Environmental Links

The Amazing Environmental Organization WebDirectory: Claims to be the Earth's Biggest Environment Search Engine.

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Newsletter: ATSDR's mission is to prevent exposure and the adverse human health effects and diminished quality of life associated with exposure to hazardous substances from waste sites, unplanned toxic releases, and other sources of environmental pollution.

BBC: Nature: BBC: Nature includes animal factfiles, quizzes, news, details of BBC shows, message board, and more.

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Care2: Care2 is an environmental portal full of healthy living tips, eco-directory, click-to-donate sites, e-cards, and more. Generates donations for top environmental nonprofits.

Center for Environmental Citizenship: The Center for Environmental Citizenship is a national non-partisan organization founded by young activists in 1992 to encourage college students to be environmental citizens. CEC is dedicated to educating, training, and organizing a diverse, national network of young leaders to protect the environment.

Center for International Earth Science Information Network CIESIN: CIESIN was established in 1989 as a non-profit, non-governmental organization to provide information that would help scientists, decision-makers, and the public better understand their changing world. CIESIN specializes in global and regional network development, science data management, decision support, and training, education and technical consultation services.

Chemical Weapons Working Group (CWWG): Centered in Berea, KY he Chemical Weapons Working Group (CWWG) is an international coalition of citizens living near chemical weapons storage sites across the United States, in the Pacific, and in Russia who have determined to work together toward the common goal of safe disposal of chemical weapons, using-non-incineration technologies.

The Earth Council / Consejo de la Tierra / Conseil de la terre: The Earth Council is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) that was created in September 1992 to promote and advance the implementation of the Earth Summit agreements.

Earthwatch: The mission of the Earthwatch Institute is to promote sustainable conservation of our natural resources and cultural heritage by creating partnerships between scientists, educators and the general public. They accomplish this through research, education, and conservation.

eNature.com: eNature.com is a destination for nature lovers, outdoor enthusiasts, and environmentalists. Offers field guides, habitat guides, news, and community.

Endangered Species Recovery Program: The Endangered Species Recovery Program's mission is to facilitate endangered species recovery and resolve conservation conflicts through scientifically based recovery planning and implementation.

EE-Link for Environmental Education: An educational K-12 resource as there are lesson plans within this site that deal with science and environmental concerns. This site is sponsored by The National Consortium for Environmental for Environmental Education and Training (NCEET) and its mission "...is committed to provide our children with effective tools and strategies that will enable them to start shaping tomorrow's environmental solutions today."

EnviroLink: The largest online environmental information resource on the planet. A grassroots online community that unites hundreds of organizations and volunteers around the world with millions of people in over 130 countries.

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF): The Environmental Defense Fund is people: scientists, economists, attorneys, and others who work in teams to find solutions to environmental problems.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): The EPA is the governmental agency which is charged with protecting human health and safeguarding the natural envionment.

Environmental Sites on the Internet: Highly rated comprehensive site with search feature.

Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP.org): Funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Education, EETAP offers educators information, resources, and links for promoting academic achievement and environmental literacy.

Forever Wild Tree Conservancy: The Forever Wild Tree Conservancy is a grass-roots membership organization designed to preserve and maintain the integrity of Deep Forests bordering state land within the 6,000,000 acre Adirondack Park of New York State.

Global Environmental Facility (GEF): The Global Environment Facility was established to forge international cooperation and finance actions to address four critical threats to the global environment: biodiversity loss, climate change, degradation of international waters, and ozone depletion.

Global Network of Environment and Technology (GNET): GNET is an award-winning environmental technology, news and business center that promotes the use of innovative environmental technologies. This site is made possible by a cooperative agreement from the National Energy Technology Laboratory and the Department of Energy's Office of Science and Technology.

Greenpeace: Greenpeace is an independent, campaigning organisation which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force the solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future.

Heartwood: Heartwood is an association of groups, individuals, and businesses dedicated to the health and well being of the native forest of the Central Hardwood region, and its interdependent plant, animal, and human communities.

Institute for Global Communications: Access to PeaceNet, EcoNet, WomensNet, and AntiRacismNet.

League of Conservation Voters: The League of Conservation Voters works to create a Congress more responsive to our environmental concerns. As the bipartisan political voice for over nine million members of environmental and conservation groups, LCV is the only national environmental organization dedicated full-time to educating citizens about the environmental voting records of Members of Congress.

Mountain Association for Community and Economic Development (MACED): Located in Berea, KY, MACED works with people in Kentucky and Central Appalachia to create economic opportunity, strengthen democracy, and support the sustainable use of natural resources.

National Audubon Society: Founded in 1886 to prevent extinction, the National Audubon Society is one of the country's most popular and respected conservation organizations with more than 570,000 Audubon members working on behalf of the environment in 518 communities across the nation.

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.

National Parks and Conservation Association: NPCA's mission, to protect and enhance America's National Park System for present and future generations, can only be achieved through a well-educated and committed park constituency. Public education through publications and our public outreach to inspire activism is key to their efforts.

Natural Resources Defense Council: The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.

National Wildlife Federation: The National Wildlife Federation is the nation's largest member-supported conservation group,uniting individuals, organizations, businesses and government to protect nature, wildlife and theworld we share.

National Wetlands Inventory: Complete wildlife inventory of our national wetlands, containing an environment watch report and info on endangered species, energy,environmental laws, environment groups, environmental newsletters and tons more.

New Scientist: Global Environment Report: This report contains information on climate change, population growth, and world pollution.

Project VoteSmart: This is a non-partisan political resource which provides detailed information on national and state politicians. Included are voting records, extremely detailed campaign financing data, and the politician's "grades" from a wide variety of special-interest groups.

Rainforest Action Network: The Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.

Sierra Club: The Sierra Club is a non-profit member-supported, public interest organization that promotes conservation of the natural environment by influencing public policy decisions--legislative, administrative, legal, and electoral. The Sierra Student Coalition, is the student-run arm of the Sierra Club.

Student Environmental Action Coalition: SEAC -- pronounced "seek," as in "seeking" -- is a student and youth run national network of progressive organizations and individuals whose aim is to uproot environmental injustices through action and education. Defining the environment to include the physical, economical, political and cultural conditions in which we live and challenging the power structure which threatens these environmental conditions, SEAC works to create progressive social change on both the local and global levels.

United Nations Environment Network: This site brings together environmental information and data providers and facilitates the exchange of environmental information to help citizens.

United Nations Environment Programme: The United Nations Environment Programme provides leadership and encourages partnerships in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing and enabling nations and people to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER): The LTER Network is a collaborative effort involving more than 1100 scientists and students investigating ecological processes operating at long time scales and over broad spatial scales.

USDA National Forest Service: Caring for the Land and Serving People captures the Forest Service mission. As set forth in law, the mission is to achieve quality land management under sustainable multiple-use management to meet the diverse needs of the people.

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service: The Natural Resources Conservation Service is the federal agency that works with landowners on private lands to conserve natural resources. Nearly three-fourths of the technical assistence provided by the agency goes to helping farmers and ranchers develop conservation systems uniquely suited to their land and individual ways of doing business.

US Fish and Wildlife Service: . The US Fish and Wildlife Service's mission is to conserve, protect, and enhance fish and wildlife and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people
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US National Park Service: The US National Park Service is dedicated to preserving unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the national park system for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations. The Park Service cooperates with partners to extend the benefits of natural and cultural resource conservation and outdoor recreation throughout the US and the world.

The US National Wildlife Refuge System: The National Wildlife Refuge System as established by the The National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act and amended, consolidated the various categories of lands administered by the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) through the Service into a single National Wildlife Refuge System which is focused singularly on wildlife conservation.

The Wilderness Society: This society is a noble "watchdog" of our nations's (US) 90+ million acres of wilderness protected under The Wilderness Act of 1964. This society is devoted to protecting public lands and stopping mismanagement of these public wilderness lands.

UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre: The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources, and helps others to develop information systems of their own.

The World Wildlife Fund: WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature is the world's largest and most experienced independent conservation organization, with around 5 million supporters and a global network of 27 National Organizations, 5 Associates, and 21 Programme Offices.

Yahoo Environmental links: Lots of environmental links of various kinds.