LEAN was founded to help Louisiana citizens change the balance of power and challenge the continued economic and ecological destruction that had become institutionalized in Lousiana.
What is LEAN?
The Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) is a community based not-for-profit organization that has been working since 1986 to resolve the unique environmental struggles present in Louisiana. Through education, empowerment, advocacy, and support; LEAN provides the necessary tools and services to individuals and communities facing environmental problems. Such problems that often threaten their health, safety and quality of life.
See also: Wilma Subra. Time Out For LEAN – Update on Dead Bird Island. 29 Sep 2010. Community Energy Systems (CENSYS).
A dead gull found on “dead bird island” from which samples were taken
Our work, community to community, person to person is slowly but surely changing the landscape of Louisiana. LEAN’s goal is to create a statewide citizenry that is in control of their own communities health and environmental well being. LEAN serves as an empowering resource for communities working to resolve problems. We do this through community workshops and ongoing support including a variety of technical assistance, organizational and leadership support as well as communication and media services. LEAN’s support unfolds comprehensively from initial listening sessions all the way through facilitating resolutions and even informing legislative changes to prevent future conflicts. The heart of this effort is our Community Empowerment Program but LEAN’s work has evolved into a variety of active projects described below.
- Community Empowerment Program
- Lower Mississippi River Keeper
- Community Archive and Empowerment Center
- Hands of Hope
- Save Our Water
- Fix Our Coast
By empowering more than one hundred grassroots, community organizations, and countless individuals, LEAN has already helped in gaining a tremendous foothold in the war to make Louisiana’s communities safer, healthier places to live. LEAN’s expanded efforts will allow the progress already made to continue.
The purpose of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) is to foster cooperation and communication between individual citizens and corporate and government organizations in an effort to assess and mend the environmental problems in Louisiana.
Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN)
LEAN’s Problem Solving is Empowerment
Louisiana’s rich geology and the transportation superhighway of the Mississippi River have given rise to an abundance of resources, opportunities, and inevitable conflicts. LEAN’s work has been centered around these unfortunate conflicts between community and industrial stakeholders in Louisiana.
It is our goal that, community to community, person to person we are slowly but surely changing the landscape of Louisiana. Louisiana has a legacy of prioritizing industry over community and LEAN’s work aims to shift this unfortunate imbalance of power. Ultimately our goal is to create a statewide citizenry in control of their own community’s health and environmental well being. With each community LEAN assists, we are building a population aware and capable of addressing the problems that arise in their community. We help them understand complicated environmental situations and become proficient in the tools they have to address them.
LEANs support is on-going, and with each new community struggle, we build new allies, friends and network colleagues. LEAN is engaged in doing the groundwork for creating a cultural shift in Louisiana that creates informed, empowered and healthy communities in a state too often built on exploitation and sacrifice. This change must come from the bottom, from everyday people invested in building a better future for themselves. LEAN is the tool with which they are able to build that future.
See: Chevron Human Energy Stories | Addressing Climate Change
See: The Case of Chevron
See: Louisiana tells EPA that it should let Congress handle greenhouse gas regulation
See: Environmental Groups Support U.S. EPA in Texas Air Permit Case
See: Tainted Water Spurs Evacuations
See: Natural Gas Industry Shills Use the Media to Mislead the Public – Here’s How to Spot Them
See: Scalise: EPA Declares CO2 a Dangerous Pollutant Based on “Climate Gate’s” Corrupt Science
