1000 Friends of Maryland supports a new pattern of development that preserves the rich array of Maryland's natural resources, maintains and revitalizes its existing communities and a smart growth plan, and protects historic resources and integrates them into the life of the community.

1Sky was created in 2007 to focus the power of millions of concerned Americans on a single goal: bold federal action by 2010 that can reverse global warming. 1Sky proposes climate change solutions that are grounded in scientific necessity and represent significant economic promise. The 1Sky community brings together a diverse range of individuals and organizations to advocate a clean energy economy, relieve our dependence on foreign oil, unlock the potential of sustainable industry, and usher in a new era of prosperity and green jobs.

350.org is an international grassroots campaign that aims to mobilize a global climate movement united by a common call to action. 350 represents the parts per million carbon dioxide concentration that leading scientists, including Dr. James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, have now set as an upper threshold for a safe climate. International climate negotiations are now focused on targets that are scientifically inaccurate and dangerously inadequate. Their mission is to move the goalpost, to make sure that the world is aiming for a target that will actually avert dangerous climate change. In the next two years they want to embed the number 350 deeply in public consciousness"make it ubiquitous across societies, languages, and ideologies.

The Acoustic Ecology Institute works to increase personal and social awareness of our sound environment, through education programs in schools, regional events, and our internationally recognized website, AcousticEcology.org, a comprehensive clearinghouse for information on sound-related environmental issues and scientific research. On public policy questions, we tend toward the precautionary principle (erring on the side of caution while awaiting definitive research). Our over-arching goal is to help find pragmatic ways to bridge the gaps between extreme positions voiced by advocacy-oriented organizations, and so to contribute toward the development of ethical public policies regarding sound.

Advancement Project, a policy, communications and legal action group committed to racial justice, was founded by a team of veteran civil rights lawyers in 1998. Our mission is: "To develop, encourage, and widely disseminate innovative ideas, and pioneer models that inspire and mobilize a broad national racial justice movement to achieve universal opportunity and a just democracy!"

The African Wildlife Foundation, together with the people of Africa, works to ensure the wildlife and wild lands of Africa will endure forever.

Our mission is to preserve open land for the benefit and enjoyment of the public, to preserve the character of Aiken County and surrounding counties, including agricultural and forest lands, lands of educational and historic value, fragile ecological sites, watersheds, and visual amenities, to foster the use of sound conservation practices, and encourage land use planning to the long-term benefit of the citizens of the region we serve.

The League exists to lead the effort to preserve Alaska’s wilderness by engaging citizens, sharing resources, collaborating with other organizations, educating the public, and providing a courageous, constant and victorious voice for Alaska in the nation’s capital.

Allegheny Land Trust serves as the lead land trust conserving and stewarding lands that support the scenic, recreational and environmental well-being of communities in Allegheny County and its environs.

The Alliance for Childhood promotes policies and practices that support children’s healthy development, love of learning, and joy in living. Their public education campaigns bring to light both the promise and the vulnerability of childhood. They act for the sake of the children themselves and for a more just, democratic, and ecologically responsible future.<!--Session data--> 

To work with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development-oil and gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other mega-projects.

American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, whose mission is to conserve wild birds and their habitats throughout the Americas. It is the only U.S.-based, group dedicated solely to overcoming the greatest threats facing birds in the Western Hemisphere. A growing human population, consuming ever greater resources, is critically impacting bird populations through habitat destruction, direct mortality from such harmful practices as the unwise use of pesticides, and the introduction of destructive species including domestic cats. ABC believes adequate resources exist to overcome these threats, and that unifying people, organizations, and agencies around common approaches to priority issues is the key to success.

American Hiking is the only national organization dedicated to serving hikers and protecting the nation's hiking trails. From the halls of Congress to the backcountry, AHS speaks up for America's hikers and the trails they love.

The American Independent Business Alliance helps organizers start and sustain Independent Business Alliances (IBAs).

Founded in 1990, The American Prospect is a magazine committed to social justice, effective liberal politics, and a solid democracy. The Prospect celebrates a paid circulation of more than 37,000, special in-depth reports, and a daily online magazine that attracts more than 1 million unique monthly visitors.

American Rivers is a nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring rivers nationwide. Founded over 25 years ago in a dusty Denver office, today they have offices in Washington, DC and across the country.

The Apollo Alliance is a coalition of labor, business, environmental, and community leaders working to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs. Inspired by the Apollo space program, we promote investments in energy efficiency, clean power, mass transit, next-generation vehicles, and emerging technology, as well as in education and training. Working together, we will reduce carbon emissions and oil imports, spur domestic job growth, and position America to thrive in the 21st century economy.

Appalachian Voices' members, donors, volunteers, staff, and board work to fight air pollution, end mountaintop removal mining, protect public lands, and promote private lands stewardship. As the only organization dedicated exclusively to defending the central and southern Appalachians, we believe these four interconnected campaigns represent the major threats to our region. We are member-based and promote individual and community involvement in the important environmental decisions facing our neighbors throughout the region.

As You Sow is dedicated to ensuring that corporations and other institutions act responsibly and in the long-term best interests of the environment and the human condition. To achieve these goals, As You Sow:

• Engages and challenges corporations through direct dialogue and shareholder advocacy;
• Refines economic arguments to move corporations, other institutions, and financial markets toward environmentally and socially responsible practices;
• Enforces environmental, consumer protection and right to know laws;
• Provides grants to non-profit organizations primarily focused on toxics reduction, remediation and prevention and environmental education.

The mission of BACH is to educate and build support in the Bay Area and other urban areas for the preservation of a biologically viable redwood forest. BACH connects local environmentalists with forest activists to preserve the old growth redwood ecosystem, with real solutions for forest workers and communities.

Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) creates opportunities for urban youth to experience wilderness first hand. BAWT exists as a vital, comprehensive and ongoing source of support to agencies that lead youth wilderness trips. They believe that urban youth, once exposed to wilderness, have a broadened sense of themselves, each other, and the world around them. BAWT extends it services to the eight counties of the San Francisco Bay Area.

The mission of Baykeeper is to protect and enhance the water quality of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary and its tributaries for the benefit of its ecosystems and human communities.

Beyond Nuclear aims to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear advocates for an energy future that is sustainable, benign and democratic.

The Biodiversity Project's mission is to advocate for biodiversity by designing and implementing innovative communication strategies that build and motivate a broad constituency to protect biodiversity.

Biofuelwatch is a volunteer-led campaign group which receives no commercial or government funding.

Biofuelwatch aims to:

(a) Campaign against industrial bioenergy, i.e. energy linked to industrial agriculture and industrial forestry. This includes agrofuels, both current ones and 'second generation' ones.

(b) Campaign in particular against the drivers of the demand for industrial bioenergy, i.e. against the policies which create an artificial market for agrofuels and other types of large-scale bioenergy and against the companies responsible for land-grabbing and land-conversion for industrial bioenergy.

(c) Support organisations and communities who are negatively affected by industrial bioenergy expansion, for example through sharing of information, media and publicity work and supporting relevant protest email actions.

(d) Actively support community groups and other local organisations campaigning against industrial bioenergy.

(e) Support campaigns for food sovereignty and biodiverse, small-scale agriculture, by Via Campesina and other groups.

(f) Raise awareness of the essential role which biodiversity and healthy ecosystems, including healthy soils, play in regulating the global climate, of the fact that the biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis are closely linked and cannot be addressed in isolation, and of the need for major reductions in overall consumption, including of energy and wood products particularly in the global North.

The Blue Frontier Campaign was founded in 2003 by David Helvarg, author of Blue Frontier – Saving America’s Living Seas. It works to support seaweed (marine grassroots) efforts at the local, regional and national level, with an emphasis on bottom up organizing to bring the voice of citizen-activists into national decision-making that will impact our public seas. There are now some 2,000 blue groups working on ocean and coastal conservation but largely operating in isolation, and with little coordinated effort among them. Blue Frontier’s mission is to strengthen this ocean constituency through building unity, providing tools, and enhancing public awareness of both the challenges and solutions being offered by these groups to the various threats facing our living oceans.

The Boreal Songbird Initiative (BSI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to outreach and education about the importance of the Boreal Forest region to North America's birds. BSI works to mobilize environmental and birding groups and individuals to influence Canadian government and industry policies.

CLCV's mission is to protect the environmental quality of the state by increasing public awareness of the environmental performance of all elected officials, working to elect environmentally responsible candidates, and holding them accountable to the environmental agenda once elected.

The mission of the California Native Plant Society is to increase understanding and appreciation of California's native plants and to conserve them and their natural habitats through education, science, advocacy, horticulture and land stewardship.

Celebrating its five-year anniversary, the Campaign for America's Wilderness works to protect the nation's remaining wild lands to ensure an enduring legacy of wilderness for future generations. We join with state and local partners to raise public awareness of our special wild lands and to secure dependable, permanent protection for wild lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and other federal agencies. Since the Campaign was launched in 2002, Congress has added or expanded 74 wilderness areas across nine state -- boosting the National Wilderness Preservation System by 2.4 million acres.

It is the mission of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation to ensure the survival of sea turtles within the Wider Caribbean basin and Atlantic through research, education, training, advocacy and the protection of the natural habitats upon which they depend.

The Center for a Sustainable Coast was formed in 1997 by a group of public-spirited environmental professionals and concerned citizens. The purpose of the organization is to improve the responsible use, protection, and conservation of this region's resources - natural, historic, and economic. The Center for a Sustainable Coast works to protect, preserve, and sustain coastal Georgia's vital natural, cultural, and economic resources.

The Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) is the only national environmental organization that was founded and is led by a grassroots leader. Lois Gibbs founded CHEJ after winning the nation’s first community relocation of 900 families due to a leaking toxic waste dump in Love Canal, New York. Through this effort she also woke up the nation to recognize the link between people’s exposures to dangerous chemicals in the community setting and serious public health impacts.

The goal of Charity Guide is to inspire and facilitate more than one million acts of kindness per year. That means: more blood donated, more trash recycled correctly, more teddy bears for orphans, less drunk driving, less wasted junk mail... In all, ONE MILLION more of the actions that a busy person can do to make a difference.

The Chesapeake Climate Action Network is the first grassroots, nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to fighting global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Our mission is to educate and mobilize citizens of this region in a way that fosters a rapid societal switch to clean energy and energy-efficient products, thus joining similar efforts worldwide to slow and perhaps halt the dangerous trend of global warming.

The Citizens Coal Council is a grassroots citizens group and individuals who work for social and environmental justice. The Citizens Coal Council and its members strive to:

• Protect people, homes, water, communities, and the environment from coal mining damage.
• Restore law and order by enforcing the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act.
• Help each other win our issues.

CitNet works in local, regional, and global arenas to make sustainable development a reality. By supporting citizen-led activities in developing, monitoring and implementing sustainability initiatives, promoting civil society participation in important policy fora, and connecting individuals and organizations, CitNet works to create an ecologically sound and socially equitable and economically just world.

We are in the business of solving the global warming problem, developing economically efficient and innovative climate policies and mobilizing civic engagement to implement practical climate solutions.

The Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring clean air and healthy environments through scientific research, public education, and legal advocacy.

Climate SOS is a new and expanding network of individuals and organizations concerned with ensuring that U.S. climate legislation effectively rises to the challenges we face from global warming. They are extremely disturbed by the inadequacies of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, passed by the House, (and the similar Senate version released September 30th) which contain numerous provisions that lead us to conclude that such a bill would be worse than doing nothing and set us on a path to failure.

Climate Solutions mission is to accelerate practical and profitable solutions to global warming by galvanizing leadership, growing investment and bridging divides.
Our regional organizing approach is transforming the global warming debate in the region and laying the groundwork for a successful, multi-stakeholder climate action agenda. We’re generating fresh political momentum for energy and transportation solutions that benefit the region’s economy and quality-of-life.
Global warming is our generation’s greatest challenge and solving it is our greatest opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous future.

CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities. CODEPINK rejects the Bush administration's fear-based politics that justify violence, and instead calls for policies based on compassion, kindness and a commitment to international law. With an emphasis on joy and humor, CODEPINK women and men seek to activate, amplify and inspire a community of peacemakers through creative campaigns and a commitment to non-violence.

CAFR's purpose is to develop economic, political, and social conditions state-wide that advance and promote the conservation of natural resources through reducing, reusing, and recycling materials which would otherwise become waste.

Colorado Environmental Coalition unites Coloradans to protect our natural heritage and quality of life. Every year, the Coalition mobilizes scores of organizations and hundreds individuals who, like you, care deeply about Colorado. From soccer moms to steelworkers, from students to ranchers, from commuters to backpackers enjoying the world-famous Rocky Mountains, the Coalition's membership is as diverse as our state.

Commercial Alert's mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy.

Common Vision's mission is to cultivate ecological awareness and respect for the Earth while generating social and environmental changes towards sustainable lifestyles. We integrate concepts of ecology with the traditions, music, and art of cultures that live or have lived in harmony with the Earth.
Founded in 1999, Common Vision is a solution-focused nonprofit organization, a project of International Humanities Center.

CC-HSR's mission is to ensure that planning, financing and implementation of HSR on the Peninsula and throughout California is "done right" for our communities, or not done at all.

The Connecticut Farmland Trust is the only private statewide conservation organization dedicated solely to permanently protecting Connecticut's farmland.

Connecticut NOFA is the Connecticut Chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association. Connecticut NOFA is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening the practices of ecologically sound farming and gardening, and to the development of local sustainable agriculture. Our efforts give consumers increased access to safe and healthy food. Connecticut NOFA is a growing community of farmers, gardeners, land care professionals, and consumers that encourages a healthy relationship to the natural world.

Conservation Minnesota works with you to protect our lands, lakes and way of life. With dependable information and effective tools, we make it easy for Minnesotans to help their elected leaders make responsible decisions and make a difference that will last for generations.