Resources

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