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Measure
Your Carbon Footprint
Interested to know your carbon impact on the environment? Try this
carbon footprint calculator to see how you rate and ways you can
offset your contribution to global warming. |
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Audubon
Society of Rhode Island
Join ASRI's stimulating programs, visit their award-winning
Environmental Education Center, and spread the word
about conserving waters, forests, and grasslands
in the Ocean State! |
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The
Ecological Footprint Quiz
Ever wondered how much "nature" your lifestyle requires?
This Ecological Footprint Quiz estimates how much
productive land and water you need to support what
you use and what you discard. |
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Redefining
Progress
Redefining Progress (RP) works with a broad array
of partners to shift the economy and public policy
towards sustainability. |
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The
Sustainable Lifestyle Campaign
Empowerment Institute's Sustainable Lifestyle Campaign
brings the EcoTeam Program to municipalities through
service contracts with local government agencies
and utilities to help them achieve their resource
conservation and environmental protection objectives.
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Ecological
Footprint Network
The “Ecological Footprint” measures
what we consume from nature, for individuals, organizations,
cities, regions, nations or humanity as a whole.
It shows how much biologically productive land and
water we occupy to produce all the resources we
consume and to absorb our waste. |
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The
Center for a New American Dream
Helps Americans consume responsibly to protect the
environment, enhance quality of life and promote
social justice. |
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The
Nature Conservancy of Rhode Island
The Nature Conservancy of Rhode Island's mission
is to preserve and protect open space in Rhode Island. |
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Block
Island Conservancy
A grass-roots organization of Block Island, Rhode
Island residents and friends working to preserve
Block Island’s unique characteristics –
the harmony of land and sea, field and shore, wildlife
and human life. |
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The
Rachel Carson Council
Rachel Carson Council's mission is devoted to fostering
a sense of wonder and respect toward nature and
to helping society realize Rachel Carson's vision
of a healthy and diverse environment. |
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The
Nature Conservancy
To preserve the plants, animals and natural communities
that represent the diversity of life on Earth by
protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. |
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The
Rhode Island Natural History Survey
A consortium of organizations and individuals seeking
to further knowledge and understanding of Rhode
Island's biota, geology, and ecosystems. |
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United
States Green Building Council
The nation’s foremost coalition of leaders
from across the building industry working to promote
buildings that are environmentally responsible,
profitable and healthy places to live and work.
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New
England Sustainable Energy Association
The nation's leading regional membership organization
focused on promoting the understanding, development,
and adoption of energy conservation and non-polluting,
renewable energy technologies. |
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Natural
Resources Defense Council
NRDC uses law, science, and the support of more
than 500,000 members nationwide to protect the planet's
wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and
healthy environment for all living things. |
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The
Institute for Solar Living
The Solar Living Institute is dedicated to the belief
that education will help bring about the changes
in consciousness and behavior necessary to create
an environmentally sustainable future. |
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Renewable
Energy Policy Project
A pioneering force publishing information about
renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainability
available on the Internet. |
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New
England Grassroots Environment Fund
A small grants program designed to foster and give
voice to grassroots environmental initiatives in
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, and Vermont. |
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Pasture
Golf
At its birth, golf was the game of a rural people,
played simply on the fells and fields where sheep
and cattle grazed. Pasture golf celebrates the undercurrent,
the backwash maybe, that returns to these grassroots. |
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The
Trust for Public Land
TPL helps conserve land for recreation and spiritual
nourishment and to improve the health and quality
of life of American communities. |
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Northeast
Organic Farming Association of Rhode Island
NOFA/RI is an organization of consumers, gardeners,
farmers and environmentalists working to promote
organic farming practices and supporting all efforts
for a healthier, sustainable agricultural system.
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