Puget Sound Green Pages

National and International Environmental Organizations

Last updated: June 24, 2003


 


 

20/20 Vision

 

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.

AdBusters

African American Environmentalist Association

 

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.

Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory

 

Environmental Search Engine.

American Lung Association

American Rivers

 

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.

American Water Works Association

 

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.

Arcosanti

 

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.

Audubon Society: National

Basel Action Network

 

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

Belgian Federal Environment Administration Climate Change Web Page

 

Official climate change web pages of the Belgian federal environment administration: publications, links, addresses, national and international official documents, legislation ...

Buckminster Fuller Institute

 

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.

Center for International Environmental Law

 

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.

Centre for Alternative Technology (Machynelleth, Wales)

 

Promotes ideas and information on technologies that support rather than damage the environment.

Common Cause

Corporate Watch

Cottonwood Foundation

 

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.

Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program

Earth First! Journal

 

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.

Earth Island Institute

 

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.

Earth Stewards

 

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.

EarthDay Network

 

Information on worldwide goals and earthday events.

EarthWatch Institute

 

Building a sustainable world through active partnership between scientist and citizen.

EcoFuture

 

Dedicated to sustainability and the ecological future of our planet

Electronic Green Journal

 

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

EnviroLink Network

 

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.

Environmental Background Information Center (EBIC)

 

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.

Environmental Defense Fund

 

Representing 300,000 members, combines science, economics, and law to find economically sustainable solutions to environmental problems.

Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (E-LAW)

 

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.

Environmental Working Group

 

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.

Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics (FSEEE)

 

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.

Friends of the Earth International

 

The world's largest federation of environmental groups, uniting close to one million activists worldwide.

Friends of the Earth: USA

 

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.

Friends of the Trees

 

Aiding people around the world to plant trees and heal the planet.

Gaia Trust

 

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

Government Accountability Project (GAP)

 

Internet resource for information about whistleblowing, governmental wrongdoing and official misconduct.

Great Outdoor Recreation Pages' Clubs, Associations and Nonprofit Organizations

 

Links to member groups.

Green Map System

 

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.

Green Parties World Wide

 

Literature and contact info from Green Parties in many locations.

Green Seal

 

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.

Greenpeace International

 

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.

Idaho Rivers United

 

Devoted to the protection of Idaho's rivers, streams and riparian areas and the recovery of Idaho's wild salmon and steelhead.

Idealist

 

20,000 organizations under one roof.

Institute for Global Communications (IGC)

 

The Progressive Directory.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance

 

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.

International Marinelife Alliance (IMA)

 

An organization dedicated to the protection of marine life forms and the conservation of their habitat.

International Wildlife Coalition (IWC)

 

An advocate for wildlife, established to prevent cruelty to wildlife, killing of wildlife, and the destruction of wildlife habitat.

IUCN: World Conservation Union

 

(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.

League of Conservation Voters

 

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.

LightHawk

 

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.

Local Government Commission

 

A non profit organization working to build livable communities

Macrocosm USA

 

A non-profit educational clearinghouse emphasizing environmental, justice, peace, health issues and solutions for progressives.

National Environmental Trust

 

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.

National Parks and Conservation Association (NPCA)

 

America's only private, nonprofit organization dedicated solely to protecting, preserving, and enhancing the U.S. National Park System.

National Wildlife Federation

 

USA's largest member-supported conservation group.

Native Forest Council

 

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.

Natural Resources Defense Council

Nature Conservancy

Oceanography Society

 

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.

Oregon: Umpqua Watersheds, Inc.

 

Information on forest and timber issues around Roseburg, Oregon.

Planet Drum

 

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.

POCLAD: Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy

Primates on Line

 

Works to save the world's primates from extinction, and to end their abuse and neglect in captivity.

Public Citizen Congress Watch

Public Citizen Global Trade Watch

 

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.

Purple Martin Conservation Association

 

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.

Rainforest Action Network (RAN)

 

Comprehensive information and nice graphics.

Save Our Environment Action Center

 

One click to take action on many important environmental campaigns.

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

 

Defending the world's marine mammals.

Sierra Club USA

Social Investment Forum

 

A national nonprofit membership organization promoting the concept, practice and growth of socially responsible investing.

Student Environmental Action Coalition

 

(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.

The Preservation Institute

 

Dedicated to developing a new politics that recognizes the limits of technology

Union of Concerned Scientists

Wilderness Society

 

Devoted to public lands protection and management issues.

Wolf Haven International

 

Working for wolf conservation.

World Wide Fund for Nature

 

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.

WorldWatch Institute

 

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.

WTO Watch

 

The global information center on the WTO and trade.

 


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