Green Links and Resources

One of the things we can all do is network with other environmental groups and encourage others to support them with both time and money.

More Green: Environmental Groups

• Students for Environmental Action - SEA is Johns Hopkins University's Students for Environmental Action, an on-campus group for students concerned with the present state of the environment; be it local, national, or global. We hold numerous awareness/action events every semester. In addition, SEA holds stream cleanups of Stony Run and teaches Barclay Elementary school children about the environment.
• Southern Environmental Law Center - Nonprofit advocacy organization that protects the environmental quality and outstanding natural resources of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
• The Pennsylvania Environmental Network (PEN) - PEN's mission has always been to support and encourage local grassroots activism throughout Pennsylvania by providing the framework through which individuals and groups alike could network.
• The National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP) - a multidisciplinary, professional association dedicated to the promotion of ethical practices, technical competency, and professional standards in the environmental fields. Our members reflect a diversity of employers, including government, industry, academia, consulting firms, and the private sector in the U.S. and abroad.
• Global Warming Myths and Facts - Normally, news programs are abuzz with stories about murders, house fires, political sniping, and non-life-impacting sagas like runaway brides, doped-up sports stars, and lotto winners who squandered their fortune on sports cars and more lotto tickets. Rarely does a tame subject like global warming—which is just a little geophysical phenomenon that has the potential to disrupt civilization as we know it in the next century—rate any mention at all. And when it does get air time, our media nitwits usually resort to reporting on the latest squabbling over the subject without bothering to sort out the science from the spin. Read the Facts...
• The Green Institute - The Green Institute's core mission is to create and offer pragmatic solutions to critical problems of the day - and beyond. The Green philosophy is a broad and coherent program that transcends a narrow sense of politics to include attention to the quality of life, the social fabric, ecological wisdom, eco-social justice, global responsibility, nonviolence, community development, and respect for the spiritual dimension of life.

More Virginia Chapters of Campus Greens

• The College of William & Mary: Campus Greens Chapter, Williamsburg, VA
• Virginia Tech: Campus Greens of Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
• Radford University: The Radford Green Team, Radford, VA (no website found)
• University of Richmond, Richmond, VA (no website found)
• University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (no website found)

More Virginia Green Thinking Groups

• The Green Party of Virginia - Green locals are politically active in Virginia, where they have run campaigns throughout the state and continue to lobby for legislation which protects our environment, health, and the rights of people throughout our Commonwealth.
• Richmond Peace Education Center - The Richmond Peace Education Center works for a just and peaceful community by promoting nonviolence locally and globally.
• Virginia Organizing Project - The Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) is a statewide grassroots organization dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering people in local communities to address issues that affect the quality of their lives.
• Region 2000 Greenways and Byways Plan - The Region 2000 Greenways and Blueways Plan serves as a guide for the creation of a regional scale, linked network of trails, parks, rivers, and other interesting destinations in the community.

Books for Additional Reading

	Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For Our Future by John D. Cox
	Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster by Ross Gelbspan
	One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich "IS HUMANITY REALLY on a collision course with the natural world, which supports us all?..."

Environmental Resources and Information

• Department of Environmental Protection - Principal agency for administering environmental laws.
• Jobs in the Environmental Industry - Links to groups, companies and organizations who hire environmental professionals.
• Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) - The EERC is recognized internationally as an expert in scientifically advanced energy systems and the prevention and cleanup of air, water, and soil pollution and is part of the University of North Dakota.

Environmental Facts: Did You Know?

About one-third of the U.S. population gets drinking water from public-supply wells. The occurrence of contaminants in these wells is highly variable (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1999). To safeguard public health, we need a better understanding of how these wells can become contaminated.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Fact Sheet 2005-3022