GreenRoots, American Climate Leadership Awards 2022 Finalist
The following blog is a part of our American Climate Leadership Award 2022 Series.
GreenRoots, American Climate Leadership Awards 2022 Finalist
GreenRoots is among 10 American Climate Leadership Award finalists to be recognized at the American Climate Leadership Summit 2022 (ACLS 2022) on March 28 during the live broadcast.
GreenRoots is a resident-led, grassroots, community-based organization working to dismantle environmental racism and classism and improve public health in Chelsea and East Boston. GreenRoots’ mission is to achieve environmental justice and greater quality of life through collective action, unity, education and youth leadership across neighborhoods and communities.
Join us at the American Climate Leadership Summit 2022 (ACLS 2022) to honor Faith in Place and the other ACLA finalists. For more information about the ACLA finalists and ACLS 2022 register today.
Congratulations to all the American Climate Leadership Awards top 10 finalists:
- Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE)
- Climate Mobilization Project
- Elected Officials to Protect America
- Faith in Place
- GreenRoots
- Healthy Community Services
- Power Shift Network
- Schools for Climate Action
- Wisconsin Green Muslims
- Young Evangelicals for Climate Action
The American Climate Leadership Awards 2022 ceremony will be a live, virtual broadcast event hosted by this year’s selection committee which includes international environmental advocate and eco-living expert Laura Turner Seydel, World Resources Institute Founder and Overall Climate Hero Gus Speth, Future Coalition Executive Director Katie Eder, APHA Executive Director Dr. Georges Benjamin, environmental scientist, advocate, scholar, and entrepreneur Dr Michael K Dorsey, 35th Mayor of Salt Lake City Jackie Biskupski, Hip Hop Caucus President and CEO Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., and Earth Uprising Founder Alexandria Villaseñor. Author, environmental activist, 350.org founder, and this year’s selection committee chair Bill McKibben will host the awards event.
To watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2022 live on March 28, 2022, please register today for the American Climate Leadership Summit.
If you have questions, you can contact us at acla@ecoamerica.org.
The purpose of the American Climate Leadership Awards, hosted by ecoAmerica, is to recognize, reward and share best practices on climate change advocacy and action nationwide. The Awards provide money, support, and recognition for real climate leadership. Individuals and organizations selected as semifinalists have achieved success in building some meaningful political resolve for climate action at local, regional, and national levels, in ways that are replicable, while demonstrating diversity, inclusion, and justice.
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