Community Organizations

Earth Island Institute: Earth Island Institute (EII), founded in 1982 by veteran environmentalist David Brower, fosters the efforts of creative individuals by providing organizational support in developing projects for the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the global environment. EII provides activists the freedom to develop program ideas, supported by services to help them pursue those ideas, with a minimum of bureaucracy. Earth Island's Project Network consists of more than 30 projects worldwide, including the Brower Youth Awards, an annual national award that recognizes six young people for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and social justice advocacy.
www.earthisland.org

Wild Aid: WildAid believes that the governments and communities of the world can reverse the devastation of our planet's wildlife. Their goal is simple and specific: to decimate the illegal wildlife trade within our lifetimes, allowing threatened species to recover to safe levels. www.wildaid.org

Oceanic Society: Is a non profit marine conservation organization founded in 1995 by three friends from Orange County, California. After diving the Southern California coastal waters together for over 30 years, they decided it was time to do something to stop the damage we humans are causing to the ocean. They remembered when the Southern California water they dove in was clean and clear, with visibility up to 100 feet. Now, some days you can hardly see your hand in front of your face

• To develop on the part of the general population an awareness and appreciation of the sensitive nature of our planet's life sustaining marine environment.
• To promote the fundamental concepts of marine conservation and preservation through education. o To materially support education, research and scientific study of our marine environment.
• To assist governmental agencies in the monitoring and detection of activities or conditions which may be considered hazardous and harmful to our marine environment.
  www.nationaloceanic.org

Rainforrest Action Network: 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. Since it was founded in 1985, the Rainforest Action Network has been working to protect rainforests and the human rights of those living in and around those forests. From the beginning, RAN has played a key role in strengthening the worldwide rainforest conservation movement through supporting activists in rainforest countries as well as organizing and mobilizing consumers and community action groups throughout the United States. Our first challenge was to bring the plight of the rainforests to public attention through education, communication, and direct action. www.ran.org

Social Venture Network: is a nonprofit network committed to building a just and sustainable world through business. Their mission is to inspire a community of business and social leaders to build a just economy and sustainable planet. Through promoting new models and leadership for socially and environmentally sustainable business, they champion this effort through initiatives, information services and forums that strengthen our community and empower our members to work together on behalf of their shared vision.
www.svn.org

Sustain Lane: Is a community-generated guide for living a better life. SustainLane provides fast & easy access to best-of-class information and resources for enjoying a healthier more sustainable life within your community. Find information, ask a question, provide an answer. Recommend a product or service, share your experience. Hear what others are doing. Add to the collective knowledge base created by our collaborative network. Sustain lane is on its way to build the world's biggest database of expert content on sustainability for your free use. www.sustainlane.com

Global Exchange: Building people-to-people ties, Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Since their founding in 1988, they have successfully increased public awareness of root causes of injustice while building international partnerships and mobilizing for change. www.globalexchange.org Blue Water: The story of Bluewater Network begins in the province of Kerala, along the coastline on the western side of India's peninsula. Dr. Russell Long, world-class sailor and environmental activist, traveled there to work with traditional fishermen to design watercraft that could serve the community as well as reduce environmental impacts on Kerala's waterways. What he found was that the pollution from two-stroke outboard engines was destroying the way of life for these fishermen and their environment. Bluewater Network works to stop environmental damage from vehicles and vessels, and to protect human health and the planet by reducing dependence on fossil fuels. Bluewater is a division of Friends of the Earth - the U.S. voice of the world's largest network of environmental groups with one million supporters in 70 countries across five continents. Bluewater Network has grown rapidly from one person to a staff of nearly ten people tackling the myriad of air and water quality problems caused by the transportation sector. Student Conservation Association: (SCA) provides high school students, college students, and others with meaningful conservation service internships and volunteer opportunities in our National Parks, Forests, and other public lands. Enjoy adventure, gain experience, and make a difference. www.thesca.org

Earth Justice: A non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment. They bring about far-reaching change by enforcing and strengthening environmental laws on behalf of hundreds of organizations and communities.
www.earthjustice.org

EarthViews production: Founded in 1988, EarthViews provides high-quality, low-cost video production to individuals, companies and organizations working to promote the welfare of and public education on animals, the environment and the issues that affect them. Earth views have produced films for numerous projects with National Wildlife fund, SPCA, Smithsonian, Whale rescue team, Marine mammal fund, discover channel and more. Their productions have won numerous awards and have been broadcasted all over the world.