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Mighty Earth Chicago Clean Water Campaign Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Mighty Earth
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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43 people are interested
Mighty Earth (www.mightyearth.org) is looking for motivated individuals to help us on an exciting campaign to reform the meat industry. Volunteers will help us to build grassroots power, work with local organizations, and participate in environmental advocacy. Over the next several months, we will be organizing community events, working with the media, collecting petition signatures and photo petitions, and building a broad coalition of local groups.
The issue:
Industrial meat production has a larger environmental impact than almost any other human activity. Feeding and raising livestock for meat takes up more land and freshwater than any other industry, and the industry’s waste byproducts rank among the top sources of greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution around the world. Agribusiness giants like Cargill and Tyson have directly financed the large-scale destruction of South America’s rainforests and prairies, the pollution of Midwest water, and created an enormous annual dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
The campaign:
This campaign is aimed at building grassroots pressure on Cargill and Tyson by going after their highest profile customers, McDonald’s and Whole Foods, and demanding that they require Cargill and Tyson to either reform their practices or stop buying their products. We also want McDonald’s and Whole Foods to adopt and implement their own policies to make sure ALL of their suppliers adopt good practices to protect forests, water, and climate.
Term:
We are looking for volunteers starting immediately! The campaign is just getting started and we are looking to build momentum!
More opportunities with Mighty Earth
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Mighty Earth
Location:
2000 M ST NW STE 720, WASHINGTON, DC 20036, US
Mission Statement
Mighty Earth is a global campaign organization that works to protect tropical forests, oceans, and the climate. We aspire to be the most effective environmental organization in the world.
Description
Our campaigns and our team have played a leading role in persuading the world’s largest food and agriculture companies to adopt policies to eliminate deforestation and human rights abuse from their supply chains, and driven adoption of multi-billion dollar shifts to clean energy. Our Chairman, former Congressman Henry Waxman, is responsible for some of the most important environmental legislation of the last 50 years, notably the 1990 re-authorization of the Clean Air Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Since April 2017, Mighty Earth has been a proud member of the High Carbon Stock Approach Steering Group.We are committed to the HCS approach and will work to support the application of the HCS methodology around the world. View our ethical guidelines here.
Whether we’re rallying for change internationally or locally, Mighty Earth is building a movement to protect our environment. Mighty is a fiscally sponsored project of the Center for International Policy, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Join us today.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
328 South Jefferson StChicago, IL 60661
DATE POSTED
December 4, 2018
SKILLS
- Organization
- People Skills
- Project Management
- Social Media / Blogging
- Community Outreach
- Advocacy
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Flexible! a few hours a week would be ideal