Resources

Michigan Organizations/National Organizations with Michigan Chapters


Citizens Climate Lobby, Grand Traverse Chapter: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/chapters/MI_Grand_Traverse_Area/

Ecology Center: Founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan to develop innovative solutions for healthy people and a healthy planet. https://www.ecocenter.org/

FLOW: Empowering Communities and Leaders to Protect the Great Lakes, headquartered in Traverse City, Michigan. https://forloveofwater.org/

Groundworks: focuses on solutions that improve daily life and build community health—things like food, energy, transportation, and economy. https://www.groundworkcenter.org/

League of Conservation Voters, Michigan: https://michiganlcv.org/

Michigan Environmental Council: Michigan Environmental Council drives the environmental agenda in Michigan. We develop innovative policy ideas; communicate them to key audiences in a compelling fashion; and engage our members, community leaders, and residents as effective local advocates for shared goals. By leading powerful, diverse collaborations, we inspire state leaders to adopt pioneering solutions that set a global standard for environmental leadership. See MEC’s 2019-2022 Environmental Roadmap below* https://www.environmentalcouncil.org/

Michigan Clinicians for Climate Action (MiCCA)

Michigan Climate Action Network (MCAN): https://www.miclimateaction.org/

Sierra Club: https://www.sierraclub.org/michigan

 

National/International Organizations


Business Climate Leaders: Volunteers who engage major American businesses and business organizations in effective nonpartisan climate advocacy. BCL is an action team of Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL). https://businessclimateleaders.squarespace.com/healthprofessionalsdeclaration 

Center for Global Energy Policy, Columbia University: CGEP’s mission is to enable public and private sector leaders to make more informed choices about the world’s most pressing energy issues by providing an independent and interdisciplinary platform for insights and data-driven analysis, convening and information-sharing, education and training, and actionable recommendations on the current and future global energy system. https://energypolicy.columbia.edu/

Citizens Climate Lobby: Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a non-profit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change  which exists to create the political will for climate solutions by enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power. https://citizensclimatelobby.org/

Environmental Defense Fund: We address today's most urgent environmental challenges by targeting issues that affect people around the world. Working in partnership with others, we focus where we're best positioned to help, based on our strengths. We work to preserve the natural systems on which all life depends. https://www.edf.org/ 

Healthcare without Harm: Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) is an international nongovernmental organization (NGO) that works to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability, and a leader in the global movement for environmental health and justice. https://noharm.org/

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. IPCC 6th Report: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-ii/

League of Conservation Voters: https://www.lcv.org

Natural Resources Defense Council: NRDC works to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. We combine the power of more than three million members and online activists with the expertise of some 700 scientists, lawyers, and policy advocates across the globe to ensure the rights of all people to the air, the water, and the wild. https://www.nrdc.org/

Physicians for Social Responsibility: PSR mobilizes physicians and health professionals to advocate for climate solutions and a nuclear weapons-free world. PSR’s health advocates contribute a health voice to energy, environmental health, and nuclear weapons policy at the local, federal, and international level. https://www.psr.org/

Project Drawdown: Founded in 2014, Project Drawdown® is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “Drawdown”— the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Since the 2017 publication of the New York Times bestseller, Drawdown, the organization has emerged as a leading resource for information and insight about climate solutions. We continue to develop that resource by conducting rigorous review and assessment of climate solutions, creating compelling and human communication across mediums, and partnering with efforts to accelerate climate solutions globally. https://drawdown.org/

 

Policy and Action Statements and Endorsements


International Journal of Women's Dermatology: Special Issue on Climate Change & Dermatology

U.S. Call to Action on Climate, Health, and Equity: A Policy Action Agenda: https://climatehealthaction.org/

How the Bipartisan Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act Compares to Other Carbon Tax Proposals Columbia/SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy: https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/commentary/how-bipartisan-energy-innovation-and-carbon-dividend-act-compares-other-carbon-tax-proposals

*MEC 2019-2022_Environmental_Roadmap: https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/environmentalcouncil/pages/726/attachments/original/1558369697/2019-2022_Environmental_Roadmap.pdf?1558369697

116th Congress House Select Committee Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient, and Just America: https://climatecrisis.house.gov/sites/climatecrisis.house.gov/files/Climate%20Crisis%20Action%20Plan.pdf

Biden plan for Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjoebiden%2Fvideos%2F335225833825028

 

Background Information on Climate Change


MIT Enroads Climate Simulator:  
https://www.climateinteractive.org/tools/en-roads/

The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act: Improved air quality and greenhouse gas reductions 

Mortality and economic impact from air pollution: 

Health savings of carbon pricing: 

Health impacts of climate change: