List of environmental organizations (original) (raw)
This is a list of environmental organizations, organizations that preserve or monitor the environment in different ways. Environmental organizations can be global, regional, national or local; they can be government-run or private.
Intergovernmental Organizations
International organizations and bodies established under international organizations to protect the environment:
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme))
Government Organizations
The governments of all developed countries today have government departments or agencies devoted to monitoring and protecting the environment:
- English Heritage
- English Nature
- The Environment Agency (of the UK)
- US EPA
Private Organizations (Environmental NGOs)
These organizations are involved in lobbying, advocacy, or conservation efforts:
- The Civic Trust
- Defenders of Wildlife
- Earth First!
- Earth Liberation Front
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Friends of the Earth
- Forest Stewardship Council
- Greenpeace
- Groundwork
- Izaak Walton League
- National Audubon Society
- National Wildlife Federation
- Nature Conservancy
- Sierra Club
- The Town and Country Planning Association
- Worldwatch Institute
- World Wildlife Fund
See also
- List of organizations
- environment
- environmentalism
- List of civic, fraternal, service, and professional organizations
- green party,
- activism industry
- environmental agreements
External links
(These should be sorted into categories above; those that aren't primarily organizations, but rather websites, should be moved to environment)
- Scorecard.org - lots of info about pollution in your area, just enter your zip code. Colored maps also show how bad certain types of pollution are in your area.
- Environmental Protection Agency
- OEHHA
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Rachel's Environment and Health News - Weekly news about how the polluted environment affects people, and what corporations and governments are doing (or not doing) about it. Also in Spanish.
- Essential.org - Some organizations related to consumers and consumer protection, including pollution.
- CleanUp GE.org - Info about GE's shady dumping practices on the Hudson River.
- Extoxnet newsletters - environmental pollution news. Last update 1998.
- Environmental News Network - more news
- Environmental Working Group
- Sewage Sludge - in the US it is perfectly legal to fertilize food crops with solids from the sewer, which include lots of heavy metals and toxins.