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Alliance
for Affordable Energy - Louisiana
http://www.all4energy.org
The Alliance is a non-profit, public interest, membership organization
dedicated to creating fair, affordable, environmentally responsible, community-based
energy policies for Louisiana and the nation. Founded in 1985, today the
Alliance serves Louisiana's 1.8 million electric and gas rate payers by
promoting citizen participation in the decision-making process, conducting
community education campaigns on energy issues, helping citizens and businesses
become more energy efficient, and working together for lower energy bills.
Bluewater Network
http://www.bluewaternetwork.org
Bluewater Network's mission is to champion innovative solutions and inspire
individuals to protect the earth's finite and vulnerable ecosystems. Bluewater
Network promotes critical policy changes in government and industry to
reduce dependence on fossil fuels and eradicate other root causes of air
and water pollution, global warming, and habitat destruction.
Center for Health, Environment and Justice - Virginia
http://www.chej.org
CHEJ is the only national environmental organization founded and led by
grassroots leaders. After winning the federal relocation of residents
victimized by toxic waste at Love Canal, Lois Gibbs and other local activists
were inundated with calls from people around the country who were facing
similar threats and wanted help. CHEJ was founded in 1981 to address this
need.
Chesapeake
Climate Action Network
http://www.chesapeakeclimate.org
The Chesapeake Climate Action Network is the first grassroots, nonprofit
organization dedicated exclusively to fighting global warming in Maryland,
Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Our mission is to educate and mobilize
citizens of this region in a way that fosters a rapid societal switch
to clean energy and energy-efficient products, thus joining similar efforts
worldwide to slow and perhaps halt the dangerous trend of global warming.
Citizen's
Environmental Coalition - New York
http://www.cectoxic.home.igc.org/index.html
Citizens Environmental Coalition (CEC) was founded in 1983 by people
living with the legacy of toxic pollution. They were united in the belief
that no child should be born with toxic chemicals in their body, and began
to use their collective grassroots power to influence statewide policy,
with a mission to eliminate toxic pollution from homes, workplaces, schools
and communities by empowering people. Twenty years later, CEC has grown
into 110 community, labor, faith-based, youth, health and environmental
groups and over 14,000 individuals throughout New York State with offices
in Albany and Buffalo. We serve as the nexus of local communities, statewide
policy discussions and national collaborations.
Climate
Solutions - Washington State
http://www.climatesolutions.org
Climate Solutions mission is to stop global warming at the earliest point
possible by helping the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia become
world leaders in practical and profitable solutions.
Great
Bear Foundation
http://www.greatbear.org
The Great Bear Foundation (GBF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
which is dedicated to the preservation of all eight species of wild bears
around the world and the diverse ecosystems they require in order to survive.
Throughout our twenty-two year history, GBF has been the most effective
organization in the world with this special mission and has achieved significant
success with bear and ecosystem protection through direct citizen action,
advocacy, education, outreach, and research.
Greenhouse
Network
http://www.greenhousenet.org
Our Mission is to educate and unite business, government, students, civic
organizations, community leaders, and citizens in the effort to stabilize
the climate.
Healthlink
- Massachusetts
http://www.healthlink.org
Our mission is to protect and improve public health by reducing and eliminating
pollutants and toxic substances from our environment, through research,
education, and community action.
Jeanette Rankin Peace Center
http://www.jrpc.org
The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center exists to connect and empower people
to build a socially just, non-violent and sustainable community and world.
We are committed to a process of reflection, dialogue and action, both
in times of crisis and in the ongoing work of peacemaking. We believe
that informed, engaged citizens are the foundation of both democracy and
peace, and aim our efforts at supporting both.
KAHEA
-The Hawaiian Environmental Alliance
http://www.kahea.org
KAHEA is network of activists throughout five main Hawaiian Islands. We
address critical issues within our communities and 'ahupua'a (geographic
and cultural demarcation from the uppermost land to the outer reef). We
work with citizens organizing to protect sensitive shorelines and culturally
significant sites from inappropriate development and to prevent the conversion
of our agricultural lands to gated communities, golf courses, and malls.
We also work to protect Hawaiis threatened biodiversity and endangered
species.
Massachusetts
Interfaith Power and Light
http://www.mipandl.org
Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light is a non-profit initiative
to offer Massachusetts congregations of every religious tradition a comprehensive
means of reducing energy consumption, lowering operating costs, and promoting
non-polluting, renewable energy in houses of worship and related buildings.
Montana
Environmental Information Center (MEIC)
http://www.meic.org
The Montana Environmental Information Center is a member-supported statewide
advocacy and public education organization. It was founded by concerned
Montanans in 1973 to protect and restore Montana's natural environment.
Often referred to as Montana's environmental watchdog, MEIC lobbies the
state legislature, monitors state government, educates the public about
environmental issues and provides citizens and communities with organizing
and technical assistance.
National
Forest Protection Alliance
http://www.forestadvocate.org
Our mission is to end the industrial exploitation of all federal public
lands, starting with commercial logging. We believe public lands should
be managed to provide clean air and water, wilderness, wildlife habitat,
and compatible recreation for the public - not subsidized lumber for the
timber industry.
Native Forest Network - Montana Chapter
http://www.nativeforest.org
The Native Forest Network is a global autononomous collective of forest
activists, indigenous peoples, conservation biologists and non-governmental
organizations. It functions on a consensus basis, and is non-violent,
non-hierarchical and non-patriarchal. Furthermore, it is non-discriminatory
on grounds of race, gender, culture, class or species. Our mission is
to protect the world's remaining native forest be they temperate or otherwise,
to ensure they can survive, flourish and maintain their evolutionary potential.
New
York Climate Rescue
http://www.climaterescue.org
Our mission is to inform and mobilize about carbon pollution, greenhouse
gas emissions, climate change, global warming and environmental destruction;
and to propose, facilitate and advocate for solutions including reduced
greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development, renewable energy and
technologies, green buildings, energy efficiency, conservation, and other
related initiatives in the New York metropolitan region.
Ohio
Valley Environmental Coalition
http://www.ohvec.org
The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, formed in 1987, is a nonprofit
organization. Our mission is to organize and maintain a diverse grassroots
organization dedicated to the improvement and preservation of the environment
through education, grassroots organizing and coalition building, leadership
development and media outreach. Our work encompasses much of West Virginia
and portions of southern Ohio and eastern Kentucky.
Oregon Natural Desert Association
http://www.onda.org
ONDA's mission is to protect, defend and restore the health of Oregon's
native deserts. ONDA got its start in the mid-1980s,when a small group
of desert activists joined together to oppose the Bureau of Land Management's
(BLM) inadequate findings in their assessment of "Wilderness Study
Areas (WSAs)" for Eastern Oregon. The work of these activists resulted
in a significant expansion of the acreage of declared WSA's, which ONDA
continues to monitor today. In 1989, the organization officially incorporated
and received its non-profit status. Since then, we've emerged as a leader
in efforts to protect High Desert lands and water from irresponsible livestock
grazing, mining, and geothermal development.
Oregon Natural Resources Council
http://www.onrc.org
Oregon Natural Resources Council is a conservation consortium promoting
environmental protection by educating the public and influencing the public's
servants through legal and legislative processes.
The Regeneration Project
http://www.theregenerationproject.org
The Regeneration Project is committed to lead communities of faith to
a deeper understanding of what it means to be "Good Stewards"
of creation. Our mission is to expand, deepen, and leverage the link between
religious faith and environmental responsibility.
Religious
Witness for the Earth - Massachusetts
http://www.religiouswitness.org
Religious Witness for the Earth (RWE) is a national interfaith network
dedicated to public witness in defense of Creation. Seeing climate change
and environmental devastation as issues of justice, RWE invokes the loving
spirit, selfless courage, and moral authority of the civil rights movement.
Through prayer, education, and nonviolent action, we join hands to protect
the Earth, our beloved home.
Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice
http://www.sneej.org
The Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice exists to
bring together activists and grassroots organizations from across the
Southwest, West and border states of Mexico. Our purpose is to develop
and broaden collective regional strategies and perspectives on environmental
degradation and other social, racial, generational, economic and gender
injustices.
Texas Public Citizen
http://www.citizen.org/texas/
Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization
founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive
branch and the courts.
Wild Farm Alliance - California
http://www.wildfarmalliance.org
The Wild Farm Alliance was established by a national group of wildlands
proponents and ecological farming advocates who share a concern for the
land and its wild and human inhabitants. Our mission is to promote a healthy,
viable agriculture that helps protect and restore wild Nature.
Wyoming
Outdoor Council
http://www.wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org
WOC is Wyoming's largest statewide conservation organization and the state's
leading advocate for natural resources conservation and environmental
protection. We work to safeguard the state's spectacular national parks
and protected areas, vast national forests and other public lands, world-renowned
wildlife and its habitat, blue-ribbon fisheries and enviable air and water
quality.
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