Center for Biological Diversity - started protecting Arizona and New Mexico forests and river ecosystems, they now protects endangered species and fight global warming through lawsuits and field research
Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) - finds out if countries and companies are harming wildlife an violating the law, such as selling endangered whale meat or products made from endangered rhinos and elephants
350.org - organizes protests, divestment campaigns, non-violent civil disobedience, and local and national movements to stop coal and oil companies
Greenpeace - protects wildlife and fights global warming and ocean pollution; fights nuclear power and fights nuclear pollution
Clean Energy Action - organizes against coal and helps to fight global warming, they collect success stories from communities around the world that have increased renewables energy sources and efficiency, they support municipalization of the Xcel, the Colorado elctric utility, keeps investing in coal power plants and opposing a rapid change to efficiency and renewables
Ruckus Society - provides environmental, human rights, and social justice organizers with the tools, training, and support needed to achieve their goals through the strategic use of creative, nonviolent direct action
Oxfam - worldwide development organization that mobilizes the power of people against poverty
Appalachian Community Health Emergency - the first law ever proposed that would end the human rights/health disaster that is Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia
Bioneers - an innovative nonprofit educational organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and planet, with DVDs and radio shows
Organic Consumers Association - amazing coalition that fights for organic food, peace, economic justice- against GMOs, antibiotics in foods, pesticides, and toxic chemicals
Natural Resources Defense Council - works to safeguard the earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends
Center for Biological Diversity - works through science, law and creative media to secure a future for all species, great or small, hovering on the brink of extinction
Center for Health, Environment & Justice - helps communities organize to fight toxics, works to ban PVCs, and pressures companies to no longer sell toxic products
Mass Audubon - works to protect the nature of Massachusetts for people and wildlife through conservation, education, and advocacy
Birds of Prey - a nonprofit organization dedicated to the rehabilitation and release of injured and orphaned raptors
Sierra Club - fights to protect wild places and wildlife; opposes coal and fossil fuel plants, has local groups that organize, protest, sue, and lobby and support environmentally green candidates
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment
Center for Biological Diversity - works through science, law and creative media to secure a future for all species, great or small, hovering on the brink of extinction
World Watch Institute - analyzes interdisciplinary environmental data from around the world, providing information on how to build a sustainable society
Animal Welfare Institute - protects whales, dolphins, turtles, birds, and lobbies for humane treatment of animals
Center for Biological Diversity - great group doing the scientific surveys and lawsuits to protect wildlife , rivers, forests and to prevent global warming
Friends of Animals - a non-profit, international animal advocacy organization, incorporated in the state of New York since 1957
Tree People - protects trees, wetlands, and neighborhoods in California
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics - a nonprofit organization working to forge a socially responsible value system for the U.S.Forest Service about the organization, issues information and action
Iraq Body Count - tries to establish an independent public database of civilian deaths in Iraq resulting directly from military actions by the USA and its allies in 2003
OpenStreetMap - was used in Arab Spring to find out what roads were open and to find shelter and to avoid the military; create maps, show local areas, show where there is safe drinking water, etc.
Cultural Survival - partnering with indigenous peoples to defend their lands, languages, and cultures
Global Green Grants - gives small grants and money to indigenous groups that are fighting against pollution by mines, oil and gas development, etc.
Health
Partners in Health - helps people in poor countries get healthcare and prevent the spread of diseases such as AIDS, hepatitis and antibiotic resistant TB
Public Citizen - fights for safety and health concerns, plus fair elections and regulations to protesct consumers from unsafe products and being defrauded by large banks and corporations
Organic Consumers Association: Clothes for a Change Campaign - a global campaign to raise awareness about the negative health and environmental effects of conventional and genetically engineered cotton and the institutionalized exploitation of clothing sweatshops
Center for Constitutional Rights - dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Natural Resources Defense Council - works to safeguard the earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends
Snake River Alliance - call for peace and justice, the end to nuclear weapons, responsible solutions to nuclear waste and contamination, and sustainable alternatives to coal and nuclear power
Beyond Pesticides - national coalition against the miisuse of pesticides
Pesticide Action Network - links local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens' action network
Project on Government Oversight (POGO) - an independent nonprofit that investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more effective, accountable, open, and ethical federal governmen
Rainforest Action Network - campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing and non-violent direct action
Global Green Grants - provide small grants to grassroots groups working on environmental sustainability and social justice
Society of Ethnobiology - a nonprofit professional organization dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the relationships of plants and animals with human cultures worldwide
Third World Network (TWN) - independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues on development and the Third World
Desert Fishes Council - mission is to preserve the biological integrity of desert aquatic ecosystems and their associated life forms, to hold symposia to report related research and management endeavors, and to effect rapid dissemination of information concerning activities of the Council and its members
International Rivers Network - organization working to halt destructive river infrastructure projects, address the legacies of existing projects and improve development policies and practices
River Network - helps local groups to protect wild rivers from pollution, development, and dams
Water Defense - works to create a world where water is safe to drink, a world where the oceans don't rise and the economy is powered by clean, sustainable sources of energy like wind, water and solar
Clean Water Action - a national citizens' organization working for clean, safe, and affordable water, and prevention of health-threatening pollution
Food & Water Watch - fights fracking and pollution in our food and water
Politics
Move to Amend - We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights
Public Citizen - a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts
New Era - organizes youth to vote and participate in politics; because youth are more progressive than older people, they are supporting issues such as sustainable energy, and the municipalizaion of electric companies
Public Campaign - stop corporations and wealthy interests from buying our elections
Working Families Party - evaluates thousands of candidates every year and only support the ones who stand with us on the issues that matter most to working families, from good jobs to quality schools to fair taxes to clean energy
Green Party - acts to improve the quality of our environment and everyday lives
Common Cause - fights for good government and fair elections, against fraud
Project on Government Oversight (POGO) - an independent nonprofit that investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more effective, accountable, open, and ethical federal government
Election Reform
New Era - organizes youth to vote and participate in politics; because youth are more progressive than older people, they are supporting issues such as sustainable energy, and the municipalizaion of electric companies
Public Citizen - a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts
Public Campaign - stop corporations and wealthy interests from buying our elections
OpenSecrets - the most comprehensive resource for federal campaign contributions, lobbying data and analysis available anywhere; it lists campaign contributions to politicians from companies and individuals
Move to Amend - We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights
- Divest from the nation's largest Wall Street banks and move to local financial institutions such as credit unions and local banks. Little has changed to prevent another financial crisis or to end 'Too Big To Fail,' and with Congress unwilling to act, we are encouraging individuals to take power into their own hands by voting with their dollars and no longer contributing to a financial system that has lead our country astray. Give people real, concrete actions they can take to create a more sane, stable and localized banking system.
US Uncut - direct action against corporate tax cheats and unnecessary and unfair public service cuts
Probe International - rethinking foreign aid, restoring accountability, reinvigorating economies, monitors for corruption and fraud in large overseas projects
Privacy Rights - a nonprofit consumer education and advocacy project whose purpose is to advocate for consumers' privacy rights in public policy proceedings
Electronic Privacy Information Center - a public interest research center that tracks news and legislation on First Amendment, and constitutional issues of privacy
Electronic Frontier Foundation - a donor-supported membership organization working to protect fundamental rights regardless of technology
Democracy Now - a daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez
Alternet - syndication service and online community of the alternative press, featuring news stories from alternative newsweeklies, magazines and web publications
Consortium for Independent Journalism - the first investigative news magazine on the Internet; a home for important, well-reported stories and a challenge to the inept but dominant mainstream news media of the day
