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Animal Rights
Children's Sites & Education
Deep Ecology
Environmental
Forests
Globalisation & Corporations
Rainforest Research & Botanical
Miscellaneous
Animal Liberation NSW (Australia)
Animal Matters- Animal Liberation Through Education
Deep Ecology and Related Issues:
The Center for Ecoliteracy fosters the experience and understanding of the natural world.
Deep Ecology for the 21st Century is a 13-week radio series of one-hour programs that explores contemporary ecological consciousness and the Deep Ecology movement, and offers fascinating, provocative and sometimes controversial solutions to the environmental challenges that are now upon us. Guests include Arne Naess, Gary Snyder, David Suzuki, Joanna Macy, Julia "Butterfly" Hill, Paul Ehrlich, Jerry Mander, Edward O. Wilson, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Theodore Roszak, Edward Abbey, and Fritjof Capra.
The Institute for Deep Ecology promotes ecological values and actions through experiences that transform old ways of thinking, honor spirit, and support bold actions
Ishmael A site for readers of Daniel Quinn, whose startling books have had a profound impact on millions of people
Project NatureConnect - Online Ecopsychology degree programs, courses, guidebooks
Restoring the Ecological Self is an outdoor based, experiential course grounded in the 'ecosophy' of Deep Ecology.
Gesellschaft für angewandte Tiefenökologie (Society for Applied Deep Ecology) has a German language web site at www.deepecology.de and www.tiefenoekologie.de
Social Criticism Review - Selected readings on modern society and its ills. Focus on alienation between man, nature, and a dysfunctional scientific-technical complex.
Mike Vandeman is working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to
humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help?
Eco-Portal: Full Text Searches of Reviewed Environmental Internet Content The Eco-Portal works much like Yahoo, Lycos, or other search engines -- only sites have been carefully chosen for inclusion. So rather than getting millions of hits of varying quality when you search for "rainforests" on a major search engine, on the Eco-Portal you will get several thousand highly pertinent hits--the best that the Internet has to offer on the topic.
Endangered Species Chocolate Co.
Envirolink online environmental information source
Environmental Web Directory Planet Earth's biggest environmental directory
Extinction - Chapter and verse! Read it and weep.
Friends of the Earth Sites:
* FoE International
* FoE Australia
* FoE Fitzroy (Australia)
Facing the Future
- People and the Planet - creative activities, lesson plans, collaborative projects plus a comprehensive guide to population issues, with an emphasis on the interconnectedness of problems, and just, sustainable solutions.
Global Response an international letter-writing network of environmental activists. * Special sections for kids, teens, teachers, adults... * Requests to write letters on issues like oil drilling in the arctic, Venezuela's Imataca Reserve, terminator technology. * Plenty of success stories plus tips on how to write effective letters. *Highly recommended*
Green Lane Website for Environment Canada, a science-based government department. "It's our goal to help make sustainable development a reality in Canada and, by doing so, make our country an example to the world."
GreenNet part of the only global computer network specifically designed for environment, peace, human rights and development groups.
Green People Directory directory of products and services provided by compassionate, ethical and environmentally minded people
Planet Ark Homepage environmental news & software
Sacred Earth Network Involved with environmental work in the former Soviet Union. Takes an active interest in deep ecology.
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Schumacher College An International Centre for Ecological Studies “Schumacher College is one of the few institutions that offers education for the 21st century” - Hazel Henderson
World Campaign - focuses on the interconnectivity of issues concerning the environment, population, hunger, war, human rights, economic opportunity and personal growth
Alaska Rainforest Campaign (ARC) protecting the Tongass and Chugach National Forests from clearcutting and other harmful development.
Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER) Foundation committed to rainforest conservation through education and research.
Australian Rainforest Conservation Society Inc. works on Queensland and Australia-wide forest issues
Bibliographic database on Tropical Forest Conservation and Development University of Minnesota Forestry Library
Big Scrub Rainforest Landcare Group - general ecology of rainforests and info about rainforest restoration
Coalition for Amazonian Peoples & Environment alliance between indigenous and traditional peoples of the Amazon and groups and individuals who share their concerns.
Daintree Rainforest Rescue Wet Tropics Rainforest, North Queensland. Still threatened.
Defenders of the RainForest An all-teen, non-profit group in Massachusetts dedicated to protecting rainforests.
Ecoforestry based at RMIT University, highlights major web sites with information on ecoforestry relevant to Australians. Ecoforestry principles, policies and practices embody an ecosystem and community based approach to forest management.
Forest Archives Portal offers a vast selection of articles on forests worldwide, including a massive Forest Conservation Links collection. The site is dedicated to ending deforestation, preserving old-growth forests, conserving all forests, and commencing the age of forest restoration.
Guiana Shield Media Project produces information for regional and international distribution about the Guiana Shield territory.
Hancock Watch - Hancock Timber Resources Group is currently logging what little remains of native vegetation in the Strzelecki Ranges, located 2 hours drive of Melbourne.
Heartwood Dedicated to the forest of the Central Hardwood region, USA
Ipassa-Mingouli Project Defending Gabon's forests
Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park created in 1993 by the Congolese government and Wildlife Conservaton Society to conserve the forests of northern Congo
www.lockon.org No bullshit Australian forest actions
Rainforest Action Network one of the most important rainforest activist organisations in the world.
Rainforest Alliance "so practical, it's radical"
Rainforest Live - educational information on rainforests
Saverainforest.net Click to save rainforests in Peru, Brazil and Ecuador
Sarawak Peoples Campaign Promoting social justice, survival of indigenous cultures and environmental protection of the forests.
SWIFT Sustainable, community logging in the Solomon Is.
Trees for the Future agroforestry self-help projects in developing countries providing buffers for forests by supplying firewood, helping to maintain the water table and increasing crop yields. 4,600 village projects in 63 countries, more than 27,000,000 trees.
WOLF Forest Protection Movement Slovakia group working to preserve natural forests and their wildlife.
World Rainforest Movement Includes excellent news bulletins
World Future Forest Foundation - reforestation in Indonesia
Globalisation and Corporations:
Bank Information Center: Provides input and strategic support to NGOs and social movements throughout the world on projects, policies, and practices of the World Bank and other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs).
Direct Action Network: Dedicated to non-violent direct action against corporate globalization and all forms of oppression.
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting: A very good organization providing objective news which is being left out of the corporate media.
Global Arcade: Family fun center where you can play arcade games and learn about globalization and take action.
Global Exchange: An excelllent group based in the USA working for global economic, social, and environmental justice.
Grassroots Resistance Directory: A global directory of grassroots groups resisting capitalism and oppressive structures.
McSpotlight: Read about McDonald's wicked ways and about the extraordinary McLibel case
Mobilization for Global Justice: Excellent clearing house for info about upcoming protests at the National Republican and Democratic Conventions in the USA, and the annual meeting of the World Bank and IMF in Prague.
Religious Working Group on the World Bank and IMF: It is time to cancel the crushing debt burden of the worlds most impoverished nations and end structural adjustment programs.
Student Alliance to Reform Corporations: Working to end the era in which corporate interests take precedence over social and environmental justice.
The Whirled Bank Group: A humorous (but very serious) source of info on the World Bank Group and IMF.
World Bank Bonds Boycott: An international campaign using grassroots economic power to demand an end to structural adjustment lending and other environmentally and socially destructive World Bank policies.
50 Years is Enough: US Network for Global Environmental Justice: A coalition of 205 grassroots, faith-based, policy, women's, social and economic-justice, youth, solidarity, labor, and development organizations dedicated to the profound transformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fun (IMF).
Rainforest Research & Botanical:
ETRFN The European Tropical Forest Research Network promotes information exchange and discussions in tropical and subtropical forest research.
Rainforest Cooperative Research Centre - Australian tropical rainforests.
Tropenbos Dutch government rainforest research organisation
Tropical Rainforest Information Centre NASA-funded center that uses remote sensing data to study and monitor deforestation in tropical biomes. Statistics and general info on rainforests, interactive tour.
AID/Watch watchdogs on Australian development aid spending
eCommonwealth information and referral source
Intentional Communities Comprehensive listing
Ytene - gorgeous South African intentional community
Oceania caring for whales, dolphins and the oceans
Permaculture International Journal
Wollumbin Video - activist and environmental videos and others from Byron Bay, NSW