🏙️ Midwest (Chicago, East St. Louis, Evanston, Rockford, Carbondale)

In the Midwest, your support fuels sprint teams working on infrastructure, jobs, transportation, and climate transparency—especially in communities long left behind.

Active Projects:

Clean Bus for All of Us – Advocating for electric bus priority corridors in South and West Chicago using health, transit, and air quality data.
Transparent Community Climate Dashboard – Visualizing Chicago’s progress on emissions, health, and investment using utility docket and public data.
Chicago Clean Energy Workforce Week – A first-of-its-kind workforce summit linking job seekers, trainers, and employers in Spring 2026.
Evanston BPS Scoreboard – Supporting healthy building performance by tracking emissions, cost, and health impacts in a public dashboard.
East St. Louis Resilience Framework – Co-creating a resident-led strategy to tackle food insecurity, clean energy access, and vacant land reuse.
Interoperable Energy Pilots - Present and publicize a virtual pilot design for Auburn Gresham, Rockford, and Carbondale to deploy interoperable distributed energy resources, gas delivery, and workforce solutions.

Your donation here funds (but is not limited to): helps fund tools, transportation, student stipends, and community convenings that make equity-centered energy transition possible.

Midwest — The Carbon League

The Carbon League provides technical assistance, programming and coaching for public, private and civic leaders to deliver measurable progress on climate, health, energy and equity commitments on 12 month goals in 90 day sprints as high-performance teams.

The Carbon League

Midwest General Fund 2025