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Campaign for America's Wilderness
The Campaign for America's Wilderness is a national effort to permanently protect the nation's last wild lands by placing them into the National Wilderness Preservation System, where they will remain in a natural state for the use and enjoyment of future generations. Phone: 202-544-3691.
Carbon Counter
Center for Biological Diversity
520-623-5252. Protecting endangered species and wild places through science, policy, education, and environmental law.
Center for Language and Ecology
Supporting research in ecological linguistics. Includes the online magazine "Language and Ecology" and resources for researchers.
Center for the Study of Global Change
Maintains a strong commitment to interdisciplinary study and research. The Center sponsors a broad range of educational programs and research on global issues in the contemporary world, encompassing the effects of fundamental societal transformation, the impact of power on social and political life, problems of differentials in the access to resources, sustainable development, and the growing influence of nationalism and movements of cultural identity. |
Center of the American West
University of Colorado.
Chemical Scorecard
CLIMAS (Climate Assessment for the Southwest)
Phone: 520-792-8712.
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
107 Cienega, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501. Phone: 505-986-1973; e-mail: ccns@nuclearactive.org. Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS) is an organization focused on increasing public awareness concerning the issues posed by radioactivity and the nuclear industry.
Conservation Resource Center
Phone: 303-544-1044.
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Defenders of Wildlife
Dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities.
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Earth Day Network
Earth Island Institute
Innovative action for the environment. Provides in-depth information and resources from their project network, award-winning journalism from the Earth Island Journal, and tools to address the environmental challenges we face.
Earth Vision
Nature and soul communion.
Spiritual ecology, exploring the wilderness within.
Earthjustice
Phone: 202-667-4500. Headquarters, Oakland, California; phone: 510-550-6700. Denver office, phone: 303-623-9466.
Earthwatch
Their mission is to promote sustainable conservation of our natural resources and cultural heritage by creating partnerships between scientists, educators, and the general public. They operate on a very simple notion: That if you fully involve the general public in the process of science, you not only give them understanding, you give the world a future. infor@earthwatch.org
EcoNet
Weekly updated news from the U.S. and world connecting people who are changing the world. They actively promote change toward a healthy society, one which is founded on principals of social justice, broadly shared economic opportunity, a robust democratic process, and sustainable environmental practices.
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EcoVersity
A nonprofit school that offers classes in earth-based vocations. Phone: 505-424-9797.
Endangered Habitats League
Phone: 213-804-2750.
Envirolink Network
Lots of information with lots of organizational links and daily news updates from the U.S. and the world. An online environmental community that acts as a comprehensive resource for individuals, organizations, and businesses working for social and environmental change.
Environmental Defense
Environmental Defense Fund
Good information on climate change, fisheries, and endangered species. Finding ways that work. This is a not-for-profit environmental advocacy group with four main goals: stabilizing the Earth's climate; safeguarding the world's oceans; protecting human health; and, defending and restoring biodiversity.
Environmental Working Group
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a not-for-profit environmental research organization dedicated to improving public health and protecting the environment by reducing pollution in air, water and food. |
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Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues
Phone: 206-441-3137.
Floodplain Management Association
Phone: 602-506-4767.
Forest Guardians
Phone: 505-988-9126.
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth monitors the policies of institutions such as the World Bank and encourages them to think and act green. A national nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the planet from environmental degradation; preserving biological, cultural, and ethnic diversity; and empowering citizens to have an influential voice in decisions affecting the quality of their environment, and their lives.
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FSEEE (Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics)
Phone: 541-484-2692. A group of Forest Service employees, both current and former, working to change the Forest Service's basic land-management policy. Their mission is to forge a socially responsible value system for the Forest Service based on a land ethic that ensures ecologically and economically sustainable resource management. |
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Land Trust Alliance
Phone: 970-245-5811 or 202-638-4725.
League of Conservation Voters
Phone: 202-785-8683. Environmental scorecards rate members of Congress on how they've voted on key issues. The political voice of the environment, this group works to make Congress more responsive to our environmental concerns.
Leave No Trace
Center for Outdoor Ethics, P.O. Box 997, Boulder, Colorado 80306; phone: 303-442-8222; FAX: 303-442-8217. Concerned with backcountry ethics.
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Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation
Phone: 850-681-2591.
Living Rivers
Moab, Utah, phone: 435-259-1063; in Scottsdale, Arizona, phone: 480-990-7839. |
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National Audubon Society
Info on Audubon's many campaigns for endangered species, forests, wetlands, and wildlife refuges.
National Drought Mitigation Center
Phone: 402-472-6707.
National Landscape Conservation System Coalition
National Network of Forest Practitioners
National Parks and Conservation Association (NPCA)
This long standing organization works toward preserving and upgrading our national parks and monuments. Address: 1300 19th Street, N.W., Suite 300, Washington, DC 20036; phone: 800-628-7275; e-mail: npca@npca.org.
National Tree Trust
An organization that supports the planting, growing, and maintenance of trees in communities and along highways. Phone: 800-846-8733.
National Wildlife Foundation
Education and action to keep the wild in our world. The nation's largest membership supported conservation group, uniting individuals, organizations, business, and government to protect wildlife, wild places, and the environment. Phone: 800-822-9919.
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Native Forest Network
Phone: 406-586-3885
Natural Resources Defense Council
Legislative watch on environmental bills, political races, and how-to guides ranging from buying organic foods online to fighting airport pollution. The NRDC uses law, science, and the support of more than 400,000 members nationwide to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. The earth's best defense.
Negative Population Growth
Educates about the detrimental effects of overpopulation on the environment and quality of life. Jacques Cousteau said, "Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage."
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PEER
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is a private, nonprofit organization that provides support and services for government agency whistle-blowers. Phone: 202-265-7337.
Platte River Endangered Species Partnership
Phone: 303-445-2096.
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Predator Conservation Alliance
Saving a place for America's predators. Works to conserve and restore ecosystem integrity by protecting predators and their habitats. Phone: 406-587-3389.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
Phone: 202-265-7337.
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RangeBione: A Public Rangeland Almanac
A public rangeland almanac. An assemblage of natural resource and environmental links, tools, news, and views for improving the ecological conditions of public rangeland ecosystems.
Real Climate
This blog seeks to provide a quick response to developing stories on our climate changes, and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary.
Real Goods
A commercial site selling earth friendly products. They are trying to change the way America does business by espousing the traditional values of integrity, honesty, friendliness, wise resource use, and ingenuity.
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Red Rock Forests
90 West Center Street, Moab, Utah 84532; phone: 435-259-5640. A nonprofit organization.
Red Rock Heritage Coalition
Resources For The Future
Phone: 415-977-5500.
Restore America's Estuaries
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Save Our Environment Action Center
A collective effort of the nation's most influential environmental advocacy organizations harnessing the power of the Internet to increase public awareness and activism on today's most important issues.
Sierra Club
The 600,000-pluss-member Sierra Club is the largest grassroots environmental organization in the United States. Stay informed about issues in your state, plug into the online-activist network, or sign up for a club-sponsored trip. Phone: 415-977-5500.
Sierra Fund
Phone: 530-265-8454.
Sierra Nevada Alliance
Phone: 530-542-4546.
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Sierra Nevada Forest Protection Campaign
Phone: 530-622-8718.
Ski Area Environmental Scorecard
Southern
Utah Wilderness Alliance
Dedicated to the preservation of the outstanding wilderness
at the heart of the Colorado Plateau, and the management
of these lands in their natural state for the benefit
of all Americans.
Main Office
1471 S. 1100 East
Salt Lake City, Utah 84105-2423
Phone: 435-486-3161
E-mail: suwa@suwa.org
Moab Office
P.O. Box 968
Moab, Utah 84532
Phone: 435-259-5440
Monticello Office
P.O. Box 401
Monticello, Utah 84535
Phone: 435-587-3636
Washington, D.C. Office
122 C Street, NW, Suite 240
Washington, D.C. 20001
Phone: 202-546-2215
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Center for Biological Diversity
Protecting endangered species and wild places of western
North America and the Pacific through science, policy,
education, and environmental law.
Southwest
Forest Alliance
A coalition of more than 50 environmental groups in
Arizona and New Mexico dedicated to charting a new course
for the Southwest's eleven national forests.
Student
Conservation Association
Sustainable Northwest
Building partnerships that promote environmentally sound economic development in the Pacific Northwest.
Sustainable
Resources
Phone: 303-998-1323.
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Sopris Foundation
The Sopris Foundation is a small, non-profit, active
family foundation that is dedicated to creating awareness
of social, economic, environmental and population issues.
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The Earth Times
Web newspaper on the human environment and related economic, humanitarian, and social issues.
The Ecotravel Center
The Forest Advocate
The Green House Network
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy magazine and archive, press releases, and reports on conservation science. Saving the last great places. Together with communities, businesses, and individuals, they preserve precious places around the world. Forever.
The Nature Conservancy: Oregon
821 S. E. 14th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97214; phone: 503-230-1221.
The Nature Conservancy: Washington
217 Pine Street, Suite 1100, Seattle, Washington 98101; phone: 206-343-4344.
The Rainforest Action Network
Works to protect the Earth's rain forests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizations, and nonviolent direct action.
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The Sonoran Institute
Phone: 520-290-0828.
The Wilderness Society
Works to protect America's wilderness and to develop a nationwide network of wilderness through public education, scientific analysis, and advocacy. Their goal is to ensure that future generations will enjoy the clean air and water, wildlife, beauty, and opportunities for recreation and renewal that pristine forests, rivers, deserts, and mountains provide. Four Corners Office: 303-650-5818.
The Wildlands Project
A group of conservation biologists and citizen conservationist activists devoted to developing a North American wilderness recovery strategy.
Tread Lightly!
A national land use ethics program.
Suite 325-C; 298 24th Street; Ogden, Utah 84401; 801-627-0077; FAX: 801-621-8633.
Trust for Public Land
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Zero Population Growth
Saving the world for our children. A national nonprofit organization working to slow population growth and achieve a sustainable balance between the Earth's people and its resources. They seek to protect the environment and ensure a high quality of life for present and future generations. |
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