Environmental Links for Action and Information
Below you will find an array of links to various environmental organizations. They provide a wealth of information, and many offer the opportunity to make your voice heard to the people who need to hear it. So far I haven't found one stand-alone site for my pet peeve, which is educating people out of the habit of demonizing the natural world. But that is something that each one of us has the power to do, in our everyday conversations. As artists, we also have the power to reach people through our varied mediums. The same disturbing message has been repeated in every place possible, from the internet to the pulpit to letters to the editor in our local newspaper - this planet is vile and infested with sinners and needs to be "cleansed." I think another message needs to be put forth - that we live and breathe because the planet feeds and oxygenates us, and not that we are born sinners on a raft of evil floating through space. You can't expect to teach people that everything about them and their world is evil and then have them care for, nurture, and protect it. These links will assist us all in finding our own ways to care for, nurture, and protect the living, breathing planet that nurtures and protects us.
www.audubon.org - this is a great site with an e-mail newsletter you can subscribe to and a service of action alerts that let you know when you need to e-mail your politicians. It covers such idiotic proposals as drilling in the Arctic Refuge, and repealing many of the limitations on logging in our national forests. This is a good source for always-up-to-date information.
www.arborday.org - this is the site of the National Arbor Day Foundation, which a wealth of information about trees, and several projects in need of support.
www.jimmorris.com - this is a site for the Jim Morris Environmental T-Shirt Company, which has lots of beautiful shirts for sale.
www.awionline.org - Animal Welfare Institute
www.conservation.org - Conservation Institute
www.defenders.org - Defenders of Wildlife
www.wilderness.org - the Wilderness Society
www.wwf.org - World Wildlife Federation
www.hsus.org - Humane Society of the US - could we please get with the program and take care of our animals?
www.americanhumane.org - American Humane Society - ditto above
www.newdream.org - Center for a New American Dream - environmental info for the consumer
www.ecopsych.com - Eco-psychology site
