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Organizations / Links

N.C.P.A. Idea House E-Team
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Environmental Prize [est. 1990]
Appalachian Center For The Economy & The Environment
EarthJustice: Because the earth needs a good lawyer [est. 1971]
Fight Global Warming website
envirofinder search engine
EnviroLink Network [est. 1991]
EarthWatch Institute [US, Europe, Australia, Japan]
nifty tools to measure garden hose output
Ducks Unlimited: World leaders in wetlands conservation [est. 1937]
Trout Unlimited [est. 1959] + Trout Unlimited Canada [est. 1972]
The Nature Conservancy [est. 1951]
Sustainable Forest Initiative [est. 1995]
Campaign for America's Wilderness in Washington, DC
The Wilderness Society [est. 1935]
Earth Day Network [est. 1972]
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance [est. 1997]
Oceana: protecting the world's oceans [est. 2001]
Earth Share [est. 1988]
Negative Population Growth [est. 1972]
Ocean Alliance [est. 1970]
National Public Lands Day [last Saturday in Sept; est 1994]
Save the Manatee Club, Inc. [est. 1981] in Florida
EarthWise Productions
Environmental Yellow Pages
California's Climate Choices Project
'Living On Earth' radio program on N.P.R.
High Country News [est. 1970]
weekly EcoTalk Show with Betsy Rosenberg is now 'On The Green Front'
The Green Belt Movement [est. 1977] official website
Stop Global Warming's Virtual March
"An Evangelical Declaration On The Care of Creation"
Natural Resources Council of Maine
Citizens For Pennsylvania's Future
EarthShare Network
The Quivira Coalition [est. 1997]
High Country News [est. 1970] based in Colorado
National Monuments (4 in CO, NM, NV) petition website

Eco-Activists

Edward Abbey [1927-89] Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Online Western Bookstore

David Brower [1912–2000]
"Wilderness: America's Living Heritage" [] by David Brower
"Encounters With The Archdruid" [] by John McPhee

Rachel Carson [1907-64] Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore

	"Silent Spring" [1962 bestseller] by Rachel Carson Mariner 8x5½ pb [10/2002] for $11.20 Houghton Mifflin 8½x5¾ hardcover [10/2002] for $16.80 Durkin Hayes ABR audio [3/99] out of print/used DH Audio [1/87] 2 tapes / out of print/used book entry at Wikipedia
	"Rachel Carson: Witness For Nature" [1997] by Linda J. Lear Holt/Owl 9¼x6 pb [9/98] out of print/used Henry Holt 9½x6½ hardcover [9/97] out of print/used

Justice William O. Douglas [1898-1980]

Trancendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82] Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations Page
at Working Minds Philosophy website

Albert Gore, Jr.
U.S. Congressman [1977-85], U.S. Senator [1985-93] & U.S. Vice President [1993-2001]
since then an eco-activist and co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007

Al Gore, Jr. Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

Pieter Hoff of The Netherlands
Inventor & manufacturer of the Groasis Waterboxx® anti-desertification technology
for planting in dry, eroded & rocky areas

    links like this are supposed to include a 'copyright AquaPro' statement,
but their website is a redirect to Groasis and I could find no usable logo/graphic

Aldo Leopold [1887-1948] Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore

co-founder of The Wilderness Society [est. 1935]
Aldo Leopold Foundation [est. 1982]

John Muir [1838-1914]

Frank J. & Deborah Popper
creators of the Buffalo Commons concept, circa 1987
Frank Popper: entry at Wikipedia • faculty page at Rutgers University
Great Plains Restoration Council / Buffalo Commons Dept.

"Where The Buffalo Roam: The Storm Over The Revolutionary Plan To Restore America's Great Plains" [1992] by Anne Matthews – book nominated for Pulitzer Prize Univ Of Chicago Press 8x5½ pb [11/2002] for $17.50 Grove Weidenfeld 8½x5¾ hardcover [5/92] out of print/many, many used

eco-farmer Joel F. Salatin
browse books • Polyface Farms near Swoope, VA

Trancendentalist Henry David Thoreau [1817-62] Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore

Books on Environmental Issues

Selected Books on the Subject
of Earth's Biosphere

	E: The Environmental Magazine 6 issues/12 month subscription for $24.95 [USA only] magazine website
	"Save Our Planet: 750 Everyday Ways You Can Help Clean Up The Earth" [1990] by Diane Maceachern, illustrations by Lonni Sue Johnson Dell 9x6 pb [12/91] for $15.00 Dell 8½x6¼ pb [rev 4/95] out of print/many used
	"Coastal Alert: Energy Ecosystems and Offshore Oil Drilling" [1990] by Dwight Holing, Foreword by Ted Danson A well-written handbook for environmental activists running a grassroots campaign to stop offshore oil drilling that can be applied to other local and regional campaigns. Island Press 9x6 pb [9/90] out of print/used
	"Rewilding North America: A Vision For Conservation In The 21st Century" [2004] by Dave Foreman Island Press 9x6 pb [7/2004] for $23.96 Island Press 9x6¼ hardcover [7/2004] for $50.00 The Rewilding Institute [est. 2003] in Albuquerque, NM
	"Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook For Taking Action In Your Community" [2007] by Bill McKibben Holt 8x5¼ pb [10/2007] for $10.40
	"Rewilding The World: Dispatches From The Conservation Revolution" [2009] by Caroline Fraser Picador pb [DUE Nov 2010] for $11.56   Metropolitan Books 9¼x6 hardcover [12/2009] for $18.81 official book site

Movies & Other Media

Working Minds / Things to Worry About / Movies on the Subject of Earth's Biosphere

Working Minds / Things to Worry About / Movies on the Subject of Farming & Food Health

Human Rights Film Festival at Magic Lantern

Selected Books On These Subjects
Earth's Biosphere • Class War & Economics • Healthcare
Energy & Global Warming • Education • International Politics
Corporations vs. America

Books on U.S. Politics & Elections Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore

American Labor Movements Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore

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