Environmental
Links
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- National Environmental Organizations
- California's Environmental Organizations
- Other Leagues of Conservation Voters
- Political and Election Information
- California's Elected Officials
- California's Environmental Agencies
- Environmental News
- Environmental Research
- Children's Environmental Health
- Green Power
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- The Amazing
Environmental Organization Web Directory, which recently celebrated
its 20 millionth visitor, contains a comprehensive
listing of environmental-related web sites, from
agriculture to wildlife.
- The Institute for Deep Ecology promotes ecological values and actions through self-awareness
workshops that encourage and empower people to do good work in their home
communities.
- Earth Island Institute seeks through education
and activism to promote conservation, protection, and the
restoration of the Earth.
- EcoJustice
Network
addresses environmental issues facing communities of
color in the United States.
- Environmental Defense Fund
works to prevent pollution
before it occurs, to increase the effectiveness of environmental
regulations, and to build broad new coalitions to protect
the environment. Its new
Environmental Scorecard makes the facts about pollution in your
community as "easy to get as a local weather report."
- Environmental
Working Group's goal is to provide the public
with new, locally relevant information on environmental problems. Check out
its "foodnews" feature
to find out what pesticides are on the foods you eat, feed your children, and buy at the
grocery store.
- Greenpeace International was conceived in 1971 when
members of the Don't Make A Wave Committee in Vancouver,
Canada, renamed their organization the better to proclaim
their purpose: to create a green and peaceful world.
- National Parks and
Conservation Association is a private non-profit citizen
organization dedicated to protecting, preserving, and
enhancing the U.S. National Park System.
- National Audubon
Society
is one nation's most popular and respected conservation
organizations, with
chapters throughout California.
- Natural Resources
Defense Council is dedicated to protecting the
world's natural resources and ensuring a safe and healthy
environment. In courtrooms, legislative chambers,
regulatory agencies and the public arena, NRDC has been
helping to defend our environment from pollution,
exploitation and destruction since 1970.
- Rainforest Action
Network's
mission is to protect the Earth's rainforests and support
the rights of their inhabitants through education,
grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
- Rainforest Alliance
is an
international nonprofit that works to conserve tropical, temperate and
boreal forests.
- Sierra Club is the well-known public
interest organization promoting conservation of the
natural environment by influencing public policy
decisions -- legislative,administrative, legal, and
electoral. It maintains chapters throughout the state:
- The
Western Environmental Law Center is a non-profit public
interest law firm that has prosecuted hundreds of
environmental cases on behalf of local, regional, and
national environmental organizations in the western U.S.
- The
Wilderness Society, the nation's only conservation
organization devoted primarly to public lands protection
and management issues, maintains an on-line archive of
fact sheets in tandem with the Internet Multicasting
Service.
- WILD PAC
is the first and only professional political organization dedicated solely
to supporting proven leaders and electing new champions at the federal,
state and local levels who will defend and advocate for the protection of
America's public lands, particularly Wilderness.
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Californians Against Waste
led the campaign
to create California's successful recycling program for bottles and cans.
Through legislation and grassroots campaigns, it pushes for a strong
recycling economy in order to reduce the overconsumption of our planet's
natural resources.
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The California
Public Interest Research Group (CalPIRG)
is a watchdog group
working to organize communities to defend and enhance consumer
protection and good government laws. Environment California is the new home of CalPIRG's environmental work.
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The Center for Environmental
Health works to
protect the public from environmental health hazards and toxic
exposures by directly influencing corporate behavior.
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The Coalition for Clean Air has led the effort for
clean, healthful air in Southern California for more than 25 years. It is the only non-profit, advocacy
organization in the state dedicated exclusively to improving air quality.
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Friends of the Foothills (formerly Stop the Toll Road): A coalition of environmental organizations
is working to stop the construction of a six-lane toll road through a
state park and the last untouched watershed in southern Orange County.
The site provides an overview of the issue, information about the wildlife
living in the toll road's path and what California residents can do to
prohibit highway construction in state parks.
- Friends of the River
identifies
outstanding rivers in California and mobilizes communities to
save them and to restore their ecosystems. Check out its campaign
to work toward a more realistic understanding of rivers and floods.
- Greenbelt Alliance is the leading land
conservation organization in the nine county San
Francisco Bay Area, protecting the 3.8 million acre
Greenbelt of farmlands, watersheds, parks since 1958
through citizen action, research and education, and
advocacy.
- Lighthawk's corps of staff and volunter pilots
use the power of air flight to educate and activate elected officials, the press
and the public about the environmental destruction caused by irresponsible
land use practices.
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The Mountain Lion Foundation
is a 12-year old,
20,000 member organization dedicated to protecting California wildlife
through education, advocacy and litigation. The Foundation's Prop.
117 has protected more than one-half million acres of wildlife
habitat.
- California Native Plant Society
works to increase
understanding of California's native flora and to preserve this rich resource for future generations. Consult its
chapter map to find out about field trips and other activities in your
local area.
- The Planning and
Conservation League has served for 30 years as a
statewide alliance of citizens and conservation
organizations, united to protect and restore the quality
of California's environment through legislative and
administrative action.
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Surfrider Foundation
is a non-profit environmental
organization dedicated to the protection and enhancement
of the world's waves and beaches.
- The Democracy Center Online
gives voters the
basic facts about current ballot initiatives.
- Project Vote Smart
compares the promises of elected
officials with their actual job performance on a wide range of issues.
The site includes voting records, issue stands, performance
evaluations by interest groups, campaign contributions, and
general background information. Find out who represents you with your ZIP+4.
- The California Voter
Foundation, a
nonpartisan election information clearinghouse, offers a range of
political "raw materials," including campaign contribution
information, legislative district maps, campaign HQ locations, etc.
In addition to web sites such as Ecovote
Online, which offer information about our elected
representatives, most politicians have web sites of their own.
Below, are links to the official sites of California's state and
national elected officials.
State Level
National Level
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The White House
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United States Senate
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United States House of Representatives
- Baca, Joe (D-43rd District)
- Becerra, Xavier (D-31st District)
- Berman, Howard (D-28th District)
- Bono, Mary (R-45th District)
- Calvert, Ken (R-44th District)
- Capps, Lois (D-23rd District)
- Cardoza, Dennis (D-18th District)
- Cox, Christopher (R-48th District)
- Cunningham, Randy 'Duke' (R-50th District)
- Davis, Susan (D-53rd District)
- Dooley, Cal (D-20th District)
- Doolittle, John (R-4th District)
- Dreier, David (R-26th District)
- Eshoo, Anna G. (D-14th District)
- Farr, Sam (D-17th District)
- Filner, Bob (D-51st District)
- Gallegly, Elton (R-24th District)
- Harman, Jane (R-36th District)
- Herger, Wally (R-2nd District)
- Honda, Mike (D-15th District)
- Hunter, Duncan (R-52nd District)
- Issa, Darrell (R-49th District)
- Lantos, Tom (D-12th District)
- Lee, Barbara (D-9th District)
- Lewis, Jerry (R-41st District)
- Lofgren, Zoe (D-16th District)
- McKeon, Howard 'Buck' (R-25th District)
- Matsui, Robert (D-5th District)
- Millender-McDonald, Juanita (D-37th District)
- Miller, Gary (R-42nd District)
- Miller, George (D-7th District)
- Napolitano, Grace (D-38th District)
- Nunes, Devin (R-21st District)
- Ose, Doug (R-3rd District)
- Pelosi, Nancy (D-8th District)
- Pombo, Richard (R-11th District)
- Radanovich, George P. (R-19th District)
- Rohrabacher, Dana (R-46th District)
- Roybal-Allard, Lucille (D-34th District)
- Royce, Ed (R-40th District)
- Sanchez, Linda (D-39th District)
- Sanchez, Loretta (D-47th District)
- Schiff, Adam (D-29th District)
- Sherman, Brad (D-27th District)
- Solis, Hilda (D-32nd District)
- Stark, Fortney 'Pete' (D-13th District)
- Tauscher, Ellen (D-10th District)
- Thomas, Bill (R-22nd District)
- Thompson, Mike (D-1st District)
- Waters, Maxine (D-35th District)
- Watson, Diane E. (D-33rd District)
- Waxman, Henry (D-30th District)
- Woolsey, Lynn (D-6th District)
Apart from interest groups that advocate for
environmental protection, a number of public agencies are also
involved in preserving California's natural resources. Below,
we've provided links to state agencies whose functions can
include promoting conservation and reponsible recreation in our
state.
- Environmental News
Network
is a news and information service focusing on a variety
of environmental topics in the Western United States.
- EnviroLink Network is a non-profit
organization well-known as a major on-line source for
environmental and conservation information.
- Rough and Tumble is the personal page of KVIE-TV's Jack
Kavanaugh, the Capitol's veteran political reporter who assembles a daily "drive by"
of the political news coverage of California's major newspapers. A great tool for
PR pros and news junkies.
- The California
Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES), a program of the
California Resources Agency, is an information system
developed by the Resources Agency to facilitate access to
a variety of electronic data describing California's rich
and diverse resources, such as information about physical
environments, living creatures and their habitats, and
environmental impact reports and studies.
- California
Rivers Assessment
is an environmental evaluation of California's rivers. By using data
and information from many contributors and making it available to the
public,its goal is to improve river conservation and management.
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EDF's
Environmental Scorecard
makes the facts about pollution in your
community as "easy to get as a local weather report." It's a simple
interface to a powerful compilation of more than 150 government and
university databases, allowing users to locate polluters in
their community, to research the dangers of household chemicals or
to compile sophisticated pollution rankings.
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The
Pacific Institute
for Studies in
Development, Environment and Security is an independent non-profit
that works to solve environmental problems through sound research
and policy analysis.
- The Toxic Release Inventory, and the Right-to-Know Net are the direct source databases on the type
and amount of chemicals polluting facilities are emitting into our
air, water and landfills.
- Where You Live
is the Environmental Working Group's
on-line databases for water system violations, dumping of toxics,
farm subsidy payments, political campaign contributions, demographics,
wetlands loss and other information for your state, county or
home town.
- UCLA Institute of the Environment
is comprised of a wide range of science and policy
experts who are working to provide an integrated, inter-disclipinary approach to
solving environmental problems. Check out its report card on the state of Southern
California's environment.
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Children's Environmental Health Network
is a national project dedicated to pediatric environmental health.
The Network is the only national multi-disciplinary project in the country
whose sole purpose is to protect the health of children as it relates to
environmental hazards.
School
Haze: Air Pollution Near California Schools is the Environmental Working Group's
report that analyzes air pollution emissions near schools, concluding that
fully half of California's schoolkids attend a public or private school
within one mile of a reported source of airborne emissions of chemicals
known to cause cancer, birth defects, development damage or respiratory
illness.
- CEERT, the
Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, has information on
electricity providers who offer green power, and on renewable energy and energy
efficiency.
- Green-e tells you everything you need to know
about why consumers should choose environmentally responsible
power companies in this new era of degregulation. Its logo
helps consumers identify certified "green" electricity products.
- UtilityGuide's "green primer" aims to help consumers
make a more informed choice about which company to choose by describing how
electricity is generated and what the environmental impacts are.