research to fill critical communication gaps.

Climate Disobedience Center

The Climate Disobedience Center exists to support a growing community of climate dissidents who take the risk of action, grounded in love, commensurate with the scale and urgency of the crisis.

Climate Justice Alliance (CJA)

Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) formed in 2013 to create a new center of gravity in the climate movement by uniting frontline communities and organizations into a formidable force. Its translocal organizing strategy and mobilizing capacity is building a just transition away from extractive systems of production, consumption and political oppression, and toward resilient, regenerative and equitable economies.

Climate Power

Climate Power is a strategic communications organization focused on winning the politics of climate. It educates Americans about climate progress, highlighting how clean energy investments benefit local communities, and holding Big Oil accountable for polluting the air and water. It uses data-backed messages to pave a path for bold action and shine a light on the price of ignoring the climate crisis would cost our health, economy, and future generations. The group integrates hard-hitting research, polling, state and national earned media, digital and paid media to influence the national conversation, embolden leaders to take immediate, bold climate action, and expose climate deniers and their oil and gas lobby allies.

The Climate Reality Project

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore founded The Climate Reality Project to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every sector of society. The nonprofit recruits, trains, and mobilizes people of all walks of life to work for just climate solutions that speed energy transition worldwide and open the door to a better tomorrow for us all. Climate Reality is comprised of a diverse group of passionate individuals who’ve come together to tackle the greatest challenge of our time. Their shared vision is for a swift, systemic, and just transition toward net zero emissions by the middle of this century, with major steps toward that goal by 2030.

Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks

The Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks is made up of more than 4,600 members, all of whom are current, former, and retired employees and volunteers of the National Park Service. Together, they have accumulated more than 50,000 years of experience caring for America’s most valuable natural and cultural resources. The Coalition’s goal is to leverage its credibility and integrity to continue supporting the NPS Mission, NPS employees, and advocating for national park solutions based on the law and sound science.

Conservation International

Since 1987, Conservation International has worked to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity. Combining fieldwork with innovations in science, policy and finance, it has helped protect more than 2.3 million square miles of land and sea across more than 70 countries. Today, with offices in more than two dozen countries and a worldwide network of thousands of partners, its reach is truly global.

Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ)

Founded in 1992, the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice is dedicated to improving the lives of community members of all ages who are harmed by pollution and vulnerable to climate change, through research and policy studies, community and student engagement to impact policy change, and health and safety training for environmental careers.

Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities. Founded in 1947, it is the premier U.S.-based national conservation organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of imperiled species and their habitats in North America. Its approach is direct and straightforward—protecting and restoring imperiled species throughout North America by transforming policies and institutions and by promoting innovative solutions.

DeSmog News

This global news organization was founded in January 2006 to clear the PR pollution that is clouding the science and solutions to climate change. It prides itself on providing accurate, fact-based information regarding global warming misinformation campaigns, and continues to expand its focus to other areas where misinformation has eroded public understanding and political action to address critical societal challenges, such as meeting the world’s energy needs, confronting environmental racism, and ensuring a just transition to a sustainable economic paradigm.

Dogwood Alliance

For more than 25 years, Dogwood Alliance has fought threats to forests and frontline communities. It promotes forest protection as the best solution to climate change, and partners with communities to develop economic solutions that work with, and for, our forests. Its mission is to advance environmental justice and climate action by mobilizing diverse voices to protect Southern forests and communities from industrial logging.

Earth911

Earth911.com started in the early ’90s as an Arizona-centric recycling database. After more than three decades, it remains the largest recycling database in the nation—probably the world. It focuses on what everyday people can do on a daily basis to help save our planet and collective environment by sharing insights into how to measure the carbon footprint of products, services, and lifestyles that need to change for humanity to thrive.

Earth Island Institute

Earth Island Institute is an international environmental organization and fiscal sponsor to more than 75 projects working in the areas of conservation, wildlife protection, climate change solutions, women’s environmental leadership, Indigenous communities, sustainable agriculture and food systems, community resilience, environmental justice, and more. It includes a legal division, Earth Island Advocates; a youth leadership program, New Leaders Initiative; and an award-winning magazine, Earth Island Journal. Founded in 1982 by legendary environmentalist David Brower, Earth Island Institute is one of the leading environmental activist organizations in the United States.

Earthjustice

Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization, wielding the power of law and strength of partnership to protect people’s health, preserve magnificent places and wildlife, advance clean energy, and combat climate change.

EcoWatch

EcoWatch is a leading online environmental news company, publishing timely stories every day for a healthier planet and life. Its goal is to empower readers to make informed, environmentally-conscious decisions that support a sustainable future for everyone. Through trustworthy environmental news, solution-based guides, and responsible product reviews, it strives to help both the newly concerned citizen and veteran environmental activist be part of the solution every single day.

Environment America

Environment America is a national network of 30 state environmental groups. Its staff work together for clean air, clean water, clean energy, wildlife and open spaces, and a livable climate. Its members across the United States put grassroots support behind its research and advocacy, and envision a greener America: one that protects more places where nature can thrive, and offers future generations a greater opportunity to live healthier, more enriching lives. Through research, public education, advocacy, litigation and action, Environment America advances policies and practices that put the United States, and entire world, on a better path.

Environmental Defense Fund

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) began in 1967 as a scrappy group of scientists and a lawyer on Long Island, New York, fighting to save osprey from the toxic pesticide DDT. Using scientific evidence, its founders got DDT banned in the United States. Today, it's one of the world’s top environmental organizations, delivering bold solutions that cut harmful pollution and strengthen the ability of people and nature to thrive. Guided by science and economics, and committed to climate justice, it works in the places, on the projects, and with the people that can make the biggest difference.

Environmental Voter Project

The Environmental Voter Project identifies millions of non-voting environmentalists and turns them into consistent voters. The nonpartisan nonprofit works to stabilize the climate and strengthen the ability of people and nature to to thrive and support people's health. Working in more than 30 countries, it focuses on the areas where it can wield the biggest impact: from slashing pollution from transportation around the world to slowing warming by cutting methane pollution, to bolstering nature's own capacity to stabilize the climate.

Food & Water Watch

Food & Water Watch mobilizes regular people to build political power to move bold and uncompromised solutions to the most pressing food, water, and climate problems of our time. It works to protect people’s health, communities, and democracy from the growing destructive power of the most powerful economic interests.

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth fights for a more healthy and just world by speaking truth to power and exposing those who endanger the health of people and the planet for corporate profit. It organizes to build long-term political power and campaign to change the rules of economic and political systems that create injustice and destroy nature.

Gaia Foundation

The Gaia Foundation envisages a new era in which humans are living in a respectful, just, and mutually enhancing relationship with the Earth, with all her life forms and each other. 

Grand Staircase Escalante Partners

This nonprofit works to honor the past and safeguard the future of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument through science, conservation, and education.

Green New Deal Network

The Green New Deal Network is a coalition of grassroots organizations, labor, and climate and environmental justice organizations advocating for local, state, and national policies that create millions of family-sustaining union jobs, ensure racial and gender equity, and take action on climate at the scale and scope the climate crisis demands. At its core, the Green New Deal is a vision for the future building grassroots and political power to form a new consensus that supports the massive government investments needed to save our planet, while proactively addressing and making up for discriminatory policies that hurt people of color, working-class communities, and other marginalized groups. 

Greenpeace USA

Greenpeace is a global network of independent campaigning organizations that use peaceful protest and creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green, just, and joyful future. Greenpeace USA is committed to transforming the country’s unjust social, environmental, and economic systems from the ground up to address the climate crisis, safeguard our planet for future generations, advance racial justice, and build an economy that puts people over profits.

Grist

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Its goal is to use the power of storytelling to illuminate the way toward a better world, inspire millions of people to walk that path with us, and show that the time for action is now.

High Country News

High Country News is an independent, reader-supported nonprofit media organization that covers the important issues and stories that define the Western United States. Its mission is to inform and inspire people to act on behalf of the West’s diverse natural and human communities.

Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)

Established in 1990 within the United States, the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) was formed by grassroots Indigenous peoples and individuals to address environmental and economic justice issues (EJ). IEN’s activities include building the capacity of Indigenous communities and tribal governments to develop mechanisms to protect sacred sites, land, water, air, natural resources, health of its people and all living things, and to build economically sustainable communities. It accomplishes this by maintaining an informational clearinghouse, organizing campaigns, direct actions and public awareness, building the capacity of community and tribes to address EJ issues, development of initiatives to impact policy, and building alliances among Indigenous communities, tribes, inter-tribal and Indigenous organizations, people-of-color/ethnic organizations, faith-based and women groups, youth, labor, environmental organizations and others. 

Indigenous Climate Action (ICA)

Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) is an Indigenous-led organization guided by a diverse group of Indigenous knowledge keepers, water protectors and land defenders from communities and regions across the country. It believes that Indigenous Peoples’ rights and knowledge systems are critical to developing solutions to the climate crisis and achieving climate justice.

Inhabitat

Inhabitat is a green design and lifestyle site that provides coverage of environmental news and the latest in sustainable design. It is devoted to the future of design, innovative technology and any architectural projects or concepts that emphasize energy efficiency, sustainability and connection to the surrounding environment. Inhabitat was founded in 2005 by designer Jill Fehrenbacher as a forum for investigating emerging trends in product, interior and architectural design. Since then, it has evolved into a site focused on important developments in environmental policy and technology, as well as on design projects that give equal weight to environmental and aesthetic considerations.

Intersectional Environmentalist

Intersectional Environmentalist is a nonprofit eco-media organization on a mission to deepen environmental awareness and inspire climate action through the power of art, education, and storytelling. It produces resources, programs, and creative opportunities that connect all people to the climate justice movement and support grassroots environmental solutions.

Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project

Movement Generation began in the early 2000s in unceded Lisjan Ohlone territory—what is now known as the San Francisco Bay Area of California. It was conceptualized and built by a planning committee of grassroots organizers, movement builders, and popular educators organizing in community-based organizations across a vast array of issue areas. Since then, it has engaged hundreds of organizations and thousands of community leaders, activists, and organizers through intensive retreats, political education, hands-on skills workshops, peer exchange, campaign development, alliance building, and strategic support.

National Audubon Society

The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas, using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation.

Natural Resources Defense Council

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) combines the power of more than 3 million members and online activists with the expertise of some 700 scientists, lawyers, and other environmental specialists to confront the climate crisis, protect the planet’s wildlife and wild places, and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.

The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive. Founded in the United States through grassroots action in 1951, it has grown to become one of the most effective and wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world. Thanks to more than a million members and the dedicated efforts of a diverse staff and more than 400 scientists, it impacts conservation in 79 countries and territories.

NRDC Action Fund

The NRDC Action Fund’s mission is to build political support for advancing the goals of the Natural Resources Defense Council: averting dangerous climate change, supporting healthy people and thriving communities, and conserving and protecting nature and wildlife. It supports candidates who stand up for these goals, and works to mobilize the American public to lobby lawmakers and hold them accountable for their votes, both in office and at the ballot box.

Oceana

Oceana is the largest international advocacy organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation. It is dedicated to achieving specific, time-bound policy victories that help protect and restore the world’s oceans. 

Oil Change International

Oil Change International is a research, communications, and advocacy organization working to expose the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitate the ongoing transition to clean energy. It fights for social, environmental, and climate  justice—guided by equitable, anti-racist, and people-centered values.

Our Children’s Trust

Our Children’s Trust is a nonprofit public interest law firm that provides strategic, campaign-based legal services to youth from diverse backgrounds to secure their legal rights to a safe climate. It works to protect the Earth’s climate system for present and future generations by representing young people in global legal efforts to secure their binding and enforceable legal rights to a healthy atmosphere and stable climate, based on the best available science. It supports youth clients and amplifies their voices before the third branch of government in a highly strategic legal campaign that includes targeted media, education, and public engagement work to support the youths’ legal actions. The group's legal work aims to ensure systemic and science-based climate recovery planning and remedies at federal, state, and global levels.

Pesticide Action Network

Pesticide Action Network (PAN) North America strives to create a just, healthy, and equitable food system by replacing hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. It works with those on the frontlines to tackle the pesticide problem and reclaim the future of food and farming. 

Rainforest Alliance

The Rainforest Alliance is an international nonprofit organization working at the intersection of business, agriculture, and forests to make responsible business the new normal. It is building an alliance to protect forests, improve the livelihoods of farmers and forest communities, promote their human rights, and help them mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. 

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest Trust protects the most threatened tropical forests, saving endangered wildlife through partnerships and community engagement. For more than 35 years, it has worked to preserve critical habitats around the globe. 

The Ruckus Society

The Ruckus Society is a multi-racial network of trainers dedicated to providing the necessary tools, preparation, and support to build direct action capacity for ecological justice and social change movements. It works with Indigenous communities and other communities of color working to preserve their homes and environments and for climate justice.

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Sea Shepherd’s sole mission is to protect and conserve the world’s oceans and marine wildlife. It works to defend all marine wildlife, from whales and dolphins, to sharks and rays, to fish and krill, without exception.

Sierra Club

Southern Environmental Law Center

The Southern Environmental Law Center is the largest environmental organization in the U.S. South. With roots in its six-state footprint of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, the organization has emerged as a leader on law and policy protecting our nation’s most basic environmental protections. It works to ensure clean water and air, champions environmental justice, fights against climate change, and strives to safeguard land and wildlife for future generations.

Tree Hugger

Treehugger is a modern sustainability site that offers advice, clarity, and inspiration for both the eco-savvy and the green-living novice. With 2.6 million monthly users, it is one of the world’s largest information sites dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream.

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Union of Concerned Scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future. The nonprofit uses science to address global problems and improve people's lives.

WE ACT for Environmental Justice

WE ACT for Environmental Justice’s mission is to build healthy communities by ensuring that people of color and/or low income residents participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices.

Wilderness Watch

Founded in 1989, Wilderness Watch is the leading national organization whose sole focus is the preservation and proper stewardship of lands and rivers included in the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). The organization grew out of the concern that while much emphasis is being placed on adding new areas to these systems, the conditions of existing Wilderness and rivers are largely being ignored. It believes that the stewardship of these remarkable wild places must be assured through independent citizen oversight, education, and the continual monitoring of federal management activities.

WildEarth Guardians

WildEarth Guardians protects and restores the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the American West.It has tackled some of the West’s most difficult and pressing conservation challenges throughout the past three decades. The group has celebrated small victories (banning leghold trapping in the state of Colorado), monumental triumphs (ending logging on more than 21 million acres in the Southwest), and everything in between. 

World's Youth for Climate Justice

World's Youth for Climate Justice is a global campaign taking climate change and human rights to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to get an advisory opinion seeking to clarify the obligations of states to protect the rights of current and future generations from the adverse effects of climate change. It aims to encourage, uplift, motivate, highlight, complement, and inspire action and commitment to climate justice and intergenerational equity in an inclusive and intersectional manner.