Environmental Organizations

Last Updated: 5 January 1996

Organizations that make their "home" on EcoNet are indicated with the@igc symbol.

On this page, along with EcoNet member organizations, we list general-interestorganizations elsewhere on the Internet that haven't found a spot on

EcoNet's Environment Issue Resource Center pages.

We also list some ecologically-conscious commercial enterprises.

For other starting points for exploring environmental resources, see EcoNet'sOther Environmental WWW Sites page.


New At EcoNet:

EcoVote Online, the homepage of The California League of Conservation Voters, connects you with the latest information on California state and national legislators.

The Public Interest Research Groups , or PIRGs, are among the nation's leading watchdog organizations dedicated to safeguarding the public interest and protecting the environment.

International Rivers Network. International Rivers Network (IRN) is the leading organizationworking to halt the construction of destructive river developmentprojects and to promote sound river management optionsworldwide.

The Global Action and Information Network (GAIN)supports and encourages actions for a sustainable society. Its Web site isdesigned to give you easy access to information on environmental legislation andpolicy, environmental and sustainability issues, and what you can do.

The Video Project is the nation'sonly non-profit organization specializing in the distribution of videos andmultimedia programs on the environment, hands-on science, human rights, andrelated concerns.

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy'smission is to create environmentally and economically sustainable communities andregions through sound agriculture and trade policy.

[Ranger Rick] National Wildlife Federation brings Ranger Rick and much much more to theWorld Wide Web.

The International Academy at SantaBarbara is a non-profit educational institution established in 1960 toimprove understanding of issues affecting life on our planet. Its special focusis on the environment and international relations. The site describes anddemonstrates the Academy's electronically searchable environmental database,Environmental Periodicals Bibliography (EPB).

The Rural Advancement FoundationInternational is an international non-governmental organization headquarteredin Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) and with offices in Pittsboro, North Carolina (USA).RAFI is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable improvement of agriculturalbiodiversity, and to the socially responsible development of technologies usefulto rural societies. RAFI is concerned about the loss of genetic diversity -especially in agriculture - and about the impact of intellectual property rightson agriculture and world food security.


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Alaska Boreal ForestCouncil

Alaska Wilderness League

American Rivers American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)is a nonprofit trade and advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. AWEA'sgoal is to promote wind energy as a clean and environmentally superior source ofelectricity. CaliforniaEconomic Recovery & Environmental Restoration Project

California Exotic Pest PlantCouncil (CEPPC)

  • Cascadia Planet, whosemission includes "To network information from around the world that gives peopleat the grassroots of Cascadia and the Northwest the knowledge they need to makechanges in this region."
[CIEL]Align=RightThe Center for International EnvironmentalLaw (CIEL) is a public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firmfounded in 1989 to bring the energy and experience of the U.S. public interestenvironmental movement to the critical task of strengthening and developinginternational and comparative environmental law, policy, and management aroundthe world.Communities for a Better Environment(CBE) - California is a nonprofit, multiracial urban environmental healthaction organization that fights for clean air and water and toxic freecommunities in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles Basin. CBE'smission is to transform a vision of a healthy, sustainable future into effectiveadvocacy and citizen action that prevents pollution and reduces environmentalhealth hazards in urban communities.

Commission on SanFrancisco's Environment

  • Conservation International is a nonprofitorganization using science, economics, policy, and community involvement topromote biodiversity conservation in endangered ecosystems worldwide.
Consumer Action
  • The Council on EconomicPriorities is a public service research organization dedicated to accurateand impartial analysis of the social and environmental records of corporations.
  • The Deep GreenExchange, maintained by Jim Wight: "Please leave your egos at the door."
  • The Earth Council is anon-governmental organization created as a direct result of the Earth Summit topromote sustainable development.
Desert Survivors is a non-profit desert conservation group based out ofOakland, CA.

Earth First!

Earth Force is kids all across Americawho care about the Earth and are doing something to help it. There's nomembership fee. You just have to be a kid and you have to be willing to takeaction to help the environment.

Earth Island Institute. Life on Earthis imperiled by human degradation of the biosphere. Earth Island Institutedevelops and supports projects that counteract threats to the biologicaldiversity and cultural diversity that sustains the environment. Through educationand activism, these projects promote the conservation, protection, andrestoration of the Earth.

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  • The mission of Earthwatch is toimprove human understanding of the planet, the diversity of its inhabitants, andthe processes that affect the quality of life on Earth. As a member ofEarthwatch, you may volunteer on scientific expeditions that help to improve thequality and management of life's resources.
  • EcoNews Africa is an NGOinitiative that analyses global environment and development issues from anAfrican perspective and reports on local, national, and regional activities thatcontribute to global solutions. EcoNews Africa is a joint project of the AfricaWater Network (AWN), Climate Network Africa (CNA), the Environment Liaison CenterInternational (ELCI) and the International Outreach Program of KENGO.
The Environmental Action Foundation is oneof the most dynamic, tenacious environmental groups on the national scene. EA'smission is to bring our society into greater harmony with ecological and socialjustice imperatives.

The Environmental Careers Organization is a national non-profit dedicated since 1972 to promotingcareers in the environment, specializing in paid internships,career counseling, employment resources, conferences, and joblistings.

TheEnvironmental Defense Fund gets to the root of environmental problems. EDFworks to prevent pollution before it occurs, to increase the effectiveness ofenvironmental regulations, and to build broad new coalitions to protect theenvironment.

[E-LAW] The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide(E-LAW) is an international network of public interest attorneys, scientistsand other advocates sharing expertise and legal and scientific information acrossborders in defense of the environment. Participants in the E-LAW network comefrom over 40 different countries.

Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a progressive not-for-profit,computer-powered environmental research organization that gives concernedcitizens the information they need to protect their homes, communities and PlanetEarth.

  • Friends of the EarthUK (many graphic files; may wish to turn off auto-loading of images), and Friends of the Earth International.
  • Friends of the Earth USA
  • Friends of the Red Road --potential destruction of one of the last naturally pristine regions of Hawai'i ina pre-established, low-impact, solar powered community.
  • Global Action andInformation Network (GAIN). GAIN provides information to support andencourage action for sustainability and environmental preservation. Informationincludes environmental legislation tracking, legislative and lifestyle actionsuggestions, background and statistical information on a wide range ofenvironmental and sustainability issues, and referrals.
  • Global FuturesFoundation (GFF) focuses on systematically integrating programs which lead tosource reduction, pollution prevention, low-cost market development, andincentive market driven regulatory structures which tend to reduce both economicand environmental costs.
Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN). GREEN seeks to improvethe quality of watersheds and rivers, and thereby the lives of people. GREENuses watersheds as a unifying theme to link people within and between watershedsand to build an international network of people and institutions to encourageglobal sharing and cooperation. Programs are developed to foster cross-culturalsensitivity and respect for different ways of thinking, thus contributing tobuild a more caring and peaceful world.

Global Thinking Project

Goldman Environmental Foundation

Good Neighbor Project for Sustainable Industries

Great LakesNatural Resource Center: Information and links on protecting the Great Lakesfrom the regional center of National Wildlife Federation.

Green Means

GreenDisk

Greenpeace International Home Page, GreenPeace's Climate CrisisPage, or Greenpeace Gopher

Greens/Green Parties of North America

Indigenous Environmental Network. The Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)was formed as a grassroots alliance to help Indigenous Nations and its People tostand up against local, multi-national and trans- national corprations and anynational policy action that contaminates the land, water, air and heal ofIndigenous People and our territories.

  • The Institutefor Local Self-Reliance provides research and technical assistance to boththe public and private sectors on environmentally sound economic development.
InternationalArctic ProjectThe International Education and Resource Network(I*EARN) empowers teachers and young people (ages 6-19) to work together indifferent parts of the world at very low cost through a global telecommunicationsnetwork to undertake projects designed to make a meaningful difference in thehealth and welfare of the planet and its people.InternationalRivers Network (IRN) is theleading organization working to halt the construction ofdestructive river development projects and to promote sound rivermanagement options worldwide.

League of Conservation Voters is thebipartisan political arm of the environmental movement and seeks election of apro-environment majority in both the House and Senate to ensure the future ofenvironmental protection. Through the LCV National EnvironmentalScorecard, compiled after each Congressional session, LCV holds Members ofCongress accountable and urges all voters to vote for the earth on Election Day.

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy isa non-profit and tax-exempt educational institution established in 1974. Throughits research, courses, conferences and publications, the Institute seeks toadvance and disseminate knowledge of critical issues in land and tax policy.

  • Magic, founded in 1972, exists to demonstrate how people can learn and apply methods and principles of ecology to discover and further common interests of humankind.
  • The National Association of Physiciansfor the Environment is a medical organization whose mission is to providescientifically valid information about health and the environment.
National Audubon Society. The missionof the National Audubon Society is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems,focusing on birds and other wildlife for the benefit of humanity and the earth'sbiological diversity.

The Natural Resources Defense Council's webfeatures the latest news from the Hill, plus information everyone should have onthe state of our air, water, land and health.

The North AmericanAssociation for Environmental Education is the world's largest association ofenvironmental educators. It is a network of professionals and students working inthe field of environmental education throughout North America and in more than 25countries around the world. 

  • Northwest Environment Watchasks tough questions about how to reconcile economy and ecology, then answersthem in clear, unflinching terms. It combines the latest findings from thenatural and social sciences with a hard-nosed understanding of politics and humannature. NEW's products are the authoritative intelligence reports the Northwestneeds.
  • Ozone Actionfocuses on stratospheric ozone pollution and UV-B radiation.
The Pacific Institute for Studies inDevelopment, Environment, and Security is an independent, non-profit center basedin Oakland, California created to do research and policy analysis in the areas ofenvironment, sustainable development, and international security. Pesticide Action Network North America.PAN is an international coalition of grassroots organizations who oppose themisuse of pesticides and support reliance on safe, ecologically soundalternatives.

Population ActionInternational

  • Preserve/Net is designed to give preservationists and those involved in related areas of endeavour a foothold on the Internet.
President's Councilon Sustainable Development (e-mail: pcsd@econet.apc.org )

Rainforest ActionNetwork is stoked to announce its highly interactive action-oriented WWWpage. RAN bringts the tools of activism to your fingertips. Check it out! Madewith 100%-recycled electrons. Point your browser to the RAN Web page and helpsave the rainforest!

San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
  • Save Our Shores, dedicated topreserving the coastal and marine environment of the Monterey Bay National MarineSanctuary (California).

  • The basic premise of Save What's Left is to educate the world of its environmental problems through community projects.
Sierra Club -- "One Earth, One Chance"

Stockholm EnvironmentInstitute (SEI) was established by the Swedish Parliament in 1989 as anindependent foundation for global and regional environmental research. TheInstitute is governed by an international board, and has four main centers: theheadquarters in Stockholm, Boston (USA), York (UK) and Tallinn (Estonia).

SurfriderFoundation

Taiga RescueNetwork

The Technology Resource Consortium (TRC)is an association of nonprofit Technology assistance organizations that provideeducation about and access to information technology to private and publicnon-profit organizations.

Urban Habitat Project ofthe Earth Island Institute. The Urban Habitat Program (UHP) functions as acatalyst for the environment and social justice, seeking to promotemulti-cultural leadership.

The Western Environmental Law Centeris a non-profit public interest law firm that has prosecuted literally hundredsof environmental cases on behalf of local, regional, and national environmentalorganizations in the West.

  • WildernessSociety
Women's Environment &Development Organization (WEDO)

Working Group onCommunity Right-to-Know

  • "If our environment is to be preserved and restored, the corporatepolicies of the largest global companies must become a force of positive change.It is the mission of World StewardshipInstitute to effect this change."
  • The World Forumfor Acoustic Ecology's mission is the study of natural and human madesoundscapes.
WorldwatchInstitute is dedicated to fostering a sustainable society--one in which humanneeds are met in ways that do not threaten the health of the natural environmentor future generations.

A Few Commercial EnvironmentalSites

  • The Aegis WildlifeOrganization provides photographs and artwork of wildlife in a naturalsetting on high quality, collectible phone cards. A portion of the proceeds go tonon-profit animal and wildlife preservation organizations.
Bullfrog Filmsspecializes in environmental videos, and has a searchable on-line catalog.
  • The Cygnus Group web is designed toprovide individuals and organizations with information regarding the mostefficient and effective ways to reduce waste and conserve resources. The focus ison source reduction and reuse, rather than just recycling.
  • The Earth Observatoriumsite will sell you a CD with the complete photographic record from Space Shuttleflight 59 -- almost 13,000 color photos.
  • EarthWise Journeys is an independentresource for travel adventures worldwide with special emphasis on sociallyresponsible travel, cross-cultural exchange, and the environment.
  • ECO-HAB International, Inc.,is a service organization of professionals dedicated to finance of sustainabledevelopment, particularly within the Habitat II process.
  • At Earth Source, you will find many resources to benefit the balance of plants, people, animals, and earth.
  • EcoMall: "A place to help save theearth."
Environmental Law Services forCitizens: Charles W. Elliott. Environmental law for grassroots, environmentaland public interest organizations.
  • Environmental News Network, a news andinformation service focusing on a variety of environmental topics in the WesternUnited States.
Global Ecology Study Abroad/InternationalHonors Program: Study environmental issues and earn academic credit while youtravel around the world.

Green Market, in partnership withEcoNet and the Institute for Global Communications, is bringing togetherprogressive and ecologically conscious companies and organizations to provideinformation and products easily and affordably to concerned, earthwise consumers.

  • The Internet GreenMarketplace at EnviroLink listsbusinesses on the Internet that have passed a screening process for socialresponsibility.
  • Koeltz Scientific Books USA, booksellers and publishers of books on the natural sciences, including botany, zoology, and ecology, as well as paleontology.
  • The Natural History Book Service inTotnes, Devon, UK, offers an on-line catalogue of environmental/natural historyitems for the international environmental community.
  • NORTEL HABITAT, a multi-lingual interactive resource maintained by the Bell-Northern Research facility in Ottawa, Canada, provides ideas to assist corporations inbuilding effective solutions to their environmental issues.
  • The companies and organizations listed in the OneEarth Gallery demonstrate a commitment tocultivating respect and responsibility towards ourselves, each other, and ournatural world.
  • The Openair-Market Netis the World Wide Guide to Farmers' Markets, Flea Markets, Street Markets, andStreet Vendors. It aims to provide information about open air marketplaces aroundthe world, both formal and informal.
Wild Sanctuary. The Wild Sanctuary sound archiveoffers a collection of more than 2,500 hours of pure species-specific and ambientsound recordings -- the largest privately held collection of natural sounds,anywhere.


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