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“ 20/20 Vision is a national non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the environment and promoting peace through grassroots action. At the heart of 20/20 Vision's mission is the revitalization of democracy by making it simple for citizens to participate in national and local policy decisions. ” |
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“ Action for a Clean Environment was formed to fight - and defeat - the giant incinerator planned for Alto, Georgia that would have burned garbage from 13 counties. ACE is an all volunteer group. Our purpose is to maintain the purity of our air, water and earth. ” |
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“ America's wildlife and wildlands continue to be threatened by logging, roadbuilding, grazing and mining. A broad coalition of activists and organizations is dedicated to protecting our forest heritage and restoring ecological integrity to the landscape. ” |
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“ ARC is a coalition of individuals, organizations, and businesses dedicated to the restoration and protection of the Central Appalachian Wildlands. ” |
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“ The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League is a regional, community-based, non-profit environmental organization. Our founding principles are earth stewardship, environmental democracy, social justice, and community empowerment. ” |
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“ BRING is a community supported non profit corporation, focusing on responsible solid waste disposal options. BRING was started in 1971 by a group of volunteers. We are one of the oldest non-profit recycling organizations in the U.S. ” |
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“ Established in 1977, Californians Against Waste is the state's leading environmental advocacy group on waste reduction and recycling issues. CAW is the sponsor and chief defender of all of the state's recycling laws, including the Bottle Bill program, minimum recycled content requirements, and the statewide 50% diversion goal. ” |
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“ The Campaign for Responsible Technology is jointly responsible for four case studies of high-tech industry water exploitation and corporate welfare. ” |
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University of Oregon “ Campus Recycling at the UO began in 1990 as a student grass-roots effort and has grown over the years to offer recycling at hundreds of sites, employing a manager and 4 full time coordinators, as well as more than 40 student workers. ” |
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“ Center for Neighborhood Technology is a non-profit organization that helps build prosperous, sustainable communities by linking economic and community development with ecological improvement. The Center's work in public policy, market development and community planning is grounded in the Chicago region and national in scope. ” |
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“ The Chelsea Center was launched by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1995 to create jobs, support recycling efforts, and help the economy and the environment by working to increase the use of recyclables by manufacturers. ” |
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“ CRC works to promote recycling, source reduction and composting. Individuals, community groups and environmental groups can join together and change the way Chicago treats the earth. ” |
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“ The Clean Air Council's mission is... 'to inform and educate the public concerning the health, economic, and aesthetic effects of air pollution and the technological and legal tools available for its control; to promote understanding of the role of government (national, state, and local) in the control of air pollution; and to stimulate voluntary and official efforts to clean the air. ” |
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“ Clean Water Action organizes strong grassroots groups, coalitions and campaigns to protect our environment, health, economic well-being and community quality of life. ” |
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AKA Clean Water Action Alliance “ The goal of CWA Alliance is to build democracy via citizen participation and citizen leadership on environmental issues. CWA MA helps grassroots organizations around the state organize on environmental health and conservation issues affecting their communities. We specifically focus on solid waste, air pollution and toxics as our major areas of concern. ” |
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“ Clean Water Action organizes strong grassroots groups, coalitions and campaigns to protect our environment, health, economic well-being and community quality of life. ” |
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“ Clean Water Action organizes strong grassroots groups, coalitions and campaigns to protect our environment, health, economic well-being and community quality of life. ” |
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“This Climate Change Search Space is dedicated to promoting public policy that addresses global climate change through reductions in carbon dioxide and other emissions, energy conservation, alternative energy sources and ending deforestation.” |
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“ Co-op America, a national nonprofit organization founded in 1982, provides the economic strategies, organizing power and practical tools for businesses and individuals to address today's social and environmental problems. ” |
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“ The Container Recycling Institute (CRI) is a non-profit, research and public education organization studying container packaging recycling and reuse. CRI serves as a clearinghouse for information on beverage container deposit ystems or bottle bills. ” |
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“ Over the past year, 30 citizen groups from Arkansas to North Carolina recently united as the "Dogwood Alliance" to defend our native ecosystems against this most highly-mechanized, unregulated arm of industrial forestry. ” |
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“ This site provides in-depth information and resources from our projects, award-winning journalism from the Earth Island Journal, and tools to directly address the environmental challenges we face. ” |
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“ EarthCulture is a nonprofit organization promoting a sustainable Earth. We work for livable cities, diverse wilderness areas, and the rights of all life through education and nonviolent direct action. ” |
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“ Our mission is to provide publicly-accountable recycling conservation and education services, and to identify, explore and demonstrate the emerging frontiers of sustainable resource management. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. ” |
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http://www.ecoiq.com “ The capacity to make decisions that are both economically and ecologically intelligent” ” |
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(Austin) “ Ecology Action has been active in Austin since 1970. We are a non-profit environmental organization, and we operate a network of recycling centers in Central Texas. ” |
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(Berkeley) “ The Ecology Center addresses everyone's need to see living, thriving models of sustainable living--from recycling to farmers' markets. We are dedicated to ushering in a society that will endure, and we've been doing it for thirty years. ” |
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“ ECAA is a membership-based, nonprofit environmental organization based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded by community activists after the country's first Earth Day in 1970, the Center is now a regional leader in the struggle for clean air, safe water, healthy communities, and environmental justice. ” |
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“ Environmental Advocates serves the people of New York as an effective and aggressive watchdog and advocate on virtually every important state environmental issue. Through advocacy, coalition building, citizen education and policy development, we work to safegaurd public health and preserve our unique natural heritage. ” |
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“ Contributing to ending deforestation, preserving old-growth forests, conserving all forests, maintaining climatic systems and commencing the age of ecological restoration. ” |
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“ Forest Guardians is leading the fight to protect and restore the forests, rivers, grasslands, wildlife and wilderness of the Southwest. ” |
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“ FGS is a multi-disciplinary advocacy and activist organization which monitors and addresses social and environmental issues in the Upper Tennesse Valley and the Southern Appalachian Mountains. ” |
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“ Friends of the Earth has worked for conservation and public health protection for more than a quarter of a century. In the process, we have learned to focus on the underlying social and economic causes of environmental problems both at home and abroad, building coalitions and working with our unique Friends of the Earth international network. ” |
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“ Future Solutions, Inc. is a company that was created with one purpose in mind: to promote and sell products made from recycled and recovered materials. ” |
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“ Garbage Reincarnation Inc. is a grassroots, visionary, self-supporting, non-profit organization which is part of the local and planetary environmental movement. We are comitted to conserving our natural environment by creating a sustainable resource economy. ” |
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“ Since1986, Georgia Forestwatch, whose members are mostly volunteers, has been dedicated to taking care of our forests and informing our citizens. ” |
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“ The Georgia Green Party uses both electoral politics and direct action to serve the grassroots movement for alternatives to the violence, for ecological sustainabilty, meaningful democracy and social justice on this planet in our lifetimes. ” |
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“ The Georgia Summit was established in 1994 to promote collaboration and cooperation among diverse constituencies and groups. The Summit seeks to bridge the gap between rural and urban communities and create a stronger statewide movement for progressive change... ” |
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“ GFF sponsors practical publications, workshops and roundtables on topics like pollution prevention, industrial ecology, resource productivity, market-based environmental laws, ISO 14000, and The Natural Step. We manage The Future 500, a network of business leaders for advanced resource productivity. ” |
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“ The Global Recycling Council [of the California Resources Recovery Association] is organized to discuss and initiate the goals and objectives of the Agenda for the New Millenium: ... Zero waste... End welfare for wasting... Jumpstart jobs with design and discards... ” |
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“ The Glynn Environmental Coalition is a community non-profit organization committed to assuring a clean environment and healthy economy for the citizens of Coastal Georgia. ” |
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“ Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organization that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. ” |
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“ Heartwood: an association of groups, individuals, and businesses dedicated to the health and well being of the native forest of the Central Hardwood region, and its interdependent plant, animal, and human communities. ” |
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“ Since 1987, the Illinois Public Interest Research Group (Illinois PIRG) has been advocating for the public, taking on formidable opponents and often winning against great odds...We work for a clean environment, strong consumer protections and democratic reforms. ” |
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“ Indigo is a research and consulting organization creating systems solutions to meet major challenges of sustainable development. Indigo functions as an action oriented think tank linking the conceptual design of our innovations with strategic plans for implementation. ” |
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“ The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is a nonprofit research and educational organization that provides technical assistance and information on environmentally sound economic development strategies. ” |
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“ Our mission is to support community-based initiatives that integrate the environmental goals of resource conservation through waste prevention, reuse, and recycling with the economic development goals of job creation/retention, enterprise development, and local empowerment. ” |
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“ Mineral Policy Center is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to protecting communities and the environment by preventing the environmental impacts associated with irresponsible mining and mineral development, and by cleaning up pollution caused by past mining. ” |
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“ NFN is an environmental group working to protect native forests worldwide. NFN is working to protect public lands, stop pollution from pulp and paper mills, reduce consumer demand for virgin wood, promote alternative fiber and much more. ” |
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“ The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. We work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life -- air, land, and water -- and to defend endangered natural places. ” |
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“ In 1974, the students at the University of New Mexico created the New Mexico Public Interest Research Group (NMPIRG) in order to play a larger role in the pressing issues facing them as students and as citizens. ” |
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“ The Network of Waste Activists Stopping Trash Exports is an informal, Michigan-based, grassroots organization dedicated to educating the public about the huge problems associated with transborder (both state and national) shipment and disposal of solid wastes. ” |
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“ NCRA is an association of recycling businesses, community groups, municipalities, and individuals committed to promoting, expanding, and institutionalizing recycling. ” |
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“ NYPIRG is New York's larget consumer, environmental and government reform organization. We are a nonpartisan, not-for-profit group established to effect real policy reforms while training students and other New Yorkers to be advocates. ” |
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“ Our staff provides the expertise necessary to investigate pollution, expose consumer scams, document special interest influence and craft effective reforms. ” |
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“ The Planning and Conservation League is a nonprofit, statewide alliance of nearly 10,000 citizens and more than 120 conservation organizations united to protect wildlife and restore the quality of California’s environment through legislative and administrative action. ” |
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“ Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action. ” |
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“ The Ecology Center is a grassroots environmental organization which works for clean air and water, healthy communities, and environmental justice. ” |
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“ Formed in 1987, Recycling Advocates is a citizen-based, nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon. Our mission is to involve people in creating a sustainable future through local efforts to reduce, reuse, and recycle. ” |
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“ The Toxics Action Center trains and assists residents to wage effective campaigns against stubborn polluters and red tape bureaucracies, pressuring officials to act to protect our neighborhoods' health and safety. ” |
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“ Redefining Progress seeks to shift the prevailing definition of progress, from one based exclusively on a growing economy, to one that resonates with people's sense of the quality of their lives. ” |
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“ RRSI provides a comprehensive range of consulting and engineering services that focus on solid waste management from a recycling and recovery perspective. ” |
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“ Resource Revival was founded in 1994 to find new uses for discarded materials. Our original designs reflect our commitment to creating products that are both functional and beautiful. ” |
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“ Each month, San Diego Earth Times On-Line presents articles covering a wide variety of local, national and international environmental topics. ” |
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http://www.iwma.com/ “ The San Luis Obispo County Integrated Waste Management Authority (IWMA)... will help its member jurisdictions in achieving the State mandated goal of a 50% reduction in solid waste by the year 2000. ” |
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“ Since 1982, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) has worked to document and expose the hazards of the high-tech industry and to promote environmental and economic sustainability and accountability in the electronics industry, the fastest growing manufacturing sector in the world. ” |
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“ Sound Resource Management Group has worked ... with thousands of businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations to plan, implement or enhance source reduction, reuse, recycing, composting and other resource management programs. ” |
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“ Through advocacy, education, and organizing, SABP seeks permanent protection for Southern Appalachia's public lands as well as sustainable management of its private lands. Based in Asheville, NC, this project defends public land as a refuge for ancient forests and native wildife. ” |
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“ KirkWorks is an economic development firm based in Durham, North Carolina that promotes successful investment, employment, community development and entrepreneurship through the recycling and environmental industries. ” |
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“ The state PIRGs are leading environmental and consumer watchdog organizations serving to preserve the environment, protect consumers and promote democracy. ” |
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“ [The Waste Not] newsletter provides information on waste issues to citizens and decision makers, which the waste industry would prefer to keep hidden. ” |
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“ Mission: To move Georgia away from a disposal based society by calling public attention to the need for shared corporate and consumer responsibility for eliminating waste. ” |
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“ WEAL is a 20 year-old grassroots volunteer environmental group in Waukesha County Wisconsin. ... Our mission: To represent the Waukesha County Community for the protection of Waukesha County's natural resources through dedicated grass-roots participation and action. ” |
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“ Founded by Lynn Landes in 1996, ZWA is an Internet-based information and advocacy resource for Zero Waste. We provide, at no charge, information on associated legislative, legal, technical, environmental, health, and consumer issues. ” |
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