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"It's Alive!"    Back To Top

Eco-labels Center

Here you''ll find out what the labels on your favorite products really mean. As the popularity of green product claims continues to grow, it''s important to know which claims you can trust and which ones you can''t. Read More

Facts About Genetic Engineering

Genetic engineering (GE) in agriculture is a new process used by scientists to insert genes from various organisms (human, plant, animal, bacteria or virus) into crop plants. This technology, which has been present in the food we are eating for less than ten years, differs fundamentally from traditional plant breeding in that it forces the exchange of genes across species barriers. Read More

Genetic Engineering Action Network

GEAN is a network of almost 100 organizations from across the US working to resist genetic engineering in agriculture. GEAN's affiliate groups range from large national non-profits, including the Center for Food Safety and Friends of the Earth, to state and regional groups like Californians for GE-Free Agriculture and GMO-Free Hawaii, to small grassroots groups, like Colorado GEAN and GE-Free Maine. Read More

A New threat to Rainforests    Back To Top

"Policy, Practice and Lies"

Review of legal, environmental and social practices of oil palm plantation companies of the Wilmar Group in Sambas District, West Kalimantan (Indonesia) Read More

Amazon Conservation Team

In our project areas, we recognize the inextricable link between the survival of the forest and the survival of the local forest culture-what we term ""biocultural"" diversity. ACT''s experience has taught us that strong and thriving indigenous cultures, with national recognition of their claim to these lands, is the key to biodiversity conservation in many areas where we work. " Read More

Rain Forest Rescue

Since 1992, caring individuals have been making a positive difference in these fragile regions through the Arbor Day Foundation’s Rain Forest Rescue® Program. Thanks to the Foundation’s members and friends, cooperative work with The Nature Conservancy to conserve endangered land in the Maya Forest has been possible. Since the founding of Rain Forest Rescue, more than two billion square feet of land has been preserved. Read More

The Disappearing Rainforests

Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years. Read More

Time to Move to 2nd Generation Biofuels

The Science papers, covered in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and virtually everywhere else, blared such headlines as ''Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat." And it''s shaking the scientific community into high gear. According to Washington Post writer Juliet Eilperin, senior scientists responded to the new studies by sending a letter to President Bush and House Speaker Pelosi urging them to reconsider their energy policies. Read More

Tropical Deforestation

NASA supports and conducts research on tropical forests from space-based and ground-based perspectives, helping provide the information that national and international leaders need to develop strategies for sustaining human populations and preserving tropical forest biodiversity. Read More

Where the $$$ goes

Wilmar is one of the largest players in the Southeast Asian oil palm sector with an annual turnover of US$ 5.3 billion. After a complicated take-over and merger plan with the edible oil businesses of the Malaysian Kuok Group and the Asian edible oil businesses of the American agricultural trading company ADM, Wilmar will be the leading agribusiness group in Asia. Read More

All Aboard!    Back To Top

Build Passenger Rail With Demand

Last week, the Senate passed a measure that would provide $10 billion for Amtrak over the next six years. The legislation, if passed, would not only go a long way towards helping Amtrak get out of its financial hole, but the infusion of cash would provide a major boost of investment in our rail infrastructure at a time when demand for passenger trains is growing. Read More

Friends of Amtrak

Keep up with the latest on Amtrak news, legislation and advocacy. Read More

On Track On Line

Discussions about train travel and railroading. Check out their Amtrak travel tips, their Urban Transit section, and the forums for news and announcements. Read More

An Invisible Threat    Back To Top

KidSafe Seafood

A web site for kids—and their parents—to help make the healthiest fish choices, for themselves and the planet. Read More

Mercury In Focus

Sierra Club's Mercury Campaign works to protect our communities from mercury pollution and urges the Bush Administration to require that polluting industries use the best available technology to reduce their mercury emissions as much as possible. Read More

Mercury in Vehicles

The Clean Car Campaign has developed an aggressive plan for the collection of automotive mercury, and calls for producer responsibility in addressing the hazards presented by mercury devices in vehicles. Read More

Mercury Policy Project

The Mercury Policy Project (MPP) works to promote policies to eliminate mercury uses, reduce the export and trafficking of mercury, and significantly reduce mercury exposures at the local, national, and international levels. They strive to work harmoniously with other groups and individuals who have similar goals and interests. Read More

Read David Kirby's Huffington Post Blog

David Kirby, a longtime reporter for The New York Times and other publications, is the author of the book: Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy. Follow his columns on this controversial topic at the Huffington Post. Read More

Born to Be Wild    Back To Top

National Wilderness Training Center

The Wilderness Education Training Manual Series offer wilderness managers, educators and the interested public the opportunity to download curriculum, overheads, and other materials. Read More

Strengthen the Community

How to contact The Wilderness Society's local coalitions and Wilderness Support Center. Read More

The New Economy of the West

Download Sierra Club's Report: Protected public lands are among the nation's most valuable economic assets. Increasingly, economic growth in The West stems from services to the rising number of residents who want to live and work in places surrounded by protected natural areas and visitors who are drawn to the recreational opportunities these places offer. Several studies have shown that scenery and recreational opportunities are influencing decisions about where people live and do business. The economy of the West is undergoing a transformation, from relying on logging, mining, and oil, to relying on the unspoiled landscapes and abundant wildlife that support recreation and tourism. If we protect them now, they will provide a powerful economic asset for generations to come. Read More

Top 10 Things You DON'T

Want to Hear in the Wilderness. A little humor never hurts! Read More

What Is Groundtruthing?

Ground truthing is a technique used by volunteers trying to determine the boundaries of potential Wilderness Areas. Ground truthing is a way of looking at an entire mountain range, forest, watershed, coral reef, desert, grassland, river, or marsh to understand the interactions involved. With our present technology, we can measure an entire watershed and understand the relationships between different communities and survey the effects that humans are having on that ecosystem. Check out this innovate education program that uses ground truthing as part of its "living laboratory" approach. Read More

Bring Back the Electric Cars    Back To Top

Green Car Congress

News & information on sustainable mobility including Plug-ins. "Our audience comprises members of every segment of the energy and transportation markets: industry, government, academia and the public." A bit on the ''wonky" side; has an RSS feed for people who really want to follow this issue. Read More

Hybrid Car Revolution

Photos, news, and a blog - all about hybrid and electric cars! Read More

Plug In America

Plug in America advocates the use of plug-in cars, trucks and SUVs powered by cleaner, cheaper, domestic electricity to reduce our nation’s dependence on petroleum and improve the global environment. Join them. Read More

Recharge a Car, Recharge the Planet

RechargeIT is a Google.org initiative that aims to reduce CO2 emissions, cut oil use and stabilize the electrical grid by accelerating the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid technology. Read More

Set America Free

Not just for those on the Left… "A Coalition of tree huggers, do-gooders, sodbusters, cheap hawks, and evangelicals." —R. James Woolsey, former director of the CIA. Also count Gary Bauer, Tom Daschle, Sam Brownback and the Apollo Alliance among their members. The group considers energy a national security issue.  Read More

Build It Green    Back To Top

25 Ways To Go Green At Home

So you've got a hybrid in the driveway and organic microbrew in the fridge. What more can you do to maintain an environmentally conscious lifestyle at home? Plenty. Read More

Blue Jean Insulation

A medical center is insulating its walls with recycled blue jeans instead of fiberglass. The new construction material is more environmentally friendly, as fiberglass contains formaldehyde, which is believed to cause asthma and allergies. The use of denim is just one of several ""green"" materials used at the medical center. Read More

ECOsurfaces - Recycled Rubber Flooring

ECOsurfaces rubber flooring combines the highest quality recycled SBR tire rubber and colorful reprocessed EPDM flecks to create an extensive array of 54 standard color combinations for interior design applications in commercial environments. Read More

Green Building Links

The U.S. Green Building Council''s list contains links to Internet resource sites to facilitate green building education and research. Read More

Clean Up The Mines    Back To Top

Citizen's Guide: Preserving Our Public Lands

It is our hope that this Citizen's Guide will be used by grassroots organizations, the general public, and the concerned citizen to take a more active role in preserving our public lands in the face of increased oil and gas development pressures. As in any democracy, the voice, concerns, participation and comments of the citizens that own the public lands are absolutely critical in the ongoing efforts to preserve not only some of the last wild and remote public lands, but also those areas which play an important role in the communities of everyday people. Download the PDF. Read More

Foiling the Aluminum Industry

A Toolkit for Communities, Activists, Consumers, and Workers: The aluminum industry is the world''s most energy intensive industry, and also one of the most polluting industries on the planet. With the industry increasingly looking for cheap energy in developing countries to fuel new smelters and to expand already-existing aluminum operations, pressure has mounted for construction of large hydroelectric dams to provide subsidized energy to the multinational operations. Read More

Green Guide Product Report: Jewelry

Outlines the environmental and social problems with extracting metals and stones to make jewelry, and offers some solutions to buying more eco-friendly baubles. Read More

Mining Claims Threaten West

Soaring prices for gold, copper, uranium and other metals have produced an explosion of mining claims across the West, encroaching on hundreds of sprawling cities, destination resorts, retirement communities and remote recreation retreats. Since 2003, mining interests have staked 16,282 claims within five miles of cities and towns in twelve western states, for a total of 51,579 active mining claims within five miles of these communities as of January 2008. Click on ""Main"" for an interactive map of mining claims. Read More

Reclaiming a Toxic Legacy Through Art & Science

The VFW Halls look much the same - a bar stretches across the front and a bingo parlor sits behind it. In 1995, T. Allan Comp, a historic preservationist who specializes in industrial sites, walked into the VFW bar in the small borough of Vintondale. Comp was looking for some local people who had agreed to talk with him about a reclamation project that he called Acid Mine Drainage and Art (AMD&ART). Comp''s idea was to reclaim toxic former coal mines using not only science but elements of design, sculpture, and history, which he hoped would spur community involvement and create vital public spaces. And although a small group had gathered in the bingo hall to meet with Comp, the men sitting at the bar had their doubts. Read More

Rock Jocks Fight A Mining Company

In the years following World War II, as the interstate highway system began to grow, flocks of Americans started driving into the great outdoors to picnic and camp. Recognizing this trend, in the early 1950s, President Dwight D. Eisenhower enacted dozens of orders exempting certain federal lands from any use other than recreation. One of those places is the U.S. Forest Service''s Oak Flat campground in Arizona, about an hour east of Phoenix. The area attracts birders, hikers and campers, and its massive, wind-chiseled boulders lure climbers. Since 1989, it''s played host to the Phoenix Boulder Blast, one of the largest climbing events in the world. But recently, the United Kingdom''s Rio Tinto Company, a mining giant that earns $2.8 billion annually, got wind of what could be one of the continent''s largest copper deposits, located below Oak Flat and nearby Superior, Ariz. Eager to develop it, Rio Tinto and Australia-based Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd. formed a subsidiary called Resolution Copper Company, which plans to invest $2 billion to mine the copper. " Read More

Consider the Alternatives    Back To Top

Do It Yourself Projects

Discover Solar Energy, a comprehensive resource of more than 9,000+ renewable energy links to relevant websites of individuals, governments and organizations. The links are cross-referenced to help homeowners, engineers, hobbyists, teachers and students find quick answers to issues relating to alternative energy. Read More

Learn About Renewable Energy

Renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies are key to creating a clean energy future for not only the nation, but the world. This Web site describes NREL's research in renewable energy technologies, and also provides information on energy efficiency and various applications of renewable energy. Read More

Renewable Energy Certificates

Renewable energy certificates, also known as green certificates, green tags, or tradable renewable certificates, represent the environmental attributes of the power produced from renewable energy projects and are sold separate from commodity electricity. Customers can buy green certificates whether or not they have access to green power through their local utility or a competitive electricity marketer. Read More

Teach Your Children

Learn about renewable energy while you those who will inherit the planet. Read More

Do Your Share(s)    Back To Top

Business and Human Rights

Taking 'stock' of corporate behavior using shareholder activism to defend and promote human rights Read More

Committee of Concerned Shareholders

Meaningless Elections, where the outcome is decided in advance, fell out of favor after the collapse of the Berlin Wall - except in Corporate America. Read More

Corporate Social Resposibilty

Shareholder Resolution at Hasbro Encourages Company to Replace Toxic Chemicals in Consumer Products Read More

Record Number of Global Warming Resolutions

Leading U.S. investors today announced that they have filed a record 54 global warming shareholder resolutions with U.S. companies that face far-reaching business impacts from climate change. The resolutions are nearly double the number filed just two years ago. Read More

Sleeping With the Enemy

The Sierra Club does not accept gifts from major polluters or consistent violators of environmental laws. So it wouldn't make sense for the Club to invest in one of those companies either. Or would it? Read More

Down the Drain    Back To Top

Clean Water Action

Clean Water Action's more than 1.2 million members, volunteers and seasoned professional staff have built one of the nation's largest, most effective environmental organizations. Read More

Drinking Water Quality

The World Health Organization explores contaminated drinking water in developing and developed countries worldwide. Read More

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about ground water & drinking water from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Read More

Groundwater Education

The Groundwater Foundation focuses on education for action: understanding that pollution prevention is the most effective, cost efficient way to protect groundwater. Read More

Drop by Drop    Back To Top

10 Facts About Water Scarcity

A lack of water to meet daily needs is a reality for many people around the world and has serious health consequences. Globally, water scarcity already affects four out of every 10 people. The situation is getting worse due to population growth, urbanization and increased domestic and industrial water use. Read More

25 Ways to Save Water

Even in areas where water seems abundant, water conservation is important. In addition to saving money on your utility bill, water conservation helps prevent water pollution in nearby lakes, rivers and local watersheds. Read More

Clean Water Defense

Clean water is the cornerstone of healthy communities. It is impossible to overstate the value and importance of clean water for people, fish and wildlife. Our health, quality of life, economy and ecosystems depend on it. Read More

For The Birds    Back To Top

Birdlife International

A global Partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. BirdLife Partners operate in over one hundred countries and territories worldwide, and collaborate on regional work programmes in every continent. Read More

Coffee and Conservation

The purpose of Coffee & Conservation is to provide information about the connection between coffee and the environment—especially bird habitat.  Read More

Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center

Unique in its exclusive focus on migratory birds and its combination of research, education and training, and policy work, the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center is dedicated to fostering greater understanding, appreciation, and protection of the grand phenomenon of bird migration. Read More

The American Bird Conservancy

ABC broadly divides its conservation activities into three divisions: Domestic Habitat, Conservation Advocacy (also refered to as Policy), and International. In addition, ABC's Science and Monitoring staff play a key role in developing the biological foundations on which much of today's bird conservation efforts are based. Read More

Go Organic    Back To Top

Good Eating Blog

A roundup of timely news items, reports, and miscellaneous thoughts on sustainable farming, fishing, animal agriculture, and eating compiled by Worldwatch's food and agriculture team Read More

Snackcast

Want to listen to good information about food issues on your computer or iPod, instead of reading? Subscribe to Food & Water Watch's podcast. Read More

Sustain 360 Degrees

Of course, we want you to join our forums, but here's one dedicated to organics. Read More

The O'Mama Report

Organic information and inspiration from OTA; plus you can sign up for updates! Read More

God's Green Earth    Back To Top

Earth Day Sample Sermons

For clergy for Earth Day or make everyday Earth Day. Read More

Moyers & McKibben Discuss Global Warming

This hour long podcast took place at the New York Public Library on October 3, 2006. Read More

Opening the Book of Nature

Angela Kantola finds it hard to explain two parts of her life that some people see as contradictory. Kantola is a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who relies on scientific evidence while working to recover endangered fish in northern Colorado. The Indian Hills resident is also a devout Christian. "My biologist colleagues can't understand my spiritual life," she said. "My brothers and sisters can't understand my environmentalism. So now I just say, 'I'm a tree-hugging Jesus freak.'" Read More

Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

In contrast to abortion, gay marriage and other hot-button cultural issues, which divide most religious groups in the United States, there is a fairly strong consensus across faith traditions on environmental policy, according to recent polls. Read More

Republicans for Environmental Protection

Religion & the Environment: For many Christians and Jews, their faith calls on them to care for the Earth's bounty: its air and waters, land and forests, plants and animals. The despoliation of that bounty by pollution and resource depletion is seen as a grave moral failing. Read More

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Biodiversity Project

Biodiversity Project works to make people aware of the importance of biodiversity and to build their commitment to saving it. Our task is to engage and empower people to act by making the connection between biodiversity and people's daily lives and basic values.
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Conservation International

Species are estimated to be heading towards extinction at a rate of about one every 20 minutes. This situation is directly tied to two issues—habitat destruction and climate change. Conservation International helps identify which species are threatened, where they occur, and what threatens their survival. With that knowledge, we find ways to act that can begin to reverse the population declines which lead to extinction. Read More

Defenders of Wildlife Biodiversity Partnership

The Biodiversity Partnership is dedicated to promoting and supporting regional and statewide strategies to conserve biodiversity. This initiative has its roots in the Oregon Biodiversity Project, a collaborative effort begun in the mid-1990s that resulted in one of the nation's first statewide biodiversity assessments. Read More

International Union for Conservation of Nature

IUCN helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges. IUCN supports scientific research; manages field projects all over the world; and brings governments, non-government organizations, United Nations agencies, companies and local communities together to develop and implement policy, laws and best practice. IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental network. IUCN is a democratic membership union with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and some 10,000 volunteer scientists in more than 160 countries. Read More

National Resources Defense Council

The threats vary, from pollution to logging to harmful development, but the effect on wildlife is the same: shrinking habitat and the inability to survive and reproduce. Read More

Wildlands Project

Do you remember the episode of The West Wing when a group of conservationists made a pitch for creating connected pathways for endangered species to safely walk across the continent? Well they're real, and it's a good idea that's gaining legitimacy. Read More

Zero Extinction

The Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE), a global initiative of biodiversity conservation organizations, aims to prevent extinctions by identifying and safeguarding key sites where species are in imminent danger of disappearing. Read More

Green Collar Jobs    Back To Top

Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference

The conference will mark the first time that over 700 representatives of diverse constituencies around the nation-including organized labor, business and industry, environmentalists, public officials, civil rights advocates, and academia-will come together to broaden the discussion on how investment in clean energy and green technology can transform our economy and reinvest in the skills of our workers and the strength of our communities. Read More

Green-Collar Jobs How-To Guide

Co-Authored by Green For All, the Apollo Alliance, Center for American Progress, and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, this how-to guide lays out clear steps for creating comprehensive green-collar job strategies at the local level. It also profiles some of the great work already underway around the country. Read More

Policy + Cleantech + Finance = Jobs

How Innovation and Investment Can Promote Job Growth and a Healthy Environment. Download the pdf here. Read More

Time is Running Out

Instead of legalizing casinos, DiMasi argued the state should pump $50 million into a clean energy initiative that he claims would create thousands of new jobs. Read More

Training for Green Collar Jobs

There's a new kind of collar in the job market, green collars. SUNY ESF and Onondaga Community College are teaming up to train workers for those kinds of positions. Read More

You Can't Outsource a Green Job

These investment categories mean new green-collar jobs for American workers at a time when blue-collar jobs are drying up or shipping out: Solar panel manufacturer; green building construction worker; sustainable forestry worker. These are all green jobs-many of them unionized. By their nature, green jobs are also local jobs, meaning that money stays in the community and creates a multiplier effect for the local economy. Read More

Greener By the Dozen    Back To Top

Ceres

At its founding in 1989, Ceres (pronounced series) introduced a bold new vision to the business community. That vision is of a world in which business and capital markets promote the well being of human society and the protection of the earth''s biological systems and resources. Ceres advances its vision by bringing investors, environmental groups and other stakeholders together to encourage companies and capital markets to incorporate environmental and social challenges into their day-to-day decision-making. Read More

EcoLogo Blog

Terra Choice's EcoLogo blog has lots of information about environmentally-preferable products and the state of "green" commerce. It's a valuable resource for anyone who wants an inside perspective on the growing green industry. If you're an environmentally conscious consumer or a professional purchaser, read this blog for details on the environmental impacts of different products and product categories (from green cleaning, to home improvement, to office equipment and much more). Read More

Environmental Purchasing Starter Kit

This kit from the National Association of Counties (NACo) helps counties create a safer workplace for employees and a healthier community. By using the resources contained in this kit, your county can adopt a purchasing program that supports your environmental protection goals while stimulating investment in new industry. Learn about how to implement environmentally friendly purchasing in your county. Read More

Green Purchasing - Leading by Example

In many ways, the modern green purchasing movement dates its beginning to 1989 when King County, WA, enacted its Recycled Product Procurement Policy. While other governments introduced buy-recycled policies around the same time, King County was one of the only governments to devote a full-time staff person to implement its policy. After several years of increasing success, the county officially expanded its green purchasing efforts beyond recycled-content to incorporate additional human health and environmental considerations when it updated its original policy in 1995. Read More

Green Seal Green Reports

From the well-established 3rd party certifier of EPP products, technical reports on products in a variety of categories giving specific brand recommendations of those that meet screening criteria. Read More

What is EPEAT?

The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) is a procurement tool to help large volume purchasers in the public and private sectors evaluate, compare, and select desktop computers, notebooks, and monitors based on their environmental attributes. EPEAT also provides a clear and consistent set of performance criteria for the design of products and provides an opportunity for manufacturers to secure market recognition for efforts to reduce the environmental impact of their products. Read More

Grow a Green Marketplace    Back To Top

EcoLogo Blog

Terra Choice's EcoLogo blog has lots of information about environmentally-preferable products and the state of "green" commerce. It's a valuable resource for anyone who wants an inside perspective on the growing green industry. If you're an environmentally conscious consumer or a professional purchaser, read this blog for details on the environmental impacts of different products and product categories (from green cleaning, to home improvement, to office equipment and much more). Read More

Freecycle

Before you buy something new (or throw something away), look here. Like Craigslist (also a good option) but all free stuff. Read More

Home Safe Home

Home Safe Home is an excellent book by Debra Lynn Dadd that "gives you the tools to identify health effects and safe alternatives for more than 100 common household products. You'll find out how you can protect yourself and your family from everyday toxics and harmful household products." The web site also features an excellent Q&A Blog, and Debra's List, where you can find green solutions to just about every household problem. Read More

The Ecological Consumer Channel

From Worldwatch Institute: Videos & multi-media. Read More

The Greenwashing Index

the Greenwashing Index is the world's first online interactive forum that allows consumers to evaluate real advertisements making environmental claims. if you've seen a good or bad ad heralding the environmental qualities of a product or company, post it here, rank it, and then come back to see how other consumers score it. Read More

Two Steps Forward

Joel Makower's blog offers some perspective on the green business boom from an expert. Read More

Growing Warmer    Back To Top

Educating the Educators

Schoolyard Habitats projects provide enriching, exciting, and interactive educational activities that foster enthusiasm in students and educators alike. Read More

Gardening in a Changing Climate

Climate change is one of the gravest threats facing humankind and the environment and affects life on Earth in countless ways. Just as it threatens natural ecosystems from tropical forests to arctic tundra, the changing climate also affects farms, gardens, and other cherished cultural landscapes. Read More

Going Native

"Natural areas today not only are smaller but also are more isolated from one another. When populations of a species are cut off from one another, they are unable to exchange genetic material, and inbreeding occurs. " Read More

See Global Warming in Action

Visit your local botanic garden. Some plants are now thriving in places where centuries ago they froze. Read More

Here Comes the Sun    Back To Top

Renewable Energy Resources on the Web

Useful links about Solar and all types of renewable energy from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Read More

Solar Today Magazine

Solar Today is an award-winning magazine covering renewable energy technologies across the board, from photovoltaics and climate-responsive buildings to wind power and green building products.
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Welcome to Solar Nation

Does global warming scare you? (It should). Do you want cleaner and healthier air? Are you worried about our dangerous dependence on imported fossil fuels? If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, Solar Nation is where you belong. Because this is the place where Solar Citizens live, the place where we can rally to change and improve energy policy in America so that solar power becomes a key element of our future. Read More

Home on the Refuge    Back To Top

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

A trip to the Arctic Refuge is a life-changing experience and an inspiration. If you are considering a visit, these pages can help you plan with lists of authorized guides and air taxi operators, information about obtaining maps, and a link to Refuge weather conditions. Read More

Land Exchange Threatens Wildlife

The Wilderness Society joins hundreds of other concerned voices when the organization testifies in opposition to a proposed land swap that would open 110,000 acres of critical and irreplaceable wildlife habitat and wilderness in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development. Read More

National Wildlife Refuge Association

The NWRA is committed to protect, enhance and expand the National Wildlife Refuge System. Read More

Our Wild Legacy

The Sierra Club seeks to protect wildlife, public lands, and special places, and block threats to these lands from commercial logging, mining, abusive recreation, and overgrazing. Read More

Why trash the Arctic?

An American Serengeti, the Arctic Refuge continues to pulse with million-year-old ecological rhythms. It is the greatest living reminder that conserving nature in its wild state is a core American value. Read More

Wildlife in Crisis

Wildlife in Crisis (WIC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to wildlife preservation and land conservation. Read More

Hook, Line and Sinker    Back To Top

Are you seafood savvy?

FishWatch can help you make informed decisions about the seafood you eat by providing you with the most accurate and timely information available on the sustainability of U.S. seafood fisheries. FishWatch is brought to you by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, the U.S. authority on marine fisheries science, conservation, and management. Read More

Don't Get Blogged Down

Become a Wavemaker and post on Oceana’s Ocean Blog. Read More

Living Blue

Pertinent issues -- ranging from pollution and seafood contamination to destructive bottom trawling and over-fishing subsidies -- are attacked from all sides only after the organization has established specific and concrete goals to improve the situation. Read More

PCBs in farmed salmon

Seven of ten farmed salmon purchased at grocery stores in Washington DC, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon were contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at levels that raise health concerns, according to independent laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group. Read More

It's a Plastic World    Back To Top

More Disturbing Photographs

Plastic everywhere. Read More

Plastic Bags

Some disturbing photographs. Read More

Polymers Are Forever

Alarming tales of a most prevalent and problematic substance Read More

The "Why to" and "How to" Page

From Modbury, South Devon: Hopefully everything you ever wanted to know about going plastic bag free and more. A guide for towns. Read More

The Trash Vortex

The very thing that makes plastic items useful to consumers, their durability and stability, also makes them a problem in marine environments. Around 100 million tonnes of plastic are produced each year of which about 10 percent ends up in the sea. About 20 percent of this is from ships and platforms, the rest from land. Read More

Make New Dirt    Back To Top

Compost is cheap!

Most gardeners have long understood the value of this rich, dark, earthy material in improving the soil and creating a healthful environment for plants. Understanding how to make and use compost is in the public interest, as the problem of waste disposal climbs toward a crisis level. Read More

Cup of Tea anyone?

Compost tea is produced by "steeping" healthy compost in water using some method of aeration. Read More

Dirt-slip sliding away.

When the Earth's population was smaller people could move from one place to another and give soil a chance to regenerate. But now, with more than 6 billion people on the planet, that option no longer exists. Read More

How to make compost

Most gardeners have long understood the value of this rich, dark, earthy material in improving the soil and creating a healthful environment for plants. Understanding how to make and use compost is in the public interest, as the problem of waste disposal climbs toward a crisis level. Read More

Landfill Facts for Kids

Today, we still bury our garbage, although not in the open dumps of yesterday. About 55 percent of our garbage is hauled off in garbage trucks and packed into sanitary landfills-making landfilling America''s number one way of getting rid of its trash. (The other 45 percent is either recycled or burned.) Read More

What Is biodegradable?

Of all the environmental buzzwords, "biodegradable" has perhaps been the most misused and is perhaps the most difficult to understand. Because in the past there have been no guidelines or regulations, many products have called themselves biodegradable without any real justification. Read More

What's in your trash?

Find out "What's In Your Trash Bag?" and you can calculate a Waste Generation Baseline for your whole school. Use this information to measure the success of your school recycling projects....and watch the Waste Stream in your school reduce to a trickle! Read More

Over The Top    Back To Top

America's Power

Ewww. Don't just get your info from us, see what the Coal Industry itself has to say. Plus they have a handy map, so you can see how much of your energy comes from "clean coal."" Read More

Coal The Video

An inspiring look at what makes our country run! I think it's a spoof - do you? Read More

Mountains Into Molehills

Alas, long after the carbon age is an interactive memory, the legacy of coal will still be with us — and not just in museum form. For that we have West Virginia, a state of mournful beauty and citizens with long memories. Book Review. Read More

Resources for Coal Fighters

Perhaps the best way to learn more about the No New Coal Plants movement is simply to dive right in. Locate a proposed coal-fired power plant in your state, check out the web sites of the groups opposing it, and get involved. Read More

The Return Of Killer Coal

Alas, coal is not just a U.S. problem. Read More

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A Great Public Space

Parks have been a core focus of PPS beginning with our work with William H. (Holly) Whyte and our signature early projects like the Bryant Park concept plan. Over the years we have helped many cities create such great public destinations. Today, as more people come to recognize the galvanizing power of parks, we are working with communities to transform more underperforming spaces into great parks than ever before. Read More

Come Out and Play!

Discover the pleasures of Chicago Park District treasures! The Chicago Park District manages over 220 stunning facilities throughout the city - most can play host to your next event. For more information about the Chicago Park District''s more than 7300 acres of parkland, 552 parks, 33 beaches, nine museums, two world-class conservatories, 16 historic lagoons, 10 bird and wildlife gardens, thousands of special events, sports and entertaining programs, please continue on through the event section. Read More

National Recreation and Park Association

In towns all across America, millions of acres of open space that could be transformed into hiking and biking trails, community parks, and local recreation centers is being bulldozed and paved over. Read More

Plant those trees!

Modest Increase in Urban Parks Could Equalize Global Warming Until 2080 Read More

The City Parks Alliance

Working to see city parks more fully recognized and valued for the role they play in building stronger, healthier and more livable cities. Read More

Urban Land Goes Back to Nature

Brownfield redevelopments don't always have to be about replacing old with new. Read More

Save the Coral Reefs    Back To Top

Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL)

The Coral Reef Alliance is the only international organization working exclusively to save the Earth's coral reefs. Through worldwide partnerships, CORAL seeks to measurably increase the capacity of marine recreation providers, reef managers, and local communities to work collaboratively towards coral reef conservation. Check out their Resource Library and Volunteer opportunities. Read More

Coral Reef News & Information

The latest news, videos, books and images about coral from Science Daily, one of the Internet's leading online magazines and Web portals devoted to science, technology, and medicine. Read More

Coral Reefs of the Tropics

As some of the most biodiverse and wondrous places in the world, coral reefs need our immediate attention. The Nature Conservancy is dedicated to protecting these vital ecosystems and all the corals, fish and people that depend on them. Find out what they're doing and how you can help.
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The Reef Environmental Education Foundation

Are you a diver or snorkeler? REEF is a grass-roots organization that seeks to conserve marine ecosystems by educating, enlisting and enabling divers and other marine enthusiasts to become active ocean stewards and citizen scientists. Read More

Too Precious to Wear

Too Precious to Wear is a campaign created by SeaWeb, a communications-based nonprofit organization, to empower consumers and industry professionals to create a demand for coral conservation. Too Precious to Wear aims to: Reduce threats to corals by Recruiting influential fashion and design leaders to be leading voices for coral conservation and Raising awareness of products that celebrate the ocean without harming it, by highlighting real coral alternatives. Read More

Topic: Coral Reefs

A list of useful educational links for adults and kids. Coral reef conservation groups, films and live camera views of coral, creative ideas such as write a coral reef poem or create a coral reef mural. Lots of good stuff. Read More

Save the Living River    Back To Top

Flow for People & The Environment

No this isn't the latest self-help craze, it's an approach to water management that's at the heart of many living river strategies. An ""environmental flow"" is the water regime provided within a river, wetland or coastal zone to maintain ecosystems and their benefits where there are competing water uses and where flows are regulated. All about the subject, and we do mean, all. Read More

Natural Flood Protection

Natural flood protection can be attained by protecting and restoring wetlands and floodplains, and by restoring a river''s natural flow and meandering channel. Giving at least some floodplain back to a river will give the river more room to spread out. Furthermore, wetlands act as natural sponges, storing and slowly releasing floodwaters after peak flood flows have passed. A single acre of wetland, saturated to a depth of one foot, will retain 330,000 gallons of water enough to flood thirteen average-sized homes thigh-deep. Coastal wetlands reduce storm surge and slow its velocity. Maintaining and restoring healthy rivers, wetlands, and floodplains provides a host of benefits in addition to reducing flood damages. Read More

Stream Teams

Each spring WildEarth Guardians' members, supporters and volunteers become Stream Team Activists by gathering pledges and planting trees for each pledge. These trees become restored streamside habitat for wildlife such as endangered Southwest Willow Flycatchers and beavers. Join them. Or if you can't get to the Southwest, adapt the program for your River or Stream Adoption group. Read More

Save the Wetlands    Back To Top

Protect Wetland & Grassland Habitat

For over six decades, Ducks Unlimited has maintained a singleness of purpose that has guided the organization to become the leading waterfowl and wetlands conservation entity in North America. See what they do, and how you can help. Read More

Publications on Wetlands

Environmental Concern has several publications for sale on Wetlands Restoration, Schoolyard Wetlands, and WOW: The Wonders of Wetlands K-12 curriculum. Proceeds go to EC. Read More

Stormwater Wetland Pond

A short slide show of the making of a wetland pond to prevent stormwater runoff Read More

World Wetlands Day Reports

2 February each year is World Wetlands Day. It marks the date of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. WWD was celebrated for the first time in 1997 and made an encouraging beginning. Each year, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and groups of citizens at all levels of the community have taken advantage of the opportunity to undertake actions aimed at raising public awareness of wetland values and benefits in general and the Ramsar Convention in particular. From 1997 to 2007, the Convention''s Web site has posted reports from more than 95 countries of WWD activities of all sizes and shapes, from lectures and seminars, nature walks, children''s art contests, sampan races, and community clean-up days, to radio and television interviews and letters to newspapers, to the launch of new wetland policies, new Ramsar sites, and new programmes at the national level Read More

Save the Whales...Again    Back To Top

Dolphin Safe Tuna

In order for tuna to be considered "Dolphin Safe", it must meet the following standards Read More

Live Science

Everything you wanted to know about Whales. Read More

National Marine Mammal Laboratory

The NMML conducts research on marine mammals important to the mission of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Read More

The Marine Mammal Center

Founded in 1975, The Marine Mammal Center is a nonprofit organization that rescues, rehabilitates and releases injured, sick and orphaned marine mammals (seals, sea lions, dolphins, porpoises, whales and sea otters) along a 600 mile stretch of California coastline" Read More

Virtual Whale Watching

A Taste of the Real Thing. Read More

World Wildlife Fund

With the support of its members and international conservation partners, WWF is working to ensure that whales, dolphins and porpoises will swim in our seas for generations to come. Read More

Save Your Energy    Back To Top

ASE's Green Schools Program

Energy costs are an enormous expense for our nation's schools. To help free up more resources for education while strengthening academic learning, the Alliance's Green Schools Program engages students in creating energy-saving activities in their schools, using hands-on, real-world projects. Read More

Climate Savers Computing Initiative

Started by Google and Intel in 2007, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses and conservation organizations. By 2010, their goal is to reduce global CO2 emissions from the operation of computers by 54 million tons per year, equivalent to the annual output of 11 million cars or 10–20 coal-fired power plants. With your help, this effort will lead to a 50% reduction in power consumption by computers by 2010, and committed participants could collectively save $5.5 billion in energy costs. Read More

Cool Companies

Coolcompanies.org is a project of the non-profit Center for Energy & Climate Solutions and was founded to promote clean and efficient energy technologies as a money-saving tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. They help businesses, government, and environmental organizations develop technological, strategic, financial, and regulatory tools to foster the adoption of clean solutions. The Center helps companies design and implement strategies to cut energy use and pollution — particularly the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming Read More

Energy Future Coalition

The Energy Future Coalition is a broad-based, nonpartisan alliance that seeks to bridge the differences among business, labor, and environmental groups and identify energy policy options with broad political support. The coalition aims to bring about changes in U.S. energy policy to address the economic, security and environmental challenges related to the production and use of fossil fuels with a compelling new vision of the economic opportunities that will be created by the transition to a new energy economy. Read More

Energy Quest

Energy Quest is the energy education website of the California Energy Commission. Teaching an "energy ethic" to conserve finite resources is essential to our energy future, which is currently dependent on fossil fuels. We also must rely on our youth to help us create new ways to harness the elemental forces of our planet and the universe. They are tomorrow's scientists and inventors. They will discover new means of energy production and innovative ways to use less energy. Energy Quest can answer their questions and spur creativity and imagination. Read More

Support Fair Trade    Back To Top

Adopt-a-Supermarket

Co-op America and OxFam America have tools & resources for you to get Fair Trade certified products in your local supermarket. Read More

Fair Trade Chocolate Campaign

Help Global Exchange transform everyone's favorite food. (PDF) Read More

Just Add Justice

How to bring Fair Trade to your community from Oxfam America. (PDF) Read More

Teach Your Children

K-12 educational resources on Fair Trade Read More

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ForestEthics

Founded in 1994, ForestEthics is a nonprofit environmental organization with staff in Canada, the United States and Chile. They determine which corporations are purchasing products from the destruction of Endangered Forests. If a corporation refuses to change its practices, they hold that company publicly accountable-with protests, web sites, e-mail campaigns, national advertisements, and more. And when a company is ready to protect Endangered Forests, they help them implement sound policies. Read More

Greenpeace: Forests

In many ways, the fight to save our ancient forests is the fight to save our own lives. Indeed the air we breathe and environmental systems that are essential for life on Earth are directly related to our forests. Learn more about forests and our work around the world, especially Alaska and the Amazon. Read More

The Environmental Paper Network

In many regions, the paper industry is converting biodiverse and endangered forest habitats into single species tree farms that are intensively managed with herbicides and pesticides. In addition to soil and water toxicity issues and health impacts on local communities, it is estimated that tree farms host 90% fewer species than the forests that preceded them. Read More

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international organization that brings people together to find solutions which promote responsible stewardship of the world''s forests. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) shall promote environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. Read More

The Green Press Initiative

The mission of the Green Press Initiative is to work with book and newspaper industry stakeholders to conserve natural resources, preserve endangered forests, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and minimize impacts on indigenous communities. Read More

Target: Zero Waste    Back To Top

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Not surprisingly, California has some of the best ideas and resources for the 3 Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Start with waste reduction at home, and then explore more options. Read More

Super Green Subaru Plant

Subaru's giant assembly plant here is on track to produce 180,000 cars this year. Yet the automaker pledges that virtually none of the waste generated from its eye-popping output will wind up in a dump. Read More

William Good: Goodwill's Zero Waste Clothes

Into this golden age of all things eco-friendly comes a quirky new fashion line called William Good. Nick Graham, the eccentric San Francisco designer and founder of Joe Boxer, the company that gave boxer shorts personality, has teamed up with Goodwill to produce the line, which is made entirely from items from the discard bins. Read More

Zero Waste Challenge Week: Take It!

It began the way most days do for me: the Internet glowing in my face, my favorite view from Meriam Library out of the corner of my eye, and a disposable cup of steaming mahogany brew within quick reach. ''If I ever see you using one of those things again, I promise to no longer speak with you," said my friend Max. I had been expecting him, but not to hear that. It felt like an intervention. I looked over at my seemingly innocuous paper cup and knew this was my formal invitation to take the Zero Waste Challenge. Read More

Zero Waste Fashion Design

There is a lot of eco-chatter these days about ''adaptive reuse'' and ''reclaimed materials'' in green design, particularly in the realm of fashion-forward garments and accessories. Estethica, London Fashion Week''s recent sustainable design showcase featured some great examples of recycled/repurposed materials in designs that are light in footprint but substantial in style. One of the bright young stars of Estethica, Mark Liu, has taken sustainable fashion one step further with his ''zero-waste'' fabric patterns and eco-designs that do just that, waste not a scrap of fabric. Read More

Teach Your Children    Back To Top

Green Schools 101

Why green schools? 20% of America goes to school every day. More than a quarter of these students and teachers attend schools that are considered substandard or dangerous to occupant health. Read More

Healthy Schools/Healthy Kids

We started our system of guides and packets in 1995. Since that time, we have helped thousands of parents and schools across the country adopt healthier practices. Each guide or published report has been developed with expert consultants and resources in the field, and with assistance from parents and school employees. Read More

The Green Squad

Kid's taking Action for Greener Schools Read More

The Cool Cities Campaign    Back To Top

Center for Climate Strategies (CCS)

Elected officials and other public leaders are finding that climate action is an arena in which they can demonstrate leadership by proactively launching a smart public planning process. CCS enables governors and other state leaders to develop statewide climate action plans with comprehensive policy solutions, broad bipartisan stakeholder support, and successful implementation. Read More

Community Solutions to Global Warming

Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) works with communities throughout the Northeast to find solutions to climate change and build constituencies for effective climate policies and actions. They advise and partner with citizens, educators, faith groups, small businesses, municipal governments, and other local leaders. They organize events and training opportunities, advise on mitigation and adaptation strategies, document and publicize the benefits of local climate action, and offer information to support community-based initiatives. Though they're based in the Northeast, their resources are valuable to any community looking to stop global warming. Read More

Cool Mayors

The Mayors for Climate Protection web site. Everything you want to know about what Mayors who've signed the U.S. Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement and their cities have done and are doing to stop climate change. Plus tools and resources to Build a City Plan. Read More

ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability

ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability is a membership association of local governments committed to advancing climate protection and sustainable development. Since its inception in 1990, ICLEI has grown to include nearly 1,000 cities in the world, more than 400 of which are in the United States. ICLEI was established as the International Council on Local Environmental Initiatives. The organization is now officially ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability. Read More

Northeast Sustainable Energy Association

The Nation's leading regional membership organization promoting the understanding, development and adoption of energy conservation and non-polluting, renewable energy technologies. Read More

Sierra Club's Smart Energy Solutions

Explore what else Sierra Club is doing to solve global warming and other energy issues. Read More

The Campus Climate Challenge

Bring a Cool City to your campus. The Campus Climate Challenge is the largest youth mobilization to stop global warming. This international effort is taking place on more than 530 campuses in the US and Canada, and through the Challenge, youth is leading the world toward clean energy solutions. Read More

The Carbon Coaltion

Based in New Hampshire, The Carbon Coalition is a non-partisan coalition of citizens, scientists, businesses, students, communities and organizations who've come together to advocate for a national energy policy that protects our communities and environment from the ravages of global warming caused by carbon pollution. Read More

The Sundance Summit

In July 2005, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI), together with Robert Redford, his non-profit conferencing organization Sundance Preserve, and Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, co-hosted the inaugural Sundance Summit: A Mayors’ Gathering on Climate Protection to catalyze and showcase the power of local leadership on climate protection. The event provided every mayor in attendance with the knowledge and tools to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their respective cities. The 45 participating mayors represented 28 states and 10 million U.S. citizens. Collectively, they agreed that they can and will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by taking a number of concrete actions. They also committed to continuing to advance climate protection as a collaborative group and endorsed the establishment of the Sundance Summit as an annual event in support of mayoral climate protection work. Read More

The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea    Back To Top

The Ocean Planet

Begin your journey! Click on the buoys to navigate your course through the Oceans in Peril. Read More

Ask a Scientist: Marine Pollution

These questions and answers are from a few years ago, but still all-too relevant today. Read More

Bans on Plastic Bags

Every year, tens of thousands of whales, birds, seals, and turtles die from contact with ocean-borne plastic bags. The animals may mistake the bags for food, such as jellyfish, or simply become entangled. Plastic bags can take up to 1,000 years to break down, so even when an animal dies and decays after ingesting a bag, the plastic re-enters the environment, posing a continuing threat to wildlife. Read More

Clean Up the World

An estimated 35 million volunteers from more than 100 countries mobilise annually with Clean Up the World, its participating organisations and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to inspire and assist communities to clean up, fix up and conserve their local environment. Read More

Count those Bags!

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Ocean Conservancy

Ocean Conservancy promotes healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems and opposes practices that threaten ocean life and human life. Through research, education, and science-based advocacy, Ocean Conservancy informs, inspires, and empowers people to speak and act on behalf of the oceans. Read More

The Law of Nature    Back To Top

Audubon's Essential Safety Net

The strongest federal safeguard against the extinction of bird species in the United States is the Endangered Species Act. Keep up to date with threats to the ESA through Audubon Action and the National Audubon Society's Public Policy Office. Read More

Center for Biological Diversity

Our partner on Issue #43 Going, Going…, the Center for Biological Diversity leads the country in the number of species protected, through petitions, lawsuits, and negotiation, and continues to work on systematic assessments of ESA's performance. The Center also acts as a watchdog of the government's administration of the Act. Read More

Center for Native Ecosystems

The ESA is a federal law that protects local resources. Colorado is home to many endanagered species and their habitat. The Center for Native Ecosystems is leading the effort in Colorado to defend and strengthen the Endangered Species Act. Join them. Read More

Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders mobilizes supporters and partners on the international, national, state and local levels to secure laws and policies that safeguard wild species and their habitats. Keep up to date with their work on the Endangered Species Act. Read More

National Wildlife Federation

Help NWF demand full, fair funding for wildlife under the Endangered Species Act, so Americans can meet their responsibility to save species from extinction and restore healthy ecosystems. Read More

Noah Alliance

The Noah Alliance is a collaboration of various faith traditions that share a commitment to caring for creation and its many creatures and that have come together in support of a strong Endangered Species Act. Read More

The Right Tree in the Right Place    Back To Top

Alliance for Community Trees

Alliance for Community Trees is a coalition of organizations dedicated to the same cause — restoring community forests for the benefit of all people. ACT is the only national organization solely focused on the needs of nonprofit and community organizations engaged in urban forest protection. Their work is improving the environment where 86% of Americans live: our cities, towns, and villages. Together, ACT's national network of members have planted and cared for 7.8 million trees with help from 450,000 volunteers. Read More

American Forests

American Forests is a world leader in planting trees for environmental restoration, a pioneer in the science and practice of urban forestry, and a primary communicator of the benefits of trees and forests. They do this by using the best science to identify conservation issues, then develop and market practical solutions for individuals, community groups, government at all levels, educators, and businesses. Read More

Arbor Day Foundation

Inspiring people to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees. Join them and participate in their tree restoration and conservation programs. They also have many resources for planting and caring for urban and community trees. Read More

The Green Belt Movement

The Green Belt Movement(GBM) was founded by the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Professor Wangari Maathai. GBM provides income and sustenance to millions of people in Kenya through the planting of trees. It also conducts educational campaigns to raise awareness about women's rights, civic empowerment, and the environment throughout Kenya and Africa. Read More

TreeBank

TreeBank provides a proactive way for anyone, anywhere to support local urban forests and make a difference where we live. Join an existing branch, give a donation, or start a branch yourself. To check out what local groups are doing, click on the "Branch" button. Read More

Trees Are Good

An educational web site from the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) that provides the general public with tree care information, and fosters a greater public awareness of the benefits of trees by assisting homeowners in obtaining the knowledge needed to help sustain trees in an urban environment. Read More

Trees for the Future

Since 1989, Trees for the Future has been helping communities around the world plant trees. Through seed distribution, sustainable agroforestry training, and programs in Africa, Asia, and Central America, they have empowered rural groups to restore tree cover to their lands. Planting trees protects the environment and helps to preserve traditional livelihoods and cultures for generations. Read More

Watch & Listen

Are you eyes getting tired from reading so much? Enjoy these video clips from Treepeople for a change. Interviews, documentaries, tree plantings in action are among the many selections. Read More

They Paved Paradise    Back To Top

Get The Dirt Out

This construction site monitoring program has been used in several areas by local Waterkeeper chapters. In-depth material & instructions. Use the navigation pane on the left side to see all the pages, or download the PDF. Read More

Stormwater Coalition's Educator Toolbox

A collection of information and lesson plans for hands-on stormwater monitoring and learning about the watershed. Read More

Waterkeeper Magazine: "Storm Surge"

This Spring 2005 issue has several stories on runoff and stormwater. Download the PDF, or get a hard copy by becoming a Waterkeeper member. Read More

What is a Rain Garden?

A rain garden is a garden which takes advantage of rainfall and stormwater runoff in its design and plant selection. Usually, it is a small garden which is designed to withstand the extremes of moisture and concentrations of nutrients, particularly Nitrogen and Phosphorus, that are found in stormwater runoff. Rain gardens are sited ideally close to the source of the runoff and serve to slow the stormwater as it travels downhill, giving the stormwater more time to infiltrate and less opportunity to gain momentum and erosive power. Read More

Think Globally, Eat Locally    Back To Top

Farm To College

Bring organic and local foods to your college or university campus. Toolkits, resources, information and more. Read More

Interfaith Food and Farms Partnership

A project of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon's Interfaith Network for Earth Concerns that seeks to empower faith communities, farmers and neighborhoods to build urban-rural alliances and create innovative partnerships for just and sustainable food systems. An inspirational program in more than one way that can serve as a hands-on model wherever you live. Read More

Sustainable Table

A wealth of resources for eating in and out of sustainably. Read More

The Real Dirt on Farmer John

An inspiring film about a local farmer. Buy a DVD, host a screening. Get The Farm John Cookbook! And more. Read More

Too Much Gas    Back To Top

6 Cars to Survive the Fuel Crisis

These days, you no longer have to choose between saving gas money and getting the ultimate in car safety. Here's a look at some cars that give you both. Read More

Cars: Pollution Solutions Within Reach

Ever since Henry Ford turned cars into must-have items, automobiles and America have been intertwined. But the road from Ford's Model Ts to today's cars has been bumpy and uneven. Read More

Extreme MPG

Record breaking innovations come to life with videos clips of the Most Efficient Autos Read More

Neutralize Your Pollution

You can neutralize the rest of your pollution through offsets. When you buy offsets, you essentially pay someone to reduce or remove global warming pollution in your name. Read More

Turn Up The Heat    Back To Top

An Inconvenient Truth

The DVD is packaged to make the smallest possible environmental footprint - it is made of 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper, no excess materials, and absolutely no plastics. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this DVD will benefit the bipartisan climate effort, The Alliance for Climate Protection. Read More

Energy Action Coaltion

Energy Action is a coalition of more than 40 organizations from across the US and Canada, founded and led by youth to help support and strengthen the student and youth clean energy movement in North America. Check out the projects and partners of Energy Action Coalition Read More

Join the Climate Challenge

The Challenge unites 42 organizations and over 601 local groups in 56 states and provinces. Together we have worked to pass 100s of local and regional climate policies. Together we are building a movement for A JUST AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE! Read More

See the Pictures!

Global warming at the extremes of the earth: Habitats and cultures everywhere react to climate's rapid changes. Read More

Update on Convention on Climate Change

Australia has now ratified the Kyoto Protocol and the United States is left as the only major country refusing to join the agreement. A recent change in government in Australia means that the US is now truly by itself in refusing to commit to this initial step towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Read More

We Can Stop Global Warming!

Many global problems call for local solutions. When citizens take responsibility for an issue such as pollution, they can bring about important and necessary changes that make a difference and set the stage for more concerted national action. Read More

Up The Creek    Back To Top

Celebrate Creek Week

Engage in everything from stream clean-ups to educational projects involving kids; invite local politicians and decision makers. Find a stream-adoption group in your area and see what they've got going on. Or do a search like this one (add the name of your town!). Read More

Starting Out in Volunteer Water Monitoring

From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a brochure about becoming a volunteer water monitor." Read More

Take a Stream Walk

Use this handy guide to look for water clarity, aquatic life, vegetation, etc. Read More

Volunteer Water Monitor

Across the country, volunteers monitor the condition of streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries, coastal waters, wetlands, and wells.
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