About
Mission
We are a coalition of environmental justice, labor, housing, and tenant's rights organizations fighting for equitable decarbonization policies in Los Angeles. Our work prioritizes the communities that are suffering the most from our climate crisis but historically have been left out of the clean energy transition. We aim to empower these communities to provide input on the city’s carbon emission and co-pollutant reduction strategies for new and existing buildings.
We are also working to ensure that Los Angeles’ decarbonization efforts do not lead to the displacement of working-class tenants, but instead create good jobs and employment opportunities. Our vision is to create a resilient and thriving Los Angeles that upholds social and environmental justice and protects vulnerable communities for generations to come.
Members
CBE (Communities for a Better Environment) was founded in 1978 and is one of the preeminent environmental justice organizations in the nation. The mission of CBE is to build people’s power in California’s communities of color and low income communities to achieve environmental health and justice by preventing and reducing pollution and building green, healthy and sustainable communities and environments.
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation was founded in 1989, and is a social justice nonprofit in South Central Los Angeles that achieves long term, comprehensive community development. Esperanza develops and preserves affordable housing, elevates health equity and access to care, mobilizes for environmental justice, creates and protects local economic opportunities, elevates engagement in arts and culture, and advocates for policies protecting human rights. Esperanza works collaboratively to strengthen South Los Angeles.
Food & Water Watch fights for safe food, clean water and a livable climate for all of us. We protect people from the corporations and other destructive economic interests that put profit ahead of everything else.
LAANE (LA Alliance for a New Economy) is an organizing and advocacy institution committed to economic, environmental, and racial justice. We bridge community and labor power to win policies that improve the lives of working families in Los Angeles and in Long Beach.
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) 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.
Pacoima Beautiful is a grassroots environmental justice organization founded in 1996 that provides education, impacts local policy, and supports local arts and culture in order to promote a healthy and sustainable San Fernando Valley. Through collective action, we strive to create a safer and cleaner community where children, their family and neighbors can thrive.
Physicians for Social Responsibility LA (PSR-LA) has been bringing the voices of health professionals to the front lines of the fight for a safer future, and working hand in hand with communities impacted by environmental racism, pollution, and injustice for more than 40 years.
Sacred Places Institute began in 2012 to provide in-person and virtual spaces for Native Nations and Indigenous People to think and strategically plan about how best to protect their sacred sites as well as advance the environmental justice priorities of tribal communities.
SAJE (Strategic Actions for a Just Economy) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization in South Central Los Angeles that builds community power and leadership for economic justice. Founded in 1996, SAJE focuses on tenant rights, healthy housing, and equitable development.
SCOPE (Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education), founded in 1993 in response to the 1992 L.A. uprising, builds grassroots power to create social and economic justice for low-income, immigrant, woman, femme, black, and brown communities in Los Angeles. SCOPE organizes communities, develops leaders, collaborates through strategic alliances, builds capacity through training programs, and educates South L.A.’s residents to have an active role in shaping policies that affect the quality of life in our region.
