This is both a plea for help as well as a heads up. The lovely Sharon Astyk and I are embarking on a new joint venture which we will announce here soon enough. One thing that we want to do with our project is donate any proceeds made to an organization that is dedicated to environmental issues. Sharon and I have pretty much most of the details of the project sketched out, except we haven't come up with a suitable green organization. I thought it appropriate to ask you readers what are your favorites. This will not only help us get ideas, but also will give us a general impression of which one(s) are preferred.
So, if you have some suggestions, please leave in the comments of this post what your favorite environmental organizations are.
For those of you just dying to know what crazy shit we have up our sleeves (okay, that didn't paint a very nice visual), let me just say that it has something to do with science. And with Sharon being on Science Blogs these days, it should do very nicely.
18 Crunchy Thoughts:
I'm a fan of Sierra Club or the World Wildlife Fund. Oldies but goodies :)
Your local library. Never fails. Available to all no matter who you are or what you own. The ultimate recycler.
NRDC! I went on a tour of their Santa Monica office and love them more than ever! Sweet people, great organization.
I really like Trees for Life and the Wildlands Foundation.
http://www.treesforlife.org/our-work
www.twp.org
Have you seen earthshare.org?
They support NRDC, Sierra, and many, many more. They have made my donations easier.
You might also consider Tropical Forest Foundation, although it might not have the science focus you want.
Debbie
Naturebridge (Washington State's campus is Olympic Park Institute). . . environmental/science education at it's finest.
Naturebridge.org
I second the vote for the public library!
Environmental Defense Fund - more of a 'big picture' operation, but if you read about what they do, you'll be impressed: http://www.edf.org
Heifer recommends itself, too. Keeping people fed seems a very green idea, since medical care, dead bodies, and warfare resulting from starvation are very Not Green.
You didn't mention if you were looking specifically for US-based organisations. Here's a UK charity which you might find interesting:
http://www.thebiggreenidea.org/
I love NRDC and EWG, and also since you're doing something scienc-y, why not try to find a nonprofit that works to improve science education or to provide enrichment enviro ed? I know of local ones in my area...but I bet the National Science Foundation is a good source for Washington State or national ones.
I kind of lean towards WWF myself! But there are so many to choose from- the other is Second Harvest or Feeding America- http://feedingamerica.org/
I like OSALT
http://www.osalt.org/
Oregon Sustainable Agriculture Land Trust concentrates on saving at risk farm land and making it available to small farmers.
A model that each bio-region could adapt to save critical open spaces and keep or make them productive in a sustainable way.
I really love EWG. As a mother, I feel like I do not know what I would do without them.
In Canada I would recommend the David Suzuki Foundation.
Charity Navigator (http://www.charitynavigator.org/) has a section specifically for environment charities. It lets you see how much of their money goes to administration and fundraising and how much actually goes to their work.
I also like EWG.
Diana
Beyond Pesticides
beyondpesticides.org
(Formerly the National Coalition for the Misuse of Pesticides) While the other larger orgs are great and do good work. This one has been around for almost 30 years and has stayed true to it's values. Unfortunately I think that may have kept it from growing more. Sometimes it's harder to raise/accept money when you stick to your guns about what you believe in.
But with that said, Sharon's heart and soul seems to be Peak Oil. So maybe that is the genre that you should go with.
I'd like to vote for Trees, Water, People ww.treeswaterpeople.org. They do reforestation, provide fuel-efficient stoves do home insulation and solar panels etc. in South America and on Indigenous reservations in the US. I like the way they work *with* local people - including having local people run their nurseries etc. So they provide employment, improve the watersheds, prevent erosion, suck carbon from the air and allow people dignity. A mix of environmental and social goals I really respect :-)
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