Click on an organization to see a description and its hyperlink, if available.
 Alliance for Survival – Los Angeles
| Contact: |
Jerry Rubin, Director |
| Address: |
2035 4th St., Ste. 103C; Santa Monica, CA 90405 |
| Phone: |
310-399-1000 |
We are a grassroots peace and environmental organization opposed to nuclear weapons, nuclear power, environmental degradation, the pre-occupation of the government with military strength and military spending, and other political and personal injustices. We support converting our economy to fulfill human
needs, have a global perspective, and are working to make the connections between peace, social justice and the environment. We believe that if the people will lead, the leaders will follow.
Projects: Campaigns against the Ward Valley nuclear waste dump; campaigns against toy guns and wartoys for children.
Volunteers: Yes
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Alliance for Survival – Orange County
| Contact: |
Marion Pack, Executive Director |
| Address: |
200 N. Main St., Ste. M-2; Santa Ana, CA 92701 |
| Phone: |
714-547-6282 |
| Fax: |
714-547-6322 |
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Americans for a Safe Future
| Contact: |
Jennifer Richardson |
| Address: |
409 Santa Monica Boulevard, 2nd Floor; Santa Monica, CA 90401 |
| Phone: |
310-395-2388 |
| Fax: |
310-394-5825 |
| Email: |
[email protected] |
Americans for a Safe Future (ASF) is the leading political force in a statewide coalition of groups working
to stop the construction of a radioactive waste dump in Ward Valley, CA. The proposed waste dump site is
only 18 miles from the Colorado River, Southern California’s primary source of drinking water. ASF is
focused on pioneering a more responsible radioactive waste storage policy for the country. Speaking for
thousands, ASF is the voice that reaches elected leaders, top officials in government agencies, and those
shaping public policy. ASF is succeeding in preventing shallow land burial of radioactive waste at Ward
Valley and in reshaping the entire nation’s policy on nuclear power and waste storage.
Projects:
- Lobbying
- Policy meetings with top governmental officials
- Editorial board briefings
- Disseminating information to the public
- Public testimony
- Outreach to cancer and health care advocacy
groups
- Alternative research
- Environmental testing oversight
Volunteer Opportunities: Fundraising
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California League of Conservation Voters
| Contact: |
David Allgood, Southern California Director |
| Address: |
10951 West Pico Blvd., Ste. 201, Los Angeles, CA 90064 |
| Phone: |
310-441-1656 |
| Fax: |
310-441-1685 |
| E-mail: |
[email protected] |
| San Francisco Headquarters: |
415-896-5550 |
| Web Site: |
www. ecovote.org/ecovote |
California League of Conservation Voters is a statewide political action committee that works to elect
environmentally responsible candidates to state and federal office, then hold them accountable to the
environmental agenda.
Projects: During election years, we work on the campaigns of candidates who will support strong
environmental protections by giving financial, strategic, volunteer and media support; Legislative
watchdog: track important environmental legislation in Sacramento and give all state lawmakers a grade
for environmental performance; Web Site: lists candidates who endorse a strong environmental agenda,
significant environmental legislation, how people voted, and how representatives in Sacramento voted on
environmental issues
Resources: Newsletter; California Environmental Scorecard (contains voting record); memberships
available
Volunteer Opportunities: Election season: work on campaigns of environmental candidates; officework
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| CALPIRG–California Public Interest Research Group
CALPIRG does research and advocacy work in a variety of areas such as energy alternatives, toxics use
reduction, pesticides control, food safety, environmental quality, consumer protection, good government
and campaign finance reform. There are ten field offices and a number of canvass offices and college
campus chapters.
Projects: Legislative watch for monitoring toxics bills and Committee member records; critiques of
chemical industry’s “Responsible Care” program and the EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory report.
Resources: Literature on all of the above; quarterly newsletter
Volunteers Opportunities: Internships
Please visit the web site listed above for complete information.
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Communities for a Better Environment
| Contact: |
Carlos Poras, Southern California Director |
| Address: |
650
W. Olympic Blvd., Ste. 850, Los Angeles, CA 90015 |
| Phone: |
213-486-5114 |
| Fax: |
213-486-5139 |
| Email: |
[email protected] |
| Web Site: |
[email protected] |
Communities for a Better Environment is a 15,000 member urban environmental health organization that
works for the implementation and enforcement of laws intended to provide clean air, clean water, and toxic
free communities. CBE’s mission is to work towards a healthy, sustainable future through effective
advocacy and community action that prevents pollution and reduces environmental health hazards in urban
communities.
Projects: La Causa, a branch of CBE, was given funds by the National Institute of Health Sciences to
conduct research and training in Southeast LA to build grassroot community organizations; RECLAIM – air
pollution treating campaign; oil refinery selenium campaign
Resources: Offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles; CBE Environmental Review comes out quarterly; fact
sheets; a new Community Resource Center
Volunteer Opportunities: Mostly composed of community members in Southeast LA area but everyone is
welcome; internships also available
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Earth Share of California
| Contact: |
Belinda M. Teitel |
| Address: |
1821 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 540, Santa Monica, CA 90403 |
| Phone: |
310-264-7766 |
| ESC Payroll Giving Campaign: |
800-441-0446 |
| Fax: |
310-829-5434 |
Earth Share of California (ESC) is an umbrella organization of leading environmental groups, founded for the
purpose of coordinating fundraising through workplace giving campaigns in companies across the State of
California. We recognize that our own health is directly linked to the health of our planet and that our
natural environment is now fragile and vulnerable to changes brought about by human activities. Through
automatic payroll deduction, employees may direct their donations to one or several environmental groups,
and they may spread their donation over a year. Workers who contribute to ESC help fund projects that
tackle everything from community health issues to conservation.
Projects: ESC funds nearly one hundred environmental organizations of varying size and activity —
organizations that are dedicted to protecting and restoring our natural resources and promoting good
environmental practices.
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EcoExpo
| Contact: |
Susan Shannon, Vice President |
| Address: |
14260 Ventura Blvd., Ste. 201, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 |
| Phone: |
818-906-2700 |
| Fax: |
818-906-3067 |
| E-mail: |
[email protected] |
| Web Site: |
www.ecoexpo.com |
| EcoExpo’s mission is to promote environmental products and services to businesses and to the public.
Projects: EcoExpo: a trade and consumer show that is designed to showcase environmental products and
services (Los Angeles and Washington D.C.); Green on Screen: environmental product placement in movies
and television; Green Business Conference
Resources: Attend the EcoExpo; Resource Directory; advertising sold on web site
Volunteer Opportunities: Monitor rooms at conference; helping out at EcoExpo (hand out literature, help
exhibitors with product sampling, coordinate information booth)
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Global Cities Project
The purpose of the Global Cities Project (GCP), the largest project of the Environmental Policy Center
(EPC), is to identify and analyze environmental programs and policies dealing with sustainable development
at a local government level. Sustainability, as defined by the EPC, rejects the traditional conflict between
environmental protection and economic prosperity and holds instead that these goals are interdependent.
The Global Cities Project works within a framework of local environmental policymaking based upon the
principles of partnership, social equity, a focus on entire systems rather than single issues, and on
systems change. The ten topics for study are: energy efficiency, water efficiency, water quality,
transportation, air quality, solid waste, toxics and hazardous waste, urban forestry, open space, and land
use.
Projects: The Project conducts an inventory of all the environmental programs and policies on member
cities and an ongoing inventory of key local environmental policies and programs at the national level. The
information is entered into an analytical framework or database which allows cities to compare their data
with what others have done nationally. As a result, local governments can walk away with a prototype in
order to bypass the research and trial-and-error process in community planning. GCP was a project of
Earth Day 1990 and presented the Presidio Conference on sustainability in 1995.
Resources: Publications: a series of 10 handbooks that deal with each of the above topics in addition to
case studies and ordinances; resources and on-line database searches available on Web Site (available to
client cities only)
Volunteer Opportunities: Internships
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Green Party of California
| Contact: |
Mike Feinstein, Green Party Candidate |
| Address: |
P.O. Box 5631, Santa Monica, CA 90409-5631 |
| Phone: |
310-31-GREEN |
| Fax: |
310-314-7336 |
| Email: |
[email protected] |
| Web Site: |
www.greens.org (lists Green parties with local contacts) |
Because the earth community is imperiled and the current political system has proved ineffective, Green
politics has arisen worldwide through Green parties and kindred grassroots movements. The Green vision
is based upon ten key values: 1) ecological wisdom, 2) grassroots democracy; 3) social justice; 4)
non-violence; 5) decentralization; 6) respect for diversity; 7) community-based economics; 8)
post-patriarchal values/feminism; 9) personal and global responsibility; 10) sustainability/future focus.
Please visit the web site listed above for complete information
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Greenpeace
| Address: |
3767 Overland Ave., Ste. 114, Los Angeles, CA 90034 |
| Phone: |
310-287-2210 |
| (information on local offices worldwide): |
1-800- 326-0959 |
| Fax: |
310-287-0832 |
| E-mail: |
[email protected] |
| Web Site: |
www.greenpeace.org |
Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organization which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to
expose global environmental problems and to force solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful
future.
Projects: General: protect biodiversity in all its forms; prevent pollution and abuse of the earth’s oceans,
land, air and fresh water; end all nuclear threats; promote peace, global disarmament, and non-violence.
Specific: work to ban factory trawlers to prevent overfishing; work to stop industrial uses of chlorine, an
environmental health problem; work to end nuclear testing
Resources: Speakers’ Bureau for student and community groups; slide show; library of resources in the
office: reports, fact sheets; newsletter for volunteers; books include Greenpeace Book of the Nuclear Age,
Greenpeace Book on Global Warming, Greenpeace Book on Dolphins; memberships available–includes
quarterly magazine; public meeting in Los Angeles on 2nd Thursday of every month at 7 pm at above
address to hear update on current issues–often guest speakers
Volunteer Opportunities: Involvement in specific projects in Southern California; in local
communities–circulating petitions, letterwriting groups, working with high school and college
environmental clubs; internships
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| Labor/Community Strategy Center
The Labor/Community Strategy Center is a multiracial “think tank/act tank” committed to building
democratic internationalist social movements. The Strategy Center’s work encompasses all aspects of
urban life: it emphasizes rebuilding the labor movement, fighting for environmental justice, truly mass
transit, and immigrant rights, as well as activity opposing the growing criminalization, racialization, and
feminization of poverty. Our work synthesizes grassroots organizing through the WATCHDOG
environmental project, Bus Riders’ Union, and Urban Strategies Group as well as education and policy
development through Strategy Center Publications and the International Institute for Strategic Organizing.
For complete information on the Labor Communities Strategy Center, please visit the web site listed above.
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League of Women Voters/Environmental Action Committee (ENACT)
| Contact: |
Mary Johnson, President |
| Address: |
2411 No. Cameron Ave., Covina, CA 91724 |
| Phone: |
818-332-6124 |
Originally created to follow regional governance/environmental issues, ENACT is a grassroots citizen
action group which promotes a sustainable society through action that encourages changes in lifestyle,
reduction in consumption, pollution prevention, and building sustainable communities. ENACT is a
cooperative effort of the twenty chapters of the League of Women Voters in the four counties of the Los
Angeles basin (LA, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino).
Projects: Buy Recycled: a traveling display of a large variety of recycled products to persuade children
and adults to buy recycled and close the loop; Building Sustainable Communities: taking indicators of
sustainability and assessing the health of our communities
Resources: Newsletter; the Buy Recycled kit
Volunteer Opportunities: Gathering data; coalition opportunities
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Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
| Phone (New York Office): |
212-727-2700 |
| Fax: |
212-727-1773 |
| Address: |
NRDC, Public Education Dept., 40 West 20th St., New York, NY 10011 |
| Email: |
[email protected] |
| Web Site: |
www.nrdc.org |
Natural Resources Defense Council, with 300,000 members nationwide, works to preserve the
environment, protect public health, and ensure the conservation of wilderness and natural resources. NRDC
pursues its goals through research, advocacy, litigation, and public education. NRDC has offices in New
York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and is the only national environmental group with
major urban environment programs in both New York and Los Angeles.
Projects: Program areas include: public health (air and water pollution, pesticide safety, environmental
justice, urban environments); resource conservation (coastal protection, energy conservation, public lands
protection); and stemming the proliferation of nuclear weapons
Resources: Quarterly magazine, The Amicus Journal; technical analyses, research reports, and policy
papers, many of which are available in part or in full on NRDC’s Web Site
Volunteer Opportunities: Include research, public education, and more (primarily in New York and
Washington D.C. offices)
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Physicians for Social Responsibility
The American recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, Physicians for Social Responsibility is a community
of conscience committed to eliminating weapons of mass destruction, preserving a sustainable environment,
addressing public health reform and reducing violence and its causes.
For complete information about Physicians for Social Responsibility, including a data base of radioactive
hazards in the United States, please visit the web site listed above.
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Population Coalition
| Contact: |
Marilyn Hempel, Executive Director |
| Address: |
1476 North Indian Hill |
Boulevard, Claremont, CA 91711 |
| Phone: |
909-625-5717 |
| Fax: |
909-625-5717 |
Our mission is to increase awareness of the burden of overconsumption and overpopulation on a sustainable
future.
Projects: Building Sustainable Communities; Population Awareness Campaign
Resources: Newsletter; in-depth white papers (study of particular issues, i.e. environmental refugees;
economic empowerment for women; population and justice); Leaders Guide to Population Issues; the
Pop!ulation Game (played on game board with cards — an introduction to population and sustainability
issues)
Volunteer Opportunities: Office and field work
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| Rainforest Action Network – Los Angeles Field Office
| Contact: |
Tamar Hurwitz |
| Address: |
1431 Ocean Ave., Ste. 500, Santa Monica, CA 90401 |
| Phone: |
310-487-2068 |
| EVENT HOTLINE: |
310-285-9359 |
| Fax: |
310-458-7348 |
| Email: |
[email protected] |
| San Francisco Office Phone: |
415-398-4404 |
| Address: |
450 Samsom Street, Ste. 700, SF 94111 |
| Web Site: |
www.ran.org |
The Rainforest Action Network works to protect the earth’s rainforests and to support the rights of their
inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
Projects: We are working to reduce tropical timber imports to the US by encouraging the passage of
resolutions and laws prohibiting use of tropical timber locally; we provide funding for grassroots forest
peoples’ projects designed to protect specific tracts of rainforest land. These projects include land
demarcation and legal work for land titles.
Resources: Membership $35/year and $18 for low-income/students; newsletter; Publications:
semi-annual World Rainforest Report ; Wood User’s Guide; Amazonia Directory; Southeast Asia Guide —
overview of deforestation, directory of organizations, etc., Cut Waste, Not Trees — compilation of
articles on wood use reduction, alternatives to wood based products, environmental justice, etc.; Kids’
Action Guide; action alerts;
Volunteer Opportunities: General office, fundraising, special projects, campaign assistance, research
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| SCCED–The Southern California Council on Environment and Development
| Adress: |
626 Santa Monica Blvd. #253, Santa Monica, CA 90401-2538 |
| Phone: |
310-281-8534 |
| Fax: |
310-455-3011 |
| Email: |
[email protected] |
| Web Site: |
www.scced.org |
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Director: Kathleen Gildred
Associate Director: Jim Stewart
The Southern California Council on Environment and Development (SCCED – pronounced “succeed”) works toward building a sustainable future for Southern California by bringing together people from government agencies, environmental and community groups, universities, and businesses in the Greater Los Angeles Area. In facilitated task forces, roundtables, forums, and conferences, we work to build consensus on programs and policies to protect the environment, strengthen the economy, and ensure equity for the region’s 15 million residents.
Projects: Conferences, Forums, Annual Indicator Reports on the State of the Local Environment & Economy, and Task forces in waste, water, and transportation, bring together experts from the different sectors to develop sustainable plans and programs for the region. The Open Space Coalition seeks to preserve and expand recreational opportunities and wildlife habitats in Los Angeles County.
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| University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) Environmental Coalition
90024
| Contact: |
Yuki Kidokaro,
Co-director
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Cindy Lin, Co-director |
| Address: |
308 Westwood Plaza, 300 Kerckhoff Hall, Los Angeles, CA |
| Phone: |
310-206-4438 |
| Fax: |
310-206-3755 |
| Email: |
[email protected] |
A campus-based (UCLA) environmental organization that is a source of environmental education, outreach
and action for UCLA and the larger L.A. community. We bring together various environmental groups and
provide a resource center for students and others on environmental and social justice issues.
Projects: Recycling Project: working to reduce solid waste on campus and increase awareness of waste
issues — introduced newspaper recycling bins in addition to existing white and color paper recycling bins;
Rainforest Action Group: continuing education and action around Rainforest issues, including the Mitsubishi
boycott campaign; Free Burma campaign: working in conjunction with the international Free Burma Coalition
to end the exploitation of human and natural resources
Resources: Newsletter, weekly informational/educational meetings
Volunteer Opportunities: Many community volunteer projects
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Zero Population Growth, Inc.
| Southern California Office: Contact:
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Susan Peterson |
| Address: |
519A SanVicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90402 |
| Phone: |
Washington D.C. Office – 310-260-9166 |
| Address: |
1400 16th St., NW, Ste. 320, Washington D.C. 20036 |
| Phone: |
1-800-767-1956; 202/332-2200 |
| Fax: |
202/332-2302 |
| Email: |
[email protected] |
| Web Site: |
www.zpg.org |
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