Tools for a Green Generation

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Surf Sustainably:
Web sites for activists

Action Network
www.actionnetwork.org. Environmental Defense (formerly the Environmental Defense Fund) makes online activism easy: Just select the organizations and causes you care about, and the Action Network will alert you when it's time to write key policymakers.

Blueprint for a Green Campus
www.envirocitizen.org/cgv/blueprint/. Learn how to help your campus incorporate environmental principles into its curriculum, building management, and purchasing policies.

Clean Up Your School's Vehicle Fleet
www.nrdc.org/earthsmartcars/actsch.html. The Natural Resources Defense Council tells you why we need cleaner cars-and how you can convert your campus's vehicles.

Climate Change Youth Cafe
http://iisd.ca/youth/internetcafe/. Concerned about global warming? Join this online discussion forum, which also has resources for Canadian youth.

EarthNet News
www.envirocitizen.org/enet/ennews.html. Keep up to date on environmental issues with the weekly EarthNet News, the largest student environmental listserv in the United States.

Ecopledge
www.ecopledge.com. Organizes targeted campus boycotts of companies that harm the environment.

EPA Student Center
www.epa.gov/students/. Get information about environmental careers, ideas for projects, and primers on ecosystems, environmental regulations, and key eco-issues.

Global Response
www.globalresponse.org. Learn how to write effective letters to decision-makers-and then get notified when your message can make a difference.

Graduation Pledge Alliance
www.manchester.edu/academic/programs/departments/Peace_Studies/
files/gpa.html.
Make a socially conscious pledge-"to explore and take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job I consider and try to improve these aspects of any organizations for which I work"-part of your college's graduation ceremony.

Grist Magazine
www.gristmagazine.com. A daily source of edgy environmental journalism, including in-depth reporting, breaking news, activist diaries, and practical resources.

Mobilization for Global Justice
www.a16.org. Missed the battle in Seattle? Get news and resources about the next anti-globalization protests and campaigns.

River of Words
http://irn.org/row/. River of Words is an annual environmental poetry and art contest for grades K-12, cosponsored by the International Rivers Network, the Library of Congress, and former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass.

Sierra Club
www.sierraclub.org. Get the latest news on sprawl, wildlands, and global warming, and even do something about it by visiting the "Take Action" page.