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Please visit the Page to get a sense of the wide variety of topics that it covers. You are welcome to comment on the posts and we hope you’ll share some of our links. To make sure that Facebook will continue to show you our posts on your Facebook homepage/newsfeed, visit our page regularly and give a thumbs-up to (“Like”) your favorite posts.
Here’s a sampling of topics that we’ve highlighted on the page over the last couple of months:
- SoKind gift registry / wish list website
- Fresh Cab: safe, natural rodent repellent (repels mice and rats)
- ELF solar-electric hybrid cargo tricycle
- TheRainforestSite.com
- Mosaic: Solar energy investment platform
- Solar power’s exponential growth and grid parity (cost competitiveness)
- New films: Disruption; Mission Blue
- Resilient: Soil, Water, and the New Stewards of the American West (short film)
- Global human population has doubled over the past 35 years (approx.)
- Drop-a-Brick: toilet-tank water-saving product
- Air-to-water technologies
- Indigenous Environmental Network
- International Dark-Sky Association
- Quotations, photos, videos, etc.
November 29, 2014
There are a number of large and well-known environmental organizations (e.g., NRDC and the Sierra Club) and other broad-based sustainability groups that do good work. But there are also many lesser-known, smaller, local, or more issue-specific environmental organizations that I believe also deserve attention and financial support. You might not have heard of all of these groups before, but they’re worth knowing about. They include:
- A local Land Trust / Conservancy (or state or regional parks; or other local land conservation or wildlife protection group)
It was difficult to narrow down my long list of favorite organizations to this small set; there are so many other effective organizations and initiatives that deserve support, as well. If you have a favorite organization to recommend, please mention it in the Comments section.
Remember that you can always give a donation to a group or a cause in honor of someone else—as a gift. It’s a wonderful type of gift to give for the holidays or any other occasion. You can also give someone a charity gift card (such as the TisBest Charity Gift Card) that allows the recipient to spend the funds on a charity of their choice.
I’d also like to take this opportunity to mention a few other non-profit groups that you might want to learn about, though they are not directly/explicitly related to environmental issues. I hope you will look into and support some of these groups, as well:
Also consider making donations to local organizations that serve your community (e.g., food banks, homeless shelters or affordable housing groups, senior centers, child abuse prevention or foster care groups, veterans support groups, animal rescues/shelters, rural/volunteer fire departments, disaster response/relief groups), as well as to local and nationwide public radio/TV programs and other user-supported media outlets.
Also see: Non-Profit Organizations of Note
December 7, 2012
This post provides a list of links to green-business-related organizations, associations, websites, books, and other resources, which are useful not only to people who own, manage, or work for companies, but to all of us—as consumers and citizens who are affected by business decisions and corporate practices every day. The resources are organized into the following categories:
- Green Business (general)
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Environmental & Social Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Financing, and Investing
- Clean, Green Jobs
- Local Economies / Community Investment and Resilience
- Confronting the Corporate Corruption of Government
- Ecological Economics
[Note: New links were added to this post in April 2012.]
Green Business (general)
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February 20, 2012
The following is a partial list of environmental non-profit organizations that have a national (U.S.) or international scope and that take a broad approach to sustainability. These 15 groups address a wide spectrum of environmental issues; they are not single-issue organizations. Due to their holistic perspective, many of these groups do work that—directly or indirectly—promotes greater social and economic equity, as well as environmental sustainability, as all of these issues and conditions are inextricably connected to each other.
Please click on the links to learn more about the work that each of these groups is doing.
This is by no means a comprehensive list of sustainability-minded organizations. For a longer list, see this set of links.
In addition, there are many single-issue environmental organizations (and local, state, and community-level organizations) that do good and important work in their respective areas and issues. I have highlighted such groups in past posts (e.g., organizations focused on green schools, environmental education, green affordable housing, green building, sustainable communities/planning, etc.), and will highlight other types of green groups in the future. (Update: Our newer posts provide lists of organizations related to health/toxics; resilience; sustainable agriculture/farming/food; green business; divestment/investment; and climate issues.)
If you have a favorite green organization that you’d like people to know about, please share that in the Comments.
* Full disclosure: I have worked on projects for the organizations that are marked with an asterisk.
Related Posts:
Lesser Known Organizations that are Worthy of Support [added Dec. 2012]
Non-Profit Organizations of Note (post index) [added Dec. 2017]
November 3, 2011
