Solar Power Organizations:
The mission of the Solar Living Institute is to promote sustainable living through inspirational environmental education.
Our organizational values include the following:
- Empowerment -- to create a space where people can be transformational, motivational, inspiring, and outspoken
- Cognizance -- to be knowledgeable about what we do, and to do it consciously
- Quality -- to act professionally in all we do and to be responsive to the needs of our customers and coworkers
- Integrity -- to be honest and consistent in all of our interactions, to be aware of the impact of our actions, and to always behave in an exemplary manner
- Compassion -- to be nurturing, accepting, generous, and kind in all of our interactions and to always come from a place of abundance
- Passion -- to be persistent and driven in pursuit of our goals
- Equity -- to follow democratic principles, to strive for balance, to work in a sustainable way, and to be conscious of the work we do and the way we do it
- Joyfulness -- to always remember to have fun in whatever we are doing
Our environment is in trouble. So is our economy. We’re here to help.
While some of the brightest minds have created innovative technologies to help us overcome pollution and our reliance on imported non-renewable resources, we face an enormous challenge – implementation.
We noticed a lack in the accuracy and availability of state-specific rebates and tax information online. Moreover, many payback calculations provided by various sources were flat out wrong. This left us to reason many of those interested in solar may have given up or were frustrated by the task of seeking out these important facts. In 2007, we created SolarPowerRocks.com to provide the clear, easy to understand information people need to install solar energy across the country.
We have compiled local subsidies, grants, tax credits, and rebates for solar by state, in a very palatable and solar specific format (we found that many solar seekers were frustrated sifting through dozens of subsidies on the web to find the ones that really matter). We also provide easy to understand payback calculations for homeowners in each state based on their electricity usage. It’s working too! We forward handfuls of people a day to our trusted network of installers and we know some of those people go solar.
Our Mission
We are doing our damndest to change the perceptions of legislators, decisionmakers, homeowners, and business-owners alike to get more solar technology on roofs. Our activities include educating our readers about their local subsidies and solar related legislation, as well as connecting them to solar installers in their areas to make their dream of renewable energy a reality. Specifically, we synthesize solar data, maintain an updated state-by-state solar incentive resource with validated cost-impact analyses, and we champion solar legislation and technology around the world. We also provide a valuable service to home and business owners by forging relationships with installers around the country so they receive multiple perspectives on the advantages of going solar.
Bringing Sustainable Products to Market:
We've been told: "It's too ambitious. It can’t happen. It's an unrealistic goal." But we believe it is possible to transform manufacturing and retail practices worldwide so that by 2015 sustainable products are available in 90 percent of the global marketplace.
Because the 100 largest companies account for more than 90% of the world's products, our mission is attainable. All companies want to increase their profits while contributing to an unpolluted, safer environment, and improved public welfare. This is how the free market system works at its best. Economic prosperity goes hand in hand with good health and a clean environment. These inalienable rights are also the mission of successful companies. With sustainable products, a company can take pride both in a strong base of profits and in a better planet for future generations. Sustainable products are those products providing environmental, social and economic benefits while protecting public health, welfare & environment over their full commercial cycle, from the extraction of raw materials to final disposition, providing for the needs of future generations.
Sustainable products increase corporate profits while enhancing society as a whole, because they are cheaper to make, have fewer regulatory constraints, less liability, can be introduced to the market quicker, and are preferred by the public.
MTS brings together a powerful coalition of sustainable products manufacturers, environmental groups, and key state and local government leaders using market mechanisms increasing sales and market share of sustainable products. We have identified consensus protocols for sustainable products such as FSC Certified Wood, Certified Organic Products, and the Clean Car Standard. When such a consensus is reached, the next steps are to increase awareness and sales of these products until profit motives and other marketplace incentives kick in and drive the transformation. Awareness and sales are manageable steps.
Who We Are - Environmental Conservation
About WWF
For more than 45 years, WWF has been protecting the future of nature. The world’s leading conservation organization, WWF works in 100 countries and is supported by 1.2 million members in the United States and close to 5 million globally. WWF's unique way of working combines global reach with a foundation in science, involves action at every level from local to global, and ensures the delivery of innovative solutions that meet the needs of both people and nature.
Mission
WWF's mission is the conservation of nature. Using the best available scientific knowledge and advancing that knowledge where we can, we work to preserve the diversity and abundance of life on Earth and the health of ecological systems by
- protecting natural areas and wild populations of plants and animals, including endangered species;
- promoting sustainable approaches to the use of renewable natural resources; and
- promoting more efficient use of resources and energy and the maximum reduction of pollution.
Goal By 2020 WWF will conserve 19 of the world's most important natural places and significantly change global markets to protect the future of nature.
The Pollinator Partnership (P2) is the D.B.A. for the 501(c)(3) non-profit Coevolution Institute. P2 works to protect the health of managed and native pollinating animals vital to our North American ecosystems and agriculture. Our website is a premiere source of information for consumers, gardeners, land managers, educators, resource managers, producers, and farmers to help pollinators, essential components for all of life.
As one of it's many projects, P2 manages the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) a collaborative group of over 120 organizations and individuals that promote and implement a continent-wide Action Plan to encourage activities to protect the numbers and health of all pollinating animals.
Pollination is vital to our survival and the existence of nearly all ecosystems on earth. 80% of the world's crop plants depend on pollination. Pollinators, almost all of which are insects, are indispensable partners for an estimated 1 out of every 3 mouthfuls of food, spices and condiments we eat, and the beverages we drink. They are essential to the fibers we use, the medicines that keep us healthy, and more than half of the world's diet of fats and oils. Insect pollinators, including honey bees, pollinate products amounting to $20 billion annually in the U.S. alone.
What is pollination and who are pollinators?
Pollination occurs when pollen is moved within flowers or carried from one flower to another of the same species by birds, bees, bats, butterflies, moths, beetles or other animals, or by the wind. This transfer of leads to fertilization and successful seed and fruit production. Pollination ensures that a plant will produce full-bodied fruit and a complete set of fertile seeds, capable of germinating.
Why are pollination issues worthy of attention?
Today pollinators' existence may be threatened. Since pollinators are largely overlooked, assessing their condition and economic importance; seeking to understand their circumstances, biology, and benefits better; and working to help keep them healthy are positive, pro-active approaches to conservation.
Clean Water:
Clean Ocean Action is a leading national and regional voice working to protect waterways using science, law, research, education, and citizen action.
Our successful campaigns:
- Improve programs and laws that protect public health at swimming beaches.
- Reduce plastics and litter that pollute waterways, spoil beautiful beaches, and harm or kill marine life including turtles, whales, seals, birds, and fish.
- Protect coasts from oil and gas drilling in the ocean, including Maine to Florida.
- Establish the nation’s first Clean Ocean Zone to start
a national chain reaction for all coasts. - Reduce toxins in waterways to ensure fish and shellfish
are free of pollution and safe to eat. - Educate and motivate citizens from the small to the tall.
Clean Ocean Action (COA) is a broad-based coalition of 125 active boating, business, community, conservation, diving, environmental, fishing, religious, service, student, surfing, and women's groups. These "Ocean Wavemakers" work to clean up and protect the waters of the New York Bight. The groups came together in 1984 to investigate sources, effects, and solutions of ocean pollution. What follows is a description of the network.
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Founded in 1996, the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring clean air and healthy environments through scientific research, public education, and legal advocacy. Our unique and singular focus on atmospheric issues has allowed us to go deep on the issues, and be persistent and effective.
Made up of 20 senior scientists, lawyers, MBAs, economists, and public outreach professionals, CATF is headquartered in Boston but located throughout the United States. Our work is augmented by collaboration with nationally recognized technical and economic consulting organizations such as The Northbridge Group, Environmental and Energy Analysis, Inc., Abt Associates, and MSB Energy Associates. CATF works with more than 40 state, local, regional, and national organizations to educate the public, media, industry, and government officials on the science and economics of clean air policies through fact-based and locally appropriate advocacy. Our advocacy regularly brings attention to the latest, vital work of researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, Emory University, New York University, Purdue University, Georgia Tech, and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
CATF believes that states are important laboratories for clean air policy, and accordingly devotes much of its effort to advocating model state policies, in addition to participating actively in national administrative rulemakings and judicial proceedings relating to clean air. CATF's work receives favorable notice from government, industry, and the media; we are frequently consulted by agencies and elected officials of both parties. The New Republic calls CATF a "respected" voice on clean air policy.
Our Vision
A world where global warming is not a problem.
Our Mission
We are in the business of solving the global warming problem through civic engagement, education and effective policy.
Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) is the leading organization dedicated solely to finding and promoting solutions to global warming:
- We partner with companies, campuses, communities and science centers to help reduce their carbon emissions.
- We help our partners, their constituents, and other regional opinion leaders and stakeholders understand the impacts of global warming and its best available solutions, through comprehensive outreach efforts celebrating commitment, innovation and success in climate action.
- We showcase practical climate solutions that demonstrate the economic opportunities and environmental benefits associated with early actions on climate change.
- We propose and recommend the implementation of effective policy solutions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the state, regional and national levels.
Our Mission
Americans are accustomed to low priced and abundant energy supplies. This has led us to be profligate in our energy use and careless about our energy future. Global warming, dirty urban air, forests dying from acid rain, and dependence on oil from politically unstable foreign countries are only a few of the many consequences of our energy policies and choices. Is there a better way?
At the Schatz Energy Research Center, we know there is. Just as our ancestors changed the way they obtained food, we must change the way we get energy, evolving from the energy hunter gatherers we are now to the energy farmers we must become. This evolution means shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy resources: solar, wind, and hydropower – and using energy more efficiently regardless of the source. Our mission is to develop renewable energy technology and make it more reliable and affordable.
All of us have the same dreams: a clean and safe environment, political independence, economic security, and a better world for our children. Clean and safe energy will help make our dreams become reality.
About Us
The Low Impact Hydropower Institute (LIHI) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to reducing the impacts of hydropower generation through the certification of hydropower projects that have avoided or reduced their environmental impacts pursuant to the Low Impact Hydropower Institute’s criteria.
There are thousands of hydropower dams in the United States located on many of our most important rivers and streams. These dams can create pollution-free energy, but they can also produce significant adverse impacts on fish and wildlife and other resources.
LIHI’s mission is to reduce the impacts of hydropower dams through market incentives. LIHI does this through its Hydropower Certification Program, a voluntary certification program designed to help identify and reward hydropower dams that are minimizing their environmental impacts. Just as an organic label can help consumers choose the foods and farming practices they want to support, the LIHI certification program can help energy consumers choose the energy and hydropower practices they want to support.
In order to be certified by the Institute, a hydropower facility must meet criteria in the following eight areas:
- river flows,
- water quality,
- fish passage and protection,
- watershed protection
- threatened and endangered species protection,
- cultural resource protection,
- recreation, and
- facilities recommended for removal.
