General Interest Links:
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
The University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment
Project Underground is a non-profit organization in Berkeley, CA, which supports communities threatened by mineral industries. Its mission statement :
Project Underground exists as a vehicle for the environmental, human rights and indigenous rights movements to carry out focused campaigns against abusive extractive resource activity. We seek to systematically deal with the problems created by he mining and oil industries by exposing environmental and human rights abuses by the corporations involved in these sectors and by building capacity amongst comunities facing mineral and energy development to achieve economic and environmental justice.
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
Center for Biological Diversity- Its mission statement:
Old growth forests teeming with life, clean, free flowing rivers, untrampled deserts, people living in balance with nature . . . the West we envision for the future will provide an exceptional quality of life, it will be based on healthy ecosystems supporting diverse plant and animal communities as well as thriving urban and rural lifestyles.
The Center for Biological Diversity represents the union of the most successful biodiversity activists in the Southwest. it combines rigorous conservation biology with innovative legal strategies and a powerful vision of what we can build together.
For an interesting overview of the phenomenal success of the CBD, see Outside Magazine.
League of Conservation Voters (LCV)
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
THIRD WORLD TRAVELER publishes "articles and book excerpts that offer an alternative view to the mainstream media about the impact of the policies of transnationsl corporations, international financial and trade institutions, the corporate press and the United States government and its national security establishment on democracy, human rights, social and economic justice and the environment in the Third World and the United States."