about us
The DEA was built on five core principles
Ensure environmental justice: protect and involve vulnerable populations in decisions that impact their lives.
Protect and restore Earth’s resources: land, water and aire.
Engage affected residents to understand community needs and potential impacts.
Leverage the connection between environmental solutions and health, safety, jobs and education.
Build on successful models in Detroit and from elsewhere.
Meet the DEA
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Alliance for the Great Lakes
The Alliance for the Great Lakes is a nonpartisan nonprofit working across the region to protect our most precious resource: the fresh, clean, and natural waters of the Great Lakes.
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Breathe Free Detroit
Breathe Free Detroit is a community and grassroots-lead campaign fighting to shut down the Detroit incinerator. They work to engage the community, research the financial ties and the public health effects of the incinerator, and encourage decision-makers to stop the pollution of Detroit’s air.
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Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments
Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments (CAPHE) is a community-based participatory research partnership that involves community-based organizations, the health practice community, environmental organizations, and academic researchers.
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Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors
CURES researchers and community partners work together to understand how human complex exposures to chemical and non-chemical stressors in the urban environment can influence the development of environmentally-linked disease.
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Detroit Food Policy Council
The DFPC is an education, advocacy and policy organization led by Detroiters committed to creating a sustainable, local food system that promotes food security, food justice and food sovereignty in the city of Detroit.
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Detroit Greenways Coalition
DGC works to promote and build a network of greenways that will connect people and places, improve the quality of life, beautify neighborhoods, and stimulate neighborhood-level economic development in Detroit.
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Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
Led by a team of activists, advocates, organizers, artists and storytellers, DWEJ advocates for a healthy environment through innovative community and policy action that values all people.
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Eastside Community Network
The Eastside Community Network develops programs and resources that center the needs of east side residents and amplify their voices with respect to the development of their communities.
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Ecology Center
The Ecology Center is a membership-based nonprofit environmental organization based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It works at the local, state and national levels on environmental justice, health, waste, and community issues.
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Elevate Energy
Elevate seeks to create a just and equitable world in which everyone has clean and affordable heat, cooling, power, and water in their homes and communities.
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FoodPLUS Detroit
FoodPLUS works to facilitate and accelerate a more sustainable metropolitan food system by engaging in innovation.
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Green Door Initiative
The Green Door Initiative works to ensure that all Detroiters are environmentally literate, capable of promoting and living out a sustainable lifestyle regardless of race, income and zip code.
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Green Living Science
Green Living Science is dedicated to working alongside Detroiters to increase recycling participation and awareness of environmental issues and personal responsibility through education.
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Great Lakes Environmental Law Center
GLEC is Michigan’s foremost environmental legal advocacy organization, with special focus on addressing environmental issues impacting people of color and low-income communities.
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Henry Ford Health System
Henry Ford Health System is one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers, recognized for clinical excellence in cancer care, cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, and more.
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Keep Growing Detroit
Keep Growing Detroit’s mission is to promote a food sovereign city where the majority of fruits and vegetables consumed by Detroiters are grown by residents within the city’s limits.
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Michigan Environmental Council
The Environmental Council champions lasting protections for Michigan’s air, water, and the places we love, driving smart, sound solutions to environmental challenges at the state capitol.
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Planet Detroit
Planet Detroit is an independent nonprofit local news organization designed to inform you about the environment and public health in Detroit and Michigan
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Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision
SDEV works to improve the environment and strengthen the economy of Southwest Detroit through key partnerships to combat environmental issues, including air quality, blight and incompatible land use.
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Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition
SDCBC works to ensure that the Delray/Southwest Detroit community receives protections and community benefits with the Gordie Howe International Bridge project.
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Zero Waste Detroit
ZWD works to move the City of Detroit to a solid waste management system that prioritizes recycling and materials recovery and away from waste incineration.