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HIST 302 Environmental History in the Modern US -- Professor Kleiman: Environmental Organizations

GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Abalone Alliance (1977)
American Rivers (1973)
Center for Health, Environment, and Justice (founded as Citizen's Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste in 1981)
Earth First! (1980)
EarthJustice (1971-as Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund)
Environmental Defense Fund (1967)
Friends of the Earth (1969)
Greenpeace (1971)
Izaak Walton League (1935)
League of Conservation Voters (1970)
National Audubon Society (1922)
Children's Environmental Health Network (1992)
National Wildlife Federation (1936)
Nature Conservancy (1951)
National Resources Defense Council (1961)
Ocean Conservatory (1972)
Office of Technology Assessment (1974-1995)
Population Connection (1968, as Zero Population Growth)
Sierra Club (1892)
Wilderness Society (1935)
Worldwatch Institute (1975)

LOCAL COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS:

Genesee Valley Organic Community Supported Agriculture
Greater Rochester Urban Bounty

ROCHESTER AREA ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Animal Rights Advocates of Upstate New York
Common Good Planning Center
Conesus Lake Association
Finger Lakes Land Trust
Finger Lakes Ontario Watershed Paddlers' Club
Finger Lakes Trail Conference
Friends of the Genesee
Genesee Land Trust
Metro Justice
Sierra Club--Rochester Regional Group
New York State Fish Hatchery (Caledonia)
Rochester Committee for Scientific Information
Also see the Directory Of Environmental Agencies And Organizations In The Rochester/Genesee/Finger Lakes Area

APPROPRIATE TECHOLOGY ORGANIZATIONS:

Center for Neighborhood Technology (1980's)
Farallones Institute/Ecological Design Institute
The Green Center (founded as the New Alchemy Institute in 1973)
Institute for Local Self Reliance (1974)
National Center for Appropriate Technology (1977)
Ocean Arks (1981)
Real Goods (1978)
Rocky Mountain Institute

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATIONS:

ATTRA--National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
Center for Rural Affairs
Henry Wallace Endowed Chair for Sustainable Agriculture
Land Institute (1980's)
Land Stewardship Project (1982)
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
Organic Consumers Association
Robyn Van En Center for CSA Resources
Rodale Institute
Rodale Institute

JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES:

CoEvolution Quarterly (issues 1-43), Whole Earth Review (issues 44-89), Whole Earth Magazine (issue 90 to present)
In Context
Organic Gardening
Rocky Mountain Institute Newsletter

OTHER ORGANIZATIONS:

Center for Science in the Public Interest (1970)
Public Citizen (1971)
Public Interest Research Groups (1970)
Union of Concerned Scientists (1969)