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[ + ]ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources
| Title | ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources |
| Description | The ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources site is a forum for lawyers working in areas related to the environment, natural resources, and energy.
Resources: News, reports, articles, newsletters, books, webinars, sections focusing on current environmental issues, upcoming conferences, jobs, and career guidance. |
| URL | http://www.americanbar.org/groups/environment_energy_resources.html |
[ + ]Defenders of Wildlife
| Title | Defenders of Wildlife |
| Description | Defenders of Wildlife is an organization focused on wildlife and habitat conservation as well as protecting biodiversity through programs, policy making, and litigation. Some of their general issues include protecting imperiled species, defending habitat, combating climate change, promoting coexistence, conserving key species, advocating for international species, and speaking for wildlife. Users can browse through reports and factsheets , news articles and blogs. |
| URL | http://www.defenders.org/ |
[ + ]Earthjustice
| Title | Earthjustice |
| Description | Earthjustice is a nonprofit public interest law firm focused on environmental litigation, legislation, and policy. The site contains current cases, articles, news, and press releases. |
| URL | http://www.earthjustice.org |
[ + ]Envirolink Directory of Environmental Organizations Directory
| Title | Envirolink Directory of Environmental Organizations Directory |
| Description | Envirolink provides and links to a comprehensive list of worldwide environmental organizations arranged by topic. It also links to news, government resources, job listings, articles, and other publications. |
| URL | http://www.envirolink.org/categories.html?catid=5 |
[ + ]Environmental Defense Fund
| Title | Environmental Defense Fund |
| Description | Environmental Defense Fund uses economics, science, partnerships and nonpartisan policy to approach environmental issues. It focuses on climate, ocean, ecosystem, and health issues. The site includes in-depth policy resources and reports, fact sheets,, press releases, a blog and a twitter feed. |
| URL | http://www.environmentaldefense.org/home.cfm |
[ + ]Environmental Law Institute (ELI)
| Title | Environmental Law Institute (ELI) |
| Description | ELI is an independent, non-profit organization working to strengthen environmental law and policy. Its focus areas include freshwater and oceans, land and biodiversity, environmental governance, international programs, environmental health, and climate and energy. It issues numerous research reports by topic and links to books, guidance documents, news, newsletters, and the Environmental Law Reporter (to which VLS subscribes). |
| URL | http://www.eli.org |
[ + ]Environmental Working Group (EWG)
| Title | Environmental Working Group (EWG) |
| Description | EWG is a non-profit organization that uses public information like government data, legal documents, and scientific studies to protect public health and the environment. It focuses on four issue areas: health and toxics, farming, natural resources, and energy choices. Each area has subtopics that include access to featured articles, research, expert testimony and communications, news, and often, legal information. |
| URL | http://www.ewg.org/ |
[ + ]Green Building Council (USGBC)
| Title | Green Building Council (USGBC) |
| Description | The USGBC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the energy efficiency of buildings. It is the parent organization of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, the nation’s premiere sustainable building certification program. USGBC provides informational videos, articles, infographics, city- and commodity-specific market briefs, reports, calculators, committee documents, presentations, podcasts, journals, case studies, committee meeting minutes, study guides, certificates, advocacy briefs, public policy briefs, technical glossaries, photos, etc., regarding green building. The Advocacy & Policy section in the “Resource Library” may be particularly of interest. Subjects include LEED certification materials, green schools, sustainability, and green trends in industry, education, communities, home building, and internationally. The website also provides a directory of organizations, people, and projects. Users may search the entire website using the search bar. |
| URL | http://www.usgbc.org/ |
[ + ]Land Trust Alliance
| Title | Land Trust Alliance |
| Description | The Land Trust Alliance is a national conservation organization of over 5 million members that builds land trusts, conserves lands, and preserves conservation easements. A blog, bills, news, press releases, fact sheets, webinars, jobs, data, books, websites, and reports. Click “Land Trusts” to find land trust programs organized by regions. |
| URL | http://www.landtrustalliance.org/ |
[ + ]League of Conservation Voters (LCV)
| Title | League of Conservation Voters (LCV) |
| Description | LCV is a national non-profit that advocates for sound environmental polies. The site contains a national environmental scorecard, recent environmental votes, legislative letters, policy papers in a variety of categories, press releases, and information related to their active campaigns to elect pro-environment candidates and to defeat anti-environment candidates. |
| URL | http://www.lcv.org/ |
[ + ]National Caucus of Environmental Legislatures (NCEL)
| Title | National Caucus of Environmental Legislatures (NCEL) |
| Description | NCEL aims to provide environmentally progressive legislators with information, resources, and opportunities to coordinate their activities and share ideas. NCEL’s new= bulletins contain updates on environmental legislation, links to websites, drafts of bills, reports, legislative hearings, and articles. The “issues” section contains brief overviews of current issues and links to additional information. |
| URL | http://www.ncel.net |
[ + ]National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)
| Title | National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) |
| Description | NCSE is a non-profit organization working to improve the scientific basis for environmental decision-making. Its resources include relevant publications, and news. It also includes access to the Encyclopedia of Earth, which is a comprehensive source of science-based environmental information. |
| URL | http://www.ncseonline.org |
[ + ]National Wildlife Federation (NWF)
| Title | National Wildlife Federation (NWF) |
| Description | The NWF is dedicated to protecting wildlife and habitat. Users can learn about NWF’s work and access magazine articles, educational resources, blogs, and press releases. |
| URL | http://www.nwf.org |
[ + ]Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
| Title | Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) |
| Description | NRDC is an environmental group that uses the law, and also science, and grassroots efforts for effective environmental action. Includes policy research and analysis publications, legislative analyses, issue briefs and fact sheets. It’s issue areas include global warming, energy, air, water, agriculture, etc. |
| URL | http://www.nrdc.org/ |
[ + ]Natural Resources Defense Council List of Environmental Groups
[ + ]Resources for the Future (RFF)
| Title | Resources for the Future (RFF) |
| Description | Concentrating on improving environmental policymaking, RFF focuses on five defined areas: energy and climate, regulating risks, transportation and urban land, the natural world, and health and environment. The site links to reports, books, news, data, and related websites. |
| URL | http://www.rff.org/ |
[ + ]Sierra Club
| Title | Sierra Club |
| Description | Sierra Club is America's oldest grassroots environmental organization. The site contains articles, reports, and news on a variety of environmental campaign issues. It also contains links by state to related information and groups. |
| URL | http://www.sierraclub.org |
[ + ]Smart Growth America
| Title | Smart Growth America |
| Description | Smart Growth America is an organization dedicated to advancing smart growth, preventing sprawl, and improving neighborhoods through coalition building, policy development, and research. News, blogs, reports, and guides covering topics such as such as federal policy priorities as well as state/regional policy, and statistics. |
| URL | http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/ |
[ + ]Trust for Public Land
| Title | Trust for Public Land |
| Description | The Trust for Public Land “works to protect the places people care about and to create close-to-home parks—particularly in and near cities.” News, articles, videos, blogs, maps, databases, books, and reports related to land protection, conservation finance, GIS, and park design & development. |
| URL | http://www.tpl.org/ |
[ + ]Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
| Title | Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) |
| Description | UCS uses technical analysis and effective advocacy to create innovative, solutions for a sustainable future. The “Reports & Multimedia” section contains links to articles, news, and reports about scientific integrity, global warming, clean vehicles, clean energy, nuclear power, global security, and food and agriculture. |
| URL | http://www.ucsusa.org |
[ + ]Wilderness Society
| Title | Wilderness Society |
| Description | The Wilderness Society works to protect America's wilderness through a combination of advocacy, science, and education. This site includes a Policy and Science Library of articles, factsheets, and reports, A Notes from the Hill section with news on current federal legislation and issues affecting wilderness, a blog, etc. |
| URL | http://www.wilderness.org/ |
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