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Puget Sound Green Pages National
and International Environmental Organizations Last updated: June 24, 2003 |
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Dedicated to protecting the environment and promoting
peace through grassroots action. At the heart of 20/20 Vision's mission is
the revitalization of democracy by making it simple for citizens to
participate in national and local policy decisions. Our motto -- 20 minutes a
month, 20 dollars a year, a vision for a healthy planet -- is fulfilled by
over 30,000 individuals who communicate with targeted decision makers each
month. |
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Dedicated to protecting the environment, enhancing the
human ecology, promoting the efficient use of natural resources and increasing
African American participation in the environmental movement. |
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Environmental Search Engine. |
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North America's leading river conservation organization.
Our mission is to protect and restore America's river systems and to foster a
river stewardship ethic. The mission of our Northwest Office is to reverse
the decline of endangered Pacific salmon and ultimately to recover them to
sustainable and harvestable populations. The Northwest office of American
Rivers approaches river protection and restoration through the lens of salmon
recovery - because salmon are central to our region's economy and culture,
and because they are a keystone species, one on which many other aquatic and
terrestrial organisms depend. |
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An international nonprofit scientific and educational
society dedicated to the improvement of drinking water quality and supply.
Founded in 1881, AWWA is the largest organization of water supply
professionals in the world. Its more than 50,000 members represent the full
spectrum of the drinking water community: treatment plant operators and
managers, scientists, environmentalists, manufacturers, academicians,
regulators, and others who hold genuine interest in water supply and public
health. Membership includes more than 3,700 utilities that supply water to
roughly 170 million people in North America. |
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Arcology is the concept of architecture and ecology working
as an integral process to produce new urban habitats. Arcosanti is a
prototype arcology for 5,000 people, combining compact urban structure with
large-scale, solar greenhouses on 20 acres. |
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An international network of activists seeking to put an
end to the export and dumping of hazardous wastes from rich industrialized countries
to poorer, less-industrialized countries |
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Belgian Federal Environment Administration Climate
Change Web Page |
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Official climate change web pages of the Belgian federal
environment administration: publications, links, addresses, national and
international official documents, legislation ... |
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Buckminster Fuller. We hope to empower site visitors to
see the big picture and exercise individual initiative. Everyone on board our
Spaceship Earth can live abundantly and successfully on an ecologically sustainable
basis. Humanity has the option to make it. We must choose it before it
expires. |
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A public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm
founded in 1989 to strengthen international and comparative environmental law
and policy around the world. CIEL provides a full range of environmental
legal services in both international and comparative national law, including:
policy research and publication, advice and advocacy, education and training,
and institution building. |
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Promotes ideas and information on technologies that support
rather than damage the environment. |
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Provides small grants to grassroots organizations
worldwide that are working for a sustainable future by combining all of the
following: protecting the environment, promoting cultural diversity,
empowering people to meet their basic needs, and relying on volunteers. |
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Information and updates on Earth First! campaigns; news and
announcements about Earth First! and other radical environmental groups;
reviews and critiques of the environmental movement; book music and poetry
reviews. |
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An Innovative Network of Diverse Environmental Projects.
Earth Island Institute fosters the work of creative individuals by providing
organizational support in developing projects for the conservation,
preservation, and restoration of the global environment. EII provides
results-oriented individuals the freedom to develop program ideas, supported
by services to help them pursue those ideas, with a minimum of bureaucracy. |
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International organization devoted to bringing positive
change to our planet through the grassroots efforts of people like you. Our
projects are oriented toward international, national, and personal conflict
resolution and healing through citizen diplomacy efforts such as PeaceTrees
Vietnam, local projects, and gender conflict resolution workshops. |
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Information on worldwide goals and earthday events. |
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Building a sustainable world through active partnership
between scientist and citizen. |
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Dedicated to sustainability and the ecological future of
our planet |
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Published by the University of Idaho Library. Provides
peer-reviewed articles, book reviews, news, and information on current printed
and electronic sources concerning international environmental topics |
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Network for Change is currently developing this website in
partnership with the EnviroLink Network and the Animal Concerns Community as
a comprehensive resource for individuals, organizations and businesses
working for social and environmental change. |
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Provides corporate research and strategic assistance to
members of the public who are interested in getting involved in local
environmental issues. Quick access to background information on corporations
involved in environmentally dangerous projects, including: names of corporate
officers, names of parent companies, locations of corporate operations,
facilities currently or previously operated by the company, environmental
enforcement actions, civil or criminal judgments worker safety problems. |
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Representing 300,000 members, combines science, economics,
and law to find economically sustainable solutions to environmental problems.
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A network of public interest attorneys, scientists, and
other advocates around the world who support each others' work by exchanging
legal and scientific information to defend the environment in their home countries.
E-LAW has offices in twenty countries and a large network of attorneys in
many other countries around the world. |
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An environmental research organization that gives concerned
citizens the information they need to protect their homes, communities and
Planet Earth. EWG is known for its original, easy-to-understand research on a
wide range of environmental issues. We specialize in analysis of little-known
government data files on environmental and economic issues, obtained under
the Freedom of Information Act. |
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A nonprofit organization whose mission is to forge a
socially responsible value system for the Forest Service based on a land
ethic which ensures ecologically and economically sustainable resource
management. |
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The world's largest federation of environmental groups,
uniting close to one million activists worldwide. |
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A national, non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to
protecting the planet from environmental degradation; preserving biological,
cultural, and ethnic diversity; and empowering citizens to have an
influential voice in decisions affecting the quality of their environment --
and their lives. |
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Aiding people around the world to plant trees and heal the
planet. |
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a Danish charitable entity founded in 1987 with the objective
of promoting a global consciousness that experiences the whole planet as a
living organism and Mankind as part of that whole |
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Internet resource for information about whistleblowing,
governmental wrongdoing and official misconduct. |
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Great Outdoor Recreation Pages' Clubs, Associations and Nonprofit
Organizations |
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Links to member groups. |
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The Green Map System is a globally connected, locally
adaptable framework for community sustainability. Green Maps utilize Green
Map Icons to chart the sites of environmental significance in urban places
around the world. Each is created locally in a unique way, and our Mapmakers
are of all ages and backgrounds. |
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Literature and contact info from Green Parties in many
locations. |
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The independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to
protecting the environment by promoting the manufacture and sale of environmentally
responsible consumer products. It sets environmental standards and awards a
"Green Seal of Approval" to products that cause less harm to the
environment than other similar products. |
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Greenpeace is an independent, campaigning organization
which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental
problems, and to force the solutions which are essential to a green and
peaceful future. |
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Devoted to the protection of Idaho's rivers, streams and
riparian areas and the recovery of Idaho's wild salmon and steelhead. |
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20,000 organizations under one roof. |
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The Progressive Directory. |
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A nonprofit research and educational organization that
provides technical assistance and information on environmentally sound
economic development strategies. Since 1974, ILSR has worked with citizen
groups, governments and private businesses in developing policies that
extract the maximum value from local resources. |
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An organization dedicated to the protection of marine life
forms and the conservation of their habitat. |
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An advocate for wildlife, established to prevent cruelty
to wildlife, killing of wildlife, and the destruction of wildlife habitat. |
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(International Union for the Conservation of Wildlife) Our
Mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world
to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use
of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. |
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Works to create a Congress more responsive to your
environmental concerns. As the bipartisan political voice for over nine
million members of environmental and conservation groups, LCV is the only
national environmental organization dedicated full-time to educating citizens
about the environmental voting records of Members of Congress. |
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Uses the power of flight to educate and activate local
officials, community leaders, and through international press, the general public
about land use practices that threaten to destroy earth's diverse and fragile
ecosystems. |
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A non profit organization working to build livable
communities |
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A non-profit educational clearinghouse emphasizing
environmental, justice, peace, health issues and solutions for progressives. |
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Working on several major public education campaigns about
environmental issues facing Congress. Through a network of grassroots
organizers around the country, and with attention-getting advertisements,
reports, and press events, we are getting the word out about the importance
of a number of critical environmental issues. |
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America's only private, nonprofit organization dedicated solely
to protecting, preserving, and enhancing the U.S. National Park System. |
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USA's largest member-supported conservation group. |
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Our purpose is to bring to the attention of all Americans
the scandalous destruction of their national forests; a damning indictment of
national forest management policies & practices nationwide. |
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Founded in 1988 to disseminate knowledge of oceanography and
its application through research and education, to promote communication
among oceanographers, and to provide a constituency for consensus-building
across all the disciplines of the field. |
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Information on forest and timber issues around Roseburg,
Oregon. |
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Through its projects, publications, speakers, and
workshops, Planet Drum helps start new bioregional groups and encourages
local organizations and individuals to find ways to live within the natural
confines of bioregions. |
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Works to save the world's primates from extinction, and to
end their abuse and neglect in captivity. |
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The Public Citizen division that fights for international
trade and investment policies promoting government and corporate
accountability, consumer health and safety, and environmental protection
through research, lobbying, public education and the media. Global Trade
Watch is on the cutting edge of research and advocacy in the field of
international trade and investment. Public Citizen is a national consumer and
environmental organization founded by Ralph Nader in 1971. |
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The only organization devoted exclusively to the scientific
study of Purple Martins (Progne subis), their biology, and habitat
requirements. Since our formation in 1986, we've spent hundreds of thousands
of dollars on research, education, and on developing and improving products
for martins. |
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Comprehensive information and nice graphics. |
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One click to take action on many important environmental
campaigns. |
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Defending the world's marine mammals. |
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A national nonprofit membership organization promoting the
concept, practice and growth of socially responsible investing. |
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(SEAC) SEAC--pronounced "seek," as in
"seeking"--is a grassroots coalition of student and youth
environmental groups, working together to protect our planet and our future. Through
this united effort, thousands of us have translated our concern into action
by sharing resources, building coalitions, and challenging the limited
mainstream definition of environmental issues. |
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Dedicated to developing a new politics that recognizes the
limits of technology |
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Devoted to public lands protection and management issues. |
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Working for wolf conservation. |
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The world's largest private international conservation
organisation, with more than 5.2 million supporters and 28 national and
associate organisations in all continents. WWF's missions are protection of
genetic, species and ecosystem biodiversity; pollution control; and promoting
sustainable use of natural resources. Priority is given to conservation of
forests, woodlands, wetlands, and coasts. WWF promotes public awareness of
conservation problems and raises funds for the protection of threatened
species and environments. WWF works through fieldwork, policy development and
lobbying, education and training, public awareness campaigns, and support for
other organisation. |
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A nonprofit public policy research organization dedicated
to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and
trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental
support systems. |
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The global information center on the WTO and trade. |
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