Environmental Links

Leading National Organizations:

• http://www.sierraclub.org/
• http://ucsusa.org/ Union of Concerned Scientists
• http://nrdc.org/ National Resources Defense Council and NRDC Action Fund
• http://www.environmentaldefense.org/home.cfm
• http://www.epa.gov/
• realclimate.org Blog info
• "Step it Up" Get vocal about Global Warming
• The Apollo Challenge New Energy, New Jobs, New Independence for America
• International Development Association: Managing Water

Your Local Impact

• Go Green Wilmette
• http://www.scorecard.org/ What is your impact? What about your town?
• Chicago Environmental Network
• Environment Illinois: Information, Newsletter and petitions
• Alliance for the Great Lakes: Includes Lake Michigan Beach Cleanup
• Make It Better. Written on Chicago's North Shore. Includes a "Living Green" section.
• Smithsonian's "Green Team Tips" Practical solutions for the average citizen.

Home and Building

• http://energysavers.gov/ How to save energy at home and work
• http://www.usgbc.org/ US Green Building Council

Wind and Solar

• http://www.renewablechoice.com/m/index.php From Whole Foods
• Cool Wind Farming Video.
• SunEdison
• http://awea.org/ America Wind Energy Association
• http://ases.org/ American Solar Energy Society
• http://green-e.org/ Renewable energy
• Solartopia By Harvey Wasserman, Author and Activist and Wind Power Expert and NT Guest for Earth Day 2006 and 2007
• "A Windmill in Your Pocket" from NPR's "Living on Earth", April, 2008
  

Global Warming

• "Islanders Fearing Climate Change" Will a country of 300,000 cease to exist? 5/29/09, NYTimes
  

• Climate Change could be causing 300,000 deaths every year and costing $125 billion. 5/29/09, NYTimes

• The new "WE" initiative, April, 2008

• Climate Connections: Special series on NPR with articles, podcasts, and graphics: 2007-08.

• http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/ From "An Inconvenient Truth"
• "50 Tips on Global Warming" (recommended by SN)
• http://www.greenerchoices.org/ Products for a Better Planet; Consumer Reports
• http://globalwarmingcfl.org/ Global Warming solutions. What can you do?
• http://cleartheair.org/ Global Warming
• Global Warming Solutions
• "Gore Implores Scientists to Raise Alarms"
• Rainforest Alliance Adopt a rainforest and others ways to help
• Climate Change as a Moral Issue: Radio Discussion 3/07.
  

Cars and Public Transportation:

• Moving Beyond Congestion, sponsored by the Chicago area RTA. Invest in public transportation

• Illinois Trains

• http://terrapass.com/ Calculate your cars emissions

• https://www.driveneutral.org/ Drive neutral
• DriveLessLiveMore Funded by the Illinois Department of Transportation

Other Sites:

• 12 Year Old Activist. Severn Suzuki speaks at world environmental conference.
• Angelic Organics. Buy locally and organically, delivered to your home.
• http://earthsave.org/
• http://www.earth911.org/master.asp How to clean up
• "Alliance for the Great Lakes"
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• NPR on the Environment; an index of all their varied programs. from hybrids to melting ice to chimps
• Gore's new advocacy plan, WE, announced late March, 2008.
• Earth: The Sequel A new book with its own trailer. We know about Global Warming; now, what should we do?
• Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speach, December 2007
• "Going Green? Easy Doesn't Do it." Washington Post, 11/22/07, "Never has so little been asked of so many at such a critical moment."
• "Planet in Peril" CNN's special with video clips, 10/07
• "Great Lakes Key Front in Water Wars" from Chicago Tribune, 10/29/07
• "Global Warming Impact Like 'Nuclear War'", 9/12/07
• "Threatened Species Shows Global Extinction Crisis", 9/12/07
• "Green College Campuses" NPR, 8/31/07
• "This Earth Day" by our Earth Day speaker of 2007, Harvey Wasserman.
• "13% of Americans Have Not Heard of Global Warming"
• http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0919-04.htm
• http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0420-24.htm
• http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0920-04.ht
• "Penguins Offer Evidence of Global Warming"
• "12 Step Plan for Climate Action"
• "Firm Offers to Pay for Pupils to See Gore Film"
• "Climate Change Is as Serious as WMD: Annan"
• "Climate Change 'Will Cause Refugee Crisis'"
• "Britain Approves World's Biggest Offshore Wind Farm"
• "Making Noise on Global Warming" co-authored by Paul Epstein, from NT Earth Day 2006.
• Time Magazine, April 3, 2006. Special Report on Global Warming
• National Geographic, August, 2005 "After Oil: Powering the Future"
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