BlackRhinoceros: environmental activism. Action alerts on energy efficiency, global warming, nuclear-free energy and renewable energy


	Take action on energy. In the left column: the promoting organizations' homepages; in the right: the Actions, with the date each was added or most recently verified. Energy Efficiency Global warming Nuclear free energy Renewable energy Actions on energy falling into two or more of these subcategories Please tell us if you know of other Actions on energy or if there are errors in any of the links on this page. Register to be automatically notified of all updates to this Energy Actions page.
	Energy efficiency
	Environmental Defense Action Network		stop threat by belligerent US congress to damage energy efficiency measures and threaten Arctic wildlife with misguided Energy Bill (Oct 3, 2002)
	Sierra Club		support higher fuel economy standards (Feb 2, 2002)
	PROACT		stop the proposed hydro project in Iceland (Jan 11, 2002)
	Clean Up Southern Company		send a message to Southern Company's CEO, Allen Franklin, urging him to clean up Southern's dirty power plants (Jan 4, 2002)
	Senate Energy Caucus		letter urging US senators to join bipartisan green coalition (Aug 16, 2001)
	Alliance to Save Energy		letter campaign to preserve US Department of Energy funding for energy-saving projects (Aug 15, 2001)

	Global warming
	Environmental Defense Action Network		support US legislation to curb emissions and reduce global warming (Jan 27, 2004)
	World Stewardship Institute		insist that US lawmakers vote to curb global warming (Oct 14, 2003)
	Greenpeace		ask US private investment fund, Sandefer to withdraw from damaging Australian oil plant (May 8, 2003)
	Environmental Defense Action Network		join emergency campaign supporting US Climate Stewardship Act (Apr 25, 2003)
	Environmental Defense Action Network		sign emergency petition on global warming (Apr 22, 2003)
	Environmental Defense Action Network		sign petition to avert climate disaster (Mar 6, 2003)
	Environmental Defense Action Network		challenge US car makers to stop countersuing on environmental laws and reduce emissions and pollution instead (Dec 13, 2002)
	Friends of the Earth		lobby EU leaders on global warming (Aug 31, 2002)
	Environmental Defense Action Network		fight for clean energy in California (Aug 9, 2002)
	Greenpeace		stop ExxonMobil from trying to silence Greenpeace's opposition to its harmful practices (Jul 12, 2002)
	Bluewater Network		act to reduce global warming pollution in California (Jul 10, 2002)
	World Wildlife Fund		insist on the passage of legislation in California to limit emissions from cars (Jul 10, 2002)
	Environmental Defense Action Network		urge California governor to support legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions (Jul 3, 2002)
	Environmental Defense Action Network		urge California's governor to resist auto industry pressure and to support gas pollution reduction from cars and trucks (Jun 19, 2002)
	Clean Car Campaign		take the pledge to buy a clean car (May 17, 2002)
	Environmental Defense Action Network		tell US senators to make California a leader in efforts to stop global warming; support 'AB 1058' (May 17, 2002)
	Friends of the Earth		protest Exxon's wrongful manipulation of climate science: downplaying global warming (Apr 15, 2002)
	WorkingForChange		take action to stop global warming (Apr 12, 2002)
	Save Our Environment		demand that Bush take effective action on global warming (Mar 12, 2002)
	Natural Resources Defense Council		tell Governor Bush to develop an effective global warming plan for Florida (Feb 28, 2002)
	SEEN (Sustainable Energy and Economy Network)		tell the World Bank not to invest in fossil fuels (Jan 25, 2002)
	StopEsso		pledge to stop Esso (Nov 30, 2001)
	Greenpeace		expose Ford Motors' double standards on global warming (Oct 31, 2001)
	WorkingForChange		call for a Ford hybrid sedan (Sep 20, 2001)
	Campaign ExxonMobil		urge the ExxonMobil board to question what management is telling about global warming (Sep 2, 2001)
	Grist Magazine		annotated links to a variety of global warming Actions (Aug 30, 2001)
	Energy Revolution		fax the Canadian Prime Minister on Kyoto (Aug 28, 2001)
	Natural Resources Defense Council		letter to US government on its energy policy (Aug 27, 2001)
	Earth Day		boycott Global Climate Coalition companies (Aug 26, 2001)
	International Center for Technology Assessment		petition to US government on global warming (Aug 25, 2001)
	20/20 Vision		urge Bush to act on global warming (Aug 21, 2001)
	The Environment Site		environmental 'click-for-charity' site (Aug 20, 2001)
	Public Interest Research Group		multi-format campaign to halt global warming (Aug 16, 2001)
	Union of Concerned Scientists		contact US lawmakers for a responsible energy policy (Aug 16, 2001)
	Earth Island Institute		campaign to reduce greenhouse emissions in California (Aug 15, 2001)
	Greenpeace		tell Ford to support Kyoto (Aug 5, 2001)
	World Wildlife Fund		online petitions, registration and membership possible (Aug 5, 2001)
	Friends of the Earth		email the UK Chancellor to oppose lowering of fuel tax (Aug 4, 2001)
	Friends of the Earth		Action to urge US government to support the Kyoto Treaty (Aug 1, 2001)
	National Wildlife Federation		Actions to support Kyoto (Aug 1, 2001)
	Union of Concerned Scientists		letter to US government for cleaner school buses (Aug 1, 2001)

	Nuclear free energy
	Sierra Club		keep radioactive waste out of California municipal landfills (Sep 14, 2002)
	Sierra Club		stop attempts to deregulate nuclear waste in California (Aug 10, 2002)
	Greenpeace		stop BNFL's transport across the world of weapons-usable plutonium (Jul 19, 2002)
	MapScience Center		use this site to map your proximity to US nuclear waste routes — and protest! (Jul 17, 2002)
	Waterkeeper Alliance		close Indian Point, a dangerous nuclear plant 50 miles from 8% of the US population (May 30, 2002)
	Missouri Coalition for the Environment		stop nuclear waste dumping in St Louis Missouri (Apr 8, 2002)
	Global Resource Action Center for the Environment		oppose plans to ruin Yucca Mountain in Nevada with nuclear waste (Mar 4, 2002)
	Global Resource Action Center for the Environment		act to abolish the nuclear threat (Mar 2, 2002)
	Greenpeace		oppose nuclear power (Mar 1, 2002)
	Greenpeace		end subsidies to nuclear power in the US (Feb 2, 2002)
	PetitionOnline		close Sellafield nuclear power plant in the UK (Jan 27, 2002)
	Friends of the Earth		act to stop the return of nuclear energy in the UK (Dec 9, 2001)
	GreenMatters		fight US Vice President Cheney's nuclear power agenda (Oct 11, 2001)
	GreenMatters		tell the US energy department to prohibit the use of radioactive waste products in any type of commercial or business product (Oct 11, 2001)
	Physicians for Social Responsibility		tell US Energy Secretary to keep his promise on nuclear energy (Oct 5, 2001)
	GreenMatters		demand that the US Congress that the Price-Anderson Act should not be renewed (Aug 16, 2001)
	Grist Magazine		annotated links to US energy Actions (Aug 3, 2001)
	Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS)		Action alert pages (Aug 1, 2001)

	Renewable energy
	World Wildlife Fund		explain to Wisconsin governor why expanding a coal power plant is bad for the immediate environment and the habitats and life it supports (Feb 25, 2004)
	SaveBioGems		protect Cape Breton Island off Canada's eastern coast from oil drilling (Nov 25, 2003)
	Zero Emission Pledge		pledge not to purchase a new vehicle unless it is a zero, or near zero emission (Nov 20, 2003)
	The Wilderness Society		tell US legislators to defeat damaging new Energy Bill (H. R. 6) (Nov 18, 2003)
	SaveBioGems		tell Shell Canada to call off its gas development activities in the Castle Wilderness (Nov 12, 2003)
	Friends of the Earth		tell the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development not to fund the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline (Sep 30, 2003)
	CorpWatch		stop the Camisea Gas Project and its destructive pipeline in Peru's Amazon (Aug 4, 2003)
	Biogems		tell Shell Canada to drop plans to despoil areas of Alberta (with gas 'development') for profit (Jun 21, 2003)
	Natural Resources Defense Council		explain to US lawmakers the folly of dependence on fossil fuels (May 10, 2003)
	Friends of the Earth		tell AMEC to pull out of Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline (May 8, 2003)
	Greenpeace		ask US private investment fund, Sandefer to withdraw from damaging Australian oil plant (May 8, 2003)
	Audubon Society		protect areas of Alaska critical for wildlife from unnecessary oil 'exploration': protest to the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) (Mar 18, 2003)
	Environmental Action and Education Network		stop pipeline construction through Tuninskii National Park in Russia (Dec 18, 2002)
	Greenpeace		stop another oil tanker disaster: support Greenpeace's blockading the 'Byzantio' in Tallinn, Estonia, and its 50,000 tonnes cargo hazard (Nov 29, 2002)
	Friends of the Earth		oppose BP's pipeline in Turkey (Nov 13, 2002)
	Amazon Watch		stop the disastrous Camisea natural gas project in Peru (Oct 22, 2002)
	Sierra Club		support clean energy in California (Aug 1, 2002)
	Common Purpose		US renewable energy email advocacy campaign (Jun 26, 2002)
	Greenpeace		challenge world governments to provide clean, safe, renewable energy for all (Jun 25, 2002)
	Izaak Walton League of America		support the US Clean Power Act (Apr 12, 2002)
	WorkingForChange		urge US senators to drop destructive energy plan (Apr 12, 2002)
	SaveBioGems		protect the Talamanca coast in Costa Rica from oil-drilling proposals (Apr 10, 2002)
	Greenpeace		insist that EC Energy Commissioner, de Palacio, abandon support for dirty, dangerous energy (Apr 4, 2002)
	Greenpeace		urge US senators to oppose the Bush energy agenda (Mar 4, 2002)
	Cape Wind		support clean wind energy powering Cape Cod and Massachusetts (Feb 28, 2002)
	Earth Island Institute		protect Big Cypress National Preserve from oil and gas drilling (Feb 21, 2002)
	Sierra Club		oppose destruction of the Arctic as a viable energy 'policy' (Feb 2, 2002)
	Association for the Conservation of Energy		campaign on a variety of energy conservation issues in the UK (Jan 25, 2002)
	Greenpeace		support solar energy projects in Morocco (Jan 25, 2002)
	SEEN (Sustainable Energy and Economy Network)		tell the World Bank not to invest in fossil fuels (Jan 25, 2002)
	MoveOn.org		take the pledge to use energy wisely in daily living (Jan 16, 2002)
	Pacific Environment		tell Exxon-Mobil to obey Russian law and not destroy the coast off Sakhalin Island (Jan 1, 2002)
	SEAC (Student Environmental Action Coalition)		support clean, safe energy. Take a variety of Actions (Oct 27, 2001)
	Union of Concerned Scientists		demand fuel-efficient cars and trucks: contact your US Senators and ask them to cosponsor the Feinstein bill, S.804 (Oct 6, 2001)
	World Wildlife Fund		urge members of the US senate not to be panicked into destruction of the Arctic for oil (Oct 4, 2001)
	Alliance to Save Energy		carry out a home energy audit (Sep 21, 2001)
	EcoAction		call for clean energy in Canada (Sep 21, 2001)
	Environmental Law and Policy Center		push for the Midwest high-speed rail (Sep 21, 2001)
	Grist Magazine		commit to a more energy-efficient lifestyle (Sep 21, 2001)
	Power Scorecard		get cleaner energy (Sep 21, 2001)
	the Center for a New Americal Dream		thank a company for wanting energy efficiency (Sep 21, 2001)
	Campaign ExxonMobil		tell ExxonMobil to make a serious commitment to invest in renewable energy (Sep 2, 2001)
	Campaign ExxonMobil		urge the ExxonMobil board to question what management is telling about global warming (Sep 2, 2001)
	Greenpeace		oppose US government plan to open US coasts to oil and gas development (Aug 27, 2001)
	Grist Magazine		annotated links to a variety of renewable and clean energy Actions (Aug 27, 2001)
	GreenMatters		tell US lawmakers that building new coal-burning power plants is wrong (Aug 26, 2001)
	Grist Magazine		annotated links to transportation and energy Actions (Aug 25, 2001)
	Senate Energy Caucus		letter urging US senators to join bipartisan green coalition (Aug 25, 2001)
	Earth Island Institute		'Flex Your Power' energy campaign (California) (Aug 22, 2001)
	Natural Resources Defense Council		NDRC petition to US legislators on Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Aug 22, 2001)
	The United States of America's Declaration of Independence from Fossil Fuels		international endorsement of the US petition (Aug 16, 2001)
	The United States of America's Declaration of Independence from Fossil Fuels		petition US government to support alternative sources of energy (Aug 16, 2001)
	The Wilderness Society		fax Bush to protest harmful effects of energy policy on America's wildlands (Aug 16, 2001)
	Campaign to Defend America's Environment		concerted campaign in support of alternatives to Bush's energy policies (Aug 11, 2001)
	Union of Concerned Scientists		oppose US plans to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Aug 11, 2001)
	20/20 Vision		tell the US Congress not to allow drilling in the Arctic (Aug 5, 2001)
	20/20 Vision		tell the US Congress to support the Auto Fuel Economy Bill (Aug 5, 2001)
	GreenMatters		protest US government's energy plans (Aug 4, 2001)
	Public Interest Research Group		multi-format campaign for renewable, efficient, affordable and lasting energy (Aug 3, 2001)
	Grist Magazine		annotated links to US energy Actions (Aug 1, 2001)

	Energy - General
	Environmental Defense Action Network		tell US lawmakers not to pass damaging 'energy' bill (Jan 20, 2004)
	Environmental Defense Action Network		help defeat misguided legislation which would seek to put the US military machine 'above' essential environmental protection laws (May 21, 2003)
	World Wildlife Fund		stop attempts by US legislators to cut environmental education spending (Nov 1, 2002)
	Energy Justice Network		stop the damaging US Energy Bill, really a charter for corporations (Oct 9, 2002)
	Friends of the Earth		make your voice heard for better energy policies at the Earth Summit (Aug 8, 2002)
	Save Our Environment		tell Bush to stop assisting big business to destroy our environment (Jun 26, 2002)
	National Parks Conservation Association		insist that US congress must uphold environmental protection (Jun 12, 2002)
	National Wildlife Federation		act to stop destruction of US National Office of Environmental Education (Jun 12, 2002)
	GroenFront		variety of direct action protests and activities in the Netherlands (May 3, 2002)
	Animailbox.com		a commercial site with many 'click-to-save' Actions (Apr 12, 2002)
	Restoring the Earth Project		take a variety of focused actions through international effort to stop destruction of the Earth (Mar 28, 2002)
	World Wildlife Fund		help fend off threat to environmental education (Mar 26, 2002)
	EarthSave International		pledge to help the health of the Earth by not slaughtering and devouring animals (Mar 19, 2002)
	Earth Action Network		send specifically-targeted snail (surface) mail letters and faxes on a variety of urgent environmental issues (Mar 4, 2002)
	PetitionOnline		a large variety of online environmental petitions (Mar 4, 2002)
	World Wildlife Fund		urge US lawmakers to vote for sustainable energy with no damage to the environment (Feb 22, 2002)
	SaveBioGems		sign the Declaration of Energy Independence (Feb 13, 2002)
	Sierra Club		support clean safe energy legislation in the US (Feb 2, 2002)
	Information for Action		general resource for lobbying on energy issues (Jan 25, 2002)
	SafeClimate		lobby US lawmakers on energy issues (Jan 25, 2002)
	the Center for a New Americal Dream		join the Turn the Tide campaign, take nine small actions, personally, for the good of the planet (Oct 25, 2001)
	Action Network		sign up here to join 750,000 email activists: be automatically notified of current Actions (Oct 1, 2001)
	Earth Share		get involved with Earth ShareÕs workplace giving campaigns (Sep 21, 2001)
	E The People		a variety of online environmental petitions (Aug 30, 2001)
	Witness to the Future		online threaded bulletin board system for activists (Aug 30, 2001)
	EnviroCop		report environmental crime in the Boston Massachusetts area (Aug 27, 2001)
	Green Solitaire		a general list of Actions and sites containing Action pages (Aug 27, 2001)
	Public Interest Research Group		support the maintenance of existing US environmental legislation (Aug 27, 2001)
	Izaak Walton League of America		track the progress of conservation and environmental legislation on US Capitol Hill (Aug 26, 2001)
	Action Network		portal to a variety of local and national (US) e-activist sites (Aug 25, 2001)
	The Petition Site		a variety of online environmental petitions (Aug 22, 2001)
	Working Assets		act for change section (Aug 20, 2001)
	Protest.net		a large variety of fast-changing protests on energy issues (Aug 16, 2001)
	Environmental Advocates		environmental issues in New York (Aug 15, 2001)
	Macrocosm USA		directory service of environmental Actions (Aug 11, 2001)
	Actions Without Borders		environmental Actions drop down list (Aug 5, 2001)
	National Environmental Trust		join an activists' network on energy (Aug 4, 2001)
	Network for Change		select from a 100+ long list of environment (and other) issues to work on (Aug 3, 2001)
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