Website: http://mappingforEJ.berkeley.edu
Mapping for Environmental Justice creates community-informed maps to paint a picture of the cumulative pollution burden experienced by vulnerable and marginalized populations. We use a science-based method that combines data into a single indicator of environmental injustice, and we work with partner organizations to support the map’s use in advocacy and decision-making by state agencies.
Maps like ours are used by agencies in California, Washington, Illinois, and other states to identify and address environmental injustice. We are currently working with partners in Colorado, Virginia, and New Mexico to build and apply maps in those states.
Director: Adam Buchholz
2836 Stanton St, Berkeley, CA 94702
Website: https://www.castaneafellowship.org/
The Castanea Fellowship is a two-year fellowship for diverse leaders working for a racially just food system in any of the areas of: health, environment, agriculture, regional economies, or community development.
Director: Farzana Serang
2150 Allston Way Berkeley, California 94704
The Women’s Climate Center concept recognizes that the answer to climate security lies within the indigenous knowledge of women who farm, raise families and build communities throughout the world. Our ultimate goal is to share that knowledge so that agricultural yields become vigorous, safe drinking water becomes routine, water-borne disease becomes a part of history and revenue generating opportunities and newly-learned business skills unlock a more prosperous and climate resilient future for rural women and girls.
Director:
Women’s Climate Centers International
c/o Earth Island Institute
2150 Allston Way, Suite 460
Berkeley, CA 94704-1375
Website: http://calclimateag.org/
The California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN) is a statewide coalition that advances state and federal policy to realize the powerful climate solutions offered by sustainable and organic agriculture.
Director: Renata Brillinger
400 Morris St., Suite C, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Website: http://www.planeteartharts.org/
Planet Earth Arts was founded in 2014 with the belief that the arts, in collaboration with sciences and humanities, play a critical role in transforming the human presence on our planet from a destructive force to one that is beneficial to the entire community of life. We explore the future of all life while addressing the most urgent environmental and social justice issues of our time through the lens of arts and human creativity.
In collaboration with PlayGround we launched the Planet Earth Arts New Play Festival at Berkeley Rep presented annually in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. We have incubated more than 200 short plays about climate change, mass extinctions, threats to our oceans, sea rise and environmental justice. Planet Earth Arts has commissioned 15 full-length original plays - several of which have had World Premiere productions in San Francisco and we have brought the Festival to the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage in Washington, DC. We work collaboratively with distinguished scientists and faculty at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Planet Earth Arts works closely with and brings renowned artists - photographers, writers, filmmakers, actors, playwrights, directors, choreographers, dancers, visual artists and musicians to the Bay Area as Guest Artists.
Website: http://climateactionnowcalifornia.org/
Climate Action Now! (CAN!) cultivates educational and ecological resilience by removing pavement to create organic gardens.
All of our programs work to cultivate social changes that lead to sustainability in these areas.
Action for a Livable Tomorrow works for environmental justice in northwest Louisiana region by reducing toxic pollution, protecting children’s health and creating better solutions to environmental challenges. Their current campaign to protect air and ground water pollution related to cleanup of a Superfund site has lead to working with national partners to end the open burning and detonation of hazardous waste by the Department of Defense and others. They are also working to prevent childhood lead exposure in northwest Louisiana.
Website: http://1000fountains.org/
1000 Fountains is focused on eliminating the demand for single-use plastic water bottles by building a network of 1000 drinking fountains throughout San Francisco. Once completed, San Francisco will serve as an example for other cities throughout the country and beyond to emulate. If we want to reduce plastic waste in our oceans and rivers, we have to reduce the production of plastic products. Please join us at 1000fountains.org to help make our vision a reality.
Director: Alexis van Gelder
c/o Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460 Berkeley, CA 94704
Website: https://www.sfbusa.org/
Fish bombing is the practice of setting off explosives to kill fish for consumption and sale. It indiscriminately kills animals in the blast area and devastates coral reefs which can take decades to recover. Stop Fish Bombing uses blast detection technology and law enforcement to deter fish bombers. A key to the approach is community involvement, which allows people living in and around Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) affected by blast fishing to objectively assess the issues and determine the best ways to solve them.
Website: https://www.conservationkids.org/
Conservation Kids connects the next generation of young adults with the environment through the use of photography.
Website: https://www.womenforwildlife.com/
Women for Wildlife is an international movement to support, empower and unite women and girls around the world who are passionately devoted to wildlife and conservation. Scientists, photographers, indigenous leaders, artists, activists, students, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, and explorers — all hold a key role to the future of thousands of species on the planet.
Director: Jennifer Palmer
c/o Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460 Berkeley, CA 94704
Website: https://wild-heritage.org/
Wild Heritage works to protect Earth’s remaining primary forests and to leverage the World Heritage Convention for wilderness protection globally.
Website: http://www.covenantsolar.org
Covenant Solar Initiative is a solution and a movement – led by a team of Native Americans and Renewable Energy, Education, Finance, and Community Development experts – working together to eliminate poverty, diminish climate change, and create thriving indigenous communities with the clean and regenerative power of solar.
Director: Cheri Faso Olf
Website: https://www.pgmone.org/
The PGM ONE summit convenes hundreds of emerging and established professionals of the global majority to lead the racial equity and inclusion movement in the outdoor and environmental sectors. During the three-day multidisciplinary and intergenerational summit, participants will share, learn, collaborate, heal, celebrate, build community, find support, and sharpen their analysis of racial equity in their field.
Website: https://jmtwilderness.org/
JMT Wilderness Conservancy has incorporated as a California nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization. They will be continuing their work independent of Earth Island. Please see the JMT Wilderness Conservancy website for more information and/or to support their efforts. Earth Island wishes them success in this new phase of their organization’s development.
Director: Marla Stark
Website: http://www.armenia-environment.org/
Armenian Environmental Network (AEN) was founded in 2007 as a response to the lack of information about environmental issues in Armenia. AEN has a dual mission – to share environmental news among the Armenian Diaspora, Armenians living in Armenia, and the global conservation community; and to facilitate partnerships between these communities to promote sustainable development in Armenia.
Website: http://www.realfoodrealstories.org/
Real Food Real Stories (RFRS) is on a mission to humanize the food system for a connected, sustainable and just tomorrow. RFRS uplifts powerful personal stories from the Bay Area food community and curates live monthly gatherings to foster a food culture around authentic sharing, generous listening, and a connection to our shared humanity.
Website: http://extendputnampark.org
The mission of the Kelly Creek Protection Project is to support a community effort to protect a 58-acre parcel of land at the edge of Petaluma, California from excessive suburban development. The property is a classic old ranch with habitat for a threatened frog species, oak trees, and iconic red barns. The project aims, instead, to expand the adjacent Helen Putnam Regional Park (Sonoma County) with a new trailhead for public access and preservation of the exquisite natural landscape, plants, and animals.
Website: http://www.ecovetglobal.org
Ecovet Global partners with organizations and communities around the world to improve animal health (domestic and wildlife) as a sustainable path to resolving issues connecting poverty, threats to public health, food insecurity, and loss of biodiversity. Using an integrative approach that focuses on enhancing local capacity, we bring a veterinary lens to global development challenges that have reciprocal impacts on animals, humans, and ecosystems.
Director: Kate Sulzner
c/o Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460 Berkeley, CA 94704-1375
Website: http://wildoysters.org/
The Wild Oyster Project’s aim is to bring native oysters back to San Francisco Bay through restoration, community engagement, and thoughtful urban planning. Our vision is a swimmable, edible Bay!
Website: https://seedingsovereignty.org/
Seeding Sovereignty is a multi-generational, youth-led model by and for indigenous and non-indigenous women based on mentoring relationships and principles of unity, solidarity, justice, sharing and respect.
Our collective works to seed paths of personal, community, cultural, and energy sovereignty by amplifying voices of new leaders working to stop violence to women and Mother Earth so that this and future generations have humble and more joyous lives on a healed and thriving planet.
Website: http://www.cincbayarea.org/
The Children in Nature Collaborative is part of a global movement to increase equitable access to nature so that children can thrive.
CINC develops leadership and networks within a global movement to:
Website: http://www.westcountyschoolgardens.org/
We support school gardens in West Contra Costa County by providing resources, advocacy, and partnerships. We build out community’s resilience by cultivating wellness, academic achievement, and sustainable practices.
Director: Graciella Rossi
2150 Allston Way Berkeley, California 94704 (510) 237-7149
Website: http://www.efcwest.net/
EFCWest empowers vulnerable people and builds community capacity throughout the United States and East Africa. We train Native American Tribes and indigenous peoples, and rural and low-income populations in leadership, entrepreneurship, and capacity building skills to help them protect their health and environment, promote sustainable use of their local resources, and prepare for climate change. We emphasize an overall systemic and multi-stakeholder approach through one-on-one assistance, classes and workshops, online webinars and tutorials, and planning support.
Website: http://generationwakingup.org/
GENERATION WAKING UP is a global campaign to ignite a generation of young people to bring forth a thriving, just, sustainable world.
We strive to:
Website: http://sharkstewards.org
Saving Sharks, imperiled marine life and restoring health to the oceans.
Director: David McGuire
c/o Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460 Berkeley, CA 94704 415 350-3790
Green Life holistically supports individuals affected by incarceration by finding and nurturing their passion, purpose, and leadership. This creates thriving lives for these individuals and for our communities. The project also seeds wellness, restorative justice, and re-entry work for those who are or have been incarcerated by partnering with specialists and other organizations that know the landscape firsthand and belong to the most affected communities.
Green Life’s environmental literacy peer-education program is led inside San Quentin State Prison in Northern California by incarcerated individuals. In 2018, the project launched the Environmental Leadership Training and Education Program for Formerly Incarcerated Adults. The project provides grassroots environmental leadership training and internship opportunities to Green Life program participants, forming partnerships with the greater reentry network, local environmental organizations, and educational programs in Alameda County, California, to uplift the voices of underrepresented communities that are most impacted by mass incarceration, environmental pollution, and health disparities. This advances environmental justice and community capacity-building for people in reentry. It also develops and establishes relationships between the program participants and the community of Alameda County.
Website: http://www.cultivateoregon.org/
Cultivate Oregon, a project of Earth Island Institute, is focused on regenerative agriculture issues, and building local seed and food system resiliency.
We are a group of leaders who were initially united through various campaigns around food, agriculture, and environmental issues. Our statewide alliance is working to expand socially and environmentally responsible agriculture that champions food, farm, and economic vitality.
We are raising public awareness around the consequences of GE contamination in our communities. Through educational and legislative efforts, we are growing a diverse and equitable food system that promotes biodiversity, pollinator and soil health, heritage seeds, and resource conservation.
Cultivate Oregon is part of a coalition that includes Our Family Farms, Center for Food Safety, Friends of Family Farmers, and Oregonians for Safe Farms and Families.
Website: http://www.numifoundation.org/
Numi Foundation’s mission is to nurture and empower thriving communities: we envision a world where all basic human needs are met and people have the resources to fulfill their greatest potential. Globally, we provide Numi Organic Tea’s fair trade farming communities with access to clean, safe drinking water; and in our backyard of Oakland, California we offer experiential gardening, arts, and social studies curricula to low-income K-8 public schools.
Website: http://www.ultimatecivics.org
Our mission is to work towards a government of, for, and by the people: We inspire, empower, and engage youth (and adults) in activating democracy and emerge as game-changers.
We believe in our youth, so we create educational tools to engage and inspire our future leaders. We believe that real change begins close to home, so we also provide tools for adults who need a refresher course in rights, rules, and tools.
We believe that inalienable rights belong to real (human) people and that money is not speech, so we develop teaching tools for system change.
Tools + Rules = Game Changers!
Website: http://www.alterterra.org/
Alter Terra takes an innovative approach to addressing the environmental and socioeconomic effects of unplanned urbanization by promoting initiatives that reduce poverty, create jobs, and improve general health of neighborhoods that lack sanitation and healthcare. Focusing on biodiversity and watershed-based planning, we create locally specific solutions for environmental conservation in impoverished regions of Americas.
Website: http://alertproject.org
ALERT connects oil and public health, making healthy people and healthy communities part of our energy future. We give people the skills and training to deal with health effects from extreme oil activities and empower people to have a voice in what happens in their communities. Your contribution means funding for programs such as:
ALERT Project from Global Access Media on Vimeo.
Website: http://www.serengetiwatach.org
The Serengeti is one of the world’s great natural treasure. But it’s facing a host of critical threats, from climate change, water shortage, invasive species, roads and dams, and a fast expanding human population with growing needs. Our mission is build awareness and support for the Serengeti through grassroots programs in community conservation.
Director: Boyd Norton & David Blanton
706 Cayuga Heights Road Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 607-351-1120
Website: http://greenschoolyards.org
Green Schoolyards America is a national organization that expands and strengthens the green schoolyard movement and empowers Americans to become stewards of their school and neighborhood environments. Our programs support the living school ground movement, build relationships that help it succeed, and work to embed this perspective in our existing institutions and policy and regulatory frameworks.
Director: Sharon Danks
2150 Allston Way Suite 460 Berkeley, California USA 94707 510-872-4554
Website: https://george-wuerthner-t3yb.squarespace.com/
Our mission is to provide greater ecological understanding, accuracy, and context by the media for environmental issues. To achieve these goals, we will use 3 primary methods – researching, writing and publishing editorials/commentaries in media outlets, countering inaccurate information by follow up with reporters to help education them or become a source for future news stories, and finally, by reviewing, digesting, and summarizing scientific papers and making them available to media, conservation groups, scientists, who might find the information germane to on-going policy debates. The primary issues areas of focus: livestock grazing impacts, predator restoration/unnecessary predator control, wildfire ecology and forestry issues, energy development, wilderness/park designation, biodiversity conservation and related topics.
Website: http://wildhope.org/
Wild Hope magazine publishes stories and images that raise awareness of the need to preserve Earth’s biodiversity and inspire readers to get involved in protecting other species with whom we share this planet. Wild Hope is co-created by naturalists, conservationists, wildlife rehabilitators, veterinarians, biologists, ecologists, nature writers, photographers and artists.
Website: http://globalwomenswater.org
Global Women’s Water Initiative is training a cadre of grassroots women to become water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) experts and social entrepreneurs, unleashing their leadership potential so they can build water technologies, generate income and solve an issue that burdens them the most - lack of water and sanitation.
Website: http://www.alloneocean.org/
All One Ocean’s mission is to educate our communities about the dangers of marine debris. We believe the solution to ocean pollution starts with education, and we provide crucial education through our two primary programs: Ocean Warriors, our elementary school environmental leadership program, and our Beach Cleanup program. Education of elementary school students is the key to developing future environmental leaders. Our innovative Ocean Warriors and Beach Cleanup programs are vital to educating schoolchildren and other community members; enabling them to make responsible lifestyle changes that will reduce or eliminate marine debris by using effective, solution based educational project milestones.
Director: Nicole Cibellis
Founder: Hallie Austen Iglehart
All One Ocean PO Box 1164 Mill Valley, CA 94942-1164
Website: http://yeacamp.org/
YEA Camp is a collection of experienced activists, credentialed teachers, and community leaders committed to a world in which people, animals, and the planet are treated with respect, and where everyone is empowered to take action, and express what matters most to them. Youths have the power to impact the environment, their communities, and our society as a whole. YEA Camp wants to help make this happen.
Director: Nora Kramer
2150 Allston Way, Suite 460 Berkeley, California USA 94704 (415) 710-7351
Website: http://www.climatewisewomen.org
Climate Wise Women are activists for women’s grassroots women’s leadership on climate change solutions. Our mission is to increase recognition for women’s climate wisdom and to insure access to the critical resources necessary for their leadership — and their families and communities — to thrive.
Director: Tracy Mann
Climate Wise Women Project # 40 650 Amsterdam Avenue, #1A New York, NY 10025
Website: http://transition-earth.org/
Transition Earth promotes human rights and nature’s rights in a world of unsustainable growth and advocates for global systems change to enable the shift to a sustainable planet for all. Our vision is to foster a healthy, resilient world grounded in holistic, rights-based approaches to global problems, including empowering women, supporting voluntary family planning, addressing overconsumption and redefining economies.
Website: http://www.kidsforthebay.org/
KIDS for the BAY provides a vital environmental education service to school communities. We use the local environment as a living laboratory to turn school students on to science and to inspire environmental action.
Director: Mandi Billinge
1771 Alcatraz Avenue Berkeley, CA 94703 Tel: (510) 985-1602
Website: http://www.savedolphins.eii.org/
Since 1982, Earth Island Institute’s International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) has been a global leader protecting whales and dolphins and their ocean habitats. IMMP established Dolphin Safe tuna fishing practices and a monitoring program that saves approximately 100,000 dolphins yearly. We rescued and released Keiko, star of Free Willy, and are working to create seaside sanctuaries where captive performing whales and dolphins can retire. We’re challenging dolphin slaughters in Japan, commercial whaling, and the international trade of cetaceans for entertainment. Join us in keeping whales and dolphins wild and free!
Director: David Phillips
Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460 Berkeley, CA 94704 510-859-9146
Website: http://www.projectcoyote.org
Project Coyote is a national non-profit organization and a North American coalition of scientists, educators, and citizen leaders promoting compassionate conservation and coexistence between people and wildlife through education, science, and advocacy. Project Coyote seeks to create fundamental and systemic change in the way coyotes, wolves, bears, cougars, bobcats, and other native carnivores are viewed and treated in North America, and to press for laws and policies that protect them from abuse and mismanagement. We have successfully spearheaded campaigns to end predator mismanagement in the form of trapping, killing contests, poisoning and “penning” at the state and county levels. Our supporters are active partners. Only with your help can we advocate for wildlife in the legislature, in the courtroom, at the ballot box, through the media, and in communities. As donors, lobbyists, letter writers, and community advocates, you help spread our message by…
Website: http://borneoproject.org
The Borneo Project brings international attention and support to community-led efforts to defend forests and indigenous rights in Malaysian Borneo. We believe that protecting human rights and environmental integrity in Borneo is a critical component of the global movement for a just and peaceful world.
Director: Jettie Word
c/o Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460 Berkeley, CA 94704 Tel: (505) 250-3843 Fax: (510) 859-9091
Website: http://www.richmondtrees.org/
The mission of Richmond Trees is to promote and grow the City of Richmond’s urban forest and green infrastructure through community planting, tree care, education and advocacy in order to improve the health and well-being of the diverse Richmond community.
Richmond Trees’ vision is one of a healthy urban forest that covers at least 40% of the city and is cared for by partnerships between community organizations and the City of Richmond. A healthy tree canopy has innumerable economic, environmental and social benefits and its presence reflects a community that understands and appreciates those benefits.
Website: http://natureinthecity.org/
Our mission is to inspire San Francisco to discover local nature.
Skyscrapers, coyotes, and sand dunes. Rapidly urbanizing San Francisco is a biodiversity hotspot. With so many colorful plants and animals sharing our home, we’re dedicated to educating our community about urban wildlife and pioneering projects to encourage exploring and stewarding local habitats. This year, we published a foldable map to show you where to find nature in the city!
We connect youth and adults to urban ecology in San Francisco because we believe in the importance of engaging with local nature.
By organizing habitat restoration projects throughout diverse neighborhoods in San Francisco, we seek to empower local communities with tools to participate in stewardship, citizen science, and lifelong learning.
As a grassroots environmental nonprofit, we’re delighted to provide all age groups with volunteering opportunities, educational resources, and advocacy support in San Francisco.
At Nature in the City, we deeply value our partnerships. We’re enthusiastic about working with individuals and organizations who share our love for nature. If you have a bright idea for a collaboration, please reach out — we can’t wait to hear from you.
Will you take part? Together, let’s explore nature in the city.
Website: http://womensearthalliance.org/
WEA equips women with the skills and tools they need to protect our earth and strengthen communities from the inside out. In some of the most threatened places on earth, WEA leaders are selling clean cookstoves, launching sustainable farms, protecting land rights, and more.
With local leadership guiding each project, we design capacity-building trainings where women access skills and tools in appropriate technology, entrepreneurship, and leadership. They gain seed funding, mentorship, and a global alliance, and go on to launch their own environmental projects and teach others to do the same.
Director: Melinda Kramer
c/o Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460 Berkeley, CA 94704 510-859-9106
Website: http://www.sacredland.org/
Sacred Land Film Project is a community dedicated to protecting the Earth’s sacred places through media, education and action.
Director: Christopher (Toby) McLeod
c/o Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way, Suite 440 Berkeley, CA 94704 510-859-9190
Website: http://www.johnmuirproject.org/
JMP seeks to protect native wildlife, biodiversity and natural processes on public forests, and to foster better management of our public lands through education, scientific research and legal defense work.
Website: http://www.foodshift.net/
Food Shift is developing collaborative models to reduce wasted food, feed communities, and provide jobs.
We believe thousands of people can be employed in the recovery, redistribution and processing of excess food. By reducing food waste, we can feed the hungry, create jobs, combat climate change and cultivate more sustainable communities.
Director: Yuka Nagashima
c/o Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460 Berkeley, CA 94704
Website: http://www.bawt.org
Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) exists as a vital, comprehensive and ongoing source of support to agencies that lead youth wilderness trips. We believe that urban youth, once exposed to wilderness, have a broadened sense of themselves, each other, and the world around them.
Director: Sierra Lawe & Liza Dadiomov
1050 East 8th Street Oakland, CA 94606 Tel: (510) 452-2298
Website: http://www.mississippifarmtoschool.org/
The Mississippi Farm to School Network works to connect farmers with schools in order to bring Mississippi products to school cafeterias. We seek to strengthen the local agricultural economy and educate Mississippians on the importance of eating locally-grown, nutritionally-dense foods. By gathering a diverse community of farm to school advocates, the network strives to reach all students and their families.
The Mississippi Farm to School Network has three main goals: create a coalition to connect farm to school practioners across Mississippi, improve student health and well-being across Mississippi, and improve local farm economies across the state of Mississippi.
Director: Co-Directors Sunny Young Baker, Dorothy Grady-Scarbrough
1503 Jackson Ave. East #5 Oxford, MS 38655
Website: http://www.energierich.org/
ÉnergieRich offers global solutions for energy access, food sustainability, technology acquisition and employment, by establishing local production of innovative renewable energy powered products. ÉnergieRich emphasizes harnessing the talent of Engineers in Africa and the Diaspora for collaborative product design and project support.
Director: Dena Montague
1409 De La Vina Street #7 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 650-336-3247
Website: http://www.raptorsarethesolution.org/
Raptors Are The Solution (“RATS”) educates people about the ecological role of raptors and the enormous danger to raptors and all wildlife, as well as pets and children, from the wide use and availability of rat poisons. RATS partners with other NGOs, agencies, scientists, municipalities, and others to work toward eliminating toxic rodenticides from the food web.
Director: Lisa Owens Viani and Allen Fish
2150 Allston Way, Suite 460, Berkeley, California 94704
Website: http://www.whollyh2o.org/
Wholly H2o catalyzes dynamic informed connections between people and their watersheds that yield proactive and appropriate water management through conservation and reuse. Our watershed-positive educational programs engage Californians in community and citizen science art and green infrastructure education.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/WhollyH2o
Twitter: twitter.com/WhollyH2o
Director: Elizabeth Dougherty
339 15th St 2nd Floor Oakland CA 94612 tel: 415-323-5966
Website: http://californiaican.org/
The California Institute for Community, Art, & Nature (California ICAN) is an oasis for the human spirit, a sanctuary for ancient wisdom, a greenhouse for nurturing fresh ideas, and a boot-camp for visionaries who want to translate ideas into action. Through intimate gatherings, large public conferences, exhibitions, books, articles, and digital media, we provide inspiration and support to those fighting for a more socially equitable, naturally sustainable, and spiritually abundant world.
The work evolves around topics such as California Indian cultural heritage, endangered places and species, Bay Area history, ecology and people to help us better understand the natural world we live in and how we can keep it alive by drawing upon its centuries of accumulated wisdom and practice.
The work is guided by a few core beliefs: that in the long run, the battle for a sustainable, healthy, diverse, and beautiful world is not only a battle for land-use laws and policies, but is a battle for the human imagination; that the arts are the doorway into the human imagination; that the human race is capable of embracing change and achieving greatness; and that great work can best be done with joy and laughter.
Director: Malcolm Margolin
2150 Allston Way, Suite 460 Berkeley, CA 94704 (510) 859-9180
Website: http://www.wildfutures.us
WildFutures provides essential tools and trainings for wildlife and habitat groups as well as other conservation organizations. Through facilitation, trainings, campaign planning assistance and other services, WildFutures helps organizations, agencies, coalitions, biologists and individuals advance their conservation goals.
Website: http://www.vivasierragorda.org
Advocating protection of the nature and beauty of the Sierra Gorda mountains in central Mexico. We raise awareness and participation from concerned global citizens, to bring to life the daily work and generosity of the highlander community to rescue their homelands and support innovation in all sectors and protect Mother Nature and bioregional security.
Director: Laura Perez Arce and Dr. Patricia Perez-Arce
492 Staten Ave. Apt. 1201 Oakland, CA 94610 Land phone: (510) 628-0180
Website: http://www.schabitatrestoration.org/
SCHR works with private landowners and agencies to manage habitat restoration projects and increase community support. Projects include removal of fish passage barriers along the Central Coast, stakeholder planning and fundraising for regional fish enhancement projects, non-native invasive plant removal, fire and flood mitigation projects, and supporting community-based watershed groups.
Website: http://saveinternational.org/
SAVE International works to protect the critically endangered Black-faced Spoonbill and its habitat by promoting alternative economic development and long-term sustainability of the ecosystems and local communities.
Director: Marcia McNally
SAVE International c/o Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way #460 Berkeley, CA 94704
Website: http://saveoursoil.us
Save Our Soil works to stop the use of hazardous and other industrial wastes in fertilizer, soil amendments and animal feeds because of their impact on human health and the environment.
Website: http://www.ethicaltraveler.org/
Ethical Traveler is dedicated to educating travelers about the social and environmental impact of their decisions, showing how travel can be a potent form of diplomacy, and giving travelers a forum through which their united voices can serve the world community.
Website: http://www.ecovillagefarm.org/
EcoVillage is an “Oasis of Connectivity,” promoting sustainable urban agriculture, environmental education, economic and social justice, youth leadership and community building through its various programs and activities.
Website: http://www.ecoequity.org/
EcoEquity is a small, activist think tank that has had an outsized impact on the global climate equity debate. It has done this primarily, but not exclusively, by way of its work on global fair shares, in the context of a climate mobilization that is fair enough to actually work. See, in particular, is leadership in the Climate Equity Reference Project.
Director: Tom Athanasiou
c/o Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460 Berkeley, CA 94704 Tel: (510) 859-4864
Website: http://www.acwa-alaska.org
ACWA, a project of the Earth Island Institute, works to prevent the degradation of public waters through advocacy, education, litigation, legislation and market campaigns in support of the fundamental goals of the federal Clean Water Act:
(1) all Alaska waters should protect aquatic life and be safe for recreation,
(2) the discharge of all pollutants into public waters should be eliminated.
Resource extraction and climate change are impacting the far north more dramatically than anywhere else on the planet. Our waters, and the people and wildlife that depend upon them every day, have never needed more support.
Baikal Watch engages local and international communities to protect vital ecosystems in the Baikal watershed and the surrounding Siberian wilderness.
Director: Gary Cook
c/o Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460 Berkeley, CA 94704
Website: http://guiasunidos.org/
Guias Unidos works to inspire community based, conservation-minded tourism, by unifying local and international expertise and resources.
Our project is based in Ometepe Island, Nicaragua where we:
Director: Kate & Jeff Zylland
2150 Allston Way Suite 460 Berkeley, California 94707
Website: http://catradejustice.org/
The California Trade Justice Coalition (CTJC) is an alliance of labor, social justice, public health, and environmental organizations working to stop bad trade schemes like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and advance an equitable trade agenda that creates quality jobs for our communities while protecting our shared environment for generations to come.
Director: Will Wiltschko
436 14th Street, Suite 1216 Oakland, CA 94612 (831) 917-7997
Website: http://altaiproject.org
The Altai Project will protect natural landscapes and wildlife and support indigenous cultures and traditional lifeways in and around Russia and the 4-nation Greater Altai region that also includes Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and China through community collaborations and targeted campaigns.
We will work to achieve this mission through grant-based support, strategic exchanges of expertise and technology, strengthening protected areas (including sacred sites), and amplifying the voices of frontline partners and experts through storytelling and advocacy.
Website: http://www.friendsofmuonde.org/
Friends of Muonde supports locally driven efforts to foment creativity and development in the Mazvihwa and neighboring areas of south central Zimbabwe. Through educational, agricultural and community extension programs, and a healthy dose of action research, we back local development efforts that maintain the connections between spirit, community and ecology.
Director: Ken Wilson
Friends of Muonde c/o Ken Wilson 3375 Revere Avenue Oakland, CA 94605
Website: http://plasticpollutioncoalition.org
Plastic Pollution Coalition is a global alliance of individuals, businesses and organizations working together to end plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on people, animals, the ocean, and the environment.
Director: Dianna Cohen
Plastic Pollution Coalition c/o Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460 Berkeley, California 94704 United States Phone: +1 (510) 394-5772
Website: /cusp
The California Urban Streams Partnership is an organization of local, regional and statewide groups in California which advocate for the protection, restoration and stewardship of urban streams. The alliance advocates for: the return of wildlife habitat in urban areas; an increase in quality of life in cities and neighborhoods; and added resiliency for urban ecosystems under the challenges of climate change.
Director: Josh Bradt, Mike Vukman
Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460 Berkeley, CA 94704 Phone: 510.859.9197
Website: http://www.juniorwildliferanger.org/
A hub for Ranger programs around the country, Junior Wildlife Ranger (formerly National Junior Refuge Rangers) propels childhood curiosity into lasting environmental stewardship. Through an interactive approach to environmental education, the program cultivates an appreciation of our public lands system and the outdoors.
Director: Lynnea Shuck
c/o Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460 Berkeley, CA 94704 (510) 984-4821