Michigan Green Muslims, a volunteer grassroots environmental justice group formed in 2024, intends to educate the Muslim community and the public about the Islamic environmental justice teachings, to apply these teachings in daily life and to contribute to coalitions and collaborations working toward a just, healthy, peaceful and sustainable future.
Clean Soil
Focus Area: Clean Soil
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Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
Chicago, Illinois
The mission of LVEJO is to organize with our community to accomplish environmental justice in Little Village and achieve the self-determination of immigrant, low-income, and working-class families. The vision of LVEJO is to build a sustainable community that promotes the healthy development of youth and families, provides economic justice, and practices participatory democracy and self-determination.
Los Jardines
Albuquerque,, New Mexico
The purpose of Los Jardines InstituteTM (The Gardens Institute) is to build and support healthy and sustainable communities and workplaces. It does this by creating opportunities that promote multigenerational learning, sharing and movement building.
Recycle and Reinvest
Nashville, Tennessee
Based in Nashville, TN, Recycle And Reinvest empowers justice-impacted youth and underserved communities through educational and art-based programs focused on sustainability. By offering job readiness opportunities, the organization helps cultivate future leaders dedicated to environmental and social change.
Seven Directions of Service
Mebane, North Carolina
7 Directions of Service (7DS) is an Indigenous-led organization rooted in environmental justice and grassroots power, operating on the ancestral homelands of the Occaneechi-Saponi in rural North Carolina.
Our mission is to protect Sacred Places, advocate for the legal recognition of Rights of Nature, and establish a land, language, and cultural center grounded in traditional Yesah teachings. Through educational and cultural programming, community projects and civic engagement, 7DS is an essential force of coalition-building and cultural shift towards environmental justice and Indigenous visions of the future.
We are committed to serving as a powerful voice for the lands, waters, and the interconnected more-than-human world.
Sowing Justice
Memphis, Tennessee
Sowing Justice uses Environmental Justice principles, citizen science, and voter registration to foster civic engagement beyond voting, empowering communities to advocate for policies that ensure clean air, water, and soil, and to hold decision-making processes transparent and accountable.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/03/17/environmental-racism-memphis