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The Activism Center at the Wetland Preserve: www.wetlands-preserve.org: Recognizing the common roots of all forms of oppression, The Activism Center at Wetlands Preserve fights for human, animal, and earth liberation through protest, direct action, street theater, political advocacy, and public education. People of conscience are always welcome to join as volunteers or interns.

Alley Pond Environmental Center: www.alleypond.com: Alley Pond Environmental Center (APEC) is a private, non-profit corporation dedicated to establishing an awareness, understanding and appreciation of the environment and the responsibilities associated with preserving the environment in an urban setting. Over 635 acres of woodlands, meadows fresh and salt water marshes encompass this northeast Queens park. It is truly a haven for NYC's wildlife and a peaceful refuge for its human residents. For centuries people have been drawn to "the Alley" for its richness and diversity.

Auto-Free New York: www.auto-free.org: WHAT IS AUTO-FREE NY? A movement aimed at exploring and achieving the upper limit of "devehicularization" of our nation's largest city. Get cars out of our parks. Curb the reckless motorists who dominate our streets. Increase pedestrian space and safety. Invest in new transit options and make bicycling better. A livable city is possible.

The Battery Conservancy: www.thebattery.org: The Battery is one of New York City's oldest public open spaces. Dutch settlers landed here in 1623 and established New Amsterdam. Now The Battery is truly the cradle of New York history, the front lawn of the Downtown district, and a hub of harbor access and cultural tourism. Over four million people, including residents, office workers, school groups, and tourists from around the world annually visit the park and its major landmark, Castle Clinton National Monument.

Big Apple Solar Installation Committment (BASIC): www.basicsolar.org: BASIC is dedicated to promoting the use of solar power in NYC. BASIC works to provide individuals and communities with information about the possibilities for solar power today, and to help you with financing and installing a solar power system on your building.

Blacksmith Institute: www.blacksmithinstitute.org: Blacksmith Institute was formed in 1999 to address the most dangerously polluted sites throughout the developing and transitioning world. Legacy pollution problems and active polluters impact the health of entire communities and cause substantial suffering from pollution-related illness. Chronic pollution threatens international efforts to create sustainable economies and break the poverty cycle.
To combat this issue, Blacksmith Institute created Polluted Places, a program designed to locate and remediate the dirtiest, most dangerously polluted sites overlooked by the rest of the world.

Bronx River Alliance: www.bronxriver.org: The Bronx River Alliance serves as a coordinated voice for the river and works in harmonious partnership to protect, improve and restore the Bronx River corridor and greenway so that they can be healthy ecological, recreational, educational and economic resources for the communities through which the river flows.

The Brooklyn Bird Club: www.brooklynbirdclub.org: Join the Brooklyn bird club and participate in field trips in Brooklyn and around the metropolitan area.Founded in 1909 by Dr. Edward Vietor, we have been in existence for over 85 years; and over those years some of the most experienced and influential ornithologists and wildlife artists have either been members, made presentations at our meetings or have participated in our field programs.

Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy: www.bbpc.net: The 1.5 mile stretch along the East River is set to be filled with boardwalks, ball courts, and open lawns.  Areas that have long been covered with aluminum sheds and parking lots will soon be filled with life and activity.  The local communities, Brooklyn and New York City are about to reclaim one of the most magnificent stretches of waterfront in the world. Offering dramatic views of the New York Harbor and the Manhattan skyline, the Park will include rolling hills, open plazas, and restored marshlands, as well as abundant recreational opportunities with shaded sports fields, softball fields, beach volley ball courts, playgrounds, and 12 acres of safe paddling waters. You can join our Green Team every Tuesday and Saturday to beautify and maintain Brooklyn Bridge Park. Come as often as you like!

Central Park Conservancy: www.centralparknyc.org: With 25 million visitors each year to its 843 acres, Central Park is the most frequently visited urban park in the United States.  To manage the Park, Conservancy crews aerate and seed lawns; rake leaves; prune and fertilize trees; plant shrubs and flowers; maintain ballfields and playgrounds; remove graffiti; conserve monuments, bridges, and buildings; and care for waterbodies and woodlands, controlling erosion, maintaining the drainage system, and protecting over 150 acres of lakes and streams from pollution, siltation, and algae.

Citystreets: www.citystreets.org: A pedestrian rights and advocacy group

The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life: www.coejl.org 212-532-7436: COEJL deepens the Jewish community's commitment to the stewardship of creation and mobilizes the resources of Jewish life and learning to protect the Earth and all its inhabitants. The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL) engages Jewish institutions and individuals in bringing the moral passion of Jewish tradition and social action to environmental stewardship in order to advance social justice, protect future generations, preserve the integrity of creation and strengthen the Jewish community.

Council on the Environment of New York City: www.cenyc.org: The Council on the Environment of New York City (CENYC), founded in 1970, is a privately funded citizens' organization in the Office of the Mayor. CENYC promotes environmental awareness and solutions to environmental problems. The programs: Open Space Greening ; Greenmarket & New Farmer Development Project ; Environmental Education and Waste Prevention and Recycling and other special projects make a positive and discernible difference in the lives and communities of New Yorkers -- from waste prevention by office employees, to water conservation and park cleanups by students, Greenmarkets in all five boroughs, and neighborhood open spaces resplendent with trees and flowers.

Earth Celebrations: www.earthcelebrations.com: Earth Celebrations, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to fostering ecological awareness through the arts. Earth Celebrations responds to the growing need to reconnect art with our lives, community, and the social responsibility we all share for the preservation of a natural and ecologically balanced world! Art does not only have to reflect life, but can effect it too, by inspiring people's imagination and bringing them together to address crucial issues. Right here in New York City, where we may often feel disconnected from the natural world, we are also part of a unique ecosystem, one where we can curb our production of waste, pollution, and environmental destruction, as well as restore the ecological balance in our city. Programs include: theatrical pageants, educational art & ecology workshops for youth and adults, artist residencies, exhibitions, web-site, video programs, creative advocacy campaigns, and partnerships with schools, community centers, and gardens. Since 1991, Earth Celebrations has been working to preserve the network of over 50 community gardens on the Lower East Side of New York City through innovative and creative programs, pageants, and workshops.

Earth Pledge: www.earthpledge.org: Earth Pledge identifies and promotes innovative techniques and technologies that restore the balance between human and natural systems. Through demonstration, education, and research, we deliver viable models to government, industry, and communities. The New York region is our laboratory for implementing replicable solutions that will inspire and facilitate a global transition to sustainability.

Earth Times: www.earthtimes.org: Earth Times is a leading website that publishes news reports and the latest information relating to the human environment and such interrelated concerns of the international community, such as economic growth, humanitarian issues, the environment, global business, automobiles and cars, education and learning, the latest in electronics, entertainment, personal and business finance plus economics worldwide at national and international levels to new games for all popular gaming platforms. Global news and information from around the world is all offered free and without subscription on health, homes, property and real estate, insurance, internet issues, kitchen, legal topics, shopping, space, sports, technology, travel, and almost anything that affects the World and our planet, Mother Earth.

EarthSave NYC: www.earthsave.org: EarthSave leads a global movement of people from all walks of life who are taking concrete steps to promote healthy and life-sustaining food choices

Earth Share of New York: www.earthshareny.org: Earth Share of New York is more than 65 of the most effective environmental and conservation charities working to preserve and protect our environment - locally, regionally, nationally, and globally.Through Earth Share of New York, you can make a one-time gift, or a payroll deduction donation that benefits member organizations.

East Village Parks Conservancy: www.evpcnyc.org: The East Village Parks Conservancy, a community-based organization, is committed to the restoration, care and expansion of green spaces in the East Village of New York City. They are cultivating their website to eventually include every garden, park and greenstreet in our neighborhood.

Environmental Defense: www.environmentaldefense.org: Environmental Defense is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air, clean water, healthy food and flourishing ecosystems. THey are guided by scientific evaluation of environmental problems, and the solutions they advocate will be based on science, even when it leads in unfamiliar directions.

Environmental Grantmakers Association: www.ega.org: The mission of EGA is to help member organizations become more effective environmental grantmakers through information sharing, collaboration and networking. EGA's vision is one of an informed, diverse, collaborative network of effective grantmakers who are supporting work toward a sustainable world. Recognizing the importance of diverse perspectives, the organization values ecological integrity, justice, environmental stewardship, inclusivity, transparency, accountability and respect, balancing pragmatism with the long view.

Farm Sanctuary: www.farmsanctuary.org: In 1986, Gene and Lorri Bauston found a living sheep abandoned on a stockyard "deadpile." They rescued the sheep, named her Hilda, and created Farm Sanctuary. Within ten years, Farm Sanctuary became the nation's largest farm animal rescue and protection organization.

FaunaVision: www.oasissanctuary.org: FaunaVision is New York's first animal advocacy group dedicated to multimedia street activism through using a van eqipped with video monitors show hard-hitting images of animal exploitation.

Friends of Animals: www.friendsofanimals.org: Friends of Animals is a non-profit, international animal advocacy organization, incorporated in the state of New York since 1957. Friends of Animals works to cultivate a respectful view of nonhuman animals, free-living and domestic. Our goal is to free animals from cruelty and institutionalized exploitation around the world.

Friends of Hudson River Park: www.friendsofhudsonriverpark.org: Friends of Hudson River Park is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that advocates for the public funding needed to finish the Park and provides private sector financial support and programs to enhance the opportunities it offers. We invite you to join us in this quest to complete and enrich what will be one of the great waterfront parks in the world.

Friends of the High Line: www.thehighline.org: Friends of the High Line (FHL) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and reuse of the High Line, a 1.5-mile-long historic elevated rail structure on the West Side of Manhattan.

The Fund for Animals: www.fund.org: The Fund for Animals was founded in 1967 by prominent author and animal advocate Cleveland Amory, and has spearheaded some of the most historic and significant events in the history of the animal protection movement. With regional offices working around the country on hard-hitting animal advocacy campaigns, and animal care facilities such as the world-famous Black Beauty Ranch, The Fund is one of the largest and most active organizations working for the cause of animals throughout the world.

The Gaia Institute: www.gaia-inst.org: The work of the Gaia Institute couples ecological engineering and restoration with the integration of human communities in natural systems. While much environmental engineering has the worthy aim of minimizing harm, the Gaia Institute explores, through research and development, design and construction, how human activities and waste products can be treated to increase ecological productivity, biodiversity, environmental quality, and economic well being.

Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE): www.gracelinks.org: GRACE is a nonprofit organization that works with research, policy and grassroots communities to raise public awareness and promote solutions to preserve the planet for future generations. Check out their website to learn about GRACE's many programs.

Green Guerrillas: www.greenguerillas.org: Since 1973  green guerillas has helped thousands of people realize their dreams of turning vacant rubble-strewn lots into vibrant community gardens. Each year they work with hundreds of grassroots groups throughout New York City to strengthen underserved neighborhoods through community gardening. With our help, people grow food, plant flowers, educate youth, paint colorful murals and preserve their gardens as vital community centers for future generations.

GreenHome NYC: www.greenhomenyc.org: GreenHomeNYC's mission is to facilitate the adoption of sustainable building methods and materials by owners of small residential and commercial buildings in New York City. GreenHomeNYC aims to be a hub of resources for small building owners, to promote the understanding of green building issues, and to connect building owners with local green building service and materials providers. A community-oriented, volunteer-run organization, GreenHomeNYC promotes environmentally sustainable urban buildings. GreenHomeNYC is a registered 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit corporation.

Green Map System: www.greenmap.org: Green Maps are locally created maps that chart the natural and cultural environment. Using adaptable tools and a shared visual language of Green Map Icons to highlight green living resources, Green Maps cultivate citizen participation and community sustainability. The mission of the Green Map System (GMS) is to promote sustainability and community participation in the local natural and built environment. GMS offers adaptable tools and a global iconography for making environmental and cultural maps, empowering local project leaders to give familiar places a fresh perspective. Green Maps function as practical guides to greener living while helping spread model initiatives to new locations.

Green Party Office in Manhattan: www.greenpartyoffice.org: The Green Party Office Committee is a group of Green Party members that have established a permanent office for the Green Party in Manhattan. The Committee is dedicated to facilitating Green organizing of all kinds—activist, electoral, educational—in New York City.

Hazon: www.hazon.org: Hazon's mission is to create and support a range of programs, especially (though not exclusively) focused on Jewish outdoor and environmental education, in order to bring joy and meaning to people's lives and thus to foster new vision in the Jewish community and the world beyond. The mission is rooted in the belief that outdoor and environmental education are vital and significantly under-utilized resources in Jewish life.

The Horticultural Society or New York: www.hsny.org: Founded in 1900, incorporated in 1902, the mission of The Horticultural Society of New York (HSNY) is to improve the quality of life in New York through its library and educational and community outreach programs. HSNY is committed to promoting a public appreciation and understanding of the art and science of horticulture.

The Institute for the Development of Earth Awareness (IDEA): http://home.earthlink.net/~idea.them.campaign/: IDEA is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit educational organization and think tank utilizing the arts in it's work towards a sustainable future.

INFORM, Inc: www.informinc.org: INFORM is an independent, nonprofit organization that conducts research aimed at practical solutions to complex environmental and health-related problems throughout this country and the world.

Institute for Transportation & Development Policy: www.itdp.org: The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) was founded in 1985 to promote environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation policies and projects worldwide. ITDP was created by leading sustainable transport advocates in the U.S. to counteract promotion of the U.S. model of costly and environmentally damaging dependence on the private automobile in developing countries.

Just Food: www.justfood.org: Just Food is a non-profit organization that works to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region. We do this by fostering new marketing and food-growing opportunities that address the needs of regional, rural family farms, NYC community gardeners, and NYC communities.

Lower Eastside Ecology Center: www.lesecologycenter.org: LESEC coordinates a number of programs that strive to implement our combined mission of waste reduction, environmental education and public open space stewardship. The programs are active throughout the year, and take place at one of the three program locations, as well as in the Lower East Side and in various locations throughout the five boroughs. The programs are always free to the public, and they are always growing! Check in often on the website for upcoming events.

The Mayor's Alliance for New York City's Animals: www.animalalliancenyc.org: The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, Inc., is working with the City of New York toward the day when no New York City dog or cat of reasonable health and temperament is killed merely because he or she does not have a home. To achieve that goal, the Alliance, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, has formed a public-private partnership with the City of New York to develop creative solutions to deal with issues of animal care and control in New York City.

Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance: www.waterwire.net: Working to ensure that the right choices are made, the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance is a growing network of organizations and concerned individuals dedicated to helping this region reclaim and reconnect to our greatest natural resource--the harbor, rivers and estuaries of the New York and New Jersey waterfront. The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance works through education, grassroots organizing and media advocacy to include the public's voice and values in the decision-making that will determine the future of our region's waterfront and waterways.

The Nature Conservancy of New York: www.nature.org/newyork: The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.

National Audubon Society: www.audubon.org: Audubon's mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity. Our national network of community-based nature centers and chapters, scientific and educational programs, and advocacy on behalf of areas sustaining important bird populations, engage millions of people of all ages and backgrounds in positive conservation experiences.

Natural Resources Defense Council: www.nrdc.org: NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action organization. NRDC uses law, science and the support of more than 1 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.

Neighborhood Open Space Coalition: www.treebranch.net: New York City's Internet Portal to Environmental and Urban Quality-of-Life Issues

New York City Urban Park Rangers: www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/parks_divisions/urban_park_rangers/pd_ur.html: Park rangers in New York City? It may sound crazy, but it's true. The Urban Park Rangers have been protecting the parks and educating the public about New York City's natural resources since 1979. And with New York City's green space now totaling over 28,000 acres, the presence of Park Rangers in city parks is more important than ever.

The New York Herpetological Society: www.nyhs.org: Founded in 1954, the New York Herpetological Society is one of the oldest and largest herp societies in the U.S. NYHS is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization open to anyone interested in the study, care, and reproductive husbandry of reptiles and amphibians.

The New York League of Conservation Voters: www.nylcv.org: The New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV)  is the non-profit, nonpartisan political arm of New York 's environmental community.  NYLCV seeks to make environmental protection a priority with New York 's elected officials, political candidates, businesses and voters by mobilizing New Yorkers as a political force on behalf of the environment.

New Yorkers For Parks: www.ny4p.org: New Yorkers for Parks, is the only citywide parks advocacy organization working to promote and protect the 28,800 acres of parkland in New York City.

New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG): www.nypirg.org: The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) is New York State's largest student-directed consumer, environmental and government reform organization. NYPIRG is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit group established to effect policy reforms while training students and other New Yorkers to be advocates.

New York Restoration Project: www.nyrp.org: Renowned entertainer Bette Midler founded the nonprofit New York Restoration Project (NYRP) in 1995 with the belief that clean and green neighborhoods are fundamental to the quality of life and that every community in New York City deserves an oasis of natural beauty. Modeled on the Central Park Conservancy and other successful public-private partnerships, NYRP partners with individuals, community-based groups, and public agencies to reclaim, restore, and develop under-resourced parks, community gardens, and open space in New York City, primarily in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.

NYC Student Conservation Association: 212-233-7503

NY Wa$teMatch: www.wastematch.org: NY Wa$teMatch's mission is to foster environmentally sound economic development through innovative waste reduction and resource recovery strategies. Our materials management services, in addition to our education and research projects, merge environmental responsibility with sound business practices. NY Wa$teMatch manages a citywide materials exchange, provides technical assistance with solid waste reduction and environmentally preferable purchasing, and conducts research and development projects. Our program's participants include New York City businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies.

Open Space Institute: www.osiny.org: The Open Space Institute has protected more than 90,000 acres in New York State. Through its Northern Forest Protection Fund, OSI has assisted in the protection of 1,100,000 acres in northern NY, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. OSI's New Jersey Conservation Loan Program has helped protect over 10,000 acres in the nation's most densely populated state.

Partnership for Parks: www.itsmypark.org: Partnerships works to increase community support for and involvement in parks throughout New York City. Founded in 1995, Partnerships works to start, strengthen, and support neighborhood park groups; to link these groups together so that they can learn from each other and become stronger collectively; and to promote involvement in parks so people will join in efforts to restore and preserve them.

Pop Sustainability: www.popsustainability.org: Pop Sustainability uses popular culture-such as film, fashion, music, sports and food - to deliver a message that communicates to the most culturally influential sector of society today - young adults. Pop Sustainability is pro-corporate, pro-consumer, pro-solution.

Preserve and Protect: www.preserve.org: A not-for-profit corporation providing space on the World Wide Web for Historic Preservation and Environmental Protection Organizations

Project for Public Spaces, Inc: www.pps.org: PPS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities.

Prospect Park Alliance: www.prospectpark.org: Prospect Park is a 585-acre urban oasis located in the heart of Brooklyn, New York City's most populous borough.

Rainforest Alliance of New York: www.rainforest-alliance.org: Based in New York City, with offices throughout the United States and worldwide, the Rainforest Alliance works with people whose livelihoods depend on the land, helping them transform the way they grow food, harvest wood and host travelers. From large multi-national corporations to small, community-based cooperatives, we involve businesses and consumers worldwide in our efforts to bring responsibly produced goods and services to a global marketplace where the demand for sustainability is growing steadily.

Recycle-A-Bicycle: www.recycleabicycle.org: Recycle-a-Bicycle is an innovative, fun youth training and environmental education initiative that has taken root in New York City public schools and respected after-school youth programs. Recycle-A-Bicycle is also a hands-on way to promote everyday bicycle use, learn bicycle mechanics, interact with positive, forward-thinking NYC youth and a good place to find that city bike you need.

Rainforest Foundation: www.rainforestfoundation.org: Founded in 1989, the Rainforest Foundation US is a non-profit organization based in New York. It is dedicated to protecting the rights of rainforest groups who find their traditional lands and human rights threatened.

Rainforest Relief: www.rainforestrelief.org: Rainforest Relief works to end the loss of the world's tropical and temperate rainforests and protect their human and non-human inhabitants by reducing demand for the products of rainforest logging, mining and agricultural conversion, through education, advocacy, research and action.

Rocking the Boat, Inc: www.rockingtheboat.org: Rocking the Boat runs programming in both boatbuilding and environmental science, coordinating three after school and summer programs in each discipline annually, working directly with over 150 students, all of whom receive high school credit. During the process of building a traditional wooden boat, Rocking the Boat students create something not only beautiful, but practical in their own lives, bridging urban and natural life within their neighborhoods.

The River Project: www.riverproject.org: The River Project is a marine science field station located at Pier 26, on Manhattan 's lower west side. The River Project (TRP), founded in 1986, is dedicated to protection and restoration of the Hudson River ecosystem through scientific research and environmental education. TRP has also established an experimental facility at Pier 26 to help restore an ecologically stressed habitat along the Manhattan shoreline.

Shorewalkers: www.shorewalkers.org: Shorewalkers is a non-profit group dedicated to promoting and preserving New York City's surrounding shores. Shorewalkers environmental and outdoors group has been a leading advocate for projects such as the development of the Grand Harlem River Park , a park larger and more diverse than Central Park, the 330-mile Hudson River Trail , and the opening to the public of Hudson River property. Shorewalkers was instrumental in developing the Batt to Bear Trail, 56 miles from the Battery to Bear Mountain.

Sierra Club: www.sierraclub.org: The Sierra Club's members are more than 750,000 of your friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, we work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.

Sixth Street Community Center: www.sixthstreetcenter.org: From its begining Sixth Street Community Center has fostered economic and community development through a variety of programs including aftershool and summer camps, tenants rights and entitlement advocacy, and life skills and career development for teens. More recently, beginning in 1996, the Community Center has initiated projects that bring youth and community residents together around issues of sustainable agriculture, health and nutrition through our Community Supported Agriculture, Seeds To Supper and SOS Food programs. Sixth Street Community Center is a 501(c)(3) organization.

Sustainable South Bronx: www.ssbx.org: The Sustainable South Bronx is a community organization dedicated to the implementation of sustainable development projects for the South Bronx that are informed by the needs of the community and the values of environmental justice.

The Sustainable Education Center: www.sustainabilityed.org: The Cloud Institute, formerly The Sustainability Education Center, was created in response to the growing need for educational materials and professional development focused on sustainability. All of our programs and materials meet appropriate national and state content and performance standards for public schools, as well as the corresponding achievement standards of the regional state accrediting associations of the independent schools.

Time's Up!: www.times-up.org: TIME'S UP! is a New York City-based not-for-profit direct-action environmental group that uses events and educational programs to promote a more sustainable, less toxic city.

Tools 4 Schools: www.toolsforschoolssolutions.org: The mission is to redistribute used office furniture, computers and supplies from businesses to address the pervasive needs of cash-strapped public schools, and community based non-profits around New York City; offer companies a constructive, cost-effective and environmentally responsible alternative to discarding excess reusable materials, and; enhance the educational and training environment of schools, community-based non-profits and after-school programs. 

Trees New York: www.treesny.com: The mission is to plant, preserve, protect and care for New York's trees through education and action. We are active in all five boroughs of New York City and the surrounding region.

Tri-State Transportation Campaign: www.tstc.org: The Tri-State Transportation Campaign is an alliance of public interest, transit advocacy, planning and environmental organizations working to reverse deepening automobile dependence and sprawl development in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut metropolitan region.

The Trust For Public Land, Mid-Atlantic Region: www.tpl.org: The Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national, nonprofit, land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, community gardens, historic sites, rural lands, and other natural places, ensuring livable communities for generations to come.

Transportation Alternatives: www.transalt.org: Transportation Alternatives was founded in 1973 during the explosion of environmental consciousness that also produced the Clean Air and Clean Water Act and the Environmental Protection Agency. T.A. has helped win numerous improvements for cyclists and pedestrians and has been the leading voice for reducing car use in the city. T.A.'s roots are in bicycling, and many of our members are everyday cyclists. But winning a cycling-friendly city means changing the overall transportation system, which, even in mass transit-centered New York City, is still dominated by the private automobile.

WaterLife Foundation, Inc: www.waterlife.org: The WaterLife Foundation's sole mission is to help people in the developing world achieve adequate supplies of potable drinking water, leading to better health and higher standards of living. We are a U.S.-based non-profit organization (501(c)3), with the singular goal of establishing and maintaining clean, sustainable drinking water supplies, sanitation and hygiene for under-served communities throughout the developing world.

Water Water: www.waterwater.org: Water Water is a New York City-based collaborative multi-media event paying homage to this irreplaceable element. Water Water is designed to focus public attention on water issues and how they play out on the local, regional, national, and global levels. The festival takes a three-layered approach to water, encouraging celebration, education, and empowerment. We will offer inspired arts activities/performances, a forum for public discussion, installations/facts about water, and an activist tool kit.

Wildlife Conservation Society Girls for Planet Earth: www.girlsforplanetearth.net: Girls for Planet Earth is a national program developed by the Wildlife Conservation Society, based at the world-renowned Bronx Zoo, with funding from the National Science Foundation's Gender Equity Program.

Wildlife Conservation Society of New York: www.wcs.org: The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild lands through careful science, international conservation, education, and the management of the world's largest system of urban wildlife parks.

WildMetro: www.wildmetro.org: WildMetro works to protect nature where people live. This presents many challenges. A surprising number of wild creatures and the ecosystems they are part of persist and even thrive in metropolitan regions, when given a chance. But developed areas cannot support all forms of wild nature. For example, it would probably not be a great idea for black bears to again roam free in what is now Central Park. WildMetro will work to define appropriate goals for metropolitan nature protection, and use a variety of common sense methods to achieve those goals.