Get involved protecting the environment
Some people think that all the resources that exist are free money for them and don't care about the permanent damage caused now to you and to future generations. Your voice can help balance out the huge amount of money and greed going towards consuming everything in sight and dumping the toxic chemicals into your food and water. Become an activist to protect the world for your own health and future.
National Audubon Society
Audubon's Mission: To conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.
A powerful combination of science, education and policy expertise combine in efforts ranging from protection and restoration of local habitats to the implementation of policies that safeguard birds, other wildlife and the resources that sustain us all - in the U.S. and Across the Americas.
Lawmakers care about your views and opinions. As a constituent, you have a unique ability to convey your concerns about issues affecting birds, wildlife and their habitats--and be heard like no lobbyist here in Washington, DC.
Click action items on the top right side and start protecting.
Join Earthjustice
Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law organization dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment.
Earthjustice works through the courts on behalf of citizen groups, scientists, and other parties to ensure government agencies and private interests follow the law. On Capitol Hill, they work to protect and strengthen federal environmental laws and preserve special places, like the Arctic. Can't do it without your help though.
Take some action!
Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Defense Fund's mission is to preserve the natural systems on which all life depends. Guided by science and economics, they find practical and lasting solutions to the most serious environmental problems. They take on the most urgent environmental threats to the climate, oceans, ecosystems and people's health.
You will feel good about yourself taking action on the kinds of things EDF sets up.
Natural Resources Defense Council
NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action group, combining the grassroots power of 1.3 million members and online activists with the courtroom clout and expertise of more than 350 lawyers, scientists and other professionals. The New York Times calls them "One of the nation's most powerful environmental groups." The National Journal says they are "A credible and forceful advocate for stringent environmental protection." Join up fighting for some of the most important action items affecting our environment.
National Wildlife Federation
Wildlife's ability to survive the challenges of the 21st century is becoming outpaced by the events that are transforming our world. Global warming, the loss of habitat, and people becoming more disconnected from nature than past generations are converging on a dangerous path for our planet.
The work of NWF provides answers to these challenges and will help ensure America's wildlife legacy continues for future generations. The National Wildlife Federation Action Fund's Action Center provides America's wildlife and outdoor enthusiasts, environmental advocates, and concerned citizens with the tools and resources they need to hold their elected officials accountable to protecting wildlife for our children's future.
The Action Center makes getting involved with wildlife advocacy easy and effective by providing you with quick and clever ways to make sure your decision makers hear your call for solutions that protect and restore our natural world. Grassroots action matters - and you can make a huge difference for wildlife and future generations by taking action with NWF Action Fund.
The Rainforest Site
The Rainforest Site provides simple, effective, feel-good ways to address an urgent, specific ecological need: the preservation of the world's rainforests. Land preservation, made possible by funds raised at The Rainforest Site, is paid for by site sponsors and carried out by The Nature Conservancy and World Land Trust-US. These organizations work to preserve rainforest land in many locations worldwide.
They have many good petitions that you can take action on.
Sierra Club
For more than a century, we have depended on fossil fuels to run our factories, power our cars and trucks, and heat and cool our homes. Now we are facing the consequences. Six of the last eight years were the hottest on record. Polar ice and glaciers are disappearing, sea levels are rising, coral reefs are suffering, plant and animal species are disappearing. And the wilderness areas and wildlife that the Sierra Club has worked so effectively to protect for more than a century are being threatened and lost. But we have the means to reverse global warming and create a clean, renewable energy future. Working with some of the world's top climate scientists, engineers, and energy experts, the Sierra Club has developed a Climate Recovery Agenda -- a set of initiatives that will help cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, create a clean-energy economy, and protect our natural heritage, communities, and country from the consequences of global warming.
They have a great list of action items in many related categories to help you do your part.
Union of Concerned Scientists
The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.
The Union of Concerned Scientists is for anyone who believes the facts, not ideology, should drive our decisions. It's for everyone who understands that scientific knowledge and technical expertise is best deployed to improve the quality of our lives and natural world, not destroy it.
When you become a member of UCS, you join a passionate group of individuals committed to finding and implementing solutions to some of the most challenging environmental and global security issues of our time. The UCS Online Action Network makes it easy for you to stay informed and communicate directly with the people currently making critical decisions that affect our planet.
World Wildlife Fund
The world's leading conservation organization, WWF works in 100 countries and is supported by 1.2 million members in the United States and close to 5 million globally. WWF's unique way of working combines global reach with a foundation in science, involves action at every level from local to global, and ensures the delivery of innovative solutions that meet the needs of both people and nature. As skyrocketing demand for illegal ivory, rhino horn and tiger parts escalates, ruthless criminal networks plunder the wild. Wildlife crime is estimated to be worth $10 billion annually to criminals and it costs the planet some of the world's best-loved species. Criminal kingpins involved in illegal wildlife trade distribute guns, intimidate communities, exploit the poor and bribe officials to get what they want. Our failure to act allows crime to flourish and fuel regional conflicts--and even fund terrorist groups in some countries. WWF works to turn this high-profit, low-risk crime into a low-profit, high-risk liability. We're dead serious about stopping wildlife crime. Stand with WWF. Together, you will make a difference.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world, with more than 3 million members and supporters. PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in the clothing trade, in laboratories, and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of beavers, birds, and other "pests" as well as cruelty to domesticated animals. PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.
Get involved protecting the animals that can't protect themselves.