Advocacy: see Environmental activism for environmental groups...
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www.worldadvocacy.com
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World Advocacy, a good listing of the world's advocacy groups.
You are welcome to add your non-profit advocacy group to the list.
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www.uspirg.org
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U.S. PIRG, the federation of state Public Interest Research
Groups, stands up to powerful special interests on behalf of the
American public, working to win concrete results for our health and
our environment. They organize citizens against threats to clean air
and water, to prevent global warming and preserve natural
resources.
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Over 16 percent of Ithaca, NY residents (about 5,000 residents) walk to work,
that is the highest percentage in the nation.
Best Green Places Study- Sperling's BestPlaces.
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Agriculture:
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www.navdanya.org
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Navdanya is a movement for biodiversity conservation and
farmers' rights and is actively involved in the rejuvenation of
indigenous knowledge and culture. It has created awareness of the
hazards of genetic engineering, defended people's knowledge from
biopiracy. Based in India. Established by Dr. Vandana Shiva.
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www.pewtrusts.org
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Pew Charitable Trusts. The Pew Initiative on Food and
Biotechnology's reports, fact sheets, polls and conferences served
as a respected information source on agricultural biotechnology and
related policy issues for legislators, educators, the public and the
media in the US and globally. Although the project concluded its
work in 2007, its resource materials remain available here.
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www.organicconsumers.org
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Organic Consumers Association's Action Center. Numerous
issues to take up actions against, Monsanto, Mad Cow, Factory
Farming, Policy, Food Safety, etc.,etc....
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Animal Advocacy: see Animal Welfare page and Wildlife below...
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Climate Change:
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www.wecansolveit.org
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We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection,
a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and
former Vice President Al Gore. The goal of the Alliance is to build a
movement that creates the political will to solve the climate crisis -
in part through repowering America with 100 percent of its
electricity from clean energy sources within 10 years."
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www.theclimate
project.org
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Alliance for Climate Protection's mission is to persuade the
American people — and people elsewhere in the world – of the
importance and urgency of adopting and implementing effective
and comprehensive solutions for the climate crisis. Al Gore is
Chairman of the Board.
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www.edf.org
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Environmental Defense Action Fund is the lobbying arm of
Environmental Defense Fund, dedicated to educating the public
about sound environmental policy and promoting lasting solutions
to protect the environmental rights of all people. Operation Climate
Vote. Climate action in the news and actions to take now.
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www.greenpeace.org
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Greenpeace's ExxonSecrets is a research project highlighting the
more than a decade-long campaign by Exxon-funded front groups -
and the scientists they work with- to deny the urgency of the
scientific consensus on global warming and delay action to fix the
problem.
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www.ucsusa.org
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Union of Concerned Scientists is a leading science-based
nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world.
UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to
develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible
changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer
choices. ***
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www.350.org
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350 is the red line for CO2. 350.org is an international campaign
dedicated to building a movement to unite the world
around solutions to the climate crisis. The most recent science tells
us that unless we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere to 350 parts per million, we will cause huge and
irreversible damage to the earth. Coordinating a planetary day of
action on October 24, 2009.
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www.risingtide
northamerica.org
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Rising Tide is an international network born out of the conviction
that corporate-friendly and state-sponsored “solutions” to climate
change will not save us. As a matter of survival, we must decrease
our dependence on the industries and institutions that are
destroying the planet and work toward community autonomy and
sustainable living.
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www.climate
activism.org
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Parents for Climate Protections participates in local fairs and
events with family-oriented letter-writing campaigns.
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www.biological
diversity.org
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Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute
was founded to confront global warming and brings a strong climate
focus to each of their five program areas — Biodiversity, Public
Lands, Oceans, Urban Wildlands, and International — to unite all in
a coordinated strategy to protect species and ecosystems from the
sweeping and potentially catastrophic effects of warming.
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www.climatelaw.org
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Climate Justice Programme, a collaboration of lawyers and
campaigners around the world encouraging, supporting, and
tracking enforcement of the law to combat climate change.
On this site you can find information and documents on many of
the legal initiatives that have been brought under various
legal theories in national and international forums.
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Coal:
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sierraclub.org/coal
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Sierra Club's "Move Beyond Coal" Campaign aims to eliminate
one-third of the nation's global warming emissions, by: Challenging
new coal plants across the country; increasing efforts to retire the
dirtiest old power plants and addressing the entire coal cycle,
including mountaintop removal mining, etc.
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Community Action:
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www.bucketbrigade.net
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Global Community Monitor is an environmental justice and
human rights non profit that empowers industrial communities to
recreate a clean healthy and truly sustainable environment.
Community Environmental Protection builds on successful
strategies used to hold major corporations accountable in the U.S
and throughout the world. Through GCM, local community
struggles are linked and their efforts multiplied.
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www.cbecal.org
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Communities for a Better Environment is an environmental
health and justice non-profit, promoting clean air, clean water and
the development of toxin-free communities in California. Regional.
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www.bucketbrigade.net
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Bucket Brigade 'is a air quality measuring tool that dozens of
communities are using to find out for themselves what chemicals
are in the air. Armed with their own data communities are
attaining impressive reductions of pollution, safety improvements
and increasing enforcement of environmental laws.’
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www.farmland.org
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American Farmland Trust, a nonprofit organization works to
stop the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming
practices that lead to a healthy environment. Working with farmers
and ranchers, political leaders and community activists, AFT has
helped to permanently protect more than a million acres of
America's best farm and ranch land.
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www.rooted
incommunity.org
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Rooted In Community National Network is a national
grassroots network that empowers young people to take leadership
in their own communities. We are a diverse movement of youth
and adults working together and committed to fostering healthy
communities and food justice through urban and rural agriculture,
community gardening, food security, and related environmental
justice work.
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www.chej.org
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Center for Health, Environment and Justice can help your
community if you are facing an environmental health risk. From
leaking landfills and polluted drinking water to incinerators and
hazardous waste sites, we can help you take action towards a
healthier future. Community Organizing Services.
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Recycling aluminum requires 95 per cent less energy than producing the virgin metal.I
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Competitions:
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www.bfi.org
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Buckminster Fuller Institute Challenge- awards a $100,000
prize each year for comprehensive solutions that radically advance
human well-being and ecosystem health.
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Consumerism:
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www.newdream.org
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Center for a New American Dream, non-profit 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.''
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www.simpleliving.net
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Simple Living Network, newsletter, community forums, study
circles, tips.
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Cosmetics:
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safecosmetics.live.
radicaldesigns.org
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Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a national coalition of nonprofit
health and environmental organizations whose collective goal is to
protect the health of consumers and workers by requiring the
personal care products industry to phase out the use of dangerous
chemicals and replace them with safer alternatives.
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www.ewg.org
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Environmental Working Group's team of scientists, engineers,
policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pores over
government data, legal documents, scientific studies and their own
laboratory tests to expose threats to our health and the
environment, and to find solutions. Campaigns such as the call for a
Kid-Safe Chemicals Act. Links to EWG's Skin Deep Database.
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Cultural:
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www.blueearth.org
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Blue Earth raises awareness about endangered cultures,
threatened environments and social concerns through
photography. By supporting the power of photographic storytelling,
they motivate society to make positive change.
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www.bridgesweb.org
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Bridges to Understanding uses digital technology and the art of
storytelling to empower and unite youth worldwide, enhance
cross-cultural understanding and build global citizenship.
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I“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage” Anais NinI
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Democracy:
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www.lcv.org
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League of Conservation Voters is turning environmental
values into national priorities. To secure the environmental future
of our planet, LCV’s mission is to advocate for sound environmental
policies and to elect pro-environmental candidates who will adopt
and implement such policies. Through our National Environmental
Scorecard and Presidential Report Card we inform the public about
the most important environmental legislation of the past
Congressional session and show them how their own and other
representatives voted.
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www.moveon.org
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MoveOn.org Civic Action, a nonprofit, primarily engages in
campaigns to reform the media and other work aimed at bringing
back the democratic process by making sure legislators hear their
voices.
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www.aidemocracy.org
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Americans for Informed Democracy, a non-partisan 501,
coordinates town hall meetings on America's role in the world,
hosts leadership retreats, and publishes opinion pieces and reports
on issues of global importance.
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www.uspirg.org
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U.S. Public Interest Research Group's mission is to deliver
persistent, result oriented public interest activism that protects our
health, encourages a fair sustainable economy, and fosters
responsive, democratic government.''
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www.commoncause.org
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Common Cause a nonprofit, nonpartisan citizen's lobbying
organization promoting open, honest and accountable government
by attempting to ensure that government and political processes
serve the general interest, rather than special interests; curb
excessive influence of money on government decisions and
elections; promote fair elections and high ethical standards for
government officials; and to protect the civil rights and civil
liberties of all Americans.
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www.americaspeaks.org
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AmericaSpeaks’, a nonpartisan, non-profit, whose mission is to
reinvigorate American Democracy by engaging citizens in the
public decision-making that most impacts their lives by leading the
development of a national infrastructure for democratic
deliberation (such as 21st Century Town Meetings) that
institutionalizes the links between decision-makers and citizens in
determining public policy.
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www.oidp.net
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International Observatory on Participatory Democracy.
Network of municipalities and stakeholders in participatory
democracy experiments, a common space to share the
Participatory Democracy experiences that lead towards achieving
higher levels of equality, empowered citizenship, greater
legitimisation of and trust on public authorities, and greater
efficiency in public policy.
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www.citizen.org
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Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit fighting for openness and
democratic accountability in government, for the right of
consumers to seek redress in the courts; for clean, safe and
sustainable energy sources; for social and economic justice in trade
policies; for strong health, safety and environmental protections;
and for safe, effective and affordable prescription drugs and health
care.
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Developing World:
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www.thirdworldtraveler.com
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Third World Traveler posts articles and book excerpts that
offer an alternative view to the U.S. mainstream media about the
state of American democracy, media, and foreign policy, and about
the impact of the actions of the United States government,
transnational corporations, international financial institutions, and
the corporate media, on democracy, social and economic justice,
human rights, and war and peace, in the Third World.''
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