Green Justice Coalition Members
Green
Justice
Coalition
Steering Committee
Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE), Alliance to Develop
Power (ADP), Association of Community Organizations for Reform
Now (ACORN), Boston Climate Action Network (BCAN), Boston
Workers’ Alliance (BWA), Chelsea Collaborative, Chinese
Progressive Association, Clean Water Action, Coalition Against
Poverty/Coalition for Social Justice (CAP/CSJ), Community Labor
United (CLU), Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), Greater
Four Corners Action Coalition, MassCOSH, Massachusetts Energy
Consumers Alliance, Neighbor to Neighbor, New England Council of
Carpenters, Painters & Allied Trades DC35, Project RIGHT
Members
Action for Regional Equity, Adaptive Environments, ARISE for Social
Justice, Boston Workers Alliance, Boston Youth Environmental
Network, The Construction Institute, Coop Power Metroeast,
Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation, Foundation for
a Green Future, Greater Boston Labor Council, Greenport, Green
Roundtable, Home Energy Efficiency Team, JP Green House, Mass
AFL-CIO, Massachusetts Communities Action Network (MCAN),
Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance, Massachusetts Interfaith
Committee for Worker Justice, Massachusetts Interfaith Power and
Light, Massachusetts Power Shift, People First (of the SE Mass
Central Labor Council), Plymouth-Bristol Central Labor Council, SEIU
Local 615, Sheet Metal Workers Local 17, Somerville Climate Action,
UMass Dartmouth Labor education Centre, Unitarian Universalist
Mass Action Network, Urban Ecology Institute, Urban Massachusetts
Green Alliance, Western Mass COSH, Western Mass Green
Economy Working Group, YouthBuild Boston
For More Information Contact:
Community Labor United’s Senior Organizers
Soledad Boyd, [email protected], 617-723-2639
Jeremy Shenk, [email protected], 617-723-2639
We are a broad-based partnership of more than 30
organizations across Massachusetts building a socially just
and environmentally sustainable economy. We represent:
 Community groups
 Labor unions
 Environmental organizations
 Workforce development groups
 Faith-based coalitions
We believe
Greening is not only our responsibility, it is our right.
Resources for greening must be accessible to all if we are
to stabilize our climate.
A sustainable economy must be as equitable as it is
green.
We must repair economic inequalities by promoting
family-sustaining green jobs, career pathways, and local
and community-owned businesses.
Lower income communities and communities of color
that have been overburdened by the dirty fossil fuel
economy must be at the forefront of the green
wave.
Green Justice Solution: Energy Efficiency
Research and Public Education
Energy efficiency is a win-win strategy to address the climate
crisis and jumpstart an equitable and sustainable economic
recovery. By retrofitting and weatherizing our homes,
schools, offices, and other buildings, we reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, save money on energy bills, create local
“green collar” jobs, and reduce our dependence on fossil
fuels. Energy efficiency is the cheapest form of energy, more
than twice as cheap as today’s energy sources and three
times as cheap as new power plants. Moreover, it will directly
create 6.5 to 11 jobs per $1 million invested.
We are conducting research to inform our organizing and
campaign development. We are supporting leadership
development among our member groups, as well as
broader public education. We have developed a
curriculum based on the idea that greening is a right and
not simply a commodity.
Our Campaign Goals
Green Justice Agenda for Utility Efficiency Plans
By end of 2009, Massachusetts utilities will finalize 3-year
efficiency plans required under the Green Communities
Act. Most expect these plans will triple the current levels
of energy efficiency programs. We are developing
demands on these plans based on our campaign goals.
To realize the promise of the Green Justice Solution, the
Green Justice Coalition is pursuing three interlinked goals:
Advocacy on Stimulus Opportunities
1. Expand public and private investment in energy efficiency
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
We are monitoring and advocating for our goals in the
multiple emerging opportunities under the federal
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
2. Promote priority access to energy savings resources for
lower income communities and communities of color,
including tenants.
3. Create hundreds if not thousands of good green jobs,
through job quality standards, targeted hiring, and training
to build pathways out of poverty.
What We’re Doing
The promises of the Green Justice Solution are great, but
cannot be achieved without weaving broad partnerships and
developing new approaches. Since early 2008, the Green
Justice Coalition has been building a statewide coalition that
will be up to these tasks. Our multi-tiered work includes:
Supporting Community-owned Businesses
We are supporting the development of a communityowned energy services company by some of our coalition
partners.
What You Can Do:
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Learn more about us and the Green Justice Solution.
Join the coalition.
Educate and mobilize your community.
Donate to Green Justice Coalition and our members.
Get involved in campaign events and actions.