Environmental Issues Resources

The Sierra Club - Explore, Enjoy and Protect the Planet

Environmental quality and quality of life go hand in hand. Whether it's fashion or finance, transportation or trash recycling, you'll find regular updates and ideas for integrating style and sustainability on The Green Life, where the best things in life are green. The Sierra Club's members are more than 750,000 of your friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, we work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. Our influence and effectiveness is dependent upon our members, donors, and benefactors, so give us avisit today.

Diesel Secret Energy - Make Your Own Fuel

Diesel Secret has developed a revolutionary method for producing an inexpensive, high performance fuel that can power ANY DIESEL ENGINE and the cost to you is only 46¢ per gallon! You have NOT heard of this before. This is an entirely new way in America to make your own fuel from vegetable oil that takes only minutes. Become fuel independent and have more money for the good things in life.

Green Nest

Is your home or office making you sick? Green Nest sells healthy home products to assist in creating non-toxic home or office environments. Products include: air purifiers, water filters, organic bedding and baby goods, healthy building materials and more! It's fast, easy and secure. Click here to see products and information to help you create a healthy home now!

Energy Efficiency in Household Appliances and Lighting

This book covers the state of the art of energy efficiency in household appliances and lighting which can be used now and in the near future to achieve significant and cost-effective energy savings. Recent developments in advanced appliance and lighting technologies by some of the largest manufacturers are also presented. Although energy-efficient household appliances and lighting technologies can save a huge amount of electricity, they still have not been widely adopted. The barriers which can hinder the adoption of those technologies are presented. Policies and programmes to promote the large-scale penetration of energy-efficient technologies and the market transformation are featured in the book, describing the experiences gained in different parts of the world. This extensive coverage includes contributions from relevant institutions in the European Union, North America, Latin America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Greenpeace International

Greenpeace is the world's most effective environmental activist group dedicated to the issues of climate change, saving our ancient forests, stopping pollution, ending the nuclear threat, abolishing nuclear weapons, stopping genetic engineering, saving our oceans, and advocating sustainable trade.

GreenPeople.org

Greenpeople a valuable resource where you can find eco-friendly products, services and organizations. GreenPeople is one of the largest online green directories. They offer free search and free listings. It takes only 2-3 minutes to list your business or organization. Finding the product or service is made simple with their easy-to-use search engine. Find organic food at health food stores, coops and farmers markets. Environmental protection is possible through your eco-friendly purchases. Buying hemp, organic cotton and recycled products like home furnishings, baby clothes, and natural beauty products aid conservation of natural resources. Add your Business, Non-profit Organization or Event to this womderful Directory today.

Home Ecology

I volunteer in people's homes by holding discussions about home ecology principles including waste reduction, energy conservation, recycling, composting, natural gardening, water conservation, junk mail reduction, safe cleaning products, chemical safety, food quality and safety issues, and more. In an effort to make all of this information available to a wider audience and to provide a reference source on these topics for all to use , I have created this non-commercial web site.

Institute of Noetic Sciences

Institute of Noetic Sciences has been at the forefront of research and education in consciousness and human potential. We honor open-minded approaches and strive to bring discernment to our work. We are not a spiritual sect, political-action group, or single cause institute. We are a nonprofit membership organization that both conducts and sponsors research into the workings and powers of the mind, including perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition.

The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide

This recycling guide provides a starting point for consumers in the USA and Canada searching the net for recycling information. The information is for regular folks with regular household quantities of materials to recycle. The goal is to help make recycling so easy and automatic that it blends into the flow of everyday life.

MILY's List

EMILY's List, the nation's largest grassroots political network, is dedicated to taking back our country from the radical right wing by electing pro-choice Democratic women to federal, state, and local office. We are a network of more than 100,000 Americans -- from all across the country -- committed to recruiting and funding viable women candidates; helping them build and run effective campaign organizations; training the next generation of activists; and mobilizing women voters to help elect progressive candidates across the nation. EMILY'S List has helped to change the face of power in America. Until EMILY's List was founded in 1985, no Democratic woman had ever been elected to the U.S. Senate in her own right, no woman had ever been elected governor of a large state, and the number of Democratic women in the U.S. House had declined to 12 -- less than three percent of the chamber's 435 members. Since then, our grassroots network has helped elect 61 Democratic pro-choice members of Congress, 11 senators, and eight governors. EMILY's List has also become the largest financial resource for minority women seeking federal office. We know how to win. EMILY's List does more than just recruit and fund pro-choice Democratic women candidates. We also help them build and run effective campaigns. Additionally, we mobilize women voters to help elect progressive candidates across the nation.

The Nostalgic Boomer

Nostalgic 1950's 1960s for Babyboomers. Retro/Vintage and new apparel, accessories, home/garden, music, art and collectables. Products and information relating to rockabilly, Elvis, Woodstock, Hippies, Beatniks as well as modern day interests and hobbies related to Babyboomers

Occasional Magic: Magical Boxes for Special Occasions

Occasional Magic: Magical Boxes for Special Occasions. Emotionally, socially and ecologically responsible gifts & powerful, dogma-free symbols of simple beauty and greater good. OCCASIONAL MAGIC exists to support full and practical lives that are also richly spiritual ones. We offer a range of products designed to help busy people establish a daily, ordinary connection between the routine of life and the energy of the holy, independent of specific dogma or creed. OCCASIONAL MAGIC is committed to the dignity of all people and our planet. We source our materials from small family businesses, women artisans and fair trade organizations, never sweatshops or child laborers. We use recycled products, products with recycled content and environmentally sustainable resources. Occasional Magic awards its Karma Seal to items whose purchase particularly bolsters human dignity or environmental sustainability.

Organic Consumers Association

We are a consumer advocate for labeling of genetically engineered food. We promote organic food and sustainable agriculture. Watchdog group to monitor biotech, irradiated food, mad cow disease, gmo and rBGH. We want pesticide reduction, permaculture, biodynamic and sustainable farming.

Smart Growth Network

This nonprofit organization that helps created national and local coalitions to promote economic, social, and environmental development in communities. This site contains primers on alternatives to sprawl and a smart growth bibliography and policy database.

Vision Paper - A Division of KP Products

An amazing company which produces paper products from the plant Kenaf. Kenaf is easily grown producing 3-5 times the amount of pulp in just one year as Southern Pine, which takes 7-40 years to produce. A sustainable business which might in the end help save our beautiful forests! Learn more about this company AND it's products. Manufactuers and distributors of 100% kenaf tree-free paper and kenaf/recycled blend paper, kenaf seeds, kenaf paper products.

Bioneers - Collective Heritage Institute (CHI)

Bioneers - An educational network of visionaries for the environment. An educational nonprofit that strengthens and expands networks of practical visionaries working on behalf of the environment and people. We spread solutions-oriented stories — including both ecological models and social strategies — for restoring the earth.

Building Research Establishment (BRE)-BREbookshop.com

The BRE Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) tool allows the owners, users, and designers of buildings to review and improve environmental performance throughout the life of a building.

The Center for Resourceful Building Technologies

CRBT, founded in 1990, is a non-profit organization that educates the public on issues relating to housing and the environment, with particular emphasis on innovative building materials and technologies which place less stress on regional and global ecosystems.

The Clean Energy Network

The Clean Energy Network is clearinghouse for news and information and projects to promote clean energy technologies in Mendocino County. Our mission is to To provide information, education and testing related to the development of clean energy or zero-emission fuel. Our structure is a network of consumers, researchers and technicians investing time and effort towards reducing fuel consumption and toxic greenhouse gases and working to facilitate and promote the production of clean fuel technologies.

The Cob Cottage Company Online

Conducts hands-on research on natural building methods and materials. Through practical training in natural construction, they help empower ordinary people to take charge of providing their own housing at moderate cost. By mail and phone, and through publications and tours, they supply information, support and inspiration for people to make healthy choices about buildings. Committed to de-consumerizing, to reducing the flow of cash, resources and waste, and to helping others to do the same. They work with a wide range of natural materials but specialize in unbaked hand-formed sculptural earthen building--cob construction. About 25 cob demonstration buildings all over Western North America are now open to visitors.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Saving the Environment

Book Only a Complete Idiot Would Ignore! Contains excerpts from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Saving the Environment, environmental tips, environmental links, environmental bookstore. For better or worse the 21st century is going to be the Environmental Century. Activists in the environmental community have been warning of impending ecological catastrophe for years. Whether their dire predictions come true or not largely depends on our actions in the next few decades. Though we have made progress in some areas, we are unfortunately losing ground in many others. That's why I decided to write the Complete Idiot's Guide to Saving the Environment.

The E. F. Schumacher Society

Develops programs that demonstrate both social and environmental sustainability can be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment to economic issues. Building on a rich tradition of decentralism, the Society initiates practical measures that lead to community revitalization and further the transition toward an economically and ecologically sustainable society.