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Websites That Help You Help The Planet
Food & Water Watch protects our essential resources by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink and by helping people to take action to make a difference.
Environmental Working Group The mission of the Environmental Working Group (EWG) is to use the power of public information to protect public health and the environment. EWG is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, founded in 1993 by Ken Cook and Richard Wiles.
GoodGuide provides the world's largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of the products in your home.
Care2 is an online community empowering people to lead a healthy and green lifestyle while taking action on important causes.
Cornucopia seeks economic justice for the family-scale farming community. Through research, advocacy, and economic development the goal is to empower farmers - partnered with consumers - in support of ecologically produced local, organic and authentic food.
Climate Counts is a collaborative effort to bring consumers and companies together in the fight against global climate change. They score the world's largest companies on their climate impact to spur corporate climate responsibility and conscious consumption. The goal is to motivate deeper awareness among consumers — that the issue of climate change demands their attention, and that they have the power to support companies that take climate change seriously and avoid those that don't.
Sierra Club Have a letter you want to write or a phone call to make to your legislator? Sierra Club has the the info you need on their "Take Action" page.
Since 1892, the Sierra Club has been working to protect communities, wild places, and the planet itself. Seirra Club is the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. You can also get environmental information regarding your specific state on their website.
http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=TakeAction
The Union of Concerned Scientists The leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.
Corporate Accountability International has been waging winning campaigns to challenge corporate abuse for more than 30 years. They have been instrumental since the beginning of this movement to demand direct corporate accountability to public interests and have been at its forefront ever since. You can cast your vote here for the 2010 worst offender in their Corporate Hall of Shame.
http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/
Friends of the Earth has a network of grassroots groups in seventy seven countries that defend our environment and champion a more healthy and just world. Current campaigns focus on clean energy solutions, global warming, protecting people from toxic and new, potentially harmful technologies, and promoting smarter low-pollution transportation.
The Natural Resources Defense Council is a nonprofit environmental organization with 1.3 million members and online activists and a staff of scientists, attorneys and environmental experts. Our mission is to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.
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