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Environmental Issues & Philosophy

Ontario & Canada   New Jersey   United States 
  Other Places, the World, General  

Push-button-and-save-the-world sites  
Bogus Environmental Organizations 
Pesticides, Poisons & Health Issues  
Genetically Engineered Organisms 
Natural Lifestyles  

Caretaking Philosophy

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Ontario and Canada Environmental Issues

• Western Canada Wilderness Committee: "The Western Canada Wilderness Committee is Canada's largest membership-based citizen-funded wilderness preservation organization. We work for the preservation of Canadian and international wilderness through research and grassroots education. The Wilderness Committee works on the ground to achieve ecologically sustainable communities. We work only through lawful means."

• Greenpeace Canada: "Greenpeace is an independently funded organization that works to protect the environment. We challenge government and industry to halt harmful practices by negotiating solutions, conducting scientific research, introducing clean alternatives, carrying out peaceful acts of civil disobedience and educating and engaging the public.
  Greenpeace seeks to: Protect biodiversity in all its forms; Prevent pollution of the earth’s oceans, land, air and fresh water; End all nuclear threats; Promote peace, global disarmament and non-violence."

• List of Ontario MPP's - contact them to let them know what you think about the issues.   Your letters DO matter!!

• List of Ontario Environmental Groups

• Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

• Sierra Club of Canada

• Sierra Club of Eastern Canada

• Canadian Nature Federation

• Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy

• Friends of Red Hill Valley - a unique valley in Hamilton that is being threatened by an expressway

• Ontario Environment Network

• Wildlands League, also click here

• Evidence of Air Pollution Effects - a scientific paper by D. McLaughlin of the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy

• The Evergreen Foundation - Connecting people with Nature through the enhancement of healthy natural environments in schools and communities across Canada

• Pitch-In Canada

• The state of Canada's Environment - Environment Canada

• WWF Canada

• Sudbury Game & Fish Protective Association

• Spirit Bear - a site (still under development) about the "Spirit Bears" of British Columbia (west coast of Canada), a unique strain of black bears that are white, also known as the Kermode Bears.  By a Tracker student.

• The Canadian Wildlife Service

• "Wildspace" Interactive website of the Canadian Wildlife Service: "Over the past 30 years, the Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) has undertaken many wildlife surveys and research projects in Ontario. The WILDSPACE Ontario website will assist you in learning about some of this research, and will allow you to access information on wildlife, particularly bird species and their habitats."

• Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) - Sierra Club of Canada

• The Green Pages 

• Carolinian Canada 

• Hi-Key Publications - University of Calgary Arctic Institute of North America - "This page is a guide to significant publications and Web sites that provide an overview of the environmental impacts, socio-economic effects and regulation of hydrocarbon exploration, development and transportation in northern Canada."

• COSEWIC - Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada

• Thicksons Woods Land Trust 

• Emerald Ash Borer - serious threat to ash trees in southern Ontario and Michigan.

• The Canadian Boreal Initiative 

• Tallgrass Ontario 

• Canada's National Endangered Rivers Project 

New Jersey Environmental Issues

General:

• New Jersey Audubon Society

• New Jersey Sierra Club

• Atlantic White Cedar Initiative - A program to restore the Atlantic White Cedar in NJ

• Outer Coastal Plain / Pinelands Research Symposium

• Garden State Environet - New Jersey Environmental news and links

Pinelands:

• Pinelands Alliance 

• New Jersey Pinelands Commission

• Biodiversity Center Home Page - Cook College of Rutgers University, NJ

• Bomb causes forest fire in Pinelands - news article from ABC

Other:

• Pine Barrens Jeep Jamboree USA - Check this site out!  How the Pine Barrens are being destroyed. This ad for a "Jeep Jamboree" starts with:  "Many rare and endangered species of plants and animals make their home in the Pine Barrens ... in the thousands of acres of virtually untouched pine, oak, and cedar forests...."!!   Well, it would untouched if it weren't for Jeep Jamborees and the like!

For more New Jersey links please see the Wildwood Survival website, New Jersey Links section.

Environmental issues - U. S.

• Environmental Protection Agency

• Gaia Forest Conservation Archives

• Environmental Protection Information Center - An organisation devoted to protecting the north coast of California

• Headwaters Forest website - in the Bay Area of California

• Americans for the Environment

• Choosing clean power in California - how to sign up to receive your power from clean sources (California)

• Natural Resources Defense Council

• National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska - Environmental impact statement

• Pennsylvania's Forest Stewardship program

• National Wildlife Federation

• The Wildlife Society

• Wild Wilderness Homepage - "Wild Wilderness believes that America's public recreation lands are a national treasure that must be financially supported by the American people and held in public ownership as a legacy for future generations."

• League of Conservation Voters - "The League of Conservation Voters works to create a Congress more responsive to your environmental concerns. As the bipartisan political voice for over nine million members of environmental and conservation groups, LCV is the only national environmental organization dedicated full-time to educating citizens about the environmental voting records of Members of Congress."

• Environmental Defense - "Environmental Defense is a not-for-profit environmental advocacy group with four main goals: (1) Stabilizing the Earth's climate, (2) Safeguarding the world's oceans, (3) Protecting human health, and (4) Defending and restoring biodiversity."

• Enviromental Protection Agency, Office of Water - Bird conservation; Wetlands; Oceans, Coasts & Estuaries; Watersheds/TMDLs; Water Quality; Polluted Runoff.

• Enviroweb - "The EnviroWeb is a service of the EnviroLink Network, providing web hosting to environmental and animal rights non-profit organizations"

• Envirolink Network - "The Online Environmental Community"

• Wolf Bounty article on Enviroweb

• Center for Media & Democracy - PR Watch - "The Center for Media & Democracy is a nonprofit, public interest organization funded by individuals and nonprofit foundations and dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry. The Center serves citizens, journalists and researchers seeking to recognize and combat manipulative and misleading PR practices."

• HAARP - A controversial new type of radar being developed by the US Navy.  See Tesla's True Wireless and HAARP, and the US Navy's view at the HAARP Home Page.  There are many other websites with info about the potential harmful effects of HAARP.

• The Open Space Foundation 

• The Wilderness Society 

• Keeping Track - "Inspiring Community Participation in the Stewardship of Wildlife Habitat"

• Catoctin Land Trust - "It is our mission to preserve the natural diversity and heritage, and unique cultural history of the lands in and around the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland – a special place extending south to the Potomac River, north to the Pennsylvania, west to Antietam Creek and east to the Monocacy River."

Environmental issues - other places, the World, and general

• Biodiversity and its value - A primer on biodiversity, from Australia

• Dead Trees Earth First - site devoted to direct action

• One World - 200 leading global justice organisations

• Rainforest Alliance

• Soil Association - U.K. Organic soil issues

• The Activist Page - "E-mail, phone and FAX lists of US and international political figures, human rights organizations, environmental and other advocacy groups, radio, TV and cable news stations, newspapers, college newspapers and radio stations."  (Some links do not relate to Trackers, Nature, or the Environment).

• Worldwatch Institute - Timely, unbiased reporting of global environmental and other issues - they publish an excellent magazine

• e-design - The Journal of Sustainable Design and Planning; Joyride to Global Collapse - article from, about petroleum useage

• dieoff.org - Article and related info about how we're running out of time on this planet.
      Also check their links page

• Union of Concerned Scientists

• Cultures and Environments - American Studies program of the Washington State University - issues of culture and the environment

• CNN - The Galapagos Islands have changed a LOT!

• The World Trade Observer - "The World Trade Observer, in print and online, is produced by organizations representing environmentalists, labor activists, agriculture specialists, human-rights campaigners, and others. We provide news and analysis that look behind and beyond the official communiques"

• Sea Shepherd Society - campaigning to save all sea mammals from slaughter

• Greenpeace - The international environmental activist organisation

• Terminator Seed technology explained

• Veggie Van - A van fueled with used vegetable oil from fast food restaurants!

• Environmental Organisation Web Directory

• North American Reporting Center for Reporting Amphibian Malformations - lots of info on this very disturbing trend - Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

• Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) - "UCS is an independent nonprofit alliance of 50,000 concerned citizens and scientists across the country. We augment rigorous scientific analysis with innovative thinking and committed citizen advocacy to build a cleaner, healthier environment and a safer world." Web site includes the text of the famous World Scientists' Warning to Humanity issued in November 1992.

• Grist Magazine - "Environmental news and humor"

• Trees For Life - U.K.

• Environmental News Service - keep up to date with what's happening in environmental news.

• Ecological Footprint Quiz - rate your own "ecological footprint".

• Waterwatch International - "...is a pro-active, non-profit water monitoring and water education organization with sister organizations throughout the United States and around the world.  We have taken water samples for over 30 years and worked through education and legislation to promote clean water and water conservation worldwide."

• Another "Calculate Your Ecological Footprint" site

• Environmentalists Against War 

"Push-a-button-and-Save-the-World" sites

• EcologyFund.com  

• End Cancer Now.com 

• Peace For All.com 

• Race for the Rainforest 

• The Hunger Site

• Respect the Plant.com

Bogus Environmental Organizations
These are organizations which purport to act in the interests of the environment, but in reality give priority to human and economic concerns.

• Labor Environment Alliance (no website yet) - USA

• Toronto Environmental Coalition - this organization was formed in Apr-May/2003 in Toronot Ontario (Canada) to fight a bylaw which was being proposed to ban the cosmetic use of pesticides. It is actually a coalition of lawn care companies!! The bylaw eventually passed.

Pesticides, Poisons, Health Issues

• Master list of food safety publications

• Aspartame - Mike Pedde

• Wolf Report - re aspartame and Coke

• Food Irridation FAQ page 

Genetically Engineered Organisms

• Genetically Engineered Food Alert Coalition & a Flash movie 

• GE Food Alert Campaign Center 

Natural Lifestyles

• Permaculture and Sustainable Living & Livelihood - articles

• Natural Life Magazine - a magazine dedicated to natural living.  Based in St. George, Ontario

• Health 2001 - "Delivering our birthright to lifelong health, poison-free agriculture, poison-free food, poison-free environments, stable climates and a vibrantly healthy biosphere into the hands of the people"

• The Simple Living Network - "Providing tools and examples for those who are serious about learning to live a more conscious, simple, healthy and restorative lifestyle."

• The Natural Step 

• Global Action Plan  

• Greengrid Electric 

• The Institute for Earth Education

• Aprovecho Research Center - "Aprovecho is a center for research, experimentation and education on alternative technologies that are ecologically sustainable and culturally responsive. Our fields of study include organic gardening, sustainable forestry, indigenous skills and appropriate technology."

• The CyberPict - A journey towards sustainability

• The Toronto Environmental Guide 

• Go For Green - The Active Living and Environment Program

Caretaking Philosophy

• Ecocentrism - A collection of ecological, philosophical, spiritual, economic, religious and cultural articles, editorials and reviews inquiring into and exploring the values of, and our duties to, the Ecosphere, natural ecosystems and to their wild species - site maintained by Ted Mosquin

• Ecospheric Ethics - "An anthology of ecological, philosophical, spiritual, economic, religious and cultural articles, editorials and reviews exploring the values of the planetary Ecosphere, its ecosystems, communities, and wild species, as the source of a new and saving Ethic."

• Anura - Stop the abuse, Start the healing.  This unique site may be of interest, since when individuals are abused they too often subsequently abuse animals and the Earth. "The best thing people can do to heal the Earth is to heal themselves",  says April, the site's creator.

• The Ishmael website

• Derek Jensen - "Derrick Jensens book, A Language Older Than Words, and his website are totally amazing. Derrick uses his experience as a abused child to compare it to the destructiveness of our culture. And how the effect of the macrocosm of our culture trickles down to microcosm in our relationships. Beware: dangerous reading ahead! If this book don't wake you up, I don't know what will." (reviewed by Curt)

• Protect The Earth - the web site of Anishinaabe Niijii -- a movement of Native and Non-Native people dedicated to protecting the earth for the future generations to come. Niijii was started by Walt Bresette, a Red Cliff Chippewa.

• Thinking With Nature - an article by Michael J. Cohen

• The Institute for Global Education