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Flex Your Power
Flex Your Power is California's statewide energy efficiency marketing and
outreach campaign. Initiated in 2001, Flex Your Power is a partnership of
California's utilities, residents, businesses, institutions, government
agencies and nonprofit organizations working to save energy.
California Climate Change Portal
Combines information on the impacts of climate change on California and
the state's policies relating to global warming with the California Climate
Change Center, a "virtual" research and information website.
Center for Sustainable Energy (California)
Fosters public policies and provide programs, services, information and
forums that facilitate the adoption of clean, reliable, renewable, sustainable,
and efficient energy technologies and practices.
Conservation
OnLine (CoOL)
Conservation OnLine is a project of the Preservation Department of Stanford
University Libraries. It offers excellent information and links on conservation
of library, archives, museum materials, Audio materials, Library Binding,
Motion Picture Film, environment monitoring and control.
Noise Pollution
Clearinghouse
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse is a non-profit organization, which
raises awareness about noise pollution, provides information regarding
noise pollution, strengthen laws and governmental efforts to control
noise pollution. It also assists groups working on noise pollution
issues by coordinating efforts against noise pollution.
Environment News
Service
Environment News Service provides international news that affects
environment. It contributes news that affect the environment such
as: environmental legislation, demonstrations, public health, air
quality, drinking water, oceans and marine life, environmental economics.
Earth Island
Institute
Earth Island Institute provides organizational support to individuals
in developing projects for the conservation, preservation, and restoration
of the global environment. It is involved in protecting rainforests,
marine mammals, promoting organic and sustainable agriculture, ecological
paper alternatives and reduction of marine pollution.
EcoWorld
EcoWorld provides information resources on nature and clean technology.
It provides information about planetary ecosystems, preservation of
species. It also covers the people, technologies and companies that
are in the forefront of the green revolution.
EnviroLink
EnviroLink is a non-profit organization that provides environmental
information and news. It provides non profit services offers website
and domain name hosting, automated mailing lists, interactive bulletin
boards and e-mail accounts free of charge to non-profit organizations
within the environmental and animal rights communities.
Naturenet
Naturenet is a voluntary enterprise that provides resources for practical
nature conservation and countryside management in the UK. It gives
references and information about organizations which are involved
in countryside, its management, and nature conservation.
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. Greenpeace goal is to ensure the ability of the
earth to nurture life in all its diversity.
WWF
WWF prevents degradation of planet's natural environment and builds
environment by conserving the biological diversity, ensuring use of
renewable natural resources, promoting the reduction of pollution
and wasteful consumption. It arranges different programs like policy
work, campaigning, events, summits, meeting, education and promotion
of environment related issues.
Envirospace
Envirospace is a platform for interactive knowledge exchange of environmental
issues. It offers articles, latest environmental news, events and
discussion forums. It also caters to the international environmental
industries, offering latest and relevant information and supports
the environmentally concerned people and organizations the world over.
Save
Our Environment
S ave Our Environment Action Center is a collaborative effort of influential
environmental organizations that deal in increasing public awareness
and activism on important environmental issues. It strives to protect
air, water, land, forests, ocean, wildlife and planet's climate through
its activities.
Defenders
of Wildlife
Defenders of Wildlife protect native wild animals and plants. It focuses
upon preventing the extinction of species and biological diversity,
habitat alteration and destruction. It programs and implements protection
of ecosystems and the natural habitats.
Earthjustice
Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm. It works through
the courts to safeguard public lands, national forests, parks, and
wilderness areas; to reduce air and water pollution; to prevent toxic
contamination; and to preserve endangered species and wildlife habitat
by asking for strengthening and stricter enforcement of environment
laws.
Union of Concerned
Scientists
The Union of Concerned Scientists is a nonprofit partnership of scientists
and citizens combining scientific analysis, policy development and
effective citizen advocacy to achieve practical environmental solutions.
Physicians
for Social Responsibility
Physicians for Social Responsibility combines active and concerned
citizens with the physicians, health professionals to promote public
policies, awareness for protection of human health from nuclear war,
biological weapons, global environmental degradation.
Environmental-Law.org
Environmental-Law.org provides categorized environmental topics and
information to facilitate lawyers and others regarding environmental
law. It aims at assisting people who are open to all sorts of information
regarding environmental law, statutes and cases.
WNTI
World Nuclear Transport Institute promotes safe, efficient and reliable
transport of radioactive materials. It ensure that radioactive materials
are transported by sea, land and air in a safe, efficient and reliable
manner through the elaboration and application of national and international
standards, regulations and procedures.
N-BASE
Information Service
N-Base Information Service provides information on the nuclear industry
and its environmental consequences, nuclear transports, waste production
and storage, marine pollution. It also provides an N-Base Database
which is a reference source containing records of UK civil nuclear
industry related newspaper articles.
National Parks
Yellowstone National
Park
Grand Teton National
Park
National Forests
Beaverhead
National Forest
Bridger-Teton
National Forest
Caribou-Targhee
National Forest
Custer National
Forest
Gallatin
National Forest
Shoshone
National Forest
American
Rivers - American Rivers is a national non-profit conservation
organization dedicated to protecting and restoring healthy natural
rivers and the variety of life they sustain for people, fish, and
wildlife.
Federation
of Fly Fishers - The mission of the Federation of Fly Fishers
is to lead activities that enhance and support the fly fishing experience
for all anglers who fish with the artificial fly.
Friends of the
Teton River - Friends of the Teton River works to understand,
protect and improve the precious water resources of Teton Basin.
Gallatin
Water Task Force - The Gallatin Water Resources Task Force was
appointed by the Gallatin County Commission in December, 2003 to identify
strategies for improving the water resource decision process. The
Task Force met ten times, and submitted a final report to the County
Commission in August 4, 2004.
Henry's Fork
Foundation - The mission of the Henry's Fork Foundation is to
conserve, restore and protect the unique fishery, wildlife and aesthetic
qualities of the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River.
Idaho Rivers
United - For all who love the freedom, adventure and solitude
of Idaho's wild rivers, Idaho Rivers United vigorously defends the
priceless heritage of Idaho's rivers and fish.
Montana
River Action - Montana River Action's mission is to protect and
restore rivers, streams and other water bodies in Montana.
Montana Smart
Growth Coalition - Montana Smart Growth Coalition's mission is
to support safe and healthy communities, sustainable economies, conservation
of farm, forest and ranch lands, and protection of natural resources
and wildlife habitat.
Trout
Unlimited - Trout Unlimited’s mission is to conserve, protect
and restore North America’s trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds.
[Montana Trout
Unlimited]
Wolf Recovery
Foundation - Founded in 1986 as a nonprofit 501.C.3 tax deductible
organization, the Foundation was the first organization in Idaho completely
dedicated to the restoration of wolves in the Rockies.
Web Resources for Conservation Activism
A number of organizations make information available on the web for
people who would like to participate in national conservation campaigns.
A lot of these sites make it very easy to contact your representatives,
sometimes even supplying a letter that you can click on a button to
have faxed and/or e-mailed to the relevant politician or business
leader. Probably it is better to personalize letters, though, especially
if they are going to local representatives. Some sites also offer
the option of signing up for e-mail alerts when new campaigns are
started. Here are some examples of sites and the issues they are addressing
with campaigns now.
