Green Resources
You can make a difference! Check out some of these Web sites for the latest news, legislation, and ideas on what you can do to save our environment.
WAYS TO GO GREEN
www.earth911.com/
Earth 911 - Plug in your zip code for community-specific resources
www.energystar.gov/
Energy Star is a government-backed program rates home products for energy efficiency and gffers answers to common problems.
REUSE, RECYCLE
New York's Department of Sanitation offers tips on how to reuse, recycle and repair items, and lists these helpful resources:
NYC Wastele$$ offers comprehensive information and tips on how to prevent waste, cut energy costs, and conserve resources while at home, work, or school.
NYC Stuff Exchange (1-877-NYC-STUFF or 1-877-692-7883) to locate businesses or organizations in your area where you can donate, buy, or sell quality second-hand goods, and repair and rent goods instead of spending money on new items. The call is toll-free in New York City.
Materials for the Arts accepts donations (office furniture, fabric, paper, odd lots, etc.) for use by nonprofit cultural and arts organizations and NYC Department of Education schools. Contact the Long Island City facility at (718) 729-3001.
New York Wa$teMatch is an interactive Web site that matches potential users (nonprofit organizations and manufacturers) with sources of quality used materials.
EDUCATIONAL, ACTIVIST & LOBBY GROUPS
http://actionnetwork.org/
Action Network is a gateway to online activism centers for more than 170 leading environment, health and population advocacy organizations.
www.bceq.net/
The Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, (BCEQ) is a non-profit organization of individuals "all seeking to leave our great grandchildren better air, land, and water quality than we have at present."
www.bcue.org/
Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment engages young minds in activities that promote curiosity and exploration of New York City's urban environments. Every year, nearly 100,000 children, youth, and adults discover urban ecology, history, architecture and design through Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment's hands-on science and literacy activities.
www.checnet.org/
CHEC is a non-profit organization that seeks to educate parents and those who care for children about preventable health and development problems caused by exposures to toxins in our homes and communities. The web site recommends safe products and tips about what you can do to improve your environment.
www.coopamerica.org/
Co-op America is a not-for-profit membership organization whose mission is to harness economic power-the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace-to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.
www.earthday.net/
Founded by the organizers of the first Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network (EDN) promotes environmental citizenship and year-round progressive action, worldwide.
www.earthshare.org/
Earth Share, a nationwide network of America's leading non-profit environmental and conservation organizations, works to promote environmental education and charitable giving through workplace giving campaigns. Earth Share is an opportunity for environmentally conscious employees and workplaces to support hundreds of environmental groups through charitable giving drives.
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/sections/view/9
The Earth Institute at Columbia University brings together talent from throughout the university to address complex issues facing the planet and its inhabitants, with particular focus on sustainable development and the needs of the world's poor. The Earth Institute is motivated by the belief that science and technological tools already exist, and could be expanded, to greatdy improve conditions for the world's poor while preserving the natural systems that support life on Earth.
www.treehugger.com
London-based Web magazine devoted to all things green.
www.blueocean.org/
Blue Ocean Institute
www.centralparknyc.org/
Central Park Conservancy
www.clearwater.org/index.html
Clearwater - America's Environmental Flagship
www.climatecrisis.net/
About the film "An Inconvenient Truth" and Global Warming
www.eany.org/
Environmental Advocates of NY: Find out what's going on in the state legislature regarding our natural resources.
www.environmental-action.org/
Environmental Action
www.audubon.org/
All about birds, their habitats and how to sustain the environment.
www.environmentaldefense.org/
Evnironmental Defense Fund offers information on how to take action as well as books about the environment. You'll also find information on how to Support Wetlands Restoration
www.nyceja.org/
City-wide network links grassroots organizations in low-income neighborhoods in their struggle for Environmental Justice.
www.2020vision.org/
Find out about our dependence on oil and how it impacts on the environment, US foreign policy and the economy.
