Baltimore just Transition Network

The Baltimore Just Transition Network is building a network of community organizers, and organizations working to support Black-, Brown-, Indigenous and low income communities and movements leading us toward climate and environmental justice and a just transition from an extractive to a living economy and democracy. We aim to be a safe space for collaboration on projects and issues impacting our communities. 

The following definition for Just Transition was developed by Movement Generation:  

Just Transition is a vision-led, unifying and place-based set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy. 

An economy based on extracting from a finite system faster than the capacity of the system to regenerate will eventually come to an end—either through collapse or through our intentional re-organization. Transition is inevitable. Justice is not.

Learn about the Just Transition Movement:

Just Transition strategies were first forged by labor unions and environmental justice groups who saw the need to phase out the industries that were harming workers, community health and the planet, while also providing just pathways for workers into new livelihoods. 

The Just Transition framework represents a set of aligned strategies to transition whole communities toward thriving economies that provide dignified, productive and ecologically sustainable livelihoods governed directly by workers and communities.