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Amazon Watch
They are a non-profit organization that works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development-oil and gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other mega-projects.

Corp Watch
Investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption around the world. They work to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations.

GAIA
GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 500 grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 80 countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration.

Goldman Prize
The Goldman Environmental Prize is the world's largest prize honoring grassroots environmentalists. Founded in 1990 by Richard and Rhoda Goldman, the Goldman Environmental Prize annually awards US$150,000 to environmental heroes from each of the world's six inhabited continental regions.

Health Care Without Harm
A global coalition of 473 organizations in more than 50 countries working to protect health by reducing pollution in the health care sector.

Institute for Children's Environmental Health
A non-profit educational organization working to ensure a healthy, just and sustainable future for all children.

Grist
A non-profit organization that provides independent coverage of news stories ranging from environmental topics such as green issues and sustainable living to more political headlines such as the presidential race of 2008.

International Rivers Network
IRN’s mission is to protect rivers and defend the rights of communities that depend on them. IRN seeks a world in which rivers and the ecosystems they support are valued, and the importance of the links between healthy environments and healthy societies are understood.

NEHA
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) is a strong professional society with over 4,500 members across the nation. NEHA’s mission is “to advance the environmental health and protection professional for the purpose of providing a healthful environment for all”.

Pesticides Action Network International
PAN is a network of over 600 participating nongovernmental organizations, institutions and individuals in over 90 countries working to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives.

The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance
Motivated by the UN's decision to declare 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation (IYS), a number of organizations active in the field of sanitation decided in 2007 to form an open network on Sustainable Sanitation to support the IYS by raising awareness of what sustainable sanitation solutions are and promoting them on a large scale.

Your Green Ability
Discussions on Current Alternative Energy News and Green Products Alternatives.