Kalamazoo Climate Crisis Coalition

The Kalamazoo Climate Crisis Coalition mobilizes collective action to achieve immediate and drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and rapid adoption of renewable energy through a transition grounded in social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. KCCC pursues this mission through community organizing, direct-service programming, and youth leadership development across Kalamazoo county, Michigan, with a focus on systems change, coalition-building, and centering communities most affected by both the climate crisis and historic environmental injustice. KCCC serves Kalamazoo county communities most impacted by environmental injustice, housing disinvestment, and climate vulnerability including the northside, eastside, edison, and west douglas neighborhoods and outlying county areas, where historic redlining, discriminatory lending, and industrial pollution have produced some of the state's highest health- disparity and pollution-exposure burdens. Nearly 40% of homeowners in