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  arcadiacenter.org Acadia Center Rockport Maine -Focusing on the Northeastern United States Acadia Center develops effective policy reforms informed by years of experience in on-the-ground implementation.  They form strategic alliances and engage all stakeholders—legislators, business and community leaders, advocacy and environmental justice groups—to press for next-generation solutions and long-term results.  They focus on changing long term climate policies, buildings and transportation, transitions to clean energy and changing the climate conversation. They participate in multi-state efforts such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI) to transition their region into a clean energy future. Use your social platforms to spread the word. To learn more, donate and get involved visit ttps://acadiacenter.org

  greatnonprofits.org The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) helps communities speak out for clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet. Public interest lawyers from 10 countries founded ELAW in 1989. These lawyers were working together at a public interest law conference at the University of Oregon School of Law. They realized that if they could share strategies and legal and scientific information across borders, they could protect communities and the environment more effectively. ELAW became a pioneer in wiring the grassroots. Today, more than 300 public interest advocates from 80 countries work together through the ELAW network.   ELAW advocates play key roles in helping communities pursue environmental justice. They help citizens participate effectively in decisions about the environment, challenge environmental abuses, and enforce environmental laws. They publish guides to citizen participation, train community "paralegals" to represent community intere...

ithacachildrensgarden.org Offering year round education in the form of innovative, research-based programs, events, and workshops, designed for children, families, schools, educators, volunteers, and community members Ithaca Children’s Garden is described as a program and a place. The garden was organized in 1197 by organized in 1997 by Harriet Becker, Mary Alyce Kobler, and Monika Roth. In 2004 the organization secured a lease of 3 acres in Cass Park from the city of Ithaca. The garden’s Nature Anarchy Zone demonstrates and exemplifies the   educational and developmental benefits of unstructured play. Kids can get dirty digging for worms, playing with rocks and sticks, building forts, climbing trees, and generally daring to engage in the kind of wild and unsanitized play that was common 70 years ago but would scandalize today’s average helicopter parent.   Somehow   children’s lives and time have become overwhelmingly structured, scheduled play dates app...

Some time ago, watching the documentary Urban Fruit by Roman Zenz I was fascinated by the story of Rishi Kumar a highly educated engineer by training who gave up a promising career in information technology to choose a different path. Along with his mother they had transformed their once wasteful and nonproductive meticulously landscaped yard into a productive bio diverse urban farm which uses about 1/3 the water it took to keep their lawn green.  They have done so while creating healthy organic food in abundance. In fact more than enough for themselves, their extended family of relatives and friends and untamed wildlife not limited to rare butterflies, hummingbirds, mosquito fish, dragonflies and raccoons that struggle to eke out good diets due to urban sprawl. This project has grown into a mission of education on the how-to's and benefits of urban farming and creating bio diverse mini ecosystems that give back to our environment as opposed to simply taking.  ...