Links
SUSTAINABILITY:
Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability in Dublin, Ireland.
Carbon Trust in London, England.
Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C., USA
Convention on Biological Diversity headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
EPA Sustainability Page at the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington D.C., USA.
Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas in Uppsala, Sweden.
Sea Change Media in San Francisco, California, USA
SOCIAL and ECONOMIC JUSTICE:
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) in Paris, France.
Cornucopia Institute in Cornucopia, Wisconsin, USA.
ETC Group in Ottawa, Canada
Public Interest Research Groups (U.S. federation) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Corporations Watch in San Francisco, California, USA
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES and GLOBALIZATION:
Public Citizen in Washington, D.C., USAHeinrich Boll Foundation in Berlin, Germany
Global Reporting Initiative in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Roubini Global Economics in New York, New York, USA
World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., USA
World News coverage headquartered in New York, New York, USA and London, England
Third World Network from Penang, Malaysia
NATURAL RESOURCES and ECOLOGY
National Resources Defense Council headquartered in New York, New York, USAEnvironmental Working Group in Washington, D.C., USA
Greenpeace International headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
World Wildlife Federation headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
Earthjustice headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
Sierra Club headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA
Environmental News Network in Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) is a private not-for-profit organization first launched in 1987 under the name, "ATTRA" (Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas. NCAT provides practical, hands-on information about farming and sustainability and initially partnered with The United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Business-Cooperative Service. NCAT is headquartered in Butte, Montana.
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program (SARE) is headquartered in College Park, MD and funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. SARE works to support sustainable agriculture through education, research, and grant program throughout the U.S.
Alternative Farming Systems Information Systems (AFSIC) is part of the National Agricultural Library within the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It provides a wide range of information-related services in the area of alternative agriculture.
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture in Ames, Iowa, USA.
Local Harvest in Santa Cruz, California, USA
ORGANICS:
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements in Bonn, GermanyOrganic Consumers Association in Finland, Minnesota, USA
Organic Trade Association in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
U.S. National Organics Program at the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., USA
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS and TRADE:
Economic Research Service (ERS) within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., USA conducts food policy research, food economics research, and analyzes other food supply issues. ERS also publishes the very helpful agriculture and farming journal, Amber Waves.
World Shipping Council headquartered in Washington, D.C., USA and Brussels, Belgium is a trade organization whose membership is responsible for about 60% of global seaborne trade.
World Trade Organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland is an organization started in 1995 as the successor to GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade). GATT was a treaty created at the end of the Second World War to implement regulation of world trade. Approximately 160 countries are currently members of WTO.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Washington, D.C., USA
