Earth Island's opinionated list of strong advocates for the Earth: (updated on Apr.'04)
Appalachia--Science in the Public Interest (ASPI)
50 Lair Street
Mt. Vernon
KY 40456
Phone: (606) 256-0077
Fax: (606) 256-2779
Web: http://www.a-spi.org/index.html
Organizes citizens to take control of their own lives and the region's natural resources. It advocates simple living, which it views as a means of self determination. Projects include the Rockcastle Resource Center, which demonstrates resource conservation and organic gardening; annual Simple Lifestyle Calendars; and a resource assessment service available to groups wanting to transform their properties into self-sustaining centers.
Bluewater Network
(Former project of Earth Island.)
311 California, Suite 510
San Francisco
CA 94104
Phone: (415) 544-0790
Fax: (415) 544-0796
Web: www.bluewaternetwork.org/
Bluewater is a national envionmental organization aggressively confronting the root causes of climate change and fighting environmental damage from the shipping, oil, and motorized recreation industries.
Center for Neighborhood Technology
2125 West North Avenue
Chicago
IL 60647
Phone: (773) 278-4800
Fax: (773) 278-3840
E-mail: info@cnt.org
Web: http://www.cnt.org/
Promotes public policies, new resources and accountable authority which support sustainable, just, and vital urban communities.
Climate Solutions
(Former project of Earth Island.)
610 4th Avenue E
Olympia
WA 98501-1113
Phone: 360-352-1763
Fax: 360-943-4977
Web: www.climatesolutions.org
Climate Solutions works to stop global warming at the earliest point possible by helping the Northwest become a world leader in practical and profitable solutions.
Circle of Life
(Former project of Earth Island.)
PO Box 3764
Oakland
CA 94609
Phone: 510-601-9790
E-mail: info@circleoflife.org
Web: www.circleoflife.org
Store: www.circleoflife.org/store/col_store.htm
Promotes efforts to protect and restore the Earth through education and outreach. The foundation works to inspire, support and network individuals, communities and organizations to jointly create environmental solutions that honor biological and cultural diversity.
Conservation Science Institute
Conservation Science Institute
P.O. Box 823
Santa Cruz, CA 95061
Web: www.conservationinstitute.org
Conservation Science Institute is an active think tank and research organization founded in 1994 to resolve emerging ecological and environmental dilemmas, working with governments, universities, the private sector, and the general public to promote improved understanding of natural ecosystems and to design human systems for ecological and economic sustainability.
The Cultural Conservancy
P.O. Box 29044
Presidio of San Francisco
CA 94129-0044
Tel: (415) 561-6594
Fax: (415) 561-6482
E-mail: tcc@nativeland.org
Web: http://www.nativeland.org/
The Cultural Conservancy is a Native American nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and revitalization of indigenous cultures and their ancestral lands.
Earth Day Energy Fast
Earth Day Energy Fast seeks to create responsible and sustainable energy use: creating greater public awareness of the consequences to nature from energy use by asking all persons everywhere to participate in an energy-conservation activity each Earth Day.
E-mail: jeff@earthdayenergyfast.org
Web: http://earthdayenergyfast.org
Earth First!
E-mail: Greg03a@EarthFirst.org
Web: http://www.earthfirst.org/
"No compromise in defense of Mother Earth." Direct action, deep ecology.
Earthjustice
National Headquarters
426 17th Street, 6th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612-2820
Tel: 510/550-6700
Fax: 510/550-6740
E-mail: eajus@earthjustice.org
Web: http://www.earthjustice.org/
Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment.
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
112 W. 27th Street
New York
NY 10001
Tel: 212-633-6700
Fax: 212-727-7668
E-mail: fair@fair.org
Web: http://www.fair.org/
FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986 and works to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints.
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center
P.O. Box 2189
Glen Rose
TX 76043
E-mail: visitor-services@fossilrim.org
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center is dedicated to conservation of species in peril, scientific research, training of professionals, creative management of natural resources, and impactful public education.
Global Response - Environmental Action & Education Network
P.O. Box 7490
Boulder
CO 80306-7490
Phone: 303-444-0306
E-mail: action@globalresponse.org
Global Response empowers people of all ages, cultures, and nationalities to protect the environment by creating partnerships for effective citizen action. At the request of indigenous peoples and grassroots organizations, Global Response organizes urgent international letter campaigns to help communities prevent many kinds of environmental destruction.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
ILSR- Minneapolis, MN
1313 Fifth Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Phone: 612-379-3815
E-mail: info@ilsr.org
Web: http://www.ilsr.org
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is 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 Rivers Network
(Former project of Earth Island.)
1847 Berkeley Way
Berkeley
CA 94703
USA
Tel: +1.510.848.1155
Fax: +1.510.848.1008
E-mail: info@irn.org
Web: http://www.irn.org
IRN supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds. We work to halt destructive river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
40 West 20th Street
New York
NY 10011
USA
Phone: (212) 727-2700
E-mail: nrdcinfo@nrdc.org
Web: http://www.nrdc.org
NRDC uses law, science and the support of more than 1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.
Sierra Club
85 Second Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco
CA 94105
USA
Phone: 415-977-5500
E-mail: information@sierraclub.org
Web: http://www.sierraclub.org
The Sierra Club consists of 700,000 members. They work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium
886 Cannery Row
Monterey
CA 93940
Tel: (831) 648-4800
A nonprofit, self-supporting institution dedicated to inspiring ocean conservation. In late October 1999, the Monterey Bay Aquarian will launch a new "E-Quarium," providing extensive coverage of Aquarium exhibits as well as trip planning resources, visitor and member information, on-line shopping, in-depth coverage of conservation issues, and a learning center for families and educators.
Pesticide Action Network North America
49 Powell St., Suite 500
San Francisco
CA 94102
USA
Tel: (415) 981-1771
Fax: (415) 981-1991
E-mail: panna@panna.org
Web: http://www.panna.org/panna/
Explore our extensive resources, find out about our organization and work, and join us in reducing the use of hazardous pesticides.
Rainforest Action Network
(Former project of Earth Island.)
221 Pine St., Suite 500
San Francisco
CA 94104 USA
Tel: 415-398-4404
Fax: 415-398-2732
E-mail: rainforest@ran.org
Web: http://www.ran.org/
Works to protect rainforests, indigenous peoples' human rights, and land rights in tropical countries; endangered species protection.
Rainforest Alliance
665 Broadway, Suite 500
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 677-1900
Web: http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/
Email: canopy@ra.org
The Rainforest Alliance is a leading international conservation organization. Our mission is to protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that live within them by implementing better business practices for biodiversity conservation and sustainability.
Redefining Progress
1904 Franklin Street, 6th Floor
Oakland
CA 94612
Phone: 510-444-3041
Fax: 510-444-3191
E-mail: info@rprogress.org
Web: http://www.rprogress.org
Redefining Progress (RP) works with a broad array of partners to shift the economy and public policy towards sustainability.
Resource Renewal Institute
Fort Mason Center, Building D
San Francisco
CA 94123
Phone: 415.928.3774
Fax: 415.928.4050
E-mail: info@rri.org
Web: http://www.rri.org/
We develop innovative solutions for long-term conservation and a sustainable future through various projects such as Green Plans and Defense of Place. RRI facilitates the creation and implementation of practical solutions, based on the premise that humanity is capable of solving the problems it created.
Rocky Mountain Institute
1739 Snowmass Creek Rd.
Snowmass, Colorado 81654-9199
Phone: 970.927.3851
Web: http://www.rmi.org/
Rocky Mountain Institute is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of natural, human and other capital to make the world more secure, just, prosperous, and life sustaining. We do this by inspiring business, civil society, and government to design integrative solutions that create true wealth.
Sea Turtle Restoration Project
(Former project of Earth Island.)
P.O. Box 400
Forest Knolls, CA 94933
Phone: (415) 488-0370
Web: http://www.seaturtles.org/
The Sea Turtle Restoration Project (STRP) fights to protect endangered sea turtle populations in ways that meet the ecological needs of the sea turtles and the oceans and the needs of the local communities who share the beaches and waters with these gentle, beautiful creatures.
Earth Island's opinionated list of strong advocates for the Earth:
Cenozoic Society
Wild Earth magazine
P.O. Box 455
Richmond, VT 05477
Phone: (802) 434-4077
Describes itself as "educational and scientific" on IRS form, which is in keeping with its public posture of presenting "accurate" information and "research" (really opinion) to promote their crusade to restore vast tracts of land totaling about fifty percent of the coterminous state to a pre-human condition within the next few decades.
Centre de Documentation et de Recherche sur la Paix et les Conflicts (CDRPC):
Documentation and Research Center on Peace and Conflicts
BP 1027, 69201 Lyon Cedex 01, France
Phone: (33 for France) 78 36 93 03
Fax: (33 for France) 78 36 26 83
E-mail: cdrpc@gn.apc.org
Works on peace and national security issues. Operates an Observatory of Arms Transfers, which centers in a database on the French nuclear weapons industry and transfers of France with a 9600 baud modem and videotext emulator. To the Observatory publishes La Lettre de l'Observatoire in English and French.
Mineral Policy Center
1612 K St. NW Suite 808
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 887-1872
Fax: (202) 887-1875
Mineral Policy Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the destructive impacts of mineral development in the U.S. and worldwide.
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Dave Henson
15290 Coleman Valley Road
Occidental, CA 95465
Phone: (707) 874-1557
Fax: (707) 874-1558
E-mail: inquiry@oaec.org
A nonprofit organizing and education center and organic farm in Northern California’s Sonoma County. OAEC was founded in 1994 by a group of biologists, horticulturists, educators, activists, and artists seeking innovative and practical approaches to the pressing environmental and economic crises of our day.
Oregon Natural Desert Association
16 NW Kansas
Bend, OR 97701
Phone: 541-330-2638
Fax: 541-385-3370
E-mail: onda@onda.org
ONDA's mission is to protect, defend and restore the health of Oregon's native deserts.
The Wildlands Project
P.O. Box 455
Richmond, VT 05477
Phone: 802-434-4077
Fax: 802-434-5980
E-mail: info@wildlandsproject.org
The Wildlands Project is working to restore and protect the natural heritage of North America.
Progressive organizations and resources on the web:
ASLE:
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.
ASLE promotes the exchange of ideas and information pertaining to literature that considers the relationship between human beings and the natural world.
Bay Area Progressive Calendar and Directory
An index to about 1000 organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area that are related to progressive activism and/or helping out disadvantaged people, plus links to related web sites elsewhere.
The Beehive
A Website where you can find information, such as money, health, school, jobs, and family, to make your life easier.
BlackRhinoceros
Use this green activist's resource site to take action on over 1,000 alerts from several hundred environmental organizations.
CampusActivism.org
The world's largest online database of student activists, groups, events, and resources.
Center for Democracy and Technology
Develops and advocates public policies that advance constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies.
Cross-Canada WTO Caravan
Activist group driving across the continent to expose the World Trade Organization. Social and community activists will be visiting with 20 communities as part of a growing world-wide resistance to corporate rule.
Eartheasy
This site offers practical, earth-friendly alternatives to everyday lifestyle and consumer choices, a guide to simplicity and individual responsibility.
Earth Pledge
A non-profit foundation, recognizes appropriate intersections between business interests and environmental, social, and cultural concerns.
The Ecology Center
Berkeley's famous eco-friendly store and hub for environmental activism.
Eco-Compass
Environmental web sites
EcoIQ.com
On-line resource compendium focused on environmental management, local government initiatives, and creating a sustainable future. It also hosts the EcoGateway, a portal to related environmental sites.
ECOnference 2001: will be held the weekend of October 19 at George Washington University in Washington, DC!
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to online resources and information.
Ending Corporate Governance is an information resource to assist in redefining the subordinate nature of these legal ficticious entities in relation to flesh-and-blood people.
The Far North Queensland Almanac: The people, the places and the environment of Australia's Far North Queensland.
Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy: member-supported, nonprofit 'peoples' think tank and education-for-action center. Its work highlights root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right.
Friends of the Earth
International network of grassroots groups in 70 countries. By David Brower, Friends of the Earth has for decades been at the forefront of high-profile efforts to create a more healthy, just world.
Green Parties World Wide
Discover the Green political movement, independent journalism, and alternatives to the products of transnational corporations. Created by Cameron Spitzer
Global Environmental Policy Research Tools
Listings of institutes and think tanks, international collaboration, and information about governments.
Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN)
Site sponsored by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) offering original news reports, maps and images covering humanitarian developments and related issues in sub-Saharan Africa.
The International Petition In Support of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and Abolition 2000
International Wildlife Coalition
An advocate for wildlife, established to prevent cruelty to wildlife, killing of wildlife, and the destruction of wildife habitat.
The Labor / Community Strategy Center is a multiracial anticorporate "think-tank/act-tank" committed to building democratic internationalist social movements.
Linus Pauling Exhibition: This site provides information and resources for the national tour of an exhibition tracing the life and influence of two-time Nobel laureate, Dr. Linus Pauling.
National Geographic's Wild World Map
A tremendous online resource, these interactive maps enable users to see the Earth in terms of its remarkable ecoregions. Scalable maps link to ecoregion descriptions, photographs, comparative data such as population density and vegetation type, video clips, educational resources, conservation efforts, and more.
National Political Index: substantive political information
Natural Systems Thinking Process
Offers an environmentally sound, hands-on educational process that catalyzes peace and promotes mental health.
NewHeavenNewEarth
A grassroots network seeking to give birth to a new way of life on our planet.
The New Party
A new progressive political third party making significant headway in the East and Midwestern United States.
New Dimensions Radio
"Deep Ecology for the 21st Century" radio program.
Niger Delta Congress
Working for the emancipation of the indigenous peoples of the Niger delta of Nigeria and for the protection of the environment devastated by multinational oil companies.
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Multi-Agency Education Project
A collaborative effort of many agencies and organizations working together to malama (care for) the Hawaiian Islands.
One World
A leading international online network and web portal devoted to sustainable development and human rights. OneWorld links people to information resources on global issues and attracts millions of visitors to its site every month.
Pacific Rivers Council
One of the largest and most successful river conservation organizations in the United States.
Pew Oceans Commission
Connecting people and science to sustain marine life.
Planet Ark: environmental NetRadio news bulletin.
Planet Drum
Provides an effective grassroots approach to ecology that emphasizes sustainability, community self-determination and regional self-reliance.
Primal Seeds: campaign site developed to equip people with tools to promote organic, non-genetically engineered agriculture. From grafting edible varieties onto ornamental cherry trees in the park, to a passionate defence of 'weeds' and their medicinal properties, Primal Seeds offers info and ideas to "untangle ourselves from the monocult," and quietly undermine corporate power.
Project Censored
Explores and publicizes the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not.
Resurgence Magazine
An international forum for ecological and spiritual thinking
Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Chapter
The Trust for Public Land (TPL)
National, nonprofit land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, gardens, natural areas and open space.
Solcomcouse (short for solar computer house)
Organization working to provide people housing that is in sync and in harmony with the environment.
Turtle Trax: A page devoted to Marine Turtles.
Karil Daniels' Waterbirth website:
safe, gentle, joyous childbirth.
Whales on the Net
Keeps you informed with news and views on the subject of whales and dolphins.
The World Animal Foundation
A non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of the planet and the animals that inhabit it.
These links in no way represent an endorsement by Earth Island:
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Always Great Software, Inc.: software firm offering an impressive "Whales and Dolphins Screensaver" with 28 full-color images and stereo sound!
Discovery Channel Online
Earth Day Store sells earth-friendly products
EcoMall: "A place to help save the Earth" Daily Eco News - Activism - Companies Products, Eco Links - Eco Quotes...
Earth Channel Communications provides an easy-to-use means to setup and EarthCast both live and recorded material.
ReusableBags.com
Provides plenty of news, facts and smart products aimed at helping consumers personally take action to help reduce plastic bag consumption that has gotten out of control.
Working Assets Long Distance
For profit company with long distance service and visa cards that works for social change. Gives portion of profits to various environmental groups, as well as pro-choice and human rights organizations and informs its customers about important campaigns and issues.
A list of tools and resources, and directories on the WWW to find helpful information and URLs:
100fires.com - Books (and more) for a Healthy Planet is the first comprehensive social change ONLINE bookstore in the US, fully searchable by title, author, and keyword, with thousands of titles from every major independent social change-oriented publisher.
Alternative Press Center
is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press.
@ssociations
by Michael Panetta
Animal Concerns: A non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental and animal rights/welfare resources since 1991.
Aquatic Network: "Information
Service for the Aquatic World"
Alta Vista
World Wide Web index consisting of the full text of tens of millions of web pages.
Blue Web'n Learning Applications Library
Blue Web'n is an online library of 1800+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).
CERES: The California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
Describes California's rich and diverse reources, such as information about physical environments, living creatures and their habitats, and environmental impact reports and studies.
Idealist and Action Without Borders: Over 33,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 165 countries, which you can search or browse by name, location or mission.
Ecosustainable Hub is a "comprehensive one-stop web connection to resources and tools on the environment and sustainability."
Electronic Activist
Great tool to have your voice heard; Helps citizen activists to send e-Mail to government officials
EnviroLink Network
The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991.
Environmental Building News: Leading source on environmentally responsible design and construction.
The National Environmental Directory
A directory of more than 13,000 organizations in the United States concerned with environmental issues and environmental education.
Galaxy Online environment links.
Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter
GEO (Grassroots Economic Organizing) Newsletter is a bimonthly publication dedicated to reporting on community based economies, and their development through local cooperative action.
The Heat Is Online
Website based on Ross Gelbspan's authoritative 1995 book on global warming science, politics and industry disinformation. The site is an update of the book that continues to track and update climate-related developments both in the literature and on the planet.
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
The information and networking center for citizens and environmental organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues.
IGC Internet The Progressive Directory
ProgressiveRockers.com showcases classic and contemporary rock artists who use their fame to make a difference. Buy their CDs, link to artist websites, or support organizations with whom they collaborate on social and environmental issues.
Sapphire Press
UNCAT: The Catalog of UNCATaloged Titles. Brochures, booklets, books, catalogues, newsletters, videocassettes, audio cassettes not generally found in a bookstore or library.
Social Criticism Review: Selected readings on modern society and its ills; a forum for ideas that go against the current.
Starting Point: "Everything You Need To Work The Web."
Tiki the Penguin's Environmental Guide for Kids
An interactive and colorful guide to various eco-issues for children. Includes information on pollution, energy, global warming and genetic engineering. Also featured are cartoons, quizzes, and links connecting young people around the world.
WWW Virtual Library - Environment: An index of useful and informative web sites on environmental topics.
The WELL
Great on-line community with conferences, news and general information about many topics.
Whale Watcher: expert system application for whale identification.
The
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Environment
University of Virginia maintains a list of environmental resources and internet links.
Yahoo
The Classic Directory of Web Sites With Information on Every Topic
A list of publications and news services on the World Wide Web
Discovery
Channel Online
EarthDot.org
An online community featuring news and forums for discussing issues relevant to the environment, social and economic justice, appropriate technology, and other items of interest to green-leaning people.
E/The Environmental Magazine
E is chock full of everything the budding environmentalist needs to know, from "rainforests to recycling" and from the "personal to the political."
ENDS Environment Daily
The company has a diverse product portfolio to meet the needs of environmental consultants and managers, policy makers, regulators, lawyers, campaigners and lobbyists worldwide.
"EXTRA!"
Extra! is Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)'s hard-hitting bimonthly magazine of well-documented media criticism.
Forest Conservation Portal
Providing Vast Rainforest, Forest and Biodiversity Conservation News and Information.
HarperCollins publishers.
Mother Jones
An independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting. Alternative Publication.
NPR: National Public Radio
The Omnivore
A Good Alternative On-Line News Resource
Pacifica Radio
Progressive public radio network
ProgressivePubs.com
ProgressivePubs Inc. is committed to providing the books, papers, videos, databases, and other resources necessary to strengthen and spread the progressive movement in the United States.
Resurgence
Resurgence is the leading international forum for ecological and spiritual thinking.
San Francisco Bay Guardian: progressive weekly
Turning Point Project
A non-profit organization, formed in 1999 specifically to design and produce a series of educational advertisements concerning the major issues of the new millennium.
Utne Café
A place in cyberspace where ideas and community intersect.
Whole Earth magazine
A quarterly magazine produced by the Point Foundation. Whole Earth magazine is an ongoing supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog, a resource book of tools & ideas contributing towards a sustainable future that "includes all cultures & communities."
Z Net
An extensive online progressive magazine and community of alternative news, opinions, and resources.
