The EMC turns green space into a living classroom, a catalyst for climate justice, cultural restoration, and community-oriented solutions. Each year, it weaves together 42 BIPOC and/or LGBTQ2S+ organizers to cultivate cultural shift, build movement infrastructure, and strengthen collective climate resilience. To date, 90+ workshops and trainings, led by everyday local, regional, and global grassroots change-makers, have been designed to strategize new ways of meeting the needs of organizers holding the sinews of cross-movement organizing from New York State to the Midwest and South.

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Through this model, we've moved $500K directly into historically marginalized communities because we know the communities closest to the issues hold the solutions. And through 7,580+ intergenerational attendees, youth, educators, elders, cultural workers, land stewards, and neighbors, who return each year, we make sure everything we build is rooted in community experience, scaled through collective wisdom, and carried forward by the very people who are both its beneficiaries and its supporters, representing a wider cross-section of the movement.

We're also actively growing community-oriented planning projects and strengthening community infrastructure — spanning healing-centered land stewardship, urban agricultural practices, mutual aid networks, green workforce development, and civic engagement — all designed to strengthen physical, emotional, and cultural resilience across frontline communities and youth.