ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH,

                                   ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE,

                           TOXIC PRODUCTS, POLLUTION,

                                   AND COMMUNITY IMPACTS

APEN seeks to empower low-income Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities to achieve environmental and social justice. APEN believes that the environment includes everything around us: where we live, work and play. And we strive to build grassroots organizations that will improve the health, well-being and political strength of our communities.

 

The Center for Health, Environment and Justice works to build healthy communities, with social justice, economic well-being, and democratic governance. They believe this can happen when individuals from communities have the power to play an integral role in promoting human health and environmental integrity. Their role is to provide the tools to build strong, healthy communities where people can live, work, learn, play and pray.

The Center for Health, Environment & Justice’s BE SAFE campaign is a nationwide initiative to build support for the precautionary approach and prevent pollution and environmental destruction before it happens.

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a coalition of women’s, public health, labor, and environmental health and consumer-rights groups. Their goal is to protect the health of consumers and workers by requiring the health and beauty industry to phase out the use of chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and other health problems, and replace them with safer alternatives.

Clean Production Action is a non-profit organization that promotes the use of products that are safer and cleaner across their life cycle for consumers, workers, and communities. Their mission is the societal realization of Clean Production and Sustainable Consumption.

The mission of Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice is to protect urban environments primarily in Connecticut through educating communities, through promoting changes in local, state, and national policy, and through promoting individual, corporate and governmental responsibility towards our environment. They define environment as including the places that we live, work, play and go to school.

 

The Environmental Working Group is a research organization dedicated to improving public health and protecting the environment by reducing pollution in air, water and food.

The ETC Group addresses the socioeconomic and ecological issues surrounding new technologies that could have an impact on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable citizens.

The Factor 10 Institute has been created to provide practical support for achieving significant advances in sustainable value creation, in particular through increases in resource productivity throughout the economy.

Factor Ten Institute

The Factor 10 Institute has been created to provide practical support for achieving significant advances in sustainable value creation, in particular through increases in resource productivity throughout the economy.

Global Community Monitor (GCM) is an environmental justice and human rights non profit that empowers industrial communities to recreate a clean healthy and truly sustainable environment. GCM was created to provide hands-on tools for impacted communities to monitor their own neighborhoods.

Greenaction mobilizes community power to win victories that change government and corporate policies and practices to protect health and to promote environmental justice.

GreenBlue is a nonprofit institute that stimulates the creative redesign of industry by focusing the expertise of professional communities to create practical solutions, resources, and opportunities for implementing sustainability.

Green Seal identifies and promotes products and services that cause less toxic pollution and waste, conserve resources and habitats and minimize global warming and ozone depletion.

Health Care Without Harm is an international coalition of over 460 organizations in more than 50 countries, working to transform the health care sector so it is no longer a source of harm to people and the environment.

The Healthy Building Network (HBN) is a national network of green building professionals, environmental and health activists, socially responsible investment advocates and others who are interested in promoting healthier building materials as a means of improving public health and preserving the global environment.

 

The Indigenous Environmental Network is a network of Indigenous Peoples empowering Indigenous Nations and communities towards sustainable livelihoods, demanding environmental.

 

IPEN is an international network working for the global elimination of persistent organic pollutants, on an expedited yet socially equitable basis.

 

The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts Lowell works with businesses, communities, and institutions to promote the development of sustainable systems of production and consumption. We help find innovative ways to ruse natural resources efficiently, minimize wastes, avoid toxics, reduce expenses and protect workers and mothers.

 

My House is Your House is a community education and consumer organizing campaign tied to the feature documentary Blue Vinyl. Their goal is to support the growing national grassroots movement to transform the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) industry so that it is no longer a source of environmental and human harm.

O2

O2 provides tools for designers and articles on sustainable design.

SWOP is a statewide multi-racial, multi-issue, community based membership organization working to empower their communities to realize racial and gender equality and social and economic justice.

 

TAC helps communities in New England wage effective campaigns to force stubborn polluters and unresponsive bureaucracies to protect the health and safety of their communities.

Washington Toxics Coalition

Washington Toxics Coalition protects public health and the environment by eliminating toxic pollution. WTC promotes alternatives, advocates policies, empowers communities, and educates people to create a healthy environment.

West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT)

WE ACT evolved into an environmental justice organization committed to empowering the community to become a vocal, informed and proactive force that determines and implements its vision of what its environment can and should be.

                                ELECTRONICS PRODUCTION

                                                             AND DISPOSAL

 

As You Sow promotes environmental and social corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy, coalition building, and innovative legal strategies.

 

BAN works to ensure that exports of hazardous electronic waste (Particularly from the USA) to developing countries, exposed by BAN, are eliminated and replaced with producer responsibility and green design programs/legislation.

The goal of the Electronics TakeBack Coalition is to protect the health and well being of electronics users, workers, and the communities where electronics are produced and discarded by requiring consumer electronics manufacturers and brand owners to take full responsibility for the life cycle of their products, through effective public policy requirements or enforceable agreements.

 

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition is a diverse organization engaged in research, advocacy and grassroots organizing to promote human health and environmental justice in response to the rapid growth of the high-tech industry.

                             WORKER ISSUES RELATED TO

                                   HEALTH, WORKER SAFETY,

                     WORKER RIGHTS, ENVIRONMENT

The Blue Green Alliance focuses on Global Warming and Clean Energy, Fair Trade, and Reducing Toxics, including chemical security and “green chemistry.”

 

Green-Collar Jobs Campaign creates opportunities in the green economy for poor people and people of color through policy advocacy, public outreach, and an employment pipeline – the Green Jobs Corps.

 

 Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center for grassroots groups and public officials, promoting corporate and government accountability in economic development and smart growth for working families.

Green Worker Cooperatives is working to build a movement for a different kind of economy, one built on environmental justice; empowered communities; and democratic workplaces the South Bronx.

The Miami Workers Center helps working class people build grassroots organizations and develop their leadership capacity through aggressive community organizing campaigns and education programs. The Center also actively builds coalitions and enters alliances to amplify progressive power and win racial, community, social, and economic justice.

 

SustainLabour works to involve trade unions in environmental debates, to integrate labour issues in the environmental agenda, to engage workers in defense of the environment, and to encourage changes that are in favour of environment and workers.

 

TransFair USA enables sustainable development and community empowerment by cultivating a more equitable global trade model that benefits farmers, workers, consumers, industry and the earth. We achieve our mission by certifying and promoting Fair Trade products.

 

United for a Fair Economy raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart.

United Students Against Sweatshops is an international student movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions and workers’ rights.

                            ENERGY AND CLIMATE ISSUES

 

Energy Action is a coalition of more than 50 organizations from across the US and Canada, founded and led by youth to help support and strengthen the student and youth clean energy movement in North America.

Energy Star

The Energy Star website contains a list of products that have met the US DOE’s standards for energy efficiency.

GAIA is organizing against industry efforts to have garbage classified as renewable energy and is promoting Zero Waste approaches which converse energy and avoid greenhouse gas production.

 

The US Green Building Council strives to accelerate the adoption of green building practices, technologies, policies and standards through market-based solutions. Its web site includes tools for builders.

 

Greenpeace

Greenpeace is the leading independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful direct action and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.

The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research is dedicated to increasing public involvement in and control over environmental problems through the democratization of science.

National Religious Partnership for the Environment

The National Religious Partnerships for the Environment is an alliance of US Jewish and Christian faith groups that integrate a commitment to environmental protection and social justice in religious communities.

The Rainforest Action Network is campaigning to break America’s oil addiction, reduce our reliance on coal, protect endangered forests and Indigenous rights, and stop destructive investments around the world.

 

Restoring Eden is a Christian group for environmental stewardship whose mission is to “makes hearts bigger, hands dirtier, and voices stronger by encouraging Christians to learn to love, serve, and protect God’s creation.”

 

Rising Tide

Rising Tide is an international network born out of the conviction that corporate-friendly and state-sponsored “solutions” to climate change will not save us. They promote local, community-based solutions to the climate crisis and support climate justice.

The Union of Concerned Scientists is a science-based organization that works on global warming, fuel-efficient vehicles and renewable energy.

 

The Vote Solar Institute promotes a national transition to clean energy by empowering city governments to implement large-scale, cost-effective solar projects.