The Underground Center (UGC) is an educational non-profit dedicated to addressing issues of environmental and economic justice through the creation of collectively managed sustainable infrastructure. We are creating localized food systems, housing systems and models of land use that do not depend on exploiting people or the land we use to meet our needs. We train economically disadvantaged people, prioritizing youth to become leaders through skill-building, education and community organizing. Our work addresses immediate food and housing needs, while training people to create long term alternative economies to meet everyone’s needs in our communities without destroying natural systems. We are organizing an intergenerational and multiethnic collective that prefigures what ethical living can look like through community subsistence farming, composting, natural building, sustainable forest management, off-grid infrastructure, and more.