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1000 Friends
of Washington is a statewide membership organization dedicated
to pursuing sound land use policies in Washington State. |
| Black
Farmers and Agriculturalists Association |
The
Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association (BFAA) is a grassroots,
volunteer organization created in 1997 in direct response to the
staggering decline in African American farmers and landowners. As
of February 1998 there are BFAA chapters in 21 states across the
country. |
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California Institute
For Rural Studies is a private non-profit research organization
located in Davis, California. Incorporated in 1977, their
research and outreach are aimed at improving lives, conditions and
economies of rural areas. Their focus areas include social Justice,
economic sustainability, environmental Balance. |
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The goal of the Center
for Minority Land and Community Security is to enhance and
empower minority rural communities by addressing land tenure issues
that they define as critical. It is organized to work within the
rural African American, Native American/Native Alaskan, and Hispanic
American/Latino Communities.
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The University of Wisconsin
Center for Cooperatives
(UWCC) mission is to study and promote cooperative action as a means
of meeting the economic and social needs of people. The Center works
in rural and urban settings in the United States and internationally.
It develops, promotes, and coordinates educational programs, technical
assistance and research on the cooperative form of business. The
UWCC serves as facilitator for faculty and staff within the University
System who have educational, research and extension activities involving
cooperatives. |
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Community
Resource Group Inc. (CRG) is a regional, private non-profit
organization helping southern rural communities address water issues,
resolve waste disposal problems, provide low income housing, and
meet the public transportation needs of northwest Arkansas. |
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Earth
Island Institute (EII) was founded in 1982 by David Brower to
foster the work of creative individuals by providing organizational
support in developing projects for the conservation, preservation,
and restoration of the global environment. |
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Established in 1970, Environmental
Remote Sensing Center (ERSC) is one of the oldest and largest
remote sensing research facilities in the United States. It is the
physical and intellectual focus on the University of Wisconsin-Madison
campus for interdisciplinary research on the application of remote
sensing to environmental monitoring and resource management. ERSC
is physically located on the 12th floor of the Atmospheric, Oceanic,
and Space Science building in the southern part of the UW-Madison
campus. |
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Equal
Justice Works (formerly The National Association for Public
Interest Law) was founded in 1986 by law students dedicated to surmounting
barriers to equal justice that affect millions of low-income individuals
and families. Today, Equal Justice Works leads the country in organizing,
training and supporting public service-minded law students, and
in creating summer and postgraduate public interest jobs.
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The Farmers'
Legal Action Group, or FLAG, is a nonprofit law center dedicated
to providing legal services to family farmers and their rural communities
in order to help keep family farmers on the land. |
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The Federation
of Southern Cooperatives / Land Assistance Fund is devoted to
developing cooperatives and credit unions as a means for people
to enhance the quality of their lives and improve their communities;
to save protect and expand the landholdings of Black family farmers
in the South; and to develop, advocate and support public policies
to benefit our membership of Black and other family farmers and
low income rural communities. |
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The Great
Lakes Information Network, or GLIN, is a partnership that
provides one place online for people to find information relating
to the binational Great Lakes region of North America. |
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Greenlink
offers an open forum to the three stakeholders in the environmental
debate: the Public, Government, and Industry. |
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Action Without
Borders is a global network of individuals and organizations
sharing ideas, information and resources to help build a world where
all people can live free, dignified and productive lives. |
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The Indian
Land Tenure Foundation is a nonprofit organization that is community
organized and community directed. Its mission is to ensure that
"land within the original boundaries of every reservation and
other areas of high significance where tribes retain aboriginal
interest are in Indian ownership and management." |
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The Indian Land
Working Group (ILWG) began in 1991 in Pendleton, Oregon and
is dedicated to the restoration and recovery of our native land
base. |
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The Labor /
Community Strategy Center is a multiracial anticorporate "think-tank/act-tank"
committed to building democratic internationalist social movements. |
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The
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a private, nonprofit, educational
institution dedicated to improving the understanding of, providing
forums for learning about, and disseminating ideas about land use
and taxation. |
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MACED, the
Mountain Association for Community Economic Development provides
opportunities and resources to help citizens build healthy, sustainable,
equitable, democratic and prosperous communities in Kentucky and
Central Appalachia. |
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The National Wildlife
Federation's mission is to educate, inspire and assist individuals
and organizations of diverse cultures to conserve wildlife and other
natural resources and to protect the Earth's environment in order
to achieve a peaceful, equitable and sustainable future. |
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The
Non Timber Forest Products website contains conservation and
development information on commercial, recreational, and subsistence
extraction of non-timber forest products (NTFP). A diverse range
of areas are covered including cultural, ecological, economic, geographic,
and political. |
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The Orion
Society is an award-winning publisher, an environmental education
organization, and a communications and support network for grassroots
environmental and community organizations across the United States
of America. It is a nonprofit membership organization with 7,000
members, individual and organizational, representing all fifty states
and fifteen foreign countries. |
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PAISANO
is an online journal produced by the Beta Alpha chapter of Phi Alpha
Theta, the international history honor society. |
| Raymond
Proffitt Foundation |
The Raymond
Proffitt Foundation files public interest lawsuits against government
and others, for failure to enforce environmental protection laws,
including water quality, anti degradation, wetlands, and valley
fills. |
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Resources for the
future (RFF) is an independent, nonprofit research organization
that aims to help people make better decisions about conservation
and use of their natural resources and the environment. |
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The objective of the Rural
Sociological Society is to promote the study of rural life through
research, extension and education; for the purpose of confronting
problems, answering questions, increasing opportunities and thereby,
improving the quality of life in rural areas. |
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Smart Growth
Network contains links to information on economic, environmental,
fiscal, and community issues related to smart growth; bibliographies,
presentations and tools for making smart growth happen; smart building
design, deconstruction materials and materials management; smart
development design and zoning, brownfields redevelopment, and eco-industrial
parks; and smart city, region and state related issues such as sprawl,
regional relationships, transportation, infrastructure, financing
and fiscal impacts, and location efficient mortgages. |
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Around the country citizens are coming together
to create a vision of what their community might be and to develop
steps toward making these visions come true. Alternatively called
"healthy", " livable" or sustainable
communities, these efforts are integrative, inclusive and participatory. |
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For over 5,000 years the forest has been central
to the lives and well-being of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.
The Menominee have created a powerful example of a sustainable society
that is a part of the modern world. The
Sustainable Development Institute of the College of Menominee
Nation is dedicated to examining sustainability issues, applying
them to the Menominee model of sustainable development, and disseminating
the tribe's expertise, experience, and knowledge of sustainability
into new sectors of the economy. |
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Utah
Public Lands Research provide information for activities about
wilderness and other Utah public land management issues. |
