Organizations with additional resources:

The Sierra Club- Anne Woiwode, State Director Michigan Chapter The Sierra Club's members and supporters are more than 1.3 million of your friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, they work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Sierra Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.

Natural Resources Defense Council is a non-profit environmental organization with 1.2 million members and online activists and a staff of scientists, attorneys and environmental experts. Their mission is to protect the plantet's wildlife and wild places and ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.

Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. They combine independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices. The Union of Concerned Scientists stands out among nonprofit organizations as the reliable source for independent scientific analysis. The scientists and policy experts on their staff are highly respected in both Washington, DC, and state capitols, and are frequently called to testify before government committees.

Architecture 2030 is a non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization. In 2002, internationally recognized architect Edward Mazria established this organization in response to the global-warming crisis. His vision is to rapidly transform the US and global Building Sector from the major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions to a central part of the solution to the global-warming crisis.

Alliance for the Great Lakes Initially formed in 1970 as the Lake Michigan Federation, this organization became the Alliance for the Great Lakes in 2005. Their mission is to "conserve and restore the world's largest freshwater resource using policy, education and local efforts, ensuring a healthy Great Lakes and clean water for generations of people and wildlife."

Michigan Land Use Institute The MLUI focuses its work on land stewardship, energy development, resource protection, agriculture, transportation, and environmental and economic policy.

Clear The Air is a national public education campaign to combat Global Warming. Clear the Air brings together grassroots organizations, national environmental groups, and policy experts to make the case for stricter pollution controls to communities, government agencies, elected representatives, and the media.

NextEnergy is a non-profit corporation founded to enable the commercialization of energy technologies that positively contribute to economic competitiveness, energy security and the environment.

NextEnergy can be relied upon for objective, technically balanced thought leadership on pressing energy issues and opportunities facing Michigan and the nation, filling critical knowledge gaps between industry and institutions.

NextEnergy stands ready to assist Michigan's government and economic development leaders in attracting, nurturing and retaining alternative energy businesses and employment opportunities.

Apollo Alliance is a coalition of industry, labor and environmental leaders that have formed a broad-based constituency in support of a sustainable and clean energy economy that will create millions of good jobs for the nation, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and create cleaner and healthier communities.

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