Cooperation Jackson fights for environmental, economic, and racial justice

By Shanna Edberg
March 9, 2016

Cooperation Jackson is an organization based in Jackson, Mississippi that is committed to developing sustainable communities and combating environmental racism. They are organizing for “an alternative [socio-economic system] built on equity, cooperation, worker democracy, and environmental sustainability to provide meaningful living wage jobs, reduce racial inequities, and build community wealth.” To that end, their Sustainable Communities Initiative will, among other things, establish an eco-village housing cooperative that provides affordable housing and jobs, with the end goal being a zero-waste and zero-emissions Jackson by 2025.

This post is part of a series on organizations and leaders who engage in multisolving, or climate-smart policies that simultaneously work to mitigate climate change while providing co-benefits such as the ones described above.