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Organizations

Thanks go to Spring Cornelison for assistance in compiling the follow list of organizations

Hints for using these pages:  I'd suggest that you click on the link you think may be helpful to you.  Then find the "about us" page so you can read a bit about the organization to see if they address the issues you are interested in exploring.  Then find their search engine for the pages and proceed to use the keywords that will help you find material on their pages that will be of interest to you.

Collect that material to review later.  You can save the material to disc or e-mail yourself.  I don't recommend printing a whole lot on your first time through as you may end up giving lots of material to the recycle bin unnecessarily.  

One thing I always try to be careful not to do is to stray too many links away from the original starting point.  This helps me stay on track, and prevents too much surfing that often leads to distractions.  As always I am ready and willing to assist you in enhancing your search capabilities.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

http://www.oecd.org/home/0,3675,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

 

Health Organizations  
Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition http://www.barillacfn.com/en
Food and Environment Reporting Network http://thefern.org
Environmental Health News- above the fold- daily headlines

http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/

The World Health Organization (WHO) http://www.who.org
The Biology Project (Univ of Arizona) http://www.biology.arizona.edu/chh/
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) http://www.hhmi.org/
The Center for Food Safety http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/
Natural News http://www.naturalnews.com/Index.html
American Cancer Society (ACS) http://www.cancer.org/
Technology
American Meat Institute (AMI) http://www.meatami.com/
Food Marketing Institute (FMI) http://www.fmi.org/
Beef Industry Resource (NCBA) http://www.beef.org/
National Farmers Organization (NFO) http://www.nfo.org/
Biotechnology http://www.bio.org/welcome_old.html
Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) http://www.whybiotech.com/
American Chemistry Council (ACC) http://www.americanchemistry.com/
Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) http://www.nei.org/
PhARMA

http://www.phrma.org/

Nuclear Control Institute (NCI) http://www.nci.org/
Environmental Issues
Product Policy Institute http://www.productpolicy.org/
Surfrider Foundation http://www.surfrider.org/
Gulf of Mexico Alliance http://www.gulfofmexicoalliance.org/index.php
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund http://www.celdf.org/
Public Employees For Environmental Responsibility http://www.peer.org/index.php
Public Citizen http://www.citizen.org/congress/regulations/oira/index.cfm
Living Lightly http://www.scn.org/earth/lightly/vslinks.htm
National Environmental Trust  http://www.net.org
Friends of the Earth (FOE) http://www.foe.org/
Greenpeace http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/
National Mining Association (NMA) http://www.nma.org/
Environmental Working Group- a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to using the power of information to protect human health and the environment. http://www.ewg.org/
Rocky Mountain Institute --entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure http://www.rmi.org/
Sierra Club http://www.sierraclub.org/
Second Nature: Education for Sustainability http://www.secondnature.org/
University Leaders for a Sustainable Future http://www.ulsf.org/
Isaac Walton League of America (IWLA) http://www.iwla.org/
Natural Resourcs Defense Council

http://www.nrdc.org

 

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) -dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air, clean water, healthy food and flourishing ecosystems. http://www.edf.org/
Shifting baselines -ocean declines  http://www.shiftingbaselines.org/op_ed/index.html
Wildlife & Animals

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)

http://www.aspca.org/

National Wildlife Federation (NWF) http://www.nwf.org/
World Wildlife Federation http://www.wwf.org/
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) http://www.peta.org/
The Gopher Tortoise Council http://www.gophertortoisecouncil.org/
 
Science and Society Interface http://www.human-nature.com/reason/
The Cato Institute - seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government. http://www.cato.org/index.html
National Bureau on Economic Research

http://www.nber.org/

National Association of Scholars (NAS) - an organization of professors, graduate students, college administrators and trustees, and independent scholars committed to rational discourse as the foundation of academic life in a free and democratic society http://www.nas.org/
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation http://www.sloan.org
Garrett Hardin Society -he wrote "Tragedy of the commons" http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/index.html
Pew Charitable Trust http://www.pewtrust.org/
Political Research Associates -Founded in 1981, works to facilitate public understanding of the threat posed to human rights by oppressive and authoritarian movements and trends in the United States. http://www.publiceye.org/index.html
Carnegie Corporation http://www.carnegie.org
Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.ucsusa.org/
Gateway to Environmental Law http://www.ecolex.org/ecolex/index.php
Public Citizen- protecting health, safety and democracy http://www.citizen.org/
World Mappers- the world as you've never seen it before!

http://www.worldmapper.org/

Center for Science in the Public Interest -since 1971 has been a strong advocate for nutrition and health, food safety, alcohol policy, and sound science http://www.cspinet.org/

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