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This page contains links to organizations that are active in the following areas:
The
Biodiversity Project
The Biodiversity
Project's mission is to add strength and value to the environmental movement's
public outreach on biodiversity, working with partners in advocacy, education,
science, communications, grantmaking and other fields.
Center
for Biodiversity and Conservation
Established
at the American Museum of Natural History in 1993, this facility is dedicated
to the study and conservation of biological diversity, defined as the
variety of life in all its forms and the interactions among these living
forms and their environment.
Consultative
Group on Biological Diversity
A grantmakers
forum that seeks to focus attention on issues and program opportunities
related to the conservation and restoration of biological resources.
Catskill
Center
The Catskill
Center for Conservation and Development is a member-supported, not-for-profit
regional conservation and advocacy organization serving the six-county
Catskill Mountain region of New York State.
Conservation
Fund
The Conservation
Fund seeks sustainable conservation solutions for the 21st century, emphasizing
the integration of economic and environmental goals.
Conservation
Law Foundation
The Conservation
Law Foundation is the largest regional environmental advocacy organization
in the United States.
Iowa
Environmental Council
The Iowa Environmental
Council is an alliance of diverse organizations and individuals working
with all Iowans to protect our environment. The IEC seeks a sustainable
future through: shaping public policy, research and education, coalition-building,
and advocacy.
Land
Trust Alliance
The Land Trust
Alliance promotes voluntary land conservation and strengthens the land
trust movement by providing the leadership, information, skills and resources
land trusts need to conserve land for the benefit of communities and natural
systems.
Massachusetts
Audubon Society
Massachusetts
Audubon Society, the largest conservation organization in New England,
works to preserve the natural world through conservation, education, and
environmental advocacy.
Piedmont
Environmental Council
The Piedmont
Environmental Council was established in 1972 to promote and protect the
Piedmont's rural economy, natural resources, history and beauty.
The
Nature Conservancy
The mission
of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve plants, animals and natural communities
that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands
and waters they need to survive.
Institute
of Ecosytem Studies
The Institute
of Ecosystem Studies (IES) is dedicated to the creation, dissemination
and application of knowledge about ecological systems.
East
Coast Greenway
The East Coast
Greenway will be the nation's first long-distance, city-to-city, multi-modal
transportation corridor for cyclists, hikers, and other non-motorized
users.
Open
Space Institute
Established
to protect land for "public benefit." Focuses on "providing public access
to resources, protecting open space for public use, and protecting important
landscapes."
Openlands
Project
Openlands
Project, founded in 1963, is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated
to preserving and enhancing public open space in northeastern Illinois.
American
Planning Association
The American
Planning Association has contracted with the U.S. Department of Energy
to prepare a Scoping Report and related products that would establish
the feasibility, form, and content of a self-directed diagnostic workbook
about sustainable development. The interactive-style workbook would teach
a planning official about sustainability by applying sustainable development
principles and practices to the official's community, thereby making the
lessons to be learned more concrete.
Alternatives
for Community and Environment
ACE believes
that with opportunities to participate in environmental decision making
and access to the appropriate resources, residents - both youth and adults
- can achieve lasting environmental, public health, and economic benefits.
Campaign
for Sensible Growth
The Campaign
is a coalition of government, civic, and business groups united to promote
sensible growth policies for our metropolitan area.
Center
for Neighborhood Technology
Center for
Neighborhood Technology is a non-profit organization that helps build
prosperous, sustainable communities by linking economic and community
development with ecological improvement.
Cityscape
Institute
Mission is
to promote the civil city--a clean, safe, and beautiful urban environment
that fosters both community and business--by advancing citizen-government
partnerships that improve the management, design, and maintenance of outdoor
public places.
Congress
for the New Urbanism
Since 1993
the Congress for the New Urbanism has advocated for the restructuring
of public policy and development practices to support the restoration
of existing urban centers and towns within coherent metropolitan regions.
Conway
School of Landscape Design
The mission
of the Conway School is to explore, develop, practice, and teach design
of the land that is environmentally and ecologically sound.
Earth
Pledge
This organization's
mission is to promote the practical benefits of sustainable development
and the need to balance our desire for economic growth with the necessity
of environmental, cultural and social preservation.
EcoCity
Cleveland
EcoCity Cleveland
is a Northeast Ohio nonprofit, tax-exempt, educational organization with
sixteen years of experience in environmental reporting and planning.
Envision
Utah
Envision Utah
is a unique and dynamic partnership, bringing together citizens, business
leaders and policy-makers from public and private circles throughout the
state. Its objective: to develop a broadly supported growth strategy -
a common vision for our future, and our children's future - to guide the
businesses, residents and government bodies of Utah well into the 21st
century.
Iowa
Environmental Council
The Iowa Environmental
Council (IEC) is an alliance of diverse organizations and individuals
working with all Iowans to protect our natural environment. The IEC seeks
a sustainable future through: shaping public policy, research and education,
coalition-building, and advocacy.
National
Association of Regional Councils
This site
contains information about agencies engaged in comprehensive regional
planning and coordination.
New
Jersey Future
New Jersey
Future is the state's largest smart-growth advocacy group. Our nonprofit
organization is leading the fight for better-managed growth under the
State Plan, and for sustainable development: a strong economy, a healthy
natural environment and a just society for ourselves and future generations.
Planning
and Conservation League
The Planning
and Conservation League is a nonprofit, statewide alliance of nearly 10,000
citizens and more than 120 conservation organizations united to protect
wildlife and restore the quality of California's environment through legislative
and administrative action.
Regional
Plan Association
Community
Development and Planning Project Objective: To provide communities with
greater access to the economic life of the region by providing technical
assistance, educational programs and institutional linkages, demonstration
projects, advocacy efforts and by undertaking policy research that informs
local and national decision makers.
Sprawl
Watch Clearinghouse
The Sprawl
Watch Clearinghouse mission is to make the tools, techniques, and strategies
developed to manage growth, accessible to citizens, grassroots organizations,
environmentalists, public officials, planners, architects, the media and
business leaders.
Sustainable
Communities Network
Working to
link citizens to resources and to one another to create healthy, vital,
sustainable communities.
Sustainable
Universities Initiative
The Sustainable
Universities Initiative is a joint effort by Clemson University, the Medical
University of South Carolina, and the University of South Carolina to
educate our students for a complex future and to provides models for sustainable
design and operations within each school.
Trust
for Public Land
Founded in
1972, the Trust for Public Land is the only national nonprofit working
exclusively to protect land for human enjoyment and well-being. TPL helps
conserve land for recreation and spiritual nourishment and to improve
the health and quality of life of American communities.
Worldwatch
Institute
The Worldwatch
Institute is dedicated to fostering the evolution of an environmentally
sustainable society--one in which human needs are met in ways that do
not threaten the health of the natural environment or the prospects of
future generations.
Baltimore
Ecosystem Study (Long-Term Ecological Research)
Addresses
how urban and suburban areas function as ecological systems.
Center
for Urban Ecology (CUE)
The Center
for Urban Ecology (CUE) in Washington, D.C. consists of a multi-disciplinary
team of scientists and technicians dedicated to developing a better understanding
of the ecology of landscapes that have been influenced by human activities.
Center
for Urban Ecology and Sustainability (CUES)
CUES strives
to educate landscape managers and urban residents about ways to embrace
environmental stewardship by practicing sustainable management.
Central
Arizona: Phoenix (Long-Term Ecological Research)
The CAP LTER
joins 19 other national sites charged with monitoring and assessing long-term
ecological change. Phoenix and Baltimore are the first two urban sites
in the LTER Network.
Urban
Ecology
Urban Ecology
is a membership organization dedicated to building ecologically and socially
healthy cities.
Urban
Habitat Program
Founded in
1989, the Urban Habitat Program is dedicated to building multicultural
urban environmental leadership for socially just, ecologically sustainable
communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The
Urban Resources Initiative
The Urban
Resources Initiative is a not-for-profit/university partnership whose
mission is to foster community-based land stewardship, promote environmental
education and advance the practice of urban forestry.
The
Watershed Institute at Boston College
The mission
of The Watershed Institute is to protect and restore urban ecosystems
through education, research and outreach.
Urban
Creeks Legacy
The Urban
Creeks Legacy, has several themes: reconnect citizens to their urban watersheds,
restore natural creek habitat, celebrate these natural resources, and
sustain the benefits and gains we have made.
American
Rivers
American Rivers
is a national conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring
America's river systems and to fostering a river stewardship ethic.
Scenic
Hudson, Inc.
Scenic Hudson
is a 35-year old non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the ecosystem,
unique landscapes and historic fabrics of New York's Hudson Valley.
Ecoartspace
Ecoartspace
is a proposed nonprofit ecomuseum for educating people of all ages about
the principles of ecology and the model of creativity that nature presents,
to inspire a vision of a sustainable relationship between humans and the
natural world.
Ecological
Art Perspectives and Issues
This site
offers a general introduction and discussions of four orientations to
ecological art: Environmental Design, Ecological Design, Social Restoration,
and Ecological Restoration.
EPA
Region 1
The mission
of the EPA is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment
-- air, water, and land -- upon which life depends.
Friends
of the Earth
Since its
inception, Friends of the Earth has served as a steward of the basics:
clean water, breathable air, healthy communities.
Island
Press
A mission-oriented,
non-profit publisher, Island Press was organized in 1984 to help meet
the need for accessible, solutions-oriented information through a unique
approach that addresses the multidisciplinary nature of environmental
problems.
National
Trust for Historic Preservation
The National
Trust for Historic Preservation, chartered by Congress in 1949, is a private,
nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the irreplaceable. It fights
to save historic buildings and the neighborhoods and landscapes they anchor.
Natural
Resources Defense Council
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.
Neighborhood
Nestwatch
Sponsored
by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Neighborhood Nestwatch
is a citizen-based research program that seeks to mitigate and understand
the effects of urban sprawl and ensuing destruction of wildlife habitat
on backyard bird populations.
Northeast
Center for Urban and Community Forestry
The Northeast
Center for Urban and Community forestry is a cooperative partnership among
the USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry,
the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, and the seven states of New England
and New York. The Center responds to Urban and Community Forestry needs,
facilitates and supports new and existing research, and coordinates the
exchange of information among the states in the region in order to contribute
to healthy and sustainable communities.
On
the Waterfront
An on-line
magazine on waterfronts, public art, urban development, sustainability,
and civic participation.
Treepeople
The mission
of Treepeople is to inspire the people of Los Angeles to take personal
responsibility for their environment, training and supporting them as
they plant and care for trees and improve the neighborhoods in which they
live, work and play.
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Last Updated: May 24, 2006