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Global Network of Environmental Economist (gNee)
http://www.feem.it/gnee/index.html
The Global Network of Environmental Economists aims at helping
researchers, policymakers, academics, environmentalists from all
countries in the world to exchange their view and information in
order to increase and share knowledge, to promote cooperation, to
improve quality and effectiveness of research in environmental economics.
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Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org.au/index.php3
Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice.
It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs actions - not words.
Greenpeace is an independent organisation campaigning to ensure
a just, peaceful, sustainable environment for future generations.
Greenpeace began in Canada in 1971 and today has a presence in more
than 40 countries with 2.4 million supporters worldwide. Greenpeace
Australia was founded in 1977 and today it has more than 75,000
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IUCN - The World Conservation Union
http://www.iucn.org/
The World Conservation Union was founded in 1948 and brings together
78 states, 112 government agencies, 735 NGOs, 35 affiliates, and
some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique
worldwide partnership. Its mission is to influence, encourage and
assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity
and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources
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Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
http://www.nrdc.org/
The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard
the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems
on which all life depends. NRDC works to restore the integrity of
the elements that sustain life -- air, land and water -- and to
defend endangered natural places. NRDC seeks to establish sustainability
and good stewardship of the Earth as central ethical imperatives
of human society. NRDC affirms the integral place of human beings
in the environment. NRDC strives to protect nature in ways that
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Sierra Club
http://www.sierraclub.org/
Founded in the Spring of 1892, the Sierra Club thrives as a nonprofit
member-supported, public interest organization that promotes conservation
of the natural environment by influencing public policy decisions--legislative,
administrative, legal, and electoral. It is also a social and outings
club, sponsoring hikes, canoe trips, cross country skiing outings
and other outdoor activities. Sierra Club outings are designed to
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Worldwatch Institute
http://www.worldwatch.org/
Worldwatch is a nonprofit public policy research organization dedicated
to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems
and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its
environmental support systems. The Worldwatch Institute is dedicated
to fostering the evolution of an environmentally sustainable society--one
in which human needs are met in ways that do not threaten the health
of the natural environment or the prospects of future generations.
The Institute seeks to achieve this goal through the conduct of
interdisciplinary nonpartisan research on emerging global environmental
issues, the results of which are widely disseminated throughout
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WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature
http://www.panda.org/
WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature is the world's largest and most
experienced independent conservation organization, with around 5
million supporters and a global network of 27 National Organizations,
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