United States
Alaska Center for the Environment
Website: http://www.akcenter.org/
Founded in 1971, this is Alaska's largest home-grown citizen's group working for the sensible stewardship of Alaska's natural environment and is a voice for public lands conservation, clean air, clean water, and livable places.
Contact: 100 - 807 G Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501 (907-274-3621) or email: ace@akcenter.org
Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT)
Website: http://www.akaction.net/
The mission of ACAT is to protect human health and the environment from the toxic effects of contaminants and is dedicated to achieving environmental justice. The group works to ensure responsible cleanup of contaminated sites and empowers community involvement in cleanup decisions. ACAT also strives to stop the production, proliferation, and release of toxic chemicals that are killing so many people and animals in the north.
Contact: (907-222-7714) or email: info@AKAction.net
Alaska Group of Six
Website: http://www.alaskagroupsix.org/
Also known as the Alyeska Group of Six and the Anonymous Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Whistle-Blowers, this organized body has developed a website that is packed with letters, articles, and other important information on what is really happening in the north.
Contact: Use the email form provided.
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
Website: http://alaskamaritime.fws.gov/index.htm
The Alaska Refuge is a place of great distances and greater dramas. It is a place of contrasts, where relics of a past war slowly rust in deserted valleys, while, nearby, great forests of kelp team with life. It is, and has long been, a place of refuge, and has seen some of the most dramatic wildlife conservation stories in our nation's history. Today, the Refuge includes lands that were formerly parts of ten previously established refuges. Many of these units are still represented among the ten distinct congressionally-designated Wilderness areas included in Alaska Maritime, which range in size from the approximately 1.3-million-acre Aleutian Islands Wilderness to the 32-acre Hazy Islands Wilderness. Because it is spread out along most of the 47,300 miles of Alaska's coastline, the sheer span of this refuge is difficult to grasp. It is comprised of more than 2,500 islands, islets, spires, rocks, reefs, waters, and headlands that extend from Forrester Island, to the north of Canada's Queen Charlotte Islands deep in the southeast tongue of the state, to the western-most tip of the Aleutians (and of America!), and north to Cape Lisburne on the Arctic Ocean. Traveling between its farthest-flung points would be the equivalent of taking a trip from Georgia to California. No other maritime National Wildlife Refuge in America is as large or as productive. Alaska Maritime's seashore lands provide nesting habitat for approximately 40 million seabirds, or about 80% of Alaska's nesting seabird population (and more than half of the nesting seabirds in America). It is an area that must be kept intact.
Contact: 95 Sterling Highway, Suite 1, Homer, Alaska 99603 (907-235-6546) or email: alaskamaritime@fws.gov
All Species Foundation
Website: http://www.all-species.org/
In September 2000, forty scientists and other professionals from around the world met at the California Academy of Sciences to explore the value of establishing this type of a non-profit organization. The Foundation would catalogue every living species on earth within one human generation (25 years). It was agreed that a complete inventory of all species, including microbes, on our planet would greatly enhance the capacity to conserve essential biodiversity.
Contact: P.O. Box 29462, San Francisco, CA 94129 USA (415-750-7243) or email: info@all-species.org
Bluewater Network
Website: http://www.bluewaternetwork.org/
Bluewater Network's mission is to champion innovative solutions and to inspire individuals to protect the earth's finite and vulnerable ecosystems. Bluewater Network promotes critical policy changes in government and industry to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and to eradicate other root causes of air and water pollution, global warming, and habitat destruction. One problem is the two-stroke engine. Two-stroke engines power nearly all outboard boats and personal watercraft. The basic design has remained essentially unchanged since the 1940s. The flaw of the two-stroke engine is that it fails to burn 25 to 30 percent of its fuel. Instead, two-stroke engines eject the oil and gas unburned through the tailpipe -– and into the water. In the United States, two-stroke engines are responsible for 1.1 billion pounds of toxic emissions each year. For more information about the environmental problems associated with this, as well as many others, read more on this site.
Contact: jsachs@bluewaternetwork.org
Center For a New American Dream
Website: http://www.newdream.org
CNAD helps Americans assume responsibly to protect the environment, enhance the quality of life, and promote social justice. It works with individuals, institutions, communities, and businesses to conserve natural resources, counter the commercialization of our culture, and promote positive changes in the way goods are produced and consumed.
Contact: 6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 900, Takoma Park, MD 20912 (301-891-3683 or 1-877-68-DREAM) or email: newdream@newdream.org
Center For Great Lakes Environmental Education (CGLEE)
Website: http://www.greatlakesed.org/
CGLEE is an informational resource designed to provide access to Great Lakes educational material, as well as to identify and address teacher training needs. This website is a first step to provide all educators with a centralized access to educational information on the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence basin.
Contact: PO Box 56, Buffalo, NY 14205-0056 (716-878-3175) or email:info@greatlakesed.org
Citizens for Responsible Forest Management
Website: http://www.crfm.org
The mission of this group is to advocate the protection and enhancement of the forests and watersheds of the Santa Cruz Mountains and to preserve its environmental heritage for future generations.
Contact: P. O. Box 167, Boulder Creek, CA 95006 or email: jodi_frediani@crfm.org
Clean Water Action (CWA)
Website: http://www.cleanwateraction.org/
Founded in 1972, CWA now boasts a membership of over 700,000. It is a national organization of diverse people and groups, joined together to protect our environment, health, economic well-being, and community quality of life. Goals include: clean, safe, and affordable water; prevention of health-threatening pollution; creation of environmentally-safe jobs and businesses; and empowering people to make democracy work. CWA organizes strong grassroots groups and coalitions and campaigns to elect environmental candidates who will help solve environmental and community problems.
Contact: 4455 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite A300, Washington, DC 20008 (202-895-0420) or email: cwa@cleanwater.org
Clean Water Network
Website: http://www.cwn.org/
CWN is an alliance of over 1,100 organizations that endorses its platform paper, National Agenda for Clean Wate, which outlines the need for strong clean water safeguards in order to protect public health and the environment. CWN includes a variety of organizations representing environmentalists, commercial fishermen, recreational anglers, surfers, boaters, farmers, faith communities, environmental justice advocates, labour unions, urban communities, consumers, recreationalists and others.
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Contact: cleanwaternt@igc.org
Coalition for Appropriate Transportation (CAT)
Website: http://www.car-free.org/
CAT is an educational charity working to improve mobility for everyone. Improved walking, bicycling, and transit use means a stronger economy and a higher quality of life. More transportation choices mean less congestion, reduced pollution, fewer auto crash deaths, as well as life changing injuries. Curbing our use of the automobile fights suburban sprawl, obesity, and increasingly high medical costs.
Contact: c/o Colonial Parking, 915 Hamilton Street, Allentown, PA 18101 (610-434-9100) or email: cat@car-free.org
Colorado Natural Areas Program
Website: http://parks.state.co.us/cnap/
This program was created by an act of the Colorado Legislature in 1977 in an effort to preserve some of the finest examples of Colorado's original and unique landscapes for the benefit of present and future generations. Sites qualify as Colorado Natural Areas when they contain at least one unique or such high-quality feature of statewide significance as native plant communities, geologic formations or processes, paleontological localities, or habitats for rare plants or animals. Natural areas may be on public or private land and are designated through voluntary agreements with land owners.
Contact: 1313 Sherman St., Room 618, Denver, CO 80203 (303-894-2580) or email: ron.west@state.co.us
Cove/Mallard Coalition
Website: http://www.designbytes.com/cm_index.html
Cove/Mallard and Otter-Wing are two places where a human, if one possessed the power and choice, would choose to turn into a tree and live with the harmony of the winds and peace of the Rocky Mountains; and, unless immediate action is taken, this land will be lost. CMC is known for its non-violent but direct action through roadblocking techniques. Its seven-year field campaign is the longest running direct action effort in defence of our National Forest system. Tactics range from intricate bi-pod blockades to a web of tree-sits which was a technique of choice to halt the devastating roadbuilding at Otter-Wing recently.
Contact: PO Box 8968, Moscow, ID 83843 (208-882-9755) or email: cove@moscow.com
Desert Survivors
Website: http://www.desert-survivors.org/
This is a non-profit organization founded in 1981 with a mission of experiencing, sharing, and protecting desert wilderness. They have about 800 members, primarily in California and Nevada. Recognizing that these places the group loves to explore will not remain wild unless it gives others the opportunity to experience them, Desert Survivors is committed to monitoring and preserving actively its unique wilderness. In addition to its advocacy work, the group leads free backpacking trips and car camps for people of all levels of skill and fitness, as well as offering courses in beginning backpacking.
Contact: P.O. Box 20991, Oakland, CA 94620-0991 (510-769-1706) or email: StevTabor@aol.com
Earth 911
Website: http://www.earth911.org
With a mission of "Making Every Day Earth Day," Earth 911 sets out to inform all citizens of their part in Earth's decline and how they can help to reduce such an impact. Protecting the nation’s environment is of paramount concern to all Americans, as reflected in national polling results that consistently rank the environment as one of the top three priorities among consumers. Most environmental programs focus on either repairing damage that has already been sustained, or attempting to return the environment to its original state prior to the advancement of industrialized societies. While these retroactive concepts of environmental protection are critical to cleaning up existing problems, the proactive mission of Earth 911 is to empower the public with community-specific resources to improve their quality of life while minimizing that which is taken from the environment.
Contact: 7301 E. Helm, Bldg D, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 (480-889-2650) or email: psgi@cleanup.org
Earthwatch Scientific Excursions
Website: http://www.earthwatch.org/site/pp.asp?c=8nJELMNkGiF&b=1322375
Earthwatch Institute is an international non-profit organization that brings science to life for people concerned about the Earth's future. Founded in 1971, Earthwatch supports scientific field research by offering volunteers the opportunity to join research teams around the world. This unique model is creating a systematic change in how the public views science and its role in environmental sustainability. Today, Earthwatch recruits close to 4,000 volunteers every year to collect field data in the areas of rainforest ecology, wildlife conservation, marine science, archaeology, and more. Through this process, we educate, inspire, and involve a diversity of people, who actively contribute to conserving our planet. Earthwatch Institute has four offices worldwide in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan.
Contact: info@earthwatch.org
Eco Learning Center
Website: http://www.ecolearningcenter.org/
ELC strives to provide leadership, scientific research, study, education, guidance, and promotion of living sustainably on the land, in diverse communities, and in natural balance with the Great Lakes Bio-region. (The word in the background is, Ndibendaagwaz, and has an Odawa name meaning -- "I belong" to the Earth -- which represents their desire to reconnect and remember from where we all came.)
Contact: info@ecolearningcenter.org
Eco USA
Website: http://www.eco-usa.net/orgs/in.shtml
EcoUSA is an outgrowth of a site called EcoIndiana, which was launched as a personal web site in February 1996 with a focus on providing basic information about Indiana's Superfund sites. Now, it includes material on toxics, photos of animals and plants, natural area profiles, and a directory of environmental organizations in the state.
Contact: P.O. Box 1022 Carmel, IN 36082 or follow the email directions.
Elephant Sanctuary
Website: http://www.elephants.com/index.html
Located in Tennessee, this special sanctuary offers a peaceful haven for elephants to live out the rest of their lives. Since no visitors are allowed, the online site features a web cam so that the public can follow the daily activities of each elephant.
Contact: P. O. Box 393, Hohenwald, TN 38462 (931-796-6500) or email: elephant@elephants.com
EnviroLink
Website: http://www.envirolink.org/
This is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991. One such headline: "President Bush is abandoning a plan that could have further reduced wetlands protections even though his administration has said their occasional use by farmers, migratory birds, or endangered species isn't reason enough to stop developers from filling them in." See many more such news items.
Contact: P.O. Box 8102, Pittsburgh, PA 15217 or email: websupport@envirolink.org
Environmental Advocates of New York
Website: http://www.eany.org
Nearly 30 years ago, New York environmentalists launched a plan that led to ground-breaking progress in environmental protection. As one of the nation's first state environmental councils, this group established a prototype for environmental advocacy that has been replicated in state capitals across the nation. Its founding predecessor, the Environmental Planning Lobby (EPL), turned New York State into a national showcase for innovative environmental policy. Other successes include: the Bottle Bill; the nation's first acid rain law; the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA); the Wild, Scenic and Recreational River Systems Program; the Environmental Protection Fund; the Hudson River Estuary Management Act; the Lead Poisoning Prevention Act; the Clean Indoor Air Act; the low emission vehicle program; and the 1996 Clean/Water/Clean Air Bond Act. However, a new era is being defined, by sophisticated and well-financed opposition to environmental protection, as sometimes embracing "green" rhetoric. In the face of these pressures, New York is in peril of losing its important, hard-won gains. This is a critical time to reinvigorate the state's heritage of environmental leadership.
Contact: 353 Hamilton Street, Albany, NY 12210 (800-SAVE-NYS or 518-462-5526) or email: webeditor@eany.org
Environmental News Network
Website: http://www.enn.com/index.asp
For 10 years, ENN has helped educate the world about environmental issues. It began as a monthly print publication called Environmental News Briefing, and launched a website in 1995 to reach a broader, more diverse audience. Today, ENN offers timely environmental news, daily feature stories, audio, video, interactive quizzes, polls, and more. Their goals are to help educate the public on major issues and to provide tools to help individuals take action in their own communities. ENN is not an activist publication, but instead tries to present information from all sides, enabling readers to make their own decisions.
Contact: Use the email form provided.
Farm Animal Reform Movement (FARM)
Website: http://www.farmusa.org
FARM is a national, tax-exempt, educational organization advocating a plant-based diet and humane treatment of farmed animals through eight grassroots programs. It operates with a staff of eight, through a grassroots network of more than one thousand activists in all 50 states and several Canadian provinces. Since its formation in 1981, FARM has launched the following national programs in pursuit of its specific missions: World Farm Animals Day (1983), Great American Meatout (1985), Industry Watch (1988), CHOICE (1991), Letters From FARM, (1994), Sabina Fund (1997), and Feeding the World (1999). This reflects FARM's strategy of pursuing dietary and agricultural reforms on the national and local levels simultaneously.
Contact: P.O. Box 30654, Bethesda, MD 20824 (toll free 1-888-ASK-FARM) or email: farm@farmusa.org
Farm Sanctuary
Website: http://www.farmsanctuary.org
In 1986, Gene and Lorri Bauston found a live sheep abandoned on a stockyard "deadpile." They rescued the sheep, named her Hilda, and created the Farm Sanctuary. Within ten years, it became the nation’s largest farm animal rescue and protection organization. Most farmed animals are raised on factory "farms," where they spend their entire lives in cages or crates so small that they can not even turn around. Farmed animals are not protected from cruelty under the law. In fact, the majority of state anti-cruelty laws specifically exempt farm animals from basic humane protection, therefore, abandoning a sick animal on a pile of dead animals is considered “normal animal agricultural” practice. With the active support of over 100,000 members, FS is working to change the way society views and treats animals used for food production.
Contact: P.O. Box 150 Watkins Glen, NY 14891 (607-583-2225) or email: info@farmsanctuary.org
Foundation for Awareness and Understanding of Nature and Animals (FAUNA)
Website: http://www.faunainc.org/
Through sharing knowledge and ideas, FAUNA is striving to build a foundation of awareness in the minds of others, with a goal of preserving biodiversity for the future. It offers complementary educational seminars and workshops at local schools, libraries, and other educational facilities. Presentations include handouts, slides, videos, games, and crafts.
Contact: PO Box 122, Assonet, Massachusetts 02702 (508-644-5022) or email: FAUNAInc@hotmail.com
Friends of the St. Joseph River Association
Website: http://www.fotsjr.org
Founded by Al Smith, the Friends organization came as a result of his retirement dream. Al had visions of playing golf and doing a little fishing until he saw what his favorite river looked like. Having spent much of his youth in and around the St. Joe River, he was shocked to see that it now looked sick and tired. The banks were strewn with garbage and people were dumping everything from overstuffed furniture to old appliances. The St. Joe River has a watershed that encompasses several counties in both Michigan and Indiana and drains some 4,600 square miles of wetlands as it meanders down her 210-mile path to Lake Michigan. Many communities have formed their own groups to clean stretches of the river, and Friends is attempting to bring all of these small groups together into one organization so that all can concentrate on working together towards the same goal.
Contact: P.O. Box 354, Athens, MI 49011 (269-729-5174) or email: algs@net-link.net
Grass Roots
Website: http://www.grass-roots.org/
This website tells the stories of the most innovative grassroots programs in the United States and the local heroes who found effective ways to build their communities and fix what was broken. The hope of Green Roots is that you will be inspired enough to decide to roll up your sleeves and become involved in your own community, be it in the US or anywhere else on Earth.
Contact: rgarr@grass-roots.org
Grassroots Environmental Education (GEE)
Website: http://www.grassrootsinfo.org
GEE began in the early 1990's when a group of concerned parents in Port Washington, Long Island, met to discuss the possible health effects of pesticides being used in their neighborhood. The group's research into this developing field of scientific inquiry convinced it to form a new community organization -- Port Citizens for Alternatives to Pesticides ("PORTCAP"). The goal: to educate their neighbors and encourage local governments, educational institutions, and commercial landscapers to adopt non-toxic methods of pest control. By 2000, the influence of PORTCAP had far exceeded the geographical boundaries of Port Washington, and Grassroots Environmental Education was formally incorporated as a not-for-profit organization with a mission: "to research and disseminate information about pesticides and other toxins and their impact on human health and the environment, and to empower individuals to act as catalysts for change within their own communities." Currently, it serves local and state governments, health care providers, school systems, community groups, other environmental organizations and individuals nationwide.
Contact: 52 Main Street, Port Washington, NY 11050 (516-883-0887) or email: info@grassrootsinfo.org
Green Scissors
Website: http://greenscissors.org/
Since 1994, the Green Scissors Campaign, led by Friends of the Earth, Taxpayers for Common Sense, and U.S. Public Interest Research Group has been working with Congress and the Administration to "cut-out" environmentally harmful and wasteful spending. Working to breach party lines, GS has helped cut more the $26 billion in environmentally wasteful programs from the federal budget.
Contact: (none listed)
Greenpeace USA
Website: http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/
Greenpeace began in 1971, when a small but determined group of activists boarded an ageing 80-foot boat, slowly making its way through the cold North Pacific waters off Alaska. Its mission was to "bear witness" to the destructive nuclear weapons testing planned for Amchitka Island. Little did it know it had just created what was to become the largest environmental movement in the world.
Contact: 702 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 (202-462-1177 or toll free 1-800-326-0959) or use the email form provided.
Greenburbs.com
Website: http://www.remyc.com/greenburbs_flashintro.html
This site is home to a full listing of various environmentally friendly groups, businesses, and green projects for Fairfield County (Connecticut). Unique, is the page for "Library". It is an environmental media library project to form a section of the Westport Library into one solely for "Green" materials.
Contact: Donations of such books and other resources can be made to: Remy Chevalier, Environmental Library Fund, 25 Newtown Turnpike, Weston, CT 06883 (203-227-2065) or email: rem@remyc.com
Harvest Moon Community Farm
Website: http://www.hmcf.org
The Farm, located in Scandia, Minnesota, is on ten acres, nestled in the beautiful St. Croix Valley that is also home to a retreat. Harvest Moon is a non-profit organization that provides children and families opportunities to explore the arts and their connection to nature in a rural environment.
Contact: hmcf@mailcity.com
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
Website: http://www.ienearth.org/
Established in 1990, IEN is an alliance of grassroots indigenous peoples whose mission is to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening, maintaining, and respecting the traditional teachings and the natural laws. IEN has popularized a new angle on Native sovereignty that includes appropriate technology and the defense of natural resources. It has also introduced a new twist to environmentalism that, not only includes putting the protection of nature in a larger social, cultural, and economic context, but also includes supporting the survival of endangered cultures.
Contact: PO Box 485, Bemidji, MN 56619 (218-751-4967) or email: ien@igc.org
LocalHarvest
Website: http://www.localharvest.org
This search engine maintains a definitive and reliable "living" public nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources. This informative site helps people find local sources of sustainably grown food and encourages them to establish direct contact with family farms in their local area. The richness, variety, and flavor of communities, food systems, and diets are in jeopardy. Although the quest for economic efficiency has brought us low prices and convenience through mega-supermarkets, agribusiness, and factory farms, it has taken away many other essential aspects of our food lives, especially our personal relation with food and with the people who produce it. More and more people are realizing this and are actively working to turn the tide in an effort to preserve a food industry based on family-owned, small scale business. They are our best guarantee against a world of styrofoam-like, long-shelf-life tomatoes and diets dictated from corporate boardrooms. The "buy local" movement is quickly taking us beyond the promise of environmental responsibility that the organic movement delivered to us and awakened in the US, in particular, to the importance of community, variety, humane treatment of farm animals, and social responsibility regarding to our food economy.
Contact: 220 21st. Ave., Santa Cruz, CA 95062 (831-466-0700) or email: gpayet@localharvest.org
Lü
Website: http://www.remyc.com/projectlu.html
This site states that it is "a green fashion magazine for the future of the species". The name "Lü" means green in Chinese and what China does in the next few years will decide the fate of the earth. Chinese text is influencing Western culture through Feng Shui, movies, videos. The majority of our clothes are now made in China. Lü's editorial policy will be supervised by green economists. Only green products will be showcased and will set the trend by "being" green, walking the talk, raising the bar for everyone.
Contact: Remy Chevalier, Environmental Library Fund, 25 Newtown Turnpike, Weston CT 06883 (203-227-2065) or email: rem@remyc.com
Massachusetts Turtle Rescue
Website: http://www.maturtlerescue.org
MTR is a nonprofit organization that rescues and rehabilitates all species of turtles and tortoises and provides permanent homes to those who have been abandoned or abused, as well as those that have had the misfortune of being caught up in the pet trade. Many of the animals arriving at the rescue come in with various injuries, including broken or missing limbs, cracked shells, and other traumatic injuries sustained from being hit by cars or attacked by other animals. Some are suffering from such illnesses as respiratory infections, parasitic infections, and many other life-threatening illnesses.
Contact: Debbie@MaTurtleRescue.org
Mississippi River Basin Alliance
Website: http://www.mrba.org
This is a coalition of over 150 grassroots organizations, from the Headwaters of northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, working on bringing people together to save the Mississippi River basin.
Contact: 708 North First Street, Suite 238, Minneapolis, MN 55401 (612-334-9460) or email: mrbaoffice@mrba.org
National Association of Environmental Law Societies (NAELS)
Website: http://www.naels.org
In the late 1980s, a small group of students from numerous law schools gathered to form NAELS in an effort to encourage the formation and development of environmental law societies (ELSs) throughout the country. In addition, its goals are to promote the awareness of environmental issues among the general public, the law community (particularly the law school community), foster the study of environmental law through expanded curricula and materials, and to encourage responsibility and activism in the public interest by its practitioners.
Contact: 1925 Cambridge Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (734-662-9387) or email: dworth_99@yahoo.com
National Coalition for Marine Conservation (NCMC)
Website: http://www.savethefish.org/
NCMC is the nation's oldest public advocacy dedicated exclusively to conserving ocean fish, preventing overfishing, reducing bycatch, and protecting habitats. NCMC's mission is to build public awareness of the threats to marine fisheries, provide constructive solutions, and convince state, national, and international fishery managers to take appropriate action to reverse the overfishing effects on marine fish.
Contact: 3 North King St., Leesburg, VA 20176 (703-777-0037) or email: christine@savethefish.org
Native Seeds/SEARCH
Website: http://www.nativeseeds.org/v2/default.php
Since 1983, this nonprofit conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona, works to conserve, distribute, and document the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seed, their wild relatives, and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwestern and northwest Mexico. Today, the firm safeguards 2000 varieties of arid-land adapted agricultural crops. Most of the collection consists of varieties of indigenous crops developed over centuries or millennia. The firm promotes the use of these ancient crops and their wild relatives by distributing seeds to traditional communities and to gardeners worldwide. Currently, it offers 350 varieties grown from the Conservation Farm in Patagonia, Arizona, and strives to preserve knowledge about the traditional uses of these crops. Through research, seed distribution, and community outreach, NS/S seeks to protect biodiversity and to celebrate cultural diversity. Both are essential in connecting the past to the future.
Contact: 526 N. 4th Ave. Tucson, AZ 85705-8450 (520-622-5561) or email: info@nativeseeds.org
Natural Resources Defence Council
Website: http://www.nrdc.org/land/forests/
Half the world's forests are now gone, and well over 30 million acres more are lost each year. In the US, more than half the national forests have been logged, mined, or otherwise industrialized. NRDC fights to transform the government's role in the national forests from selling timber to providing long-term protection. It also focuses on preserving Alaska's Tongass rainforest and the forests of British Columbia, California, and the Pacific Northwest. NRDC promotes environmentally sound private forest management by helping to build a thriving market for certified wood products. In addition, it targets the underlying cause of forest destruction by working with builders, architects, and others to reduce their use of wood.
Contact: 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011 (212-727-2700) or email: nrdcinfo@nrdc.org
Nature Conservancy
Website: http://nature.org/
Since 1951, NC has been working with communities, businesses, and individuals to protect more than 116 million acres around the world. Its mission is to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth. Total acres protected by the Conservancy in the United States is nearly 15 million, and outside, more than 101 million. The current number of Conservancy preserves is about 1,400, with approximately 1 million members.
Contact: 4245 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100, Arlington, VA 22203-1606 (703-841-5300) or email: comment@tnc.org
Nature Institute
Website: http://www.natureinstitute.org
The Nature Institute is a nonprofit scientific and educational organization dedicated to pursuing a science of nature rather than of mechanisms assumed to lie behind nature. This is a qualitative science, contextual and holistic in spirit, and ethically informed in immediate practice rather than in afterthought. NI also promotes humane uses of technology rather than mechanical uses of humans. Founded in 1998, it is the only organization of its kind in North America.
Contact: 169 Route 21C, Ghent, NY 12075 (518-672-0116) or email: info@natureinstitute.org
Nevada Wildlife Federation
Website: http://www.nvwf.org
This is the state's oldest nonprofit, conservation organization. The founding sportsmen created the organization as a leading voice on issues that affect the wildlife, wetlands, lakes, streams, forests, ranges and all other priceless natural resources found within the state. It represents the views of hunters, fisherman, and anyone who deeply cares about the native wildlife and wild lands.
Contact: PO Box 71238, Reno, NV 89570 (702-253-0104 or 775-667-0927) or email: nvwf@nvwf.org
Northern Plains Resource Council (NPRC)
Website: http://www.nprcmt.org
NPRC organizes Montana citizens in an effort to protect water quality, family farms and ranches, and its unique quality of life. It is a grassroots conservation and family agriculture group that protects the Northern Plains and its people. In the early 1970s, huge energy corporations threatened the homes and livelihoods of ranch families near Colstrip and in the Bull Mountains. As a result, an organization was formed and its early efforts led to passage of a state strip mine law and other landmark legislation to protect Montana's natural resources. Northern Plains was also a national leader in securing passage of the historic federal strip mine law in 1977.
Contact: 2401 Montana Avenue, Suite 200, Billings, Montana 59101 (406-248-1154) or email: info@northernplains.org
NorthWest Petaluma California Rural Alliance (NWPCRA)
Website: http://petmushroom.org/
This is a grassroots group concerned about environmental damage caused by the Petaluma Mushroom Farm. More of a factory than a farm, the business has a history of water quality violations, including numerous illegal discharges and the dumping of wastewater containing diazinon. The site hosts numerous newspaper articles and other information on the subject.
Contact: info@petmushroom.org
Ohio Green Society
Website: http://ohiogreensociety.freeyellow.com/index.html
This is a not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to preserving and reclaiming Ohio's green spaces for farms and forests. OGS raises funds to purchase land -- including vacant city lots -- for nature sanctuaries and eco-technology demonstration projects.
Contact: 1841 W. Main St. #165, Troy, Ohio 45373 or email: Ohgreens@aol.com
Organic Consumer Association
Website: http://www.organicconsumers.org/log.html
OCA is a grassroots non-profit public interest organization which deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, corporate accountability, and environmental sustainability. It is the only organization in the US which focuses exclusively on representing the views and interests of the nation's estimated ten million organic consumers.
Contact: 6101 Cliff Estate Rd, Little Marais, MN 55614 (218-226-4164) or use the email form provided.
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Website: http://www.pcrm.org/
Founded in 1985, PCRM is a nonprofit organization that promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research.
Contact: 5100 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Ste. 400, Washington, DC 20016 (202-686-2210) or email: pcrm@pcrm.org
Range Watch
Website: http://www.rangewatch.org/
The mission of RW is to reduce the economic and ecological cost to the American public from commercial grazing on public lands. RW works closely with the talent and resources in the "range reform community" across the country and focuses its resources and efforts on pro-active programs to educate elected officials, the media, the environmental community, public land users, and the general public about this complex issue.
Contact: 45661 Poso Park Drive, Posey, CA 93260 (805-536-8668) or email: rangewatch@aol.com
Restore America's Estuaries
Website: http://www.estuaries.org/
RAE is a national nonprofit organization established in 1995. Its mission is to preserve the nation's network of estuaries by protecting and restoring the lands and waters essential to the richness and diversity of coastal life. The work includes such national restoration projects as the one million acres of coastal and estuarine habitat; the production of an array of collaborative tools and resources to guide the restoration process; and uniting the national restoration community, key decision makers, and local citizens through their bi-ennial national conference and outreach efforts.
Contact: 3801 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 53, Arlington, VA 22203 (703-524-0248) or email: info@estuaries.org
San Diego Baykeeper
Website: http://www.sdbaykeeper.org/
A nonprofit membership organization, SDB is dedicated to protecting California’s coastal waters. As a member of the national Water Keeper Alliance, its purpose is to preserve, enhance, and protect the state’s marine sanctuaries, coastal estuaries, wetlands, and bays from illegal dumping, hazardous spills, toxic discharges, and habitat degradation. It maintains a highly visible, on-the-water, grassroots program that seeks to detect and deter violations of environmental water quality laws. It also has community outreach and educational programs which work to educate people in preventing water pollution.
Contact: 2924 Emerson Street, Suite 220, San Diego, CA 92106 (619-758-7743) or email: sdbaykeeper@sdbaykeeper.org
Save Alaska
Website: http://www.savealaska.com
Alaska has been called the Last Great Wilderness. It is a land of spectacular tundra, glaciated mountains, lakes, rivers, and temperate rain forests that support vast wildlife populations. Today, it is caught in a tug-of-war between oil production, logging, and wilderness preservation. This site has a fantastic links section to groups and information pages about the state.
Contact: info@savealaska.com
SeaDoc Society
Website: http://mehp.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/
SDS focuses on the North American Pacific Ocean. Presently, emphasis is given to issues facing the Inland Waters of Washington state and British Columbia, Canada (the Puget Sound/Northwest Straits/Georgia Basin region). SDS was founded in 1999 with a private gift to the Wildlife Health Center from concerned citizens who recognized the Inland Waters of the Pacific Northwest were experiencing an unprecedented health crisis. This unique marine ecosystem is surrounded by nearly 6 million people. Consequently, marshes and mudflats have been paved, rocky shorelines replaced by bulkheads, flowing rivers interrupted by dams, and native fish harvested to the brink of extinction. Once, the Inland Waters seemed resilient enough to absorb such impacts, but this is no longer true.
Contact: A list of regional offices is given on the site.
Southwest Desert Sustainability Project
Website: http://www.angelfire.com/nm2/swdesert/index.html
This is a project dedicated to the education, research, training, and certification of affordable, indigenous lifestyles in sustainbility, including housing, renewable energy electrification, self-sufficiency and agriculture. Sustainability insists all systems integrate into a whole and requires a shift in perception: one system works for the other. This allows individuals and families to work as a community and shifts dependency to interdependency.
Contact: sustainableliving@lycos.com
Tierra Miguel Foundation
Website: http://www.tierramiguel.org/
Established in 1999, TMF is a non-profit organization that has come a long way in a short period of time. The farm has extensive educational programs with new ones being developed. In order to fulfill its mission of education and the demonstration of sustainable agricultural practices, TMF works from 85 acres of certified organic farmland in Pauma Valley, California, and is in conversation with the University of California Extension Services and heads of the agriculture programs of several California universities and surrounding states, including the California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, and the University of Arizona, to develop collaborative programs to commence in 2003-2004. Currently, TMF offers programs for elementary school-age children to programs designed to train post-graduate agriculture students in organic and biodynamic agriculture.
Contact: PO Box 1065, Pauma Valley, CA 92061 (760-742-1199 or 760-742-1151) or email: info@tierramiguel.org
United Poultry Concerns
Website: http://www.upc-online.org/
It is a 501(c)(3) national non-profit organization that addresses the treatment of domestic fowl in food production, science, education, entertainment, and human companionship situations. The group seeks to make the public aware of the ways poultry are treated by our society and elsewhere in the world. The group assists the public in seeing how our treatment of these birds affects health, ethics, education, occupational safety, and our environment.
Contact: PO Box 150, Machipongo, Virginia 23405-0150 USA (757-678-7875) or email: info@upc-online.org
