Australian
environment and community NGOs:
 Alliance for a Clean Environment
Animal Liberation
(Australia)
Australian Conservation
Foundation. (peak national environmental NGO).
Australian Gene Ethics Network
Australian Bush Heritage Trust - now Bush
Heritage Australia
Australian Wildlife
Conservancy
Australia Zoo
(founded by Steve and Terri Irwin) Wildlife
Warriors Worldwide
Birds Australia
Blue Mountains
Conservation Society
Centre for Sustainable
Living (WA, Denmark)
Colong Wilderness
Foundation
Ecological Society of
Australia
Environmental Law Publishing
(by Chris McGrath)
Environment Tasmania
- Tasmania's Conservation Council
Friends of the Earth (Australia)
FUTURE
TASMANIA
to promote the development, communication and uptake of innovations
and initiatives that create a healthy community, economy and environment
within Tasmania.
Green Innovations (a site focussing on green economics and
related issues)
Humane Society International
(Australia)
 National Toxics Network
Our community
(linking community resources)
Pollution
Information Tasmania @ SourceWatch
STAND
- Standing up for Local Wildlife & Forests (NSW Australia)
Voiceless (animal rights)
Water pollution in Tasmania
@ SourceWatch
Wildlife Protection
Association of Australia
World Wide Fund for Nature
(WWF) Australia.
Other Australian environment sites:
Australian Government
Environmental Information Portal.
Australian
Government on Water Quality "....Australia is
currently facing critical water supply and water quality problems.
These problems are expected to become worse over the coming
decades due to drought, pollution, over-extraction and climate
change. Managing water quality requires a catchment-based approach
as land uses have a major effect on the quality of water resources....."
Environmental Defenders
Office website
Aggregated
environmental information (strongly water-related).
Australian National Ecological
Meta Database
Chemical
Spraying Australia Problems with chemical spraying in Australia
& Government inaction
NRM Toolbar (Australian
NRM databases and organisations)
Tarkine - Australia's
Largest Temperate Rainforest
News and current affairs:
Crikey
Tasmanian Times
International UN / environment / human rights
/ NGOs and consultancies:
Excellent fact sheets on burning... and how polluting burning wood can be.... factsheet-biomass.pdf |
trashincineration.pdf | woodybiomass.pdf from Energy Justice
Affluence and over-consumption: Ted
Trainer
Auditing: Environmental
Auditing
Australian whistle-blowers:
Lance Collins (Australian Army - exposed corruption within
the Army's intelligence organisation); Simon Illingsworth
(Victorian Police - exposed corruption within the police drug
squad, and, by implication, weakness and poor management at senior
management levels within the larger organisation); Peter Cahan
(Australian Navy - exposed corruption after the Voyager disaster).
Biodiversity:
Alliance for zero extinction
Secrets
Of Cooperation Between Trees And Fungi Revealed
Convention on Biological Diversity:
Home website | Country
reports
Jane Goodall's Roots
and ShootsCenter for Environment,
Health and Justice (pollution, toxics; USA)
Child care:
The natural child project
Climate change:
Forests: The Devastating Ecological and Social Impacts of Monoculture Tree Plantations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
RealClimate (scientific commentary)
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
Indian Ocean Climate Initiative
European Science Foundation discussion
site
Greenhouse Gas Online
(popular, but science-based)
Conversation with James Lovelock
British Govt Climate Change website
Conservation
International (biodiversity hotspots)
Corporate Watch Corporate
behaviour
GetNewVision
David Suzuki Foundation
(Canadian NGO focussing on global environment issues)
Envirolink
/ Net for change (links to many other environmental sites)
European Commission Environment
European Union Law
Ethics:
Center for the Study of World Religions
Religion and nature
Online Ethics
Ecology and Christianity - Sean
McDonagh (Columban Fathers).
Filmmakers:
International Wildlife Film... ; Filmmakers
for Conservation
Friends of the Earth (greenhouse,
pollution control etc)
Global
Response (promotes environmental and social change through
letter writing)
Genetics / GM foods:
UK info
UK Genetics Forum
UK gm shoppers' guide
Greenpeace (greenhouse,
pollution control, marine animals, biotechnology)
Health and the environment:
Alternative cancer info (UK)
British Holistic Medicine Association
Health Report
Australian Broadcasting Commission
Wisconsin Medical College
(provide free health e-newsletter).
Healthy babies: march of
dimes
Human rights:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN)
American Friends
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
Service Committee
Chika Honda (wrongfully imprisoned in Australia).
International Criminal Court
International
Alert
Anti-slavery International
Chagos Islanders illegally
expelled by Britain and the USA
John Pilger
Susan George
Robert Fisk
human rights investigations.
International law? see "Crimes against humanity" by
Geoffrey Robertson
(Penguin 1999).
George Monbiot
Institute
for Policy Studies (democracy and social justice issues; USA).
International Forum on Globalization.
(corporate watch, trade policies...)
International Institute for Sustainable
Development (corporate and UN sponsored)The Middle East:
Robert Fisk - journalism
with integrity
Millennium Assessment Report
(World Resource Institute)
One World (sustainable
development, human rights)
Pollution:
Pesticide Action Network (USA)
US EPA on endocrine
disruptors
Recycling:
Waste
Management UK The green house provides businesses with tailored
waste management programs.
Population:
Population Action (focussing on populaiton / environment links)
Population: ZPG
Population Institute
Sustainable Albemarle Population
The
Ecologist (international journal: global environment and development
issues).
The Sierra Club (biotechnology,
toxic waste, pesticides, forest, endangered species)
Third World Network (environment
and development issues, first world - third world exploitation)
PR Watch (Center for Media
and Democracy, USA)
Rainforest Action Network (global
rainforests)
Resilience:
Resilience Alliance
Resilience Science
Sante
Fe Institute Rocky Mountains
Institute (USA) Amory Lovins.Spirit
Bear Youth Coalition Canadian NGO
Stockholm Environment Institute
See their Water Evaluation and Planning
software
SustainAbility:
a UK consultancy promoting sustainable business programs.
Transnational Resource and
Action Center (corporate watch, USA).
Union of Concerned Scientists
(USA)
United Nations:
UN Home
Economic and Social Development Info
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
2005.
World Heritage Convention (the UNESCO site)
World Resources Institute (forests,
biodiversity, climate change, sustainable agriculture etc)
World Watch Institute
(environmental research and monitoring) |
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