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Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on June 5, 2010 at 10:29pm

Ecology Center

The Ecology Center facilitates urban lifestyles consistent with the goals of ecological sustainability, social equity, and economic development. We seek to make these goals accessible by providing people with the information they need, the alternatives they seek, and the infrastructure necessary to make sustainable practices possible on a large scale. We aim to make the visionary mainstream.

Our programs include Information Services, Berkeley's residential curbside recycling, the three Berkeley Farmers' Markets, the Farm Fresh Choice food justice program, Terrain Magazine, and the EcoHouse demonstration house and garden. We also serve as the fiscal sponsor for a wide range of projects that align with our mission.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on June 5, 2010 at 10:31pm

Trees Foundation

Our mission is to increase the effectiveness of our non-profit Partner groups by providing, free of charge, technical, financial, administrative, and outreach support. Services and technical assistance provided by Trees Foundation leverage limited grassroots resources and help to build a more complimentary network striving to restore the ecological integrity of the biologically-rich North Coast region.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on June 6, 2010 at 9:59pm

Earth Island Institute

For 25 years, Earth Island Institute has been a hub for grassroots campaigns dedicated to conserving, preserving, and restoring the ecosystems on which our civilization depends.

Our Project Support program acts as an incubator for start-up environmental projects, giving crucial assistance to groups and individuals with new ideas for promoting ecological sustainability. Since our founding, we have provided fiscal sponsorship to more than 100 projects around the globe.

In addition to our project support work, we also inform and inspire people to take action through our award-winning quarterly magazine, Earth Island Journal, our New Leaders Initiative, and our Restoration Initiative. The Journal balances investigative exposés with inspiring stories of change, giving people the information they need be effective environmental activists. Our New Leaders Initiative hosts the annual Brower Youth Awards, which highlights the amazing accomplishments of young people working for sustainability and provides emerging leaders with mentoring resources. Our Restoration Initiatives funds community-based coastal protection and wetland restoration efforts in Southern California.

By sharing resources, Earth Island’s network of grassroots leaders benefit from the synergistic exchange of experience and ideas, making its members more effective together than they could ever be apart. We currently serve as the fiscal sponsor for more than 40 groups, including Baikal Watch, Energy Action, Ethical Traveler, Fiji Organic Project, International Marine Mammal Project, Reef Protection International, Sacred Land Film Project, and Women’s Earth Alliance, among others. Successful Earth Island Institute alumni projects include International Rivers, Rainforest Action Network, and Bluewater Network.

Our model for assisting campaigns addresses one of the environmental movement’s historical barriers to success — that large non-profit organizations typically set their agendas far in advance, and thus are slow to respond to urgent, emerging issues. Creating new organizations for each campaign is impractical, because the time and effort detracts from achieving immediate goals.

Earth Island Institute was founded in 1982 by legendary environmentalist David R. Brower as an innovative solution to this dilemma. Rather than create dozens of separate non-profit groups with the same basic administrative needs, Earth Island acts as an umbrella organization, providing individual projects with the freedom to develop new initiatives by offering a wide range of professional services, from fiscal administration and program management to office space and equipment.

By serving as a support system for creative individuals, we are helping to grow environmental success. Our sponsored projects address many of the world’s most pressing environmental and social issues and work toward a sustainable future through a combination of education and activism — informing decision-makers, the media, and the general public about global threats and opportunities; developing constituencies to respond to them; and providing ordinary citizens with opportunities to get involved, take action, and make a difference.

Through assisting “early stage” leaders — from moms seeking a healthy future for their children to community activists figuring out how to restore their local wetlands — we fill a crucial role in the citizen movement for a sustainable future.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on June 22, 2010 at 2:14pm

Earthwatch Institute

Earthwatch Institute is an international non-profit organization that brings science to life for people concerned about the Earth's future. Founded in 1971, Earthwatch supports scientific field research by offering volunteers the opportunity to join research teams around the world. This unique model is creating a systematic change in how the public views science and its role in environmental sustainability.

Today, Earthwatch recruits close to 4,000 volunteers every year to collect field data in the areas of rainforest ecology, wildlife conservation, marine science, archaeology, and more. Through this process, we educate, inspire, and involve a diversity of people, who actively contribute to conserving our planet.

Currently raising approximately $15 million a year from the generosity of institutions, individuals, governments and corporations, Earthwatch has a global reach. Earthwatch is supported by more than 150 staff, located in our headquarters in Maynard, Massachusetts, as well as in offices in Oxford, England, Melbourne, Australia, and Tokyo, Japan.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on July 22, 2010 at 2:29pm

Greywater Action- For a Sustainable Water Culture

We are a collaborative group of educators, designers, builders, and artists who educate and empower people to build sustainable water culture and infrastructure.

Our teaching tools include interactive models of composting toilets and greywater systems, theater, and design and installation workshops. Through hands on workshops and presentations, we've educated hundreds of people about the process of greywater system design and construction, and built greywater systems at dozens of houses in cities around California and beyond.

History
In 1999, Laura Allen and Cleo Woelfle-Erskine built a greywater system in their backyard out of concern about their household water use. Their backgrounds in environmental science and permaculture design sparked their interest in water reuse and wastewater treatment using constructed wetlands. They built several prototypes, then self-published a ‘zine called "The Guerrillas Greywater Girls Guide to Water" that combined strategies for conserving and reusing household water with stories of their explorations of California’s water infrastructure. Over the next few years, they taught hands-on workshops in community venues, continued researching and fine-tuning small-scale urban greywater systems, and edited an anthology on strategies for water sustainability from small-scale eco-technologies to global grassroots political movements. The anthology Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground (Soft Skull, 2007) brings together an analysis of water's history with the active fight for its future.

Since 2007 the group has brought these ideas and workshops to a wider audience through conferences, collaborations, and media coverage. Christina Bertea and Andrea Lara, both plumbers by trade, joined to lead hands-on workshops. The group expanded and refined the range of workshops offered, and created educational displays for public events.

In 2009 Greywater Action joined with a water organization called, "A Single Drop" to connect international clean water work with US hands-on water conservation strategies (workshops on greywater reuse, rainwater harvesting, and composting toilet construction). A Single Drop is the fiscal sponsor of Greywater Action.

Name changes
In 1999 we named ourselves the "Guerrilla Greywater Girls" as a tongue-in-cheek response to a draconian California plumbing code that discouraged the simple, low-tech greywater systems we promote. A few years later we changed our name to the "Greywater Guerrillas", to reflect the multi-gendered composition of our collaborators. As we worked more closely with government agencies and regulators, and began collaborating with A Single Drop in countries where “guerrillas” has violent implications, we searched for a name that would represent our goals and strategies to a diverse and international audience. In 2009, we chose a new name— Greywater Action- For a Sustainable Water Culture—for our appropriate technology education projects. We're also developing an umbrella group that connects the art, appropriate technologies, theater and cultural transformation around water.

Permalink Reply by Sydni Moser on November 8, 2010 at 10:45pm

2010 Climate science archive
From Nature Geoscience (also refer to 2009 & 2008 archived articles)

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/archive/subject_ngeo_s3_2010.html

Permalink Reply by Allen J. Thoma on November 11, 2010 at 3:35pm

@ Syndi
So, this is a great list, BUT since I am not Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, which ones would be the best to contribute my meager resources to. Where do we as Green, Atheist, Earth Lovers put our money to get the best bang for the buck. Additionally, where do we contribute our time to help save the Earth for our kids and the rest of the planets kids? Any ideas?

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on April 8, 2011 at 10:58am

Environmental History Resources

The environment is one of the most pressing concerns facing society in the 21st century. The environmental debate is hugely complex with cultural, social, economic, moral, political and scientific dimensions all interacting. Key to this debate is Environmental History which provides an valuable long-term perspective on environmental change.

Historians are now providing fascinating insights into the relations between humans and their environments in the past. Throughout history, humans have affected the natural environment, sometimes in a sustainable manner, but often in a destructive manner. This website explores the ways in which environmental changes, often the result of human actions, have caused historical trends.

The site presents topics as wide ranging as public health, conservation, preservation of nature, smoke abatement, municipal housekeeping, occupational disease, air pollution and water pollution, and generally the historical interaction between culture and nature. The emphasis of the site is on Europe, in particular the area around the North Sea basin but with a keen eye on linking this with the wider world. This is reflected in the range of articles, bibliographies and other material that this website has to offer.

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