Start Your Research on Environmental Activism

Websites

Action Network: http://actionnetwork.org/ Action Network partners mobilize activists by e-mail, inviting you to weigh in when it counts by sending personalized messages to key policymakers--locally, nationally or around the world.
GOOGLE DIRECTORY: Society > Issues > Environment > Organizations: http://www.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Environment/Organizations/ This is Google's list of environmental organizations.
GRIST: http://grist.org/ This is an online magazine dedicated to environmental news and opinion.
National Park Service: http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/hisnps/NPSThinking/nps-oah.htm This page from the National Park Service provides information about the history of conservation, preservation, and environmental activism.
New York State Archives: http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/researchroom/rr_env_hist.shtml#Heaven This page from the New York State Archives provides an historical overview of environmental affairs in New York State.
Union of Concerned Scientists: http://www.ucsusa.org The Union of Concerned Scientists works to ensure that all people have clean air and energy, as well as safe and sufficient food.

Blogs

Climate Science: Maintained by the Pielke Research Group

Environmental and Urban Economics: Maintained by Matthew E. Kahn, Professor, International Economics, Tufts University

Environmental Economics: Maintained by Tim Haab, Professor, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, The Ohio State University and John Whitehead, Professor, Economics, Appalachian State University.

Gristmill: the blog for Grist, an online magazine dedicated to environmental news and opinion.

Two Steps Forward: Maintained by Joel Makower, co-founder and executive editor of Greener World Media, Inc.

Urban Ecology: Maintained by the Urban Ecology Institute.

Books

Reed, T. V. The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota P, 2005.
Call Number: HN90 .R3 R395 2005

Halpin, Mikki. It's Your World--If You Don't Like It, Change It: Activism for Teenagers. New York: Simon Pulse, 2004.
Call Number: JF799 .H34 2004

Hillstrom, Kevin. North America: A Continental Overview of Environmental Issues. Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-CLIO, 2003.
Call Number: GE160 .N7 H55 2003

Carter, Neil. The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 2001.
Call Number: JA75.8 .C38

Articles

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Scroll down the page to find opposing views on environmentalism.
http://galenet.galegroup.com.

Search in EBSCOHost-Academic Search Premier for articles in magazines and journals.
Use a subject search using the keywords Environmental Activism
Link: http://web.ebscohost.com

Search in LexisNexis for articles in newspapers.

Start by clicking on the red tab labeled “News” on the top of the screen
Type your keywords. Try Al Gore and Inconvenient Truth
Select a date range. Two years is a good starting point

Link: http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/search/flap.do?flapID=news &random=0.15183284298531574

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