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Lake Erie Waterkeeper
The mission of the Lake Erie Waterkeeper is to preserve and to improve the ecosystem of the Lake Erie watershed including its bays, rivers and tributaries.
www.lakeeriewaterkeeper.org
Land Trust for the Little Tennessee
The Land Trust for the Little Tennessee is dedicated to conserving the waters, forests, farms and heritage of the Upper Little Tennessee and Hiwassee River Valleys.
www.ltlt.org
League of Conservation Voters
League of Conservation Voters is a national non-profit organization that works to turn environmental values into national priorities.
www.lcv.org
Leave No Trace
The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics teaches people how to enjoy the outdoors responsibly.
www.lnt.org
Legacy Land Conservancy
Legacy Land Conservancy protects forests, prairies, farms, wetlands and waters – today and forever.
www.legacylandconservancy.org
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
The Leopold Center is a research and education center on the campus of Iowa State University created to identify and reduce negative environmental and social impacts of farming and develop new ways to farm profitably while conserving natural resources.
www.leopold.iastate.edu
Lincoln Green by Design
Lincoln Green by Design’s mission is to bring together individuals, businesses, nonprofits and government agencies to promote a sustainable Lincoln and Lancaster County.
www.lincolngreenbydesign.com
Living Oceans Society
Living Oceans Society has been a leader in the effort to protect Canada’s Pacific coast since they were formed in 1998.
www.livingoceans.org
Local Food Hub
Local Food Hub is a nonprofit organization working to strengthen and secure the future of a healthy regional food supply by providing small farmers with concrete services that support their economic vitality and promote stewardship of the land.
www.localfoodhub.org
Louisiana Bucket Brigade
The mission of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is to support communities’ use of grassroots action to create informed, sustainable neighborhoods free from industrial pollution.
www.labucketbrigade.org
Louisiana Environmental Action Network
The purpose of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network is to foster cooperation and communication between individual citizens and corporate and government organizations in an effort to assess and mend the environmental problems in Louisiana.
www.leanweb.org
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
The purpose of the Association is to help farmers and gardeners grow organic food, fiber and other crops; protect the environment; recycle natural resources; increase local food production; support rural communities; and illuminate for consumers the connection between healthful food and environmentally sound farming practices.
www.mofga.org
Maine Rivers
Our mission is to protect, restore and enhance the ecological health of Maine’s river systems.
www.mainerivers.org
Marcellus Earth First!
Marcellus Earth First! is a regional network of Earth First!ers united in the struggle to stop fracking–a region wide ecological terror.
www.marcellusearthfirst.org
Marine Conservation Alliance
Marine Conservation Alliance promotes science-based management and collaborative projects that promote stewardship, healthy oceans and sustainable fisheries to feed the world.
www.marineconservationalliance.org
Maui Tomorrow Foundation
Maui Tomorrow works with government decision makers and citizens to teach and promote growth management strategies, to implement sustainable development policies for Maui, and to preserve irreplaceable open space and natural areas.
www.maui-tomorrow.org
Media Matters for America
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
www.mediamatters.org
MedWish International
MedWish International is a not-for-profit organization committed to repurposing medical supplies and equipment discarded by the healthcare industry with the objectives of providing humanitarian aid in developing countries to save lives and reducing waste to save our environment.
www.medwish.org
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
We are a non-profit organization with the mission to cultivate the ecological, social, economic and spiritual vitality of food and farming systems through education, research, policy and market development.
www.michaelfields.org
Michael Pollan: Today’s Link
Michael Pollan shares the link (or links) that he thinks readers will find most provocative or useful.
www.michaelpollan.com/todays-link
Michigan Association of Conservation Districts
The mission of the Michigan Association of Conservation Districts is to strengthen Michigan’s Conservation Districts through leadership, information and representation.
www.macd.org
Michigan Energy Options
Michigan Energy Options is a results driven nonprofit focused on promoting and implementing quality energy-efficiency and sustainability programming.
www.michiganenergyoptions.org
Michigan Nature Association
The purpose of the Michigan Nature Association is to acquire, protect and maintain natural areas that contain examples of Michigan endangered and threatened flora, fauna and other components of the natural environment, including habitat for fish, wildlife and plants of the state of Michigan and to carry on a program of natural history study and conservation education as permitted under the Michigan Nonprofit Corporation Act.
www.michigannature.org
Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission
The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) is the regional voice and a catalyst for sustainability and economic prosperity in order to secure a competitive advantage for central Ohio.
www.morpc.org
Milwaukee Environmental Consortium
The Milwaukee Environmental Consortium fosters collaboration within Milwaukee’s environmental community through efficiencies of scale attained by the combined efforts of groups working together.
www.milwaukeeenvironmentalconsortium.org
Milwaukee Riverkeeper
Milwaukee Riverkeeper’s mission is to protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the river corridors and to advocate for sound land use in the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic River Watersheds.
www.mkeriverkeeper.org
Minnesota Environmental Partnership
The Partnership’s mission is to strengthen the effectiveness of the Minnesota environmental community in protecting and enhancing the state’s natural resources.
www.mepartnership.org
Minnesota Waters
The mission of Minnesota Waters is to promote responsible stewardship of our water resources by engaging citizens, local and state policymakers and other partners in the protection and restoration of Minnesota’s lakes and rivers.
www.minnesotawaters.org
Missouri Coalition for the Environment
The Missouri Coalition for the Environment works to protect and restore the environment through education, public engagement and legal action.
www.moenviron.org
Missouri River Relief
Missouri River Relief is a grassroots, volunteer and equipment-based organization dedicated to reconnecting people to the Missouri River through hands-on river clean-ups and education events.
www.riverrelief.org
Missouri Votes Conservation
Missouri Votes Conservation is a non-partisan statewide organization that advocates for pro-environment legislation and political candidates in Missouri.
www.movotesconservation.org
Mobile Baykeeper
Mobile Baykeeper’s mission is to provide citizens a means to protect the beauty, health and heritage of the Mobile Bay watershed, Alabama’s waterways and coastal communities.
www.mobilebaykeeper.org
Mobilization for Climate Justice
The Mobilization for Climate Justice is a North America-based network of organizations and activists who have joined together to build a North American climate justice movement that emphasizes non-violent direct action and public education to mobilize for effective and just solutions to the climate crisis.
www.actforclimatejustice.org
Moms Clean Air Force
Moms Clean Air Force bring parents together to come out in strength for our kids’ right to clean air — just as our parents fought for us, forty years ago, when the Clean Air Act was first passed.
www.momscleanairforce.org
Moms Rising
Since 2006, MomsRising has been working to bring together millions of people who share a common concern about the need to build a more family-friendly America.
www.momsrising.org
Mothers Against Drilling in Our Neighborhoods
Mothers Against Drilling In Our Neighborhoods, or MADION, is a group formed by Ohio mothers whose sole mission is to preserve the health and safety of our children from the harmful effects of drilling for gas and oil in our neighborhoods.
www.mothersagainstfracking.org
Mountain Justice
Mountain Justice works to create diverse and sustainable economies in Appalachian regions traditionally dominated by the coal industry by supporting businesses, jobs and ways of living that are not environmentally or culturally destructive and are nourishing to the social and biological fabric of healthy communities.
www.mountainjustice.org
Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape from Seattle across the Cascade Mountains to Central Washington, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.
www.mtsgreenway.org
Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment
Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment is working to restore and protect the natural and cultural environment through respectfully promoting intercultural engagement among communities and institutions for the benefit of all life and future generations.
www.masecoalition.org
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Extreme weather events supercharged by climate change in 2012 led to nearly 1,000 more deaths, more than 20,000 additional hospitalizations, and cost the U.S. healthcare system $10 billion, a new report finds.
A Bay Area conservation group struck a deal to buy and to protect the world's largest remaining privately owned sequoia forest for $15.6 million. Now it needs to raise the money, according to CNN.
The Rugby World Cup starts Friday in Japan where Pacific Island teams from Samoa, Fiji and Tonga will face off against teams from industrialized nations. However, a new report from a UK-based NGO says that when the teams gather for the opening ceremony on Friday night and listen to the theme song "World In Union," the hypocrisy of climate injustice will take center stage.
For Many Reporters Covering Climate, Population Remains the Elephant in the Room
By Wudan Yan
In June, New York Times journalist Andy Newman wrote an article titled, "If seeing the world helps ruin it, should we stay home?" In it, he raised the question of whether or not travel by plane, boat, or car—all of which contribute to climate change, rising sea levels, and melting glaciers—might pose a moral challenge to the responsibility that each of us has to not exacerbate the already catastrophic consequences of climate change. The premise of Newman's piece rests on his assertion that traveling "somewhere far away… is the biggest single action a private citizen can take to worsen climate change."
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Food will be scarce, expensive and less nutritious," CNN warns us in its coverage of the UN's new "Climate Change and Land" report. The New York Times announces that "Climate Change Threatens the World's Food Supply."
By Adam Vaughan
Two-thirds of people in the UK think the amount people fly should be reined in to tackle climate change, polling has found.
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On Monday, Sept. 23, the Climate Group will kick off its 11th annual Climate Week NYC, a chance for governments, non-profits, businesses, communities and individuals to share possible solutions to the climate crisis while world leaders gather in the city for the UN Climate Action Summit.
By Pam Radtke Russell in New Orleans
Local TV weather forecasters have become foot soldiers in the war against climate misinformation. Over the past decade, a growing number of meteorologists and weathercasters have begun addressing the climate crisis either as part of their weather forecasts, or in separate, independent news reports to help their viewers understand what is happening and why it is important.