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Green Resources

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Environmental News Outlets

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Canary Media

Canary Media is an independent, non-profit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to the climate crisis. It reports on how the world is decarbonizing, with a critical focus on what works and what doesn't. 

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Carbon Brief

Carbon Brief is a UK-based environmental news outlet covering the latest developments in climate science and energy policy. They specialize in data-driven articles that help explain climate policy to the public. 

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Environment + Energy Leader

Environment + Energy Leader is committed to providing business leaders with climate news, insights, and tools needed to achieve a more sustainable future. They believe that business success and environmental success can go hand-in-hand. 

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Grist

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

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Heatmap

Heatmap News tells the inside story of climate news, from new decarbonization trends to how climate change is impacting public policy. 

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Inside Climate News

Founded in 2007, Inside Climate News is the oldest and largest dedicated climate newsroom in the nation. It is non-profit and non-partisan and aims to publish essential reporting about the biggest crisis facing our planet. 

Research Organizations

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Cary Institute

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is dedicated to  understanding how ecosystems work. Our scientists are global experts in  the ecology of: freshwater, forests, disease, and cities. Through  collaborative efforts, we apply our science to policy and management  that protects the environment and improves human wellbeing.

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Environmental Working Group

Since 1993, the Environmental Working Group has shined a spotlight on  outdated legislation, harmful agricultural practices and industry  loopholes that pose a risk to our health and the health of our  environment.

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Lamont-Doherty Earth Institute

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory seeks fundamental knowledge about the origin, evolution, and future of the natural world.

Our scientists study the planet from its deepest interior to the  outer reaches of its atmosphere, on every continent and in every ocean,  providing a rational basis for the difficult choices facing humanity.

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New York Public Interest Research Group

The New York Public Interest Research  Group Fund (NYPIRG) is a non-partisan, nonprofit, research and public education organization. NYPIRG was founded in 1976 as an independent 501(c)(3) public outreach organization.

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Post Carbon Institute

Founded in 2003, Post Carbon Institute’s mission is to lead the  transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world by  providing individuals and communities with the resources needed to  understand and respond to the interrelated ecological, economic, energy,  and equity crises of the 21st century.

Advocacy Organizations

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Alliance for a Green Economy

Alliance for a Green Economy (AGREE) works for safe, affordable energy  and the development of a green economy in New York State. Our goal is a  prosperous, safe, and healthy New York, fulfilling the promise of  conservation, energy efficiency, and safe, clean renewable energy  sources to end our state’s reliance on wasteful and environmentally  destructive forms of energy.

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America is All In

We champion a whole-of-society mobilization to deliver the transformational change that will meet the challenge of the climate crisis and secure a healthy, prosperous, equitable, and sustainable future for everybody.

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American Farmland Trust

American Farmland Trust leads the conservation agriculture movement with  a mission to save America’s farms and ranches by protecting  agricultural land, promoting sound farming practices, and helping farm  families stay on the land.

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Beyond Plastics

Beyond Plastics uses their deep  policy and advocacy expertise to build a well-informed, effective movement seeking to achieve the institutional, economic, and societal changes needed to save our planet, and ourselves, from the negative  health, climate, and environmental impacts of the production, usage, and disposal of plastics.

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Black Farmer Fund

Black Farmer Fund has an unwavering commitment to empowering Black farmers and fostering community health. Through investing in Black farmers, they help build wealth and a more just and equitable world.  

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Citizens Climate Lobby

Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots  advocacy climate change organization focused on national policies to  address the national and global climate crisis.

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Climate Reality Project

Former US Vice President Al Gore founded The Climate Reality Project to  catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action  a necessity across every sector of society.

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Climate XChange

Our mission is to achieve a rapid and equitable transition towards a zero-emissions economy by advancing state climate policy.

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Earth Justice

Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law  organization. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership  to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife,  to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change.

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Environmental Action

The original Environmental Action was founded in 1970, on the first  Earth Day, as a community of grassroots environmental activists for a  cleaner, greener world.

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Environmental Advocates NY

Environmental Advocates NY fights for policies that will restore and  protect New York’s environment, support healthy, vibrant communities,  and secure benefits and outcomes for all within and beyond the state  through education, partnerships and advocacy.

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Environmental Voter Protection

The Environmental Voter Project identifies millions of non-voting environmentalists and turns them into consistent voters.

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Food and Water Watch

With more than 2 million supporters, Food & Water Watch fights for  sustainable food, clean water, and a livable climate for all.

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Global Footprint Network

Global Footprint Network, an international nonprofit organization founded by Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D and Susan Burns in 2003, envisions a future where all can thrive within the means of our one planet. We enable our vision through our mission: to help end ecological overshoot by making ecological limits central to decision-making.

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NY League of Conservation Voters

NYLCV is the only statewide environmental organization in New York that fights for clean water, clean air, renewable energy and open space through political action. We’re non-partisan, pragmatic and effective.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) is an alliance of grassroots organizations that advocates for federal  policy reform to advance the sustainability of agriculture, food  systems, natural resources, and rural communities. NSAC’s vision of agriculture is one where a safe, nutritious, ample,  and affordable food supply is produced by a legion of family farmers who  make a decent living pursuing their trade, while protecting the  environment, and contributing to the strength and stability of their  communities.

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National Wildlife Federation

The National Wildlife Federation, America's largest and most trusted conservation organization, works across the country to unite Americans  from all walks of life in giving wildlife a voice. We've been on the front lines for wildlife since 1936, fighting for the conservation values that are woven into the fabric of our nation's collective heritage.

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Natural Resources Defense Council

NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) combines the power of  more than 3 million members and online activists with the expertise of  some 700 scientists, lawyers, and other environmental specialists to  confront the climate crisis, protect the planet's wildlife and wild  places, and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean  water, and healthy communities.

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Plastics Pollution Coalition

Plastic Pollution Coalition is a non-profit communications and  advocacy organization that collaborates with an expansive global  alliance of organizations, businesses, and individuals to create a more  just, equitable, regenerative world free of plastic pollution and its  toxic impacts.

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Population Connection

Population Connection is the national  grassroots population organization that educates young people and  advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level  that can be sustained by Earth’s resources.

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Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is the most enduring and influential grassroots  environmental organization in the United States. We amplify the power of  our millions of members and supporters to defend everyone’s right to a  healthy world.

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The Nature Conservancy

Founded in the U.S. through grassroots action in 1951, The Nature  Conservancy (TNC) has grown to become one of the most effective and  wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world.

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Waterkeeper Alliance

Waterkeeper Alliance is a global movement of community-based advocates united for clean, healthy water for all.

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