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Bay Area Volunteer Information Center The purpose of this Web publication is to provide information about volunteeropportunities in the San Francisco bay area. Hopefully, volunteerism will be stimulated and facilitated by lettingpotential volunteers know about the wide range of opportunities open to them and by giving Bay Area non-profit organizationsa means of publishing their goals and needs.Earth Island Institute Welcome to Earth Island's home on the web. This site provides in-depth information and resources from our project network, award-winning journalism from the Earth Island Journal, and tools to address the environmental challenges we face.Community Action Publications Community Action Publications is a volunteer, community-supported organization. We create and distribute information that helps us all create a healthier, happier, more democratic world.Earthlink Ecology Club The main goal of this club is to help maintain ecological sustainability. We encourage everyone to getinvolved because this club truly needs community support. The ecology club is interested in protectingthis wonderful planet Earth,that which gives us all life.Forests Forever Our Mission: To protect and enhance the forests and wildlife habitat of California through educational, legislative and electoral activities. Second, our Mission is to recruit, educate and train articulate and effective organizers in the skills needed to convey our position on the state's forests and wildlife habitat to the citizens of California.Friends of the River Friends of the River was founded in 1973 during the struggle to save the Stanislaus River from New Melones Dam. Following that campaign, the organization grew to become California's statewide river conservation group. Friends of the River is dedicated to preserving, protecting, and restoring California's rivers, streams, and their watersheds. The organization accomplishes its mission by providing public education, citizen activist training and organizing, and expert advocacy to influence public policy decisions on land, water, and energy management issues.Macrocosm USA, Inc. Macrocosm USA, Inc. is a non-profit educational clearinghouse emphasizing environmental, justice, peace, health issues and solutions for progressives.Neighbors for Responsible Logging We are a Santa Cruz watchdog group which monitors timber logging activity in the Santa Cruz Mountains.Pantheist Association for Nature (PAN) The Pantheist Association for Nature (PAN) celebrates the wonder, beauty, anddivinity of Nature. PAN identifies Nature with God. We see divinity in the trees, inthe mountains, and in the clouds. We feel divinity in the wind. We smell divinity in theflowers. We hear divinity in bird song and in the laughter of children. Given theholiness of creation, PAN joyfully treasures the Earth and its Life.Santa Barbara Channel Keeper The Santa Barbara Channel Keeper is dedicated to protecting and restoeing the ecological health of the Santa Barbara channel, it's watersheds and habitats.Save Arnold Drive and West Sonoma Valley Conservation League Since 1988 SAD has pressed for the policy to keep development of the Arnold Drive Corridor in Sonoma Valley California restricted to residential and agricultural projects in addition to preserving as much open space, valley oaks, wetlands and natural lands as possible. Current projects include resisting location of the Sebastiani-Presentation School on Arnold Drive in partnership with RAM - Reject Arnold Madness, which would endanger sensitive riparian and valley oak habitat, fighting for preservation of wetlands at Sears Point Raceway and voicing concerns over environmental mis-management of Ernie Smith Park on Arnold Drive in Sonoma Valley.Save Mount Diablo Consider for a moment the many faces of Mount Diablo…bold profile…cool, shady rock outcroppings…pine and oak woodlands…majestic views across a pattern of ridges. Then consider the vision of Save Mount Diablo, in the words of one of its founders: "My dream is that the whole of Mount Diablo, including its foothills, will remain in open space… that the visual and natural integrity will be sustained."Save Our Planet SEE is an organization of member groups whose purpose is to encourage and facilitate activism from both local and global perspectives. It is a 501[c](3) public charity providing non-profit status, start-up guidance, and other services to member groups.saveballona.com saveballona.com is a portal site. It is designed to put you in touch with ALL of the activities and groups who are working to preserve the beautiful Ballona Wetlands ecosystem. The Ballona Wetlands ecosystem is threatened by the Playa Vista developmentSierra Student Coalition- San Diego Chapter Just look at the things that this generation can do! You, too, can be part of it!Environmental Coalition The Environmental Coalition is a grassroots environmental group on the campus of the University of California, San Diego dedicated towards working to create a better environment for UCSD and the surrounding locality, as well as developing an increased awareness of the issues that endanger our environment and of the responsibility that must be maintained towards preserving the environment for future generations to enjoy.Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!) Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!) is a non-profit organization founded in 1990 by 16-year-old Ocean Robbins and 19-year-old Ryan Eliason. Since then, YES! has become one of the most successful youth-run environmental organizations in the world. YES!’s national speaking and workshop tour has given inspirational presentations for 600,000 students in thousands of high school assemblies and college venues.Zero Growth Welcome to the Zero Growth website, dedicated to the promotion of the ethos of zero growth. Please click on the topics to the left to learn more about our organization. We welcome your suggestions, comments, and contributions.Wildlife Interest Group As David Jablonski recently observed, "our species . . . is on the brink of causing, single-handedly, the worst mass extinction in 65 million years." Drawing upon the findings from island biogeography studies, Norman Myers estimates that we are losing between 50-200 species per day, a rate 120,000 greater than the background rate during prehistoric times. Worse still, the rate is accelerating rapidly.California League of Conservation Voters The California League of Conservation Voters is the nation's largest and oldest state political action organization for the environment. Founded in 1972, the League mobilizes California voters to support environmentally responsible candidates and issues, and serves as a watchdog to hold elected officials accountable for their environmental votes. The League is a non-partisan organization supported by 30,000 members, working in coalition with a wide spectrum of environmental and community groups.
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