Environmental Activism links

• Names and Addresses
• Contacts for your elected "representatives" in Congress and elsewhere.
• Contacts for the City of Manhattan (City Commission, city manager, parks department etc.)
• Legislative data and advisories
• Kansas Natural Resource Council's website for Kansas legislative updates - Check this site often!
• Environmental Action Network action alerts, background information, and links to help you contact elected officials and others responsible for the death of nature.
• The Audubon Advisory - legislative updates and late-breaking news from the National Audubon Society
• Environmental News Network - ENN provides daily updates of news of importance to the environmental community, and maintains searchable archives.
• Envirolink Resources for Activists concerned about the Endangered Species Act
• Greenlines Project - Defenders of Wildlife: Electronic environmental activism at its best
• Sources of Biological and Environmental Data
• The NatureServe Database: New site for species and community information (will soon include distribution maps!). Searchable biodiversity information for North America. Watch this site; it can be real useful!
• Online Environmental Journals - a comprehensive list of internet contacts, tables of contents, and entire journals online
• The Kansas Environmental Almanac - Facts and figures about the environment of the Sunflower State. "If you love Kansas and believe that environmental well-being and an informed public go hand in hand, welcome aboard." Check out this marvelous resource, put together by Charles Jones of Lawrence KS.
• EVEN (Environmental Education Online) - An excellent resource from Arizona State University, with good annotated links to journals, databases, and other online resources (even a job directory and a section on how to read a scientific paper!). Created by a science librarian, and one of the best sites on the web.
• National Library for the Environment - An experimental virtual library of policy-neutral reports about environmental issues, prepared by the Congressional Research Service.
• WetNet - the Wetlands Information Page - Visit this site to find information, experts, and lots of other great stuff about wetlands. Maintained by The EcoScope Project and Wetlands International.
• Environmental Problems Reference Page Contact experts, find literature, and learn more about environmental health problems. An excellent resource.
• GeoNet - Learn more about sustainable economics and how it might be applied in your community.
• Amazing Environmental Web Directory - Exclusively environmental organizations, information, linkages.
• Land Use Planning resources - links to many useful organizations devoted to land use planning
• The Usual Suspects Home Page - Learn about how computer technology and cleverness can be used to combat the lies and subterfuges of the anti-environmental greedheads. From Jim Britell, a forest activist in Oregon.
• The Environmental Working Group - Find out that 2% of farm subsidy recipients get 27% of all the subsidies, and lots more!

• Miscellaneous Resources and Links
• Requiem for the planet - a sobering and fact-filled soliloquy on the state of the Earth, and why we may not be here much longer.
• Subscribe to a listserver dedicated to Kansas Conservation Issues
• Co-op America's Greenpages - Find and order products from green companies and support the concept of sustainability!
• EarthTimes - An online environmental newspaper!
• The Evangelical Environmental Network - Forging a link between religious and secular environmentalists
• Island Press - Books, links, and resources for the environmental activist
• Dog-eared Press - An excellent source of environmental education books for kids (and grown-ups too!)

• Local/Regional Environmental Organization Homepages and related information
• Kansas Chapter of the Sierra Club - Craig Wolfe et al. have set up a home page from the Kanza chapter of Sierra; take a peek and see what these folks are up to.
• Wichita Audubon Society, Wichita KS
• Topeka Audubon Society, Topeka KS
• Jayhawk Audubon, Lawrence KS
• Big Bluestem Audubon Society in Ames Iowa
• Home Page for the Columbia MO Audubon Society
• River Bluffs Audubon Society - Jefferson City MO
• Loess Hills Audubon Society, Iowa
• Audubon Society of Omaha
• Big Bend Audubon Society - Kearney NE
• Willeta Lueshen Birding Library - Some folks in Norfolk Nebraska (near my Mom's hometown) have put together some nice web pages in honor of an amateur birdwatcher.
• Other Audubon Chapters in Nebraska
• Other Audubon Chapters in Missouri
• Other Audubon Chapters in Iowa
• The Arkansas River Coalition
• Portland Audubon Society - Portland, OR. An excellent example of an Audubon chapter home page.

Addresses and Phone Numbers of Your Elected Representatives - Write or call anytime

• Governor Bill Graves: 2nd Floor, State Capitol Bldg., Topeka KS 66612
• Information Network of Kansas (INK) - contact state senators and representatives, track bills, read the full text of bills, contact state agencies, and a whole lot more fun stuff for the politically minded Kansas netizen
• Senator Brownback or Roberts: US Senate, Washington DC 20510
• Representative _____________________: US House of Representatives, Washington DC 20515
• US Capitol Switchboard : 202-224-3121
• President Bill Clinton, The White House, Washington DC 20500
• Information about progress of a particular piece of legislation can be obtained by calling the following numbers: In Topeka - 800-432-3924; in Washington - 202-225-1772
• Audubon Action Line - 800-659-2622 (updated every Friday)
• VoteSmart database - A non-partisan service to track the voting records of your elected representatives

• Detailed addresses, committee assignments, sponsored legislation, and Phone/Fax numbers of Senators and Representatives

 
• E-mail Sam Brownback in Washington DC
• E-mail Vince Snowbarger
• E-mail Todd Tiahrt