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Located in Sebastopol, California, BFI hopes to empower site visitors to see the big picture and exercise individual initiative so that everyone on board our Spaceship Earth can live abundantly and successfully on an ecologically sustainable basis.
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The Buckminster Fuller Institute Snyder has been called by the L.A. Free Press, The definitive, synthesized lecture by one of the great teachers and minds of our time, transcribed in sight and sound the archives of posterity. Includes footage of Dymaxion Car, Dymaxion House,...An independent, nonprofit research and educational foundation with a mission to foster the efficient and sustainable use of resources as a path to global security. Research areas are energy, transportation, green development, climate change, water, economic renewal, corporate sustainability, and security.
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Rocky Mountain Institute--Home Page Institute is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining. We do this by inspiring business, civil society, and government to design integrative solutions that create...Researches environmental and natural resource issues and policy questions - rooted primarily in economics and other social sciences.
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http://www.worldwatch.org
To promote the establishment and effective management of a worldwide, representative network of terrestrial and marine protected areas as an integral contribution to the IUCN mission.
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IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas To promote the establishment and effective management of a world-wide representative network of terrestrial and marine protected areas, as an integral contribution to the IUCN mission. NATIONS URGED TO THINK AS BIG AS THE OCEANS ARE VAST October 23 2005...Policy and technical analysis of energy and environmental issues as well as environmental education. Explores both market mechanisms and traditional approaches to achieving environmental improvement, energy efficiency, and sustainability. [Mainly lists of links but a few reports]
http://www.leonardoacademy.org
WPC deals with environmental management and policy issues related to both business and government organizations.
http://www.winporter.com/
Works to infuse common-sense into the nation's wetlands regulatory program.
http://www.thenwc.org
Uses law, economics and science to solve the environmental problems that threaten the people, natural resources and communities of New England.
http://www.clf.org
Began in 1993 when members of the scientific community met to respond to virulent attacks on the environmental agenda. It was clear that science was being misrepresented and misused in environmental public policy.
http://www.sehn.org/
ETP was created to conduct research on how government policies affect the development of new environmental technologies.
http://web.mit.edu/dusp/etpp
ITRC is a state-led national coalition dedicated to better environmental protection through innovative technologies. ITRC helps reduce the technical and regulatory barriers to the deployment of new environmental technologies.
http://www.itrcweb.org
A broad based coalition of roughly 200 member organizations, representing millions of individuals across the United States, that is dedicated to bringing balance back to the Endangered Species Act.
http://www.nesarc.org/
Researches renewable energy, energy efficiency, climate change, smart growth, alternative fuels, and advanced vehicle technologies.
http://www.eesi.org/
Explores the use of science in social and environmental policy and advocates precautionary and community-based research approaches. Provides information and resources on projects, current activities and research.
http://web.uvic.ca/~scishops/
Provides information on research and commentary on sound science and market-based environmental protection.
http://www.heartland.org/IssueSuites.cfm?issId=2