Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) envisions a future in which American cities are the greenest and most equitable in the world, leading the way to natural resource protection and national security, while creating a vital new economic sector.
ECC is a national non-profit organization committed to building a new economy for a new America. ECC is based in Washington, D.C. and operates affiliate offices across the country to advance energy efficiency and sustainable development strategies that also improve job quality, job access and social equity. Our collaborative comprises more than 21 national organizations from all sectors of the economy. By pooling our assets and working together, we are able to build stronger, more resilient communities throughout America’s metropolitan regions. Amid the rapid changes underway within the larger economy, environment and society, ECC offers our local partners training, technical assistance and financing to ensure that regions remain secure, competitive and prosperous.
ECC partners—economic, environmental, and social development organizations—help to re-examine and re-engineer our natural, built and social environments toward a robust and vibrant clean-energy economy. We specialize in high-road energy efficiency strategies with a focus on retrofitting the entire urban building stock. We are engaged, however, in all aspects of infrastructure and natural resource development. This involves creating the economic, physical and civic infrastructure that protects our communities against natural resource depletion and environmental disasters, while promoting a more diverse, locally based economy that intentionally includes all races, ethnicities and classes as civic planners and beneficiaries of the new green economy.
