Organization Members

Organization Members

• Ann Arbor 350

  Ann Arbor 350 is inspired by 350.org, a global campaign of people around the world working together to find solutions to the climate crisis. Ann Arbor 350 mobilizes people in the local area to “get Ann Arbor to 350”, to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050!

• Clean Water Action of Michigan

  Clean Water Action is a one million member organization of diverse people and groups joined to protect our environment, health, economic well-being, community quality of life and organizes strong grassroots groups, coalitions and campaigns to elect environmental candidates and solve environmental and community problems.

• Citizens' Climate Lobby

  Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change. 

• Climate Blue

  Climate Blue has a mission to unite, educate, and empower our members, U-M students and Michigan citizens by making them more knowledgeable about climate change science, policy, and its impacts on our community.

• Climate Witness Project

  The Climate Witness Project is a campaign of the Office of Social Justice and World Renew designed to walk with congregations as they learn about the realities of climate change, as they seek to be better stewards, and as they find their voice to speak to their public officials about common sense climate policy.

• Colina Foundation

  The Colina Foundation is a small family foundation dedicated to helping improve the lives of children. 

• Detroit 2030 District

  2030 Districts are organizations led by the private sector, with local building industry leaders uniting around a shared vision for sustainability and economic growth – while aligning with local community groups and government to achieve significant energy, water, and emissions reductions within our commercial cores. Property owner/manager/developers join a local 2030 District to help them make significant changes to their properties to create reductions necessary to transition to a low carbon economy.

• Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice

  Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice champion local and national collaboration to advance environmental justice and sustainable redevelopment. We foster clean, healthy and safe communities through innovative policy, education and workforce initiatives.

• Ecology Center

  Ecology Center focuses our efforts in a few specific areas, where we’ve developed deep expertise, analyzed opportunities, and identified strategies for maximum impact. We describe these overarching areas as Environmental Health, Sustainable Food, Energy & Climate Change, and Zero Waste.

• EcoWorks

  EcoWorks is a Detroit-based nonprofit with over thirty years of experience providing services at the intersection of community development, sustainability, and social justice.

• Environmental Law & Policy Center

  The Environmental Law & Policy Center is the Midwest’s leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization, and among the nation’s leaders. 

• FLOW - For Love of Water

  FLOW is a Great Lakes water law and policy nonprofit dedicated to protecting the common waters of the Great Lakes Basin through public trust solutions. 

• Food & Water Watch

  Food & Water Watch is a non-profit organization that advocates for common sense policies that will result in healthy, safe food and access to safe and affordable drinking water.

• Grand Rapids Climate Action

  Grand Rapids Climate Action is a grassroots organization focused on making the city of Grand Rapids a leader and a model for other cities in Michigan and nationally in the fight against climate change. They work to mobilize their region to insist on meaningful, just, rapid action locally in this unprecedented challenge.

• Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit

  Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit is a regional chapter of the national organization, Bioneers. Founded in 1990, Bioneers seeks to highlight innovative approaches to environmental and social challenges.

• Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association

  The Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association (GLREA) was founded in 1991 to promote the design, construction, manufacture, marketing, sales, use and education of the general public in the practices of renewable energy sources in the Great Lakes Bioregion.

• Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities

  Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities is a nonprofit collaborating respectfully with citizens and leaders to protect everything we love about Michigan with a focus on solutions that improve daily life and build community health—things like food, energy, transportation, and economy.

• Heart of the Lakes

  Heart of the Lakes’ efforts conserve forests, farmland, coastline, and other important places for the benefit of generations to come.

• Huron River Watershed Council

  The Huron River Watershed Council is southeast Michigan’s oldest environmental organization dedicated to river protection and restoration.

• Hutan for World Health

  Hutan is dedicated to improving world health through research, education, and programming that aims to connect children, adults, and the community to relevant health and conservation issues for the purpose of overall well-being.

• Kalamazoo Climate Crisis Coalition

  The Kalamazoo Climate Crisis Coalition is comprised of representatives from over 40 organizations, businesses, and institutions, committed to addressing climate change at a local level through the coordination of projects that mitigate the effects of climate change, dissemination of climate resources, and empowerment of community members to take action.

• Kalamazoo Nature Center

  The Kalamazoo Nature Center is a not-for-profit organization located in Kalamazoo, Michigan whose mission is to inspire people to care for the environment by providing experiences that lead them to understand their connection to the natural world.

• Land Information Access Association

  The Land Information Access Association provides technical, scientific, educational, and informational services to individual citizens, local interest groups, local governments, and other nonprofit corporations for land-use planning, resource management, emergency management planning, and environmental protection.

• Michigan Economic Center

  The Michigan Economic Center (MEC) is a place for ideas and a network of state and local leaders and citizens working to: Advance a vision for Michigan’s economic renewal; Provide policy ideas and solutions that realize the vision; Engage and support a diverse network of citizens, leaders, and organizations in advancing the vision, while making ideas for a more competitive, innovative, and global Michigan a reality.

• Michigan Environmental Council

  Michigan Environmental Council is a coalition of more than 70 organizations created in 1980 to lead Michigan’s environmental movement in achieving positive change through the political process. MEC promotes public policies to ensure that Michigan families will enjoy clear waters, clean beaches, beautiful landscapes, and healthy communities for years to come.

• Michigan Green Communities

  Michigan Green Communities is a statewide network of local government and university staff that collaborate with one another, through peer learning and information sharing, to promote innovative solutions and move sustainability initiatives forward at the local, regional, and state level.

• Michigan Interfaith Power & Light

  Michigan Interfaith Power & Light’s mission is to inspire and equip people of faith to exercise stewardship of and love for all Creation. We offer practical ways to put faith into action by promoting energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other sustainable practices that lead to a cleaner, healthier, and more just world.

• Michigan League of Conservation Voters

  Michigan League of Conservation Voters is the leading non-partisan political voice for protecting Michigan’s land, air, and water. We use our power to elect and hold accountable public officials to ensure the right policies are enacted to protect our families’ – and future generations’ – health, economic well-being, and ability to enjoy the pure beauty of our state.

• National Wildlife Federation - Great Lakes Regional Center

  Since 1982, the National Wildlife Federation Great Lakes Regional Center has been a leader in protecting the Great Lakes for the wildlife and humans that depend on this invaluable resource. NWF is taking the lead to assess vulnerability, create policies, and design “climate-smart” restoration and conservation projects that protect wildlife in the Great Lakes from climate change.

• The Natural Resources Defense Council 

  The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is an international environmental nonprofit organization with more than three million members and online activists. Since 1970, we have combined the power of our members, scientists, lawyers, and policy advocates across the globe to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.

• Northern Climate Network

  The Northern Climate Network is a campus-wide consortium at Northern Michigan University providing opportunities for faculty, staff, students and community members to discuss and learn about climate change in our region. Our mission is to share current scholarship on climate change from a wide range of disciplines and to build an interactive database of people interested in working on and teaching about climate change at NMU.

• Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council
  

  Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council (NMEAC) is the oldest environmental advocacy group in northern Michigan, with 25 years of accomplishments. We remain the preeminent group to tackle environmental issues and continue to help other citizen groups organize.

• Northport Energy

  Northport Energy is a diverse group of citizens coming together to pursue a common interest in renewable energy. At Northport Energy, we are working to inform and transform the Leelanau Peninsula into a community 100% powered by efficient and sustainable energy sources.

• Origin Expeditions

  Origin Expeditions is a registered 501(c)(3) professional wilderness guiding nonprofit based in Grand Rapids, MI. Origin was founded upon the knowledge that being outside is congruent with human design and beneficial to an individual's health and relationships. Outdoor recreation possesses an incredible power that fosters wellness, community, and care for our world. With that, increasing access to the outdoors for demographics with the least exposure is a step in its goal of cultivating values of sustainability, personal growth, and cooperation in the Great Lakes region.

• Peace Education Center of Greater Lansing

  The Peace Education Center of Greater Lansing is a community with the belief that all life has value. We work to promote compassion and awareness of the world’s potential for interdependence and lasting peace.

• Porter Family Foundation
  

  The Porter Family Foundation is an Ann Arbor-based foundation that supports organizations working for solutions to climate change and other pressing issues and is one of the founding members of the Michigan Climate Action Network.

• The Robin

  The Robin is a news service for activists around Michigan to better coordinate their efforts. Whether the struggle is for clear water or climate change, the better communication we have with each other, the more that can be accomplished.

• Sierra Club of Michigan

  The Michigan Chapter of the Sierra Club is the statewide voice for the nation’s oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. For nearly five decades, the Michigan Chapter has organized the bold action of citizens working together to protect and restore our Great Lakes state’s health and heritage.

• The Stewardship Network

  The Stewardship Network connects, equips and mobilizes people and organizations to care for land and water in their communities throughout the Great Lakes region. Our vision is a world of empowered, connected communities caring for land and water, now and forever.

• Sunrise

  Sunrise is a youth-led movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. We work to make climate change a more urgent priority across Michigan and expose the corrupting influence of Big Oil lobbyists and executives on our politics.

• TC350

  TC350 is a Traverse City area chapter of the national climate organization 350.org. We are people united to take personal and societal action to combat climate change by reducing CO2 emissions to 350 ppm.

• The Americana Foundation

  The Americana Foundation supports educational and advocacy programs that address the sustainable growth and development of American agriculture and community food systems, the conservation and preservation of our natural resources, and the protection and presentation of expressions of America's heritage.

• Union of Concerned Scientists

  UCS was founded in 1969 by scientists and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Throughout our history, UCS has followed the example set by the scientific community: we share information, seek the truth, and let our findings guide our conclusions.

• USGBC West Michigan Chapter

  The USGBC – West Michigan Chapter, organized in 2004, is one of 70 chapters of the U.S. Green Building Council that operate as licensed separate non-profits across the United States. Our mission is it to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life in one generation.

• Voices for Carbon Neutrality

  The mission of Voices for Carbon Neutrality is to serve as a catalyst and accelerant to drive the University of Michigan toward carbon neutrality consistent with the urgency of the 2019 IPCC report and President Schlissel’s announcement on Oct. 4, 2018 to establish a President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality (PCNN).

• Vote Solar

  Our mission is to make solar a mainstream energy resource across the U.S. Since 2002, Vote Solar has been working to lower solar costs and expand solar access, by advocating for state policies and programs needed to repower our electric grid with clean energy and working to remove regulatory barriers and implement key policies needed to bring solar to scale.

• West Michigan Environmental Action Council

  West Michigan Environmental Action Council has been West Michigan’s preeminent resource for environmental education and advocacy since 1968. WMEAC is a non-profit organization uniquely positioned to respond to emerging issues and new threats to West Michigan’s natural and human ecologies strategically focused on building sustainable communities and protecting water resources.

• We The People of Detroit

  We the People of Detroit is a community-based grassroots organization which aims to inform, mobilize, educate, and empower Detroit residents on imperative issues surrounding civil rights, land, water, education, and the democratic process, to improve their quality of life.