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Many groups and individuals in Northeast Florida are working to protect our local environment and to educate the community on environmental issues. Since we have similar goals, JEA forms partnerships with, and sometimes financially supports, many local and regional groups.
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JEA currently partners with the following environmental organizations
- Sierra Club and the American Lung Association of Florida: These well-known organizations are working with JEA to design and implement our Green Power Program.
- St. Johns River Water Management District: We work with this government entity to educate our customers about water conservation.
- Riverkeeper Program: We support this non-profit group in its efforts to monitor and protect the St. Johns River.
- Jacksonville University: We help fund science education to teach future environmental scientists skills for water and ecosystem monitoring.
- Earth Day: JEA is a sponsor and co-planner of this annual celebration for Northeast Florida residents.
- St. Johns River Celebration: Each year, local citizens spend a day cleaning debris from the river, and JEA is there with financial support and a willing team of volunteers.
- University of North Florida: JEA has donated funds for a Renewable Energy Lab for research and training.
- Jacksonville Zoo: We are teaming up with the zoo on innovative ways to educate kids on environmental issues and alternative sources of energy.
- JaxPride: We partner with this grassroots organization to meet with neighborhood residents and get their input on beautifying JEA facilities.
- Communi-Tree: JEA gives trees to neighborhood groups that want to beautify their areas.
- Mayor's Intensive Care Neighborhood Committee: JEA works with government and civic groups to help blighted neighborhoods become cleaner, more desirable places to live.
- Greenscape: Our own foresters grow and provide free trees to aid this group in improving Northeast Florida's urban forest.
- Healthy Jacksonville: JEA participates in this effort's Environmental Quality Coalition, which is looking for new ways to maintain and improve Northeast Florida's environment.
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