Environment Links

1. Faith & Ecology Websites

Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life: http://www.coejl.org/.

Earth Ministry: http://www.earthministry.org/.

(Helping individuals and congregations connect Christian faith with care for the earth.)

Forum on Religion and Ecology: http://environment.harvard.edu/religion/

(Produces conferences, publications (including a book series considering the main world religions and their relationships with ecology), and a useful website, dedicated to exploring religious worldviews, texts, and ethics related to environmental concerns.

Forum co-founder Mary Evelyn Tucker was recently on the faculty at the Earth and Religion conference http://www.earthandreligion.org/).

Honor the Earth: http://www.honorearth.org/.

(Creates awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities.)

National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Working Group: http://www.nccecojustice.org/.

National Religious Partnership for the Environment: http://www.nrpe.org.

Unitarian Universalist Seventh Principle Project: http://www.uuaspp.org/. (Includes the Green Sanctuary Program for congregations).

2. Faith Group Websites on Global Climate Change

California Interfaith Power and Light: http://www.interfaithpower.org/ (The organization that began the Interfaith power and light movement).

Interfaith Climate Change Network: http://www.protectingcreation.org/. (Mostly Christian, but does include COEJL).

Interfaith Power and Light. http://www.theregenerationproject.org/. (This is an interfaith ministry devoted to deepening the connection between ecology and faith. Their Interfaith power and Light program is mobilizing a national religious response to global warming while promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation).

3. Non-governmental Scientific Study Organizations

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): http://www.ipcc.ch/. (U.N. created agency to study climate change).

Climate Change Knowledge Network: http://www.cckn.net/. (Research results in developed and developing countries).

Climate Action Network: http://www.climatesolutions.org. (Worldwide network of NGOs working on climate change).

The Pew Center's climate change site: http://www.pewclimate.org/.

Statement of the Joint Science Academies on global warming, June, 2005:

http://nationalacademies.org/onpi/06072005.pdf.

Union of Concerned Scientists: http://www.ucsusa.org/.

http://www.climatechoices.org/.

UCS PowerPoint presentations:                http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/archive/page.cfm?pageID=991/.

4. Activist Organizations

Climate Crisis Coalition. http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/ (An organization for activism on global warming, including noted Author Ross Gelbspan, among many others).

Kyoto and Beyond. http://www.kyotoandbeyond.org/. (People's ratification of Kyoto Protocol).

Natural Resources Defense Council. http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/default.asp (Contains a great deal of information on global warming and other environmental subjects).

Physicians for Social Responsibility: http://www.psrenergysecurity.org/envirohealth.htm. (Includes new study on U.S. energy security, Powering Foreign Policy (downloadable)).

Stop Global Warming. www.stopglobalwarming.org. (A "virtual" march against global warming).

5. Organizations Promoting Alternative Energy/Sustainable Living

Alliance to Save Energy: http://www.ase.org.

American Council for an energy efficient economy: http://www.aceee.org/.

American Solar Energy Society: http://www.ases.org/.

American Wind Energy Assn.: http://www.awea.org/.

Climate Solutions: http://www.climatesolutions.org/. (Practical information for reducing emissions).

Co-op America online green pages: http://www.greenpages.org/.

Real Goods: http://www.realgoods.com/, (Products for sustainability, including solar).

Rocky Mountain Institute: http://www.rmi.org/.

Solar Living Institute: http://www.solarliving.org/.