Green Organizations

Improving the Environment in England and Wales

Tue, Apr 29 —Environment Agency is a public organization for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales. "It's [their] job to make sure that air, land and water are looked after by everyone in today's society, so that tomorrow's generations inherit...
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Nonprofit Environmental Consultancy

Tue, Apr 29 —Ecology Action is a nonprofit environmental consultancy that offers education services, technical assistance, and program implementation for initiatives that assist individuals, business and government to maximize environmental quality and community well being....
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Our Future Depends on Clean Skies

Sat, Apr 26 —The American Clean Skies Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate the public about environmental and energy issues. ACSF advocates the use of natural gas as part of a sustainable energy future, and was formed as a...
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Conserving Land for People

Thu, Apr 24 —The Trust for Public Land is a national nonprofit land conservation organization which conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, gardens and other natural places, ensuring livable communities for generations to come. Since its founding in 1972, TPL has...
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Cascadia's Sustainability Think Tank

Fri, Apr 18 —Sightline Institute is a not-for-profit research and communication center—a think tank—based in Seattle and founded in 1993 by Alan Durning. Sightline's mission is to bring about sustainability—a healthy, lasting prosperity grounded in place. Nonpartisan and wholly independent, Sightline's only ideology...
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Environmental Management and Performance

Tue, Apr 15 —The European Environmental Agency (EEA) aims to support sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe's environment through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy making agents and the public....
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Saving Wildlife and Wild Lands

Sun, Apr 13 —The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild lands through careful science, international conservation, education, and the management of the world's largest system of urban wildlife parks. These activities change attitudes toward nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans...
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Nationwide Network of Trails

Sat, Apr 12 —Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, a nonprofit organization with more than 100,000 members, is the nation's largest trails organization dedicated to connecting people and communities by creating a nationwide network of public trails, many from former rail lines and connecting corridors. Founded in...
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Innovators for the Public

Sat, Apr 12 —Ashoka: Innovators for the Public is a global community of more than 2,000 social entrepreneurs in 60 countries who deliver innovative solutions to social problems. In 2008, Ashoka will launch programs in Israel and Russia. Ashoka's global fellowship is privately...
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Promoting Sustainable and Efficient Energy Use

Sat, Apr 12 —The Energy Saving Trust is a non-profit organisation, funded both by government and the private sector. They are one of the UK's leading organizations set up to address the damaging effects of climate change. They have offices in England, Scotland,...
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Helping Women Survivors of War

Fri, Apr 11 —Founded in 1993, Women for Women International helps women in war-torn regions rebuild their lives by providing financial and emotional support, job skills training, rights awareness and leadership education and access to business skills, capital and markets....
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Sustainable Environmental Stewardship

Wed, Apr 9 —The Office of the Federal Environmental Executive envisions a federal government that conducts its environmental, transportation, and energy-related activities in support of agency missions in an environmentally, economically and fiscally sound, integrated, continuously improving, efficient, and sustainable manner. Their mission...
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World's Largest Environmental Volunteer Nonprofit

Wed, Apr 9 —Earthwatch Institute is the world's largest environmental volunteer nonprofit organization. Its mission is to engage people worldwide in scientific field research and education to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment. Earthwatch was founded in Boston in...
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Progress Through Action

Sat, Apr 5 —The mission of the Center for American Progress Action Fund is to transform progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, legislative action, grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships with other progressive leaders throughout the country and the world. They...
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Our Home. Our City. Our Planet.

Sat, Apr 5 —SF Environment's mission is to improve, enhance, and preserve the environment, and to promote San Francisco's long-term wellbeing by developing innovative, practical and wide-ranging environmental programs in recycling, toxics reduction, environmental justice, energy efficiency, commute alternatives, and urban forest....
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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Thu, Apr 3 —With 192 Parties, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has near universal membership and is the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol has to date 178 member Parties. Under the Protocol, 37 States,...
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Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Wed, Apr 2 —Founded in 1979, the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) was established as a means of exchanging ideas, stimulating research, and promoting graduate training in resource and environmental economics. AERE currently has over 800 members from more than thirty...
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