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Community Organizations
There are many community organizations dedicated to improving the
environment, and state and national organizations that can provide technical assistance
and information. The lists are separated by state or province where appropriate. (If you
would like your organization to be listed, please see below.)
International
U.S.
U.S. National organizations
to call for help (alphabetical list).
- CCHW Center for Health,
Environment, and Justice - Falls Church, VA. Has provided technical and organizing
help for thousands of community groups nationwide. Phone: 703-237-2249.
- Clean Water Action - Washington,
D.C. - Education and help for community groups. Phone: 202-895-0420
- Communities Concerned About Corporations - Hyattsville, MD. Works with
communities and industries on Zero Discharge projects. Address: 5401 42nd Ave.,
Hyattsville, MD 20781. Phone: 301-779-1000, Fax: 301-779-1001.
- Ecological Consultants for the Public Interest (ECPI)
- Boulder, CO. - A national, non-profit, foundation-supported consulting firm formed to
provide citizens with professional services to help them understand, address and remediate
environmental problems. Address: 1942 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80302. Phone: 303-938-3773,
Fax: 303-442-6622
- Greenpeace, USA -
Washington, D.C. - Provides a huge array of educational materials and news about
pollution. Takes part in direct action and protest against polluters.
- Mothers & Others -
Dedicated to consumer education for ecological sustainability. Address: 40 West 20th
Street, NY, NY 10011-4211. Phone: 212-242-0010, fax: 212-242-0545.
- Organic Consumers Association, 3547 Haines
Rd., Duluth, MN 55811, phone: (218) 726-1443, fax: (218) 726-1446
International organizations to call for help.
- Greenpeace International - Famous
for their forays with the Rainbow Warrior and others in their fleet, involved in virtually
every aspect of environmental activism, from opposition to genetically modified organisms
to monitoring sites of nuclear contamination.
- Pesticide Action Network North
America (PANNA) is a nonprofit citizen-based NGO that advocates adoption of
ecologically sound practices in place of pesticide use.
Support Organizations for Victims of Toxic
Exposure, MCS, etc.
- Protect All Children's Environment (PACE) http://www.main.nc.us/pace exists to respond to the
need for comfort and support by pesticide victims providing support to fellow pesticide
survivors on an all volunteer, not-for-profit basis. There are no charges for information,
counseling or other services. PACE is unique in that true empathy is expressed through
shared experience. It was originally established in 1987 for people poisoned by the
pesticide Chlordane. PACE has a Chemical Injury Recovery Fund that is attempting to serve
as emergency assistance for people with chemical injuries and disabilities. PACE
also is sponsoring a program for children (and adults) called the Chemically Injured
Therapeutic Riding Fund. We help with funding and advice about obtaining least toxic
therapeutic riding programs. Address: E.M.T. O'Nan, Director, 2261 Buck Creek
Rd. Marion, NC 28752. Phone: (704) 724-4221 Fax: (704) 724-4177
Resources for Grassroots Organizations
- Clary Meuser Research Network (CMRN)
- Mission: We are dedicated to providing the data, tools, and expertise that will
help tribes, governments, community groups, and businesses communicate the various facets
of environmental, health and social problems, solutions, and achievements in such a way
that they educate, raise community awareness, and facilitate networking...
- Conservatree - National advocate for chlorine-free paper. Address: 10
Lombard St., Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94111. Phone: 415-433-1000, Fax: 415-391-7890.
- The Agent Orange
Website, hosted as a public service of Lewis Publishing Company, provides information
about Agent Orange and to veterans on how to file Agent Orange claims.
- Gary D. Moore is
former (and last) Chairman of the Michigan Agent Orange Commission. He and other vets have
assembled a wealth of information about the spraying of Vietnam with various mixtures of
2,4,5-T, some of which were heavily contaminated with dioxin.
- H. Lindsey Arison
III provides an Executive Summary of Agent Orange use in Vietnam.
- Bill Patterson's
personal website provides a graphic illustration of the human effects of Agent Orange
exposure and how victims can attempt to fight off the ravages of its effects.
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade
Policy (IATP) - to create environmentally and economically sustainable communities
through sound agricultural and trade policy.
- IATP's Endocrine Disrupter Resource
Center - basic information about hormone disrupters and links to groups working on
this issue.
- The JSI Center for Environmental Health Studies provides technical
assistance in the field of environmental health to community; labor, and environmental
organizations. The Center is part of the John Snow Research and Training Institute, a
nonprofit public health organization providing public health education services, primarily
in the areas of AIDS, family planning, and environmental health. Address: 210 Lincoln St.,
Boston, MA 02111. Phone: 617-482-9485.
- Sierra Club Nuclear Waste Task
Force - The Mission of the Nuclear Waste Task Force is to raise Sierra Club and
public consciousness concerning the many sided, intermeshed, environmental problems
associated with the production and management of nuclear waste. At a time when its
accumulation is accelerating and no plan for its permanent isolation has been developed
anywhere in the world, nuclear waste is one of the greatest problems of the twentieth
century.
- Paul Mobbs' UK Environmental
Activism Website - an excellent information site,
including UK version of Toxic Alert!
- Rachel Carson Homestead
Association - Maintains the home and grounds of the founder of the modern
environmental movement, and offers educational materials, books and videos, including the
outstanding PBS documentary "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring." Address:
Rachel Carson Homestead, A Museum and Environmental Education Center, 613 Marion Avenue,
Springdale, Pennsylvania 15144, Phone: 724-274-5459.
- Reach for Unbleached! Foundation -
consumer education about chlorine, Totally Chlorine Free paper products, and paper and
pulp mill monitoring.
- Stop Waste Management
(WMX) - Website dedicated to exposing the giant multinational waste-handling firm and
its subsidiaries. Organized by LEAD, 1516 Salem Ave, Dayton, Ohio,
45406.
- Tellus Institute is a non-profit
organization of scientists and planners working on environmental issues and energy
planning since 1976. Through grants, the Institute has provided technical assistance and
training to environmental groups. Their sponsors include foundations and government
agencies and the local, state and national level. Their report Incineration: Decisions
for the 1990s: A Guidebook For Citizens and Communities, prepared in cooperation with
the JSI Center (above), is an excellent introduction and technical reference book
for incinerator activists. Address: 11 Arlington St., Boston 02216-3411. Phone:
617-266-5400,
- Work On Waste - Paul and Ellen
Connett - help for anti-incinerator organizing efforts, publishers of Waste Not. Address:
82 Judson, Canton, N.Y.
If you would like your organization listed in
these pages, please send a mail message to Jonathan Campbell
with the name of the organization, a short description about your environmental issues,
the organization's email address, its URL (if any), and a phone number (only if desired -
keep in mind that this site can be read by anyone).
Standard Disclaimer: The organizations listed here or elsewhere on this
Website do not necessarily endorse the positions taken by CQS, nor does CQS necessarily
endorse the positions of the listed organizations. The intention of the listings is to
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