Web Resources
There is an INCREDIBLE number of great organizations and sources of information out on the internet. The following links direct you to web pages that may contain helpful information concerning environmental issues worldwide:
UWO Groups and Activities
- Campus Greens
- SEAC: Student Environmental Action Coalition
- Environmental Studies Club
- Earth Charter at UWO
- Environmental Audit
- Greening the Campus (Power Point)
Related Organizations
- Lake Winnebago Green Party
- Wisconsin Green Party
- National Green Party
- National Campus Greens
- National SEAC
Wisconsin and Regional Organizations
- Aldo Leopold Foundation
- Audubon Society, Madison
- Audubon Society, Northeastern Wisconsin
- Audubon Society, Wisconsin
- Bluebird Restoration Association of Wisconsin
- Butte Des Morts Conservation Club
- Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS)
- Center on Wisconsin Stategy (COWS)
- Citizens Energy Cooperative of Wisconsin (CEC)
- Citizens for a Better Environment
- Clean Water Action Council
- Clean Wisconsin
- Ecomunicipality
- Family Farm Defenders
- Fightingbob.com
- Focus on Energy
- Fox River Watch
- Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance
- Gathering Waters Conservancy
- Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund
- Great Lakes Forest Alliance
- Harmony Cafe
- Horicon Marsh Bird Club
- Invasive Plants Assoication of Wisconsin
- Justice Coalition
- Midwest Center for Environmental Science and Public Policy
- Midwest Environmental Advocates
- Midwest Organic Services Association
- Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA)
- Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA in Wisconsin)
- Natural Resources Foundation
- Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin
- Nature Conservancy, Wisconsin chapter
- Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust
- Nukewatch
- One Thousand Friends of Wisconsin and the Land Use Institute
- One Wisconsin Now
- Renew Wisconsin
- Pineview Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
- River Alliance of Wisconsin
- Riveredge Nature Center
- Savor Wisconsin
- Sierra Club, Fox Valley chapter
- Sierra Club of Wisconsin
- Smart Growth
- Solve Global Warming Wisconsin
- University of Wisconsin Extension Water Resources Program
- Urban Ecology Center (Milwaukee)
- Water Action Volunteers
- Wisconsin Association of Lakes
- Wisconsin Bird Conservation Initiative
- Wisconsin Campus Compact
- Wisconsin Citizens Action
- Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
- Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
- Wisconsin Earth Day
- Wisconsin Environment
- Wisconins Green Building Alliance
- Wisconsin Interfaith Climate and Energy Campaign
- Wisconsin Internetwork
- Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association
- Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters (LCV)
- Wisconsin LCV vote tracker (environmental bills in state government)
- Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice (WNPJ)
- Wisconsin Partners for SustainAbility
- Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group (Wispirg)
- Wisconsin Society for Ornithology
- Wisconsin Stewardship Network
- Wisconsin Waterfowl Association
- Wisconsin Wetlands Association
- Wisconsin Wildlife Federation (NWF of WI)
- Woodland School (Aldo Leopold Foundation)
National Organizations
- Act for Change
- Act Green (UCS & EMA)
- Action Network
- Action Without Borders (Idealist.org)
- Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
- Animal Liberation Front
- Apollo Alliance
- Audubon Society
- Better World Handbook
- Campaign to Save the Environment
- Campus Ecology
- Care 2 Make a Difference
- Center for Environmental Citizenship
- Center for American Progress
- Charitable Recycling
- Clean Car Campaign
- Defenders of Wildlife
- Earth 911
- Earth Charter Summit
- Earth Charter USA
- Earth Corps
- Earth First!
- Earth Island Institute
- Earth Justice
- Earth Save
- Earth Scouts
- Earth Watch Institute
- Ecologia (Ecologists Linked for Organizing Grassroots Initiative and Action)
- Eco.org Sustainable Communities Leadership Program
- Energy Action
- Envirolink
- Environmental Defense
- Environmental Media Association (EMA)
- Environmental Research Foundation (Rachel's)
- Environmental Working Group
- Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues
- Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
- Forest Stewardship Council
- Forum on Religion and Ecology
- Friends of the Earth
- Global Exchange
- Green Pages (Global Directory for Environmental Technology)
- Green Life
- Greenpeace
- Heritage Forests Campaign
- Land Stewardship Project
- Land Trust Alliance
- League of Conservation Voters
- League of Women Voters
- Midwest Environmental Advocates
- MoveOn
- National Environmental Directory
- National Wildlife Federation
- Natural Resources Foundation
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Natural Step
- North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE)
- Oil Change
- Orion Society
- Orion Grassroots Network
- PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
- Princeton Environmental Institute
- Power Shift (20/20 Vision)
- Public Intrest Groups
- Radwaste
- Rainforest Action Network
- Re-energize America
- Rivers Foundation of the Americas
- Riverkeeper
- Save Our Environment
- Sea Shehperd Conservation Society
- Shelter For Life
- Sierra Club
- Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
- Student Conservation Association
- Student PIRGs
- Sustainable Communities Leadership Program
- Waterkeeper Alliance
- Wilderness Society
- Women's Environment and Development Organization
- World Changing
- Zero Waste America
International Organizations
- Big Picture (video clips)
- Conservation International
- Earth Charter
- Earth Charter Summit
- International Rivers Network
- International Tree Foundation
- Friends of the Earth International
- Center for International Environmental Law
- Global Exchange
- Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)
- GRACE (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment)
- International Institute for Sustainable Development
- International Environmental Technology Centre (U.N.)
- International Institute for Environment and Development
- Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development
- Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC)
- International Environmental Law Research Centre
- International Environment House (Geneva Environment Network)
- ISO 14000
- Natural Step
- Planet Ark
- Rainforest Action Network
- Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnerships
- Small Planet Institute
- United Nations
- United Nations Environment Programme
- World Resources Institute
- World Revolution
- Worldwatch Institute
- World Wildlife Fund
Environmental Science Resources
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Geophysical Union
- American Society of Agronomy
- Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
- Biodiversity Research Institute
- Crop Science Society of America
- Earthscape
- Ecological Society of America
- Encyclopedia of Earth
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- National Council for Science and the Environment
- National Geographic
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
- Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
- Union of Concerned Scientists
Governmental Organizations
- Bureau of Land Management
- Corporation for National and Community Service
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Energy
- Department of Interior
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service (Department of Interior)
- Forest Service (Department of Agriculture)
- National Center for Environmental Health
- National Institute for Climate Change Research (Department of Energy)
- National Park Service (Department of Interior)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Department of Commerce)
- National Resources Consevation Service (Department of Agriculture)
- Peace Corps
- Vista (Americorps)
- Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Land Trusts, Preserves, Conservancies
- Bayfield Regional Conservancy
- Bubolz Nature Preserve
- Butte des Morts Conservation Club
- Couderay Waters Regional Land Trust
- Door County Land Trust
- Gathering Waters Conservancy
- Glacial Lakes Conservancy
- Green Lake Association
- Heckrodt Wetland Preserve
- Land Stewardship Project
- Land Trust Alliance
- Madeline Island Wilderness Preserve
- Natural Heritage Land Trust
- Nature Conservancy
- Nature Conservancy of Wisconsin
- North Central Conservancy Trust
- Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust
- Northwoods Land Trust
- West Wisconsin Land Trust
- Wisconsin Land Trusts (inclusive list)
Sustainable Agriculture
- For brief explanations of some of these websites, click here
- Alternative Farming Systems Information Center
- Agricultural Innovation Center
- American Community Garden Association (ACGA)
- ACGA portal to other community garden websites
- American Farmland Trust
- American Grassfed Association
- Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas
- Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association
- Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin
- Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems
- Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (U.W. Madison)
- Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens
- Community Agroecology
- Community Food Security Organization
- Cornell Farm to School Program
- Cornucopia Institute
- Dictionary of Sustainabile Agriculture
- Eat Well
- Eat Wild
- Ecological Agricultural Projects
- Family Farmer
- Family Farm Defenders
- Farm Aid
- Farm to College.org
- Farm to college programs (Food Routes)
- Farmer’s Market Online
- Food and Water Watch
- Food First
- Food Routes
- Genesis Farm
- Grace Family Farm Project
- Grain
- Growing Power
- Holistic Management International
- Home Grown Wisconsin
- Humane Farming Association
- International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements
- Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
- Land Stewardship Project
- Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
- Local Harvest
- Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition (MACSAC)
- Michael Fields Agriculture Institute
- Midwest Organic Services Association
- Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Service (Moses)
- Milwaukee Urban Agriculture Network
- Minnesota Grown
- Minnesota Institute For Sustainable Agriculture
- National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
- National Family Farm Coalition
- National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
- New England Small Farm Institute
- New Farm
- North Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society
- Northeast Organic Farming Association
- Northwest Wisconsin Regional Food Network
- Organic Agriculture Information Access
- Organic Center
- Organic Consumers Association
- Organic Crop Improvement Association
- Organic Farming Research Foundation
- Organic Valley Farmer Cooperative
- Permaculture Activist
- Prairie Land CSA
- Renewing the Countryside
- Research, Education, Action, and Policy on Food Group (REAP)
- Robyn Van En Center for Community Supported Agriculture
- SavorWisconsin.com
- Slow Food Wisconsin
- Small Farm Program
- Soil Association (UK)
- Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
- Sustainable Agriculture (Permaculture)
- Sustainable Communities Network
- Sustainable Food Systems
- Sustainable Table
- Union of Concerned Scientists - Greener Pastures
- United Natural Foods Incorporated
- Vivid Picture
- Wisconsin Dairy Artisans
- Wisconsin Garden
Animal rights & vegetarianism
- Animal Welfare Institute
- Eat Well
- Go Veg
- Grace Factory Farm Project
- Humane Farming Association
- Humane Society of the United States
- Kentucky Friend Cruelty
- McCruelty
- Meatrix
- Murder King
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
- Wicked Wendy’s
Fair Trade Movement, Shade-grown Coffee, etc.
- Citizens Trade Campaign
- Co-op America Fair Trade Program
- Equal Exchange
- Fair Labor Association
- Fair Trade Federation
- Fair Trade Institute (Europe)
- Fair Trade Labeling Organizations International (FLO)
- Fair Trade Resource Network
- Fair Trade Towns
- Fair Trade Universities (United Kingdom)
- Global Exchange Fair Trade Program
- International Fair Trade Association
- Organic Consumers Association Fair Trade Campaign
- Oxfam Make Trade Fair Campaign
- Sierra Club Fair Trade Campaign
- Sustain Dane (Madison WI) Fair Trade Program
- SweatFree.org
- Ten Thousand Villages
- Transfair & Transfair Campus Support
- United Students Against Sweatshops
- United Students for Fair Trade
- Wisconsin Fair Trade Association
- Workers Rights Consortium
Fair Trade, etc., vendors
- Equal Exchange Store (Wide range of products)
- Fair Trade Directory (Co-op America)
- Fair Trade Indigo (Clothing, jewelry & gifts) (Madison)
- Global Exchange Fair Trade Store (Wide range of products)
- Global Girlfriend (benefitting women's co-ops) (Clothing, jewelry, bath & body)
- A Greater Gift / SERRV International (Handcrafts & food) (Madison)
- Higher Grounds (Java for Justice) (Coffee)
- Indigenous Designs (Fair trade & organic clothing)
- Just Coffee (Madison)
- The Organic Coffee Company (Coffee)
- Ten Thousand Villages (Handcrafts & gifts)
- World Finds (Handcrafts & gifts)
Faith Groups and Fair Trade
- American Friends Service Committee (Quaker)
- Catholic Relief Services Fair Trade Program
- Church of the Brethren : fair trade coffee project
- Church World Service
- Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance
- Episcopal Church: fair trade coffee
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- Interfaith Fair Trade Initiative
- Lutheran World Relief:
> Fair Trade Coffee Project
> Fair Trade Chocolate Project
> Fair Trade Handcraft Project - Mennonite Central Committee Fair Trade Coffee Project
- Presbyterian Church (USA) Fair Trade Coffee Project
- Unitarian Universalist Fair Trade Coffee Project
- United Church of Christ Fair Trade Coffee Project
- United Methodist Church Fair Trade Coffee Project
- U.S. Interfaith Trade Justice Campaign
Environmental Justice
- Portal: Environmental Justice Links
- Center for Health, Environment, and Justice
- Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
- Environmental Justice Resource Center
- Indigenous Environmental Network
- National Religious Partnership for the Environment
- Sierra Club Environmental Justice Program
- U.S. E.P.A. Environmental Justice Program
Food Cooperatives
- Center for Community Partnerships
- Cooperative Development Consultants
- Cooperative Grocer
- Cooperative Grocers' Information Network
- Food Cooperative 500
- University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives
Green Business
- Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
- Business for Social Responsibility
- Conservation Economy
- GreenBiz
- Greenhouse Gas Management Institute
- Institute for Community Economics
- Local First
- National Cooperative Business Association
- Natural Capitalism
- New Rules Project
- PERC (Property and Environment Research Center)
- Responsible Shopper
- Rocky Mountain Institute
- Social Venture Network
- Sustainable Enterprise Program
Eco-municipalities
- Alliance for Sustainability (Ashland, Wisconsin)
- American Planning Association Policy Guide on Planning for Sustainability
- City Mayors website and another
- Ecomunicipality (Wisconsin)
- Eco-municipalities in Northern Wisconsin (pdf file)
- Foth (Wisconsin Alliance of Cities): Sustainability and the New Economy (large PowerPoint file)
- Institute for Ecomunicipality Education and Assistance
- Madison, Wisconsin Eco-municaplity Resolution & The Natural Step
- The Natural Step
- The Natural Step Monona (Madison)
- 1000 Friends of Wisconsin Eco-Municipality page
- Oregon Natural Step Network
- Smart Growth Planning
- Sustain Dane (Madison)
- Sustain Dane Eco-municipality
- Sustainable Chiquamegon Strategic Plan
- Sustainable Communities Network
- Sustainable Dunn (County)
- Sustainability and the Eco-municipality Movement (PowerPoint)
- Twin Cities Green Guide
- Wisconsin Clean Cities
Religious- and Culture-based Environmental Organizations
- Buddhist Peace Fellowship
- Center for Respect for Life and the Environment
- Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
- Chicago Theological Initiative in Eco-Justice
- Christian Ecology Link
- Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
- Earth Bible
- Earth Ministry
- Earth Sangha
- Eco-Justice Working Group (NCC)
- Episcopal Power and Light Regeneration Project
- Evangelical Environmental Network
- First Nations Environmental Network
- Forum on Religion and Ecology
- Indigenous Environmental Network
- Interfaith Climate Change Network
- Intertribal Environmental Council
- National Conference of Catholic Bishops Environmental Justice Program
- National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Working Group
- National Environmental Coalition of Native Americans
- National Religious Partnership for the Environment
- National Tribal Environmental Council
- North American Coalition for Christianity and Ecology
- Orthodox Church and the Environment
- Presbyterians for Restoring Creation
- Quaker Earthcare Witness
- Religious Witness for the Earth
- Seventh Principle Project (Unitarian Universalist Church)
- Shalom Center
- Target Earth
- Theological Education to Meet the Environmental Challenge
- Tibet’s Environment
- Unitarian Universalist Seventh Principle Project
- United Methodist Church
- Web of Creation
- Whidbey Institute
- World Council of Churches Justice, Peace and Creation
- Zen Environmental Studies Institute
Peace and justice organizations
- ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
- American Friends Service Committee
- Baptist Peace Fellowship
- Buddhist Peace Fellowship
- Catholic Peace Fellowship
- Declaration of Peace
- Earth Charter Initiative
- Earth Charter Summits
- Earth Charter USA
- Episcopal Peace Fellowship
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Fox Valley Peace Coalition
- Friends Committee on National Legislation
- Global Coalition for Peace
- Jewish Peace Fellowship
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship
- Mahatma Gandhi Foundation for World Peace
- Nonviolence.org
- Nonviolent Peace Force
- Peace Action
- United States Institute for Peace
- War Resisters League
- Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
Greening the Campus
- Aldo Leopold Foundation
- Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
- Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
- Association of Governing Boards
- Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers
- Campus Consortium for Environmental Excellence
- Campus Ecology Program of the National Wildlife Federation
- Campus Sustainability Planning Network
- Center for Environmental Citizenship
- Center for Respect of Life and the Environment
- Farm to college programs
- Good Company
- International Association of Universities: Sustainabile Development
- International Institute for Sustainable Development
- Management Institute for Environment and Business Program of the World Resources Institute
- National Association of Educational Buyers
- National Council for Science and the Environment
- Natural Step
- New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability
- North American Alliance for Green Education
- Second Nature
- Society for College and University Planning
- Student Environmental Action Coalition
- Sustainable Food Systems
- Think Cycle
- University Leaders for a Sustainable Future
- Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability
- Yale Sustainable Food Project
News about the Enviornment
- BBC News - Science & Nature
- Capitol Reports
- Earth Times
- Earth Trends (World Resources Institute)
- Environment Daily (Europe)
- Environmental News Network
- Environmental News Service
- Eye on Earth (Worldwatch Institute)
- Green At Work Today
- MSNBC
- National Geographic
- National Public Radio
- New York Times
- Planet Ark / Reuters
- Reuters Environmental News Archive
- Washington Post
- Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters vote tracker
- World Wildlife Fund
- Yahoo
You can subscribe to free email daily reports of environmental news. Here are two of the best. Click on the links below to sign up.
- Environmental News Network
- Green at Work Today
- Planet Ark, world environmental news by Reuters (the world's largest news agency).
Some of these sites have archives you can use to research news reports from previous months and years. For intance, check out the following:
>> Earthtimes.org news archive
>> Environment News Service news archive
>> Environment News Service search engine
>> Environmental News Network news archive
>> Green At Work news archive
>> Planet Ark news archive
Advocacy Magazines
- E/The Environmental Magazine
- Grist
- Mother Earth News
- Mother Jones
- The Nation
- The Progressive
- Z Magazine
Scientific Journals
Advocacy/Activism Training Groups
- Advocacy Institue
- AFL-CIO Organizing Institute
- Center for Environmental Stewardship Summer Training Academcy
- DART (Direct Action and Research Training)
- Green Corps Environmental Leadership Training Program
- Greenpeace Organizing Term
- Oxfam CHANGE Initiative
- SEAC (Student Environmental Action Coalition) Activist Training Camp
- Sierra Student Coalition training programs
- 21st Century Democrats & Democracy for America (DFA)
- Wellstone Action Network
Alternative media links
- Adbusters
- AlterNet
- BBC News ( England )
- Common Dreams News Center
- Independent Media Center
- Independent Media Center Radio Network
- Independent Press Association
- Media Channel
- Media Reform
- Nation
- Progressive Review
- Reuters (international, based in London )
- Web Active
- Wisconsin Politics
- Working for Change (Working Assets)
Conservative organizations
Note: some of these are well-established and powerful organizations respected among conservatives. A few are more the work of one individual.
