Resources

Special Environmental Organizations

4ocean
Mission Statement: Mission is to end the world’s ocean plastic crisis.

45 Sustainability Resources you Need to Know                                                                                                                                                                  Mission Statement: There is hardly any aspect of modern life  that isn’t affected by the current problems facing the environment. As we learn more about how human behavior is harming the planet, we are creating new ways to educate, reflect, and innovate.                    

Kids For Saving The Earth Rainforest
Mission Statement: Mission is to help protect rainforests in Costa Rica.

Antelope Valley Conservancy
Mission Statement: Antelope Valley Conservancy preserves native habitats and watershed sites, while also preserving wildlife corridors and regional trails. They also promote eco-regional planning.

Barron Prize
Mission Statement: Prize for Young Heroes celebrates inspiring, public-spirited young people from diverse backgrounds all across North America. Each year, the Barron Prize honors 25 outstanding young leaders ages 8 to 18 who have made a significant positive difference to people and the environment.

Beyond Pesticides
Mission Statement: Beyond Pesticides (formerly National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides) works with allies in protecting public health and the environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic pesticides.

BungoBox
(A KSE sponsor!)
Mission Statement: If you are moving, try BungoBox. It’s the least expensive and most Earth-friendly way to move.

CEHC
Mission Statement: The mission of Mount Sinai’s Children’s Environmental Health Center (CEHC) is to protect children against environmental threats to health.

Consumers Notice                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Mission Statement: Consumer Notice is a consumer advocacy organization dedicated to providing reliable health and safety information and empowering consumers to assert their legal rights. Our team works alongside consumer advocates and legal experts to educate the public on harmful products, drugs and medical devices, digital security, environmental hazards and personal injuries caused by corporate and individual negligence.

Eco Friendly Cars
Mission Statement: CarCovers works to educate people about the use of eco friendly cars.

Electric Vehicles and Their Safety Ratings
Mission Statement:  Learn how an electric vehicle can help prevent more Co2 in our atmosphere. Electric vehicles help stop the drilling of our planet, creating a safer and green way of travel.

Energy Helpline
Mission Statement:  To ensure that energy switching is swift, simple, and absolutely hassle-free. They are dedicated to seeing you save money on your energy bills in a more efficient way.

Environment for the Americas
Mission Statement: Environment for the Americas was created as a result of International Migratory Bird Day’s success. At EFTA we strive to make bird conservation education available throughout the Western Hemisphere.

Environmental Working Group
Mission Statement: Works to protect children and kids from toxic chemicals in our food, water, air, and the products we use every day.

Fresh Energy
Mission Statement: Fresh Energy’s mission is to shape and drive realistic, visionary energy policies that benefit all. Together we are working toward a vision for an economy we thrive in, and energy that ensures our well-being.

Fluent Conveyors                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Mission Statement: the article has details of where trash ends up, how recycling and other solutions can help with the problem, and how businesses can manage waste.

Give MN
Mission statement: Give MN works to help connect generous donors like you with nonprofits and schools working to make our state a better place.

Great River Greening
Mission statement: Twin Cities area nonprofit interested in engaging local youth in hands-on environmental projects.

The Green Earth Magic Show
By Kevin Barnes

The Green Office Guide
Mission Statement:  To create a more sustainable and efficient  way of saving energy, water, waste disposal, and office supplies. A green office is a workspace which takes its impact on the environment into account by introducing sustainability measures.

 Green Flag Program
Mission Statement: The goal of the program is for students, teachers, parents, and administrative and facilities departments to work together through an investigative process to pass safer and healthier school policies in the program’s four issue areas:

Green Grandparents                                                                                                                                                                                                              Mission Statement: Mission is to educate our grandchildren in living green by setting a good example.

Healthy Child Healthy World
Mission Statement: Educating parents and all who are concerned with our children’s health about preventable health problems caused by exposure to toxins.

Healthy Legacy
Mission Statement: Healthy Legacy promotes healthy lives by supporting the production and use of everyday products without toxic chemicals. We advocate for consumer education, business leadership, and protective policies to advance safe alternatives in Minnesota.

Healthy Schools
Mission Statement: HealthySchools.org is working to improve the conditions of school facilities and to promote children’s environmental-occupational health in their ‘workplaces’.

How To Reduce & Dispose of Our PPE Waste More Responsibly                                                                                                              Mission Statement: With a focus on the current impact of PPE on the world, we’ll assess how you can responsibly manage your wastage, as well as the safest ways to dispose of the equipment you have used.

Join the Health Wave
Mission Statement: Go to Join the Health Wave to learn how to eliminate children’s exposure to man-made toxic substances by ensuring everyone’s right-to-know what is in their air, food, water, and commercial products

Look Before you Leap
Mission Statement: A great way for kids to learn about environmental health issues.

Nobelity Project
Mission Statement: An educational and action non-profit dedicated to a better future for all our children.

Natural Spaces Domes
(Kids for Saving Earth Sponsor)
Mission Statement:  Learn about “green” and healthy homes. (KSE Sponsor)

Neighbor
Mission Statement: Learn how to make an move a greener one. Helpful tips to show you how to stay eco-friendly when moving.

Operation RubyThroat
Mission Statement: “Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project” is a cross-disciplinary international initiative in which people collaborate to study behavior and distribution of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris).

Pine Mountain Elementary
Mission Statement: A student from Mrs. DiCaprio’s 4th-grade class asked to include this link for a school assignment.
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KSE also has a link for Earth protecting bathrooms
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Players for the Planet
Mission Statement: Players for the Planet was founded by Chris Dickerson of the Cincinnati Reds and former Major League Baseball player Jack Cassel to bring professional athletes together so that they could work with and inspire individuals in communities across the United States to be aware of the power we all have to reverse the environmental crisis we are just beginning to recognize.

Portage County Groundwater
Mission Statement: People of all ages and backgrounds who want to learn about the water they drink and use every day, ways to help, and other resources should explore these pages.

Recycle It!
Mission Statement: Teaching kids the correct things to recycle.

Sierra Club
Mission Statement: The Sierra Club’s members are more than 750,000 of your friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, we work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America’s oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization.

The Smart Home
Mission Statement:  A homeowner’s guide to eco-technology and renewable energy.

The Case For Electric Busses
Mission Statement:  School bus routes being a great use-case for electric vehicles.

The Ultima Thule
Mission Statement: Follow Shannon Huffman Polson as she and her husband travel the last frontiers in Alaska

Yellow Tractor Project
Mission Statement: The Yellow Tractor Program advocates for sustainable growth by building vegetable and fruit gardens; clearing a path for food security, providing opportunities for healthier life skills, and creating a safe place for children to grow not only food, but themselves.

Stop the poaching of animals in the
KSE Rain Forest

Other programs:
Defenders of wildlife
Dolphins
Gorilla fund
National Geographic
Save the frogs
Save the manatee
World animal foundation
World wildlife