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Updated on May 6, 2008
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Building Resilience
in a Changing Climate |
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Adaptation develops resiliency to climatic change in a way that is sustainable, just, and mitigative. The Adaptation Network brokers relationships, resources, organizing savvy, and creativity in partnership with climate scientists and in the public interest so that we in the US immediately begin adapting to present and projected climate impacts. |
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Beth Raps, Co-Director
Lynne Carter, Co-Director
Adaptation Network
PO Box 117
Berkeley Springs, WV 25411-0117
Tel. (304) 258-2533
E-mail: bethraps(at)earthlink.net
Web: www.adaptationnetwork.org |
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The Altai Project partners with local groups in Central Asia and trains citizens to conduct successful campaigns against environmental threats. In this remote, diverse and spectacular region of Southern Siberia, the Russian Altai region faces enormous challenges from poaching, oil and gas construction, logging, hydroelectric dams, and unregulated tourism. |
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Baikal Watch |
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Promotes international activities for the permanent protection of biologically rich Lake Baikal and Siberia, as well as other related initiatives throughout Russia and northern Asia. |
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Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) |
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Leads adult youth workers in developing skills to conduct safe, high quality wilderness trips for young people, allowing them to borrow outdoor equipment, free of charge, to outfit their group. |
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Bay Localize |
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We work to catalyze a shift from a globalized, fossil fuel-based economy that enriches a few and weakens most, to a localized green economy that strengthens all Bay Area communities. |
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Big Wildlife |
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Big Wildlife provides a voice for top-carnivore wildlife in North America and works to gain public support for their conservation. We strive to shift public opinion, the media and decision-makers about the ecological importance of top carnivores and to promote strategies for coexistence with them. |
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The Borneo Project |
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Works with indigenous groups in Borneo to promote human rights, ecological justice and self-determination through citizen diplomacy, mapping workshops, educational exchanges and legal support. |
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1771 Alcatraz Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94703
Tel: (510) 547-4258
Fax: (510) 547-4259
E-mail: borneo(at)borneoproject.org
Web: www.borneoproject.org |
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Brower Fund |
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Provides advice, organizational support, internships and small grants for short-term campaigns and projects and is an incubator for some of David Brower's most urgent initiatives. |
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California Student Sustainability Coalition |
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CSSC is committed to working on projects that promote sustainability in the three realms of environment, economy, and equity. Our projects span the statewide level across college campuses. |
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Campaign to Safeguard America's Waters (C-SAW) |
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Assists conservation groups across the country in their efforts to protect local waters by limiting/eliminating the use of "mixing zones" (dillution zones) by industrial dischargers. |
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Center for Safe Energy |
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Supports the development and work of independent environmental non-profits in the former Soviet Union which are concerned with energy issues including global warming, nuclear contamination and safety. |
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EcoEquity |
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EcoEquity is an organization aimed at advancing the principle of equal rights to global common resources. More immediately, we've founded EcoEquity to fill the need for a U.S.-based organization focused on clarifying and promoting the principles of equity necessary for a just and effective climate treaty. We see ourselves as being simultaneously members of the climate movement and the global justice movement. |
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Eco-Village Farm Learning Center |
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Seeks to educate inner city communities, particularly children, in ways that promote the ecological health of themselves and their urban natural environment. |
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Energy Action |
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We are uniting a diversity of organizations in an alliance that will support and strengthen the student and youth clean energy movement in North America. Together we will leverage our collective power and create change for a clean, efficient, just and renewable energy future. We will accomplish this by focusing on four strategic areas: campuses, communities, corporate practices, and politics. |
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Ethical Traveler |
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Ethical Traveler is a global community through which tourists and travelers -- members of the world's largest and fastest-growing industry -- can understand their economic and political power, and use it to benefit both the human family and planetary environment. |
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The Fiji Organic Project |
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The mission of The Fiji Organic Project is to promote sustainable agriculture, particularly in the sugar cane industry, to strengthen the Fiji economy, while at the same time preserving Fiji’s unique natural environment and ensuring the health of Fiji’s farmers and citizens. |
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Molly Rockamann
Founding Director,
The Fiji Organic Project
fijiorganic(at)yahoo(dot)com
Web: www.fijiOrganic.org |
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Global Service Corps |
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Provides opportunities for volunteers to learn about and work on village-based environmental and social justice projects in Tanzania and Thailand. |
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Green Café Network |
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The mission of the Green Café Network is to mainstream sustainability by mobilizing the owners and customers of neighborhood cafes to reduce their impact on natural resources and increase environmental stewardship. By harnessing the potential of neighborhood coffee shops to role model sustainability and build community, we aim to make sustainability visible, understandable and accessible. |
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300 Broadway, Suite 28
San Francisco, CA 94133
Tel: (415) 788-3666
E-mail: info(at)greencafenetwork.org
Web: www.greencafenetwork.org |
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Hydro Nova |
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Promotes wetlands as cost-effective and ecological options for treating wastewater from homes and small communities, supplementing water supplies, and enhancing wildlife habitat. |
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International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) |
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Leading the effort to stop the slaughter of dolphins, to end commercial whaling and to end the use of drift nets worldwide. IMMP led the successful move of the orca Keiko (Free Willy) from Mexico to Oregon to Iceland. |
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John Muir Project |
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Our goal is to ensure ecological management of our National Forests by ending the federal timber sales program and eliminating its system of perverse economic and political incentives that undermine science and threaten native wildlife and forest ecosystems |
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P.O. Box 697
Cedar Ridge, CA 95924
Tel: (530) 273-9260
E-mail: mailto:cthanson@ucdavis.edu
Web: www.johnmuirproject.org |
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Kids for the Bay |
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Collaborates with teachers to inspire environmental consciousness in children and cultivate a love of learning. We are committed to education through action and to restoring a healthy environment, for all communities. |
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Nature in the City |
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Conserves and restores San Francisco’s nature and biodiversity by connecting people with nature where they live. We are the first organization wholly dedicated to ecological conservation, restoration and stewardship of the Franciscan bioregion. |
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Reef Protection International |
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The mission of Reef Protection International (RPI) is to positively impact worldwide coral reef conservation by transforming behavior and business practices surrounding the wild-caught ornamental fish trade. |
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The Red Panda Network |
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We are committed to empowering local stewardship of Red Pandas and their habitat through innovative, grassroots conservation action-plans that link economic growth and ecological conservation. |
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Rooted in Community |
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Provides a platform for youth and their adult counterparts who are working on food and justice issues locally to deepen their knowledge, skills, and experiences while building a national grassroots movement. |
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Sacred Land Film Project |
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Works to deepen public understanding of sacred places, to rekindle respect and reverence for the land within technological society and to help protect sacred sites and indigenous cultures. |
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Safe Food and Fertilizer |
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Provides regulatory and techinical support to grasroots organizaitons, consumers, and farmers in an effort to increase public awareness about the use of waste derrived fertilizers, and to establish protective fertilizer laws and regulations. |
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SAVE International (SAVE) |
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Works to protect the Chi-gu Lagoon in Taiwan by promoting alternative economic development and long-term sustainability of the lagoon and local communities. |
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South Coast Habitat Restoration |
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The mission of South Coast Habitat Restoration is to manage habitat protection, conservation, restoration and outreach projects in the Santa Barbara and Ventura region. The goals are to foster community support and obtain public and private funding in order to improve habitat for wildlife. Objectives include coordination of regional and watershed specific stakeholder groups, preservation and enhancement of biodiversity through restoration of degraded habitats, steelhead trout recovery through riparian restoration (including barrier removal), and increased public awareness through community outreach. |
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Sustainable Watersheds Alliance (SWAle) |
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Advocates for the reduction and elimination of sewage overflows; implementation of wastewater treatment alternatives; increased water conservation and reuse; cleanup of contaminated soil and groundwater. |
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Sustainable World Coalition |
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We build cooperation among organizations to maximize their effectiveness to educate, motivate and facilitate people to take action toward creating sustainability. |
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Tibetan Plateau Project (TPP) |
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Promotes biodiversity conservation and sustainable development of local communities in the Tibetan Plateau region through research, grassroots organizing and public education. |
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UniversitÁrea Protegida Nicaragua (UÁP) |
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UÁP supports Nicaraguan university students
conducting social and ecological research in rural
areas throughout the country, and facilitates relationships
with community leaders, youth groups, and local schools.
We promote sustainable rural development by supporting
participative social and environmental education
programs, small conservation projects, and grassroots
cooperatives. In partnership with progressive Nicaraguan
university student groups and rural communities,
UÁP works to transform the youth of today
into the education and conservation leaders of tomorrow. |
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Viva Sierra Gorda |
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Vision: To make the Sierra Gorda (Mexico) bio-region and the on-going local conservation movement a top priority on a global scale and provide outlets to the regional products through the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mission: Establish a San Francisco Bay Area presence to raise awareness, pride, and build networks internationally in order to support the long-term conservation and sustainability of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve (Mexico).
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WildeBeat |
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The WildeBeat is an audio journal – like a radio news magazine – presenting news and features to help you explore and appreciate America's wild public lands. Each week, we publish a 10-minute documentary piece about wild places you can visit, outings you can join, or skills and gear you'll need. |
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WildFutures |
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Works to develop and implement strategies that will bridge the gap between science and activism and advance wildlife and habitat protection. |
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Yggdrasil |
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Conducts research and disseminates information concerning environmental issues in France and the United States. |
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