Local Organizations

• Climate Justice Chicago

• Rainforest Action Network Chicago

• Little Village Environmental Justice Organization(LVEJO)

• Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization(PERRO)

• Environmental Law & Policy Center

• Nuclear Energy Information Service

• Eco-Justice Collaborative

• Greenpeace

• Blacks in Green

• No Games Chicago

 

Environmental Justice

• Principles of Environmental Justice

• Principles of Working Together (PDF) and Principles of Alliance with Green Groups (PDF)

 

Research

• 75 page text of state and federal lawsuit against Midwest Generation

• Future of Coal in Illinois: Case study Fisk 19

• Proposed 2002 Chicago Clean Power Ordinance (never passed)

• Scorecard.org's stats on Crawford and Fisk plants.

 

Websites

• Climate Change Independent Media Centre

• Climate Justice Action network against the Root Causes of Climate Change at the December 2009 COP15 climate talks.

• Three Rivers Climate Convergence in Pittsburgh at the International Pittsburgh Coal Conference and the G20 summit

• Chicago Clean Power Organization - Website with news and information about LVEJO's Clean Power campaign

• Illinois EPA

• United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009 (COP15)

 

Other

• El Cilantro : Young Activists Organizing Tomorrows Leaders - Bringing Environmental and Social Justice to Little Village

• Chicago Public Transit Organization: Helping move Chicagoland towards better Public Transportation

• Chicago Activist Calendar - Listing of social justice actions and events in and around Chicago

• Chicago Indymedia - Non-corporate independent media, open publishing - news, announcements, and analysis

• Lichen Lending Library and Spiritual Archives - (Pilsen, 1921 S. Blue Island) Infoshop, Food Not Bombs, community center

• Paloma Negra - Pilsen radical community newspaper