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Environmental Links

With the addition of EASI's Environmental Links to the Web Page, you can now find over 600 links to environmental organizations and information sources available here. We will refresh and update this page on a monthly basis. If you have a link that you feel should be placed here, please send mail to johnliddell@usmcoc.org and we will include it in the next update. Be sure to include a brief description of the link, and an appropriate category in which the link should be placed. Also if there are any links that are dead or descriptions on this page that are inaccurate or outdated please feel free to let us know. To find out more about EASI click on the tree above.  To find the links just click on one of the categories listed below:

Web Links

Air Quality

Animals

  • Conservation International - a nonprofit organization using science, economics, policy, and community involvement to promote biodiversity conservation in rain forests and other ecosystems worldwide.
  • American Association of Zoo Keepers
  • New Mexico's Animalweek - Animal organizations throughout out New Mexico are joining together to make this annual event a focal point for bringing animal welfare issues and humane education programs to the public.
  • Cal/EPA Database  - Search The California Wildlife Exposure Factor and Toxicity Database (Cal/Ecotox) by chemical name.

Conservation

  • GREENlink - Your Starting Point for a Green solution. Environmental issues, recycling, composting, water/air quality, waste management.
  • Ground Zero Productions, Inc. - Producers of Environmental Awareness PSA's and shows in the laser display format for planetariums, science centers, schools, and the general public. Profits outside of operating costs go to other Environmental organizations worldwide.
  • IdeeFix Communication - Non-profit organization for environment and communication.

Environmental Education

  • Classroom Earth - Training librarians, environmental professionals, gov't officials, business leaders to access resources about the environment and sustainable development.
  • Environmental Hazards Management Institute - a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to resolving environmental problems through education and relationship building.
  • Environmental Information Center - formed to fight the government rollback of government protections euphemistically referred to as "regulatory reform"
  • INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION - The Institute of Global Education, a non-profit United Nations Non-Governmental Organization, was founded in 1984 as The World Peace University.
  • Living Earth - an international organization working to create understanding and resolution of environmental issues within local communities through education
  • GLOBE - Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment - a worldwide science and education program coordinating the work of students, teachers, and scientists to monitor the global environment.
     

  • Pollution Prevention at Home - Consumer Pollution Prevention  Information from Ohio EPA Office of Pollution Prevention.

Environmental Health

EPA Links

Fresh Water

Fund Raising

  • Jim Morris - In 1977, Jim Morris started printing t-shirts himself. Twenty-one years later, he continues to print t-shirts that describe threats to the environment and show how you can help. The shirts also show that wildlife and nature deserve our respect and wonder.
  • The Yosemite Fund 
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water   - This Office at EPA works to ensure safe drinking water and to protect the quality of the Nation's Drinking Water Supply. The site features drinking water and health  Information, kid's pages, and drinking water publications and guidance documents.
  • Envirofacts Warehouse - Grants  Information  - Search the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Envirofacts Database for grant  Information from the Grants  Information and Control System (GICS) by applicant name, award date, grant, geography or text. Results provide a list of grants including grant number, CFDA number, applicant name, address, award date, cumulative award and project start and end.

Government

Green Products

  • Helios Environmental Resource Network - non-profit environmental organization providing printed and on-line information about environmentally sound and healthful products and services in the Cascadia Bioregion.

  • EPA Green Vehicle Guide  -  Information on the cleanest and most fuel efficient makes and models of automobiles.

Land

Minerals

Nuclear

  • NECONA - National Environmental Coalition Of Native Americans: environmentalists working to keep nuclear waste off Indian lands.
  • Civil Nuclear Industry - The Institute is an independent, non-governmental, global organisationwhich offers a forum for research and debate on economic and political issues affecting the civil nuclear industry.

Organizations

Plants

Recycling

  • Illinois Recycling Association - Promoting recycling, reuse and waste reduction.
  • Keep America Beautiful - Keep America Beautiful, Inc. is a national, non-profit, public education organization with local affiliates, dedicated to preserving the natural beauty and environment in American communities and improving waste handling practices at the community level.
  • Recycle Exchange - An online community and information resource for people who recycle.
  • Solid Waste Association of North America - Non-profit education organization whose mission is to advance the practice of municipal solid waste management.

Research

  • Committee for the National Institute for the Environment (CNIE) - national, non-profit organization working to improve the scientific basis for making decisions on environmental issues, through creation of a new, non-regulatory environmental science and education agency.
  • EarthWatch - a non-profit company founded in 1972, which provides funding to scientific endevors through the Earthcorps volunteers in 150 countries.
  • EPA Envirofacts Homepage - Description of the Envirofacts Information Warehouse, a relational database allowing free, public access to several EPA data systems, as well as mapping applications for the data.
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  • EPA REACH IT - http://www.epareachit.org/

  • PUBLIC INTEREST SCIENCE - How Public Interest Scientists Are Having An Impact from Toxics to Biodiversity.
  • Renew America - Coordinates a network of community and environmental groups, businesses, government leaders and civic activists to exchange ideas and expertise for improving the environment.
  • Round River Conservation Studies - An ecologically oriented research and education organization dedicated to preserving and restoring wildness and to fostering and applying the awareness of the rights of nature.

  • EPA Scientific Metadata Standards Project  - developing, maintaining, and providing access to metadata for EPA and related data sets.

Salt Water

  • Algalita Marine Research Foundation - Dedicated to scientific research on environmental problems affecting species and habitats in the near shore marine environment.
  • Oceania Project, The - its vision is to engage the minds of people around the planet to become inspired about cetacea, the oceans and the marine environment.
  • Save Our Seas - Hawai's non-profit organization dedicated to ending all ocean pollution.
  • Save Our Seashore, Inc - help protect our valuable asset, our shoreline. Learn how you can help to stem erosion and destruction.
  • Surfrider - Non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the protection and enhancement of the world's waves and beaches.
     

  • Gulf of Mexico Program  -  Information about the ecological and resulting economic issues facing the Gulf Coast states.

Sustainability

  • Conservation and Preservation Charities of America Index - Overpopulation, deforestation, pollution, and the reckless waste of our natural resources must be met and addressed. Join us in saving our world.
  • Earth Pledge Foundation - a non-profit organization promoting Sustainable Development
  • ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS - SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT CONSULTING Environmental Management & Sustainable Economic Development Organizational Change Management & Business Process Improvement
  • Ecotrust - a private, nonprofit organization established in 1991 to promote conservation-based development, beginning in the temperate rain forests of North America.
  • Green Cross International - Working on sustainable development. Active in 20 countries. Our President is the Hon Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev.
  • Millennium Institute - Provides news on the State of the World, tools for achieving environmentally sustainable development, and ideas for celebrating the new millennium in 2000 in constructive ways.
  • Northwest Environment Watch - An independent research center to foster a sustainable economy and way of life in the Pacific Northwest.
  • Panos - works internationally, in partnership with others, to bring about change to more sustainable patterns of development.
  • Project 2050 Save Earth - A design for a sustainable community with a plan to propagate the communities as fast as people choose to move into them.
  • Resource Renewal Institute - To support ideas, individuals and new institutions that further the principles of sustainable natural resource management.