Links to other sites

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS
Olive Branch
Olive Branch supports select non-profit organizations working in the areas of malnutrition, hunger, and environmental degradation. They focus on groups that empower people by giving them the informational tools to solve their own problems with pride and dignity. We believe that humanitarian and environmental problems go hand in hand and cannot be dealt with as separate issues.
Olive Branch is sponsoring a Trees for Life Gift Card that you can order online.
 
Digital Impact
Digital Impact is a developer, publisher, and distributor of interactive, multimedia CD-ROM software titles. The Company offers two product lines: high quality edutainment programs and affordable software for use in the home and small office. They have included The Trees for Life Adventure© in their educational products.
 
Animation World Network

The Animation World Network (AWN) provides a single source for a vast array of information pertaining to all facets of the animation industry.
They support Trees for Life's animation projects. Trees for Life is also mirrored in their virtual Village, which provides web sites for animation companies, galleries, festivals, schools, non-profit organizations, unions and individuals around the globe.
Adventure Center
Adventure Center programs include well over 1,000 annual treks, safaris, expeditions and cultural programs to more than 80 countries worldwide! Our philosophy is to enable our trip participants to immerse themselves in the country they are visiting; to learn to appreciate its people, cultures and wildlife and the delicate balance necessary for their coexistence.
To date Adventure Center has helped Trees For Life plant more than 6,000 trees in Nepal!
 
Nirula's Hotels
Nirula's of India has supported Trees for Life since its inception. Without their kind support, Trees for Life may never have come into existence.
 
Church of the Brethern
The Church of the Brethern is an ecumenical, evangelical Christian Protestant denomination with local churches in most of the fifty states. The Bretheren Volunteer Service has provided volunteer opportunities for many people, including working with Trees for Life.

 

 

ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

A U D U B O N
The mission of the National Audubon Society is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems focusing on birds and other wildlife for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.
The Arbor Day Foundation
The National Arbor Day Foundation is involved in much more than just Arbor Day celebrations around the world. Its mission is to help promote tree care and conservation and to educate people on tree issues.
EMagazine
A non-profit "clearinghouse" for information on environmental issues.
Brazilian Rainforests: An action toolkit from EARTHACTION
This page is part of Earth Action. It discusses Demarcation(the return of land to the native Brazilians).
The Earth Channel(TM)
Mission:
  1. To consciously share entertainment, information and technology with our members.
  2. To merge technology and humanity, commerce and charity. .
  3. To help preserve and protect the earth, its freedom, and the concept of global community. Webstock will provide an ongoing showcase of ideas from those who nurture and protect the planet and its inhabitants.
Earth First!
Earth First! is a movement dedicated to a front line, direct-action approach to protecting wilderness.
Earthwatch
EARTHWATCH, a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1972, is one of the world's largest private sponsors of scientific field research projects. Our mission is to improve human understanding of the planet, the diversity of its inhabitants, and the processes that affect the quality of life on Earth.
The Environmental Defense Fund
EDF has become a leading advocate of economic incentives as a new approach to solving environmental problems.
Expeditions to help the Rainforest
This page explores ecology of Rainforests and coral reefs, around the world. It is part of the EarthWatch Organization.
EcoNet
EcoNet: a decade of support for ecological sustainability and environmental justice. A member of IGC (Institute for Global Communications), along with PeaceNet, ConflictNet, LaborNet and WomensNet.
EE-Link
EE-LINK's mission is to spread information and ideas that will help educators explore the environment and investigate current issues with students.
Environment NSW
The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC for short) is based in Sydney, Australia. It is a concerted effort to ensure that the NSW government sticks to its election promises and its commitments under the National Forest Policy Statement to protect the best of our remaining native forests.
Evergreen Foundation's Ecology Resource Network:
Dedicated to preserving and restoring natural areas in the urban environment through education and community action projects, making Canadian schools and communities healthier places to live, learn, work and play...
Fairfax Releaf Home Page
An organization of volunteers who plant and preserve trees, improve community appearance, and restore habitat on public and commons lands in Northern Virginia. Fairfax Releaf serves as a practical laboratory for assessing techniques to lessen the impact of development on the environment in one of the most rapidly changing forest/urban
interface areas in the country.
Friends of the Earth Home Page
The largest international network of environmental groups in the world, represented in 52 countries. One of the leading environmental pressure groups in the UK. A unique network of campaigning local groups, working in 250 communities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
GAIA Forest Conservation Archive
Information on Worldwide Rainforest and Forest Conservation, Indigenous Issues and Ecological Activism Opportunities.
Global Response - A Letter Writing Network
GLOBAL RESPONSE is an international letter-writing network of dedicated environmental activists who are "on-call" to communicate public concern on matters of environmental emergency.
Good Green Fun!- Children's Music and Rainforest Ecology
This WWW page explores tropical and temperate forests of the world through the internet and the music of Good Green Fun!, winner of a 1995 Parents' Choice Gold Award.
Green Party
The Green program is guided by this global vision, expressed in ten interconnected Key Values, the basis of Green politics in the United States: ecological wisdom, social justice, democracy, non-violence, decentralization, community-based economics, feminism, respect for diversity, personal and global responsibility
Greenpeace International
An independent, campaigning organization which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force the solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future.
League of Conservation Voters
The political arm of the environmental movement...online! Each year the League publishes the National Environmental Scorecard, which grades each Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate on the basis of votes cast in Congress affecting the environment.
Life in the Redwoods
All about RedWood Trees.
NASA Landsat Pathfinder Humid Tropical Forest Inventory Project
The Humid Tropical Forest Project is a collaboration between the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire, The Department of Geography at the University of Maryland, and the Goddard Space Flight Center. It is a part of the NASA's Mission to Planet Earth (MPTE) program and the Earth Observation System Data and Information System (EOS-DIS). Most of the funding comes from NASA, with additional support from the Environmental Protection Agency and the USGS/National Mapping Division.
The Nature Conservancy
TNC is a national non-profit organization, involved in land conservation and wildlife issues.
Organizations that Plant Trees
A list of organizations that plant trees with the consciousness of healing and sustaining our planet. Each is a non-profit organization with its own mission and objectives.
PLANT-IT 2000 HOME PAGE
Plant-It 2000 is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) foundation dedicated to properly planting, maintaining and protecting as many indigenous trees as possible worldwide.
Rainforests
This is a publication from the Forest Aliance. It explains the difference between tropical and temperate rainforests. It also explains the benefits of rainforests, and how and why they are being destroyed.
Rainforest Action Network
Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
Rainforest Conservation Fund
The Rainforest Conservation Fund is an all-volunteer non-profit organization that is dedicated to preserving the world'stropical forests. Our main project is the Tamshiyacu-TahuahoCommunity Reserve (RCTT) in the Peruvian Amazon.
The Sierra Club of British Columbia Rainforest Alert Network
This site uses pictures to allow you to explore the beauty of several rainforest areas and to witness the clearcuts currently occuring there.
Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is a non-profit organization that promotes conservation of the natural environment by influencing public policy decisions.
Sonoma County Conservation Action
Sonoma County Conservation Action (SCCA) is the nonpartisan political arm of the local environmental movement. SCCA works to increase participation by ordinary citizens so that local government will become more accountable to the environmental values that most Sonoma County residents share.
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC)
This sites contains Southeast Alaska Conservation Council's (SEACC) information about Tongass National Forest. The Tongass National Forest is not only the largest National Forest, it is one of the most important: it is the best example of temperate coastal rainforest remaining. This forest is threatened by radically increased pressures for clearcutting.
TREES!
Once a seedling idea, TREES! has taken hold and given root to nearly two hundred thousand trees planted in Kent County, Michigan. Our mission is to encourage planting and protection of trees in Kent County and throughout the world.
Tree Canada Foundation
The Tree Canada Foundation (TCF) exists to provide leadership and promote public awareness, education and community action in the planting and care of urban and rural trees throughout Canada.
Trees for Life Canada
International Co-operation of Children (I.C.O.C) for Trees for Life Canada Inc. is a non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to promoting environmental education to children. It is associated with Trees for Life USA.
Trees for Life Great Britain
Trees for Life is a conservation charity dedicated to the regeneration and restoration of the Caledonian Forest in the Highlands of Scotland, Great Britain.
Trees for Life Australia
South Australia's major community-based revegetation group, Trees For Life has more than 10,000 members. It is the world's largest branch of the International Tree Foundation, established in 1924 by Richard St Barbe Baker.
The Trust for Public Land Home Page
The Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national, nonprofit land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, gardens, natural areas and open space.
The Wilderness Society
Conservation group dedicated to preserving America's public lands.
The World's Rainforests
This is a publication of The National Association of Forest Industries. It explains how much of the world is covered by rainforests and where these forests are located.
The WWF Global Network
WWF's ultimate goal is to stop, and eventually reverse, the accelerating degradation of our planet's natural environment, and to help build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. WWF is known as the World Wildlife Fund in the USA and Canada. This site contains a lot of WWF's links and environmental links.
WWF's Forest For Life Program
WWF's research suggests that the international timber trade is now the primary cause of forest degradation and loss in those forests that contain the highest levels of biodiversity.

OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL LINK PAGES

Amazing Environmental Organization WebDirectory
"Earth's Biggest Environment Search Engine"
EnviroLink Library
The most comprehensive resource of environmental information available on the internet. Information is grouped under subjects within each main area of Air, Water, Flora & Fauna, Fire, and Earth in the Library. Links to large number of environmental organizations.
Environment
A list of Environmental Sites.
Environmental Groups
Links to Environmental Groups on the Web.
Environmental Groups
Another listing of enviromental groups.
Rainforest Net
An Index Of Rainforest Related Sites On The Web.

HUNGER AND DEVELOPMENT

Bread for the World (BFW)
Bread for the World is a nationwide Christian movement that seeks justice for the world's hungry people by lobbying our nation's decision makers.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Various Food and Agricultureal sites are listed. It covers Agriculture, Economics, Fisheries, Forestry, Nutrition, Sustainable Development, and Partnerships Programmes. You have the option of viewing the site in English, Spanish and French languages.
 
The HungerWeb
HungerWeb is a project of the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program at the Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown University. Its aim is to help prevent and eradicate hunger by facilitating the free exchange of ideas and information regarding the causes of, and solutions to, hunger. It contains both primary information, made available by the World Hunger Program and its partners, and links to other sites where information of relevance to hunger can be found.
 
PEOPLink - Internet for Global Trade and Democracy
PEOPLink is a non-profit organization helping talented producers in remote communities all over the world market their products on the Internet.We provide digital cameras to Partner Organizations and train them to e-mail pictures and detailed descriptions of their products. We then place them on the PEOPLink Web page and promote them to retail and wholesale buyers in the industrialized countries. This same Web page contains ample educational materials sent to us by the producers themselves about their work and lives. This is direct, people-to-people development!
 
Share Our Strength
Share Our Strength works to alleviate and prevent hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world. By supporting food assistance, treating malnutrition and other consequences of hunger, and promoting economic independence among people in need, SOS meets immediate demands for food while investing in long term solutions to hunger and poverty. To meet its goals, Share Our Strength both mobilizes industries and individuals to contribute their talents to its anti-hunger efforts and creates community wealth to promote lasting change.
Sugarplums - Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger
The Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger (FICAH) is a voluntary initiative of the American Food Industry to alleviate hunger and malnutrition in the United States and around the world.
The Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program
The Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program (WHP) at Brown University combines research, education, and recognition to address long-term problems of hunger. Established in l985, the WHP is the only major research center in the world that has the long-term prevention of hunger as its primary goal.
World Hunger Year
Our mission is to work for just policies creating a more secure world and to support innovative programs creating sustainable livelihoods for all. WHY promotes self-reliance, food security and economic justice through research and education for policymakers, the media and the general public and through collaboration with and support for grassroots organizations.
WORLD NEIGHBORS Home page
World Neighbors: a US-based non-profit organization working at the forefront of worldwide efforts to eliminate hunger, disease and poverty in Asia, Latin America and Africa.


Created on October 5, 1996 by

David Harris, sleeyd@dtc.net
David Harris is a Trees for Life Volunteer

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