An organization or organisation (read more about -ize vs -ise) is a formal group of people with one or more shared goals. The word itself is derived from the Greek word ὄργανον (organon) meaning tool. The term is used in both daily and scientific English in multiple ways.
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ACRE - The Alliance for Culture and Renewable Environment - Provides environmental news, links and active campaigns.
Meta Description: [ ACRE - The Alliance for Culture and a Renewable Environment. Environmental and cultural news, educational links, and ecotourism, activist network. ]
African American Environmentalist Association - Dedicated to providing energy and environmental information and educating the African American community.
Meta Description: [ Welcome to the African American Environmentalist Association. We welcome all races interested in working for positive improvements in the African American community. We need you as a volunteer, supporter and member.
The African American Environmentalist Association is an environmental organ... ]
All Species Project - Promotes conscientious art, thought, and action toward building thriving neighborhoods and communities in harmony with nature.
Meta Description: [ The All Species Project promotes conscientious art, thought and action toward building thriving neighborhoods and communities in harmony with nature. ]
Alliance for America - Coalition of grassroot groups concerned with protecting the environment, but believing that human needs come first.
Ausable Institute of Environmental Studies - Promotes Christian environmental stewardship through academic and community programs, retreats and conferences.
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Australian Conservation Foundation - ACF is an Australian non-profit organization dedicated to the environment. Site has a wide range of topics, including genetic engineering, air pollution, and the WTO. Campaign on Australia World Heritage issues.
Meta Description: [ ACF ]
Baku Ceyhan Campaign - Working to raise public awareness of the social problems, human rights abuses and environmental damage that will be caused by the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, which is planned to run through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. In particular, the campaign argues that public money should not be used to subsidise social and environmental problems in the interests of the private sector.
BEE Japan - The BEE (Bicycle for Everyone's Earth) Team promotes environmental awareness while bicycling the length of Japan.
BlackRhinoceros - Searchable, annotated directory (updated daily) of over 600 sites on environmental issues. Six categories: biodiversity and animal rights/threatened species; conservation; energy; environmental justice; habitat; pollution.
Meta Description: [ BlackRhinoceros resources for green activists: environmental actions on energy, biodiversity, habitat, conservation, pollution and environmental justice ]
Both ENDS - Supports the work of environmental organisations, primarily in the so-called South (developing countries) and the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries.
Meta Description: [ Both ENDS - supports inspiring environment initiatives all over the world ]
Canada - Sierra Legal Defence Club - Protects the environment by upholding and enforcing the law. Provides free legal advice and free legal representation.
Meta Description: [ Ecojustice is a progressive, non-profit environmental law organization that provides free, precedent-setting, legal services to the environmental community in Canada. ]
Center for the Study of the Environment - Private not-for-profit organization, providing information, identification, analysis and optimal solutions to environmental problems. Science based projects are conducted on global, regional and local scales.
Meta Description: [ The Center for the Study of the Environment is a private not-for-profit organization, providing information, identification, analysis and optimal solutions to environmental problems. ]
Center for Whole Communities - The Center operates The Refuge For Land And People, a unique leadership forum where citizens and activists from around the country come together to find solutions to the most pressing and difficult conservation issues our nation faces today.
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) - International consortium dedicated to promoting democracy and sustainability. Headquartered in New Delhi. Campaign topics include biodiversity, climate change, air pollution, water pollution, forest management, rainwater harvesting, and people and wildlife
Meta Description: [ A public interest research and advocacy organisation that promotes environmentally sound and
equitable development strategies. ]
Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment - Part of the University of East Anglia in the UK, this site provides information on their research and publications.
Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation - Environment Issues - Supports a free-market approach to environmental protection. Provides articles and publications.
Meta Description: [ The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is charged with protecting human health and safeguarding the natural environment. The regulations they impose and the penalties they dispense are among the most restrictive in the world. ]
Clean water - Australia and Brazil - Cleanwater is a website aimed to increase environmental awareness, provide information to community on how they can prevent pollution at their local waterways and to help people to get involved in ecosystems restoration projects.
Meta Description: [ Cleanwater is a website aimed to increase environmental awareness, provide information to community on how they can prevent pollution at their local waterways and to help people to get involved in ecosystems restoration projects. ]
Committed to Green Foundation - Promotes environmental education and recreation through sustainable sport and recreation.
Meta Description: [ Ecology, environment, conservation, sustainability and green labels in golf and other sport and recreation activities ]
Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) - CFACT strongly believes consumer and environmental problems can be best met and overcome through the ingenuity of science, the power of the free-enterprise system, and the traditional Western values of progress, freedom, and wise stewardship.
Meta Description: [ Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow - Non-profit environmental policy analysis ]
CommunityTrees - Non-profit, public/private partnership dedicated to encouraging green space development in cities and towns. Site includes links, tree-planting instructions, and ideas for getting involved.
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Conservancy of the Phoenix, Inc. - Work to protect the environment for those that cannot speak for themselves, the wildlife inhabitants.
Conservation International (CI) - Nonprofit organization applies innovations in science, economics, policy and community participation to protect the Earth's biodiversity around the world. Includes conservation regions and programs, strategies, newsletters, publications and how to get involved.
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Department of the Planet Earth - Concerned about the rapid decline of global environment, global pollution of ecosystems, health injuries from toxins, and lifestyles and economies that challenge Earth's future. Organized in 1991 by citizens from the United States and Canada.
Differentdawn.com - Provides information to learn more about environmental conservation, endangered species, plants, people and pets.
Meta Description: [ Learn about environmental conservation, endangered species, plants, people and pets. Help us prove that education and action can save our planet and everything on it. ]
Earth Action - Features a global action alert network to mobilize people simultaneously around the planet to speak out for a better world.
Meta Description: [ EarthAction ]
Earth Action Network - Online environmental and human rights letter-writing community. Promote the activity of down loading, signing and sending action letters to the people who have the power to change the situation.
Earth Day Network - Coordinating worldwide events for Earth Day 2000 and beyond. Provides calendar, environmental tips, clean energy campaign, organizing materials, activist network, eco-store, Grist Magazine and other resources.
Meta Description: [ Earth Day Network (EDN) is the worldwide coordinating body for Earth Day events, campaigns, and activities. EDN provides support to an international network of over 8,000 organizations and 97,000 educators in 184 countries. Through EDN“ efforts, millions of people learn about their environme... ]
Earth Force - International education program that involves young people in hands-on river education, conservation, and restoration projects. Award-winning program Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN).
Meta Description: [ Earth Force is youth-driven with a national Youth Advisory Board (YAB) made up of 15 members, ages 12-17. The YAB helps develop and implement Earth Force programs. ]
Earth Protector - Proponent of activism and legal action in support of environmental, energy and wildlife concerns. Listings of future and current activities.
Earth Summit Info - Covers a wide range of sustainable development, biodiversity and World/Earth Summit issues.
EarthCorps.org - USA organization offering volunteer programs of environmental restoration. Provides information on history, programs and how to support.
EarthRights International - Linking human rights and environmental protection. ERI works to document and eliminate human and environmental abuses by building the capacity of indigenous peoples in South East Asia.
Meta Description: [ EarthRights International ]
Earths People - A MSN chat community site that is dedicated to the environment. Members reside in countries all over the world who are actively working in promoting environmental awareness and responsibility.
Meta Description: [ We are working together on a united front, to solve the problems plagueing the earth mother. Teachers, students, biologists, scientists, retirees, wildlife group leaders are some of the members we have here. All from different countries like the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, Switzerland, Rwanda... ]
Earthwatch Institute - Promotes the sustainable conservation of our natural resources and cultural heritage by creating partnerships among scientists, the general public, educators, and businesses.
ECO (Environmental Community Organization) - A community and environmental network creating solutions to protect and improve health, welfare, safety and the environment.
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Ecobeetle - The latest eco-news, eco-gear, top eco-tours and artists.
Meta Description: [ A leading environmental website, Ecobeetle is your conservation webpage with the focus on eco-living and the environment. Ecobeetle has the latest eco-news and eco-gear and feature's the world's top eco-tours and artists. ]
Ecobridge - An organization dedicated to expanding public awareness of threats to the environment.
Meta Description: [ EcoBridge.org is an environmental organization whose mission is to escalate the public's participation in helping to preserve the environment. ]
EcoFlight - EcoFlight provides aircraft for environmental advocacy and creates innovative educational programs designed to increase environmental awareness around the country for teachers and students alike.
Meta Description: [ EcoFlight provides aircraft for environmental advocacy and creates innovative educational programs designed to increase environmental awareness around the country for teachers and students alike. ]
EcoFuture - Dedicated to sustainability and the ecological future of our planet. A wealth of environmental information.
Meta Description: [ EcoFuture environmental resources< ]
Ecoterra International - Global society for ecology and sound economy. Work as a development and humanitarian agency, and committed to work for our common future on earth. Official documents and text.
Eden Foundation - Working for the preservation of biodiversity, against monoculture agriculture, and for better ways for humans to live in harmony with their environment.
Educational Communications - A non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life on this planet. Provides contact address and newsletter subscription information.
Environment and Conservation Organisations (ECO) - Network organisation of environment and conservation organisations of New Zealand. Information about ECO and its member groups as well as news of the environment in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Environment Probe - Canadian public interest organization that promotes property rights and market mechanisms to protect the environment. On line publications on property rights, fisheries, forestry, water and wastewater.
Meta Description: [ Environment Probe: a Canadian public interest organization that promotes property rights and market mechanisms to protect the environment ]
Environmental Defense Fund WorldWide - The EDF find the ways that work by creating economically viable solutions. Issues include: climate change, human health, biodiversity and oceans.
Meta Description: [ We partner with businesses, governments and communities to find practical environmental solutions. ]
Environmental Frontlines - Independent non-profit offering excerpts from their book, The Environmental Guidebook. Monitors the activities of organizations and other entities actively engaged in environmental issues.
Meta Description: [ An independent non-profit that monitors the environmental frontlines,
serving as a reliable guidepost on environmentally-relevant issues and organizations. ]
Environmental Investigation Agency - An independent, international campaigning organization committed to investigating and exposing environmental crime.
Meta Description: [ The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is an independent, international campaigning organisation committed to investigating and exposing environmental crime ]
Environmental Resources Trust, Inc. - Consult with commercial, industrial, and institutional consumers to help them understand the benefits and costs of meeting the electric power needs with green power (EcoPower). ERT also focuses on the development of markets for water-use rights (EcoLands) and greenhouse gas emission allowances (EcoAir).
Meta Description: [ The Environmental Resources Trust, Inc. is an environmental nonprofit dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to meet environmental aspirations. ]
Forest Guardians Environmental Activism - Fighting to protect and restore forests, rivers, wildlife, grasslands and wilderness of the Southwest.
Meta Description: [ Forest Guardians works to preserve and restore native wildlands and wildlife in the American Southwest. ]
Georgia Strait Alliance - Protect and restore the marine environment of Georgia Strait, B.C., Canada. On line newsletter, resources on many environmental issues including a green boating guide.
Global Action Plan - An independent charity committed to engaging people in practical solutions to environmental and social problems.
Meta Description: [ Independent environmental charity ]
Global Communications for Conservation Inc. - Nonprofit organization created to support and initiate conservation and environmental education programs throughout the world, while increasing public awareness of the need for a worldwide ethic of respect for all life.
Meta Description: [ GCC: Global Communications for Conservation, Inc. -- Welcome ]
Global Response - Environmental Action and Education Network - Action-oriented project to involve youth and adults in communicating about environmental issues. Organizes international letter campaigns to prevent environmental destruction, with corresponding resources for teachers.
Meta Description: [ Global Response members of all ages and nationalities join with communities worldwide to stop environmental destruction through effective citizen letter campaigns ]
Global Stewards - Provide resources, tips and articles for sustainable living and many environmental topics. Links on activism, petitions and campaigns.
Meta Description: [ Global Stewards provides environmental tips for sustainable living and information about exciting solutions that are speeding the shift toward a sustainable way of life. ]
Green Seal - An independent, non-profit organization that strives to achieve a healthier and cleaner environment by identifying and promoting products and services that cause less toxic pollution and waste, conserve resources and habitats, and minimize global warming and ozone depletion.
GreenNet - An umbrella site for over 200 green, peace, human rights and development groups.
Meta Description: [ GreenNet - UK based computer network for environment, peace, human rights and development. ]
IcebergAhead.org - Nonprofit corporation focusing on both social and environmental issues facing the USA and the world. Ideas for solutions to environmental and social issues.
Meta Description: [ IcebergAhead.org ]
Idealist - Directory of nonprofit and volunteering resources on the Web, with information provided by 16,000 organizations in 130 countries. An online library of Resources for Nonprofit Managers, with information about computing and the Internet, fund raising and volunteering, accounting and management, legal issues and nonprofit support organizations.
International Coastal Cleanup - A global volunteer program that sponsors annual clearing of trash from coastlines, rivers, and lakes.
International Tree Foundation - International tree planting, tree preservation and tree education. Award and grant maker and school resource provider.
Meta Description: [ offering tree planting services and assistance to all trees. Also online gifts. UK based in West Sussex. St Barbe Baker ]
International Wildlife Coalition - A wildlife protection group working to end animal cruelty, protect the environment, and save wildlife, including whales, marine mammals, elephants, kangaroos, koalas, swift foxes and penguins.
Kids Ecology Corps - KEC aims to inspire young people to make environmental action part of their everyday life and generate a critical mass of people to create environmental harmony throughout the world.
Meta Description: [ Kids Ecology Corps inspires young people to make environmental
action part of their everyday life and generate by the year 2012 a critical mass of people to
create Environmental Harmony throughout the world. ]
Land Stewardship Project - A private, nonprofit organization to foster an ethic of stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable agriculture and to develop sustainable communities. Provides current project news, program descriptions and online resources.
Meta Description: [ The Land Stewardship Project fosters an ethic of stewardship for farmland, promotes sustainable agriculture and sustainable communities. ]
Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD International) - Established in 1991 by the Rockefeller Foundation. Aims to educate selected future leaders whose actions will influence the decisions made about environment and development issues in most parts of the world.
Meta Description: [ Lead ]
Lovearth Network - Provide information on environmental and humanitarian concerns. Links to Eco Humane Political web sites.
Meta Description: [ Connect Through 1000+ EcoHumanePoliticalSpiritual Websites ]
MedRegio Forum - Center of Euro-Mediterranean Regions for interregional cooperation for the environment and sustainable development. Integrated management of wetlands. Regional policies, environment, sustainable development, spatial planning, emerging technologies.
National Environmental Trust - Educate about the problems facing the environment. Promote working to solve these problems.
Meta Description: [ NET is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that works to inform citizens about environmental problems and how they affect our health and quality of life. Our issues include global warming, forests, ocean conservation, energy, clean air, chemical plant security and environmental health. ]
Natural Resources Defense Council - Non profit that uses law, science, and the support of its 500,000+ members to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe, healthy environment for all living things. Provides information on many environmental issues.
Meta Description: [ Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) uses law, science, and the support of more than 1 million members and activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things ]
Ocean Advocacy - Provides mailing list, bulletin board, actions alerts, and news segments regarding the environment. Focused on preserving the oceans from pollution.
Pennsylvania Environmental Network - Provides information and resources on everything from land fills, incinerators, nuclear dumps and sludge spreading on farmlands to logging and mining or development battles.
People and the Planet - A global site on the issues of population, poverty, health and the environment, sponsored by IPPF,IUCN,UNFPA and WWF and published by the London-based Planet 21 charity.
Meta Description: [ People and the Planet's web site on population and environment issues. ]
Philippe Cousteau Foundation - Foundation in memory of Philippe Cousteau, founded by Jacques Cousteau's grandchildren to educate people about the world's environment and oceans and to create an environmentally sustainable future.
Port of Entry - Portal to environmental business opportunities and information exchange in the Americas. Main focus is the Latin American environmental sector. Site in English and Spanish.
Meta Description: [ Learn about the environmental business in the Americas with Port of Entry-- the environmental business network for the Americas. Articles and case studies, directories, environmental business opportunities, products/services catalog, events calendar, career board, resources ]
Pró-Cerrado Foundation - Environmental program which provides training and education to at risk youth in Brazil. Projects include preservation of the central savanna grasslands and environmental education.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility - Protects employees who protect the environment. It provides a valuable service to government employees and contractors charged with safeguarding the nation's natural resources. Rather than work on environmental issues from the outside, PEER works with and on behalf of employees to effect fundamental change in the way their resource agencies conduct the public's business.
Meta Description: [ Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is a national non-profit alliance of local, state and federal scientists, law enforcement officers, land managers and other professionals dedicated to upholding environmental laws and values. ]
Rainforest Foundation US - To preserve rainforests and the indigenous people who live in them. Provides donation information, events listing, and information on internship programs.
Reef Management International Ltd. - They have developed an electronic computerized system which monitors and protects coral reefs against damages caused by the effects of blast fishing.
Meta Description: [ Reef management International is concerned with the protecting of coral reefs against threats from malice fishing practices like dynamite and cyanide fishing (blast fishing). RMI has developped a unique system that can track / monitor and instantly detect dynamite fishers in the area under control ]
Renewable Energy Action Project - A national grassroots coalition of environmentalists, private foundations, government agencies and renewable energy advocates.
Restore the Earth - Project to lobby the United Nations to declare this century as the century of restoring the earth. Offers historical overview of the organizations activities and provides details of people and organizations who have endorsed the proposal.
Meta Description: [ Project to lobby the United Nations to declare this century as the Century of Restoring the Earth. ]
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River Watch Network - Harnesses the power of people and communities to monitor, restore, and protect the world's rivers. Involvements include transboundary rivers such as the Rio Grande and the Danube.
Meta Description: [ River Network, a national non-profit organization, offers river information, resources, workshops and river grants to help you raise money, build organizations, and protect rivers and watersheds. ]
Society Promoting Environmental Conservation - SPEC operates an Environmental Resource Center in B.C., Canada. On line resources on various campaigns for better air, water, and land.
Meta Description: [ B.C.'s oldest environmental interest group. Operates an Vancouver Environmental Information Centre, lists local environmental events, and initiates various campaigns for better air, water, and land. ]
T Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation - Dedicated to raising environmental awareness around issues related to salmon farming, fish habitat management, alternative energy sources, sewage treatment and sustainable forestry practices.
Meta Description: [ Working for fish and fish habitat, pollution prevention and sustainable fisheries. ]
Television Trust for the Environment - Works to get environmental issues aired on television. Produces and circulates material for broadcast television and other audio-visual resources.
Meta Description: [ An independent, non-profit organisation, TVE's mission is to act as a catalyst for the production and distribution of films on environment, development, health and human rights issues. ]
The Bellona Web - Science-based environmental organization set up to combat problems of environmental degradation, pollution-induced dangers to human health, and the ecological impacts of economic development strategies. Bellona aims to present feasible solutions with the least impact on human activity. Regularly updated news. Topics include nuclear weapons and climate change. [English, Norsk and Russian.]
Meta Description: [ Bellona Web brings you news and background on important environmental issues ]
The Environment Foundation - Work in partnership with others to protect and improve the environment and help society understand one of the most critical challenges it faces in the 21st century.
Meta Description: [ The Environment Foundation - protect and improve the environment for public benefit. Help society understand the critical challenges in the 21st Century ]
The Fred Heutte Center - Located in Norfolk, Virginia, members work to enrich the community by sharing his ideals of urban beautification through horticultural education.
The Green Community - A self-sustaining society that seeks to educate and inspire the public on environmental issues.
The Green Life - Works to infuse the spirit and actions of Earth Day into everyday lives by providing tools for sustainable living. Provides publications, resources and campaign information.
The Interfaith Coalition for the Environment - An organization whose purpose is to inform and inspire and inform environmental communities about their common interest in protecting and healing the earth.
The International Center - Non-profit organization in Washington which aims to promote good governance and development through direct contacts with all levels of governments, institutions, and individuals. Provides information on programs and projects including reforestation.
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The Midwest Center for Environmental Science and Public Policy - Works to improve and protect the environment and human health in the Great Lakes region and throughout the Midwest.
The Mountain Institute - Advancing Mountain Cultures and preserving mountain environments. Working in the Appalachian, Andean and Asian Mountains.
The ReSource Institute for Low Entropy Systems - Independent, nonprofit organization working on public health and environmental issues in Spanish and English speaking countries. Support non-depleting, non-wasting, non-polluting methods and technologies for sustainable development.
The Right-To-Know Network - Provides free access to numerous databases, text files, and conferences on the environment, housing, and sustainable development.
The Wildness Within Us - Official web site of David R. Brower and his work for conservation, preservation and restoration. Features photographs, poetry, audio, video and environmental newswire.
Meta Description: [ A cyberspace odyssey: photographs, prose and principles of wilderness preservation. ]
TiWalkMe - Planned public park projects where trees are planted each year to mark time over a millennia. Provides description, donation and contact information.
Meta Description: [ TiWalkMe is a living clock that ticks out a thousand years- with each tick of the clock triggered by the annual planting of a new row of trees. People flow through the clock, like sand though an hourglass, as it grows. A year is paced out every 20 feet, a century every half a mile. Time and spac... ]
Tuolumne County Alliance for Resources and Environment, Inc. - Involved in environmental issues related to the productivity and conservation of public and private lands in Tulare County, California.
Meta Description: [ Involved in controversial environment issues related to the productivity and conservation of public and private lands...essential for a vital and functioning economy. ]
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Twigma - Adopt a twig in support of the environment and people. A friendlier environment starts with a smile.
Meta Description: [ Twigmania Environmentally Friendly. Products! Adopt-a-Twig! Purchase Great Clothing! View Newsletter Read Comments from other twig happy people. Sending good twigma ]
Union of Concerned Scientists - The Union of Concerned Scientists works to ensure that all people have clean air and energy, as well as safe and sufficient food.
Meta Description: [ The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world.
UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, cor... ]
Unions for Jobs And Environment - A partnership of various unions which offer a labor perspective on the Kyoto Protocol and climate policy with summaries of economic and job impact.
Meta Description: [ Provides a labor perspective on global warming (climate change) and the Kyoto Protocol with slideshow, economic analyses, Job impact, labor statements, newsletter, and other information. ]
United Earth Alliance - Non-profit organization concerned with environmental pollution, human rights, world hunger, and other issues.
Meta Description: [ The United Earth Alliance is a global organization acting to tackle humanitarian, diplomatic and environmental issues around the world.... ]
United Eco-action Fund - California nonprofit funding research, education, and land acquisition and supporting programs that benefit the quality of human life; promotes Al Gore's environmental ideas set out in Earth in the Balance
Western Organization of Research Councils - A network of six state grassroots organizations working for change on the environment and family agriculture.
Wings of Change - Provides information on using the power and vision of flight as an aerial platform to give an overview of environmental problems and raise awareness of conservation problems locally and internationally.
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