A Healthier Future Starts Here
We work across communities, industries, and governments to protect people and the planet—because justice should never be optional.
Our Strategy
The root cause of chemical exposure, environmental injustice, plastic pollution, and climate catastrophe is systemic: Powerful people in government and industry prioritize profit over public health. That must change.
We develop grassroots leadership
We educate so as to organize, using the best available science to raise awareness about who’s most impacted and what practical solutions are available. We train and develop grassroots leaders to speak for themselves as voices for change. We cultivate champions inside government and industry to lead from within. We build multiracial coalitions and strategic partnerships. All this with the aim of building power to change the system.
We run strategic issue campaigns.
We identify points of leverage, vulnerable markets, and targets of opportunity. We plan winning campaigns that persuade policymakers in government and industry to make the right decisions. Our inside-outside strategy balances direct advocacy with grassroots power. We play leaders off of laggards, challenging those in power in a race to the top to adopt the best practices. Our short-term gains are designed to build toward major long-term wins.
We work at both the state and national.
States remain the laboratories of democracy in the United States. We co-founded two national coalitions that have advanced new laws in forty states. We’ve advocated many first-in-the-nation policies in our home state of Maine. But all Americans deserve equal protection. That’s why we’ve led national campaigns to force Congress to act and to persuade major corporate brands to slash their use of toxic chemicals and fossil carbon.
We each want a healthier future for all people and our planet. But we can’t do this alone. Join us today and stay up-to-date on ways to defend our health, demand justice, and create a better world.
