Organizations Environment Issues
Organizations Environment Issues
Organizations listed here are involved in issues and activism on environmental topics. These would be organizations working internationally or on multiple environment issues. The work may be in local, national or international areas. An organization working on several environment topics like global warming, toxic waste and conservation may be listed here.
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All Species Project - Promotes conscientious art, thought, and action toward building thriving neighborhoods and communities in harmony with nature.
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The Fred Heutte Center - Located in Norfolk, Virginia, members work to enrich the community by sharing his ideals of urban beautification through horticultural education.
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WildEarth Guardians - Fighting to protect and restore forests, rivers, wildlife, grasslands and wilderness of the Southwest.
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Baku Ceyhan Campaign - Working to raise public awareness of the social problems, human rights abuses and environmental damage that will be caused by the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, which is planned to run through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. In particular, the campaign
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Environmental Investigation Agency - An independent, international campaigning organization committed to investigating and exposing environmental crime.
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Environment Probe - Canadian public interest organization that promotes property rights and market mechanisms to protect the environment. On line publications on property rights, fisheries, forestry, water and wastewater.
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United Earth Alliance - Non-profit organization concerned with environmental pollution, human rights, world hunger, and other issues.
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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility - Protects employees who protect the environment. It provides a valuable service to government employees and contractors charged with safeguarding the nation's natural resources. Rather than work on environmental issues from the outside, PEER works with and
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Environmental Resources Trust, Inc. - Consult with commercial, industrial, and institutional consumers to help them understand the benefits and costs of meeting the electric power needs with "green" power (EcoPower). ERT also focuses on the development of markets for water-use right
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The Right-To-Know Network - Provides free access to databases, text files, and conferences on the environment, housing, and sustainable development.
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Earth Summit Info - Covers a wide range of sustainable development, biodiversity and World/Earth Summit issues.
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Go Green Initiative - A program that works to create a culture of environmental responsibility on school campuses throughout the United States. Includes tips for teachers, why one should go 'green', and FAQs.
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The Interfaith Coalition for the Environment - An organization whose purpose is to inform and inspire and inform environmental communities about their common interest in protecting and healing the earth.
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Green Seal - An independent, non-profit organization that strives to achieve a healthier and cleaner environment by identifying and promoting products and services that cause less toxic pollution and waste, conserve resources and habitats, and minimize global warming
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Television Trust for the Environment - Works to get environmental issues aired on television. Produces and circulates material for broadcast television and other audio-visual resources.
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BEE Japan - The BEE (Bicycle for Everyone's Earth) Team promotes environmental awareness while bicycling the length of Japan.
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EarthCorps.org - USA organization offering volunteer programs of environmental restoration. Provides information on history, programs and how to support.
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Planet First 2000 - An environmental awareness and action site with information on easy ways people may actively participate in their own unique way to protect and enhance their environment.
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African American Environmentalist Association - Dedicated to providing energy and environmental information and educating the African American community.
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IcebergAhead.org - Nonprofit corporation focusing on both social and environmental issues facing the USA and the world. Ideas for solutions to environmental and social issues.
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Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) - International consortium dedicated to "promoting democracy and sustainability." Headquartered in New Delhi. Campaign topics include biodiversity, climate change, air pollution, water pollution, forest management, rainwater harvesting, and "
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Earth Action - Features a global action alert network to mobilize people simultaneously around the planet to speak out for a better world.
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Trees Forever - Organization active in the US upper midwest aims to plant and care for trees and the environment. Overview of programs and activities, news, materials, and photo gallery.
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Kids Ecology Corps - KEC aims to inspire young people to make environmental action part of their everyday life and generate a critical mass of people to create environmental harmony throughout the world.
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Differentdawn.com - Provides information to learn more about environmental conservation, endangered species, plants, people and pets.
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The Goldman Environmental Prize - Annually awards environmental heroes from each of the world's six inhabited continental regions.
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Australian Conservation Foundation - ACF is an Australian non-profit organization dedicated to the environment. Site has a wide range of topics, including genetic engineering, air pollution, and the WTO. Campaign on Australia World Heritage issues.
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Earth Protector - Proponent of activism and legal action in support of environmental, energy and wildlife concerns. Listings of future and current activities.
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Natural Resources Defense Council - Non profit that uses law, science, and the support of its 500,000+ members to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe, healthy environment for all living things. Provides information on many environmental issues.
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EarthRights International - Linking human rights and environmental protection. ERI works to document and eliminate human and environmental abuses by building the capacity of indigenous peoples in South East Asia.
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The Green Community - A self-sustaining society that seeks to educate and inspire the public on environmental issues.
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Project Pacific - Project Pacific is devoted to actions benefiting the ocean and its users-balancing enhancement and preservation. Focusing on the San Diego region, its overall outlook extends beyond the local area.
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Ausable Institute of Environmental Studies - Promotes Christian environmental stewardship through academic and community programs, retreats and conferences.
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EcoFuture - Dedicated to sustainability and the ecological future of our planet. A wealth of environmental information.
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Pró-Cerrado Foundation - Environmental program which provides training and education to at risk youth in Brazil. Projects include preservation of the central savanna grasslands and environmental education.
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The International Center - Non-profit organization in Washington which aims to promote good governance and development through direct contacts with all levels of governments, institutions, and individuals. Provides information on programs and projects including reforestation.
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Earth Force - International education program that involves young people in hands-on river education, conservation, and restoration projects. Award-winning program Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN).
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Lovearth Network - Provide information on environmental and humanitarian concerns. Links to Eco Humane Political web sites.
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National Environmental Trust - Educate about the problems facing the environment. Promote working to solve these problems.
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The Environment Foundation - Work in partnership with others to protect and improve the environment and help society understand one of the most critical challenges it faces in the 21st century.
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The Mountain Institute - Advancing Mountain Cultures and preserving mountain environments. Working in the Appalachian, Andean and Asian Mountains.
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Unions for Jobs And Environment - A partnership of various unions which offer a labor perspective on the Kyoto Protocol and climate policy with summaries of economic and job impact.
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United Eco-action Fund - California nonprofit funding research, education, and land acquisition and supporting programs that benefit the quality of human life; promotes Al Gore's environmental ideas set out in "Earth in the Balance"
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Port of Entry - Portal to environmental business opportunities and information exchange in the Americas. Main focus is the Latin American environmental sector. Site in English and Spanish.
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Land Stewardship Project - A private, nonprofit organization to foster an ethic of stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable agriculture and to develop sustainable communities. Provides current project news, program descriptions and online resources.
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Environmental Defense - Links science, economics, and law to create innovative, equitable, and cost-effective solutions to the most urgent environmental problems. Provides information, news and resources on many environmental issues.
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Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation - Environment Issues - Supports a free-market approach to environmental protection. Provides articles and publications.
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Rainforest Foundation US - To preserve rainforests and the indigenous people who live in them. Provides donation information, events listing, and information on internship programs.
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Union of Concerned Scientists - The Union of Concerned Scientists works to ensure that all people have clean air and energy, as well as safe and sufficient food.
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BlackRhinoceros - Searchable, annotated directory (updated daily) of over 600 sites on environmental issues. Six categories: biodiversity and animal rights/threatened species; conservation; energy; environmental justice; habitat; pollution.
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Georgia Strait Alliance - Protect and restore the marine environment of Georgia Strait, B.C., Canada. On line newsletter, resources on many environmental issues including a green boating guide.
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People and the Planet - A global site on the issues of population, poverty, health and the environment, sponsored by IPPF,IUCN,UNFPA and WWF and published by the London-based Planet 21 charity.
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T Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation - Dedicated to raising environmental awareness around issues related to salmon farming, fish habitat management, alternative energy sources, sewage treatment and sustainable forestry practices.
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Western Organization of Research Councils - A network of six state grassroots organizations working for change on the environment and family agriculture.
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Canada - Ecojustice - Protects the environment by upholding and enforcing the law. Provides free legal advice and free legal representation.
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Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD International) - Established in 1991 by the Rockefeller Foundation. Aims to educate selected future leaders whose actions will influence the decisions made about environment and development issues in most parts of the world.
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The Wildness Within Us - Official web site of David R. Brower and his work for conservation, preservation and restoration. Features photographs, poetry, audio, video and environmental newswire.
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Clean water - Australia and Brazil - Cleanwater is a website aimed to increase environmental awareness, provide information to community on how they can prevent pollution at their local waterways and to help people to get involved in ecosystems restoration projects.
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Restore the Earth - Project to lobby the United Nations to declare this century as the century of restoring the earth. Offers historical overview of the organizations activities and provides details of people and organizations who have endorsed the proposal.
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International Tree Foundation - International tree planting, tree preservation and tree education. Award and grant maker and school resource provider.
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The Bellona Web - Science-based environmental organization set up to combat problems of environmental degradation, pollution-induced dangers to human health, and the ecological impacts of economic development strategies. Bellona aims to present feasible solutions with the
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Global Response - Environmental Action and Education Network - Action-oriented project to involve youth and adults in communicating about environmental issues. Organizes international letter campaigns to prevent environmental destruction, with corresponding resources for teachers.
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Environment and Conservation Organisations (ECO) - Network organisation of environment and conservation organisations of New Zealand. Information about ECO and its member groups as well as news of the environment in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) - CFACT strongly believes consumer and environmental problems can be best met and overcome through the ingenuity of science, the power of the free-enterprise system, and the traditional Western values of progress, freedom, and wise stewardship.
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Conservation International (CI) - Nonprofit organization applies innovations in science, economics, policy and community participation to protect the Earth's biodiversity around the world. Includes conservation regions and programs, strategies, newsletters, publications and how to get inv
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International Coastal Cleanup - A global volunteer program that sponsors annual clearing of trash from coastlines, rivers, and lakes.
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Center for the Study of the Environment - Private not-for-profit organization, providing information, identification, analysis and optimal solutions to environmental problems. Science based projects are conducted on global, regional and local scales.
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Pennsylvania Environmental Network - Provides information and resources on everything from land fills, incinerators, nuclear dumps and sludge spreading on farmlands to logging and mining or development battles.
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Ecobeetle - The latest eco-news, eco-gear, top eco-tours and artists.
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Rural Friendship - A pro-nature and pro-poor global nonprofit that works toward equitable access to resources to live a poverty free fulfilled life.
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Ecobridge - An organization dedicated to expanding public awareness of threats to the environment.
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Earthwatch Institute - Promotes the sustainable conservation of our natural resources and cultural heritage by creating partnerships among scientists, the general public, educators, and businesses.
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Society Promoting Environmental Conservation - SPEC operates an Environmental Resource Center in B.C., Canada. On line resources on various campaigns for better air, water, and land.
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Global Communications for Conservation Inc. - Nonprofit organization created to support and initiate conservation and environmental education programs throughout the world, while increasing public awareness of the need for a worldwide ethic of respect for all life.
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Tuolumne County Alliance for Resources and Environment, Inc. - Involved in environmental issues related to the productivity and conservation of public and private lands in Tulare County, California.
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Global Action Plan - An independent charity committed to engaging people in practical solutions to environmental and social problems.
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Eden Foundation - Working for the preservation of biodiversity, against monoculture agriculture, and for better ways for humans to live in harmony with their environment.
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Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment - Part of the University of East Anglia in the UK, this site provides information on their research and publications.
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GreenNet - An umbrella site for over 200 green, peace, human rights and development groups.
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Both ENDS - Supports the work of environmental organisations, primarily in the so-called South (developing countries) and the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries.
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TiWalkMe - Planned public park projects where trees are planted each year to mark time over a millennia. Provides description, donation and contact information.
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Earth Day Network - Coordinating worldwide events for Earth Day 2000 and beyond. Provides calendar, environmental tips, clean energy campaign, organizing materials, activist network, eco-store, Grist Magazine and other resources.
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Center for Whole Communities - The Center operates The Refuge For Land And People, a unique leadership forum where citizens and activists from around the country come together to find solutions to the most pressing and difficult conservation issues our nation faces today.
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ECO (Environmental Community Organization) - A community and environmental network creating solutions to protect and improve health, welfare, safety and the environment.
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Educational Communications - A non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life on this planet. Provides contact address and newsletter subscription information.
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The ReSource Institute for Low Entropy Systems - Independent, nonprofit organization working on public health and environmental issues in Spanish and English speaking countries. Support non-depleting, non-wasting, non-polluting methods and technologies for sustainable development.
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Ocean Advocacy - Provides mailing list, bulletin board, actions alerts, and news segments regarding the environment. Focused on preserving the oceans from pollution.
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EcoFlight - EcoFlight provides aircraft for environmental advocacy and creates innovative educational programs designed to increase environmental awareness around the country for teachers and students alike.
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Global Stewards - Provides environmental tips for sustainable living and information about solutions that are speeding the shift toward a sustainable way of life.
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