Metropolitan Washington Council of Government’s Environmental Justice Toolkit
Prepared by the Air and Climate Public Advisory Committee of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG), this toolkit provides an overview of environmental justice principles and outlines a series of approaches to better achieve environmental justice goals in the Washington, DC metro area. For each approach, the toolkit lists a number of additional resources that can be used to operationalize the recommendation.
Resource Details
Related resources (by topic)
Elevate Blog
The Elevate blog publishes a wide variety of articles focused on energy justice, water equity, climate change, and environmental justice
False Solutions to Climate Change Powerpoint
This presentation highlights mainstream solutions to climate justice, explaining how their inherent injustices result in them being false solutions to the climate crisis.
Federal Sustainability Plan
Accompanying the issuance of Executive Order 14057 was the release of the Federal Sustainability Plan. The Federal Sustainability Plan includes goals related to both “Climate Resilient Infrastructure and Operations” and goals intended to “Advance Environmental Justice and Equity.” As far…
Frontline Solutions
This is a database of solutions from the frontlines within the Southeastern region of the USA, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. The database’s categories include: disaster recovery, civic engagement, renewable energy advocacy and policy, city/community planning, and “other”…
Help us expand the Resource Hub
Share resources that you think would be a good addition to this tool and our team will review them for inclusion in future updates.