Global Community Monitor Information

Global Community Monitor (GCM) is an environmental justice and human-rights organization that empowers industrial communities to re-create a clean, health and truly sustainable environment. GCM, founded in 2001, trains and supports communities in the use of environmental monitoring tools to understand the impact of fossil fuel industry pollution on their health and the environment. GCM's work focuses on disempowered "fenceline" communities harmed by serious air pollution from industrial sources and whose concerns agencies and responsible corporations are ignoring. Over the past dozen years, GCM has developed and pioneered the use of “bucket brigades” (a grassroots air monitoring program) as a method for communities to document and understand the impacts of industrial pollution, to launch advocacy efforts against polluters, and to win stunning victories. GCM's primary activity consists of providing training and on going technical assistance to community organizations fighting pollution as well as strengthening an international movement of people fighting industrial pollution and climate change. We have worked with 40 communities in 27 countries.