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- Amazon Watch - Works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development. Provides news, campaigns, resources and contacts.
www.amazonwatch.org
- Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) - Working to protect and shape the environment of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the San Francisco Bay area through democratic participation.
www.apen4ej.org
- Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice - An environmental-health resource center that provides training, technical and organizing support, and advocacy work for California communities. Projects , publications and information.
www.ccaej.org
- Coalition for the Advancement of Human Rights and Environmental Justice - concerned with human rights and environmental concerns throughout the world
www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6436
- Communities For A Better Environment - California based environmental health and justice organization which promotes clean air and water and advocates for toxic free communities. Provides information, resources and campaign information.
www.cbecal.org
- Concerned Citizens of Tillery - CCT was built upon the work of previous organizations that had toiled for Civil Rights, Social, and Environmental Justice for African-Americans in Tillery and Halifax County, North Carolina.
members.aol.com/tillery
- Earth Justice Ministries - Network of church groups, other faith communities, justice and environmental organizations, and individuals interested in furthering the cause of social, economic, and environmental justice.
www.earth-justice.org
- EcoJustice Network - Addresses environmental issues facing communities in the United States involved in the environmental justice movement. Provides on-line services, informational resources and training for activists and organizations.
www.igc.org/envjustice
- EcoTort - Activists asserting the lawful right to environment friendly employment for everyone. Presents an argument based on UK law.
www.gn.apc.org/ecotort
- Environmental Justice - Greenaction is a new organization created by community groups in the southwest United States and former Greenpeace staff who have joined together in the struggle for health and environmental justice.
www.greenaction.org/index.shtml
- Environmental Justice - from the About.com Guide
environment.about.com/msubej.htm
- Environmental Justice - North Carolina State University paper analyzing the problems associated with environmental inequities.
www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/agecon/PIE/ej.html
- Environmental Justice and Environmental Racism Links - Annotated collection of internet links, from M e g - A - W o r l d.
www.hensonscales.com/erlinks.htm
- Environmental Justice and the NIMBY Principle - Report which strives to dispell the truths behind the "not in my backyard" environmental ploys, and offers reasons why poorer communities often bear the blunt of hazardous waste disposal.
klbproductions.com/yogi/hazmat/articles/nimby.html
- Environmental Justice Database - Michigan State University database.
www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/modej/masterej.html
- Environmental Justice Foundation - Training manual, issues, press releases and information on empowering those affected by environmental abuses to investigate, expose and combat those problems.
www.ejfoundation.org
- Environmental Justice Fund (EJFund) - Helps build the capacity of the environmental justice movement to strengthen its funding and programs. Provides information, member list and resources.
www.ejfund.org
- Environmental Justice Information Page - University of Michigan site intended to supply information to students and the general public about Environmental Justice and about some of the current topics.
www-personal.umich.edu/~jrajzer/nre/index.html
- Environmental Justice Resource Center, Clark Atlanta University - Research, policy, and information clearinghouse on issues related to environmental justice, race and the environment, civil rights, facility siting, land use planning, brownfields, transportation equity, suburban sprawl, and Smart Growth.
www.ejrc.cau.edu
- Environmental Research Foundation - Home - News and resources for environmental justice. Providing understandable scientific information about human health and the environment.
www.rachel.org/home_eng.htm
- Envirosense: Environmental Justice (EJ) - President Clinton's Executive Order on environmental justice and other information related to the U.S. environmental justice movement and government response.
es.epa.gov/program/iniative/justice/justice.html
- Indigenous Environmental Network - Native peoples of the Americas organization for education, coalition building, and action. Announcments and fact sheets on current issues.
www.ienearth.org
- Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health - U.S. government minority health initiative. Health areas of interest include infant mortality, HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and child and adult immunizations.
raceandhealth.hhs.gov
- Interfaith Coalition for the Environment - Information about a charitable organization of men and women from various religious and spiritual traditions who believe that care for Creation and environmental justice are important matters common to all people.
www.interfaith-coalition-for-the-environment.org
- IUCN Law Programme - To assist in laying the strongest possible legal foundation for the conservation of the natural environment, thereby underpinning and supporting efforts at both national and international levels.
iucn.org/themes/law
- Ma'at Youth Academy - MYA helps high school students and adults in San Francisco Bay area communities of color and low-income areas, make their communities healthier and safer for all species.
www.maatyouthacademy.org
- National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (U.S.) - A federal advisory committee established to provide independent advice, consultation, and recommendations to the Administrator of the U.S. EPA on matters related to environmental justice.
es.epa.gov/oeca/main/ej/nejac
- Native Americans and the Environment - Collection of internet links related to environmental justice concerns of Native Americans and other indigenous peoples.
www.indians.org/library/subenv1.html
- Nindakin's Web Page - Nindakin is a group dedicated to fostering student of color leadership and empowerment around community environmental justice issues. We originated at the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 and are comprised of people of color active in social and environmental justice struggles.
www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~cpott/Nindakin.html
- Office of Minority Health Resource Center - A U.S. national resource and referral service on minority health issues. Collects and distributes information on topics including substance abuse, cancer, heart disease, violence, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and infant mortality in minority populations.
www.omhrc.gov
- OneWorld Online - Human rights, Sustainable Development and the Environment - News, reports and in-depth information together with galleries, video and audio from a partnership which now includes over 300 development agencies and NGOs.
www.oneworld.org
- Shell-Shocked: The environmental and social costs of living with Shell in Nigeria - from Greenpeace International.
www.greenpeace.org/~comms/ken/hell.html
- Sierra Club Human Rights and the Environment Campaign - Current news about environmental justice issues world-wide, and opportunities for activism.
www.sierraclub.org/human-rights
- Students for Environmental Action at Stanford - Student group fighting for environmental and social justice. Provides information on campaigns including stopping medical waste incineration, supporting farmworkers campaigns, and forcing Stanford's trustees to divest from socially irresponsible corporations.
seas.stanford.edu
- The Environmental Justice Newsletter - United Methodist Church
www.umc-gbcs.org/gbcs006.htm
- U.S. Department of Transportation Environmental Justice Site - General information, case studies, and training resources on applicable requirements and on addressing environmental justice in the planning process for highways and other transportation systems.
www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/ej2.htm
- U.S. EPA Environmental Justice - Working to ensure that federal agencies conduct their programs that have environmental impacts in a manner that ensures that they do not have the effect of excluding persons or populations to discrimination because of their race, national origin or income.
es.epa.gov/oeca/main/ej/index.html
- West Harlem Environmental Action - Website created to inform area residents of environmental hazards in West Harlem, New York City.
www.crp.cornell.edu/projects/westharlem/intro.html
- Working Group on Environmental Justice - A group of scholars and activists committed to doing further research and promoting effective action to advance the cause of environmental justice.
ecojustice.net
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