Alternatives for Community and Environment

File:ACE logo.jpeg{{Infobox organization

| name = Alternatives for community and environment

| formation = 1994

| headquarters = 2201 Washington St #302,

Roxbury, MA 02119

| leader_title = Executive Director

| leader_name = Dwaign Tyndal

| leader_title2 = Deputy Director

| leader_name2 = Stephanie Williams

| leader_title3 = Director of Youth Organizing

| leader_name3 = Hakim Sutherland

| website = https://ace-ej.org/

}}

Alternatives for community and environment (ACE) is an environmental justice community organization located in Roxbury. While ACE has traditionally focused on the Roxbury community, it has recently broadened its efforts across New England to empower lower-income and communities of color who face disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards, including urban heat island effects, air pollution and lead poisoning. {{Cite journal |last=Agyeman |first=Julian |date=2005-07-01 |title=Alternatives for Community and Environment: Where Justice and Sustainability Meet |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3200/ENVT.47.6.10-23 |journal=Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development |volume=47 |issue=6 |pages=10–23 |doi=10.3200/ENVT.47.6.10-23 |bibcode=2005ESPSD..47f..10A |issn=0013-9157|url-access=subscription }}

Founded in 1994,{{cite journal |last1=Downs |first1=Timothy |last2=Ross |first2=Laurie |display-authors=etal |year=2010 |title=Participatory testing and reporting in an environmental-justice community of Worcester, Massachusetts: a pilot project |journal=Environ Health |volume=9 |issue=34 |pages=34 |doi=10.1186/1476-069X-9-34 |pmc=2914716 |pmid=20604953 |doi-access=free|bibcode=2010EnvHe...9...34D }} ACE works to eradicate environmental racism, and classism and achieve environmental justice by empowering lower-income and minority communities to participate in decision-making regarding economic, environmental and social issues and providing legal supports. {{Cite journal |last=Agyeman |first=Julian |date=2005-07-01 |title=Alternatives for Community and Environment: Where Justice and Sustainability Meet |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3200/ENVT.47.6.10-23 |journal=Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development |volume=47 |issue=6 |pages=10–23 |doi=10.3200/ENVT.47.6.10-23 |bibcode=2005ESPSD..47f..10A |issn=0013-9157|url-access=subscription }}

ACE often forms cross-boundary coalitions and operates various youth, transportation networks, and environmental health programs such as Dudley Square Organizing Project (DSOP), Roxbury Environmental Empowerment Project (REEP), T Riders Union (TRU), the Safety Net, and Environmental Justice Legal Services (EJLS). {{Cite web |title=Programs |url=https://ace-ej.org/what-we-do/programs/ |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=Alternatives for Community and Environment |language=en-US}}{{Cite journal |last=Agyeman |first=Julian |date=2005-07-01 |title=Alternatives for Community and Environment: Where Justice and Sustainability Meet |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3200/ENVT.47.6.10-23 |journal=Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development |volume=47 |issue=6 |pages=10–23 |doi=10.3200/ENVT.47.6.10-23 |bibcode=2005ESPSD..47f..10A |issn=0013-9157|url-access=subscription }}

== Accomplishments ==

Some of ACE's notable accomplishments include the following:

• ACE's Environmental Justice Legal Services represented Chelsea residents in a 2007 case that prevented the construction of a diesel-fueled power plant adjacent to an elementary school.{{cite web |date=14 November 2007 |title=Developer Pulls Plans for Chelsea Power Plant |url=http://www.clf.org/newsroom/developer-pulls-plans-for-chelsea-power-plant/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705145226/http://www.clf.org/newsroom/developer-pulls-plans-for-chelsea-power-plant/ |archivedate=5 July 2011 |accessdate=8 June 2011 |publisher=Conservation Law Foundation}}
• In 2013, The Safety Net fought with Roxbury residents to avert the development of a Boston University-sponsored Level 4 biolab that involved Ebola and Smallpox.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Neighborhood Biolabs: How Safe Are They? |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/infectious-disease-lab-irks-bostonians/story?id=18134903 |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=ABC News |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Agyeman |first=Julian |date=2005-07-01 |title=Alternatives for Community and Environment: Where Justice and Sustainability Meet |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3200/ENVT.47.6.10-23 |journal=Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development |volume=47 |issue=6 |pages=10–23 |doi=10.3200/ENVT.47.6.10-23 |bibcode=2005ESPSD..47f..10A |issn=0013-9157|url-access=subscription }}{{Citation |last=Agyeman |first=Julian |title=5. Alternatives for Community and Environment |date=2005-08-01 |work=Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice |pages=133–175 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.18574/nyu/9780814707746.003.0009/html |access-date=2025-02-07 |publisher=New York University Press |language=en |doi=10.18574/nyu/9780814707746.003.0009 |isbn=978-0-8147-0774-6|url-access=subscription }}