NONPROFITS

		Rainforest Alliance The Rainforest Alliance works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.   Based in New York City, with offices throughout the United States and worldwide, the Rainforest Alliance works with people whose livelihoods depend on the land, helping them transform the way they grow food, harvest wood and host travelers.   Rainforest Alliance also sets standards for sustainability that conserve wildlife and wildlands and promote the wellbeing of workers and their communities. Farms and forestry enterprises that meet comprehensive criteria receive the Rainforest Alliance certification seal. http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/
		Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action. RAN accomplishes its mission through dynamic, hard-hitting campaigns that work to bring corporate and governmental policies into alignment with popular support for rainforest conservation. RAN works in alliance with environmental and human rights groups around the world, including indigenous forest communities and non-governmental organizations in rainforest countries. http://www.ran.org/
		Amnesty International's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.  AI is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion. It does not support or oppose any government or political system, nor does it support or oppose the views of the victims whose rights it seeks to protect. It is concerned solely with the impartial protection of human rights. http://www.amnesty.org/
		The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is the independent political voice for the environment.  To secure the environmental future of our planet, LCV's mission is to advocate for sound environmental policies and to elect pro-environmental candidates who will adopt and implement such policies. The LCV Family of Organizations includes LCV, LCV Action Fund, LCV Accountability Project, and LCV Education Fund.   LCV was invited to do voter registration on the Beastie Boys' tour. http://www.lcv.org/
		U.S. Public Interest Research Groups (U.S. PIRG) is the federation of state PIRGs and takes on powerful interests on behalf of the American public, working to win concrete results for our health and our well-being.  With a strong network of researchers, advocates, organizers and students in state capitols and population centers across the country, we stand up to powerful special interests on issues to promote clean air and water, protect open space, stop identity theft, fight political corruption, provide safe and affordable prescription drugs, and strengthen voting rights. http://www.uspirg.org/
		Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) was founded to be the national information and networking center for citizens and environmental activists concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation and sustainable energy issues.  NIRS also initiates large-scale organizing and public education campaigns on specific issues. Nuclear power is not only ineffective at addressing climate change, but when the entire fuel chain is examined, nuclear power is found to be a producer of greenhouse gases.   Adding enough nuclear power to make a meaningful reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would cost trillions of dollars, create tens of thousands of tons of radioactive waste and contribute to further proliferation of nuclear weapons materials.   Our country's energy policy should instead provide funding for 21st century energy technologies, such as renewable energy, fuel cells, microturbines, green hydrogen and other sustainable forms of energy production. http://www.nirs.org/