Enviro-activism Dictionary

1. Likely the most proactive American organisation, active on the government and outreach front. Take Action!

www.environmentaldefense.org

2. Eco terrorist or true ecologist? You decide! (skip the viagra ads).

www.earthliberationfront.com

3. In need of sending someone a Groundhog Day E-card? (???) you can find one here for sure, together with a lot of pro-positive information relating to every aspect of Environmental Care.

www.care2.com

4. Climate change central. Take the test and learn how to change your footprint on the planet!

www.earthday.net

5. All corporations are bad? While generally true, one of them may just save the Earth as we know it. Climb with Ray Anderson the 7 faces of Mount Sustainability, the only mountain way taller and harder than Mount Everest.

www.interfacesustainability.com

6. Having problems believing we will ever switch to an environmental friendly society? The smarter ones of us already have! Who wants to move to Freiburg, the Solar City, with me?

www.solarregion.freiburg.de

7. Are you still not clear what these renewable energies that will save the world are? Shame on you, seriously. Probably even rocks and trees know that by now. Go immediately to Crest (Centre for Renewable Energy and Sustainable technology) website and learn everything about it.

www.crest.org

8. Because preventing stuff from reaching the dumpster means less garbage and therefore less pollution.

www.freecycle.org

9. I recycle paper, plastic, glass, batteries and organic waste. What do you recycle? Beat me by learning everything there is to know on the subject here!

www.recyclenow.com

10. Buying new books isn't cool. Now, reading books is what everybody should do - the missing link is in exchanging already read books, saving the forests! I prefer the central European bookcrossing spin: leaving read books anywhere in the city for others to pick up and get another in exchange at the same spot in a week. But any way works!

www.bookcrossing.com

11. Into retro video games? Trying to learn something about the environment? The lost island of Honoloko is what you are looking for.

www.honoloko.com

12. Reappropriate the streets of the world. Cars out, bikes in! Destroy air pollution by disrupting traffic!

www.critical-mass.org

13. Trying to raise a green kid? Or are you a kid yourself? Become an Eco agent:

www.ecoagents.eu

Or an Eco politician: www.eea.eu

14. Think you know it all? the environment can be yet another –edia.

www.epaedia.eu

15. Because without the rainforest, we would have fried long time ago.

www.ran.org

16. If you consider becoming an online activist.

www.saveourenvironment.org

17. Still unsure what the notorious KYOTO document is about? Read it here and understand it here:

http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html, http://unfccc.int/files/essential_background/kyoto_protocol/application/pdf/kpstats.pdf

18. Not found what you were looking for? You must be picky my friend! Find the missing link here.

www.world.org

19. Liberate the animals!

www.animalliberationfront.com

20. …and the philosophical reasons why:

www.veganism.com

NGO’s:

Greenpeace www.greenpeace.org

WWF www.worldwildlife.org