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1   Link   Blue Green Alliance (BGA)
The Blue Green Alliance is a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations dedicated to expanding the number and quality of jobs in the green economy. With partners USW, Sierra Club, CWA, NRDC, LIUNA, SEIU, UWUA, AFT, ATU and the Sheet Metal Workers, the Blue Green Alliance unites more than eight and a half million people in pursuit of good jobs, a clean environment and a green economy.

National Headquarters:
Blue Green Alliance
2828 University Ave. SE, Suite 200
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Telephone: (612)466-4479

Washington, D.C.:
1133 15th Street NW, Suite 1075
Washington, DC 20005 		37
2   Link   Defenders of Wildlife
Founded in 1947, Defenders of Wildlife is one of the country's leaders in science-based, results-oriented wildlife conservation. We stand out in our commitment to saving imperiled wildlife and championing the Endangered Species Act, the landmark law that protects them.

Membership and General Information

Address:
1130 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Telephone: 1-800-385-9712 (toll-free 24/7)
Email: defenders@mail.defenders.org

National Headquarters:
1130 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Telephone: (202) 682-9400

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3   Link   Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful direct action and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.

Greenpeace
702 H Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
(202)462-1177

Greenpeace
75 Arkansas St.
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 255-9221

General inquiries: (800) 326-0959
Email: info@wdc.greenpeace.org
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4   Link   Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN)
LEAN was founded to help Louisiana citizens change the balance of power and challenge the continued economic and ecological destruction that had become institutionalized in Louisiana. By empowering more than one hundred grassroots, community organizations, and countless individuals, LEAN has already helped in gaining a tremendous foothold in the war to make Louisiana's communities safer, healthier places to live. LEAN's expanded efforts will allow the progress already made to continue.

Mailing Address:
Louisiana Environmental Action Network
P.O. Box 66323
Baton Rouge, LA 70896
Telephone: (225) 928-1315
Email:contact@leanweb.org 		39
5   Link   National Wildlife Federation
The National Wildlife Federation is America's largest conservation organization. They work with more than 4 million members, partners and supporters in communities across the country to protect and restore wildlife habitat, confront global warming and connect with nature.

National Wildlife Federation
http://www.nwf.org/
National Wildlife Federation
11100 Wildlife Center Drive
Reston, VA 20190-5362
Telephone: (800)822-9919
Contact: http://www.nwf.org/contact/

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6   Link   The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy — the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. Founded in 1951

Worldwide Office
The Nature Conservancy
4245 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100
Arlington, VA 22203-1606
Nature Conservancy Staff
Telephone: (703) 841-5300 		41
7   Link   Sierra Club
Since 1892, the Sierra Club has been working to protect communities, wild places, and the planet itself. We are the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. The Sierra Club founder, John Muir, appears on the back of the California quarter.

Sierra Club
National Headquarters
85 Second Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
Telephone: (415)977-5500
Email: information@sierraclub.org
membership.services@sierraclub.org

Sierra Club
Legislative Office
408 C St., N.E.
Washington, DC 20002
Telephone: (202)547-1141 		37
8   Link   World Wildlife Fund (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.

U.S. Headquarters
World Wildlife Fund
1250 Twenty-Fourth Street, N.W.
P.O. Box 97180
Washington, DC 20090-7180
Telephone (202)293-4800
To ask a question: http://worldwildlife.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/worldwildlife.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php

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9   Link   Wildlife Conservation Society
The Wildlife Conservation Society, founded in 1895, mission is to save wildlife and wild places across the globe. The Wildlife Conservation Society story began in the early 1900’s when they successfully helped the American bison recover on the Western Plains. Today, they protect many of the world’s iconic creatures here and abroad, including gorillas in the Congo, tigers in India, wolverines in the Yellowstone Rockies, and ocean giants in seascapes.

During their 114 years, they have forged the power of their global conservation work and the management of their five parks in New York City to create the world’s most comprehensive conservation organization. They currently manage about 500 conservation projects in more than 60 countries; and educate millions of visitors at five living institutions in New York City on important issues affecting our planet. Their parks include: the Bronx Zoo, New York Aquarium, Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo and Queens Zoo.

Headquarters:
Wildlife Conservation Society
2300 Southern Boulevard Bronx
New York 10460
Telephone: 718-220-5100
Email: membership@wcs.org 		39

Ponderings

"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn
again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties
to know of wonder and humility."
Rachel Carson (1907-1964)