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Climate Justice Chicago (CJC)

Climate Justice Chicago (CJC) is a grass-roots coalition. CJC recognizes global warming and associated impacts affects human lives - most particularly people of color, low-income, and indigenous communities who are least responsible for the generating greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, we are dedicated to reversing global warming through a radical change in both the perception and definition of the problem, and prescriptions for action. CJC recognizes that::

Global warming is not primarily an environmental issue -It is the build up of heat trapping gases in our atmosphere that result from the negative after-effect of totally inefficient, un-ecological and non-sustainable economic choices and resource allocations.
Mere modification of current unsustainable systems and choices - through shopping, inadequate emission treaty targets and agreements, or more technology - will not solve the problem, either short or long term.
We will not be able to consume or techno-fix our way out of our global warming problems. We will have to methodically plan and implement a new way of living on this Planet that is climate safe and based on sustainability and local self-reliance.
Einstein’s maxim that you cannot solve a problem using the same kinds of thinking that caused it calls for major systemic changes in the ways that financial capital is raised and used, power is wielded, and eco-justice is decided and meted out, if the planetary life-support systems are to continue their functioning – and ours.
In taking the actions necessary and sufficient to deal with global warming problems, the following principles must be employed:

Selecting actions that prioritize the removal of the greatest amount of greenhouse gases in the shortest time at the lowest total societal cost.

Insuring that the counter methods employed are themselves climate-safe; and do not themselves create hazards of their own that equally have the capacity to threaten eco-system integrity or species survival.

That the choices must ensure that the needs of those most affected are met, and that people of color and low-inc

The survival of the planet, its life-supporting mechanisms, and the human race as a whole are more important than that of any or all of the systems and institutions invented by humankind, past or present.

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8th Day Center for Justice

8th Day Center envisions a world of right relationships in which all creation is seen as sacred and interconnected. In such a world all people are equal and free from oppression, have a right to a just distribution of resources, and to live in harmony with the cosmos.

Center for Urban Transformation

The Center for Urban Transformation is a non profit, solution oriented organization that supports innovative ecologically and human oriented strategies to transform urban centers and neighborhoods into sustainable and nurturing environments.

Angelic Organics Learning Center

The CSA Learning Center empowers people to create sustainable communities of soils, plants, animals and people through educational, creative, and experiential programs offered in partnership with Angelic Organics, a vibrant Biodynamic community-supported farm.

Daughter's Trust

We are planners, builders, consultants, and change agents developing - without displacement - diverse intentional communities. We build green, self-sustaining, mixed-income, micro-villages that foster business opportunity, civic activism, and healthy lifestyles.

Eco-Justice Collaborative (EJC)

EJC views Creation as a sacred act of a loving God, and sees each human being as responsible for honoring that gift through daily actions of stewardship that sustain and protect the integrity of life. EJC encourages changes that seek harmony with creation; respect all life; value diversity; support ecological sustainability; and bring about a just distribution of the world’s resources.

Environmental Research Foundation

Environmental Research Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a socially, economically and environmentally just and sustainable world. Home of Rachel's News since 1986.

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization's (LVEJO) mission is to work with our families, coworkers, and neighbors to improve our environment and lives in Little Village and Chicago through democracy in action.

Nuclear Energy Information Service

Nuclear Energy Information Service is a non-profit organization committed to ending nuclear power in Illinois, the Great Lakes Bioregion and Planet Earth through non-violent, democratic principles.

Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization

Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization (PERRO) is a grassroots community group of Pilsen residents that formed in 2004 to fight the disproportionate amount of pollution in the Pilsen neighborhood.

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