About Us
We aim to empower the grassroots through various tools including community organizing support and advice, student organizing, digital networks, research on corporations and technologies, limited legal and technical guidance, and our mapping project.
Energy Justice Network goes beyond the demands of the traditional state and national environmental groups. We understand that energy issues have profound impacts on many other environmental issues from agriculture to waste, and recognize that low-income communities and communities of color tend to be the most seriously impacted by polluting energy systems. We support a comprehensive, environmental justice approach.
Energy Justice is the first national organization to advocate a complete phase-out of nuclear power, fossil fuels, large hydroelectric dams and "biomass" / incineration within the next 20 years. We believe that this is possible, affordable and absolutely necessary. What is holding us back is only a lack of political will.
Goals:
1. To enable community activists to defeat polluting industries.
2. To create participant-led grassroots support networks around technologies that community groups are fighting.
3. To bridge the campus-community divide.
4. To bring NIMBY groups to a NIABY analysis (not in anyone's backyard).
5. To reshape the energy and waste industries, eliminating support for false solutions and supporting clean energy and zero waste policies, methods and technologies.
6. To act as a clearinghouse, providing information to the general public and the media.
7. To shift policies of other organizations, including mainstream environmental groups and governmental bodies.