Environmental Justice and Eco-Justice: a movement of many names

          "The environmental movement is represented by a range of organizations, from the large to grassroots.  Due to its large membership, varying and strong beliefs, and occasionally speculative nature, the environmental movement is not always united in its goals." -Wikipedia introduction to environmental movement

Many names are used to describe environmental and ecology movements and organizations.  Paul Hawken in Blessed Unrest says there are 130,000 (minimum) groups who work toward social and environmental justice worldwide.  He describes this diversity of concern as non-ideological, as "humanity's immune response to resist and heal political disease, economic infection and ecological corruption cause by ideologies…[we are] building the capacity to respond."

At the end of a video of a recent presentation to Bioneers, the organizational names stream.  It would take days to view them all, he says.

It is encouraging that the work is worldwide and that there are so many groups at work, some of whom many of us have heard and are used to finding online and some working within the same life and death struggle that may not be obvious to the person who puts the word environment on the "search" line.  The words environment or ecology would be well defined by emphasizing the word justice. 

Justice is the goal of the environmental and ecology movement.

Many faith-based organizations are working for justice in God’s creation and have clear goals.  Besides the UCC’s Justice Witness Ministries Environmental Ministries work and the environmental work of many other Christian denominations and religious gatherings, the following groups are in the forefront of justice and unity.  

National Council of Churches EcoJustice

Church World Service

The Regeneration Project and Interfaith Power and Light in 28 states