Eco-Justice Collaborative (EJC) offers you and your community information on the global impact of economic, social and environmental choices that foster unlimited growth and development at the expense of people and our planet.  We believe that the recent convergence of financial crises, climate change, peak oil and depleting resources offer all a unique opportunity to make meaningful change. 


People are listening.  Will we have the courage to reach out to one another, building community as we explore new ways to live within our planet’s limits?  OR will we hope for a “techno-fix” that would allow us to maintain the status quo, while we continue to live beyond our planet’s capacity?  The choice is ours to make.


On this website you will find:

  1. Analyses of how people and ecosystems worldwide are affected by choices we make here at home.  EJC makes the links between our use of fossil fuels, climate change, over-consumption and U.S. energy policy that cause us to live beyond our planet’s limits.  This information is intended to raise consciousness and provide incentives to find ways to live within our means, giving back life to our precious earth. 

  2. Suggestions and recommended actions for change that both individually and collectively will reduce our impact - or ecological footprint - on our world, and move our country toward energy independence and security.

  3. Our No Coal Campaign and event postings in the Chicago metropolitan area that are either initiated or sponsored by EJC.

  4. Opportunities to connect and organize around climate justice, renewable energy and rebuilding community.

  5. Resources and support to help you on your journey!

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  2. Beyond Our Limits

  3. We are liquidating our planet’s resources at an unprecedented rate, risking the likelihood of large-scale ecosystem collapse.  Read more . . .

  1. Rethink

  2. Consumerism

  3. Climate Change

  4. Coal

  5. Oil

  6. Transition Towns

  7. Actions

  8. Campaigns

  9. Events

  10. Workshops

  11. E-COnnections

  12. Resources

  13. Site Map




       









  1. “Look at the world around you.  It may seem like an immovable, implacable place.  It is not.  With the slightest push - in just the right place - it can be tipped.”

  2. -Malcolhm Gladwell,

  3. The Tipping Point

 

  

Jeff Biggers

Reckoning at Eagle Creek

On January, Jeff will perform a new piece from his new book Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy  of Coal in the Heartland at Chicago’s No Exit Café.  Join EJC at this Coal-Free Future Event!  More...

 

Longwall Mining

In Illinois

Longwall mining is Illinois’ form of mountaintop removal mining. Planned subsidence lowers land 4 to 6 feet, causing prime farmland to pond.  It also cracks building foundations and walls, contaminates streams and damages septic systems  and wells. 

Transition Towns

Transition Towns are a positive, inclusive  and comprehensive response to today’s crises of peak oil, climate change and our uncertain economy.

Interested?  Visit Transition Towns and get involved!


  ABOUT THIS WEBSITE

We invite you to work with us to rethink, imagine and then build a future based on sufficiency and a respect and care for all who inhabit this planet.  You can begin today by analyzing your ecological footprint, if you click here!  Then . . . find friends, family and co-workers to join with you to transition from a high-energy lifestyle to one that is in harmony with all who inhabit this planet, while working to restore damaged ecosystems.


You’ll be surprised at just how resourceful you can be - and how good it will feel!  So . . . what are you waiting for!


  RETHINK, IMAGINE, INVENT!

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/10/12/us/1247465072247/toxic-waters-from-air-to-water.html?ref=multimedia

Jeff Biggers

Reckoning at Eagle Creek

On January, Jeff will perform a new piece from his new book Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy  of Coal in the Heartland at Chicago’s No Exit Café.  Join EJC at this Coal-Free Future Event!  More...

Kilowatt Ours:  A Plan to Re-Energize America!

February 10 Screening. This is the film that moved the grassroots conversation about energy conservation into a mainstream campaign!  Sponsored by Transition Rogers Park and co-sponsored by Eco-Justice Collaborative.   More...