Alliance for Energy Democracy

The Mission of AED is to organize and advocate at the local and state national level for an energy system that is just, equitable, participatory, sustainable and democratically controlled. We work by building strong networks of people and organizations to strengthen our impact and create greater awareness of how democratizing and decentralizing our energy infrastructure can build stronger communities that are more resilient, sustainable and provide greater prosperity for generations to come.

Learn more: http://allianceforenergydemocracy.org

Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League

The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League is a regional, community-based, non-profit environmental organization. Our founding principles are earth stewardship, environmental democracy, social justice, and community empowerment.

Working in rural and disadvantaged areas, our staff and volunteers put into practice the ideals of love of community and love of neighbor. BREDL is a grassroots organization: each community group solves pressing local problems by developing a citizens’ campaign with goals, strategies, activities, and assessments. The issues center on industry’s dependence on toxic chemicals, utilities’ refusal to adopt sound energy alternatives, industrial development and highway construction at the expense of public health, intensive livestock operations’ effects on agriculture and the environment, and huge waste dumps. These are social problems with devastating environmental and public health effects.

Learn more: http://www.bredl.org

The Canary Coalition

The Canary Coalition is a non-profit, grassroots organization that performs community organizing on environmental issues related to air quality, climate change, energy and transportation.

We also serve the grassroots community by offering to disseminate information through our online broadcasting system, Mountain Stream TV (mountainstream.tv).
The Canary Coalition offers a 2-hour Citizens Lobbying Workshop to community groups in western North Carolina.

Learn more: http://canarycoalition.org

Dogwood Alliance

For over 20 years, Dogwood Alliance has worked with diverse communities, partner organizations and decision-makers to protect Southern forests across 14 states. We do this through community and grassroots organizing, holding corporations and governments accountable and working to conserve millions of acres of Southern forests.

Learn more: https://www.dogwoodalliance.org

Justice Action Mobilization Network (JAMN)

By standing together in solidarity we can reach the critical mass needed to save our ecosystems and build a healthy society that we can pass on to future generations.

The JAM Network is helping to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-faith fusion network to mitigate climate chaos and transform society toward justice and sustainability. We are organizations and activists, scientists and faith leaders, educators and legislators, farmers, workers, entrepreneurs, students and artists. Working collectively as a beloved community of social change, we are building the political and electoral arm of the climate change movement.

Learn more: https://www.facebook.com/JAMN-1643846159208051/

Longbranch Environmental Education Center

The Long Branch Environmental Education Center, Inc. is a small educational institute in Buncombe County’s Newfound Mountains, about 18 miles northwest of Asheville, North Carolina. Set aside in 1974 as an ecological sanctuary and land trust, it has developed into an educational center for sharing positive strategies of sustainability and local self-reliance in the areas of environmental design, organic food production, renewable energy, shelter design and construction, appropriate technology, resource conservation, recycling, wildlife protection, ecological restoration, and improved environmental quality.

Learn more: http://longbrancheec.org

The Sunrise Movement

Sunrise is a movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process.

We’re building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.

We are ordinary young people who are scared about what the climate crisis means for the people and places we love. We are gathering in classrooms, living rooms, and worship halls across the country. Everyone has a role to play. Public opinion is already with us – if we unite by the millions we can turn this into political power and reclaim our democracy.

Learn more: https://www.sunrisemovement.org

Sustainable Sandhills

Sustainable Sandhills is a local, environmental nonprofit with one giant mission: to save the planet. We are the the stewards in our community who are dedicated to preserving the environment of the Sandhills through education, demonstration, and community collaboration.

Our mission for a better world is fulfilled through five core program areas: Clean Air, Clean Water, Green Schools, Green Business, and Local Food. We’re working to connect the community, empower youth, combat climate change, and demand stronger protection for our environment.

Learn more: http://www.sustainablesandhills.org