Animal Rights

Freedom for Animals An all-volunteer animal advocacy group dedicated to promoting a compassionate lifestyle to minimize the suffering of all sentient beings
Seaflow A grassroots environmental organization building an international movement to protect ocean life from man-made threats
Norwegian Wolf protection
The Bay Area Animal Rights Network (BAARN) is a network of individuals and organizations within the San Francisco Bay Area working on behalf of animals and animal rights.

Earth Spirituality

A Prayer Vigil for the Earth An invitation to all people to gather and pray harmony with the natural world, peace among communities, and the well-being of all Creation
Green Sangha Engaging in the work of the restoration of the earth
Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation A coalition of Christian and Jewish denominations and organizations promoting an end to the cutting of old growth forests and commercial logging on public lands
The Sacred Land Film Project produces a variety of media and educational materials to deepen public understanding of sacred places, indigenous cultures and environmental justice.

Endangered Species

Endangered Species Coalition Working to ensure that the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), and the species it protects, can be passed on safely into the future
GREEN's Endangered Species Act Page The Endangered Species Act (ESA) has helped to recover many species by labeling them "threatened" or "endangered"
Salmon Page Dedicated to saving and preserving salmon, hosted by Riverdale Grade School
US Fish and Wildlife Service's Endangered Species Program Shares responsibility for administration of the Endangered Species Act

Environmental Organizations in North America

Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment To make corporations more accountable for their behavior worldwide
Alliance for the Wild Rockies To save the Northern Rockies Bioregion from habitat destruction
Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters Supporting the preservation of a viable redwood forest. Connecting environmentalists with forest activists to preserve the old growth ecosystem
Bluewater Network Protecting the Earth for All Living Creatures
The California League of Conservation Voters' 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
Campaign for Old Growth (CFOG) To adopt laws and constitutional amendments that will preserve California's heritage trees for future generations
Center for Biological Diversity Working to secure a future for animals and plants on the brink of extinction, the wilderness they need to survive, and by extension the spiritual welfare of generations to come
Clean Water Action Working for clean, safe and affordable water, prevention of health-threatening pollution, and the creation of environmentally-safe jobs and businesses
Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) is an environmental health and justice non-profit organization, promoting clean air, clean water and the development of toxin-free communities
Forest Service Employees For Environmental Ethics (FSEEE) Holding the Forest Service accountable for responsible land stewardship: the land is a public trust, to be passed with reverence from generation to generation
Rock the Earth is a not-for-profit, national public interest environmental organization dedicated to protecting and defending America's natural resources through partnerships with the music industry and the world-wide environmental community
SF Surf Rider Foundation Working for the protection and enjoyment of the world's oceans, waves and beaches for all people, through conservation, activism, research and education
Sierra Club Inspired by nature, members work together to protect individual communities and the planet
Wildlands Project Protecting and restoring the natural heritage of North America through the establishment of a connected system of wildlands

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

Genetically Engineered Food Alert A coalition of seven organizations united in their commitment to testing and labeling genetically engineered food
Organic Consumers Association & Biodemocracy Tackling food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, corporate accountability, and environmental sustainability
The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods Lobbying for legislation to require the labeling of genetically engineered foods in the United States

Health and Environment

Bioneers Advancing model economic strategies for ecological agriculture, environmental restoration and community self-reliance that conserve biological and cultural diversity and strengthen traditional, indigenous and restorative farming practices
Center for Environmental Health Countering environmental and consumer health hazards, and changing corporate behavior through education, litigation, and advocacy
Commonweal Helping adults and children with health and learning challenges, and advancing the global search for a healthy and sustainable future
Healthy Building Network Promoting healthier building materials as a means of improving public health and preserving the global environment

Human Rights

ACLU Northern California: The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty. We work daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States
Bayview/Hunters Point Community Advocates To improve the quality of life of residents of San Francisco's Bayview/ Hunters Point neighborhood through advocacy, organizing, and economic development
Food First Highlighting root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and global poverty, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right
Human Rights Watch Protecting the human rights of people around the world
Judi Bari Redwood Summer Justice Project Dedicated to Judi Bari, renowned environmental leader who organized nonviolent protests against destructive corporate logging of the redwood forests
Literacy for Environmental Justice Fostering understanding of environmental justice and urban sustainability in our young people, to promote the long-term health of their communities
LYRIC Brings lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth together to end isolation, create a progressive queer youth voice, and change the communities in which they live
Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine Doctors and laypersons working together for compassionate and effective medical practice, research, and health promotion
Project Diana An Online Human Rights Archive
Ruckus Society Training grassroots activists in strategies for social change, especially creative protest and non-violent direct action
Urban Habitat Building bridges between environmentalists, social justice advocates, government leaders, and the business community

Indigenous Rights

Amazon Watch Working in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development
Borneo Project Helping the indigenous tribes and the rainforests of Borneo through craft sales, microhydro electrification, reforestation, and eco-friendly income
Honor the Earth Supporting front line Native environmental work by seeking increased funding and public support for Native communities protecting the Earth we all share
Leonard Peltier Serving as a permanent repository for accurate information on the case of Leonard Peltier
American Indian Movement (AIM) A spiritual movement, a religious re-birth, and the re-birth of dignity and pride in a people, to connect the realities of the past with the promise of tomorrow
The mission of The Pachamama Alliance is to preserve the Earth's tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous people who are its natural custodians and to contribute to the creation of a new global vision of equity and sustainability for all.
Project Underground Supporting communities, human rights and indigenous rights movements with campaigns resisting oil and mining exploitation and abusive extractive resource activity
The Sacred Land Film Project produces a variety of media and educational materials to deepen public understanding of sacred places, indigenous cultures and environmental justice.
Seventh Generation Fund Supporting Native community projects, including rebuilding Native sustainable communities, developing alternative energy, and protecting sacred sites
Study and Timeline of the Lakota Sioux Bringing a greater understanding of the history of the Lakota Sioux Indians from the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota
White Earth Land Recovery Project Facilitating recovery of the original land base of the White Earth Indian Reservation, while preserving and restoring traditional practices, language, and community development
Zapatistas in Cyberspace International computer communications by grassroots social movement expressing the struggles of the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico

International Development

Floresta Reversing the spread of deforestation and poverty in the world by transforming the lives of subsistence farmers
Sustainable World Coalition Promoting the effective participation of people affected by global discourses on sustainable development and globalization

International Environmental Organizations

Earth First! Journal
Earth Island Institute Developing and supporting projects that counteract threats to the biological and cultural diversity that sustains the environment
Envirolink Network
Global Exchange Promoting human rights and social justice
Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
Union of Concerned Scientists
West Africa Rainforest Network Supporting local environmentalists working to protect the last remaining ancient rainforest in West Africa, in Cross River State, Nigeria

Lifestyle Simplification

The Center for a New American Dream More fun, less stuff
The New Road Map Foundation Promotes new ways to navigate the road of life based on a vision of a cooperative human community in a diverse yet interconnected world
Ecology Center Promoting environmentally and socially responsible practices through education and direct services

News and Media

Albion Monitor
Culture Jammers Media Foundation (Adbusters)
Earth Island Journal Acclaimed quarterly magazine with groundbreaking coverage of environmental and social issues; the first 'tree-free' periodical in the US
Earth Films A non–profit production, distribution and media project that specializes in environmental and social issue documentaries
Earth First! Journal
Essential Information Includes the Multinational Monitor, GIS project, and more
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
Fault Lines, the newspaper of the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, aims to give all communities the opportunity to actively participate in a collective process of media production and distribution
Ella Baker Center Arming people with the truth
Institute for Global Communications, including EcoNet, LaborNet, PeaceNet, ConflictNet and WomensNet
KMUD Redwood Community Radio
Making Contact A weekly international radio program utilizing voices and perspectives rarely heard in media
Media Alliance A training and resource center for media workers, community organizations, and political activists
Media Education Foundation
New Dimensions Radio's Deep Ecology Pages
Pacifica News Network
The Nation
Real Audio feeds of Counter Spin, Pacifica Network News, The Hightower Report, Radio Nation and much more, updated daily.

Online Activism

Action for Nature Encourages young people to take personal action to make this world a better place for humans and nature.

Peace

Code Pink for Peace Women's pre-emptive strike for peace: calling on mothers, grandmothers, sisters and daughters, on workers, students, teachers, healers, artists, writers, singers, poets, and every ordinary outraged woman willing to be outrageous for peace
As a center for nonviolence, equality, youth and ecology, the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center serves communities and organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area promoting these principles, and offers a safe environment where people can seek out peaceful, nonviolent solutions to the challenges we all face.

Political Prisoners

Amnesty International's Rights for All campaign
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Mission: free Leonard Peltier

Politics and Economics

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families, with over 150,000 member families organized into 800 neighborhood chapters in 65 cities across the country
At Co-op America we believe that voting with our dollars is a powerful way to change the world. Every time you spend or invest your hard-earned money you are voting -- and you have the power to vote for social justice, ecological balance and a sustainable economy
Copwatch is a community based volunteer organization started ten years ago in Berkeley, CA, which monitors police activity in the Southside neighborhood and elsewhere in an effort to defend the the rights of all citizens, especially those who live on the street, who are people of color, or are otherwise disenfranchised
Corp Watch Countering corporate-led globalization – a diverse movement for human rights and dignity, labor rights and environmental justice
Democracy Matters informs and engages college students and communities in efforts to strengthen our democracy. With campus-based chapters throughout the country, we focus on the issue of private money in politics and other pro-democracy reforms. Democracy Matters in this way encourages the emergence of a new generation of reform-minded leaders.
Dollars and Sense
Greenaction mobilizes community power to win victories that change government and corporate policies and practices to protect health and to promote environmental justice.
Hemp Industries Association A global trade group working to expand the hemp product market and supporting legislation to regulate the cultivation of hemp.
Empowering Democracy Conference Challenging corporate power and demanding accountability
The International Solidarity Movement aims to dramatize the terrible conditions under which Palestinians live because of the Occupation, and to protect them from physical violence from Israeli soldiers and settlers
NORML - National Organization for the reform of Marijuana Laws To secure the rights of adults to lawfully use, grow and obtain cannabis/marijuana/hemp
The Not In Our Name Project is a national network of individuals and organizations committed to standing with the people of the world. As the Not in Our Name Pledge of Resistance states, "we believe that as people living in the United States it is our responsibility to resist the injustices done by our government, in our names."
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation initiates and supports worldwide efforts to abolish nuclear weapons, to strengthen international law and institutions, to use technology responsibly and sustainably, and to empower youth to create a more peaceful world
People Centered Development Forum
Public Citizen
Mother Jones
Redefining Progress Working with partners to influence the choices individuals make, resolve pressing social and environmental issues, and pursue systemic change
Rock the Vote Dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and empowering young people to change their world
Sustainable Economics hosted by Communications for a Sustainable Future
Vote Hemp Educating about the benefits of industrial hemp and building grassroots support for changes in current laws to allow for hemp farming in the US
Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF) is a non-profit, public interest organization founded in 1982, which monitors and analyzes U.S. nuclear weapons programs and policies and related high technology energy and weapons programs, with a focus on the national nuclear weapons laboratories.
Z magazine
Znet a community of people concerned about social change.

Veganism, Vegetarianism

EarthSave Promotes food choices that are healthy for people and the planet
SF Bay Area Vegetarians Empowering people to become vegan for ethical, environmental or health reasons
Soy Happy Working to get vegetarian foods into the mainstream
Vegan Action
Vegan Outreach

Youth Programs

Bay Area Wilderness Training Promoting wise use of national, state and regional parks through professional wilderness leadership training. Youth organizations can outfit groups for trips free of charge
Brower Youth Awards Providing advice, organizational support, internships and small grants for short-term campaigns and projects, incubating some of David Brower's most urgent initiatives
Campus Greens
Community Boards School-based and community conflict resolution programs including peer mediation and broader conflict resolution approaches
Kids for the Bay Collaborates with teachers to inspire environmental consciousness in children, to restore healthy environments for all communities
KIPP is a national, non-profit organization that recruits, trains and supports outstanding educators to open and run high-performing college-preparatory public schools in educationally underserved communities.
Healthy Children Organizing Project Protecting young children from preventable diseases caused by environmental hazards in San Francisco's low income and minority communities
Leadership Excellence is committed to developing the next generation of leaders who possess the skills and the desire for social change in urban communities. Our mission is to provide grassroots organizing and leadership skills to African American children and youth.
PUEBLO works to create a more livable Oakland through programs to improve community safety, hold the police accountable, and nurture young leaders.
http://www.peopleunited.org
Roots and Shoots Engaging and inspiring youth of all ages through service learning projects showing care and concern for the environment, animals and the human community
TakingItGlobal
YES! (Youth for Environmental Sanity)
Youth Speaks Building the next generation of leaders through the written and spoken word. Nurturing the voice of youth and promote positive social dialogue across boundaries

Art, Music, Creativity in Action

Dancers Without Borders is an all-women, multi-racial performance collective dedicated to making dance-theatre that matters. The goal of this collective is to use movement, music and spoken word to mobilize resistance to human rights abuses, state and personal violence, environmental destruction and corporate culture, as well as present a vision of society that values cooperation, creativity and beauty.
Epic Arts is a grassroots non-profit organization that promotes collaboration and community development through the arts. Since 1997, we have been working to build community partnerships, mobilize local artists, produce cultural events, and develop resources and facilities that ensure accessibility for artists, performers and audiences.