Environmental Sites: Non-Governmental Organizations

• Arms Trade Related Organizations
  NGOs with an emphasis in arms trading.
• California Planning and Conservation League: PCL
  The (California) Planning and Conservation League works to protect and restore the quality of California's environment "through lobbying the California State Legislature on a full range of environmental issues and by sponsoring environmental initiatives."  The PCL web site Offers: Lists of environmental bills before the California legislature; Some online PCL publications plus ordering information for PCL publications; Recent issues of California Today, the League's newsletter; Recent issues of ZEVolutions on zero emissions vehicles. - site intro
• Coating Alternatives Guide
  "Welcome to the Coating Alternatives Guide (CAGE), a pollution prevention tool for small- and medium-sized businesses and State technical assistance program representatives. CAGE is an expert system and information base designed to recommend low-emitting alternative coating technologies to coatings users. In addition, CAGE provides summarized information on recommended alternatives. The expert system asks the user several questions about their current coating process and tries to match up alternatives that fit the user's operating conditions. CAGE currently addresses alternative, low-emitting coatings for metal and plastic part coating operations. Future versions will address alternative coatings for wood, and other substrates." - site intro
• Environment: The World Bank Group
  By linking poverty alleviation and sustainable development, the Bank is focusing on finding ways to ensure that economic growth does not come at the expense of the world's physical and ecological systems or the world's poor. - site intro. Resources include: New Developments; Strategy; Key Topics; Operational Policies; Regions; Projects; Learning & Knowledge Resources; Publication & Data; Partnerships; and FAQs.
• Friends of the Earth FOE
  The largest international network of environmental groups in the world,
  represented in 61 countries. One of the leading environmental pressure
  groups in the UK. - site intro. Focus is on the UK.
• Future Search Network
  Enabling people to create shared visions and implement cooperative action plans across boundaries of culture, ethnicity, race, sector, hierarchy, education, income and social class. A world-wide service network providing public/non-profit sector future searches in all cultures for whatever people can afford. - site intro
• The Global Compact
  Focus is on human rights, labour and the environment. There are demonstrated ways to reconcile environmental protection and economic growth. The preventative approach to environmental problems is embedded in company policies and practices, resulting in both environmental and economic benefits. - site intro
• The Green Lane
  An organization dedicated to the hope of a Canada where people make responsible decisions about the environment; and where the environment is thereby sustained for the benefit of present and future generations. Features publications, newsletters, news releases, multimedia and online events and related sites.
• Greenpeace International Homepage
  News on activism campaigns for climate, toxics, nuclear, oceans, genetic
  engineering, ocean dumping, and forest-related issues.
• National Council for Science and the Environment
  Organization dedicated to improving the scientific basis for environmental decision-making. Includes Science on Sustainable Forestry, PopPlanet, Texas Briefing Book, Population & Environment Linkages, Congressional Research Service Reports, and the NCSE Conference Report.
• The NGO Cafe
  Realizing the growing importance and voice of NGOs in development, the NGO Café was set up on the internet as a meeting place for NGOs to discuss, debate and disseminate information on their work, strategies and results. - site intro. Categories include: Pigeonholes, Kickstart, Wise Words, Bungee Jumps, and Flash! Interesting and informative site. Many environmentally-related issues. From the Global Development Research Center (GDRC.)
• Non-Governmental Organizations and Associations 
  Water-related NGOs and associations.
• Probe International
  Probe International exposes the devastating environmental, social, and economic effects of Canada's aid and trade abroad. In a democracy, there is no greater guarantee of justice than the free flow of information. Probe International names names.- site intro. Focus is on Canada.
• Resources for the Future
  RFF is a nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank located in Washington, DC that conducts independent research - rooted primarily in economics and other social sciences - on environmental and natural resource issues. - site intro. Topics include: Air, Water, Climate, Solid Waste, Hazardous Waste and Superfund, Regulatory Policy, Forests, Minerals, Energy, Biodiversity, Land Use, Space, Resource Policy, Fisheries, Electricity Restructuring, Urban Transportation, Sustainable Development, Technological Innovation, Nuclear Weapons Cleanup, Public Health, Food, Non-Market Valuation, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Risk, Modeling, and Regulatory Design.
• UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
  The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides information for policy and action to conserve the living world. Now an office of the UN based in Cambridge, UK, the Centre's work is an integral part of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. Our programmes concentrate on species, forests, protected areas, marine and freshwaters; plus habitats affected by climate change such as polar regions. We also address the relationship between trade and the environment and the wider aspects of biodiversity assessment. - site intro
• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
  Resources on Environment and Human Settlements, Transport Statistics, Economic Analysis, Population Analysis, Sustainable Energy, Trade, Industry and Enterprise Development, Timber, Agricultural Standards, Coordinating Unit for Operational Activities, and the Programme of Joint Action on Transport and Environment.
• Virtual Library on International Development: Environment
  Topics include: General, Biodiversity, Canadian Resources, Climate Change, Conservation, Desertification, Environmental Assessment, Environmental Economics, Environmental Law and Policy, Social Issues, and Water.
• Virtual Library on International Development: Organizations
  Choose Non-governmental organizations. Environmental NGOs are at this page.
  Annotations are well done.
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Forestry - NGO
  List of annotated international NGO sources for forestry. From METLA Library Information Services.
• The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources: Nongovernmental Organizations
  Directories and principal organizations. Descriptions.