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Environmental
Justice
Asian
Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
They unify and empower the Asian Pacific
Islander community to achieve multicultural environmental
justice.
EPA
Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance
A pointer to
environmental justice activities at EPA and
other federal agencies.
The
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
Empowering Indigenous Nations and communities
towards sustainable livelihoods, demanding environmental justice and maintaining
the Sacred Fire of our traditions.
Environmental Justice
Working Group
A coalition of base-building organizations commited to building healthy
communities from the ground up. They focus on California's urban communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Los Angeles region, the Inland Valleys, and the San Diego/Tijuana border region.
Environmental Health Coalition's Myspace Page
Webpage created by the EHC Youth Apprentice Program.
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Lead
Poisoning
Alliance for Healthy Homes
They prevent and eliminate hazards in our homes that can harm the health of children, families, and other residents.
CDC's
Lead Poisoning Prevention
Program
Committed to the Healthy People goal of eliminating elevated blood lead levels in children by 2010. CDC assists state and local childhood lead poisoning prevention programs, provides a scientific basis for policy decisions, and ensures that health issues are addressed in decisions about housing and the environment.
City of San Diego Lead Safe Neighborhoods Program
The primary liaison connecting the community with resources to
prevent lead poisoning.
U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Healthy Homes
and Lead Hazard Control
Lead
Poisoning Prevention Outreach
Program
The National Safety Council's webpage on lead poisoning prevention.
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Right-To-Know
Baja California Air Quality Information
California Air Resources Board's CHAPIS
An internet-based mapping tool for sources of air pollution, known as the Community Health Air Pollution Information System, or CHAPIS.
County of San Diego Department of Environmental Health
A hazardous materials database.
Household Products Database
Federal health and safety information on household products.
Right-to-Know
Network
Free
access to numerous databases, text files, and
conferences on the environment, housing, and
sustainable development. Helps you identify specific
factories and their environmental effects,
analyze reinvestment by banks in their
communities, and assess people and communities
affected.
San Diego Air Pollution Control District
A database of toxic air emissions by facility.
Scorecard
In-depth pollution information for your community, covering air, water, chemicals, and more.
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Public
Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Extensive information, including health topics from A-Z.
Environmental Health Perspectives
A monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Health Care Without Harm
An international coalition of more than 180 organizations dedicated to eliminating environmental pollution from health care.
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Military
Toxics
Joint
Group on Pollution
Prevention
A partnership between various
government organizations.
Military
Toxics Project
Unites activists, organizations and
communities in the struggle to clean up military pollution,
safe-guard the transportation of hazardous materials, and
to advance the development and implementation of
preventative solutions to the toxic and radioactive
pollution caused by military activities.
Based on mutual respect for all peoples, free from any form
of discrimination or bias.
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Pollution
Prevention
Environmental Defense
Works to prevent pollution before
it occurs, to increase the effectiveness of
environmental regulations, and to build broad
new coalitions to protect the
environment.
EPA
Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT)
The
Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI)
Promotes reduction in the use of toxic
chemicals and the generation of toxic by-products in
industry and commerce in the State of Massachusetts.
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Border
Environmental Justice
The American Friends
Service Committee (AFSC)
runs the
Maquiladora
Project,
which aims to increase public awareness of
negative impacts of maquiladoras on workers in
both Mexico and the United States; and works on Immigrants Rights.
Borderlands
Links
The Borderlands Environmental Archives
including; contact lists, bibliographies ,
working notes and environmental
articles.
Center for International Policy
Links on U.S.-Mexico
relations.
Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras
An international coalition of religious, environmental, labor, Latino and women’s organizations supporting worker and community struggles for social, economic and environmental justice in the maquiladora industry.
Machinists Union - Northwest District
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International Association of Machinists and Aerospace
Workers features EHC and our Border Environmental Justice
Campaign in their "Welcome
to NAFTA" story.
U.S./Mexico
Border Programs
U.S.-Mexico Environmental Program (Border 2012) is a collaboration between the United States and Mexico to improve the environment and protect the health of the nearly 12 million people living along the border.
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Social
Justice
Computer
Professionals for Social
Responsibility
A public-interest alliance of computer
scientists and others concerned about the impact
of computer technology on society.
National
MultiCultural Institute
(NMCI)
Works to increase communication,
understanding and respect among people of
different racial, ethnic and cultural
backgrounds, and to provide a forum for
discussion of the critical issues of
multiculturalism facing our society through conferences, individualized training and
consulting programs.
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Sustainable
Development
International
Institute for Sustainable
Development
An independent policy research institute
on sustainable development in Canada.
The
Sustainable Development
Institute
Seeks to heighten the environmental quality
of economic development efforts through
improvements in policy and practice. Its
geographical concentration is on tropical forest
regions and the Atlantic coast of Canada, the
U.S., and the eastern Caribbean.
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Toxic
Chemicals
Basel
Action Network
The world's first global network of
toxics activists united in support of
international environmental justice, and in
opposition to export and dumping of hazardous
wastes from rich industrialized countries to
poorer, less-industrialized
countries.
EXTOXNET
InfoBase
Pesticide information, Toxicology
Information Briefs (TIBs), Technical Information and more.
HazDat
Database
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry's Hazardous Substance Release/Health
Effects Database.
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
They protect and enhance public health and the environment by scientific evaluation
of risks posed by hazardous substances.
ToxNet
Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic
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Community
Organizing
Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now
Dedicated to
organizing the poor and powerless -- as strong
today as it was in 1970 when a group of Arkansas welfare
mothers formed ACORN's first membership.
Center
for Community
Change
CCC helps poor people to improve their
communities and change policies and institutions
that affect their lives by developing their own
strong organizations.
The
Center for Third World Organizing
A racial justice organization
led by people of color whose mission is to achieve social and economic justice.
Community
Organizing and Economic
Development
Resources from around the country: these links
provide excellent models, stories, e-mail lists,
newsletters, strategies, tools, and relevant federal agencies and national organizations.
The
Midwest Academy
A leading national training institute for the progressive movement teaching a strategic, rigorous, results-oriented approach to social action and organization building.
The
National Organizers Alliance (NOA)
Works to
advance progressive organizing for social, economic and
environmental justice and to sustain, support and nurture
the people of all ages who do it.
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Regulatory
Agencies
California Energy Commission
California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board
California Independent Systems Operator
A not-for-profit public-benefit corporation charged with operating the majority of California’s high-voltage wholesale power grid.
California Public Utilities Commission - Energy
California Regulatory Agencies
State of California Directory of Agencies
Federal
Regulatory
Agencies
San Diego County Department of Environmental Health
San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board
State
Pesticide Regulatory
Agencies
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Children's
Health
Children's
Advocacy Institute
Works to improve the
well-being of children in our society by representing their
interests and their right to a safe, healthy childhood.
The
Children's Environmental Health Network
A
national multidisciplinary project whose purpose is to
protect the health of children as it relates to
environmental hazards.
Child Proofing our Communities -
Center for Health,
Environment and Justice. Works to protect children from
exposure to environmental health hazards where they live, learn, play and pray.
Healthy Child Healthy World
Dedicated to protecting the health and well being of children from harmful environmental exposures.
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Asthma/Air
Toxics
American
Lung Association
The greatest single resource for information and education
about asthma.
California
Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board
Environmental
Protection Agency Office of Air and Radiation
Involved with a wide variety
of issues that affect the quality of our air and protection
from harmful radiation.
San Diego Regional Asthma Coalition
Over 50 diverse agencies and individuals identifying, developing, mobilizing and coordinating
resources to prevent asthma and positively impact the lives of people affected
by asthma.
US
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Healthy
homes for children.
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Pesticides
Beyond
Pesticides/NCAMP
Began in 1981 as the National
Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides, serving as a
national network committed to pesticide safety and the
adoption of alternative pest management strategies which
reduce or eliminate a dependency on toxic chemicals.
Californians
for Pesticide Reform
A coalition of more than
120 public health, consumer, environmental, sustainable
agriculture, labor and rural assistance public interest
organizations. They expand the public's right
to know about pesticide use and abuse, reduce that use and
promote safer, ecologically sound agricultural and urban
pest management.
The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
A five-state, grassroots membership organization promoting sustainable resource management, prevention of pest problems, use of alternatives to pesticides, and the right to be free from pesticide exposure.
PAN Pesticides Database
A one-stop location for current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides.
Pesticide
Action Network North America (PANNA)
Working to replace pesticides with ecologically sound alternatives
since 1982.
U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency Office of Pesticide
Programs
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Land Use
California Air Resources Board Land Use and Air Quality Handbook
A general reference guide for evaluating and reducing air pollution impacts associated with new projects that go through the land use decision-making process.
California Land Use Planning Information Network
Latino Urban Forum
Latinos and Planning Division
The only nationwide organization focused on urban planning issues in Latino communities and on career challenges facing Latino planners.
Planning and Conservation League Forum
They protect the California environment and ensure that California continues to be an
attractive, livable and equitable state by engaging in cutting-edge
environmental public policy research and educating and empowering local
communities to participate in local and state environmental decision making
processes.
Policy Link
A national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity.
Smart Growth Network
Addresses the growing concern that current
development patterns are no longer in the long-term interest of our cities, existing suburbs, small towns, rural communities, or wilderness areas.
Walk San Diego
They envision communities that invite walking as a preferred choice for transportation and recreation and are dedicated to enhancing the livability of communities through promotion, education, and advocacy, by making walking a safe and viable choice for all people.
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Affordable Housing
Housing California
The leading voice for affordable homes for all and an end to homelessness since 1979.
National Community Land Trust Network
San Diego Housing Commission
A public agency helping low-income families, seniors, and people with disabilities afford housing in the high-cost City of San Diego.
San Diego Housing Federation
A coalition of nonprofit and others working
to produce quality affordable housing and community development for lower income
households.
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Green Building/Energy
American Institute of Architects(AIA)
For 150 years, their members have created more valuable, healthy, secure, and
sustainable buildings and cityscapes.
American Solar Energy Society
A nonprofit dedicated to increasing the use of solar energy,
energy efficiency, and other sustainable technologies in the U.S.
Architecture 2030
Their mission is to rapidly transform the US and global Building Sector from the major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions to a central part of the solution to the global-warming crisis.
California Center for Sustainable Energy
A San Diego group fostering public policies and facilitating the adoption of clean, reliable, renewable, sustainable, and
efficient energy technologies and practices.
Energy Policy Initiatives Center
A non-profit academic and
research center of the University of San Diego School of Law that studies energy policy issues
affecting the San Diego region and California.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Provides the decision-makers and others interested with an objective source of information about climate change.
San Diego Regional Renewable Energy Study Group
San Diego Smart Energy Solutions Campaign
They work to ensure clean, local, reliable power for San Diego's future, while also
protecting our quality of life, precious open space, and local
communities.
Stop Global Warming Now
Utility Consumers' Action Network
Brings legal actions, advocates policy initiatives, educates, and guards against
corporate abuses in the energy, landline and wireless phone, internet, and
gasoline industries, among many other areas.
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Research/Policy
California Policy
Research Center
Applying
the extensive research expertise of the UC system to the
analysis, development and implementation of state policy
and federal policy issues of statewide importance.
Center for Policy
Alternatives (CPA)
Engages a new generation of
leaders across the states to envision and realize
progressive solutions for America's future. They
find and promote progressive ideas that work; identify
progressive leaders; create and nurture alliances; and
connect & empower people across the fifty states.
Center for Responsive
Politics
A non-partisan, non-profit research
group based in Washington, D.C. that conducts computer-based research on campaign
finance issues for the news media, academics, activists,
and the public at large. The Center’s work is aimed at
creating a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and
a more responsive government.
The
DataCenter
Supports poor and working class people of color-led organizing efforts to reclaim community knowledge and access information in order to strategically utilize research that strengthens the movement for liberation and social justice and dismantles the structural inequities in research.
Environmental
Research Foundation (ERF)
They strengthen democracy by helping people
find the information needed to fight for environmental justice
in their communities.
The
Environmental Working Group (EWG)
A
leading
content provider for public interest groups and concerned
citizens who are campaigning to protect the environment.
EWG produces hundreds of headline-making reports each year.
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Water
American
Oceans Campaign
An oceans advocacy non-profit
organization which focuses on water/beach quality,
fisheries and fish habitat, and marine sanctuaries.
BayKeeper
Founded to stop the increasing pollution of San
Francisco Bay.
Clean Water Action
A national citizens' organization working for clean, safe and affordable water, prevention of health-threatening pollution, creation of environmentally-safe jobs and businesses, and empowerment of people to make democracy work.
The
Clean Water Network (CWN)
A coalition of more than 1,100 public interest organizations across the country working together to strengthen and implement federal clean water and wetlands policy.
Heal
the Bay
A
non-profit
making Santa Monica Bay and Southern
California coastal waters safe and healthy again for people
and marine life.
San Diego Coastkeeper
Protects bays, beaches, watersheds and ocean for the people and wildlife that depend on them.
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Multi-issue/Other
Activist
San Diego
Serving San Diego's
Progressive Community -- dedicated to networking for progressive
social change by encouraging civic involvement and providing
resources to activists.
Center
for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ)
A resource for
communities in the Inland Counties of Riverside and San
Bernardino in California. CCAEJ strives to bring diverse
groups of people together to find opportunities for
cooperation, agreement and problem solving in ways that
empower and create safer, healthier, toxic free
communities.
Center
for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ)
Works to build healthy communities, with social justice, economic well-being, and democratic governance.
Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community
A cutting-edge, applied research center housed at UC Santa Cruz. Faculty, staff, and associated researchers work with an international mix of community activists, affiliated researchers, and students.
Communities
for a Better Environment
(CBE)
An environmental health and justice non-profit organization promoting clean
air, clean water and the development of toxin-free communities.
Corporate Watch
CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization
through education and activism. We work to foster
democratic control over corporations by building
grassroots globalization--a diverse movement for human
rights, labor rights and environmental justice.
Earth
Action Network (EAN)
A non-profit, environmental/social justice organization dedicated to promoting
the healing of our society and our planet.
The
Environmental Working Group (EWG)
A
leading
content provider for public interest groups and concerned
citizens campaigning to protect the environment, producing hundreds of headline-making reports each year.
Equal Voice for America's Families
Bringing together low-wage working families from across the country to develop an agenda that voices issues that concern families.
Green
Seal
An independent, non-profit organization
dedicated to protecting the environment by promoting the
manufacture and sale of environmentally responsible
consumer products. It sets environmental standards and
awards a "Green Seal of Approval" to products
that cause less harm to the environment than other similar
products.
Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
Has played a formative role in bringing advanced communications technologies to grassroots organizations worldwide working for peace, human rights, environmental sustainability, women's rights, conflict resolution and worker rights.
¡Poder!
A grassroots, environmental justice organization based in San Francisco’s Mission District that works on local solutions to issues facing low income communities and communities of color.
Silicon
Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC)
Since 1982, SVTC has worked to document and expose the hazards of the
high-tech industry and to promote environmental and
economic sustainability and accountability in the
electronics industry, the fastest growing manufacturing
sector in the world.
SPIN Project
Supports nonprofit social justice organizations, small and large, to
communicate effectively for themselves.
Urban Habitat
Builds bridges between environmentalists, social justice
advocates, government leaders, and the business community.
The
Washington Toxics Coalition
A
non-profit,
member-based organization protecting public
health and the environment by identifying and promoting
alternatives to toxic chemicals.
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