Organisations A-Z

• Adbusters
  "We fought kings and church for freedom of opinion, and governments for freedom of expression. With the Media Carta movement, we're at it again: fighting for the right to access the most powerful communications media ever created."
  
• AlterNet.org
  
• AMED
  AMED is a professional network for people in individual and organisation development. The aim is to help members to develop themselves and other people, as well as to make an even greater contribution to innovation and good practice in the workplace and the wider environment.
  
• Amnesty International
  
• Antiwar.com
  Antiwar.com provides a sounding board of interest to all who are concerned about US foreign policy and its implications.
  
• ASPO - Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas
  ASPO is a network of scientists, affiliated with European institutions and universities, having an interest in determining the date and impact of the peak and decline of the world's production of oil and gas, due to resource constraints.
  
• Beddington Zero Energy Development
  
• Better World Links
  Norbert's Bookmarks for a Better World
  
• Boycott Bush
  The Bush Administration is perhaps best understood as a mouthpiece of America's profit-seeking corporate sector. And although his re-election in November 2004 was a setback for campaginers around the world, the need to withdraw support from the corporations behind his government is as strong as ever. Withough constant opposition, the political dominance of these companies could stretch decades into the future. Many though have high-profile consumer brands that are still vulnerable to pressure group activity.
  
• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - CND
  CND campaigns non-violently to rid the world of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction and to create genuine security for future generations.
  
• Cancer Prevention Coalition
  The Cancer Prevention Coalition, Inc. (CPC) goal is to reduce escalating cancer rates through a comprehensive strategy of outreach, public education, advocacy and public policy initiatives to establish prevention as the nation's foremost cancer policy.
  
• CEH - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
  The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology is the leading body in the UK for research, survey, and monitoring in terrestrial and freshwater environments. CEH Web provides information about our science, products and data.
  
• Center for a New American Dream
  The Center for a New American Dream helps Americans consume responsibly to protect the environment, enhance quality of life and promote social justice
  
• Clean up Australia
  
• Council for a Parliament of the Worlds Religions
  
• Creative Commons
  Creative Commons offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. We have built upon the "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright to create a voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright. We're a nonprofit. All of our tools are free.
  
• CRed
  CRed is the Community Carbon Reduction Project based in the East of England and focussing on Norfolk and Norwich.
  CRed and its partners will put Norfolk and Norwich on the world map by taking real action to address the biggest environmental challenge confronting everyone on the planet: CLIMATE CHANGE.
  CRed is building a community of partners who are deciding how they want to cut their emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) to meet a target of 60% reduction by 2025.
  
• Earth Action
  EarthAction is building a global action alert network which can mobilize people simultaneously around the planet to speak out for a better world.
  
• Earth Day Network
  Earth Day Network is an alliance of 5,000 groups in 184 countries working to promote a healthy environment and a peaceful, just, sustainable world. Each year, Earth Day inspires a groundswell of grassroots action in communities around the world. People from Peru to India, and from Ireland to the USA take part in Earth Day events and actions which educate, spread awareness and push for tangible change.
  
• Earth Summit 2002
  
• East Anglia Food Link
  Forging links for a sustainable, local food system in the East of England
  
• ECO - The Campaign for Political Ecology
  
• Ecosustainable Hub - Ecology Environment Sustainability
  One-stop connection to resources and tools on ecology, environment and sustainability. Facilitating co-operation, networking and ethical developments.
  
• EIA - Environmental Investigation Agency
  The Environmental Investigation Agency is an independent, international campaigning organisation committed to investigating and exposing environmental crime.
  
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
  EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate people — lawyers, technologists, volunteers and visionaries — working to protect your digital rights.
  
• EMS - Environmental Media Services
  The Environmental Media Services is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing journalists with the most current information on environmental issues.
  
• ENS - Environmental News Services
  
• EPA - United States Environmental Protection Agency
  
• ESA - Environmental Services Association
  The Environmental Services Association (ESA) is the association for companies providing waste management and associated environmental services.
  
• Ethical Consumer
  Ethical Consumer is the UK's alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names.
  
• FoE - Friends of the Earth
  Friends of the Earth is a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the planet from environmental degradation; preserving biological, cultural, and ethnic diversity; and empowering citizens to have an influential voice in decisions affecting the quality of their environment - and their lives. FoEI - Friends of the Earth International
  
• Food & Drink Federation (UK)
  
• Food Ethics Council
  The Food Ethics Council reports on ethical issues in food and agriculture.
  We develop tools to help make ethical thinking a standard practice in policy, business and everyday life. We work towards a food system that is fair, humane, secure and sustainable.
  
• Food Standards Agency (UK)
  
• Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII)
  The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure is a non-profit association registered in several European countries, which is dedicated to the spread of data processing literacy. FFII supports the development of public information goods based on copyright, free competition, open standards.
  
• Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique
  Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique is a UK-based affiliate of Les Amis Le Monde Diplomatique which supports the writings and tradition which has evolved over 50 years of publication of the Le Monde Diplomatique Newspaper.
  
• FSF - Free Software Foundation
  The Free Software Foundation (FSF), founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software and documentation. They are the principal sponsor of the GNU project, which is used as a core element of the GNU/Linux operating system.
  
• GCI - Global Commons Institute
  The Global Commons Institute is an independent group of people whose aim is the protection of the Global Commons. GCI has focused most of its efforts since 1996 on its Contraction and Convergence campaign. On this site you can find various documents describing what C&C is, its gestation and history and the broad support it has achieved from diverse organisations and people across the globe.
  
• GCI - Green Cross International
  
• Global Issues
  
• Globalisation for the Common Good
  Globalisation for the Common Good mission is to promote ethical, moral and spiritual values into the areas of economics, commerce, trade and international relations amongst others, as well as personal virtues, to advance understanding and action on major global issues by civil society, the private enterprise, the public sector, governments, and national and international institutions, leading to the promotion of collaborative policy solutions to the challenges posed by globalisation.
  
• GREEN GUIDE ONLINE
  
• Green Party of England and Wales
  
• Greenpeace
  
• Henry George Foundation of Great Britain
  An independent economic think-tank and public education group dedicated to promoting a philosophy for a just and prosperous society.
  
• Idea for a better use of human intelligence by Mattis Manzel
  I recently had the idea - and it desperately needs this - how the world is to be saved. It will require everybody's help to do so, in particular the help of smart economy/bank-buddies and just as clever computer/network specialists. Good things take time.
  
• IFAW - International Fund for Animal Welfare
  IFAW works to reduce commercial exploitation of animals, to help animals in crisis & distress, and to protect their environment.
  
• ILSR - Institute for Local Self-Reliance
  The Institute for Local Self-Reliance is a non-profit research and educational organization that provides technical assistance and environmentally sound economic development strategies.
  
• IMF & World Bank explained by the IFG
  
• IMF - International Monetary Fund
  
• Indictrans Team
  A voluntary organization based in Mumbai, India that support NGOs, government institutions, educational institutions in use of ICT with free software including that in local content and with local language enabled software. They bring out live CD, (general purpose as well as customized) called gnubhaaratii with Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and English interfaces. They also maintain the present website (sustainable society.co.uk directory). They have their website www.indictrans.org Convenor: Prof. Jitendra Shah. (jitendras{at}vsnl{dot}com)
  
• INES - International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility
  
• INFORSE - International Network for Sustainable Energy
  INFORSE is a world-wide network of 200 NGOs in more than 60 countries. All of these organisations work to promote sustainable energy and social development.
  
• Institute of Science in Society - ISIS
  ISIS mission is to promote science responsible to civil society and the public good, independent of commercial and other special interests, or of government control.
  
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. It is open to all Members of the UN and of WMO.
  
• International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
  The International Forum on Globalization advocates equitable, democratic, and ecologically sustainable economics. It is formed in response to the present worldwide drive toward a globalized economic system dominated by supranational corporate trade and banking institutions that are not accountable to democratic processes or national governments. One of the most crucial, yet still insufficiently noted consequences of economic globalization has been the myriad impacts resulting from the conversion of smaller, locally based farming to a global industrialized agricultural model.
  
• ISEC - International Society for Ecology and Culture
  The International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) is a non-profit organisation that promotes locally based alternatives to the global consumer culture. Our emphasis is on education for action: moving beyond single issues to look at the more fundamental influences that shape our lives.
  
• ITDG - the Intermediate Technology Development Group
  Is small still beautiful? ITDG thinks it is. In an increasingly divided and fragile world, ITDG - the Intermediate Technology Development Group - aims to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries.
  
• MAFF - Ministry of Agricolture, Fisheries and Food (UK)
  
• National Environmental Trust
  The National Environmental Trust is a non-profit, non-partisan organization established in 1994 to inform citizens about environmental problems and how they affect our health and quality of life.
  
• NCBS - National Centre for Business & Sustainability
  NCBS advocates environmentally and socially sustainable solutions to a range of businesses and organisations.
  
• NEF - New Economics Foundation
  
• NERC - Natural Environment Research Council
  
• NO SWEAT - The UK campaign against sweatshops
  
• nosoftwarepatents.com
  Copyright protects authors but doesn't hurt any honest person. Patents, in contrast, are 20-year monopolies that the government grants on broad and general ideas. Patents are potential weapons against all of us.
  
• NRDC - Natural Resources Defence Council
  NRDC uses law, science, and the support of more than 400,000 members nationwide to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.
  
• NSSD - Natural Strategies for Sustainable Development
  
• OCA - Organic Consumers Association
  The Organic Consumers Association promotes food safety, organic farming and sustainable agricultural practices in the U.S. and internationally. It provides consumers with factual information they can use to make informed food choices. Genetic engineering, irradiation, toxic sludge fertilizer, mad cow disease, rBGH are some of the issues it addresses. OCA gives interviews and supplies background material for journalists, news organizations, and public interest.
  
• OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  
• OFT - Office of Fair Trading (UK)
  
• Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC)
  The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC) is an independent, UK-registered educational charity working to raise international public awareness and promote better understanding of the world's oil-depletion problem.
  
• Oilwatch
  Oilwatch is a resistance network that opposes the activities of oil companies in tropical countries.
  
• OneWorld
  OneWorld is a community of over 1250 organisations working for social justice.
  
• Open Source Initiative (OSI)
  Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program.
  
• PANNA- Pesticide Action Network North America
  PANNA has campaigned to replace pesticides with ecologically sound alternatives since 1982. PANNA links over 100 affiliated health, consumer, labour, environment, progressive agriculture and public interest groups in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. with thousands of supporters worldwide to promote healthier, more effective pest management through research, policy development, education, media, demonstrations of alternatives and international advocacy campaigns.
  
• People & Planet
  UK student action on world poverty, human rights and the environment.
  
• Powerswitch.org.uk
  Powerswitch.org.uk is dedicated to raising awareness & discussion of the impending & permanent decline of cheap oil & gas supply, the consequences of which will affect every corner of our lives.
  
• Prospective Internationale
  
• RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
  The RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ECOLOGY, founded by Dr. Vandana Shiva, works on biodiversity conservation and protecting people's rights from threats to their livelihoods and environment by centralised systems of monoculture in forestry, agriculture and fisheries.
  
• Restore the Earth
  A project to promote the ecological restoration of the planet's degraded ecosystems as the essential over-riding and uniting task for the peoples and nations of the world in the 21st Century.
  
• Right Livelihood Award
  The idea of 'right livelihood' is an ancient one. It embodies the principle that each person should follow an honest occupation which fully respects other people and the natural world. It means being responsible for the consequences of our actions and taking only a fair share of the earth's resources. In every generation, there are groups of people and individuals around the globe who valiantly uphold these principles of right livelihood. The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to honour and support such people.
  
• Rising Tide UK
  Rising Tide UK is a network of groups and individuals dedicated to taking local action and building a movement against climate change.
  
• RMI - Rocky Mountain Institute
  The Rocky Mountain Institute is an independent, non-profit research and educational foundation fostering the efficient and sustainable use of resources as a path to global security. RMI staff conduct research, consult, speak, and publish reports on a wide variety of topics. It currently focuses on the following areas: Energy, Green Development, Transportation (Hypercars), Water, Economic Renewal, Corporate Sustainability, Forests, Secutity.
  
• Schumacher College
  SCHUMACHER COLLEGE was founded in 1991 on the conviction that a new vision is needed for society, its values and its relationship to the earth. Over the last decade the college has become a centre of excellence and established an international reputation for the inspiration, quality and breadth of its teaching.
  
• Schumacher UK
  The Schumacher Society promotes human scale sustainable development in Britain and abroad.
  
• SEI - Sustainable Ecosystems Institute
  The Sustainable Ecosystems Institute is an organization of dedicated and ethical scientists committed to using their technical expertise to help solve ecological issues. SEI is out on the front lines in environmental conflicts and crises, acting as a catalyst to mobilize scientific and educational talents and apply them to real world issues.
  
• Stakeholder Forum
  Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future is an international multi-stakeholder organisation working on sustainable development; supporting the increased involvement of stakeholders in international and national governance processes.
  
• Surfers Against Sewage
  
• Sustain - the alliance for better food and farming
  The Common Agricultural Policy has damaging effects on the environment, farming traditions, rural communities, consumer health and poorer countries. Working with its membership, Sustain advocates reform of the CAP to address these issues. We also work to improve policies in related areas such as rural development and support for organic farming and other forms of sustainable food production.
  
• SustainAbility
  
• The Commons Open Society Sustainability Initiative
  An independent platform for new thinking & world-wide collaborative problem solving
  
• The Commons Sustainability Agenda
  
• The Conservation Foundation
  
• The Environment Council (UK)
  
• The Free Software Foundation (FSF)
  FSF's mission to preserve, protect and promote the freedom to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer software, and to defend the rights of Free Software users.
  
• The Health Freedom Movement
  THE HFM is non-profit organization representing consumers and all other interested parties of vitamin supplements and natural, alternative and complementary medicine of every variety.
  
• The Prince of Wales Foundation
  
• The Simultaneous Policy
  SP has as its aim the transformation of the international economy such that it operates in a manner more compatible with the global natural environment and with the needs of human nature.
  
• The Soil Association
  The Soil Association exists 'to research, develop and promote sustainable relationships between the soil, plants, animals and the biosphere, in order to produce healthy food and other products while protecting and enhancing the environment'.
  
• The Spiral Dynamics Group
  
• The State of Our Planet
  Interdisciplinary Research, Solutions, Models, Vision and Ingenuity for the Next Stage of Global Civilization.
  
• The UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development
  
• The Woodland Trust
  The Woodland Trust is the UK's leading conservation charity dedicated to the protection of our native woodland heritage.
  
• TNS - The Natural Step
  The Natural Step is an international organization that uses a science-based, systems framework to help organizations and communities understand and take the next step towards sustainability.
  
• Transport 2000
  
• UK FOOD GROUP
  Working together for global food security. The UK Food Group (UKFG) is the leading UK network for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on global food and agriculture issues. Our vision is a world in which hunger has been banished by food security.
  
• UKabc - UK AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY COALITION
  Agricultural biodiversity of all food species is a vital sub-set of general biodiversity, highly threatened by globalisation of food markets and tastes, intellectual property systems and the spread of unsustainable industrial food production. But it still provides the basis of the food and livelihood security of billions of people and the development of all food production, including for industrial agriculture and for the biotechnology (Life) industries. It is the first link in the food chain, developed and safeguarded by farmers, herders and fisherfolk throughout the world.
  
• Uned Forum
  
• UNEP - United Nations Environment Program
  
• uniteddiversity
  uniteddiversity is a network of individuals and organisations busy creating the world we want.
  
• War on Want
  
• WCMC - World Conservation Monitoring Centre
  The World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources, and helps others to develop information systems of their own.
  
• WDM - World Development Movement
  WDM's campaigns tackle the root causes of poverty. Working together with people in the developing world, WDM successfully changes the policies of governments and business that keep people poor. In the campaign against world poverty, WDM believes in the need to challenge today's leading global economic players to put the rights and demands of the worlds poor, before those of multinational companies.
  
• World Bank
  
• Worldwatch Institute
  
• WTO - World Trade Organisation
  
• WTO explained by the IFG
  
• WTO Watch
  
• WTO's Trade & Environment Section
  
• WWF - World Wildlife Fund
  
• WWF-UK - World Wildlife Fund UK
  WWF is committed to saving threatened wildlife species and their habitats. WWF projects contribute to the conservation of natural habitats such as forests, grasslands, wetlands, coasts and marine areas. WWF works closely with local and indigenous people to find long-term practical solutions to the over-exploitation of natural resources such as wood, freshwater and fish on which we all rely.
  
• YCELP - Yale Centre for Environmental Law and Policy
  The Center for Environmental Policy has produced several special events for the Yale community. More recently, the Center has organized a series of international conferences on global environmental governance. The Center is actively engaged in bringing the history and expertise of Yale University to the pressing tasks of contemporary environmental issues.