Resource Links
Links to various environmentally conscious organizations
Girl Scouts and the Environment
When you’re a Girl Scout, it’s easy to be green. Through Girl Scouting, girls see the Earth as their home. Whether they're learning about endangered wildlife, developing creative recycling projects, or working toward a grade-level award, girls focus on care, conservation, and responsibility. They make sure the beauty and wonder of our planet endure for future generations to enjoy.
Boy Scouts Conservation and Environment
Welcome to the Boy Scouts of America’s Conservation and Environment website. Here you will find information about Scouting’s conservation program emphasis; conservation awards and recognitions; conservation resources for Scouting youth, units, and local councils; and training opportunities in conservation, ecology, and the environment.
Earth Day Network
Earth Day Network’s mission is to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. Growing out of the first Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network is the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental movement, working with more than 75,000 partners in over 190 countries to drive positive action for our planet.
Earth 911
Earth911.com started its life in the early ’90s as an Arizona-centric recycling database, even before the World Wide Web came along. After almost 20 years, it remains the largest recycling database in the nation — probably the world. We work every day to help you make small, simple changes that will reduce the environmental impact of your life, work, and shopping. No one is perfect, and everyone can make progress, so we focus on what you can do today by sharing insights into how to measure the carbon footprint of products, services, and lifestyles that need to change for humanity to thrive.
We believe humans can successfully reduce their impact by using less, reusing more, and constantly making small improvements through their daily decisions. Earth911 works to make that complex story something you can understand and help to realize through your everyday actions. Big companies and governments need to change, but they will follow citizens who act and communicate what they value. Your progress requires growing awareness of the consequences of workplace and shopping decisions. These actions most directly shape the human carbon footprint, and small changes by many of us do add up to huge improvements in environmental impacts.
Minnesota Conservation Volunteer Magazine
Minnesota Conservation Volunteer is your guide to wild Minnesota. This flagship publication of the Department of Natural Resources delivers in-depth, in-the-field coverage of the state's outdoor news and conservation issues. The MCV mission is to encourage conservation and sustainable use of Minnesota's natural resources.
The Nature Conservancy in Minnesota
The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive.
Founded at its grassroots in the United States in 1951, The Nature Conservancy has grown to become one of the most effective and wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world. Thanks to more than a million members and the dedicated efforts of our diverse staff and more than 400 scientists, we impact conservation in 79 countries and territories across six continents.
SavetheFood.com
In effort to spread awareness about the importance of reducing wasted food, NRDC created a PSA campaign encouraging Americans to make simple lifestyle changes like making shopping lists, repurposing leftovers, and learning how to properly store a wide variety of foods to help “Save the Food.”
Pollinator LIVE: A Distance Learning Adventure
While pollinators may come in small sizes, they play a large and often undervalued role in the production of the food we eat, the health of flowering plants, and the future of wildlife. A decline in the numbers and health of pollinators over the last several years poses a significant threat to the integrity of biodiversity, to global food webs, and to human health, according to scientists.
Check out the PollinatorLIVE resources that bring the excitement of pollinators to you through webcasts, webinars and online education resources.
University of Minnesota Extension
Extension brings Minnesotans together to build a better future through University science-based knowledge, expertise and training.
Extension's research and outreach is organized broadly into four centers: Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources; Community Vitality; Family Development; and Youth Development.