Environmental Initiatives | 2013
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40 Years – Timeline of Our Efforts................1
The Compass That Guides.............................. 4
Common Threads Partnership ...................... 5
Working for Wildness........................................6
At a Glance ...........................................................8
Sustainable Apparel Coalition ....................10
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Lowdown on Down............................................11
Cleaning Up with bluesign ........................... 12
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Managing Storm Water................................. 13
Clothing Donations........................................... 13
Beyond Auditing................................................ 14
Patagonia Provisions™..................................... 16
Wild & Scenic Film Festival ........................... 16
Environmental Internships .............................17
Our Common Waters ...................................... 18
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Working for
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Vote the Environment .................................... 20
More Than Just a Job......................................22
Patagonia Japan Tools Conference........... 23
Patagonia National Park ...............................24
Maps for Good ...................................................24
The Conservation Alliance.............................25
1% for the Planet ..............................................25
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Shell Quits the Skeena................................... 26
Environmental Grants.....................................27
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VOTE THE
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OUR COMMON
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ENVIRONMENTAL
Grants
40 Years — CLEAN CLIMBING, ORGANIC COTTON, 1% FOR THE PLANET, and a lot more — Patagonia’s Efforts on Behalf of Nature and People
We invite Verité – an international nonprofit
social auditing, training and capacity-building
organization – to train Patagonia employees
who visit our suppliers’ factories to fully understand our Workplace Code of Conduct.
New “Firehouse” building, which
incorporates environmentally
sensitive features and materials,
opens at Ventura HQ.
David J. Cross
We introduce our first product
made with hemp fabric.
We decide not to work with
any factory we are not allowed
to visit to ensure product quality and safe and healthy working conditions.
1989
1973
1972
1985
Patagonia gives office
space and its first environmental grant to Friends of
the Ventura River.
Patagonia becomes first commercial
customer in California to purchase electricity generated solely from wind energy.
. Patagonia teams with independent
bluesign Technologies to begin reducing
environmental harm, improve consumer
and occupational health & safety, and
optimize the efficient use of resources in
the making of our fabrics.
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Company issues first
internal environmental
assessment report.
1991
1993
1990
1992
1996
1994
1995
1997
2000
David J. Cross
Our Salt Lake City outlet store opens
Utah’s first recycling center.
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We found Freedom to Roam, a self-supporting coalition of business, government and conservation groups working together to conserve
wildlife corridors across North America.
Company-wide environmental campaign: Vote the Environment
We begin using chlorine-free merino wool in
our line.
2003
2002
2005
2004
2006
We begin using recycled soda bottles to
make PCR Synchilla fleece.
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Company-wide environmental
campaign: Genetic Modification
We stop using conventionally grown cotton, adopting
100% organic cotton for all
of our cotton products.
Two Patagonia employees are invited to take part
in President Clinton’s “No
Sweat Initiative”; we become founding members of
the Fair Labor Association
(FLA).
The Fair Labor Association board
approves us as a participating company.
2010
2009
2007
After an audit of our headquarters, the Fair Labor Association reaccredits our social responsibility program; we add one more manager to the social responsibility staff and another field manager
for a total team of eight.
2012
2011
2013
Patagonia becomes California’s first B
Corp, creating a legal framework to remain
true to our values through succession, capital raises, even change in ownership.
We release The Responsible Company, a
title by Patagonia™ Books that shows companies how to thread their way through
economic sea change and slow the drift toward ecological bankruptcy.
Our social/environmental responsibility team is given the power to veto any
decision to work with a new factory that
doesn’t meet our CSR standards; our social responsibility management position
is elevated to director of social/environmental responsibility; we hire an analyst
to help run the program.
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378 solar panels installed on Ventura
campus to offset a portion of electricity
use. We add 120 more panels in 2012.
Company-wide environmental campaign: The
Responsible Economy
We roll out our social responsibility program to
the raw material suppliers level.
We relaunch The Footprint Chronicles
In an effort to take responsibility for
worn out Patagonia products, we launch
the Common Threads Garment Recycling Program.
We change Common Threads Initiative to Common Threads Partnership, solidifying the relationship between us and our customers; Second Home
is renamed the Worn Wear™ program and expanded to eight U.S. retail stores.
Company-wide environmental campaign: Our
Common Waters
We found the Sustainable Apparel
Coalition with Walmart, and invite
other apparel and footwear companies to join the effort to create a single
index to understand the environmental and social impacts of the products
we all make.
We introduce products made
with recycled nylon.
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard
and artist/angler James Prosek launch
the World Trout Initiative , producing
T-shirts adorned with James’ beautiful
fish art as a fundraising tool to protect
native fish worldwide.
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The Fair Labor Association audits and fully accredits our labor
compliance program, with reaccreditation audits to follow every
three years.
The Fair Labor Association begins independent
social responsibility audits
of our factories and posts
the results on its website,
as it does with all participating members.
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To reduce the environmental harm that comes
from making fabrics, we tell all of our fabric suppliers of our intention to use only bluesign approved
fabrics by fall 2015.
2008
Life-cycle analysis commissioned on four fibers: cotton,
wool, polyester and nylon.
We hold our first Tools for Grassroots
Activists conference at Chico Hot Springs,
Montana, to share critical marketing skills
with environmental activists.
Patagonia, Kelty, REI and The North Face
establish The Conservation Alliance — outdoor business giving back to the outdoors —
which, as of 2012, had 180 members that
have given $10 million to fund conservation
organizations in North America.
We begin to provide financial, volunteer
and fundraising support to Conservación
Patagónica to help the nonprofit transform a sheep ranch in southern Chile into
that country’s next national park.
Company-wide environmental campaign: Oceans
as Wilderness
2001
Environmental Internship program begins, offering Patagonia employees up to
two months off with full pay and benefits
to volunteer with a nonprofit environmental group of their choosing.
We begin publishing environmental essays
in our catalogs.
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Time magazine names Yvon
Chouinard a “Hero for the Planet.”
Capilene and Merino Performance Baselayer
products are relaunched with bluesign approved
fabrics and merino wool sustainably sourced from
the grasslands of Patagonia.
In an effort to conserve native grasslands in Patagonia (South America), we partner with Ovis XXI
and The Nature Conservancy and begin buying merino wool from ranchers who’ve adopted a sustainable-grazing protocol.
In the name of supply chain transparency
we launch The Footprint Chronicles , a webbased examination of the factories and mills
that contribute to our products.
We begin an in-house environmental
assessment program.
We begin auditing our garment factories for worker
health & safety and fair treatment before placing any orders.
We inaugurate our Drive Less Program, offering
our employees in North America a cash incentive to
forgo single-driver commutes in favor of carpooling,
mass transit, bicycling.
Our Reno Service Center 170,000 squarefoot expansion receives a GOLD level LEED
certification for environmental responsibility, resource efficiency, occupant comfort and
community sensitivity.
We hire a manager of social responsibility
to monitor social compliance throughout the
supply chain and begin to train employees
about factory workplace issues.
Our first product made with organically grown cotton is introduced.
Tithing program begins: Patagonia donates 10% of annual profits
(later 1% of sales) toward preservation and restoration of the natural environment.
“Don’t Buy This Jacket” ad runs on Black Friday
in New York Times, suggesting that customers not
buy our products unless they really need them.
Yvon Chouinard and Craig Mathews of
Blue Ribbon Flies co-found 1% for the Planet,
an independent, worldwide alliance of companies that pledge 1% of their sales to environmental groups; as of 2012, $100 million
given to more than 1,000 nonprofits.
Company-wide environmental
campaigns: Vote the Environment
and Freedom to Roam
B & C Beck
Chouinard Equipment
catalog runs “The Whole
Natural Art of Protection,” an essay on clean
climbing by Doug Robinson, which speaks to the
merits of using nuts and
runners instead of pitons to avoid damaging
the rock.
Renaming our garment-recycling program the
Common Threads Initiative, we begin taking back
all worn-out Patagonia clothing for recycling or repurposing, and provide an easy avenue for customers to sell or repair their used stuff.
Company-wide environmental campaign:
Vote the Environment
We add a manager, analyst and three
field auditors to our CSR team to monitor workplace conditions in factories that
make Patagonia products.
We initiate a responsible-purchasing
practices program and hold awareness
training for supply chain related staff.
with a map showing our garment factories
and fabric mills and in-depth social and
environmental information about some of
them; the information is linked to product
pages on our website.
We audit our white goose down supply
chain to ensure no mistreatment of geese.
We launch Second Home in our Portland
store, taking back and reselling customers’
used, good quality Patagonia clothing as
part of our Common Threads Partnership
Common Threads Partnership
Worn Wear Trade-in Program, iFixit, 60,000+ Take the Pledge
Our efforts to protect and restore the natural world were inspired by experiences in places like this. Patagonia, Argentina, 1968. Photo: Chris Jones
The Compass
That Guides
Reading Patagonia’s mission statement (below in blue),
you get a sense for the compass that guides the company.
And, from the early days, when Chouinard Equipment
ran a catalog essay called “The Whole Natural Art of Protection,” encouraging climbers to use nuts and runners
instead of rock damaging pitons, we’ve tried hard to walk
our talk.
groups. Check out Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard’s
essay on page 6 to learn how we’ve spent our 1% over the
years to support hundreds of grassroots environmental
groups. Most recently, in 2009, we co-founded the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, which now has more than 80
leading apparel and footwear brands, all working to measure and reduce the environmental and social impacts of
their products around the world.
Some of the work we’re proudest of falls into the category
of “getting our house in order.” Since 2000, we’ve teamed
up with bluesign Technologies to reduce environmenThis book is a summary of the past year’s environmental harm in our materials supply chain. And, through
tal work. But in it we’re also taking time to celebrate our
our Common Threads Partnership, launched in 2005,
40th anniversary. On page 1 you’ll find
we take back every Patagonia product
a timeline that highlights our efforts to Build the best product,
ever made for repair, reuse or recycling.
use the company as a tool for environ- cause no unnecessary harm,
Hardly finished with the journey, we
mental and social change. While we’ve use business to inspire and
still struggle daily with how to locate,
seen a lot of success, clearly it hasn’t hap- implement solutions to the
encourage and expand responsible suppened overnight.
ply chains for the raw materials, fabrics
environmental crisis
and products in our line. See page 11 to
Some of our projects have been gameread about this year’s audit of our white goose down supchangers: big, sometimes risky shifts in directions that
ply chain to ensure humane treatment of geese, and page
have sent us into uncharted waters. These include our de14 to learn what we’re doing to promote fair labor praccision to move away from pitons in 1972, and in 1996 to
tices and better working conditions in the factories and
stop using conventionally grown cotton because of the
fabric mills we use.
pesticides and other chemicals. There were times we realized that our voice alone wasn’t enough to make lastAs we look back on 40 years, we’re also looking forward
ing change – that we needed friends to join us. We were a
to the next 40, 50 and beyond. New B Corp legislation in
founding company of The Conservation Alliance in 1989,
California has given us a legal framework that will help
along with The North Face, Kelty and REI. And, in 2001,
us stay true to our values over the long term. This gives us
Yvon joined Craig Mathews from Blue Ribbon Flies to coconfidence that, while we’ll never be perfect, our compass
found 1% for the Planet, a global network of companies
and values will keep our feet pointed in the right directhat pledge 1% of their sales to support environmental
tion, toward our ultimate goal of a responsible company.
Our Common Threads Partnership is one of several ways we board messages via e-mail to 700,000 of our customers that
try to reduce the impact our business has on the environ- read, “Don’t buy what you don’t need.”
ment. Through this program, we ask our customers to part- Forever trying to come up with new ways to honor our side
ner with us in taking responsibility for the stuff we make and of the pledge, in fall 2012 we also invited customers in Portthey buy. Part and parcel is the Common Threads Pledge: We land, Oregon, to bring us used Patagonia® clothing they were
pledge to build useful products that last a long time, repair no longer wearing. We called our trade-in program Second
what breaks, find ways to reuse unwanted clothing and gear, Home, and paid them for their still wearable trade-ins. The
and recycle worn out Patagonia
idea was to help empty customstuff at the end of its useful life.
ers’ closets and get some of our
On Cyber Monday we sent
In turn, we ask our customers to
stuff back into the outdoors
an e-mail to 700,000 cusbuy only what they really need,
where it belongs. We are proud
tomers that read, “Don’t
repair their broken clothing,
to announce that this sumpass along or sell what they no
buy what you don’t need.”
mer our Second Home trade-in
longer use, and recycle the rest.
service, which we’ve since reAs of this printing, more than 60,000 people have signed
the Common Threads Pledge. We met our goal of gathering
50,000 pledges within a year of running a full-page ad in the
New York Times on Black Friday, November 2011. As a followup to the ad, we rented a billboard in New York City’s Meatpacking District in November 2012, on which we regularly
post a different message about the Common Threads Partnership. In the spirit of the program, when we take an old
billboard message down, we have it made into surfboard bags
we sell in our surf stores. On Cyber Monday 2012, the biggest
online shopping day of the year, we sent one of those bill-
named the Worn Wear™ program, will be available in eight
Patagonia-owned retail stores in the U.S. We’re encouraging
our customers to bring us their good-quality Patagonia rainwear, fleece, insulation and skiwear, because if they’re not using it, someone else should be.
Take the Pledge
This year we also entered a partnership
with iFixit to help people repair their
own Patagonia gear. You can now find repair guides by iFixit at patagonia.com and
ifixit.com.
The Common Threads Partnership began in 2005 as a recycling program for Patagonia clothing. Today it also includes repairing broken
clothing, a used clothing trade-in program and discouraging overconsumption. Photo: (left-right) Joy Lewis, Chris Cohen.
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Working for Wildness
In wildness is the preservation of the world — Thoreau
By Yvon Chouinard
This year, Patagonia will be 40 years old. There is much to celebrate on this anniversary, but what I am proudest of is the
support we’ve given the people who do the real work to save
wildness: grassroots activists.
“Yes,” I said, wondering how fast I could run in waders.
“Well,” Bruce Hill said, “There’s a place north of here called
the Kitlope and they want to log it. I’ve got a photographer
and I want to get pictures of it so we can try to save it. It’s so
remote, I need to rent a helicopter. Interested?”
I’m not an activist. I don’t really have the guts to be on the
front lines. But I have supported activists ever since a young “Do they take credit cards?” I asked.
man gave a slide show in 1972 at a city council meeting in Over our last 40 years, we’ve aided some important victoVentura. What was proposed was an extension of utilities, ries. We contributed to saving the Headwaters Forest Reroads and urban services across the Ventura River to sup- serve in Northern California. (The Headwaters Forest was
port a planned freeway-related commercial development on owned by Maxxam, which changed generations-old policies
the western floodplain near the river’s mouth. A lot of sci- of sustained-yield logging to clear-cutting to finance corpoentists got up to speak in support of the project. They said it rate debt. Many Patagonia board members showed up for
wouldn’t hurt the river because it was already “dead.” Mark the anti-logging Redwood Summer rallies up there in 1990.)
Capelli, who was a young graduate student and called him- We supported groups working to take down the Edwards
Dam on Maine’s Kennebec Rivself “Friends of the Ventura River in 1999, the Savage Rapids
er,” then gave a slide show showOne of my favorite
Dam on Oregon’s Rogue River
ing all the life that was still in
in 2009, and the Elwha Dam in
the river: eels, birds, raccoons.
memories is of a guy
2011. We gave money and office
He pointed out there were still
who accosted me while
space to the Nevada Wilderness
50 steelhead showing up each
I was fishing the BulkLey
Project, which spearheaded four
year to migrate upstream. That
successful campaigns designatbrought the house down. The
River in british columbia.
ing more than 2.5 million wilproject was eventually stopped.
He called out, “Are you
derness acres and 500,000 acres
He showed me what one person
Yvon Chouinard?”
of National Conservation Areas.
can do. He gave me hope. We
We helped restore stream flows
gave him desk space.
to the Colorado River delta by working with Save the ColoAll too often, small activist groups have to hold bake sales to rado and the Sonoran Institute. And we helped the Wildergather money to go up against lawyers for big corporations. ness Society save the Upper Hoback River basin from oil
That’s why Patagonia donates 1% of its annual sales to the and gas development.
grassroots.
Just this year we gave to Bill McKibben of 350.org, who is
One of my favorite memories is of a guy who accosted me leading the way to slow climate change and stop the tar sands
while I was fishing the Bulkley River in British Columbia. He pipelines. He was arrested at the White House along with Siwas a big bearded man wearing a plaid shirt and suspend- erra Club Executive Director Michael Brune. It was the first
ers – typical logger’s gear – and must have been over six feet time the Sierra Club has authorized civil disobedience for its
and weighed over 200 pounds. He called out, “Are you Yvon members in its 120-year history.
Chouinard?”
After 40 years, we still follow an early vision: to protect wil“Yes,” I said hesitantly.
derness for the sake of wilderness. Now, with climate change,
“I hear you donate money to environmental causes!”
the stakes are higher, the need for support greater.
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After 40 years, we still follow an early vision to protect wilderness for the sake
of wilderness. Lost Arrow Spire, Yosemite Valley, California. Photo: Glen Denny
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at a glance
year from our Miracle Grants program, through which Ven-
Vote the Environment Campaign
tura-based employees directly select recipients and can
Our 2012 Vote the Environment campaign helped to regis-
volunteer eight hours of their time, on Patagonia’s dime,
ter more than 110,000 voters through HeadCount. It
working for their chosen groups. Groups supported:
Buffalo Field Campaign, Center for Food Safety, Environmental Defense Center, Food Commons, Food for Thought,
Los Padres ForestWatch, Natural Resources Defense Council, Ojai Land Conservancy, Ojai Raptor Center, Once Upon a
Watershed, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, Ventura Botanical Gardens and Ventura Hillsides Conservancy.
also generated 8,617 #becauseilove tweets, in which people
wrote “I vote the environment, because I love to....”
Campus Landscaping
We made a concerted effort to spruce up the landscaping at
our Ventura HQ, careful to select only native species to both
reduce the need for watering and attract
beneficial insects. New additions include island ironwood and sycamore trees, coyote brush, concha California
lilac, chalk dudleya, California buckwheat, red flowered buckwheat, island alum root, scarlet monkeyflower and others.
Drive-Less Program
We offer our North American employees a cash incen-
World Trout
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Twenty-four groups working on behalf of native fish shared $128,000
Since the inception of our Common Threads Partnership,
we’ve
repaired
26,078
pieces
of
clothing, facilitated the sale of 41,377 used Patago-
they drove 597,272 fewer miles, saving 438,036 lbs. of car-
nia items through the Common Threads storefront on eBay,
taken in for resale 478 pieces of customers’ used Patagonia
clothing at our Worn Wear ™ store (formerly known as Sec-
Bike to Work Week
Our stores, Reno distribution center and Ventura headquarters all took part in Bike to Work Week celebrations again
this year. Riding for bragging rights, and the chance to
raise money for bike advocacy groups, the folks in retail
logged more than 7,000 miles, Reno covered 4,732, and Ventura 2,762. Patagonia donated almost $20,000
to bike advocacy and environmental organizations like L.A.’s Bicycle Kitchen, Boston’s Boston Cyclists Union, Reno Bike Project and VCCool. Employees at
our Freeport, Maine, outlet tallied an astounding 1,118 miles
over the course of seven days, averaging 22 miles for each
employee, each day.
ond Home) inside Patagonia Portland, recycled 56.6 tons
of worn out Patagonia clothing and gear, given Upcycle it
Now used Patagonia fleece to repurpose into 75 dog jack-
nonprofit, genitori antismog, which tabled the event.
Spirits were high as Genitori Antismog learned that day they
had won a lawsuit against Regione Lombardia, funded in
part with a grant from our environmental program. At party’s end, the group received €2,000 from the used clothing
sale and a drawing for new products, along with new members to help with its efforts on behalf of cleaner air. Everyone
celebrated the day’s successes with some good champagne.
• We raised $2,400 for the West LA/Malibu chapter of the
Surfrider Foundation at the opening party for our
new Patagonia Santa Monica, Calif., store – an amount Patagonia matched.
Green Power Partnership
• The Gunks Climber’s Coalition received $500 from
a benefit raffle held at the opening party for our new NYC
Meatpacking store.
This year Patagonia became a partner in the EPA’s Green
• Patagonia Toronto hosted a dozen environmental events,
fundraising T-shirts and grants.
Patagonia
tive to avoid single-driver car trips. This year
bon and 22,579 gallons of fuel.
through World Trout, which
Patagonia funds through the sale of
Common Threads Partnership
fered a store credit that matched the selling price of whatever they brought in. The store collected 70 pieces, all of which
sold before noon, with the proceeds going to environmental
Power Partnership, a voluntary program that encourages organizations to use alternative power to reduce environmental impacts associated with conventional
electricity use. To qualify, Patagonia had to procure at least
10% of our power from alternative sources. We generate ap-
served as a produce pickup spot for a Community Supported Agriculture farm, and provided outreach tabling opportunities in the store for area environmental groups.
• We hosted six screen-
Threads Pledge.
proximately 12% from solar panels located at our
Ventura HQ.
Salmon Run
In-Kind Design
ings of Groundswell,
a film about a surf trip along
the coast of British Columbia, that showed what’s at
Each year our marketing de-
stake in the Great Bear
partment does pro bono ed-
Rainforest in the face
of the proposed Enbridge
Northern Gateway project.
ets, and saw 56,100 customers take the Common
This year’s 19th Annual Salmon Run 5K at Patagonia headquarters in Ventura sold out, rallying 400+ runners and
walkers on October 21, 2012, and raising $13,531 for
Friends of the Ventura River, a nonprofit coalition dedicated to protecting the Ventura River watershed. The event was generously co-sponsored by a number
of businesses.
Certified Green Business
The State of California certified us this year through its
Green Business Program, which recognizes and assists businesses that operate in an environmentally friendly manner.
We were evaluated on our practices around waste, energy use, water use, pollution and wastewater,
and were required to implement 46 specific practices in order to receive the certification.
Miracle Grants Program
iting,
and
graphic
print
design
coordina-
tion for nonprofit en-
About 2,000 people at-
vironmental
groups.
This year recipients included the NOLS, Buffalo Field
Campaign, Conservation Alliance, Ojai Raptor Center,
Salmon Run, and Ventura
Hillsides Conservancy. Total
Organizations to Which We Belong
value amounted to $8,190.
In Our Stores
• In celebration of its 10th anniversary, Patagonia Milano invited customers to bring their used Patagonia clothing into
the store to sell them. As an incentive, customers were of-
tended the events cosponsored by the Raincoast
Conservation Foundation.
Fair Labor Association • 1% for the Planet • The Sustainable
Apparel Coalition • B Corporation • The Conservation Alliance • Outdoor Industry Association’s Sustainability Working
Group • Corporate Eco Forum • American Sustainable Business Council • Fair Factories Clearinghouse • International
Labour Organization’s Better Work Program • Textile Exchange • bluesign System Partner • Save the Colorado River
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13 environmental groups shared $70,000 this
Bike to Work Week at Ventura, HQ. Photo: Nate Ptacek
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Sustainable
Apparel
Coalition
numbering in the tens of thousands, have started the work
of implementation with early calculations of their energy and water use, greenhouse gases and air emissions,
waste-management practices, and pollution-prevention
measures.
More Than 80 Members Are Working to
Know Their Impacts, Make Improvements
and Share What They Learn
Today, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition includes more
than 80 members, whose shared goal is “an industry that
produces no unnecessary environmental harm and has a
positive impact on the people and communities associated with its activities.” Coalition members include Adidas, C&A, Gap Inc., H&M, Levi Strauss, Kohl’s, MEC,
Nike, Nordstrom, REI and Vanity Fair. Together they
produce more than a third of the apparel and footwear
sold on the planet.
Member brands are now at work integrating the index into
their design and development processes. Their suppliers,
They looked at animal-welfare practices, comparing
what they saw to what we require in the Patagonia down
standard and laws of the European Union and individual
member countries. Our expert then looked at down documentation trails, physical labeling and segregation, and
management systems. And to verify the strength of our
down traceability system, she reviewed documents, observed practices and interviewed workers.
We received reports at each stage of
the assessment in each country that
included summaries, analyses of gaps
in tracing systems, good practices and
a final score for animal welfare and
ment factory, down processor,
Since 2007, when we first became
traceability management systems. We
slaughterhouses and farms.
aware of the controversy surroundalso received a final summary report
ing the raising of geese for down,
linking all site visits and one final
we’ve made a lot of inquiries of our down supplier, sought
quantitative score for traceability management systems
and animal welfare/live-plucking/force-feeding.
assurances regarding the humane treatment of geese,
and sent Patagonia employees several times to Europe to
Audit results showed “no evidence of live-plucking or
visit links in our down supply chain. But we know from
force-feeding practices” in our white goose down supour experience auditing garment factories – to make sure
ply chain. Furthermore, it revealed “a robust traceability
workers are being treated fairly and have a safe work endocument chain, adequate labeling and segregation pracvironment – that spot measures only go so far. So last
tices with room for improvement in a few areas,” which
year we commissioned a three-month long, third-party
we are working on now.
investigation of our Ultralight Down supply chain that
Our gray goose down, which comes from Hungary, is anlooked at everything from farms to factories and all of
other matter. Though we are confident the geese that supthe paperwork in between.
ply us are not being live-plucked, they are force-fed to
Our aim was to improve the welfare of workers, communities, consumers and the environment in ways that far exceed the fragmented, incremental approaches that characterize existing efforts.
Building on work previously done separately by Nike and
the Outdoor Industry Association, the coalition recently
created an environmental assessment tool called the Higg
Index 1.0, which enables companies to identify problems in
their supply chains and identify choices.
Chain of Custody Audit Reveals No LivePlucking, No Force-Feeding of White Geese
in China, a down processor in the U.S., and various international down processors, slaughterhouses and farms
– including a parent goose farm (where eggs are produced) and a hatchery.
We use both gray and white goose down in our products, and want to give our customers the highest assurance possible that the geese that supply us are treated as
humanely as possible. Over the last several years we’ve
been working to ensure that our down does not come
from birds that are live-plucked or force-fed, and we’ve
learned a lot. But in November 2012,
we took our efforts a big step further
Auditors evaluated more than
when we commissioned an indepena dozen sites over seven field
dent chain of custody study of our
days, including a down garwhite goose down.
Three years ago Patagonia and Walmart invited – on joint
stationery designed and used solely for the occasion – 16
apparel-industry leaders to a meeting in New York. The
goals for the half-day session were to agree on the need to
measure sustainability in the apparel and footwear sectors,
and to establish a strategy for collaboration to create and
implement that standard.
Our aim was to improve the welfare of workers, communities,
consumers and the environment in ways that far exceed
the fragmented, incremental
approaches that characterize
existing efforts.
the Lowdown
on Down
The coalition recently created Higg Index 1.0 to identify environmental
and social problems in supply chains. Photo: Dave N. Campbell.
Higg 1.0 is a starting point for ongoing education and collaboration among coalition members. Its further development will make possible more rigorous efforts to assess the
social and environmental performance of products, including the potential for smart-phone readable, consumerfacing data on labels or hangtags similar to the nutritional
labels found on food.
We hired a traceability expert, who was joined by the International Down and Feather League (IDFL), to score
down-traceability-management systems and assess animal welfare. Auditors evaluated more than a dozen sites
over seven field days, including a down garment factory
produce foie gras. We are currently looking to find sources that do not force-feed.
We’re proud of our work. To our knowledge, no other
company has gone to such lengths to assure chain of custody for its down.
In his book, Ecological Intelligence, science journalist Daniel Goleman pointed out three simple rules for reducing
environmental harm. “Know your impacts, favor improvement, share what you learn.” The Higg Index and the work
so far of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition do this – and
point a major global industry in this direction.
Our white goose down comes from Poland, where geese are raised for their meat. Down is a by-product. Photo: Rob Naughter
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Cleaning Up
with Bluesign
Technologies
We realized this complexity early on and so began working with bluesign technologies in 2000. Today, bluesign
technologies is our most important partner in minimizing water use and the environmental harm done in our
name from textile manufacturing.
®
45 of Our Material Suppliers Are Working
with the bluesign System to Improve Their
Practices and Reduce Their Harm
The bluesign standard, which was developed by a group
of Swiss textile chemists, seeks “best practices” for the
use of chemicals and resources in the making of fabrics and accessories. The bluesign system helps factories
take a holistic approach to wastewater. It not only works
with them to eliminate the worst chemicals and set limits for wastewater quality, but also to reduce the amount
of water they use and therefore the amount of wastewater they produce.
The textile industry uses huge quantities of clean, drinking-quality water to dye and finish fabrics. Dyeing and
finishing are wet processes, which means they use water
to transfer dyes and other chemicals evenly onto fabric.
To achieve consistent, even application, the water must
be pure and clean. When the process is complete, the waTextile manufacturers that become bluesign system partter contains residual chemicals and colorants that do not
ners agree to establish management systems to improve
stay on the fabric. Unfit for reuse, this
environmental performance in five arwastewater is discharged after some
eas of the production process: resource
There is a great deal of dirty
level of treatment, into waterways and
productivity, consumer safety, water
water behind all the exciting
public water systems.
emissions, air emissions, and occu-
new fashions and colors.
pational health and safety. Members
As a result, there is a great deal of dirty
regularly report their progress and are
water behind all the exciting new fashsubject to on-site audits. They must meet improvement
ions and colors, and a growing number of consumers are
goals to maintain their status. The bluesign standard is
becoming aware of it. Although it is almost impossible
rigorous and goes a long way toward improving the envifor shoppers today to know whether or not the clothes
they buy come from polluting factories, their awareness
ronmental practices of the global textile industry.
of the issue is prompting outdoor clothing companies,
In 2007, Patagonia became the first official “bluesign
fashion brands, retailers, fabric manufacturers, textile
brand member.” We’re pleased to announce that as of this
dyehouses and chemical suppliers to work together toyear, 45 of our material suppliers are working with the
wards change.
bluesign system to improve their practices and reduce
It’s hard for any company to do this on its own. (At Patagonia, we don’t make our own fabrics or sew our own
products. We design styles, choose or develop materials
and contract with factories to produce the things we sell.)
their impacts. We’re well on our way toward meeting a
goal we set in 2011 to be using only bluesign-approved
materials by 2015.
managing Storm
Water Runoff
When rainfall hits an impermeable surface – such as a parking lot, roof or sidewalk – it runs off, carrying with it all
sorts of unsavory stuff. Garbage, animal waste, oil, gasoline,
detergents, pesticides, chemical residues, brake linings, etc.,
are washed away – gravity carrying the polluted storm water to the lowest point, which is usually a drain. From there
it might flow into a channel, a creek or river, or in coastal
communities directly into the sea.
Our Ventura headquarters are about an eighth of a mile
from the Ventura River, which flows to the ocean. For health
reasons, swimmers and surfers around here are strongly advised to stay out of the ocean for 72 hours after it rains. To
mitigate some of the waterborne waste that flows from Patagonia facilities, we’ve taken some measures. Several years
ago we replaced two sections of asphalt in our parking lot
with permeable cement, which allows rainwater to percolate
through and into the soil. This year we added two infiltration basins, called bioswales, to our parking lots.
Bioswales are low-lying channels that drain runoff. They
contain highly permeable soils on top of gravel infiltration
layers that together allow storm water to soak into the soil,
which naturally filters it. When the soil becomes saturated,
runoff flows into a storm drain. By that time, it is hoped,
most of the really concentrated pollutants have been absorbed. The first half-inch of rainfall for the season is referred to as the first flush, when most pollutants deposited
during the dry season are washed off parking lots. The infiltration basins were designed to capture and infiltrate that
first flush of an average rainfall event.
Our bioswales are planted with native plants that also help
to filter pollutants out of storm water. They include coyote
brush, concha California lilac, chalk dudleya, California
buckwheat, red flowered buckwheat, island alum root, scarlet monkeyflower and others.
About $1 million worth of clothes went to nonprofits this year through
our clothing donations program. Photo: Victor Huertas
Clothing
Donations Raise
Funds, Clothe
volunteers
We donate new Patagonia® clothing and gear to environmental groups for their fundraising efforts. We also give
used Patagonia clothing to nonprofit environmental groups
to wear in the field and to clothe their volunteers. This fiscal
year we gave new products valued at more than $500,000
at our cost and used clothing and gear valued at the same
amount to some 200 groups working to restore and protect
the natural world.
Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy clothed their field
staff in some of the used Patagonia gear we provided. The
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance used our contribution
of new clothing to raise money to fund efforts to protect
some 5 million acres of Utah’s wild lands. And the Teton
Regional Land Trust reported that our donation helped it
to fund protection efforts in the Upper Snake River watershed, which got it close to reaching a significant milestone
– 30,000 acres protected!
Polartec was the first U.S. textile manufacturer to become a bluesign system partner. Photo: Polartec LLC
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®
Bioswales, like this next to our Ventura store, allow storm water runoff
to soak into the soil, which filters it naturally. Photo: Jeff Johnson
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Beyond Auditing
Highlights from Our Corporate Responsibility Department
Five Join our CSR Team
Members of our CSR team together in Ventura. Photo: Ryan Thompson
We added five new members to our social and environmental responsibility team this year, raising the number of
employees in this department to eight. Together they bring
40 years of CSR experience to the company and with it a
thorough understanding of the field’s complex issues.
CSR Director Serving on FLA Board
Cara Chacon, Patagonia’s director of social and environmental responsibility, is serving a three-year term on the
board of directors of the nonprofit Fair Labor Association
(FLA). Elected to the board in 2011, she joined five members
from other companies, six from U.S. universities and six
from civil society organizations. “It is a great honor and one
that I take very seriously,” Cara said. “The FLA is a wonderful organization that is truly doing cutting-edge work with
the sole focus of improving workers’ lives worldwide.”
Our CSR department, along with our materials development department, is now responsible for tracing the raw
materials we use to make our products through our supply chains. We have big plans to improve operations in this
area by implementing responsible purchasing practices in
all product departments and continuously pushing our
CSR program back into the supply chain down to the farm
level. It’s a big goal, and it will take us decades to get there,
but we believe it’s achievable as Patagonia is still relatively
small and we’ve been diligent in keeping our supply chain
to a manageable, strategic size.
Wendy Savage was hired in January 2012 as social and environmental responsibility manager. Diana Trigo joined
the team in May as social and environmental responsibility analyst. Both are based in Ventura, and handle a slew of
We plan to add two more CSR staff members this year
tasks dedicated to ensuring the fair treatment and health
to manage our program at the raw materiand safety of workers, and environmental
als level (fabric and trim mills), and are
responsibility in the factories, mills and
with the addition of
excited to be able to create real change at
farms that supply us with goods.
new team members, we
this tier of the supply chain. Most mills
We also contracted with three new field
will be able to work
have not been exposed to social responsimanagers this year. They work with our
more closely with our
bility and there’s much to be done.
factories in their assigned regions, auditemployees worldwide
ing them for social and environmental
FLA Renews Our Affiliation
to ensure Csr is emcompliance – and of more lasting imporas a Participating Company
bedded in our culture.
tance – trying to foster permanent comIt took a lot of hard work and time develpliance through education and improving
oping or improving internal department
corporate social responsibility systems. They
management systems that met the Fair Labor
include Lam Nguyen, who covers suppliers in Vietnam, InAssociation’s (FLA) 10 Principles of Fair Labor and Respondia, Indonesia and Bangladesh; Jeraporn “Jeab” Rothong,
sible Sourcing, but our social and environmental responsiwho is responsible for suppliers in Thailand, Sri Lanka and
bility staff proved up to the task when Patagonia underwent
Jordan; and Eric Chen, who works with suppliers in China,
an FLA audit at our Ventura, California, headquarters in
Korea and the Philippines.
April 2012 and was reaccredited as a “participating company” in February 2013.
With the addition of these new team members, Patagonia will be able to work more closely with our employees
worldwide to ensure CSR is embedded in our corporate
culture. We want to become more involved with the communities in our supply chain, as well.
Management systems are used to monitor factories and
address workplace concerns with the goal of affecting
positive change for workers. They include our factory policies, procedures, training, implementation, tracking and
continuous improvement activities. We ask our factories
to develop management systems similar to our own when
building or improving their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs.
Before granting us reaccreditation, FLA auditors visited
our headquarters to inspect our CSR files, policies and
procedures, and interview employees in our production
department. Patagonia is a founding member of the FLA,
and like all FLA members, we have to be reaccredited every
three years.
rate social responsibility (CSR), and as a tool to communicate and measure compliance in its supply chain. They are
live documents that usually need revising every three to
four years to reflect the evolving values and best CSR practices of a company and its stakeholders.
We first wrote our code of conduct in 2001, and then revised it in 2008. In January 2013, our social and environmental responsibility staff revised it again to match that of
the Fair Labor Association’s® (FLA®) latest revisions. As an
accredited member of the FLA, we are required to update
our code whenever they do.
“Our FLA affiliation is the cornerstone of our CSR proThe preamble and all elements of the newly revised code
gram,” said Cara Chacon, director of social and environnow reflect the latest best practices and the expandmental responsibility. “Reaccreditation really proves to
ing role of CSR. We added some new elour stakeholders that we are working hard
ements, including employment relato create a world class CSR program and
CODES OF CONDUCT SET
tionship, traceability, animal welfare,
that we care greatly about the workers
AND COMMUNICATE CORE
community and code communication,
making our products.”
HUMAN RIGHTS, ENVIRONand “living wage” language.
4 Patagonia contractors
MENTAL STANDARDS AND
We also revised our benchmark docuBecome FLA Participating
OTHER THINGS A BRAND
ment to match the FLA’s revised verSuppliers
EXPECTS OF ITS SUPPLIsion, as well as our environmental
Four factories that make our clothing beERS AND/OR STAFF.
benchmarks to match our new environcame FLA Participating Suppliers this
mental key performance indicator and
year. This program helps to assure their
audit
tool. We record all benchmark nonadherence to corporate social responsibility
compliances
in
our
database,
scoring factories on their
doesn’t fade between audits. It keeps factories in compliance,
performance.
because they monitor and address issues themselves. The fac-
tories are Brooklyn (El Salvador), VT Garment (Thailand),
Rivercross (Mexico), and Nature USA (California).
To become a participating supplier, a factory must commit
to the FLA’s Workplace Code of Conduct and benchmarks,
implement its 10 Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible
Production, pay dues and be voted in by the FLA board
of directors. The FLA audits some participating suppliers’
factories each year and posts their progress for public consumption on its website. The FLA isn’t expecting its participating suppliers to be perfect (though that would be ideal),
it asks that they be transparent and committed to continuous improvement.
“We are so proud of our new code,” said Cara. “It reaffirms
our commitment to human rights and environmental responsibility, shows the expansion and progressiveness of
our program and demonstrates that we’re not afraid to set
policies even when we know we can’t achieve all of the standards right away. The first step is to take a stand and put it
in writing. The next step is to help our company and suppliers achieve some of the more complex standards – like
living wage – over time in the spirit of continuous improvement. There is no perfect business, including Patagonia, but
we are fully committed to achieving all our code principles.
We are in it for the long haul.”
As of spring 2013, we have 14 factories in six countries
that are participating suppliers, including one that makes
our shoes.
Supplier Workplace Code revised
Codes of conduct set and communicate core human rights,
environmental standards and other things a brand expects
of its suppliers and/or staff. They address a company’s
stand on such things as child labor, forced labor, wages and
benefits, and worker health and safety. Codes of conduct
also are used to show a company’s commitment to corpoCodes of Conduct demonstrate a company’s commitment to corporate
social responsibility. Photo: Patagonia Archives
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Wild & Scenic
Film Festival
The South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) staged its
10th Annual Wild & Scenic® Film Festival in January in Nevada City, California. The weekend-long event showcased
110 of the year’s best environmental, activism and adventure
films. The films were selected to provoke the urgent and essential conversations of our time. The 10th anniversary offered special attractions in addition
to the films, activist workshops and speakers. Some 83 Wild
& Scenic® artists exhibited their work throughout town, and
it was standing-room-only at an event on dam removal, at
which participants signed and sent more than 800 postcards asking for higher water flows and the restoration of
habitat for salmon and steelhead in the Yuba River.
Over-fishing is one of the biggest contributors to the
environmental crisis. Photo: Paul Nicklen
Patagonia
Provisions
Over the past 28 years, Patagonia has donated more than
$3.1 million to support sustainable agriculture. It may seem
strange that a clothing company cares about farming and
food, but we cannot ignore the impact they have on the natural world that is so important to us. This is why we’re working to change food for the better through our nascent food
division – Patagonia Provisions.
The festival fully realized its goals to inspire activism and
support SYRCL’s year-round work to protect the Yuba River watershed. The positive energy lit up Nevada City, creating a celebratory and inspiring atmosphere where anything
seemed possible. But the Wild & Scenic® Film Festival’s impact didn’t stop
there. Wild & Scenic On Tour travels the globe, thanks to
support from national partners like Patagonia. This year, the
company helped support 99 On Tour events, which attracted more than 10,000 people, raised more than $100,000,
and generated awareness and new members for grassroots
environmental groups.
wildandscenicfilmfestival.org
One of the biggest contributors to the environmental crisis
is the fishing industry. Historically, salmon were caught selectively in rivers, not scooped up wholesale in the ocean.
Unfortunately, much of what you see at the supermarket
these days is either farmed or pulled from the dwindling
salmon stocks of the North Pacific. As a result, the oceans
are overfished and some species of wild salmon now face
extinction.
Photos: (top left-right) Natasha Yonkof, Scott Overby; (bottom) Emily Staalberg, Andy Chakoumakos, Emily Staalberg.
Environmental Internships
The salmon we use in Patagonia Provisions® Salmon Jerky
are selectively caught from the rivers of British Columbia
and Alaska, allowing endangered species to continue their
migrations unharmed. We plan to apply a similar model of
sustainably produced food beyond the fishing industry. Ultimately, we think that putting a species and its habitat first,
with any kind of food, will create something that’s as good
for them as it is for us.
Through the environmental internship program, Patagonia
employees can spend up to two months working for a nonprofit group – lending their talents and energy to a worthy
cause and gaining new skills and experience, while still earning their full salary and benefits. In fiscal year 2013, the program provided interns for more than 40 different organizations all over North America, as well as Okinawa, Ecuador,
Argentina, Peru and Japan. Lucia Cushman participated in
an internship with other Patagonia Boston store employees
at Mass Audubon, helping them fulfill their mission of pro-
tecting nature in Massachusetts for both wildlife and people.
Lucia notes, “I learned a lot about our local watershed and
the impact that road crossings have on the river ecosystem. I
never really thought about the impact a bridge/culvert might
have on a river and the wildlife that lives within it.” Other organizations that hosted Patagonia employee interns include
Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship, Hawkwatch International,
Ocean View Foundation, Puget Soundkeeper, The Nature
Conservancy, Tuolumne River Trust, and more.
10,000 people attended Wild & Scenic on Tour.
Photo: Mike Splain, Ventana Wilderness Alliance
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Our Common Waters
Campaign Takes on Tar Sands, Fracking, Ag & Textile Pollution
Over the past two years, Patagonia’s Our Common Waters
campaign has focused on water scarcity and broken rivers; the
final phase of the campaign spotlights tar sands oil and the
pipelines that move it, fracking, and agriculture and textile
pollution. As we have throughout this campaign, we connected biodiversity, clean water and focused actions that protect
freshwater diversity.
Patagonia’s CEO, Casey Sheahan, has a special interest in
fracking as he lives in Colorado, where the practice is now
widespread. For decades, natural gas (methane) deposits were
tapped by single wells drilled vertically over large, free-flowing pockets of gas. Then came fracking, a water- and chemical-intensive method that promised the profitable extraction
of natural gas trapped in shale. One fracking well uses an average of 2 million to 8 million gallons of water, and 10,000 to
40,000 gallons of chemicals. The water used is contaminated. Sixty percent of those chemicals can harm the brain and
nervous system, 40 percent are known endocrine disrupters,
30 percent are suspected carcinogens, 30 percent are developmental toxicants.
In spring we took a closer look at expanding tar sands development across North America. From the strip mining of tar
sands in Alberta, Canada, to the spider web of pipelines expanding across the U.S. and Canada, to ports and coastal areas
that would act as hubs for export: at every point in the chain of
production and transportation, water is at risk. The water we
drink, the water we fish, the water we swim and boat in, the In one of our summer 2013 catalogs, we profiled two groups
only water we have. Working with our environmental part- in Colorado that are working to oppose natural gas developners, the National Wildlife Federation in the U.S. and Envi- ment: Erie Rising and Thompson Divide Coalition.
ronmental Defence in Canada,
An essential part of our camwe have sent emails out to our
paign was Patagonia’s story as a
The Our Common WaNorth American customers askcompany: the water cost of doters Campaign brought
ing them, “Is it Worth It?” Some
ing business, reducing our water
4,326 agreed with us that the risk
awareness to one simple
footprint and reporting on our
isn’t worth it and they took action
water use.
fact: the more water peoto stop the pipeline expansion.
Right after agriculture, textile
ple use, the less there is
Bill McKibben of 350.org wrote
manufacturing is the largest polfor everything else.
in the introduction to “Three
luter worldwide. Because PatagoHeroes for Three Pipelines” in
nia makes clothes, Our Common
our early fall 2013 catalog, “If there were seven wonders of the Waters required us to examine and reduce our own impact on
world’s destruction, the tar sands complex in Alberta might fresh water. In 2000, we began working with bluesign® techwell be first on the list. It’s an assembly of devastation so bru- nologies – an independent group of chemists, who audit the
tal and absurd as to beggar the imagination.” He goes on to energy, water and chemical usage of their “system partners.”
say, “The only good news is that the magnitude of this horror Any fabric you see that’s bluesign approved offers the highest
has given rise to a movement of new size and vigor. In Amer- level of consumer safety by employing methods and materials
ica it’s spawned the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline; in in their manufacture that conserve resources and minimize
Canada, plans for pipes to the Pacific have been slowed.”
impacts on people and the environment.
Our support of 350.org and the Sierra Club helped get over
40,000 activists to Washington, D.C., on a cold and chilly
February morning to take part in the largest climate demonstration in history to tell President Obama to move Forward
on Climate. We had Patagonia store employees blogging from
the march on the company blog, The Cleanest Line.
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In 2011 we set a goal to use only bluesign-approved fabrics
by our fall 2015 product season, and we’re well under way.
Our Common Waters was a campaign that influenced Patagonia’s impact on water and brought awareness to one simple fact: the more water people use, the less there is for everything else.
In spring we took a closer look at tar sands development, from the strip mining in Alberta, Canada,
to the spider web of pipelines across the U.S. Photo: John Woods/GREENPEACE
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Vote the
Environment
Framing the Campaign in a Positive Spirit
Changed the Whole Tone
Patagonia has run several Vote the Environment campaigns,
but last year’s was decidedly different. We wanted to connect with people from a place of basic values, and we wanted to use social media. Little did we know how much this
would change the whole tone of the campaign. It changed so
many things that now we are using many of the strategies,
elements and the philosophy we learned from VTE in subsequent environmental campaigns.
We began with the idea that Patagonia wants to be in business for a good long time and a healthy planet is necessary
for a healthy business. “We want to act responsibly as a business, live within our means, and leave behind a planet we
would want to live in,” we wrote. “We need leaders who are
committed to this vision. That’s why Patagonia has a stake
in this election, and why we plan to bring our deepest values
with us into the voting booth in November. We ask you to
join us.”
Then we decided we wanted to frame Vote the Environment to enable people to see the environment as what they
care about most and want to save. We wanted to highlight
the link between their core values, the sports they love, the
places they love and the power of their vote to promote a
healthy planet in the future. And finally, we wanted them
to evangelize their friends and family.
We wanted to connect with
people from a place of basic
values, and we wanted to use
social media.
I vote the environment because I love was launched. As
you can see from the cover of this booklet, a lot of different kinds of people jumped right in. We began by making
a “photo booth” in each of our stores where people could
fill out a whiteboard, completing the line, I vote the environment because I love… then take a picture of themselves
holding the board, and then tweet it to friends or post it
on Facebook or other social media sites. We created the
hashtag #becauseilove.
Framing the campaign in a positive spirit, and suggesting
that what people loved should be shared, created a new,
different campaign. Gradually, the people who responded
made it theirs. We found out that people loved the Smokies and Las Truchas, the Sespe, their children and the
planet. Dogs loved rivers and the beach. Children loved
rainbow trout.
In addition, we worked together with HeadCount, the voter registration group, and the Chicago rock band Wilco.
HeadCount registered 110,000 voters. Wilco played 32 concerts in 49 days and traveled 8,043 miles in 2012. At a select
group of concerts, we sent Patagonia folks to help people
share what they love and register to vote with HeadCount.
The campaign took on the shape that we wanted: that voting for the environment is not something you do on the
side, as a separate interest, but is a mainstream, American
value. Part of that happened, we think, because of the democratic spirit of the campaign.
“We need leaders committed to the places we live, work
and play, and the places we love,” was the VTE mantra,
and many of those leaders were actually elected, in small
and large districts, in state and national elections. The “environment” became less an abstract term and more what
we love.
Jeff Tweedy and his band, Wilco, lent musical muscle to VTE by inviting
HeadCount to register voters at their concerts. Photo: HeadCount
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Our Vote the Environment campaign stressed the need for leaders committed to the places we live, work, play and love.
More than
just a Job
Joy Lewis
District Manager NYC Stores
When Superstorm Sandy hit New York
last October, Joy Lewis was managing
our Soho and Upper Westside stores
and anticipating the opening of two
new Patagonia shops in the Meatpack-
ing and Bowery districts of Manhattan.
Needless to say, everything changed
after the storm. With transportation
down and power out, Joy and her employees set up a table outside the Soho
store and served sandwiches and hot
drinks (heated on employees’ camping stoves) to anyone in need. She then
sent employees down to Far Rockaway,
one of the hardest hit areas, to hand out
used Patagonia gear to people who had
lost everything. Working with Waves
for Water, she sent more than 30 Patagonia employees to lend muscle to efforts to clean up, demo and rebuild in
affected areas. Employees of our yet-toopen Bowery store continued to work
through May (and were paid through
Patagonia’s Internship Program) to
restore the beach and staff a free food
truck. From collecting used clothing
Patagonia-wide to holding fundraisers in the NY stores, Joy handled these
“not in the job description” duties with
grace and creativity.
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Casey Sheahan
Patagonia CEO
Casey Sheahan took up the fight against
hydraulic fracturing, when the practice for extracting natural gas polluted
a friend’s well and an acquaintance’s
dogs died after drinking fracking fluids
from an open pit. Colorado, Casey says,
has 50,000 active oil and gas wells and
the government is green-lighting more.
In the western part of Garfield County,
a.k.a “Gasfield County,” where Casey
has a home, there are 10,000 wells and
fracking activities are moving his way.
“It’s personal,” Casey said of the global
rush for cheap energy that is poisoning fresh water, polluting the air, expediting climate change, affecting public
health, and unraveling communities
all over the world. To raise awareness,
Casey penned an op-ed for the Denver Post. He advises and supports several anti-fracking groups, co-founded Frack-Free Colorado and met with
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper
– a close friend of fracking interests –
to personally relay his concerns. “The
wolf is at the door,” Casey said. “We
need to stop fracking in Colorado and
move immediately to a renewable energy economy.”
Mary Looby
Manager of Technical Innovation
Mary Looby is well known around here
for getting things done. As manager of
technical innovation at Patagonia, she
has orchestrated some big, difficult IT
projects that would have worn out most
people. Mary brings that same energy
and can-do spirit to volunteer work,
making it a personal goal to work at
least one day a month for an environ-
conducting tests to determine their
presence in Majella National Park. In
the Adamello Brenta Nature Park, she
took a course to learn radio telemetry
and use hair samples to extract DNA
fingerprints and verify the activity of
ibexes and bears. At Patagonia, Chiara
is helping the European Outdoor Conservation Association raise awareness
about Patagonia-nominated NGOs.
Andrea Reekes
Manager Toronto Store
mental, social or public-safety organization. In recent years, she’s helped
remove miles of old livestock fence at
the Carrizo Plain National Monument,
picked up after gunslingers at illegal
target ranges in the Los Padres National Forest, helped organize fundraisers,
written grant proposals, trained public safety volunteers and a lot more. “I
think giving back is really important,”
Mary says. “I am lucky to have a great
life - I have been given a lot of opportunities. Volunteering lets me give back
and provides me with a huge sense of
satisfaction.”
While working as a canoeing and hiking guide in western Canada in 2005,
Andrea read Yvon Chouinard’s book,
Let My People Go Surfing. She was so
impressed by Yvon and his company,
she vowed to work one day for Patagonia. In 2010, a position came available
in our new Toronto store, and the rest,
as they say, is history. Andrea quickly ascended to store manager, and in
less than three years has turned it into
a hotbed of environmental activism.
Whether it’s hosting environmental
events and tabling opportunities for
Sixty attended the conference at the foot of Mt. Yatsugatake. Photo: Hideyuki Iwata
Patagonia Japan
Hosts Its Third Tools
Conference
Chiara Cappellina
Marketing Assistant Patagonia Italy “Wild Addict” Chiara Cappellina’s actions speak to a deep commitment to
the study of wild animals. Over the
past decade, she has dedicated significant time to learning about wolves and
local environmental groups (over 40
and counting), or coordinating a store
internship with Friends of Trinity
Bellwoods (invasive species removal)
and LEAF (tree planting), she has kept
both staff and customers immersed
in the important environmental issues surrounding Toronto. Fresh off
a victory in helping to stop the Mega
Quarry, Andrea and her staff have now
taken on the Tar Sands/Line 9 pipeline
controversy.
Shoko Tsuru, director of Yatsushiro
Nature Observation Group, opened
Patagonia Japan’s third Tools for
Grassroots Activists Conference
in November 2012, with a keynote
speech delivered to some 60
participants who attended the threeday gathering at the foot of Mt.
Yatsugatake. Some in the audience –
made up of environmental activists,
trainers and Patagonia employees
– expressed surprise when they first
saw her at the dais. The diminutive
woman who runs a pharmacy wasn’t
quite what they had expected of the
person responsible for orchestrating
the first dam removal ever in
Japan. They quickly overcame their
surprise, however, as Tsuru’s speech
about her experience addressed
virtually every tool and skill – from
campaign strategy to community
building to social messaging –
participants would learn in the next
three days of workshops.
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Patagonia
National Park
Update from Chile’s Chacabuco Valley
Patagonia’s former CEO Kristine Tompkins and her husband Doug have continued to make remarkable progress
creating the eponymous Patagonia National Park in southern Chile. Our company has supported this effort since its
inception, assisting with funds to purchase former sheep
estancias, sending employees to take down fences and
more recently with funds to complete trails and campgrounds. Rick Ridgeway, our VP of environmental affairs,
visited the project in March 2013 and gave us an update:
“I visited southern Chile’s Chacabuco Valley in 2000,
when using private funds and foundation grants to create a new national park around this bio-diverse region
was what then seemed like a dreamlike fantasy in Kris
and Doug’s imaginations. Now the infrastructure, built to
the highest quality, is nearing completion: a large restaurant with bar, gift shop and bookstore, a 6,500 square foot
visitor’s center with interpretive displays, administration
and park ranger housing – all either completed or nearing completion. Almost 70 miles of trails are built or under construction, with one campground open and three
more to come. Soon the park will also have a map-based
maps for good
Creating a Visual Portal of the Park
Maps for Good is a place-based visual storytelling team
that makes maps for organizations whose work is good for
communities and good for the environment. They create
multimedia communication tools that empower and propel their clients’ good work.
visual portal for exploring it and its conservation mission
from anywhere in the world. (See the accompanying story,
“Maps for Good.”) All of this will be handed as a gift to
the government and people of Chile, with the projected
grand opening in early 2015. We at Patagonia-the-company are proud of our contribution to what will soon be over
650,000 protected acres in Patagonia-the-place.”
conservacionpatagonica.org
Outdoor Companies Funding Grassroots
Efforts to Protect Nature
When we work with our friends, we are stronger. That’s why
Patagonia co-founded The Conservation Alliance in 1989.
With Kelty, REI and The North Face, Patagonia moved the
outdoor industry to build a new source of funding for grassroots organizations working to protect threatened wild
places throughout North America. The idea caught fire, and
now the alliance has more than 185 members.
The model is simple: The Conservation Alliance collects annual dues from companies in the industry, and gives all of
that money to grassroots conservation organizations. The
alliance has contributed more than $11.2 million since 1989.
Marty Schnure (left) and Ross Donihue spent 10 weeks collecting
content to create an on-line and interactive map for the new Patagonia
National Park. Photo: Rick Ridgeway
With the support of the team behind the Patagonia National Park project, they are creating a map-based visual portal for exploring the future park and its conservation mission from anywhere in the world. Their goal is
to tell the story of the park through compelling cartography combined with rich multimedia visual content and
spoonfuls of educational information. Using the content
they collect, combined with open-source data and crowdsourced content, they are creating a bilingual print map
and an interactive web map to engage a global audience.
The Baker River, which is threatened with a dam, borders soon-to-be
Patagonia National Park. Photo: Linde Waidhofer
the
Conservation
Alliance
During the 2013 austral summer, Maps for Good spent
10 weeks in the field exploring the park. They took photographs and collected sound recordings, immersive 360˚
panoramas, local knowledge and geographic data. In addition to the maps, they will deliver a geographic database
for the park to use and build upon.
Headwaters of the Nass River. British Columbia. Photo: Carr Clifton
The Conservation Alliance awarded an all-time high $1.3
million to 38 conservation organizations in 2012. Despite
a challenging political climate, alliance grantees delivered
nine important conservation victories, protecting 1,124,841
acres of land, 38.5 river miles, halting 77 oil and gas leases
and designating three marine reserves.
The team’s work was made possible by a National Geographic Young Explorers grant, generous support on Kickstarter, and product sponsorships.
Patagonia is a Pinnacle Member of The Conservation Alliance, contributing more than $100,000 annually. These
funds go directly to the most effective grassroots conservation organizations in North America and play an important
role in protecting our last wild places.
mapsforgood.org
conservationalliance.com
1% for the Planet
®
Partners’ Contributions Help Protect,
Preserve and Advocate for the Planet
At its core, 1% for the Planet (FTP) is a platform for partnerships between companies and nonprofits creating a more
sustainable planet. Since its founding in 2002 by Patagonia owner Yvon Chouinard and Blue Ribbon Flies’ Craig
Mathews, 1% FTP members have given over $100 million to
more than 1,000 nonprofit organizations worldwide. With
this investment, 1% FTP nonprofit partners have been able
to protect, preserve and advocate for the planet.
1% FTP is a platform for partnership in the marketplace.
The 1% FTP network reaches hundreds of millions of people
each year through use of the 1% logo on products, social media and marketing campaigns with positive messages about
the importance of investing in the environment. Sales of 1%
FTP co-branded products, such as the Patagonia Advocate
Moc, allow people to use their purchasing decisions to support environmental stewardship, locally and globally. The
results are win-win: 1% FTP member companies have been
growing at double-digit rates during the past four years,
while investing tens of millions of dollars in the environment each year.
1% for the Planet member
companies have been growing at double-digit rates
during the past four years,
while investing tens of millions of dollars in the environment each year.
1% FTP enables people to share their views on public policies that support and advance sustainability. In 2012, 1%
FTP joined forces with Patagonia to support the Vote the
Environment campaign. VTE brought the environment
back into the political discussion, and encouraged voters
to become informed about how their vote would ultimately
impact the natural world. 1% FTP and Patagonia got word
the word out: emails, blogs, newsletters, phone calls, tweets,
Facebook posts, in-store promotions – you name it – and
made 11,937,921 impressions. We’d like to think that’s a success, and the first of many more to come on critical issues
including sustainable agriculture, clean energy and water.
onepercentfortheplanet.org
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Shell Quits
the Skeena
Watershed
Celebrating a Big Win by One of Our Grantees, We Asked the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition to Tell The Story
By Shannon McPhail, executive director
“Cultivate a sustainable future in the Skeena watershed
from a sustainable environment rooted in our culture and
our wild salmon ecosystem.” That’s the mission of the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition. We call ourselves
the “hooligans of the conservation world.” In less lofty language, our mission statement means we “promote the good
shit, stop the bad shit and it’s the community that decides
which is which.”
Ours became a bonafide registered nonprofit in 2004, but
don’t let the society registration fool you; our crew is simply
a bunch of local yokels who believe the people of the Skeena watershed should be the decision-makers – not industry
with offices in other countries or government with offices
3,000 miles away who don’t depend on the land and waterways for their food security, economy and culture.
The problem? Royal Dutch Shell wanted to drill 1,500-10,000
coalbed methane gas wells in the Sacred Headwaters of
northwestern British Columbia, where three of Canada’s
greatest wild salmon and steelhead rivers – the Skeena, Stikine and Nass – are born. These rivers are among the last
surviving, intact, kick-ass grizzly bear-chasing 30-pound
salmon over waterfalls kind of rivers. Native and white families harvesting enough food for the winter kind of rivers.
Dip your head in and drink the water without tablets or filters because it’s so clean kind of rivers. Not a single dam
anywhere kind of rivers.
So we got ourselves educated, strategized, organized and
mobilized…and got really good at it. So good that on December 18, 2012, after local communities and normal everyday Joe-blow residents stood united for nearly a decade in defense of the birthplace of these great rivers, the
BC government, Royal Dutch Shell and the Tahltan Central Council announced there will be no coalbed methane drilling in the Sacred Headwaters… EVER! Not only
was coalbed methane outlawed, all petroleum and natural
gas activities have been permanently banned in an area of
more than 1 million acres of pristine wilderness.
While Shell is out of the picture, we’ve still got a few loose
ends to tie up: everything from a proposed coal mine, a railway and a couple of pipelines. So there’s still a bit of work to
do and the crew is gearing up for a final push to protect the
Sacred Headwaters from all industrial development.
On February 2, we celebrated the Shell victory northern style
and it was epic. A day-long ceremony in the giant Kitsumkalum Feast Hall located at the confluence of the Kalum and
Skeena rivers in Terrace, BC. First Nations from all three
watersheds brought their traditional dance groups, drums,
regalia and water from each of their tributaries to be mixed
in a cedar bent box as a pledge of solidarity. For the first time
in history, non-First Nations (yes… that means white folks)
were invited to mix their water as well.
Canada’s House Leader of the official opposition and the
Skeena’s Member of Parliament, Nathan Cullen, stood up
and said the Sacred Headwaters victory is a model for Canada. He took some of the mixed water back to the House of
Commons and told the Prime Minister there is a better way
to govern and it’s exemplified here.
“The fight to defend our rivers is a model for the entire country on how to find common ground,” he told the roaring
crowd. “We’ll never give up our headwaters.”
Environmental Grants
18 countries | 773 grants | $5,602,433 in cash
Each year, Patagonia uses at least 1% of its sales to support environmental work around the world. The lion’s share goes out
through our grants program, direct to grassroots environmental groups working on the frontlines of the environmen-
ARGENTINA
Alianza Arboles
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alianza Arboles promotes the creation
and enrichment of public green spaces
around Buenos Aires by empowering
individuals and organizations to collaborate.
Center for
Human Rights and
Environment
Córdoba, Argentina
The Center for Human Rights and Environment promotes harmony between
the environment and people, in Argentina and around the world, by fostering public policy for socially and environmentally sustainable development,
community participation and stronger
democratic institutions.
instituto de
conservación de
ballenas
Buenos Aires, Argentina
ICB seeks to fulfill its vision of healthy
oceans and a world free of human
threats and impacts on whales through
research and education.
Australia
CERES Community
Environment Park
Brunswick East, Australia
CERES works to address the causes of
climate change, promote social wellbeing and build local and global equity
through its urban farm and community
food system, educational programs and
green technology programs at its environmental park in Melbourne.
Austria
Antiatom Szene
Pasching, Austria
Antiatom Szene works internationally,
independent of governments and business interests, to further a sustainable
world free from the dangers of nuclear
energy.
BELGIUM
health care
without harm europe
Brussels, Belgium
Health Care Without Harm Europe
works to make the European health care
sector more environmentally and ethically sound by developing green programs for hospitals, campaigning for
more sustainable national policies and
leveraging the purchasing power of the
health care sector to create new markets
for safe and healthy products.
Pesticide Action
Network Europe
Brussels, Belgium
PAN Europe seeks to eliminate dependency on chemical pesticides and support
safe, sustainable pest control through
research, educational and grassroots
programs that engage the government,
NGOs, farmers, scientists, academics, retailers, trade unions and the public.
CANADA
Canadian
Biotechnology
Action Network
Ottawa, Ontario
The Canadian Biotechnology Action
Network counters genetic engineering
in agriculture and promotes food sovereignty and democratic decision-making
to protect the environment, health, food
and livelihoods of people in Canada and
around the world.
Canadian Parks &
Wilderness Society Southern Alberta
Calgary, Alberta
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness
Society – Southern Alberta Chapter
works to protect the ecological integrity and connectivity of at least 50% of
southern Alberta’s landscape through
conservation and planning tools focused on government policies and legislation, parks and wildlife.
Canadian Parks and
Wilderness Society Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness
tal crisis. The following pages list the groups that received a
grant from us between May 1, 2012 and April 11, 2013. Flip
through them, find your region, reach out, and get involved!
Society – Manitoba Chapter works to
preserve Canada’s natural landscapes
by establishing parks and protected areas, increasing public awareness and involvement, and advocating for nature to
come first in the management of parks
and wilderness areas.
Canadian Parks &
Wilderness Society Yukon
Ottawa, Ontario
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness
Society-Yukon Chapter works to establish and maintain a comprehensive
system of protected areas in the Yukon,
and to safeguard wilderness and wildlife throughout the north.
Cycle Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Cycle Toronto promotes a healthy, safe,
cycling-friendly city through outreach
events and workshops that educate
people and empower them to engage in
public processes around cycling issues.
Dogwood Initiative
Victoria, British Columbia
The Dogwood Initiative works to help
British Columbians attain local control
of land through leadership, research
and policy campaigns among diverse
constituencies.
Earthroots
Toronto, Ontario
Earthroots is dedicated to the preservation of wilderness, wildlife and
watersheds in Canada, particularly
Ontario.
Environmental
Defence canada
Toronto, Ontario
Environmental Defence Canada spearheads campaigns that seek to challenge
and inspire change in government,
business and people to ensure a greener,
healthier and prosperous life for all.
Fatal Light
Awareness Program
Toronto, Ontario
Fatal Light Awareness Program works
to decrease bird collisions with buildings through research, partnerships and
the development of programs and policies that address the issue at its source:
the buildings themselves.
FoodShare Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
FoodShare Toronto partners with community leaders, organizations and
schools to increase access to and knowledge of sustainably produced, healthy
food, particularly in underserved communities.
Fundy Baykeeper/
Conservation Council
of New Brunswick
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Fundy Baykeeper works to protect and
restore the ecological integrity of the
Bay of Fundy by ensuring environmental laws are enforced, mobilizing
coastal citizens, advocating for policy
change and maintaining an active
watchdog presence.
Georgia Strait
Alliance
Nanaimo, British Columbia
The Georgia Strait Alliance works to
protect and restore the at-risk natural environment of Canada’s Georgia
Strait, as well as its adjoining waters and
communities.
Lake Ontario
Waterkeeper
Toronto, Ontario
Lake Ontario Waterkeeper helps restore the natural assets of Lake Ontario
for swimming, drinking and fishing
through research, education and community empowerment.
Miistakis Institute
Calgary, Alberta
The Miistakis Institute promotes
healthy communities and landscapes in
the Crown of the Continent ecosystem
of Montana, British Columbia and Alberta, by studying the environment and
helping to make innovative research accessible to communities and decisionmakers.
Raincoast
Conservation
Foundation
Sidney, British Columbia
This team of conservationists and scientists is working to protect the lands,
waters and wildlife of coastal British
Columbia through advocacy, science,
applied ethics and grassroots activism.
Celebrating the Shell victory northern style. Photo: Brian Huntington
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The Wilderness Society
Mission: The Wilderness Society aims to protect wil-
derness and inspire Americans to care for wild places.
Greatest Challenge: More than 25 wilderness
bills, many crafted with The Wilderness Society and local support, remained before Congress in 2012, but legislators failed to act on any of them. From the Maine
Coastal Islands Wilderness Act, to the Central Idaho
Economic Development and Recreation Act, to the Columbine−Hondo Wilderness Act in New Mexico, many
of these bills carry bipartisan support, but they still
could not generate congressional action. The 112th Congress became the first in more than 40 years that failed
to protect a single wilderness area.
Accomplishments: After a seven-year struggle,
The Wilderness Society helped Wyoming citizens save
the Upper Hoback River Basin, in the southern reaches of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, from imminent natural gas fracking and development. As part of
a strong conservation coalition, we created the environment for a historic agreement for the gas leases to be
bought out by our conservation partner, the Trust for
Public Land, and then we helped raise more than $8
million to fund the lease buy-out before the December
31 deadline. Patagonia provided critical financial support to this campaign, allowing our staff in Wyoming to
rally citizen support and convince the oil and gas company that some places are too special to drill.
wilderness.org
Salthaven Wildlife
Rehabilitation and
Education Centre
Mount Brydges, Ontario
Salthaven cares for and rehabilitates
sick, injured, orphaned or otherwise
compromised wildlife, seeking to return
healthy animals to their natural habitat.
Save the Oak Ridges
Moraine Coalition
Aurora, Ontario
Save the Oak Ridges Moraine Coalition
(STORM) advocates for the long-term
protection of the Oak Ridges Moraine, a
significant headwaters landscape in Ontario, Canada, by working with municipalities to support policies that respect
the area’s environmental significance.
Shark Truth
Vancouver, British Columbia
Shark Truth aims to reduce the consumption of shark fin products in Canada by creating opportunities for the
Chinese Canadian community to help
conserve the ocean and sharks.
Sierra Club
of BC Foundation
Victoria, British Columbia
Sierra Club BC seeks to protect and
conserve British Columbia’s wilderness,
species and ecosystems by providing
the government and First Nations with
science-based conservation viewpoints
and advice on policy decisions that affect environmental issues.
Sierra Club
of Canada - Atlantic
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Sierra Club Atlantic empowers people
to protect, restore and enjoy a healthy,
safe planet via its campaigns on energy
and climate change, community health,
sustainable economies, wild space protection and environmental education.
Skeena Watershed
Conservation
Coalition
Hazleton, British Columbia
The Skeena Watershed Conservation
Coalition works to cultivate a sustainable economy from a sustainable
environment rooted in British Columbians’ wild salmon culture.
skeena wild
conservation trust
Terrace, British Columbia
Skeena Wild Conservation Trust promotes the ecologic and economic sustainability of the Skeena watershed and nearby
coastal communities by supporting sustainable fisheries, protecting habitat and
through salmon-restoration research.
Tides Canada
Initiatives Society Pacific Wild Initiative
Vancouver, British Columbia
The Pacific Wild Initiative project of
the Tides Canada Initiatives Society de-
velops and implements solution-based
conservation strategies for wildlife and
its habitat on Canada’s Pacific coast.
TREC Education
Toronto, Ontario
Inspired by the vision of a world powered by renewable energy, TREC Education leads educational programs for
young people in Ontario, Canada, that
aim to spark innovation and empower
them to make informed choices about
our shared natural resources.
Vancouver
Aquarium Ocean Wise
Vancouver, British Columbia
The Vancouver Aquarium’s Ocean Wise
program educates consumers, restaurants, markets and food suppliers about
sustainable seafood.
West Coast
Environmental Law
Research Foundation
Vancouver, British Columbia
The West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation is dedicated to a just
and sustainable society where people are
empowered to protect the environment
and where environmental protection is
law.
Wilderness Committee
Vancouver, British Columbia
The Wilderness Committee works to
protect Canada’s biodiversity through
strategic research and grassroots public education that mobilizes citizens to
take lawful, democratic action to defend
the country’s remaining wilderness and
wildlife.
Wildsight
Kimberley, British Columbia
Wildsight promotes biodiversity and
sustainable communities in Canada’s
Columbia and Southern Rocky Mountain region by organizing outreach and
media campaigns, creating educational
programs and supporting and coordinating scientific research.
Yukon Conservation
Society
Whitehorse, Yukon
The Yukon Conservation Society works
with First Nations and other communities to promote the well-being of the
ecosystem and its inhabitants in the
Yukon and beyond through environmental research, education and policy
advocacy.
CHILE
Corporación de
Defensa de Derechos
de los Animales
Punta Arenas, Chile
Corporación de Defensa de Derechos de
los Animales houses dogs, cats and other animals, educates Chilean students
about animals and provides low-cost
spay/neuter services.
Ecosistemas
Santiago, Chile
Ecosistemas fosters the creation of a
sustainable and more equitable society
in Chile, through environmental education, citizen empowerment, eco-cultural promotion and communications
campaigns based on deep ecological
awareness.
Fundación futaleufú
riverkeeper
Santiago, Chile
Fundación Futaleufú˙ Riverkeeper
works to protect the Futalefú˙ watershed and its communities through
litigation, policymaking and the mobilization of local leaders to fight projects
that could harm their health, culture
and livelihoods.
Fiscalía del
Medio Ambiente
Santiago, Chile
Fiscalía del Medio Ambiente works to
preserve Chile’s natural resources and
reduce environmental degradation by
advocating for citizens in public-interest lawsuits and helping shape environmental policy and legislation.
CZECH REPUBLIC
Hnuti DUHA
Brno, Czech Republic
Hnuti DUHA promotes a free and
democratic society that respects ecological limits and ensures a healthy
environment by motivating people to
help decrease pollution and increase
conservation.
FRANCE
a pas de loup des
volontaires pour la
nature
Dieulefit, France
A Pas de Loup des Volontaires pour
la Nature forges connections between
conservation-minded volunteers and
professionals by organizing eco-volunteer programs and selecting volunteers for organizations in France and
abroad.
ATENA 78
Houdan, France
ATENA 78 seeks to conserve nature and
protect habitat for nocturnal birds of
prey, bats and amphibians in Yvelines,
France, by working cooperatively with
elected representatives, farmers and
land owners.
Club ConnaÓtre et
ProtÈger la nature
de la VallÈe du
Sausseron
Berville, France
This group helps children and adults
discover their natural environment,
and works to protect and preserve owls
by installing breeding boxes.
FRAPNA Haute-Savoie
Pringy, France
FRAPNA Haute-Savoie works to protect natural areas and species in France,
through technical and educational
campaigns and, if necessary, legal action.
Generations Futures
Paris, France
Generations Futures defends the environment and human health, especially
against the negative impacts of pesticides, by providing resources to victims of environmental degradation and
through trainings and other campaigns.
Inf’OGM
Montreuil, France
Inf ’OGM works to ensure that information on GMOs is produced, summarized and circulated in order to provide
French citizens with real democratic
choice on the kind of agriculture they
want.
Kokopelli
Ales Cedex, France
Kokopelli works to save seeds through
the production and distribution of organic, fertile seeds; it maintains a collection of more than 2,200 varieties.
lpo rhône-alpes
Lyon, France
LPO Rhône-Alpes is a regional network
of groups advocating for birds, wildlife,
the environment and human well-being, and combating the decline of biodiversity through education and active
campaigns in Rhône-Alpes.
Mountain
Wilderness France
Grenoble, France
Mountain Wilderness France seeks to
preserve mountains in their entirety by
defending the last areas of wilderness
from the ski industry and motorized
sports, and promoting the creation of
new protected areas.
RÉs’OGM Info
Lyon, France
RÈs’OGM Info raises awareness of the
stakes and risks of genetically modified
food in Rhône-Alpes, championing and
promoting environmentally friendly
agriculture.
Réseau semences
paysannes
Aiguillon, France
Réseau Semences Paysannes is a network of organizations that promote
agricultural biodiversity through information, exchanges and trainings.
Sources et riviÈres
du Limousin
Limoges, France
Sources et Rivières du Limousin helps
protect the environment in Limousin,
France, using educational programs
and policy to combat pollution and preserve biodiversity.
Surfrider
Foundation Europe
Biarritz, France
Surfrider Foundation Europe advances
the protection and enjoyment of oceans,
waves and beaches through conservation, activism, research and educational
activities.
Terre de liens
Rhône-Alpes
Crest, France
Strengthening people’s connection to
the land, agriculture and food is the
goal of Terre de Liens Rhône-Alpes,
which works to further the collective acquisition and management of farmland.
Germany
Bergwaldprojekt e.V.
Würzburg, Germany
The Bergwaldprojekt works to preserve
German forests and promote a deeper
understanding of the dependent relationships between nature and people by
organizing volunteer work trips to improve forest ecosystems.
IRELAND
Irish Wildlife Trust
Dublin, Ireland
The Irish Wildlife Trust promotes the
conservation of biodiversity in Ireland
through educational and community
action campaigns, research, policy work
and advocacy, and the management of a
network of nature reserves.
Friends of the Irish
Environment
Eyeries, Ireland
Friends of the Irish Environment works
to protect Ireland’s natural resources by
maintaining a network of environmentalists, monitoring implementation and
development of European law, seeking
changes in the Irish planning system
and providing assistance to individuals
and groups.
Good Energies
Alliance Ireland
Ballinaglera, Ireland
Good Energies Alliance Ireland uses
direct action, education and lobbying to
implement national campaigns to impose a ban on hydraulic fracturing and
to promote sustainable energy sources
and practices.
ITALY
Genitori Antismog
Milan, Italy
Genitori Antismog strives to lessen air
pollution in Milan and Lombardy, Italy,
through legal advocacy, public education, the mobilization of citizens as informed voters and policy work that promotes sound environmental legislation.
Re:Common
Rome, Italy
Re:Common works to advance environmental and economic justice worldwide
through campaigns against environmentally destructive projects and for
new public financial institutions aimed
at the protection and participatory
management of common goods.
JAPAN
Arakawa No Shizen
Wo Mamoru Kai
Ageo-shi, Japan
Arakawa No Shizen Wo Mamoru Ka
works to protect the natural environment of the Arakawa River.
Citizens’ Alliance
for Saving the
Atmosphere and the
Earth
Osaka-shi, Japan
CASA serves to protect both regional
and global environments through solidarity with foreign and local Japanese
NGOs.
Conservation &
Animal Welfare Trust
Tokyo, Japan
This group of veterinarians is dedicated
to protecting endangered species and
recovering their habitat.
Cosmic Seed
Iwate, Japan
Cosmic Seed seeks to restore the practice of home seed raising to reproduce
healthy foods suitable for Japan.
FoE Japan
Tokyo, Japan
A member of Friends of the Earth International, FoE Japan works for the creation of a world in which all people may
live peacefully and equitably.
Harima-Nada
Wo Mamoru Kai
Hyogo, Japan
Harima-Nada Wo Mamoru Kai works
to clean up and prevent pollution in the
mountains, ocean and air of HarimaNada and its coastal area.
Hina-Moroko
Sato-oya Kai
Fukuoka, Japan
Hina-Moroko Sato-oya Kai seeks to
The Hoback Basin. Photo: Courtesy of The Wilderness Society
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Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas
Mission: ICB is an Argentine nonprofit dedicated
to the conservation of whales and their environment
through research and education.
Activities: In collaboration with Ocean Alliance,
ICB conducts the Right Whale Program, the longest
continuous study of a large whale based on following
the lives of known individuals. Its main objective is
to monitor the status of the right whale population at
Península Valdés in Argentine Patagonia. The program
has provided science-based data to government authorities that allowed them to make sound conservation decisions to protect right whales and their habitat. ICB
works with a network of more than 50 NGOs in regional-scale whale conservation strategies in Latin America.
Accomplishments: More than four decades of
continuous scientific research about the biology of the
southern right whale in Argentina helped us to document a population increase from 400 whales (1970) to
more than 4,000 (2012), learn that Patagonian right
whales have fewer calves than expected following years
of low krill abundance on their feeding ground, and
examine 605 right whales that died between 2003 and
2012. Our education program has been applied by more
than 4,000 students in Argentina.
icb.org.ar
protect, increase and release hina-moroko, an endangered freshwater fish.
Hotaru No Furusato
Segamisawa Kikin
Kanagawa, Japan
Hotaru No Furusato Segamisawa Kikin
works to protect the natural environment and historical sites of SegamisawaYokohama.
Ichinomiya Umigame
Wo Mimamoru Kai
Chiba, Japan
This group seeks to protect and conserve sea turtles and their habitat on
Ichinomiya beach in Chiba prefecture.
Inokashira
Kansatsu-kai
Tokyo, Japan
Inokashira Kansatsu-kai is dedicated to
preserving biodiversity through public education, outreach and restoration
activities primarily inside Inokashira
Park.
Ishikikawa Mamori Tai
Nagasaki, Japan
Ishikikawa Mamori Tai is working to
stop construction of Ishiki Dam, a destructive hydro project on the Ishikigawa River.
KagakuBushitsu Mondai
Shimin Kenkyu-kai
Tokyo, Japan
Kagaku-Bushitsu Mondai Shimin Kenkyu-kai exists to empower citizens to
protect and improve public health by reducing and eliminating toxic chemical
substances in the environment.
Kamigo Segami No
Shizen Wo Mamoru Kai
Kanagawa, Japan
This organization is working to protect
the natural environment of Segamisawa
from a massive urban development plan
near Yokohama.
Karakane Ito-Tombo
Wo Mamoru Kai
Hokkaido, Japan
Karakane Ito-Tombo Wo Mamoru Kai
works to conserve the Shinoro-Fukui
wetland, the last wetland in Sapporocity, Hokkaido, whose habitat is critical
to rare plants and animals.
Keiryu Hogo Network
Sabo Dam Wo
Kangaeru
Nagano, Japan
This group is working to change Japanese river-management policy to eliminate dependency on sediment- and
erosion-control dams.
Kiko Network
Kyoto, Japan
Kiko Network works for the practical
implementation of the Kyoto Protocol.
Kyoto No Kankyo-byo
No Kai
Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto No Kankyo-byo No Kai is seeking to increase public awareness about
chemical and electrical sensitivity.
Mizumoribito No Kai
Miyagi, Japan
Mizumoribito No Kai works to educate
citizens about the role and importance
of forests in helping to conserve water.
Nagaragawa Shimin
Gakushu-kai
Gifu, Japan
Nagaragawa Shimin Gakushu-kai is
working on behalf of the Nagaragawa
River watershed, which is threatened by
the Uchigaya Dam project.
Nagashima No Shizen
Wo Mamoru Kai
Yamaguchi, Japan
Nagashima No Shizen Wo Mamoru Kai
works to protect the natural environment and fishery of Nagashima Island,
in Yamaguchi prefecture, from the construction of a nuclear plant.
Nettairin Kodo
Network
Tokyo, Japan
JATAN educates society about tropical
forests, especially those in Australia and
Indonesia, where paper is produced for
Japanese consumption.
Nihon No KaiganKankyo Wo Mamoru
Kai
Chiba, Japan
Nihon No Kaigan Kankyo Wo Mamoru
Kai seeks to protect ocean and beach
environments by establishing a broad
network that connects national, prefectural and local governments with local
communities.
Nihon ShizenñHogo
Kyokai
Tokyo, Japan
NACS-J is dedicated to ecosystem conservation and biological diversity.
Nippon Bara-Tanago
Takayasu Kenkyu-kai
Osaka, Japan
This organization aims to preserve at-risk
woodland and freshwater environments,
and to maintain their associated ecosystems, focusing particularly on the Nippon Bara-Tanago, a rare freshwater fish.
Picchio
Nagano, Japan
Picchio is working to create a more sustainable society through research and
ecosystem/wildlife conservation and
management.
Ryuiki No Shizen Wo
Kangaeru Network
Hokkaido, Japan
This group studies the natural systems
of rivers and lakes, including riverfronts
and floodplains, on behalf of wild animals and their habitat.
Sai-no-kuni Shigen
Junkan Kojo Wo
Kangaeru Hiroba
Saitama, Japan
This organization promotes better
management of resources recycling and
encourages consumers to become more
aware of manufacturing processes.
Shiribetsugawa No
Mirai Wo Kangaeru
Obirame No Kai
Hokkaido, Japan
Shiribetsugawa No Mirai Wo Kangaeru
Obirame No Kai is working to restore
wild Japanese huchen to the Shiribetsu
River.
Shitara Dam No
Kensetsu Chushi Wo
Motomeru Kai
Aichi, Japan
This organization seeks to stop construction of Shitara Dam on the Toyokawa River through land trusts, legal
action and public education.
Shoku To Nou Kara
Seibutsu-Tayosei
Wo Kangaeru Shimin
Network
Tokyo, Japan
This network works with domestic and
international consumers and producers
to establish rules regulating the environmental impacts of GMOs under the
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
Taiyo-Ko
Kanagawaq, Japan
Taiyo-Ko seeks to shift society from one
dependent on nuclear power and fossil
fuels to one that preserves the natural
environment.
Tama Ajisai No Kai
Tokyo, Japan
Tama Ajisai No Kai is working to prevent pollution from a huge waste disposal plant in Hinode, Tokyo, where
garbage from four million citizens in
the Tokyo-Tama area is incinerated.
Tokushima Shizen
Kansatsu No Kai
Tokushima, Japan
Tokushima Shizen Kansatsu No Kai
helps protect the Yoshinogawa River
estuary area, which is threatened by development.
Yamba Ashita-No Kai
Gunma, Japan
Yamba Ashita-no Kai exists to increase
awareness about the shortcomings of
the Yamba Dam project in the hopes of
seeing it revised.
NETHERLANDS
A SEED Europe
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A SEED Europe fights the structural
causes of environmental destruction
and social injustice by campaigning on
GMO regulations controlled by multinational corporations, while also promoting alternatives.
The Black Fish
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Black Fish uses education, investigation and nonviolent direct action
to change European attitudes toward
oceans and to help protect the life within them.
Norway
Folkeaksjonen
oljefritt Lofoten,
VesterÂlen og Senja
Oslo, Norway
Folkeaksjonen
oljefritt
Lofoten,
VesterÂlen og Senja works to keep the
coast outside of LoVeSe free of oil activity and calls attention to the natural
resources that have helped the region
survive for centuries.
AsociaciÓn
Red Montañas
Madrid, Spain
Asociación Red Montañas believes that
mountains must be protected as cathedrals of water, wildlife and biodiversity
and works to inspire society and decision-makers in Spain to ensure their
long-term conservation.
TAIWAN
The Society
of Wilderness
Taipei City, Taiwan
The Society of Wilderness aims to
protect Taiwan’s wild lands, allowing
nature to manage and revive itself, by
obtaining guardianship and managing
wilderness areas.
UNITED KINGDOM
Froglife
Peterborough, United Kingdom
Froglife helps conserve amphibians and
reptiles in the United Kingdom, and the
habitats on which they depend, through
inclusive programs that invite everyone
to engage in preservation.
John Muir Trust
FAPAS
Spain
Santo Adriano, Spain
FAPAS works to protect the ecosystems
in Spain’s Cantabrian Mountains, particularly its threatened fauna, through
fieldwork that aims to ensure the availability of food and shelter for fauna.
Clean Ocean Project
Las Palmas, Spain
Inspired by its passion for the sea and
water sports, the Clean Ocean Project
organizes beach cleanings in the Canary
Islands and campaigns against projects
that harm the marine ecosystem and increase potential oil pollution.
Ecologistas en Acción
Madrid, Spain
A federation of more than 300 ecological groups in Spain, Ecologistas
en Acción fights the present model of
production and consumption through
campaigns that counter biodiversity
loss, climate change and the deepening
of social inequity.
Red Andaluza de
Semillas
Sevilla, Spain
Red Andaluza de Semillas works to
preserve the agricultural genetic resources of Andalusia, Spain, through
educational events, exhibitions, seed
exchanges and campaigns to influence
national policy.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
The John Muir Trust works with people
and communities in the United Kingdom to ensure that wild places are protected and valued by and for everyone.
Jurassic Coast Trust
Wareham, United Kingdom
The Jurassic Coast Trust advances public education concerning the Jurassic
Coast World Heritage Site, which covers
95 miles of coastline in East Devon and
Dorset, England.
Moray Firth
Sea Trout Project
Bonar Bridge, United Kingdom
The Moray Firth Sea Trout Project aims
to address the imbalance in sea trout
management within the Moray Firth by
conducting research and disseminating
information.
Surfers
Against Sewage
Street Agnes, United Kingdom
Surfers Against Sewage works to protect
the United Kingdom’s oceans, waves
and beaches for all to access, use and
enjoy safely and sustainably via action
campaigns, volunteer and conservation programs, education and scientific
research.
UK Tar Sands
Network
Oxford, United Kingdom
Viewing tar sands as a huge barrier to
indigenous rights and climate justice,
the UK Tar Sands Network is building
a peaceful popular campaign in the
United Kingdom and beyond to curb
the industry’s operations.
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ALABAMA
Alabama
Rivers Alliance
Birmingham, Alabama
Alabama Rivers Alliance seeks to protect and restore Alabama’s rivers by advocating smart water policy, organizing
at the grassroots level and empowering
citizens.
Black Warrior
Riverkeeper
Birmingham, Alabama
Black Warrior Riverkeeper uses a watershed approach to protect and restore
Alabama’s Black Warrior River and its
tributaries with the goal of ensuring a
healthy aquatic environment and improving the recreational and aesthetic
values of the river.
Cahaba River Society
Birmingham, Alabama
The Cahaba River Society helps restore
and protect central Alabama’s Cahaba
River watershed and its rich diversity
of life, including the people who rely
on it for drinking water and recreation, through educational programs
and teacher trainings, restoration
projects, research, publications and
media outreach.
Camp McDowell
Nauvoo, Alabama
Camp McDowell connects people to
the environment, teaches respect for
the earth and its inhabitants, and promotes a commitment to lifelong learning through its summer-camp events,
retreat facilities, environmental and
farm-focused educational programs,
and folk school.
Coosa Riverkeeper
Riverside, Alabama
Coosa Riverkeeper focuses on Clean
Water Act compliance and enforcement in Alabama to fulfill its vision of
a swimmable, drinkable, fishable Coosa
River.
ALASKA
Alaska Marine
Conservation Council
Anchorage, Alaska
The Alaska Marine Conservation
Council promotes the integrity of Alaska’s marine ecosystems and the health
of ocean-dependent coastal communities through community outreach,
grassroots advocacy, public policy work,
research and education.
Right whales. Peninsula Valdés, Argentina. Photo: Diego Taboada
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old-growth forest in Southeast Alaska’s
Tongass National Forest, the earth’s largest ancient temperate rainforest, while
encouraging sustainable communities.
Takshanuk Watershed
Council
Haines, Alaska
The Takshanuk Watershed Council
promotes the natural ecology, economy
and quality of life valued by all residents
of Haines Borough, Alaska, through
restoration, education, research and
community involvement.
Trustees for Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska
Trustees for Alaska works to protect and
sustain Alaska’s natural environment by
providing legal counsel to conservation
groups, Alaska Native and community
groups, and individuals.
Yukon River Drainage
Fisheries Association
Anchorage, Alaska
The Yukon River Drainage Fisheries
Association is a group of Alaskan subsistence and commercial fishers dedicated to sustaining the world’s furthestmigrating salmon run and protecting
healthy, wild fisheries and cultures on
the Yukon River.
ARIZONA
Great Bear Rainforest. British Columbia. Photo: Ian McAllister
Center for Water
Advocacy
Seward, Alaska
The Center for Water Advocacy strives
to ensure the long-term sustainability
of water resources in the western states
and Alaska using litigation, informational campaigns and other strategies.
Coalition for Susitna
Dam Alternatives
Northern Alaska
Environmental Center
Fairbanks, Alaska
The Northern Alaska Environmental
Center advances conservation of the
environment and sustainable resource
stewardship in interior and Arctic Alaska through education and advocacy.
Resurrection
Bay Conservation
Alliance
Talkeetna, Alaska
The Coalition for Susitna Dam Alternatives seeks to protect the Susitna River
watershed’s vast natural resources by
stopping the construction of Susitna
Dam.
Seward, Alaska
The Resurrection Bay Conservation Alliance advocates for healthy water, land
and air through monitoring, habitat assessment, public education and advocacy
of science-based resource management.
Cook Inletkeeper
Sitka Conservation
Society
Homer, Alaska
Cook Inletkeeper works to protect Alaska’s Cook Inlet watershed and the life it
sustains through advocacy, monitoring
and education.
Juneau Watershed
Partnership
Juneau, Alaska
The Juneau Watershed Partnership promotes watershed integrity in the city
and borough of Juneau through education, research and communication.
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Sitka, Alaska
The Sitka Conservation Society works
to protect the natural environment of
Alaska’s Tongass Temperate Rainforest, and supports the development of
sustainable communities living in the
Tongass National Forest.
Southeast Alaska
Conservation Council
Juneau, Alaska
The Southeast Alaska Conservation
Council is devoted to protecting prime
Arizona Wilderness
Coalition
Tucson, Arizona
The Arizona Wilderness Coalition seeks
to permanently protect and restore the
state’s wilderness and wild rivers for the
enjoyment of all citizens and to ensure
that native plants and animals have a
lasting home in wild nature.
Coalition for
Sonoran Desert
Protection
works to preserve and restore safe havens and passages for the entire Grand
Canyon region’s native wild creatures
through volunteer opportunities, science-based programs, and land stewardship and restoration.
Grand Canyon Wolf
Recovery Project
Flagstaff, Arizona
The Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery
Project is dedicated to bringing back
wolves and restoring ecological health
in the Grand Canyon region through
advocacy projects and educational and
grassroots programs.
Lobo Coalition
Flagstaff, Arizona
The Lobo Coalition seeks to help the
critically endangered Mexican gray wolf
recover and restore it to its essential
natural role through volunteer efforts,
grassroots action campaigns and collaboration with conservation, scientific
and sporting organizations.
Northern
Jaguar Project
Tucson, Arizona
The Northern Jaguar Project works
to preserve and recover the world’s
northernmost jaguar population and its
natural habitats through education programs and the establishment, care and
expansion of a safe-haven sanctuary in
northern Mexico.
Rios Libres
Flagstaff, Arizona
Dedicated to keeping Patagonia wild,
Rios Libres works to protect Chile’s rivers and lands, defend the people who depend on them, and give this threatened
area a voice by documenting its natural
resources using film, words and images.
Save the Scenic
Santa Ritas
Tucson, Arizona
The Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection fosters ecosystem health, promotes the value of nature and healthy
wild animal populations, and works to
ensure clean water, air and wild places
to roam.
Tucson, Arizona
Save the Scenic Santa Ritas uses education and outreach to protect the scenic,
aesthetic, recreational, environmental
and wildlife values of the Santa Rita
Mountains, Patagonia Mountains,
Canelo Hills and San Rafael Valley from
degradation due to mining and mineral
exploration.
Grand Canyon Trust
Sky Island Alliance
Flagstaff, Arizona
The Grand Canyon Trust protects the
Colorado Plateau’s rivers, air, wildlife
and areas of beauty through programs
and campaigns to improve public land
management, develop conservation
projects, foster sustainable development
and social justice in Native American
communities and promote renewable
energy and archeological preservation.
Grand Canyon
Wildlands Council
Flagstaff, Arizona
The Grand Canyon Wildlands Council
Flagstaff, Arizona
Sky Island Alliance helps protect and
restore the native species and habitats
of the Sky Island region of southwestern
and northwestern Mexico by educating
the public, working with policymakers, and carrying out programs focused
on conservation, adapting to climate
change and wildlife linkages.
Tucson Audubon
Society
Tucson, Arizona
The Tucson Audubon Society promotes
the protection and stewardship of
southern Arizona’s birds and biological
diversity through education, conservation programs, publications and events
that encourage the study and enjoyment
of birds and their habitats.
ARKANSAS
The Nature
Conservancy
Little Rock, Arkansas
The Nature Conservancy helps protect
nature for people today and future generations by carrying out large-scale,
science-based conservation projects
throughout the world.
CALIFORNIA
AGUA Coalition
Visalia, California
Securing safe, clean and affordable
drinking water in California’s San Joaquin Valley is the driving force behind
the AGUA Coalition (la Asociación de
Gente Unida por el Agua), which mobilizes individuals to participate in critical
policy forums, raises awareness of the
threats to water quality and advocates
for local leadership of water resources.
AquAlliance
Chico, California
AquAlliance works on behalf of the
northern Sacramento River watershed
to protect groundwater and wetlands in
northern California and sustain family
farms, communities, creeks and rivers,
native flora and fauna, and vernal pools.
Battle Creek Alliance
Manton, California
The Battle Creek Alliance helps protect
California’s public-trust resources of
water, climate, forests and wildlife in
the Battle Creek Watershed of Shasta
and Tehama counties by promoting biodiversity and raising public awareness.
Beyond Searsville
Dam
Portola Valley, California
Beyond Searsville Dam seeks to restore
threatened steelhead and a free-flowing
San Francisquito Creek through the removal of the San Francisco Bay Area’s
Searsville Dam in a safe manner that
safeguards creekside communities and
watershed health.
Bicycle Kitchen/Bici
Cocina
Los Angeles, California
Bicycle Kitchen/Bici Cocina promotes
the bicycle as a fun, safe and accessible
form of transportation that can improve the health of urban communities
in Los Angeles.
Butte Environmental
Council
Chico, California
The Butte Environmental Council pro-
tects and defends the land, air and water
of Northern California’s Butte County
and the surrounding region through
educational and citizens’ action programs and advocacy campaigns.
California Climate
and Agriculture
Network
Sebastopol, California
CalCAN advances policy solutions encouraging and supporting sustainable
agricultural practices that respond
constructively to the climate crisis and
provide benefits to the environment and
human health.
California League of
Conservation Voters
Education Fund
Los Angeles, California
The California League of Conservation
Voters Education Fund helps protect
California’s natural resources and improve the health of its communities by
increasing civic participation, conducting research to inform voter engagement, and strengthening the capacity of
environmental advocates and organizations.
California
Wilderness Coalition
Oakland, California
The California Wilderness Coalition
works to protect and restore California’s
wildest natural landscapes through
monitoring federal and state land management, providing information and
policy guidance, supporting wilderness-designation legislation, organizing
activists, educating the public,and seeking legal remedies in court.
Central Sierra
Environmental
Resource Center
Twain Harte, California
The Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center safeguards the water,
wildlife and wild places of California’s
northern Yosemite region to raise environmental awareness through educational programs, advocacy campaigns
and direct action.
Channel Islands
Restoration
City of Ventura,
Water Department
Ventura, California
Balancing the water needs of the human
population with those of the environment is the vision of Ventura Water,
which provides water and wastewater
services to the city of Ventura and offers
educational and outreach programs.
Conservación
Patagónica
Sausalito, California
Conservación Patagónica is working to
create national parks in Patagonia that
save and protect wildlands and wildlife,
inspire care for the natural world and
generate healthy economic opportunities for local communities.
Dietrick Institute
for Applied Insect
Ecology
Ventura, California
This institute teaches farmers and others about the benefits of biodiversity in
soil and aerial food webs, helping them
learn practical strategies for countering
pests and plant disease through beneficial organisms.
Eel River
Recovery Project
Arcata. California
The Eel River Recovery Project helps the
community of Northern California’s
Eel River monitor and share information about the river’s health and trends,
foster improved stewardship and formulate a community-based restoration
strategy.
Endangered
Habitats League
Los Angeles, California
The Endangered Habitats League works
to protect the diverse ecosystems of
Southern California and promotes sensitive and sustainable land use for the
benefit of all the region’s inhabitants by
participating in regional planning and
collaborating with communities, businesses, landowners and government
agencies.
Energy Independence
Now
Environmental
Protection
Information Center
Redway, California
EPIC uses a science-based approach, as
well as citizen advocacy and strategic
litigation, to protect and restore ancient
forests, watersheds and native species in
Northern California.
Felidae
Conservation Fund
Sausalito, California
The Felidae Conservation Fund works
to conserve wild cats and ensure healthy
and sustainable habitats for them
through research, community involvement, educational programs and technological efforts.
Food Commons
Ojai, California
Food Commons designs and builds a
nationally networked system of physical, financial and organizational infrastructure so that local and regional food
enterprises can develop and thrive according to a new economic and sustainability paradigm.
Food for
Thought Ojai
Ojai, California
Food for Thought Ojai uses gardenbased learning, nutrition education and
farm field trips to support, educate and
inspire schoolchildren and their families in Ventura County, California, to
make healthier food choices.
Foothill Conservancy
Pine Grove, California
The Foothill Conservancy works to
protect, restore and sustain the natural
and human environment in Amador
and Calaveras counties through education, events, advocacy campaigns and
policy work.
ForestEthics
San Francisco, California
ForestEthics helps safeguard endangered
forests, wild places, wildlife and human
well-being through international advocacy campaigns that raise public awareness, develop solutions and spur change
in governments and corporations.
Santa Barbara, California
Channel Islands Restoration seeks to
restore habitat on the California Channel Islands and adjacent mainland using
volunteers and by sponsoring educational programs.
Santa Barbara, California
Energy Independence Now develops
innovative, action-oriented solutions
to catalyze a rapid transition to a clean,
renewable energy and transportation
economy in California through policy,
advocacy and research.
Friends of Deer Creek
Chico Creek Nature
Center
Environmental
Defense Center
Friends of
Rose Canyon
Chico, California
The Chico Creek Nature Center promotes understanding, awareness, appreciation and knowledge of the environment through educational programs
in Bidwell Park, a 3,670-acre municipal
park in Chico, California.
Santa Barbara, California
The Environmental Defense Center
protects and enhances the local environments of Santa Barbara, Ventura
and San Luis Obispo counties through
community education and empowerment, advocacy and legal action.
Nevada City, California
Friends of Deer Creek promotes community stewardship and scientific
knowledge of watersheds in the Sierra
Nevada through monitoring, research,
restoration and education.
San Diego, California
Friends of Rose Canyon works to protect, preserve and restore San Diego’s
Rose Canyon and the Rose Creek watershed through volunteer events, educational programs and conservation
work.
UK Tar Sands Network
Mission: To raise public awareness and opposition to
mining of Canadian tar sands, one of the most carbonintensive and environmentally destructive methods of
extracting oil.
Activities: Based in the UK, we target governments,
UK companies, banks and investors operating in Canada’s tar sands. At the core of our ethos is working in
solidarity with impacted First Nations, creating space
for community members to speak for themselves.
Accomplishments: A major achievement in the
past year has been our campaign in support of the European Fuel Quality Directive, which would discourage
the import of dirty fuels – including tar sands – into Europe. Along with our partners, we successfully changed
the British stance from strong opposition to an abstention in 2012’s European vote. Our challenge is now to
get the UK to vote yes! So this campaign is still ongoing and is strengthened by the opposition in the U.S. to
the Keystone XL pipeline, which is one of the main tar
sands routes into Europe. Another big success was the
brand damage we caused BP with the Greenwash Gold
campaign, which targeted their sponsorship of the London 2012 Olympics, and has sparked a public conversation about ethical sponsorship of the event.
no-tar-sands.org
Friends of the Inyo
Bishop, California
Friends of the Inyo helps protect the
public lands and wildlife of the Eastern
Sierra by getting citizens involved in exploring and preserving the area’s natural heritage.
Friends of the River
Sacramento, California
Friends of the River works to preserve,
restore and sustain California’s freeflowing rivers and streams by influencing public policy and inspiring citizen
action.
Global Community
Monitor
El Cerrito, California
Global Community Monitor trains and
supports “fenceline” communities in
industrial areas in the use of environmental monitoring tools so that they
can document and understand the
impact of industrial pollution on their
health and the environment, launch advocacy efforts and win victories.
Green Science Policy
Institute
Berkeley, California
The Green Science Policy Institute
provides unbiased scientific data to
government, industry and non-governmental organizations to facilitate more
informed decision-making about chemicals used in consumer products.
Heal the Bay
Santa Monica, California
Heal the Bay uses science and education
programs, community action and advocacy campaigns to protect Santa Monica
Bay and other coastal waters and watersheds in Southern California.
I Love a Clean
San Diego
San Diego, California
Through outreach, community involvement and leading by example, I Love a
Clean San Diego helps inspire San Diegans to actively conserve and enhance
their environment.
International Rivers
Network
Berkeley, California
International Rivers protects rivers and
defends the rights of communities that
depend on them by working to stop destructive dams and promote water and
energy solutions for a just and sustainable world.
John Muir Project
Cedar Ridge, California
The Earth Island Institute’s John Muir
Project is dedicated to ending the federal timber sales program, which consistently undermines scientific conclusions and the ecological management
of national forests and other federal
lands.
Klamath Forest
Alliance
Orleans, California
The Klamath Forest Alliance promotes
sustainable ecosystems and communities
to protect the wildlife, waters and oldgrowth forests of Northern California.
Label Genetically
Engineered Foods 2012
Oakland, California
Label Genetically Engineered Foods
2012, which campaigned for a California ballot initiative that would have
required the labeling of all GMO foods
(Proposition 37), informs citizens about
their right to know what’s in their food
and whether it is produced using genetic
engineering.
Laguna Wilderness
Press
Laguna Beach, California
Laguna Wilderness Press publishes
photography books about the presence,
preservation and importance of wilderness environments.
Los Angeles County
Bicycle Coalition
Los Angeles, California
The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition is dedicated to making L.A. County
more bike-friendly through programs,
campaigns, events, outreach and education.
Los Angeles
Waterkeeper
Santa Monica, California
Los Angeles Waterkeeper helps protect
and restore the Santa Monica Bay, San
Pedro Bay and adjacent waters through
enforcement, fieldwork and community
action.
Los Padres
ForestWatch
Santa Barbara, California
Los Padres ForestWatch uses legal advocacy, scientific collaboration, community outreach and volunteerism to
protect and restore the natural and cultural heritage of the Los Padres National
Forest.
Marin County Bicycle
Coalition
Fairfax, California
The Marin County Bicycle Coalition
promotes safe bicycling for everyday
transportation and recreation through
advocacy, educational programs and by
supporting bike-friendly legislation.
MESA
Berkeley, California
MESA supports farmers and advances
a new generation of agrarian leaders – linking current innovations in
sustainable agriculture with ancestral
traditions – to promote environmental
stewardship, localized economies and
cultural awareness.
Mojave Desert
Land Trust
Joshua Tree, California
The Mojave Desert Land Trust works to
protect the Mojave Desert ecosystems
and their scenic and cultural resources
through land conservation campaigns
and stewardship programs.
Mono Lake Committee
Lee Vining, California
The Mono Lake Committee advances
the protection and restoration of Mono
Lake through education and by promoting cooperative solutions that avoid
transferring environmental problems to
other areas.
Mother Jones
San Francisco, California
Mother Jones is a news organization
that specializes in investigative, political and social-justice reporting.
Mount Shasta
Bioregional Ecology
Center
Mount Shasta, California
The Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology
Center defends Mount Shasta and its
bioregion from potential threats to its
water sources, natural sanctuaries and
biodiversity through advocacy campaigns and by participating in legal and
planning forums.
Mountain Area
Preservation
Foundation
Truckee, California
The Mountain Area Preservation Foundation works to preserve the community character and natural environment of
Truckee, California, and its surrounding regions through open space protection and smart growth initiatives.
Naked Whale
Research
Crescent Mills, California
Naked Whale Research researches the
behavior of killer whales and encourages individuals and marine researchers
to help increase awareness of the threats
to the survival of the endangered southern resident killer whales, which frequent waters off the coastal Northwest.
New Door Ventures
San Francisco, California
New Door Ventures helps at-risk youth
in San Francisco prepare for work and
life through paid internships at its social
enterprises and other businesses, jobreadiness training and supportive case
management.
North Coast
Resource
Conservation &
Development Council
Santa Rosa, California
This group fosters sustainable agriculture and biodiversity in Marin, Sonoma,
Mendocino and Lake counties through
grassroots projects that empower rural
people to help themselves.
Occidental Arts &
Ecology Center
Occidental, California
The Occidental Arts & Ecology Center
advances community-based strategies
for social change and environmental
stewardship through research, demonstrations, educational events and other
programs at its organic farm in Sonoma
County.
Oikonos Ecosystem
Knowledge
Benicia, California
Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge studies and protects imperiled ecosystems
across the globe by engaging diverse
communities through scientific and artistic collaborations.
Ojai Raptor Center
Oak View, California
The Ojai Raptor Center rehabilitates
and releases injured, orphaned and displaced birds of prey in Ventura County.
Ojai Valley Land
Conservancy
Ojai, California
The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy
works with landowners to either purchase or acquire conservation easements on private property that has the
potential to be developed.
Once Upon a
Watershed
Ojai, California
Once Upon a Watershed seeks to awaken wonder, appreciation, discovery and
connection with the natural world by
empowering young people to make a
difference through hands-on watershed
education, restoration and stewardship
experiences.
Pesticide Action
Network North
America
San Francisco, California
PAN North America works to end pesticide reliance and advance fair, ecological pest-management solutions through
citizens’ advocacy campaigns and by
fostering an international network of
consumer, labor, health, environment
and agriculture groups.
Planned Parenthood
of Santa Barbara,
Ventura, and San Luis
Obispo
Santa Barbara, California
Planned Parenthood promotes family
planning and healthy, responsible reproductive and sexual behavior by providing comprehensive educational, counseling, medical and referral services.
Project Bike Trip
Santa Cruz, California
Project Bike Trip provides comprehensive hands-on and academic bicycle
education for youth in order to enhance
lives, create opportunities and build
sustainable communities.
Protect Our Winters
Pacific Palisades, California
Protect Our Winters mobilizes the winter sports community to fight climate
change through educational programs
and community-based activism.
Raptors Are The
Solution
Berkeley, California
RATS is committed to eliminating the
unnecessary poisoning of wildlife, pets
and children from second-generation
anticoagulant rat poisons and to educating the public about the need for and
role of raptors in a healthy ecosystem.
Redlands
Conservancy
Redlands, California
The Redlands Conservancy works to
preserve the historic built environment
and irreplaceable natural and agricultural environments of Redlands, California.
Reef Check
Pacific Palisades, California
Reef Check uses science, education
and sustainable management to raise
awareness of the global reef crisis, train
volunteers to monitor reefs, and guide
communities in managing marine resources.
Restore Hetch Hetchy
San Francisco, California
Restore Hetch Hetchy seeks to return
the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite
National Park to its natural splendor
while continuing to meet the water and
power needs of all communities that depend on the Tuolumne River.
Salmon Protection
And Watershed
Network, A Project
of Turtle Island
Restoration Network
Forest Knolls, California
SPAWN works to protect endangered
coho salmon and steelhead in California’s streams and watersheds by mobilizing the grassroots, restoring streams,
developing public policy, and using litigation and research.
San Bruno Mountain
Watch
Brisbane, California
San Bruno Mountain Watch aims to
preserve and expand the native ecosystems of San Bruno Mountain through
stewardship, educational, conservation
and advocacy programs.
San Diego River Park
Foundation
San Diego, California
The San Diego River Park Foundation
serves as the voice for the San Diego
River, protecting and enhancing it as a
place for recreation, habitat and nature
discovery.
San Francisco Film
Society
San Francisco, California
The San Francisco Film Society encourages the progressive evolution of film
culture and individual lives by celebrating the transformative power of the
moving image in all its forms.
Santa Barbara
Audubon Society
Goleta, California
The Santa Barbara Audubon Society
works to conserve and restore natural
ecosystems and biological diversity, and
to connect people with birds and nature
through education, science-based projects and advocacy.
Santa Barbara
Channelkeeper
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper advances
the protection of the Santa Barbara
Channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, fieldwork and rule-enforcement initiatives.
Santa Barbara Zoo
Santa Barbara, California
The Santa Barbara Zoological Gardens
is dedicated to the preservation, conservation and enhancement of the natural
world and its living treasures through
education, research and recreation.
Santa Clara Valley
Audubon Society
Cupertino, California
The Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society fosters public awareness of native
birds and their ecosystems through
adult and children’s education programs and environmental advocacy.
Save Coyote Hills
Fullerton, California
Save Coyote Hills works to preserve
West Coyote Hills and its endangered
native species as a park and a reserve
complete with educational and recreational opportunities for all.
Save Mount Diablo
Walnut Creek, California
Save Mount Diablo preserves and restores Northern California’s Mount
Diablo and its foothills through land acquisition and preservation and by providing information on the mountain’s
ecosystems and outdoor recreational
activities.
Tar sands, Alberta, Canada. Photo: David Dodge, Pembina Institute
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Save the Colorado
Mission: To protect and restore the Colorado River
and its tributaries.
Activities: Our greatest challenge this year was the
severe drought throughout the Southwest. Climate
change, population growth and drought are combining
to take a heavy toll on the Colorado River ecosystem,
including its fish and wildlife, as well as its recreational
opportunities. Many of the Colorado River’s tributaries
ran dry in 2012, and levels in reservoirs sank. Rafting
companies suffered financially as water levels narrowed
the rafting season, and the entire recreational economy
– which supports billions of dollars of activity along the
river – took a hit.
Accomplishments: Our greatest achievement in
2012 was helping to support the signing of the “Bi-National Agreement” between Mexico and the U.S. to restore a small stream flow to the Colorado River Delta,
where it no longer meets the Gulf of California. Two
million acres of wetlands have been drained dry, and
this agreement will begin the slow process of bringing water back to the delta so the river finds its home
again. This small stream flow can restore some wetlands and fish populations, as well as the local culture
and economy, bringing hope back to one of the biggest
environmental challenges in North America.
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Save Our Shores
Santa Cruz, California
Save Our Shores seeks to safeguard the
marine environment through advocacy
campaigns on plastic pollution, clean
boating and ocean awareness; educational events; cleanups; and citizen action initiatives.
Save The Waves
Coalition
Davenport, California
Save The Waves Coalition is dedicated
to protecting and preserving the coastal
environment, with an emphasis on the
surf zone, and educating the public
about its value.
Sea Turtle
Restoration Project
Forest Knolls, California
The Sea Turtle Restoration Project
works to protect sea turtles and their
marine environment through education, consumer empowerment, strategic
litigation and the promotion of sustainable marine policies.
Sequoia ForestKeeper
Kernville, California
Sequoia ForestKeeper serves as the
eyes, ears and voice of the forest in the
southern Sierra Nevada, protecting and
restoring its ecosystems through monitoring, enforcement, education and litigation.
Sierra Club
San Francisco, California
The Sierra Club advances the exploration, enjoyment and protection of wild
places, practicing and promoting the responsible use of the earth’s ecosystems
and resources through a variety of educational and advocacy campaigns.
Sierra Watershed
Education
Partnerships
Tahoe City, California
SWEP promotes environmental stewardship by connecting students in California’s Tahoe-Truckee region to their
community and environment through
comprehensive watershed education
and service programs.
Silicon Valley Bicycle
Coalition
San Jose, California
The coalition promotes the bicycle for
everyday use in Santa Clara and San
Mateo counties via programs that encourage people to cycle and make the
urban environment more bike-friendly.
Sugar Pine Foundation
South Lake Tahoe, California
The Sugar Pine Foundation is dedicated
to restoring sugar pines and other white
pines in California’s Lake Tahoe region
by involving youth and community in
hands-on forest stewardship.
Surfrider
Foundation Santa
Barbara Chapter
Santa Barbara, California
Surfrider works for the protection and
enjoyment of the world’s oceans, waves
and beaches through its activist network.
Surfrider Foundation
West LA/Malibu
Chapter
Santa Monica, California
Surfrider is dedicated to the protection
and enjoyment of the world’s oceans,
waves and beaches.
Sustainable Surf
San Clemente, California
Sustainable Surf promotes practices that
protect ocean health and other natural
resources related to surfing through educational and action campaigns and by
advocating for the use of more sustainable technology in the surf industry.
SYRCL Wild & Scenic
Film Festival
Nevada City, California
The South Yuba River Citizens League’s
Wild & Scenic Film Festival seeks to inspire and unite people to heal the earth
through its annual screening of environmental films.
Tahoe Food Hub
Truckee, California
Tahoe Food Hub is working to build a
regional food system in the North Lake
Tahoe region with small-scale producers within 150 miles of each other.
The 5 Gyres Institute
Los Angeles, California
The 5 Gyres Institute works to document and understand plastic pollution
in our oceans through research, outreach, education and action to pave the
way for a zero-waste world.
The Ruckus Society
Oakland, California
The Ruckus Society provides environmental, human rights and social justice
organizers with the tools, training and
support needed to achieve their goals
through creative, strategic nonviolent
direct action.
The Sierra Fund
Nevada City, California
The Sierra Fund seeks to increase and
organize investment to protect and preserve the natural resources and communities of the Sierra Nevada region.
The Trust
for Public Land
San Francisco, California
The Trust for Public Land conserves
land for people to enjoy as parks, gardens and other natural places, ensuring
livable communities by working with
citizens, cities and policymakers.
The Village
Gardeners of the Los
Angeles River
Studio City, California
This group works to enhance the L.A.
River Greenway, with an emphasis on
conservation, ecology and restoration
of natural habitat.
Tree Musketeers
El Segundo, California
Founded by third-graders in 1987, Tree
Musketeers empowers young people
to be environmental leaders through
youth campaigns and summits, resource sharing, tree-planting and other
initiatives.
Tuleyome
Woodland, California
Tuleyome works to protect the wild
heritage and agricultural heritage of the
northern Inner Coast Range and Western Sacramento Valley.
Tuolumne River Trust
San Francisco, California
The Tuolumne River Trust promotes
stewardship of California’s Tuolumne
River through education, community
outreach, restoration projects, advocacy
and grassroots organizing.
Urban Biofilter
Oakland, California
Urban Biofilter designs city- and community-scale ecological solutions to the
air, soil and water contamination from
industrial pollution that affects marginalized urban communities.
VCCool
Ventura, California
VCCool champions sustainable, carbon-neutral living by providing tools
and expertise for change, influencing
policy and supporting a resilient green
economy.
Ventura Botanical
Gardens
Ventura, California
Ventura Botanical Gardens creates and
maintains public gardens for the preservation, education, cultural contribution and enhancement of the entire
community.
Ventura Hillsides
Conservancy
Ventura, California
The Ventura Hillsides Conservancy
protects and conserves open space resources through acquisition of land and
easements, stewardship of protected
lands and public education about local
natural resources.
Vida Verde
Nature Education
San Gregorio, California
Vida Verde Nature Education promotes
educational equity by providing free
overnight environmental learning trips
to students in San Mateo County.
Volcan Mountain
Preserve Foundation
Julian, California
This group strives to conserve and acquire land and practice respectful stewardship in San Diego County through
education, public outreach and resource
management.
COLORADO
American Renewable
Energy Institute
Aspen, Colorado
The American Renewable Energy Institute promotes American Renewable Energy Day, a renewable energy
technology and policy summit held in
Aspen.
Crawford Area
Gunnison Sage Grouse
Working Group
Hotchkiss, Colorado
This group guides management efforts
to improve the sage grouse’s habitat
and reverse the decline of the Crawford
grouse population.
EcoFlight
Aspen, Colorado
EcoFlight uses small aircraft to promote
the protection of the remaining wild
lands and wildlife habitat in the western
U.S., providing an aerial perspective
and educational programs that encourage environmental stewardship in citizens of all ages.
Energy &
Conservation Law
Denver, Colorado
Bicycle Colorado promotes bicycling
and encourages increased safety and
better conditions for cyclists in Colorado.
Durango, Colorado
Energy & Conservation Law provides
free, experienced and specialized legal
services in Colorado to communities
facing threats from nonrenewable resource extraction, especially uranium
mining and milling.
Coal Creek Watershed
Coalition
Erie Rising
Bicycle Colorado
Crested Butte, Colorado
The Coal Creek Watershed Coalition
maintains, restores and enhances the
environmental integrity of watersheds
around Crested Butte to support wildlife, aquatic life and human life.
Colorado
Backcountry
Hunters & Anglers
Boulder, Colorado
This group seeks to conserve America’s
outdoor heritage of hunting and fishing
in a natural setting through education
and work on behalf of wild, public lands
and waters.
Colorado
Environmental
Coalition
Denver, Colorado
The CEC is dedicating to conserving the
state’s clean air, water and open spaces
through grassroots organizing and advocacy campaigns.
Colorado
Mountain Club
Golden, Colorado
The Colorado Mountain Club works
to preserve alpine regions in Colorado
through conservation initiatives, adventure travel trips and educational
programs.
Community Cycles
Boulder,Colorado
Community Cycles educates and advocates for the safe use of bicycles in
Colorado as an affordable, viable and
sustainable means of transportation
and personal enjoyment.
Lafayette, Colorado
Erie Rising advocates for the well-being
of families in communities affected
by natural gas operations, continually
seeking information on health and environmental issues in order to inspire
citizen action to keep children safe and
healthy.
Gage & Gage
Productions
Telluride, Colorado
Gage and Gage Productions produces
social and climate justice documentaries that seek to inspire, educate, entertain and motivate action on underexposed issues.
Great Old Broads
for Wilderness
Durango, Colorado
Great Old Broads for Wilderness helps
preserve and protect U.S. wilderness
and wild lands by using the voices and
activism of elders in everything from
educational programs to litigation.
High Country
Citizens’ Alliance
Crested Butte, Colorado
High Country Citizens’ Alliance champions the protection, conservation and
preservation of the natural ecosystems
within Colorado’s Upper Gunnison
River basin.
High Country
Conservation Center
Frisco, Colorado
The High Country Conservation Center promotes practical solutions for
resource conservation through waste
reduction projects, workshops and educational programs.
Independence Pass
Foundation
Aspen, Colorado
The Independence Pass Foundation
works with government agencies to
develop and implement projects that
maintain and enhance the ecology,
beauty and safety of Colorado’s Independence Pass.
Information Network
for Responsible
Mining
Lyons, Colorado
INFORM educates the public about the
dangers of irresponsible mining, monitors all hard-rock mining in Colorado
and increases citizen engagement at the
local, state and federal levels.
NFRIA-WSERC
Conservation Center
Paonia, Colorado
NWCC works to build an aware and
active community that protects and
enhances the natural, human and economic environment of Colorado’s Gunnison watersheds.
Our Health, Our
Future, Our Longmont
Longmont, Colorado
This group works to keep fracking out
of the city of Longmont, Colorado,
through grassroots organizing and litigation.
Reel Thing Films
Telluride, Colorado
Reel Thing Films works with activists to
promote legislation that will bring to an
end to the free distribution of single-use
plastic bags.
Roaring Fork
Outdoor Volunteers
Basalt, Colorado
Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers promotes stewardship of public lands in
Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley by creating volunteer opportunities for trail
work and conservation projects.
Rock the Earth
Denver, Colorado
Rock the Earth partners with the music
industry and the environmental community to tackle the causes of environmental problems in America through
education, advocacy, negotiation and
litigation.
Rocky Mountain Wild
Denver, Colorado
Rocky Mountain Wild works to protect,
connect and restore wildlife and wild
lands in the Southern Rockies of Colorado, southern Wyoming, and eastern
Utah through conservation campaigns,
planning and the use of mapping technologies.
New Belgium employees get fully behind the Colorado River.
Photo: John Johnston, Courtesy of New Belgium Brewing Co.
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San Juan Citizens
Alliance
Durango, Colorado
The San Juan Citizens Alliance organizes people to protect the San Juan Basin’s
water, air and lands, as well as the character of its rural communities.
San Luis Valley
Ecosystem Council
Alamosa, Colorado
The San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council
helps protect and restore the biological diversity, ecosystems and natural
resources of the Upper Rio Grande bioregion, balancing ecological values and
human needs.
Save The Colorado
Fort Collins, Colorado
Save the Colorado River works to protect and restore the ecological health
of the Colorado River by raising public
awareness and by inspiring and supporting environmental organizations.
Sheep Mountain
Alliance
Telluride, Colorado
Sheep Mountain Alliance is dedicated
to the preservation of the natural environment in southwest Colorado,
providing educational programs and
protecting regional ecosystems, wildlife
habitats and watersheds.
The Access Fund
Boulder, Colorado
The Access Fund helps keep U.S. climbing areas open and preserves the climbing environment through conservation,
citizen mobilization, land acquisition
and educational programs.
Thompson Divide
Coalition
Carbondale, Colorado
The Thompson Divide Coalition seeks
to secure permanent protection from oil
and gas development on federal lands in
Colorado’s Thompson Divide Area by
educating the public and working with
lawmakers and government agencies.
Trails and Open Space
Coalition
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The Trails and Open Space Coalition is
dedicated to the preservation of open
space and parks and the creation of a
network of trails, bikeways and greenways for Colorado’s Pikes Peak region.
UrbiCulture
Community Farms
Denver, Colorado
UrbiCulture Community Farms provides food to people of all income levels
by growing affordable food in the Denver metropolitan area and educating
the community on growing food and
healthy lifestyles.
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Walking Mountains
Science Center
Avon, Colorado
The Walking Mountains Science Center strives to awaken a sense of wonder
and inspire natural stewardship by
providing science-in-nature educational programs in Colorado for people
of all ages.
Western Hardrock
Watershed Team
Durango, Colorado
This coalition of community and watershed groups confronts the challenges
remaining from mining in the West by
addressing environmental degradation
and helping rural communities attain
the skills and capacity they need.
Western Mining
Action Project
Lyons, Colorado
The Western Mining Action Project
provides free legal services for grassroots organizations and Native American tribes on mining issues in the western U.S. in order to protect air and water
quality, wild lands, biological diversity
and sacred lands.
Western Resource
Advocates
Boulder, Colorado
Western Resource Advocates works to
protect the land, air and water of the
western U.S., advancing clean energy
to reduce climate change, promoting
urban water conservation and river
restoration, and opposing inappropriate drilling.
Wild Connections
Westminster, Colorado
Wild Connections identifies, protects
and restores lands of the Upper Arkansas and South Platte watersheds to ensure the survival of native species and
ecological richness.
Wilderness Workshop
Carbondale, Colorado
The Wilderness Workshop helps protect and conserve the wilderness and
natural resources of the Colorado’s
Roaring Fork watershed, the White
River National Forest and adjacent
public lands.
Yampa Valley
Stream Improvement
Charitable Trust
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
This group is dedicated to the preservation and improvement of coldwater fisheries in Colorado’s Yampa
Valley, carrying out in-stream habitat
improvements on several miles of the
Yampa River.
CONNECTICUT
Common Ground –
New Haven Ecology
Project
New Haven, Connecticut
Common Ground cultivates healthyliving habits and sustainable environmental practices in people of all ages
through its environmental center, urban farm and charter high school.
Connecticut Chapter
of the Northeast
Organic Farming
Association
Stevenson, Connecticut
This growing community of farmers,
gardeners, land care professionals and
consumers in Connecticut encourage
a healthy relationship to the natural
world by promoting methods of land
care that respect biodiversity.
Friends of the
Norwalk Islands
Norwalk, Connecticut
Serving as the driving force behind the
Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife
Refuge Coalition, this group collaborates, educates and provides resources
that further conservation.
Surfrider Foundation
Connecticut Chapter
Mystic, Connecticut
This Surfrider chapter works to reduce
pollution in the Connecticut Sound and
shorelines through its grassroots program Rise Above Plastics Connecticut.
Trout Unlimited –
Nutmeg Chapter
Fairfield, Connecticut
Trout Unlimited – Nutmeg Chapter
conserves and restores Connecticut’s
cold-water fisheries and their watersheds, helping to protect natural places
for outdoor recreation and renewal.
Delaware
Delaware Nature
Society
Hockessin, Delaware
The Delaware Nature Society fosters
understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of the natural world through
education, advocacy and conservation
programs.
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Alaska
Wilderness League
Washington, D.C.
The Alaska Wilderness League works to
preserve Alaska’s wild lands and waters
through grassroots campaigns and ad-
vocacy work that engages citizens and
decision-makers.
Center for Food
Safety
Washington, D.C.
The Center for Food Safety seeks
to protect human health and the
environment by curbing the use of
harmful food production technologies
and by promoting organic and other
forms of sustainable agriculture.
City Wildlife
Washington, D.C.
City Wildlife assists wildlife in Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas
through rehabilitation, release to the
wild, advocacy and public education
that promotes wildlife enjoyment and
habitat protection.
Earthworks
Washington, D.C.
Earthworks counters the negative impacts of irresponsible mineral and
energy development by working with
communities and grassroots groups to
reform government policies, improve
corporate practices, influence investment decisions and encourage responsible materials sourcing and consumption.
Endangered Species
Coalition
Washington, D.C.
The Endangered Species Coalition helps
protect endangered species through
grassroots organizing among conservation, scientific, education, religious,
humane, sporting, business and community groups.
Environmental
Working Group
Washington, D.C.
The Environmental Working Group
seeks to transform government policies and the marketplace to conserve
land and water, produce and use energy
responsibly, and ensure that food and
consumer products are free of harmful
chemicals.
Freedom to Roam/
World Wildlife Fund
Washington, D.C.
Freedom to Roam advances wildlife
connectivity in the northern Great
Plains of the U.S. and in the eastern Himalayas to ensure that natural wildlife
corridors are considered in land management decisions.
Institute for Local
Self-Reliance
Washington, D.C.
This group advances environmentally
sound, equitable community development by providing innovative strategies, working models and timely information to the business, energy, financial
services and waste management sectors.
International League
of Conservation
Photographers
Washington, D.C.
This group furthers environmental and
cultural conservation through photography, photojournalism and communication initiatives that reach a wide
variety of audiences.
Land Trust Alliance
Washington, D.C.
The Land Trust Alliance works to save
the places people love by strengthening
land conservation across America using
conservation easements, policy and collaboration with the conservation community.
League of
Conservation Voters
Education Fund
Washington, D.C.
LCVEF helps strengthen the environmental movement by educating and
mobilizing citizens on critical environmental issues and by advocating for
sound environmental policies.
Marine Fish
Conservation
Network
Washington, D.C.
The Marine Fish Conservation Network
works to save and revitalize wild ocean
fisheries through grassroots initiatives
that spur fishermen, conservationists,
scientists and citizens to work together
for positive change.
National Sustainable
Agriculture Coalition
Washington, D.C.
This alliance of grassroots organizations advocates for federal policy reform to advance the sustainability of
agriculture, food systems, natural resources and rural communities.
Public Employees
for Environmental
Responsibility
Washington, D.C.
PEER helps uphold U.S. environmental
laws and values by supporting public
employees who protect the environment, defending and strengthening the
legal rights of those who speak out and
serving as a watchdog for the public interest.
The H. John Heinz III
Center for Science,
Economics and the
Environment
Washington, D.C.
The Heinz Center aims to revive bipartisan environmentalism, bringing
together Republicans and Democrats to
arrive at practical, evidence-based solutions to environmental problems.
The Wilderness
Society
Washington, D.C.
The Wilderness Society defends wild
lands in the U.S. and inspires Americans to care for and enjoy wild places
through conservation, public land designation and public engagement efforts.
Theodore Roosevelt
Conservation
Partnership
Washington, D.C.
TRCP works to guarantee all Americans quality places to hunt and fish by
strengthening laws, policies and practices affecting fish and wildlife conservation and leading partnerships that
influence decision-makers.
Water Protection
Network
Washington, D.C.
The Water Protection Network works to
ensure that U.S. water policies and projects are environmentally and economically sound by providing its member
organizations with technical, legal and
other support, and by providing timely
information to groups participating in
government decision-making.
Youth Engagement
Fund
Washington, D.C.
The Youth Engagement Fund advances
youth civic engagement infrastructure
in Washington, D.C., by supporting
collaboration between individual and
institutional donors.
FLORIDA
Apalachicola
Riverkeeper
Apalachicola, Florida
Apalachicola Riverkeeper helps protect
Florida’s Apalachicola River and Bay,
its tributaries and watersheds; improve
and maintain its environmental integrity; and preserve its scenic, recreational
and commercial character.
Friends of the
Seminole County
Environmental
Studies Center
Longwood, Florida
This group helps young people learn
about the environment by supporting and raising funds for the Seminole
County, Florida, public school system’s
Environmental Studies Center.
Sea Turtle
Conservancy
Gainesville, Florida
The Sea Turtle Conservancy advocates for sea turtles and their habitats
through research, education and protection programs both outside the U.S.
and within, particularly in Florida.
Wildlands Network
Titusville, Florida
This growing group of ranchers, hunters, anglers and conservation partners
works scientifically and strategically to
protect and foster enough wild places
and connective wildways in North
America to sustain wildlife and people
through the 21st century.
GEORGIA
Atlanta Bicycle
Coalition
Atlanta, Georgia
The Atlanta Bicycle Coalition works to
create a healthier, more sustainable Atlanta by making it safer, easier and more
attractive to bicycle for fun, fitness and
transportation.
Chattahoochee
River Warden
Columbus, Georgia
Chattahoochee River Warden promotes
the health and stewardship of the Chattahoochee River Basin from West Point
Lake to the Florida line in Georgia and
Alabama through citizens’ advocacy
projects.
Chattooga
Conservancy
Clayton, Georgia
The Chattooga Conservancy helps protect and restore the ecological integrity
of the Chattooga watershed and empowers communities to practice good
stewardship on public and private lands.
Coosa River Basin
Initiative/Upper Coosa
Riverkeeper
Rome, Georgia
The Coosa River Basin Initiative/Upper Coosa Riverkeeper informs and
empowers citizens in the southeast U.S.
to protect, preserve and restore this remarkably biologically diverse area.
Georgia Conservancy.
Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia Conservancy Inc. helps protect
Georgia’s natural resources by advocating for sound environmental policies,
advancing sustainable growth practices
and facilitating common-ground solutions to environmental challenges.
Georgia ForestWatch
Ellijay, Georgia
Georgia ForestWatch works to preserve,
protect and restore native ecosystems of
the Chattahoochee-Oconee National
forests, and to inform and inspire the
public to be good stewards of these
lands.
Georgia River
Network
Athens, Georgia
The Georgia River Network seeks to
ensure a clean water legacy by engaging
and empowering Georgians to protect
and restore their rivers from the mountains to the coast.
GreenLaw
Atlanta, Georgia
GreenLaw provides free legal and technical assistance to environmental organizations and community groups
throughout Georgia, helping to prevent
pollution that endangers human health
and the environment.
Savannah Riverkeeper
Augusta, Georgia
Savannah Riverkeeper advances the
respect, protection and improvement
of the entire Savannah River basin
through education, advocacy and action campaigns.
Trees Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia
Trees Atlanta helps citizens protect and
improve Atlanta’s urban environment
through plantings and conservation
and educational programs.
Upper Chattahoochee
Riverkeeper
Atlanta, Georgia
Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper advances the protection and stewardship
of the Chattahoochee River, its tributaries and watershed through education,
advocacy, planning and monitoring
campaigns.
HAWAI'I
Hawaii Conservation
Alliance Foundation
Honolulu, Hawaii
This network of conservation leaders
from government, education and nonprofit organizations works together to
protect and restore the state’s ecosystems and reduce conservation threats
through conferences, forums and other
means.
North Shore
Community Land
Trust
Haleiwa, Hawaii
This land trust seeks to protect, steward
and enhance the natural landscapes,
cultural heritage and rural character of
ahupua’a from Kahuku Point to Ka’ena
through land trusts and conservation
efforts.
IDAHO
Advocates for the
West
Boise, Idaho
Advocates for the West uses law and science to restore streams and watersheds,
protect public lands and wildlife, and
ensure clean and sustainable communities in the American West.
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Snake River Alliance
Boise, Idaho
The Snake River Alliance serves as
Idaho’s nuclear watchdog, advocating
for clean energy through community
advocacy, collaboration, education and
grassroots organizing.
ILLINOIS
Angelic Organics
Learning Center
Caledonia, Illinois
Angelic Organics Learning Center
advances sustainable communities
of soils, plants, animals and people
through educational, creative and experiential programs.
Evanston
Environmental
Association
Evanston, Illinois
The Evanston Environmental Association promotes the Evanston Ecology
Center and its educational programs,
presents the Evanston Green Living Festival, supports the Ladd Arboretum and
recruits volunteers for various environmental events.
Experimental Station
Oikonos works on behalf of imperiled ecosystems. Photo: Bill Henry
Friends of Scotchman
Peaks Wilderness
Sandpoint, Idaho
Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness conducts education, outreach and
stewardship activities to preserve the
scenic and biologically diverse Scotchman Peaks Roadless area in Idaho and
Montana.
Friends of
the Clearwater
Moscow, Idaho
Friends of the Clearwater defends Idaho’s Wild Clearwater Country lands
and biodiversity by restoring degraded
habitats and helping to preserve viable
wildlife populations and corridors.
Friends of
the Teton River
Driggs, Idaho
Friends of the Teton River works to ensure clean water, healthy streams and
abundant fisheries in the upper Teton
watershed.
Idaho Conservation
League
Boise, Idaho
ICL seeks to ensure that wild Idaho
remains wild and works to protect the
values that define Idaho by building a
robust conservation community and
advocating for clean water, clean air and
healthy families.
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Idaho Rivers United
Boise, Idaho
Idaho Rivers United helps protect and
restore the rivers and native fish of
Idaho through grassroots campaigns,
outreach and advocacy work.
Lake Pend Oreille
Waterkeeper
Sandpoint, Idaho
Using education, partnership and advocacy work, Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper helps protect the water quality
of Lake Pend Oreille and improve the
health and viability of all that rely on or
live close to the lake.
Model Forest Policy
Program
Sagle, Idaho
This program supports healthy forests,
clean and abundant water supplies, and
economically thriving, climate-resilient
communities through planning training programs, consulting services and
advocacy work.
Rock Creek Alliance
Sandpoint, Idaho
The Rock Creek Alliance works to counter pollution and degradation from
hardrock mining, especially from the
proposed Rock Creek and Montanore
mines, to protect the wild lands, wildlife, and water quality of the Cabinet
Mountains ecosystem.
Chicago, Illinois
Experimental Station builds independent cultural infrastructure on Chicago’s South Side, fostering innovative
educational and cultural programs,
small-business enterprises and community initiatives.
Garfield Park
Conservatory
Alliance
Chicago, Illinois
The Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance seeks to encourage and strengthen
the fundamental connection between
plants and human life by creating and
implementing nature-based programming for children and families throughout Chicago.
Illinois Stewardship
Alliance
Springfield, Illinois
The Illinois Stewardship Alliance promotes environmentally sustainable,
economically viable, socially just food
and farm systems through policy development, advocacy and education.
Seven Generations
Ahead
Oak Park, Illinois
Seven Generations advances the development of ecologically sustainable
and healthy communities in the U.S.
through sustainability planning, conferences, and zero waste and farm-toschool programming.
The Recyclery
Collective
Chicago, Illinois
The Recyclery Collective builds community through the restoration of donated bicycles, and shares resources and
knowledge to support cycling as an affordable, independent and sustainable
mode of transportation.
World Bicycle Relief
Chicago, Illinois
World Bicycle Relief designs, sources and
manufactures bicycles to withstand rural
African terrain and load requirements,
advancing livelihoods and independent
values through the power of bicycles.
INDIANA
Calumet Project
Hammond, Indiana
The Calumet Project unites community activists, environmentalists, labor
unionists, congregations and neighborhoods to work toward the economic,
environmental and social revitalization
of northwest Indiana.
Hoosier
Environmental
Council
Indianapolis, Indiana
The voice of the people for the environment in Indiana, Hoosier Environmental Council works to make the state a
healthier place to live, breathe, work
and play.
IOWA
Iowa Citizens
for Community
Improvement
Des Moines, Iowa
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement empowers and unites people of all
ethnic backgrounds to take control of
their communities, identify and address
problems and act as a vehicle for social,
economic and environmental justice.
KANSAS
Friends of the KAW
Lawrence, Kansas
Friends of the Kaw helps protect and
preserve the Kansas River (known locally as the Kaw) with grassroots campaigns that fight river pollution and
dredging and that promote increased
river access for recreation.
KENTUCKY
Appalachian Citizens’
Law Center
Whitesburg, Kentucky
The Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center helps protect Appalachia’s land and
people from degradation caused by extractive industries by providing legal
services and engaging in strategic litigation and policy work in areas such as
mine safety, environmental protection
and sustainable energy.
Bowling Green
Riverfront
Foundation
Bowling Green, Kentucky
The Bowling Green Riverfront Foundation is dedicated to creating the Barren
River Outdoor Center, an integrated
outdoor recreational area for familyfriendly tourism and recreational opportunities.
Kentucky Heartwood
Berea, Kentucky
Kentucky Heartwood works to protect
and restore the integrity, stability and
beauty of Kentucky’s native forests and
biotic communities through research,
education, advocacy and nonviolent
intervention.
LOUISIANA
Atchafalaya
Basinkeeper
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Atchafalaya Basinkeeper helps protect
and restore the ecosystems within the
Atchafalaya Basin through education,
research, monitoring and advocacy
programs.
Louisiana
Environmental Action
Network
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
LEAN helps create a cleaner and
healthier environment for inhabitants
of Louisiana by fostering cooperation
and communication between citizens,
corporations and government to assess and solve the state’s environmental
problems.
MAINe
Bicycle Coalition of
Maine
Augusta, Maine
The Bicycle Coalition of Maine works
to make the state safer and easier for cyclists to navigate through education and
community and legislative advocacy.
Downeast Salmon
Federation
Columbia Falls, Maine
The Downeast Salmon Federation seeks
to conserve wild Atlantic salmon and
salmon habitat, restore a viable sports
fishery and protect other important
river, scenic, recreational and ecological
resources in eastern Maine.
Food for Maine’s
Future
Sedgwick, Maine
Food for Maine’s Future connects farmers, fishers and food justice advocates
to build a just, sustainable, secure and
democratic food system.
Nuclear Information
and Resource Service
Takoma Park, Maryland
NIRS serves as an information, networking and mobilization center for the
grassroots movement for a nuclear-free,
carbon-free energy future.
Friends Of Casco Bay
South Portland, Maine
Friends of Casco Bay helps improve
and protect the environmental health
of Maine’s Casco Bay through waterquality monitoring, advocacy, education and collaborative problem solving.
Maine Rivers
Yarmouth, Maine
Maine Rivers works to protect, restore
and enhance the ecological health of the
state’s river systems by restoring native
fish and advocating for free-flowing rivers.
Natural Resources
Council of Maine
Augusta, Maine
The Natural Resources Council of
Maine seeks to protect, conserve and restore Maine’s environment through legislative and policy work, conservation
programs and advocacy campaigns.
Penobscot River
Restoration Trust
Augusta, Maine
The Penobscot River Restoration Trust
aims to purchase three dams in order
to remove two and bypass the third in
the interest of vastly improving habitat
for sea-run fish and restoring the ecosystem.
RESTORE: The North
Woods
Hallowell, Maine
RESTORE: The North Woods uses advocacy, public awareness and citizen
action to restore wilderness, recover
endangered wildlife and protect public
lands in the North Woods of the U.S.
and Canada.
MARYLAND
Anacostia Watershed
Society
Bladensburg, Maryland
The Anacostia Watershed Society helps
restore and protect the Anacostia River
and its watershed communities by
cleaning its water, recovering its shores
and honoring its heritage.
Midshore Riverkeeper
Conservancy
Easton, Maryland
Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy
advances the restoration and protection
of the Choptank River watershed, Eastern Bay, and the Miles and Wye rivers
through education, outreach and restoration programs.
Massachusetts
Boston Cyclists Union
Jamaica Plain, Massachussetts
The Boston Cyclists Union helps Bostonians lead healthier lives by promoting
the bicycle for transportation through
education, community building and
advocacy work.
Cape Ann
Farmers’ Market
Gloucester, Massachussetts
The Cape Ann Farmers’ Market supports local food growers, fishermen and
environmental groups to provide Massachusetts residents with high-quality
food at affordable prices.
Charles River
Watershed
Association
Weston, Massachussetts
The Charles River Watershed Association uses science, advocacy and the law
to protect, preserve and enhance the
Charles River and its watershed.
Massachusetts
Watershed Coalition
the well-being of people and the planet
through thought-leadership projects,
conferences and university campaigns
to build a youth movement.
Ocean River Institute
Cambridge, Massachussetts
The Ocean River Institute fosters greater personal involvement in conservation, environmental monitoring and
ecosystem protection by facilitating the
grassroots efforts of groups working at
local and regional levels.
Organization for
the Assabet River
Concord, Massachussetts
OARS protects and enhances the natural and recreational features of the
Assabet, Sudbury and Concord rivers,
and their tributaries and watersheds,
by raising public awareness and stewardship, collecting data, and working with government officials and the
community.
Regional
Environmental
Council
Worcester, Massachussetts
The Regional Environmental Council
educates the residents and communities
of Worcester, Massachusetts, about environmental issues threatening the city
and empowers residents to bring about
lasting changes promoting healthy, sustainable and just communities.
South Boston Grows
Leominster, Massachussetts
The Massachusetts Watershed Coalition uses outreach and advocacy campaigns to improve the health of community waters, help grassroots groups
and local officials, and raise awareness
of water-management issues.
Boston, Massachussetts
South Boston Grows works to improve
community green space and advance
knowledge about growing edible plants
in order to increase access to and consumption of fresh fruits, vegetables and
herbs in South Boston.
Mystic River
Watershed
Association
Whales and Dolphin
Conservation Society
Arlington, Massachussetts
The Mystic River Watershed Association protects, restores and celebrates the
value of the Mystic River, its tributaries and watersheds through education,
monitoring projects, cleanups, policy
work and advocacy campaigns.
Neponset River
Watershed
Association
Canton, Massachussetts
The Neponset River Watershed Association protects water, wildlife and land in
the 14 communities of Massachusetts’
Neponset River watershed through
grassroots conservation projects.
New Economics
Institute
Cambridge, Massachussetts
The New Economics Institute works to
build a new economy that prioritizes
Plymouth, Massachussetts
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society supports the welfare of all
whales, dolphins and porpoises by campaigning to stop threats to cetaceans,
funding conservation work, investigating abuses of regulations and educating
decision-makers and the public.
MICHIGAN
Michigan
Environmental
Council
Lansing, Michigan
The Michigan Environmental Council
advances policy changes that protect
human health and the state’s natural
resources through collaborating with
state and federal decision-makers and
forging community alliances.
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The Snake River Fund
Mission: To promote stewardship and recreational ac-
cess to the Snake River watershed in Wyoming, with an
emphasis on partnerships, education and outreach.
Activities: World renowned for its rich riparian cor-
ridor, blue ribbon fisheries and scenic views, the Snake
River has seen increased recreational pressure over the
past two decades. On one of the most heavily used and
unregulated reaches of the river, the Snake River Fund
is helping to mitigate some of the impacts. Our river
ambassador informs users on aquatic invasive species,
river etiquette, catch-and-release practices, Leave No
Trace principles and other river issues. As future management for this section of river is explored, use data
collected by the ambassador will serve an important
purpose. Certified by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to inspect boats for aquatic invasive species,
the ambassador helps to provide the first line of defense
against their introduction.
Accomplishments: The river ambassador, through
personal and direct interactions, has encouraged responsible use and stewardship of the river, helping river users and commercial operators to choose behaviors
that help to protect this incredible national resource.
Heightened awareness of aquatic invasive species has
helped to keep this reach of the Snake River invasive
free.
snakeriverfund.org
National Wildlife
Federation
Ann Arbor, Michigan
The Great Lakes Regional Center of the
National Wildlife Federation helps protect the Great Lakes for the wildlife and
humans that depend on them.
Six Rivers Regional
Land Conservancy
Rochester, Michigan
Conserving, sustaining and connecting
the natural areas, lands and waters that
make Michigan special is the goal of the
Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy,
which carries out land conservation,
protection and stewardship campaigns.
Yellow Dog
Watershed Preserve
Big Bay, Michigan
The Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve organizes at the grassroots level to preserve
and protect the Yellow Dog River and its
surrounding watersheds for the benefit
of present and future generations.
MINNESOTA
Cycles for Change
St. Paul, Minnesota
Cycles for Change works to build a
sustainable environment and strong
community through educating and
empowering people to use bicycles for
transportation, refurbishing bikes and
selling them at affordable prices, and
offering free services to those who visit
its open, accessible space.
Friends of the
Mississippi River
St. Paul, Minnesota
Friends of the Mississippi River engages
citizens to protect, restore and enhance
the Mississippi River and its watershed
in the Twin Cities region through conservation and land use programs and
volunteer stewardship events.
Great River Greening
St. Paul, Minnesota
Great River Greening leads and inspires
community-based restoration of forests, prairies and waters in Minnesota.
Mississippi River Fund
St. Paul, Minnesota
The Mississippi River Fund works to
strengthen the connection between
people and the Mississippi River and
to build support for the Mississippi
National River and Recreation Area, a
national park, through community engagement programs on water quality,
habitat restoration and other issues.
Permaculture
Research Institute
Cold Climate
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Permaculture Research Institute Cold
Climate designs and demonstrates
permaculture systems for living sustainably in colder climates, supporting
individuals and organizations working
toward healthy communities and ecosystems through research, education
and community building.
Sierra Club
Northstar Chapter
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Sierra Club Northstar Chapter
helps preserve and protect Minnesota’s
environment through advocacy work,
volunteer leadership and outdoor exploration.
The Trumpeter Swan
Society
Plymouth, Minnesota
The Trumpeter Swan Society works to
assure the vitality and welfare of wild
trumpeter swans by spurring restoration
and habitat protection, educating the
public about this native waterfowl and
working to improve the management of
the swans across North America.
WaterLegacy
Duluth, Minnesota
WaterLegacy seeks to protect Minnesota’s waters from sulfide mining and
other threats, and to safeguard the human and ecological communities that
rely on these natural resources.
Zumbro Watershed
Partnership
Rochester, Minnesota
The Zumbro Watershed Partnership
helps the community clean, protect and
enjoy the lakes, rivers and wetlands in
Minnesota’s Zumbro River Watershed
through education, on-the-ground protection efforts, data sharing and community engagement.
MISSISSIPPI
The Conscious Living
Project
Jackson, Mississippi
The Conscious Living Project’s Awakening the Dreamer Initiative focuses on
symposiums for promoting an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on
this planet.
MONTANA
Adventure Cycling
Association
Missoula, Montana
Inspiring and empowering people to
travel by bicycle is the goal of the Adventure Cycling Association, which
researches and produces cycling maps,
works to create an official U.S. cycling
route network, leads guided tours and
publishes Adventure Cyclist magazine.
Bighorn River
Alliance
Fort Smith, Montana
The Bighorn River Alliance works to
preserve, protect and enhance the quality of Montana’s Bighorn River trout
fishery through river cleanups, angler
education and participation in management processes and issues.
Blackfoot Challenge
Ovando, Montana
Blackfoot Challenge coordinates efforts to conserve and enhance the
natural resources and rural way of life
in western Montana’s Blackfoot Watershed through easement projects,
education programs and conservation
efforts.
Bob Marshall
Wilderness
Foundation
Hungry Horse, Montana
The Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation helps connects Americans with
their wilderness heritage by fostering
stewardship of Montana’s Bob Marshall
Wilderness Complex, helping volunteers open trails, restore heavily used
areas, maintain historic structures and
fight weeds.
Buffalo Field
Campaign
West Yellowstone, Montana
Dedicated to stopping the harassment
and slaughter of wild Yellowstone buffalo, the Buffalo Field Campaign helps
protect wildlife habitat and works with
First Nations to honor the sacredness of
wild buffalo.
Center for
Large Landscape
Conservation
Bozeman, Montana
This group works to solve large-scale
challenges, such as climate change and
habitat fragmentation, through policy
work and by forging alliances and fostering collaboration among conservation efforts.
Clark Fork Coalition
Missoula, Montana
The Clark Fork Coalition protects and
restores the Clark Fork watershed in
western Montana and northern Idaho
through science-based, results-oriented
advocacy work with an emphasis on
public education.
Conservation Hawks
Bigfork, Montana
Conservation Hawks works to ensure
a healthy natural world for the next
generation of sportsmen, to defend
sporting traditions and to educate
hunters and anglers on the challenges
and threats they will face in the future,
particularly climate change.
Cottonwood
Environmental Law
Center
Bozeman, Montana
The Cottonwood Environmental Law
Center offers low- to no-cost legal services in the interest of protecting and
restoring the Northern Rockies’ forests,
water and wildlife.
craighead institute
Bozeman, Montana
The Craighead Institute seeks to maintain healthy populations of native
plants and wildlife in the American
West, along with healthy human communities in sustainable ecosystems,
through advocacy work and film and
book projects.
Defenders of Wildlife
Bozeman, Montana
Defenders of Wildlife works to prevent
species across the U.S. from becoming
imperiled, to restore threatened species
and to protect wildlife and the habitat
on which it depends.
Federation of Fly
Fishers
Livingston, Montana
The Federation of Fly Fishers promotes
preservation of aquatic recreational
resources, serves as a political voice
for fish and conservation, advances fly
fishing as consistent with preservation
of fish resources and collaborates with
similar conservation groups.
Five Valleys Land
Trust
Missoula, Montana
The Five Valleys Land Trust preserves
the open space of Montana’s Mount
Jumbo and helps return it to native
prairie through conservation easements, stewardship programs and public land projects.
Friends of the
Missouri Breaks
Monument
Lewistown, Montana
This group works on behalf of the Upper
Missouri River Breaks National Monument through education, advocacy and
by supporting groups and agencies that
protect and restore the monument.
Greater Yellowstone
Coalition
Bozeman, Montana
The Greater Yellowstone Coalition
works to protect the lands, waters and
wildlife of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem through advocacy, outreach, education and, when necessary, litigation.
Keystone
Conservation
Bozeman, Montana
Keystone Conservation partners with
communities to design and implement
strategies that save a place for America’s
keystone species while keeping people
and property secure.
Montana Audubon
Helena, Montana
Montana Audubon promotes the appreciation, knowledge and conservation of birds and natural ecosystems to
safeguard biological diversity through
education, citizen science and advocacy
programs.
Montana
Environmental
Information Center
Helena, Montana
The Montana Environmental Information Center is committed to protecting
and preserving Montana’s natural environment through policy work, media
outreach and government watchdog efforts.
Montana Wilderness
Association
Helena, Montana
The Montana Wilderness Association
helps protect Montana’s wilderness,
wildlife habitat and traditional recreation opportunities through community engagement, policy work and wilderness designation and conservation
campaigns.
Northern Plains
Resource Council
Billings, Montana
This group organizes Montana citizens
to safeguard water quality, family farms
and ranches, and the state’s quality of
life by giving them information and
tools to help them participate effectively
in decisions that affect their lives.
Pintlar Audubon
Society
Dillon, Montana
The Pintlar Audubon Society works
to protect and restore natural ecosystems – focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats – for the benefit
of humanity and the earth’s biological
diversity.
Plains Justice
Billings, Montana
Plains Justice provides legal resources
to communities in the northern plains
states and serves as a voice for clean energy and a sustainable environment.
Prickly Pear Land
Trust
Helena, Montana
The Prickly Pear Land Trust defends the
natural diversity and rural character
of Montana’s Prickly Pear Valley and
adjoining lands through cooperative efforts with landowners.
SAVE Foundation
Helena, Montana
The SAVE Foundation advances positive environmental change and provides
educational opportunities in Helena
and across Montana, fostering stewardship through daily habits, conservation
policy and recycling programs.
Swan View Coalition
Kalispell, Montana
The Swan View Coalition helps communities in Montana’s Swan Range
protect their sources of quiet recreation,
clean water and wildlife security from
threats such as logging, pesticides, extreme sports events and motorized vehicles.
Trout Conservancy
Missoula, Montana
The Trout Conservancy represents the
U.S. public’s interest in conserving wild
and native salmonids (the trout family)
through habitat restoration, conservation and education.
Western Organization
of Resource Councils
Education Project
Billings, Montana
This group seeks to build a grassroots
base of citizens working for stewardship
and conservation of the land, water and
natural resources of the Rocky Mountains and Northern Great Plains.
WildWest Institute
Missoula, Montana
The WildWest Institute exists to protect and restore forests, wild lands, watersheds and wildlife in the Northern
Rockies, empowering citizens to effectively participate in public land management decision processes.
Yaak Valley Forest
Council
Troy, Montana
The Yaak Valley Forest Council protects roadless areas in Yaak, Montana,
restores habitat, works to build an economy based on restoration and cultivates
dialogue between historically polarized
groups.
Yellowstone to
Yukon Conservation
Initiative
Bozeman, Montana
Combining science and stewardship,
this group seeks to ensure that the
world-renowned wilderness and wildlife of the Y2Y region can support all of
its natural and human communities.
NEVADA
Friends of Nevada
Wilderness
Reno, Nevada
Friends of Nevada Wilderness is dedicated to preserving qualified Nevada
public lands as wilderness, protecting
them from threats, informing the public about the values and need for wilderness, and restoring and improving the
management of wild lands.
The Snake River is feeling more recreational pressure
these days. Photo: David Stubbs
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Bronx River Alliance
Mission: To serve as a coordinated voice for the Bronx
River and work in harmonious partnership to protect,
improve and restore the river corridor so it can be a
healthy ecological, recreational, educational and economic resource for the communities through which the
river flows.
Activities: People across generations are playing an
active role in transforming New York City’s only freshwater river, which provides a unique slice of nature in
some of the poorest and most urbanized neighborhoods
in the country, by learning how to protect and advocate
for its future. Our Conservation Crew works alongside
hundreds of volunteers and green job trainees in cleanup and restoration activities that create a healthier environment for people, as well as habitat where wildlife
can thrive. Our greenway efforts yield new parks and
connect miles of greenway trails through the heart of
the Bronx to encourage healthier lifestyles.
Accomplishments: The alliance has made tremendous strides in revitalizing the once maligned river to
the point where it has begun to welcome back both people and native animals, such as beaver, alewife herring
and osprey. We have fostered the complete turnaround
in the way community residents – and all New Yorkers
– see the Bronx River.
bronxriver.org
Great Basin
Resource Watch
Reno, Nevada
Great Basin Resource Watch defends
the health and well-being of the Great
Basin’s land, air, water, wildlife and
communities from the adverse effects
of industrial development and resource
extraction through policy work, education and grassroots action.
Great Basin Water
Network
Reno, Nevada
This group fosters sustainable water use,
natural resources and the public interest
through communication campaigns, legal advocacy, grassroots organizing, research, science initiatives and education
programs in the extended Great Basin.
Reno Bike Project
Reno, Nevada
The Reno Bike Project is a community
bicycle shop and advocacy group committed to creating a nationally recognized, cycling-friendly community
through advocacy, education and cooperation in the Truckee Meadows.
Tahoe Divers
Conservancy
Reno, Nevada
The Tahoe Divers Conservancy helps
restore and conserve the complex marine environment that surrounds Lake
Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada through
grassroots community initiatives.
New Hampshire
NH LAKES Association
Concord, New Hampshire
The New Hampshire Lakes Association
works to protect New Hampshire’s lakes
and watersheds through education,
on-the-ground conservation work and
advocacy.
NEW JERSEY
Conserve Wildlife
Foundation of NJ
Trenton, New Jersey
This group is dedicated to protecting
and preserving the state’s rare wildlife
and habitats through research, habitat
management, education and citizen engagement.
Musconetcong
Watershed
Association
Asbury, New Jersey
This group promotes the protection and
improvement of New Jersey’s Musconetcong River and its watershed through
education, government outreach, workshops and seminars, and cleanups.
Schiff Natural
Lands Trust
Mendham, New Jersey
Schiff Natural Lands Trust acquires and
preserves open space in New Jersey, improving the ecological value of natural
areas using best management practices,
and maintains a nature center for environmental education, research and recreational activities.
NEW MEXICO
Amigos Bravos
Taos, New Mexico
Amigos Bravos seeks to return New
Mexico’s rivers to drinkable quality,
maintain natural flows, regulate artificial flows to protect river ecosystems,
and link environmental and social justice in the state.
Conservation Voters
NM Education Fund
Santa Fe, New Mexico
CVNMEF honors New Mexico’s natural heritage by helping citizens gain the
knowledge and skills they need to be effective advocates for conservation.
New Mexico
Environmental Law
Center
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This group works to protect New Mexico’s natural environment and achieve
environmental justice for communities
through legal representation, policy advocacy and public education.
New Mexico
Wilderness Alliance
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
advances the protection, restoration
and continued enjoyment of New Mexico’s wild lands and wilderness areas
through administrative protection, federal wilderness designation and ongoing
advocacy.
Seventh Generation
Institute
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Seventh Generation Institute helps
conserve biological diversity, foster
sustainable resource use and ensure an
optimistic future for the human communities that depend on the natural
world, through applied science and collaboration.
WildEarth Guardians
Sante Fe, New Mexico
WildEarth Guardians works to protect
and restore the wildlife, wild rivers
and wild places of the American West
through advocacy work, grassroots action campaigns, media outreach and
litigation.
NEW YORK
Anne Fontaine
Foundation
New York, New York
The Anne Fontaine Foundation finances and supports reforestation
projects and raises awareness of the
world’s forests, with a special focus on
the protection of the Atlantic rainforest in Brazil.
AuSable River
Association
Elizabethtown, New York
The Ausable River Association works
cooperatively with landowners, municipalities and government agencies to preserve the wild, scenic and recreational
resources of the Ausable watershed.
Boquet River
Association
Elizabethtown, New York
The Boquet River Association helps enhance the quality of water and quality
of life in the Boquet River watershed
using a collaborative, non-regulatory
approach.
Capital District
Community Gardens
Troy, New York
Capital District Community Gardens
works to nourish New York’s Capital
Region by providing access to fresh
food and green spaces through gardening, healthy food programs and urban
greening, especially in low-income, minority and senior neighborhoods.
Environmental
Grantmakers
Association
New York, New York
The Environmental Grantmakers Association promotes environmental
philanthropy by sharing knowledge,
fostering debate, cultivating leadership,
facilitating collaboration and catalyzing
action.
Friends of Hilltop
Hanover Farm &
Environmental Center
Yorktown Heights, New York
This group fosters sustainability, promotes local food and embraces the community through educational programs,
camps and other events.
Friends of the Upper
Delaware River
Minoa, New York
Friends of the Upper Delaware River
helps improve the flows and protect the
habitat of the Upper Delaware River
system through restoration programs,
policy and advocacy work, and public
education.
Global Justice
Ecology Project
Buffalo, New York
The Global Justice Ecology Project explores and exposes the entwined root
causes of social injustice – ecological
destruction and economic domination
– through advocacy, media outreach and
bridge-building among social justice,
environmental and ecological justice
groups.
HeadCount
New York, New York
HeadCount uses the power of music to
register voters and raise political consciousness, reaching young people and
music fans where they already are – at
concerts and online.
Helpman Productions
Brooklyn, New York
Helpman Productions inspires participation in critical social issues by producing social documentaries and associated
outreach campaigns that spark change.
Mass Current
New York, New York
Mass Current works to protect water,
food, air, land and communities from
the negative effects of extreme energy
and fossil fuel use, and builds a grassroots movement for a renewable energy
economy.
Natural Resources
Defense Council
New York, New York
The NRDC helps safeguard the earth –
its people, its plants and animals, and
the natural systems on which all life
depends – by combining the grassroots
power of over a million members and
online activists with the courtroom
clout and expertise of hundreds of lawyers, scientists and other professionals.
No Impact Project
New York, New York
The No Impact Project uses entertainment, education and group action to engage and inspire people to adopt ways of
living that connect individual happiness
with service to community and habitat.
NY/NJ Baykeeper
Brooklyn, New York
NY/NJ Baykeeper helps protect, preserve and restore the Hudson-Raritan
estuary and its natural and human
communities by fighting polluters,
championing public access, influencing land-use decisions and restoring
habitat.
Rocking the Boat
Bronx, New York
Rocking the Boat empowers young
people challenged by severe economic,
educational and social conditions to
develop the self-confidence necessary
to set ambitious goals and gain the skills
necessary to achieve them.
Save the River
Clayton, New York
Through advocacy, education and research, Save the River preserves and
protects the ecological integrity of the
Upper St. Lawrence River.
The River Project
New York, New York
The River Project, a marine science
field station at Pier 26 in Manhattan,
is dedicated to understanding and
sustaining the living resources and
habitats of New York Harbor and the
Hudson River estuary.
Time’s Up!
Brooklyn, New York
TIME’S UP! educates New Yorkers
about the environmental impacts of everyday decisions through free, open-tothe-public education and direct-action
campaigns.
Transportation
Alternatives
New York, New York
Transportation Alternatives promotes
improved bicycling, walking and public
transit in New York City’s five boroughs
through advocacy work and a citywide
network of supporters.
Turtle Conservancy
New York, New York
The Turtle Conservancy is dedicated to
protecting the most endangered turtles
and tortoises and their habitats worldwide through a breeding program and
educational and scientific projects.
Van Cortlandt Park
Conservancy
Bronx, New York
Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy is
dedicated to sustaining and enhancing
Van Cortlandt Park, an urban oasis in
the Bronx, as a vibrant destination for
recreation, leisure and the enjoyment of
natural landscapes.
VeloCity
New York, New York
VeloCity develops innovative cyclingbased urban planning and design education programs in New York for youth
from diverse, underserved communities.
Waterkeeper Alliance
Irvington, New York
Waterkeeper Alliance unites more than
190 affiliated organizations around the
world and uses citizen advocacy to improve waterways by addressing everything from pollution to climate change.
Wild Trout
Flyrodders
Long Flat, New York
Wild Trout Flyrodders initiates, funds
and carries out fisheries habitat restoration projects in the Upper Delaware
River watershed in New York, using fly
fishing as a vehicle to conserve, restore
and educate.
Wildlife Conservation
Society
Bronx, New York
The Wildlife Conservation Society
works to save wildlife and wild places
worldwide through science, global conservation, education and the management of the world’s largest system of
urban wildlife parks.
NORTH CAROLINA
American Whitewater
Cullowhee, North Carolina
American Whitewater conserves and
restores our nation’s white-water resources and enhances opportunities to
enjoy them safely through policy work
and volunteer programs.
Appalachian Voices
Boone, North Carolina
Appalachian Voices brings people together to protect the land, air and water of central and southern Appalachia,
empowering communities to defend the
region’s natural and cultural heritage.
Catawba Riverkeper
Foundation
Charlotte, North Carolina
The Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation
works to advance the health, protection
and enjoyment of the Catawba River
watershed through advocacy, education
and conservation campaigns.
Clean Water for
North Carolina
Asheville, North Carolina
This group works to promote clean, safe
water and environments, and empowered, just communities for all North
Carolinians through community organizing, education, advocacy and technical assistance.
Conservation Trust
for North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina
The Conservation Trust for North Carolina supports efforts that protect the
mountain streams, forests and scenic
views along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Dogwood Alliance
Asheville, North Carolina
The Dogwood Alliance mobilizes diverse voices to defend the forests and
communities of the southern U.S. from
destructive industrial forestry.
Environmental
& Conservation
Organization
Hendersonville, North Carolina
ECO helps preserve the natural heritage
of the mountain region of western North
Carolina, working with citizens, business leaders, like-minded environmental
groups and government officials to improve green infrastructure, water quality,
energy conservation and recycling efforts.
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Mono Lake Committee
Mission: The Mono Lake Committee is a citizens’
group dedicated to protecting and restoring the Mono
Basin ecosystem, educating the public about Mono
Lake and promoting cooperative solutions that protect
the lake and meet real water needs without transferring
environmental problems to other areas.
Activities: Our Mill Creek Restoration project is the
greatest restoration opportunity in the Eastern Sierra’s
Mono Basin, taking an “all hands on deck” approach to
restoring the ecologically vital, high desert stream habitat. By clearing the stream channel of invasive plant
species, volunteers are preparing for the day when a
pipe, secured after a long-fought legal battle, will deliver Mill Creek’s water to the stream once again and bring
it back to life.
Accomplishments: Mono Lake volunteers have
removed thousands of pounds of invasive plants from
the Mill Creek bottomlands. By carefully pulling these
quick-growing, water-loving plants before they go to
seed, we give the native vegetation the best chance to
establish and thrive. This restoration method takes
multiple seasons of hard work, but by tapping into the
Mono Lake Committee’s grassroots network of community groups, outdoor education programs and dedicated volunteers, we can already see significant progress
being made.
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Friends of State Parks
Raleigh, North Carolina
Friends of State Parks fosters the understanding, enjoyment and protection
of North Carolina’s state parks by increasing public awareness of how these
natural areas improve the quality of life
for residents.
Friends of the
Mountain to Sea Trail
Louisburg, North Carolina
Friends of the Mountain to Sea Trail
works throughout North Carolina to
build and maintain its namesake, encouraging communities to create new
sections and helping people to hike it.
Piedmont
Conservation Council
Durham, North Carolina
The Piedmont Conservation Council
seeks to leverage people and resources
for innovative projects that promote
conservation and sustainable communities.
Piedmont
Environmental
Alliance
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
This group inspires North Carolinians
to make choices that protect and restore
nature, providing information on sustainability, supporting local environmental groups and green businesses,
and leveraging the collective power of
individual actions to build a sustainable
community.
RAFI-USA
Pittsboro, North Carolina
The Rural Advancement Foundation
International-USA works nationally
and internationally to cultivate markets, policies and communities that
support thriving, socially just and environmentally sound family farms.
SouthWings
Asheville, North Carolina
SouthWings promotes conservation
through aviation, giving community
organizations the inspiration and evidence they need to take action to protect
and restore the forests, rivers, coastlines
and wetlands of the Southeast.
Western North
Carolina Alliance
Asheville, North Carolina
The Western North Carolina Alliance
marshals grassroots support to keep
forests healthy, air and water clean, and
communities vibrant through a combination of policy advocacy, scientific
research and community collaboration.
White Oak-New
Riverkeeper Alliance
Jacksonville, North Carolina
The White Oak-New Riverkeeper Alliance restores and protects the White
Oak and New rivers through advocacy,
Mono Lake. Eastern Sierra, California. Photo: Ron Hunter
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environmental law enforcement, public
education and citizen ownership and responsibility initiatives.
Wild South
Asheville, North Carolina
Wild South works to protect public
land through creative strategies that
address root problems, and to inspire
people to enjoy, value and protect the
wild character and natural legacy of
the South.
Yadkin Riverkeeper
Winston Salem, North Carolina
Yadkin Riverkeeper exists to safeguard
and improve North Carolina’s Yadkin Pee Dee River basin and to engage
citizens in clean water issues through
education, advocacy and action campaigns.
Ohio Fracktion
McDonald, Ohio
Ohio Fracktion supports community
resistance to hydraulic fracturing in
and beyond Ohio, builds capacity for
civil disobedience and other forms of
direct action, and connects Ohio’s antifracking movement to struggles against
extraction worldwide.
OREGON
Balance
Productions LLC
Portland, Oregon
The activists and filmmakers of Balance
Media produce films and videos about
today’s most pressing environmental
issues.
Bark
NORTH DAKOTA
Dakota Resource
Council
Dickinson, North Dakota
The Dakota Resource Council forms
local groups that promote prosperous,
environmentally sound rural communities and empower people to influence
decision-making processes in issues
that affect their lives.
OHIO
Buckeye Forest
Council
Columbus, Ohio
The Buckeye Forest Council protects
Ohio’s native forests and their inhabitants through education, advocacy and
organizing.
EcoWatch
Cleveland, Ohio
In partnership with Waterkeeper Alliance, the EcoWatch news service
promotes the work of more than 1,000
grassroots environmental organizations, activists and community leaders
worldwide.
Mill Creek
Watershed Council of
Communities
Cincinatti, Ohio
This group helps protect and enhance
southwest Ohio’s Mill Creek and its
tributaries through initiatives that improve stream health and water quality,
reduce flood damage and manage storm
water.
Ohio Citizen Action
Education Fund
Cleveland, Ohio
Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund
provides research and community organizing support for Ohio Citizen Action’s
environmental campaigns.
Portland, Oregon
Using grassroots organizing, education and community engagement, Bark
seeks to transform Mt. Hood National
Forest into a place where natural processes prevail, where wildlife thrives
and where local communities are invested in its restoration and preservation.
Bus Federation
Civic Fund
Portland, Oregon
The Bus Federation Civic Fund mobilizes volunteers and develops nextgeneration leaders through its network
of homegrown organizations to create
a more just and responsive democracy.
Cascadia Wildlands
Eugene, Oregon
Cascadia Wildlands educates, agitates
and inspires a movement to protect and
restore wild ecosystems in the Cascadia
bioregion, the temperate forest zone
from south-central Alaska to Northern
California.
Community
Cycling Center
Portland, Oregon
The Community Cycling Center broadens access to bicycling and its benefits
in Portland, Oregon, through its bike
shop, programs for underserved communities and efforts to create jobs and
engagement within the growing bicycle
movement.
Crag Law Center
Portland, Oregon
Representing conservation groups and
citizens working for sustainable land
management in the Pacific Northwest,
the Crag Law Center helps clients with
not only litigation but also civic participation, campaign strategies, communications, organizing efforts and media
relations.
Ecotrust
Portland, Oregon
Ecotrust fosters a natural model of de-
velopment that creates more resilient
communities, economies and ecosystems by serving as an incubator for social enterprise and a capital vehicle for
investing in promising innovations.
Forest Service
Employees for
Environmental Ethics
Eugene, Oregon
FSEEE works to protect national forests
and to reform the U.S. Forest Service by
advocating environmental ethics, educating citizens and defending whistleblowers.
Gifford Pinchot Task
Force
Portland, Oregon
The Gifford Pinchot Task Force supports the biological diversity and communities of the northwest U.S. through
conservation and restoration of forests,
rivers, fish and wildlife.
Hells Canyon
Preservation Council
La Grande, Oregon
This group protects and restores the
wild lands, pure waters, habitats and
biodiversity of the Hells Canyon-Wallowa and Blue Mountain ecosystems in
the Pacific Northwest.
Native Fish Society
Oregon City, Oregon
Guided by science, the Native Fish Society advocates for abundant wild, native fish and healthy habitats through
grassroots restoration projects, reform
initiatives, conservation reports, and
campaigns that encourage public participation in management and planning
processes.
Oregon Natural
Desert Association
Bend, Oregon
ONDA defends and restores Oregon’s
high desert, working to permanently
protect millions of acres of public land
that is home to diverse populations of
wildlife through stewardship efforts,
campaigns to ensure that laws are enforced, and participation in public processes on energy and land use.
Oregon Rural Action
La Grande, Oregon
Oregon Rural Action promotes social
justice, agricultural and economic sustainability, and stewardship of the land,
air and water through grassroots citizen
activism in eastern Oregon.
Pacific Rivers Council
Portland, Oregon
The Pacific Rivers Council works to
protect and restore rivers, their watersheds and the native species that depend
on them through scientific research,
policy work, litigation and advocacy
campaigns.
Predator Defense
Eugene, Oregon
Predator Defense helps protect native
predators and create alternatives for
people to coexist with wildlife through
informing and educating the public,
spearheading legislation, disseminating research findings, monitoring government agencies and, when necessary,
pursuing legal action.
River Network
Portland, Oregon
The River Network connects more than
2,000 organizations working to protect
America’s most vital natural resource
– water – with programs that empower
grassroots leaders to create effective local organizations that restore rivers and
other waters that sustain the country’s
health.
Soda Mountain
Wilderness Council
Ashland, Oregon
The Soda Mountain Wilderness Council defends and promotes wild lands in
the Soda Mountain/Pilot Rock area,
where the globally significant Siskiyou
Mountains join the southern Cascade
Range.
The Conservation
Alliance
Bend, Oregon
The Conservation Alliance engages
businesses to fund and partner with organizations throughout North America
to protect wild places for their habitat
and recreation values.
The Forest Park
Conservancy
Portland, Oregon
The Forest Park Conservancy protects
and fosters the ecological health of
Portland, Oregon’s Forest Park, maintaining and enhancing the park’s extensive trails network and inspiring
community appreciation and future
stewardship.
Tualatin Riverkeepers
Tualatin, Oregon
Tualatin Riverkeepers helps protect and
restore Oregon’s Tualatin River system, building watershed stewardship
through education, public restoration,
access to nature and advocacy work.
Umpqua Watersheds
Roseburg, Oregon
Umpqua Watersheds fosters the protection and restoration of the ecosystems
of the Umpqua Basin watershed and beyond through education, training and
advocacy campaigns.
Western
Environmental Law
Center
Eugene, Oregon
The Western Environmental Law Center works to protect and restore western
wild lands and advocates for a healthy
environment on behalf of communities
throughout the West.
Wild Salmon Center
Portland, Oregon
The Wild Salmon Center promotes the
conservation and sustainable use of
wild salmon ecosystems across the Pacific Rim by identifying science-based,
pragmatic solutions to sustain wild salmonids and the human communities
and livelihoods that depend on them.
Willamette
Riverkeeper
Portland, Oregon
Willamette Riverkeeper helps protect
and restore Oregon’s Willamette River
through education, advocacy and public
involvement campaigns.
PENNSYLVANIA
Allegheny Defense
Project
Kane, Pennsylvania
The Allegheny Defense Project defends
the forests and watersheds of the Allegheny plateau from commercial logging, oil and gas drilling, and other
extractive industries.
Community
Environmental Legal
Defense Fund
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania
The Community Environmental Legal
Defense Fund works to build sustainable communities by helping people assert their right to local self-government
and promote the rights of nature.
Delaware
Riverkeeper Network
Bristol, Pennsylvania
The Delaware Riverkeeper Network
champions the rights of communities in the four states of the Delaware
River watershed to have a free-flowing,
clean and healthy river and tributary
streams.
Friends of Allegheny
Wilderness
Warren, Pennsylvania
Friends of Allegheny Wilderness fosters
an appreciation of wilderness values,
working with local communities to ensure that increased wilderness protection is a priority in the stewardship of
the Allegheny National Forest.
Lower Susquehanna
Riverkeeper
York, Pennsylvania
This group works to improve the ecological and aesthetic integrity of the
Lower Susquehanna Watershed and
Chesapeake Bay through public education programs, pollution patrols and
advocacy initiatives.
Mountain Watershed
Association
Melcroft, Pennsylvania
Mountain Watershed Association helps
protect, preserve and restore Pennsylvania’s Indian Creek watershed and the
Youghiogheny River basin, promoting
remediation of abandoned mine discharges, developing community awareness, and fostering cooperative efforts
for sound environmental practices.
Protecting Our
Waters
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Protecting Our Waters champions
the health and vitality of Pennsylvania communities by defending people,
animals, water, air and land against the
damage caused by shale gas extraction,
processing and use.
Stroud Water
Research Center
Avondale, Pennsylvania
The Stroud Water Research Center
advances the knowledge of freshwater
ecosystems through interdisciplinary
research into all aspects of streams, rivers and their watersheds.
The Clearwater
Conservancy
State College, Pennsylvania
The Clearwater Conservancy promotes
conservation and restoration of natural resources in central Pennsylvania
through land conservation, water resource protection and environmental
outreach to the community.
The Land Conservancy
for Southern Chester
County
Unionville, Pennsylvania
The Land Conservancy for Southern
Chester County works to ensure the
perpetual preservation and stewardship
of open space and natural resources in
Chester County, Pennsylvania.
SOUTH Carolina
Palmetto
Conservation
Columbia, South Carolina
Palmetto Conservation helps conserve
South Carolina’s natural and cultural
resources, preserve historic landmarks and promote outdoor recreation
through trails and greenway programs.
South Carolina
Coastal Conservation
League
Charleston, South Carolina
This group seeks to protect the natural environment of the South Carolina
coastal plain and to enhance communities’ quality of life by working with
individuals, businesses and government
to ensure balanced solutions.
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Upstate Forever
Greenville, South Carolina
Upstate Forever promotes sensible
growth and protects special places in
the upstate region of South Carolina
through its land trust, sustainable communities initiatives, and clean air and
water programs.
SOUTH DAKOTA
Dakota Rural Action
Brookings, South Dakota
Dakota Rural Action promotes family
agriculture and conservation of South
Dakota’s environment and way of life
through community organizing aimed
at giving people a strong voice in decisions affecting their quality of life.
TENNESSEE
Cherokee Forest
Voices
Johnson City, Tennessee
Cherokee Forest Voices exists to protect
and conserve east Tennessee’s Cherokee
National Forest, promoting the restoration of its biodiversity; advocating for
better protection of its fish, wildlife,
plants, soil and water resources; and
increasing the availability of natureoriented recreation.
Friends of the
Cumberland Trail
Caryville, Tennessee
Friends of the Cumberland Trail helps
defend and preserve the environmental, cultural and historical resources of
Tennessee’s scenic Cumberland Trail
corridor.
Harpeth River
Watershed
Association
Franklin, Tennessee
The Harpeth River Watershed Association works to safeguard the health of the
Harpeth River, a designated scenic river
in Tennessee, and provides scientific
and other expertise in local and statewide water policy.
Ijams Nature Center
Knoxville, Tennessee
The Ijams Nature Center encourages
stewardship of the natural world by
providing an urban green space where
Tennesseans can learn about and enjoy
the outdoors through engaging experiences.
Statewide Organizing
for Community
eMpowerment
Resource Project
Knoxville, Tennessee
SOCM works on social, economic and
environmental justice issues in 10 counties across the state of Tennessee and
promotes several statewide initiatives,
empowering citizens to effect positive
change in their communities.
Tennessee Clean
Water Network
Knoxville, Tennessee
TCWN helps Tennesseans exercise their
right to clean water and healthy communities through civic engagement,
partnership-building and, when necessary, legal action to assure enforcement
of water quality policy.
Tennessee
Environmental
Council
Nashville, Tennessee
This group advocates for the conservation and improvement of Tennessee’s
environment, communities and public health through educational events,
community engagement, tree plantings, stream restoration projects and
litigation.
Wolf River
Conservancy
Memphis, Tennessee
The Wolf River Conservancy is dedicated to the protection and enhancement
of Tennessee’s Wolf River corridor and
watershed as a natural resource through
land trusts, education programs and
recreational excursions.
TEXAS
Camp Fire Balcones
Austin, Texas
Camp Fire Balcones provides young
people in 10 central Texas counties with
opportunities to learn in small groups,
explore the natural world via outdoor
programs and take on leadership opportunities within the community and
world at large.
Colorado River
Foundation
Austin, Texas
The Colorado River Foundation helps
protect and preserve Texas’s Colorado
River by promoting conservation and
awareness through community involvement.
Front Steps
Austin, Texas
Front Steps seeks to end homelessness
in Austin, Texas, by providing shelter,
affordable housing and community
education.
Galveston Baykeeper
Seabrook, Texas
Galveston Baykeeper is committed to
preserving and protecting the health of
Texas’s Galveston Bay and its watershed
through advocacy, education and enforcement of the Clean Water Act.
Global Wildlife
Conservation
Austin, Texas
Global Wildlife Conservation uses science to protect the world’s threatened
wildlife and habitats by conducting
field expeditions to biologically important areas, implementing conservation
research and action, and facilitating
habitat conservation.
Great Plains
Restoration Council
Houston, Texas
The Great Plains Restoration Council
works to restore America’s prairies and
grassland species through partnerships
that create lasting solutions to wildlife
and ecological health issues.
Texas Conservation
Alliance
Dallas, Texas
The Texas Conservation Alliance builds
grassroots coalitions promoting sensible water allocation, pushes for acquisition and sound management of public
wildlife lands and leads conservation
campaigns that influence Texas policies
and projects.
Textile Exchange
O’Donnell, Texas
The Textile Exchange inspires and
equips people to accelerate sustainable
textile practices, focusing on minimizing the harmful impacts of the global
textile industry and maximizing its
positive impacts.
Yellow Bike Project
Austin, Texas
The Yellow Bike Project puts bicycles on
the streets of Austin and central Texas,
operating community bike shops,
teaching bike maintenance and acting
as a bike-advocacy group.
UTAH
Bear River Watershed
Council
Richmond, Utah
The Bear River Watershed Council
seeks to maintain the ecological integrity of Utah’s Bear River watershed
by educating about threats to the area,
mobilizing volunteers, and providing
support and accountability to government agencies.
Boulder Community
Foundation
Boulder, Utah
The Boulder Community Foundation
promotes land stewardship in Boulder,
Utah, through education, fundraising
and partnerships related to water resources, conservation and local ecological interests.
Breathe Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Breathe Utah helps address the root
causes of air pollution in Utah through
education outreach in affected local
communities, multi-stakeholder collaboration, participation in public processes and policy work.
Friends of the Alta
Alta, Utah
Friends of the Alta helps conserve Alta,
Utah, including watershed and wildlife
habitat areas, by acquiring privately
owned lands, offering educational programs, supporting scientific studies,
helping the town carry out proactive
environmental programs, and supporting protective watershed and forest
management policies.
Glen Canyon Institute
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Glen Canyon Institute works to restore Utah and Arizona’s Glen Canyon
and a healthy, free-flowing Colorado
River through scientific research, informational events and conferences, media
outreach and litigation.
Great Salt Lake
Audubon
Salt Lake City, Utah
Great Salt Lake Audubon protects and
enhances habitat for wild birds, animals and plants, and strives to maintain healthy, diverse environments for
Utah’s wildlife and people through
volunteer opportunities, seminars, field
trips, urban riparian restorations and
other events.
HawkWatch
International
Salt Lake City, Utah
HawkWatch International helps conserve the environment through longterm monitoring and scientific research
on raptors as indicators of ecosystem
health, and through school programs
and community education.
HEAL Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
HEAL Utah engages citizens in the decisions that affect their health and environment, promoting clean, sustainable
energy, serving as a watchdog for the
nuclear industry and working to ensure that Utah is never again downwind
from nuclear weapons testing.
Peaceful Uprising
Salt Lake City, Utah
Peaceful Uprising organizes, educates
and inspires the climate movement to
demand measurable change in the status quo and to push confrontation in
order to create a livable future.
Save Our Canyons
Salt Lake City, Utah
Save Our Canyons advances the protection of Utah’s Wasatch mountains,
foothills and canyons through planning
processes, education, media, events and
volunteer programs.
Southern Utah
Wilderness Alliance
Salt Lake City, Utah
SUWA helps preserve wilderness at the
heart of the Colorado Plateau, advocates for sound management of these
lands, and works to defend them from
oil and gas development, unnecessary
road construction, off-road vehicle use
and other threats.
Summit Land
Conservancy
Park City, Utah
This land trust works in partnership
with landowners to permanently preserve the remaining agricultural, recreational, scenic, wetland and animal
habitat lands in Summit County, Utah.
Tree Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
TreeUtah seeks to improve Utah’s quality of life through tree plantings, stewardship, and school and community
outreach and education.
Uranium Watch
Wild Utah Project
Salt Lake City, Utah
Wild Utah Project works to maintain
and restore the health of natural lands
in Utah and adjoining states by providing scientific research and technical
support to land managers, citizen activists and other conservation partners.
VERMONT
New Haven River
Anglers Association
New Haven, Vermont
This group helps protect the New Haven River watersheds by encouraging
the management of trout for the fish’s
benefit, promoting youthful anglers
through education and working against
water pollution.
Vermont Land Trust
Montpelier, Vermont
The Vermont Land Trust works to protect
and conserve family farms, forests and
other important places across Vermont,
providing technical and legal assistance
and helping landowners ensure that conservation goals are upheld in perpetuity.
Moab, Utah
Uranium Watch advocates for the
protection of public health and the
environment from the impacts of the
uranium and nuclear industries in
Utah through educational campaigns,
research, networking activities and environmental actions.
Vermont Natural
Resources Council
Utah Clean Energy
Montpelier, Vermont
VPIREF helps safeguard the health of
Vermont’s people, environment and
locally based economy by conducting
research, informing and mobilizing
citizens, and promoting public-interest
policy solutions.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Utah Clean Energy works to stop energy waste, create clean energy and
build a smart energy future by serving
as a voice for clean energy in the utility
regulatory arena, and by collaborating
with government agencies and private
foundations.
Utah Environmental
Congress
Salt Lake City, Utah
Reclaiming and acting upon our ancestral responsibility to the land, the Utah
Environmental Congress brings people
together to engage in genuine protection
of living forest systems that provide islands of refuge in Utah’s desert country.
Utah Rivers Council
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Utah Rivers Council fosters the
conservation of Utah’s rivers through
grassroots organizing, advocacy campaigns, education and litigation.
Wasatch Community
Gardens
Salt Lake City, Utah
Wasatch Community Gardens empowers people of all ages and incomes in
Utah’s Wasatch Front to grow and eat
healthy, organic local food.
Montpelier, Vermont
The Vermont Natural Resources Council
uses research, education and advocacy to
protect and restore Vermont’s environment and foster sustainable communities.
VPIRG/VPIREF
VIRGINIA
Earth Sangha
Fairfax, Virginia
Earth Sangha operates an ecological
restoration program to help stabilize
streams, restore native plant communities, and control invasive plants in the
greater Washington, D.C. area, and also
works to conserve and restore forests on
the island of Hispaniola.
The Clinch Coalition
Wise, Virginia
The Clinch Coalition helps protect and
preserve the forests, wildlife and watersheds of the Clinch Valley Bioreserve
in southwestern Virginia, by building
trails, enhancing tourism and seeking
congressionally designated protection.
VÉloCity Bicycle
Cooperative
Alexandria, Virginia
VéloCity Bicycle Cooperative promotes
a vibrant and inclusive cycling community in Alexandria, Virginia, by
encouraging learning through a do-ityourself workshop where cyclists can
build, maintain and embrace the fun
of bicycles.
Virginia Conservation
Network
Richmond, Virginia
The Virginia Conservation Network
brings together the voices of environmental organizations across Virginia
to conserve the state’s natural resources and ensure its future prosperity
through policy work, education and
training, and community outreach.
Virginia League of
Conservation Voters Education Fund
Richmond, Virginia
This group educates residents and decision-makers about critical conservation issues with the aim of protecting
Virginia’s landscape for future generations.
Virginia Wilderness
Committee
Fairfield, Virginia
The Virginia Wilderness Committee
seeks to permanently protect the best
of Virginia’s wild places, foster understanding and appreciation of wilderness, and promote stewardship and
enjoyment of the state’s last remaining
wild lands.
Wild Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Wild Virginia works to preserve ecosystems in Virginia’s national forests
through its Forest Watch program,
which educates the public, encourages
people to voice their opinion on timber
sales and other projects, facilitates the
study of threatened areas, and litigates
for critical habitat protection.
WASHINGTON
Audubon Washington
Seattle, Washington
Audubon Washington educates, conducts scientific research, and advocates
for sustainable conservation management at the public policy level to conserve and restore natural ecosystems
and the birds and other wildlife within
them.
Braided River
Seattle, Washington
Braided River uses photography and
literature to create media campaigns
that change perspectives and engage
audiences, inspiring action that results
in victories for U.S. wilderness preservation.
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Capitol Land Trust
Olympia, Washington
This land trust works with groups and
individuals in southwest Washington to
protect and conserve important lands,
seeking to maintain the coexistence of
people, wildlife and the natural habitats
that sustain us all.
Climate Solutions
Seattle, Washington
Climate Solutions is a coalition of organizations dedicated to stopping the
massive expansion of coal exports from
Montana and Wyoming’s Powder River
Basin through West Coast ports to international markets.
Coastal Watershed
Institute
Port Angeles, Washington
The Coastal Watershed Institute fosters long-term ecological, communitybased stewardship of marine and terrestrial ecosystems in the northwest U.S.
through scientific research and local
partnerships.
Columbia River
Bioregional Education
Project
Oroville, Washington
Using education and advocacy, the Columbia River Bioregional Education
Project promotes development that sustains the health, beauty and structure of
the native ecosystems of the Intermountain Northwest.
Conservation
Northwest
Bellingham, Washington
Conservation Northwest helps protect
and connect wild places in the northwestern U.S. by working with local
communities on forest restoration and
creating safe passages for wildlife.
ElwhaFilm LLC
Sequim, Washington
ElwhaFilm is creating a film to make
the environmental success story behind Washington’s Elwha River meaningful to a broad audience, thereby
launching a dialogue about rivers and
natural resources.
Grist
Seattle, Washington
Environmental media platform Grist
shows how green is reshaping the world
and empowers a new generation to
make positive change.
Hydropower Reform
Coalition
Bellingham, Washington
The Hydropower Reform Coalition advocates for river protection and restoration across the U.S. by improving the
performance of individual hydropower
dams regulated by the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission.
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Kettle Range
Conservation Group
Republic, Washington
The Kettle Range Conservation Group
defends wilderness, protects biodiversity and restores the ecosystems of
the Columbia River basin by working collaboratively with rural, urban,
business, government and community
leaders.
Marine Conservation
Institute
Seattle, Washington
The Marine Conservation Institute
seeks to protect and recover the integrity of vast ocean areas, using science
to identify important marine ecosystems and advocating for their protection.
National Wildlife
Federation - Pacific
Regional Center
Seattle, Washington
The National Wildlife Federation inspires Americans to protect wildlife,
confront climate change, protect and
restore wildlife, and connect people
with nature through educational initiatives and advocacy work.
Nature Consortium
Seattle, Washington
Nature Consortium connects people,
arts and nature via its youth art program, urban forest restoration project
and Arts in Nature Festival.
Nisqually Land Trust
Olympia, Washington
This land trust acquires and manages
lands to permanently protect the water,
wildlife, natural areas and scenic vistas
of Washington’s Nisqually River watershed.
Northwest Straits
Chapter of the
Surfrider Foundation
Bellingham, Washington
This Surfrider Foundation chapter employs a variety of campaigns to promote
a healthy ocean and enjoyable beaches
and engages the public in water-quality
issues.
RE Sources for
Sustainable
Communities
Bellingham, Washington
This group promotes sustainable communities through recycling, education,
advocacy and conservation of natural
resources.
Rivers Without
Borders
Port Townsend, Washington
In a time of imperiled biodiversity,
wild salmon decline and climate
change, this project of the Tides Center
promotes the extraordinary ecological and cultural values of Alaska-BC
transboundary watersheds to keep
them wild, intact and thriving.
Save Our Wild Salmon
Seattle, Washington
Save Our Wild Salmon seeks to restore
abundant wild salmon and steelhead to
Columbia basin rivers and streams for
use by people and ecosystems.
Sierra Club Cascade
Chapter
Seattle, Washington
The Sierra Club Cascade Chapter inspires people to explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth through
advocacy, policy work, education and
outdoor events.
The Lands Council
Spokane, Washington
The Lands Council safeguards and revitalizes the inland Northwest’s forests,
water and wildlife through advocacy,
education, action and community engagement.
Upstream Productions
Seattle, Washington
Upstream Productions advocates for
a conservation-oriented solution to
the ongoing conflicts over the Chattahoochee River and its tributaries.
Washington Wild
Seattle, Washington
Washington Wild works to protect and
restore wild lands and waters in the state
of Washington through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
Wild Fish Conservancy
Duvall, Washington
The Wild Fish Conservancy seeks to
improve conditions for all of the Northwest’s wild fish by researching their
populations and habitats; advocating
for better land use, harvest and management; and carrying out restoration
projects.
Wild Steelhead
Coalition
Seattle, Washington
The Wild Steelhead Coalition helps increase the return of wild steelhead to the
rivers and streams of the Pacific Northwest by building partnerships, educating stakeholders and helping to improve
policy on behalf of the fish.
YMCA of Greater
Seattle
Seattle, Washington
The Metro Center branch of the YMCA
of Greater Seattle nurtures the potential
of youth by promoting healthy living
and social responsibility, and empowering students to create a healthier environment in their schools, communities
and region.
WEST VIRGINIA
Coal River Mountain
Watch
Naoma, West Virginia
Coal River Mountain Watch is dedicated to stopping the destruction of West
Virginia’s communities and environment caused by mountaintop removal
mining, to improving the quality of life
in its area, and to rebuilding sustainable
communities through citizen empowerment and action.
Friends of Blackwater
Charleston, West Virginia
Friends of Blackwater works to protect
the ecology, landscapes, outdoor recreation and heritage of the High Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia
through public outreach, advocacy and
restoration.
Ohio Valley
Environmental
Coalition
Huntington, West Virginia
The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition helps improve the state’s natural
resources through organizing, public
education, coalition building, leadership development, strategic litigation,
media outreach and the promotion of
sustainable alternatives.
SkyTruth
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
SkyTruth motivates and empowers new
constituencies for environmental protection by using satellite images and
other visual technologies to illustrate
environmental issues.
WISCONSIN
Bad River Watershed
Association
Ashland, Wisconsin
This group promotes a healthy relationship between the people and natural
communities of Wisconsin’s Bad River
watershed.
Kiap-TU-Wish Chapter of
Trout Unlimited
Hudson, Wisconsin
The Kiap-TU-Wish Chapter of Trout
Unlimited works to protect, reconnect
and restore cold-water fisheries and
their watersheds in Wisconsin’s Polk,
Pierce and St. Croix counties.
Midwest Environmental
Advocates
Madison, Wisconsin
Midwest Environmental Advocates
provides legal services for the underrepresented in Wisconsin and advocates
for the public’s right to clean air, land
and water.
River Alliance of
Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
This group helps the flowing waters of
Wisconsin by bringing people to rivers
to appreciate their beauty and needs,
engaging with government agencies,
and empowering citizens and grassroots
groups to effect positive change.
River Revitalization
Foundation
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The River Revitalization Foundation is
working to establish a parkway along
the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic rivers, to use the rivers as a
tool to revitalize surrounding neighborhoods, and to improve the rivers’ water
quality.
Wisconsin League of
Conservation Voters
Institute
Madison, Wisconsin
This group helps improve public health
and protect the state’s natural resources
by connecting citizens with the policymaking process through education,
advocacy and nonpartisan voter-participation projects.
WYOMING
Access PanAm
Wilson, Wyoming
Access PanAm organizes and sustains
conservation initiatives by mobilizing
climbers who are committed to stewardship of the places where they climb.
Biodiversity
Conservation Alliance
Laramie, Wyoming
The Biodiversity Conservation Alliance
helps protect wildlife and wild places
in Wyoming and surrounding states
through grassroots mobilization, participation in federal plans, media outreach, informational scientific initiatives and strategic litigation.
Citizens for the
Wyoming Range
Bondurant, Wyoming
Citizens for the Wyoming Range represents a diverse association of groups and
individuals working together to per-
manently protect the Wyoming Range
from oil and gas leasing and development.
Grand Teton National
Park Foundation
Jackson, Wyoming
The Grand Teton National Park Foundation provides private financial support for special projects that enhance
and protect Grand Teton National
Park’s treasured resources.
Keep Yellowstone
Nuclear Free
Jackson, Wyoming
Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free works
to protect the greater Yellowstone
ecosystem from radioactive and hazardous emissions from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National
Laboratory, and to elevate public
awareness about the potential threats
the facility poses.
Laramie Audubon
Society
Laramie, Wyoming
The Laramie Audubon Society promotes the conservation of wildlife
through education, outreach and
habitat stewardship from the Greater
Yellowstone ecosystem to Telluride,
Colorado.
Powder River Basin
Resource Council
Snake River Fund
Jackson, Wyoming
The Snake River Fund promotes stewardship of and recreational access to
the Snake River watershed in Wyoming,
with an emphasis on partnerships, education and public outreach.
The Cougar Fund
Jackson, Wyoming
The Cougar Fund works to protect the
cougar by educating the public on the
value of the species, promoting the use
of science as a guide for wildlife management decisions and monitoring state
policies to assure a lasting place for this
graceful creature.
Wyoming Outdoor
Council
Lander, Wyoming
The Wyoming Outdoor Council helps
protect Wyoming’s treasured landscapes, healthy wildlife, and clean air
and water through advocacy work and
coalition-building.
Wyoming Wilderness
Association
Sheridan, Wyoming
The Wyoming Wilderness Association
exists to safeguard Wyoming’s wild watersheds, intact ecosystems, old-growth
forests, important habitat and wildlife
migration corridors.
Sheridan, Wyoming
This group advocates for the responsible use of the Powder River basin’s
natural resources by educating and encouraging citizens to raise a coherent
voice in decisions that will impact their
environment.
The Alliance For
Appalachia
Arnett, West Virginia
The Alliance for Appalachia aims to end
mountaintop-removal coal mining and
other destructive coal technologies, and
supports a sustainable and just economy in Appalachia through advocacy,
policy work and citizen involvement.
West Virginia Rivers
Coalition
Elkins, West Virginia
This group fosters the conservation
and restoration of West Virginia’s rivers and streams by improving public
participation, publishing informational
reports, and serving as a knowledgeable
resource for other watershed groups and
decision-makers.
West Virginia
Wilderness Coalition
Lewisburg, West Virginia
Permanent protection for West Virginia’s special lands through legislative or
administrative designations is the goal of
the West Virginia Wilderness Coalition.
Join The Fight
The campaigns and projects described in this booklet — particularly those
implemented by grassroots activists — take guts, determination and huge
amounts of time and energy. Success doesn’t come easy! We hope you’re
inspired by these stories. But, more than that, we hope you’ll consider joining the fight for a cleaner, healthier planet. Here are some ideas to get you
started:
Connect with an environmental group in your area and volunteer.
Visit your local Patagonia® store and talk with our staff about the envi-
ronmental groups they support.
Search our online database at patagonia.com/grants.
Flip through this book and search for the websites of groups in your area.
Learn about the freshwater crisis at patagonia.com/ourcommonwaters.
Take the Common Threads pledge at patagonia.com/commonthreads.
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