Recycling Centers
Check out how to recycle various items in your area.
Check out how to recycle various items in your area.
GREEN SITES
American Wind Energy Association: Promotes wind energy as a clean source of electricity for consumers around the world.
Beyond Pesticides: Works to protect public health and the environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic pesticides.
Campaign Earth: Mission is to bring people to a new level of personal involvement in critical environmental issues, like global warming.
Conservation International: Applies innovations in science, economics, policy and community participation to protect the Earth's richest regions of plant and animal diversity
Co-op America: Mission is to harness economic power -- the strength of consumers, investors, businesses and the marketplace -- to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.
CorpWatch: Investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption around the world.
Earth Force: Engages young people as active citizens to improve the environment and their communities now and in the future.
Earth911: To empower the public with community-specific resources that improve their quality of life.
ENERGY STAR: A joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy helps consumers save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.
EnviroLink Network: A grassroots online community that unites hundreds of organizations and volunteers around the world. Dedicated to providing comprehensive, up-to-date environmental information and news.
Environment Web Directory: The largest exclusively environmental organization directory on the Web includes sites from more than 100 countries.
Environmental Defense: Dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including the right to clean air, clean water, healthy food and flourishing ecosystems.
Environmental News Network: Provides a global perspective on environmental issues and promotes thought, discussion and awareness.
Environmental Protection Agency: Mission of the U.S. government agency is to protect human health and the environment.
Environmental Working Group: Environmental investigations have been our specialty at the Environmental Working Group since 1993.
Friends of the Earth: Defends the environment and champions a healthy and just world.
Global Response: Organizes international letter campaigns to help communities prevent many kinds of environmental destruction.
Green Living Tips: A journey of discovery in learning about living a more environmentally friendly life.
Green Matters: Simple answers and guidance for going green.
Greenpeace: An international organization with offices in more than 30 countries.
Kids FACE (Kids for a clean environment): Provides information on environmental issues to children.
Low Impact Living: Helps you lower the environmental impact of your home and your daily life.
Natural Resources Defense Council: Uses law, science and the support of 1.2 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.
Nature Conservancy: Works around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters.
National Environmental Trust: A non-profit, non-partisan organization established in 1994 to inform citizens about environmental problems and how they affect health and quality of life.
National Parks Conservation Association: Mission is to protect and enhance America's National Parks for present and future generations.
National Wildlife Federation: Inspires Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future.
New American Dream: Helps Americans consume responsibly to protect the environment, enhance quality of life, and promote social justice.
Public Citizen: A national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts.
Rainforest Alliance: Works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.
Sierra Club: America's oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization.
Sierra Student Coalition: A network of high school and college students working to protect the environment.
TreeHugger: Media outlet is dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream.
U.S. Green Building Council: A coalition from the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work.
Wilderness Society: Protecting America's wilderness since 1935 through the combination of science, advocacy and education.
World Resources Institute: An environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives.
World Wildlife Fund: Works in 100 countries and is supported by 1.2 million members in the United States and close to 5 million globally
Worldwatch Institute: Work revolves around the transition to an environmentally sustainable and socially just society -- and how to achieve it.
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