The International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON)

The International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON)

The International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON) is an international organization, group of stakeholders committed to developing and communicating information about health and environmental risks of nanotechnology, thereby fostering risk reduction and maximize benefits society. ICON is composed of people from academia, industrial countries, governmental and non governmental organizations in nanotechnology research and development of high activity. ICON is an organization of technical training and not to defend or commercial interests.

National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)

National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)

Finnish Science and the Environment (NCSE) is a non-profit organization, which must be made to improve the scientific basis for environmental decision-making. Although a supporter of science and its use, NCSE has not taken a position on environmental policy.

NCSE specializes in programs that bring together various individuals, institutions and communities work together, especially in many communities to create and use knowledge of the environment, including research, education, environment, and business organizations and government at all levels.

NCSE operates programs in five areas:

1. Scientific solutions - programs that engage diverse communities to deploy science to make decisions on specific issues. This includes the National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry and Wildlife Habitat Policy Research Program.

2. Strengthening education - which includes an affiliate program of the University (~ 160 member schools) with a Council of Deans and Directors of the environment and , a mentoring program for high school students

3. National conference on science, politics and the environment

4th Encyclopedia of Earth. Nose acts as secretariat for the Environmental Information Coalition, which is to build the Encyclopedia of Earth.

5th Science policy - which aims to strengthen understanding and support of environmental science and its application, and programs that make it possible. Nose played a crucial role in stimulating the initiative of the National Science Foundation to triple its annual budget for environmental research, education and scientific assessment

National Registry of Environmental Professionals (NREP)

National Registry of Environmental Professionals (NREP)

The National Registry of Environmental Professionals (PNER) is higher in the U.S. governmental organization for accreditation of the environment, and is recognized by the U.S. Department Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency. PNER has about 12,000 members worldwide, including managers, technicians and other professionals working in the operation and management related to regulatory issues such as compliance with pollution standards, air, soil and water.

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)

Public Services for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit, the organization of environmental protection of local resources and natural state and national government for environmental professionals. PEER is a resource for potential whistleblowers of government, allowing them to expose the harmful environment and contribute anonymously to the correction agency retaliation. Founded in 1996, PEER works primarily for the processing of applications for public sector employees in the government's fault on the environment. Because whistleblowers often face direct retaliation of the participating organizations, peer encourages employees to work through the organization to reveal the government's environmental damage. Once a claim is made, the PEER survey, often with requests for access to information. The organization may choose to take a series of actions, including press releases and legal procedures.

PEER is also used to provide legal services to complainants who are the target of agency retaliation.

Resources for the Future (RFF)

Resources for the Future (RFF)

Future (RFF) is a non-profit organization that makes an independent investigation of the environment, energy and natural resource problems, primarily through the economy and other social sciences. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC, RFF conducts research around the world. In 1952, the Institute is recognized as a pioneer in the field of resource economics.

The Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)

Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) is a research and education funded by private contributions, based in Arlington, Virginia, USA. It was founded in 1990 by atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer.  Sepp challenges the prevailing science of climate change and ozone depletion. Sepp also questioned the science used to establish the dangers of passive smoking, arguing that the risks are exaggerated.  [dead link]

Sepp former president of the board is listed as Rockefeller University President Emeritus Frederick Seitz, , a former president of the National Academy of Sciences, now deceased

Student Environmental Action Coalition or SEAC

Student Environmental Action Coalition or SEAC

Student Action Coalition environment or SEAC (pronounced "seek") is a student and a national network of progressive organizations run youth and individuals based in the United States.

SEAC, "working together to protect our planet and our future," defines the environment as including physical, economic, political and cultural context in which we live. In challenging the power structure which threatens these environmental conditions, SEAC works to create progressive social change both locally and globally.
 SEAC was launched in 1988 by students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It differs from other student organizations for the environment because of its broad definition of environment, which includes racism, sexism, militarism, heterosexism, economic justice and animal rights.

Although sometimes disturbing and ready to break the law, are members of the Student Environmental Action Coalition or SEAC program (as they call themselves) willing to do whatever it takes to get their message. SEAC has a bottom-up approach in which the place takes over the management of each chapter across the country. The people of Burma, Britain and Hong Kong, China, for example, participated in the Conference in 1995, SEAC. They are also included in many Internet sites dedicated to environmental and networks www.campusactivism.org www.climatechallenge.org.1, 2

Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV)

Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV)

Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV) is a collaboration of businesses, governments and nongovernmental organizations that are identifying and responding to the pressures of environment and resources in Silicon Valley. As its first initiative, SSV committed valley leading organizations that are partners in the ISS, working toward a goal of reducing regional carbon dioxide (CO2) by 20% below 1990 levels by 2010. The SSV approach to achieve this goal is to facilitate strategies to reduce CO2 emissions through energy and fuel efficiency and using renewable energy sources
Vision: Silicon Valley thriving with a healthy environment, a vibrant economy and a socially just.

Mission: To work with the community of Silicon Valley to create a more sustainable future using an environmental management system.

Geography Served: SSV Partners in San Mateo, Santa Clara, north of Santa Cruz and southern Alameda County. Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases CO2 SSW initiative for local communities, regional and global and across all socioeconomic boundaries.

West Harlem Environmental Action (also known as WEACT)

West Harlem Environmental Action Programme (also known as WEACT) is a Harlem, New York City-based non-profit environmental justice focuses on sustainability, public health, pollution, and other cities in the quality of life. The organization was founded in 1988 to resist the city and the North River sewage treatment plant designed for the construction of the MTA bus depot.  The argument on the basis of an increase in respiratory illnesses among residents of Harlem and other adverse health effects. WEACT lead plaintiff lawsuit was brought against the city, which was solved in 1994.
Currently WEACT is one of several groups involved in negotiations on the community benefits as part of the Columbia University expansion plan Villas Manhattan School. It 'also through the rehabilitation of abandoned brownstone converted WEACT Environmental Justice Center, which houses the office and program space, and act as proof of the various green building technologies.

L'Homme et L'Environnement (English: Man and the Environment)

L'Homme et L'Environnement (English: Man and the Environment)

 
Man and Environment (in English: The man and the environment) is a small nongovernmental organization based in Antananarivo, Madagascar, with a mission to develop economically and ecologically sustainable management of natural resources in some parts of Madagascar.

The organization works in five different areas outside of Antananarivo, with the common goal of ecotourism, medicinal plants, and experimental agriculture as an alternative to the degradation of the environment for local communities. One of the main areas they serve is Vohimana Reserve, near Andasibe-Mantadia National Park.

Humans and the Environment approves the volunteers and researchers in the long term and short-lived, for a fee. Some of the Department of French is preferable but not essential.

Macedonian Ecological Society (MES)

Macedonian Ecological Society (MES)

Macedonian Ecological Society (MES) was founded in 1972 in what was then called the Socialist Republic of Macedonia.

Green Belt Movement

Green Belt Movement

The Green Belt Movement is a grassroots NGO based in indigenous Nairobi, Kenya, which takes a holistic approach to development by focusing on environmental conservation, community development and capacity building. Professor Wangari Maathai founded the organization in 1977 under the auspices of the National Council of Women of Kenya.

The Green Belt Movement organizes women in rural Kenya to plant trees, combating deforestation, restoring their main source of cooking fuel, to generate revenue, and stop soil erosion. Maathai has incorporated advocacy and empowerment, eco-tourism, and only economic development in the Green Belt Movement.

Since Maathai started the movement in 1977, more than 40 million trees were planted. Over 30,000 women trained in forestry, processing industry, beekeeping and other foods, allowing them to earn money while preserving their land and resources. Communities in Kenya (men and women) were motivated and organized both prevent further environmental destruction and restore what was damaged.

In 2004, Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize - to become the first African woman to win Nobel Peace Prize - for his work with the Greenbelt Movement. His book, The Green Belt Movement, published by Lantern Books. Maathai is a leader in the movement ecofeminist

Zalul Environmental Association

Zalul Environmental Association

Zalul Environmental Association is a group based in Israel for the Environment was founded in 1999 in order to protect the oceans and rivers of Israel through conservation, activism, research, information and education. Zalul seeks to end the waste of sewage and other toxic wastes into rivers of Israel through legal and regulatory reforms.

Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (Hebrew: החברה להגנת הטבע‎, HaHevra LeHaganat HaTeva)

Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (Hebrew: החברה להגנת הטבע‎, HaHevra LeHaganat HaTeva)

Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (in Hebrew: החברה להגנת הטבע, HaHevra LeHaganat HaTeva), or the SPNI, an Israeli environmental non-profit organization committed to preserving the plants, animals and natural environments, which represent the biological diversity by protecting lands and water necessary for their survival, and is the oldest and largest organization of environmental organization in Israel.
FNIH is most comparable with the Sierra Club in the United States.

Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network (PENGON)

Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network (PENGON)

Palestinian Environmental NGOs (PENGON Network) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization whose mission is to protect the environment in Palestine, by acting as a coordinating body of environmental groups in the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. PENGON was started in 2000 by Al-Aqsa as a result of increased requirements for the Palestinian environmental organizations to defend the Palestinian environment.
PENGON is composed of 21 member organizations, with objectives that cover a wide range of environmental issues such as land defense against abuse, sustainable agriculture, water conservation, rural affairs, sustainable development, protection of heritage, cultural health and sanitation, protection of biodiversity, human rights and community participation.

PENGON General Assembly consists of all its members. The Coordinating Committee consists of seven members elected every two years by the General Assembly.

PENGON is an umbrella organization of Palestinian organizations operating environment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. PENGON focuses on the protection of the Palestinian environment in the context of the Israeli military occupation. Therefore, environmental efforts in coordination with the campaigns for social justice and also to integrate the social, cultural economic and environmental protection and defense.

PENGON seeks to create international awareness, build capacity for environmental advocacy and community mobilization to engage in sustainable development. PENGON also encourages cooperation with other developing societies.

PENGON member organizations of the network:

* Al-Ard for the Knowledge Society and Environmental Protection

* Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)

* Agricultural Services Center (TCA)

* Centre for Primary Health Care Development (CDPHC) - Al Quds University

* Institute for the Study of the water, Birzeit University

* Development and Environment Association Baladna Cultural Center

* National Research Center (LRC)

* LAW-Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and Environment

* Local Committee for Environmental Protection, Nablus

Ma'an Development Center *

* Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC)

* Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange (PACE)

* Palestinian Hydrology Group (PHG)

* Center Road Safety and Environment (RESC)

* Society for the Protection of the Environment, Jenin

* The Union Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC)

* Association of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees of the field (UPMRC)

* Water and Environment Institute, Ramallah Municipality

* Water and Environmental Research Unit of the soil (WSERU), Bethlehem University

* Water and Environment Research Center (WESC), An-Najah National University

* Palestine Wildlife Society (WLPS)

The Green Movement (Israel)

The Green Movement (Hebrew: התנועה הירוקה‎, HaTnu`a HaYeruqa) is a social-environmental political party in Israel. The Green Movement brings together activists, organizers, city council members, academics, thinkers, and scientists who share awareness that the social-environmental agenda must be central to Israel's political discourse.

Israel Union for Environmental Defense

Israel Union for Environmental Defense

Israel Union for Environmental Defense (in Hebrew: אדם טבע ודין, Adam Teva extractor, illuminated the nature of man and the law.) A group of environmental activists in Israel.

Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB)

Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB)

Association for building environmentally conscious (AECB) is the first network of Green Building professionals in the UK. Composition of the AECB include local authorities, housing associations, contractors, architects, designers, consultants and manufacturers. Members share a "broad green vision", which is reflected in their approach to the design of buildings and their environment. The association was founded in 1989 "to educate the construction industry on the need to respect, protect, preserve and improve the environment."

Asociación Pola Defensa da Ría (Association in Defence of the Ria)

Asociación Pola Defensa da Ría (Association in Defence of the Ria)

Asociación Pola Defensa da Ria (Ria Defense Association), Pontevedra, known as the APDR, Galicia is one of the problems with local environmental non-governmental organization created in 1987 to address pollution in the RIA of Pontevedra. He has over 500 registered members, and has considerable support within the local community.

Through its work, defends APDR a sustainable development model based on the rational use of marine and forest resources, and a tourism model not based on the idea of ​​mass tourism. The organization is open to any citizen interested in the rehabilitation of the estuary and adjacent areas. Most of his work focuses on the fight against major polluting industries  such as logging company TAFISA (already changed) and pulp / paper mill and electro-chemical complex ELNOSA-ENCE.

The Earth Organization

The Earth Organization

Organization is an international non-governmental organization, which calls itself "independent, grass-roots international non-profit organization, conservation and environment, with new solutions, committed to creative, responsible rehabilitation of the planet Earth, the vegetable kingdom and animal. "  The organization is registered as an independent non-profit in South Africa, the subsidiaries in the United States, France, Canada, Hungary and Slovakia.
The organization was founded in 2003 in South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony  and is best known for its activities related to the welfare of elephants.