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"Even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath, so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast." - Ecclesiastics 3:19 |
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Animal Liberation Front (A.L.F.) - The Animal Liberation Front consists of small autonomous groups of people all over the world who carry out direct action according to the A.L.F. guidelines.
These groups are called cells that range from one individual to many individuals working closely together. Activists in one cell do not know A.L.F. activists in another cell because they remain anonymous. This is what helps to keep activists out of jail, and free to be active another day.
Since there is not a central organization or membership guide to the A.L.F., people are driven only by their own personal conscience or cell decisions to carry out actions. The A.L.F. is non-hierarchical in it's structure which allows for only those people involved directly in the action to control their own destiny.
Anyone in your community could be part of The A.L.F. without you knowing. This includes P.T.A. parents, church volunteers, your spouse, your neighbor, or your mayor. No one is immune to the suffering of animals, which includes even the workers themselves in any animal abuse industry who cannot bear to watch animals withering in pain any longer.
Any action that adheres to the strict nonviolence guidelines, which follow, can be considered an A.L.F. action. Economic sabotage and property destruction are considered A.L.F. actions, as well as live liberations. Volunteers carry out actions across the world to bring animal liberation a little closer to the victims of untold agony.
Since there isn't a way to contact the A.L.F. in your area, it is up to each of us to take the responsibility ourselves to stop the exploitation of fellow animals. In the words of a convicted A.L.F. activist "when you see the pictures of a masked liberator, stop asking who's behind the mask and look in the mirror!"
Any group of people who are vegetarians or vegans and who carry out actions according to A.L.F. guidelines have the right to regard themselves as part of the A.L.F.
The Animal Liberation Front consists of small autonomous groups of people all over the world who carry out direct action according to the A.L.F.
Biodiversity Project - The Biodiversity Project works to make people aware of the importance of biodiversity and to build their commitment to saving it. Our task is to engage and empower people to act by making the connection between biodiversity and people's daily lives and basic values.
The Biodiversity Project meets this challenge by developing communications strategies that motivate people to protect biodiversity.
Bioneers/Collective Heritage Institute - The Collective Heritage Institute (CHI) seeks to cultivate both a material and a spiritual basis for their ongoing conservation through practical and visionary solutions. Their mission is to cultivate and disseminate environmental solutions to national and global audiences, educating, inspiring and equipping people toward effective action. To develop and spread model economic strategies for ecological agriculture, environmental restoration and community self-reliance that conserve biological and cultural diversity, and strengthen traditional, indigenous and restorative farming practices. To promote understanding of the human-nature relationship and revitalize our cultural and spiritual connection with the natural world. To operate as an entrepreneurial not-for-profit organization with a broad base of support and maximum fiscal self-reliance.
Care 2 - With more than 1.4 million members, Care2.com is the first and largest global community on the Web for environmentally conscious consumers. By partnering with The Nature Conservancy and the Wildlife Conservation Society for online promotions, and by donating 10 percent of its revenue to other top environmental organizations, Care2.com provides a simple, yet effective way for eco-conscious people to protect and preserve the environment with every visit to the Web site. Care2.com integrates commerce, content, and community and offers free, innovative and useful Web services, including e-cards, email, headline news, and shopping. Founded in September 1998, Care2.com is privately held.
Center for a New American Dream - The Center for a New American Dream helps Americans change the way they consume to protect the environment, enhance quality of life and promote social justice.
The Church of Euthanasia - The Church of Euthanasia is a non-profit educational foundation devoted to restoring balance between Humans and the remaining species on Earth. We believe this can only be accomplished by a massive voluntary population reduction, which will require a leap in Human consciousness to a new species awareness.
Circle of Life Foundation - Founded in 1999 by Julia Butterfly Hill, the Circle of Life Foundation activates people through education, inspiration and connection to live in a way that honors the diversity and interdependence of all life. They believe that you, yes you, make the difference in the world.
Common Dreams News Center - It's been said that dreams are our roadmaps to the future. If so, where are we headed? Common Dreams is a national non-profit citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together to promote progressive visions for America's future. Founded in 1997, we are committed to being on the cutting-edge of using the internet as a political organizing tool - and creating new models for internet activism.
Die Off - Petroleum geologists have known for 50 years that global oil production would "peak" and begin its inevitable decline within a decade of the year 2000. Moreover, no renewable energy systems have the potential to generate more than a tiny fraction of the power now being generated by fossil fuels. In short, the end of oil signals the end of civilization, as we know it.
EarthAction - EarthAction's goal is to mobilize growing numbers of people around the world to press their governments (or sometimes corporations) for stronger action to solve global problems.
EarthAction's strategy is to create a global action alert network &emdash; a kind of Amnesty International for the planet &emdash; made up of individuals, groups and legislators who are prepared to act together on global problems. We devote particular attention to the challenge of building a more democratic and effective UN system to help solve those problems.
The EarthAction network already includes more than 1,900 citizen groups in 161 countries, two thirds of them in developing countries, together with hundreds of legislators and thousands of individual citizens. In addition, several hundred journalists around the world have subscribed to receive our media materials.
EarthFirst! Radio - The A-Infos Radio Project was formed in 1996 by grassroots broadcasters, free radio journalists and cyber-activists to provide ourselves with the means to share our radio programs via the Internet. To our knowledge, the A-Infos Radio Project was the first grassroots media project of it's kind on the internet. Our goal is to support and expand the movement for democratic communications worldwide. We exist to be an alternative to the corporate and government media which do not serve struggles for liberty, justice and peace, nor enable the free expression of creativity. The archived material is available to anyone who wants it free of charge.
EarthFirst! Journal & EarthFirst! Worldwide - Are you tired of namby-pamby environmental groups? Are you tired of overpaid corporate environmentalists who suck up to bureaucrats and industry? Have you become disempowered by the reductionist approach of environmental professionals and scientists?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Earth First! is for you. Earth First! is effective. Our front-line, direct action approach to protecting wilderness gets results. We have succeeded in cases where other environmental groups had given up, and have drawn public attention to the crises facing the natural world.
Earth First! was founded in 1979 in response to a lethargic, compromising, and increasingly corporate environmental community. Earth First! takes a decidedly different tack towards environmental issues. We believe in using all the tools in the tool box, ranging from grassroots organizing and involvement in the legal process to civil disobedience and monkeywrenching.
Earth First! is different from other environmental groups. Here are some things to keep in mind about Earth First! and some suggestions for being an active and effective Earth First!er: First of all, Earth First! is not an organization, but a movement. There are no "members" of Earth First!, only Earth First!ers. It is a belief in biocentrism, that life and the Earth comes first, and a practice of putting our beliefs into action.
While there is broad diversity within Earth First!, from animal rights vegans to wilderness hunting guides, from monkeywrenchers to careful followers of Gandhi, from whiskey-drinking backwoods riffraff to thoughtful philosophers, from misanthropes to humanists, there is agreement on one thing, the need for action!
Earth Island Institute - Life on Earth is imperiled by human degradation of the biosphere. Earth Island Institute develops and supports projects that counteract threats to the biological and cultural diversity that sustain the environment. Through education and activism, these projects promote the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the Earth.
Earth Liberation Front (ELF) - The Earth Liberation Front is an international underground organization consisting of autonomous groups of people who carry out direct action according to the E.L.F. guidelines.
The E.L.F operates in groups called cells that may consist of one to many individuals working together. Each cell is anonymous not only to the public but also to one another. This secure structure helps to keep activists out of jail and free to continue conducting actions.
As the E.L.F. structure is non-hierarchical, individuals involved in the action control their own destinies. There is not a centralized organization or membership to speak of in the E.L.F. so individuals are driven only by their personal conscience or cell decisions to carry out actions.
Individuals involved in E.L.F. activity are unknown to the public and therefore it could be anyone. In your local community, parents, teachers, church volunteers, your neighbor, the mayor, or even your spouse could be involved. No one is immune from the exploitation and destruction of the environment that all species, including humans, cohabitate in.
Any action that adheres to the strict nonviolence guidelines, listed below, can be considered an E.L.F. action. Economic sabotage and property destruction are considered E.L.F. actions. Volunteers carry out actions around the world to stop the continued destruction of the natural environment.
There is no way to contact the E.L.F. in your area, so it is up to each and every one of us to take responsibility ourselves to stop the exploitation of the natural world. No longer can it be assumed that someone else is going to do it. Each of us must get involved and stay active.
Earth Liberation Front Guidelines:
- To inflict economic damage to those who profit from the destruction and exploitation of the natural environment.
- To reveal and educate the public on the atrocities committed against the environment and all the species that cohabitate in it.
- To take all necessary precautions against harming any animal, human and non-human.
Environmental History Timeline - Long before Silent Spring, centuries before Greenpeace activists defied whalers' harpoons, many thousands of "green crusaders" tried to stop pollution, promote public health and preserve wilderness. The forgotten history of the environment comes as a surprise to many people, but the facts have been there all along, in manuscripts, publications and historical archives. Researchers have learned to look under labels like public health, conservation, preservation of nature, smoke abatement, municipal housekeeping, occupational disease, air pollution and water pollution. And so the modern "environmental" debate has roots in longstanding concerns with somewhat different labels.
Environmental News Network - Since 1993, the Environmental News Network has been working to educate the world about environmental issues facing our Earth. We began as a monthly print publication, called Environmental News Briefing, and two years later discovered the Internet as an effective means of reaching a broader, more diverse audience.
Food Not Lawns - Food Not Lawns is a non-profit, avant-gardening collective based in Whiteaker, Eugene's lowest-income neighborhood. Currently, our efforts focus on rebirthing highly-localized food and medicine cultures; and the preservation and propagation of rare plants - and having fun!
Forest Guardians Environmental Activism - Forest Guardians seeks to preserve and restore native wildlands and wildlife in the American Southwest through fundamental reform of public policies and practices.
Friends of the Earth - Friends of the Earth is a national environmental organization dedicated to preserving the health and diversity of the planet for future generations. As the largest international environmental network in the world with affiliates in 63 countries, Friends of the Earth empowers citizens to have an influential voice in decisions affecting their environment.
GRACE Factory Farm Campaign - The GRACE Factory Farm Campaign (GFFC) works to create a sustainable food production system that is healthful and humane, economically viable, and environmentally sound. Headed by Project Director Bill Weida, the GFFC helps rural communities, family ranchers and farmers around the country to oppose the spread of new factory farms and to close down existing ones which are affecting the health and well-being of communities.
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LEAD International - LEAD's mission is to create and sustain a global network of leaders who are committed to promote change towards patterns of economic development that are environmentally sustainable and socially equitable.
Leonardo DiCaprio.org - The challenges and problems of human existence are as daunting as ever, but the prospect of major gains in human well-being is historically unique. The Leonardo DiCaprio Charitable Foundation is animated by a vivid sense of the wonderful possibilities of the future and is grounded in a consciousness of the responsibility to ensure that our resources are used wisely and well.
The Leonardo DiCaprio Charitable Foundation was established in 1998 as a private foundation that awards grants to nonprofit organizations throughout the world.
LoveEarth - LoveEarth is an environmental organization that's been creating awareness since 1988. For almost 5 years we have concentrated on disseminating truthful information, empowering solutions and direct actions on environmental and humanitarian concerns via the Internet. Our intent is to form a unity of one percent to stop our extinction through our growing network of 1000+ EcoHumanePolitical websites.
Native Americans and the Environment
Negative Population Growth - Negative Population Growth (NPG) is a national membership organization founded in 1972 to educate the American public and political leaders about the detrimental effects of overpopulation on our environment, resources and quality of life. NPG advocates a smaller and truly sustainable United States population accomplished through smaller families and lower, more traditional immigration levels.
NRDC BioGems - Save Endangered Wild Places - NRDC's BioGems campaign is dedicated to saving unique wild places throughout the Americas -- places in urgent need of defense from clear and present dangers. Often these BioGems are the last refuge for animals and plants on the verge of extinction or are themselves the only remaining fragment of an ecosystem fast disappearing. They are also places where citizen activism can turn the tide.
Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth) - Population Connection is a national nonprofit organization working to slow population growth and achieve a sustainable balance between the Earth's people and its resources. We seek to protect the environment and ensure a high quality of life for present and future generations. Population Connection's education and advocacy programs aim to influence public policies, attitudes, and behavior on national and global population issues and related concerns.
Project Underground - Project Underground exists as a vehicle for the environmental, human rights and indigenous rights movements to carry out focused campaigns against abusive extractive resource activity. We seek to systematically deal with the problems created by the mining and oil industries by exposing environmental and human rights abuses by the corporations involved in these sectors and by building capacity amongst communities facing mineral and energy development to achieve economic and environmental justice.
Sacred Earth - Sacred Earth is a private, grass-roots organization dedicated to exploring traditional plant knowledge & cosmologies. Ethnobotanists, Ecologists, Botanists, Conservationists, Eco-psychologists, Herbalists, Mythologists, Cosmologist, Philosophers and all other people of any age, race, and spiritual background who share a passion for nature and a concern for the well-being of Mother Earth are invited to participate in this forum of cross-cultural exchange.
Sea Shepherd - The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a non-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) involved with the investigation and documentation of violations of international laws, regulations, and treaties protecting marine wildlife species.
Terrain: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments
Transportation Alternatives - Encourage bicycling, walking and public transit as alternatives to automobile use, and reduce automobile use and its attendant environmental and social harms.
VHEMT (Voluntary Human Extinction Movement) - VHEMT (pronounced vehement) is a movement not an organization. It's a movement advanced by people who care about life on planet Earth. We're not just a bunch of misanthropes and anti-social, Malthusian misfits, taking morbid delight whenever disaster strikes humans. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Voluntary human extinction is the humanitarian alternative to human disasters.
Voice Yourself - We believe all life on earth is sacred. VoiceYourself promotes and inspires individual action to create global momentum towards simple organic living and to restore balance and harmony to our planet.
Wildlands Project - In the words of cofounder Michael Soulé, we are networks of people protecting networks of land. Throughout Canada, the US, and Mexico, individuals and organizations -- both grassroots and professional -- embrace our work. This cooperation among scientists, conservationists, government agencies, indigenous peoples, private landowners, non-government organizations (NGOs), and naturalists has resulted in inspiration, action, and results.
World Watch - Worldwatch is a non profit public policy research organization dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems.