Climate Care
http://www.climatecare.org///About_us/index.cfm
Climate Care was formed in 1998 to help individuals and organisations reduce
their own impact on global warming.
Forest Ethics
http://www.forestethics.org
Forest Ethics mission is to protect all endangered forests by redirecting
markets toward ecologically sound alternatives.
Good Wood Watch
http://www.goodwoodwatch.org
Good Wood Watch is a web-based initiative brought to you by Greenpeace, West
Coast Environmental Law, Sierra Club of BC, the David Suzuki Foundation, Friends
of Clayoquot Sound and the Raincoast Conservation Society. It aims to help
concerned citizens learn more about ecoforestry and eco-certified forest products.
Global Forest Watch
http://www.globalforestwatch.org
Global Forest Watch's overall objective is to infuse transparency and accountability
into the decision making processes that determine how forests are managed
and for whom.
Raincoast Conservation Society
http://www.raincoast.org
Raincoast is a non-profit organization promoting research and public education
with the goal of protecting and restoring coastal rainforests ecosystems and
all their interdependent life forms.
Rainforest Action Network
http://www.ran.org
The Rainforest Action Network works to protect tropical rainforests and the
human rights of those living in and around those forests.
World Resources Institute
http://www.wri.org
WRI is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical
ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives.
Genetic Engineering Links
Polaris Institute
www.polarisinstitute.org
The Polaris Institute is designed to enable citizen movements to re-skill
and re-tool themselves to fight for democratic social change in an age of
corporate driven globalization.
The Ramshorn
www.ramshorn.bc.ca
The Ram's Horn is a monthly journal of food systems analysis. It dissects
the dominant system, reporting on the activities and analyzing the strategies
of transnational agribusiness and governments. It points to experiences and
resources for the creation of socially just and ecologically sound alternatives
to this system.
Real Solutions for Agriculture
www.farmingsolutions.org
Farming Solutions brings examples of successful, environmentally responsible
farming systems to life from all over the world, illustrating how farmers
can protect the environment while at the same time increasing food supply
where it is most needed.
True Food Network
www.truefoodnow.org
The True Food Network is a free service from Greenpeace, to connect consumers
who want to take action to end the use of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients
in our foods
Greenpeace International
http://www.greenpeace.org
The Greenpeace International site has information and updates on all the Greenpeace
campaigns worldwide, as well as opportunites to get involved in the Greenpeace
cyberactivist community.
Links to Greenpeace sites around the world
Want to check out what is happening in the Greenpeace world, but tired of
reading English? Visit http://www.greenpeace.org/preferences/change-lang
David Suzuki Foundation
http://www.davidsuzuki.org
The David Suzuki Foundation is a Canadian charity which explores human impacts
on the environment, with an emphasis on finding solutions
International Fund for Animal
Welfare
http://www.ifaw.org
IFAW campaigns to change policies and practices to improve the welfare of
animals and also assist animals directly through their own program work and
grants to other organizations.
Energy Probe
http://www.energyprobe.org
A consumer and environmental research team, active in the fight against nuclear
power, and dedicated to resource conservation, economic efficiency, and effective
utility regulation.
Oxfam
http://www.oxfam.ca
Oxfam Canada is a non-profit international development organization that supports
community programmes in food security, health, nutrition and democratic development
with an emphasis on working with women.
Online
Publications
Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds
of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a
democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate
tellings of truth.
New Internationalist
http://www.newint.org
New Internationalist Publications is a communications co-operative. It exists
to report on issues of world poverty and inequality; to focus attention on
the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless in both rich
and poor nations; to debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary
if the basic material and spiritual needs of all are to be met.
Worldwatch Institute
http://www.worldwatch.org
Worldwatch is a non profit public policy research organization dedicated to
informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends
and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support
systems.
Earth Policy Institute
http://www.earth-policy.org
The goal of the Earth Policy Institute is to raise public awareness to the
point where it will support an effective public response to the threats posed
by continuing population growth, rising CO2 emissions, the loss of plant and
animal species, and the many other trends that are adversely affecting the
Earth.
Farmed and dangerous
http://www.farmedanddangerous.org/
Imagine the raw sewage that half a million people would create in one day.
It is probably too much to imagine. Now imagine if it were pumped directly
into the ocean without having been treated. There are presently over 85 open
net cage fish farms currently operating in the coastal waters of British Columbia
producing waste that is equivalent in impact to the raw sewage from a city
with 500,000 inhabitants. It could get a lot worse if industry is allowed
to add new farms. More...
Seaweb
http://www.seaweb.org/
is a project designed to raise awareness of the world's oceans and the life
within them, and provides a clearinghouse of information on aquaculture issues.
Global oceans:
http://www.globaloceans.org/country/turkey.html
Regional environmental center
for central and eastern Europe
http://www.rec.org
"Turkey's natural wealth meets with new pressures"
Candidate country focus
Article by Pavel Antonov
http://bulletin.rec.org/bull103/turkeys.html
united nations environment programme
http://www.grida.no/
The Institute of Aquaculture
http://www.aquaculture.stir.ac.uk/
The Institute of Aquaculture is an international research and post-graduate
training centre, graded 5 in the 2001 RAE, and is the largest of its kind
in the world. The Institute is a department in the Faculty of Natural Sciences
at the University of Stirling. It is the leading international centre in its
field and brings together cross-disciplinary, world class research to meet
the wide range of challenges faced as aquaculture grows to meet global demands.
