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Animal Rights
American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS)
Strives to end experimentation on animals in research, testing, and education.
Animal Rights Counterculture
Provides access to a repository of freely-distributable, original artistic works (poems, stories, songs) which promote the abolition of animal exploitation; and encourages the exchange of information among those seeking to actively use such works to end animal exploitation.
Farm Animal Reform Movement (FARM)
Advocates plant-based diets and humane treatment of farmed animals.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Largest animal rights organization in the world; works toward establishing and protecting the rights of all animals.
Attachment Parenting and Breastfeeding
Attachment Parenting International (API)
Assists in forming Attachment Parenting support groups and serves as a clearinghouse providing educational materials, research information, consultations, referrals and speaker services to promote Attachment Parenting concepts.
Human Milk Banking Association of North America
A network of health care providers that promotes, protects, and supports human milk banking. Their website includes information on how to donate breastmilk and how to order human milk for a baby in need, as well as contact information for the seven North American locations of human milk banks.
La Leche League International (LLLI)
Mother-to-mother network of local chapters that meet regularly to share breastfeeding information and mothering experience with the sole purpose of helping breastfeeding mothers.
The Natural Child Project
Helps parents to understand the critical importance of the earliest years of childhood, and provides the kind of information and encouraging support they need to treat their children with unconditional love and respect.
Promotion of Mother's Milk, Inc. (ProMoM)
Increases public awareness and public acceptance of breastfeeding. Publishes 101 Reasons to Breastfeed.
Environment and Children's Health
Center for Children's Health and the Environment (CCHE)
Examines the links between exposure to toxic pollutants and childhood illness, and promotes the health of children by conducting environmental health and policy research.
Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN)
Strives to protect the fetus and child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment.
Children's Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC)
Educates the public, specifically parents and caregivers, about environmental toxins that affect children's health.
Environmental Groups
Earth Day Network
Provides information and links to local events, as well as ideas to help celebrate and preserve our planet all year long.
Environmental Defense
Protects the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Links science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems.
Global Stewards
Provides a wealth of information on topics including reducing, reusing, and recycling; conserving energy and water; adopting a plant-based diet and promoting food safety; creating nontoxic, energy-efficient homes and gardens; restoring and learning about nature and wildlife; and investigating alternative transportation and fuel ideas.
Greenpeace
Uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and force solutions for a green and peaceful future.
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Uses law, science, and the support of its 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.
Human Rights
American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG)
Works to abolish modern day slavery worldwide by building public awareness, leading advocacy campaigns, and empowering survivors and activists.
Amnesty International (AI)
Campaigns for internationally recognized human rights. Undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.
Organic Information
Organic Consumers Association (OCA)
Deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, corporate accountability, and environmental sustainability.
Other
Co-op America
Provides the economic strategies, organizing power and practical tools for businesses and individuals to address today's social and environmental problems. Programs include End Sweatshops (support fair trade and labor), Boycott Action News (consumer power for change), Become WoodWise (conserve forests, paper, wood), Find Company Ratings (responsible shopping) and Invest Responsibly (socially responsible investing).
Energy Star
Helps businesses and individuals protect the environment through superior energy efficiency.
Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA)
Promotes universal human rights, environmental sustainability, and animal welfare by providing information on consumer issues, which empowers individuals and organizations to act ethically in the marketplace.
Scorecard
Provides free and easily accessible local environmental information for your ZIP code.
VegDining.com
Promotes vegetarianism by promoting vegetarian restaurants around the world. Site includes restaurant reviews, an international directory of restaurants, and information on the VegDining Card (a vegetarian dining discount card).
Political Organizations
Project Vote Smart (PVS)
Serves all Americans with accurate and unbiased information for electoral decision-making. Provides profile information for federal elected officials and candidates in five categories: contact and biographical information, key votes, issue positions, campaign contributions, and interest group ratings.
The State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG's)
Advocates for the public interest. Citizen-funded, state-based groups deliver persistent, result-oriented activism that protects the environment, encourages a fair marketplace for consumers and fosters responsive, democratic government.
Publications
Home Education Magazine
Offers interviews, features, regular columns, political commentary and analysis, news reporting and more, all on the subject of homeschooling.
Mothering Magazine
Celebrates the experience of parenthood as worthy of one's best efforts and fosters awareness of the immense importance and value of parenthood and family life in the development of the full human potential.
VegNews
Focuses on a vegetarian way of life, and offers up-to-date information on living a compassionate and healthy lifestlye.
Recycling and Composting
Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Recycling Page
Contains a variety of information about recycling, including a description of the recycling process, recycling statistics, and ways for businesses and individuals to get involved in recycling.
Florida's On-Line Composting Center
Assists residents with composting organic materials generated in their homes and yards. Includes detailed information on types of materials to compost, troubleshooting tips, diagrams and photos of bins, instructions for making different types of bins, and two tutorials.
GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN)
Strives to eliminate the waste of natural and human resources--to achieve zero waste.
Sanctuaries
OohMahNee Farm
A non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitative care, protection, and placement of abused, abandoned, neglected, or displaced farm animals, and equally dedicated to protecting human health and the environment and to promoting a compassionate lifestyle through humane education.
Wildlife Care Center
A non-profit organization whose mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and release native wildlife that has been harmed or displaced; to treat and place certain needy domestic, exotic, and farm animals; and to educate the public toward the co-existence with all animals.
Vegetarianism and Veganism
Compassionate Cooks
Compassionate Cooks is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering people to make informed food choices and to debunking myths about vegetarianism through cooking classes, nutrition workshops, supermarket tours, and a cooking DVD.
International Vegetarian Union (IVU)
Aims to promote vegetarianism throughout the world.
Vegan Action
Dedicated to helping the animals, environment, and human health by educating the public about the benefits of a vegan lifestyle and encouraging the spread of vegan food options through our public outreach campaigns.
Vegan Outreach
Furthers awareness and understanding in order to bring about fundamental change in our physical well-being, our treatment of others, and our interaction with our environment. Publishes and distributes the informative booklet Why Vegan.
Vegetarian Baby & Child
Online resource for veg parents and parents of veg kids. Includes nutrition information, book and product reviews, recipes, interviews, articles and more!
VegFamily.com
A web-based magazine featuring more than 800 pages of information with new content published monthly. Their goal is to assist parents in raising happy, healthy vegan children by offering tips, expert advice, information, articles, and a connection to other vegan families.
The Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG)
Educates the public on vegetarianism and the interrelated issues of health, nutrition, ecology, ethics and world hunger. Publishes the Vegetarian Journal for its members.
VegWeb
With over 6,000 vegan recipes, active bulletin boards and fresh content, VegWeb is a valuable resource for any vegan.
