Brighter Green is a public policy action tank that works to raise awareness of and encourage policy action on issues that span the environment, animals, and sustainability. Based in New York, Brighter Green works in the U.S. and internationally with a focus on the countries of the global South and a strong commitment to ensuring and expanding equity and rights.

On its own and in partnership with other organizations and individuals, Brighter Green generates and incubates research and project initiatives that are both visionary and practical. It produces publications, websites, documentary films, and programs to illuminate public debate among policy-makers, activists, communities, influential leaders, and the media, with the goal of social transformation at local and international levels.

Brighter Green seeks to advance their core commitments to Sustainability, Equity, and Rights through their three program areas:

Food Policy and Equity
Brighter Green is examining the environmental, political, economic, and social consequences of their food choices, and how an increasingly industrialized, corporatized, and globalized food and agricultural system is affecting the climate, food security, public health, animal welfare, and resource allocation in countries around the world. Brighter Green’s work encompasses fostering dialogue and encouraging adoption of public policies and practices that support equitable, sustainable agriculture.

Sustainability and Community
Brighter Green is initiating and supporting work that aims to promote an empowered civil society, democracy, human rights, environmental conservation, sustainable development, and equity in the global South. These initiatives are being carried out with a number of NGOs, community-based organizations, and individual leaders.

Climate Change, Livelihoods, and Rights
Brighter Green is engaged in a number of projects that seek to empower individuals and groups to create paths to sustainable development that mitigate the effects of climate change as rising sea levels, warming oceans, drought, and erratic weather challenge traditional livelihoods. Their work extends from local communities to the global policy arena.