There are many sources available on the internet that can help students learn how to go green and how to be eco friendly. Here are a few non-profit and environmental organizations that provide valuable information to college students:
Alliance for Sustainability
Organization that promotes sustainability education and training to diverse businesses, academic institutions and other groups.
Alliance to Save Energy Green Campus Program
Program that helps universities create student-led environmental campaigns and staff partnerships to explain the relationship between energy and the environment.
Back Bay Restoration Foundation
Promotes the preservation, enhancement and improvement of water quality and wetlands located in the Back Bay and North Landing River watersheds in Virginia Beach.
Biodiversity Project
Advocates for biodiversity by designing and implementing innovative communication strategies that build and motivate a broad constituency to protect biodiversity.
Big Green Purse
Website that offers specific information to help students and other consumers use their consumer clout to protect the environment.
Center for Environmental Information
Organization in New York that provides communication services, publications and educational programs dealing with environmental issues to the public.
Center for Sustainable Systems
University of Michigan organization that promotes the concept of sustainability through interdisciplinary research and education.
Center for Watershed Protection
Provides local governments, activists, and watershed organizations around the country with the technical tools for protecting some of the nation's most precious natural resources.
Earth Day Network
Coordinates worldwide efforts for yearly Earth Days and promotes environmental citizenship and year round progressive action.
Earth Island Institute
Supports and develops projects for the conservation, preservation and restoration of the global environment.
Earth Preservation Fund
Supports numerous community-based environmental, educational and cultural preservation programs.
EcoEarth.Info
Internet search tool that provides access to reviewed environmental sustainability news, information retrieval tools, and original analysis and action opportunities.
Environmental Careers Organization
Helps people find jobs in the environmental profession by starting them in paid internships.
Envocare
Based in the UK, this site was developed to encourage the preservation and improvement of the environment.
Free the Planet!
Network of thousands of students across the U.S. that strives to expand and strengthen the student environmental movement, provide resources for student activists and work with students to win campaigns for strong environmental protections.
Galapagos Conservancy
Promotes the conservation, protection and scientific research of the Galapagos Islands.
Go Green Initiative
A comprehensive program designed to create a culture of environmental responsibility on school campuses across the nation.
Greenpeace USA
Offers information about environmental issues such as global warming, the destruction of natural habitats and the deterioration of the ocean.
Harmony Foundation
Creates innovative training programs and educational materials about the environment and long-term ecological stability.
Information for Action
An automated lobbying website, environmental educational resource, database of world leaders and environment groups, quiz, fun page, kids website and chemicals website.
Keep America Beautiful
Nation's largest, volunteer-based non-profit organization which combines education with hands-on stewardship to make America's communites cleaner and greener.
National Recycling Coalition
Advocacy group with members from all regions of the country that supports waste reduction, reuse and recycling in North America.
National Wildlife Federation - Campus Ecology
National network of campus activists that promote campus greening projects.
Oceana
Organization that campaigns to protect and restore the world’s oceans.
ONE.org
Non-partisan campaign that raises public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and efforts to fight such problems in the world's poorest countries.
Pedals for Progress
Organization the collects used bicycles and bicycle parts in North America and donates them to non-profit agencies in Latin America, the Caribbean, coastal Africa and the South Pacific.
Replant
A yearly tree-planting event run by Texas A&M students that promotes environmental service and action.
Sierra Club
Grassroots organization that addresses environmental issues such as wildland protection, forest conservation and global warming.
Student Environmental Action Coalition
Grassroots coalition of student and youth environmental groups that work together to protect the planet and promote environmental issues.
Student Public Interest Research Groups
Independent state-based student organizations that work to solve public interest problems related to the environment, consumer protection, and government reform.
Zero Waste America
Internet-based environmental research organization that offers information on associated legislative, legal, technical, environmental, health and consumer issues.
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