Student Environmental
Action Coalition
SIUE
Current President, Matt Gebhardt mgebhar@siue.edu

Current News

Students are organizing a new Illinois Forests, Lakes, Streams and Prairie Club on the SIUE campus.
 

Close the recycling loop  !!!!!

IMPORTANT LOCAL INFORMATION
 
 

IMPORTANT LOCAL LINKS

  1. Environmental Health and Safety SIUE
  2. Recycling Information & America Recycles Day
ACTION LINKS

Student Environmental Action Coalition - NATIONAL

RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK
 

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA CENTER
    FOR AQUATIC PLANTS AND INVASIVE PLANTS
          links here to Univ. of FLorida Herbarium and many more plant links

A Sense of Place   Native plants for locally appropriate landscapes

Cats Indoors:  The campaign for Safer Birds & Cats - materials on their mission to protect cats, birds, and other wildlife by keeping cats indoors.  american Bird Conservancy 1250 24th St. NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20037  (NOT A LINK)

Center for Marine Conservation promote information and support for marine animals

Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST) 

DEJASHOE produces shoes and boots made of recycled tires, newspapers, styrofoam, metal and cloth.  503-682-8814 (NOT  A LINK)

Corporate Watch Corporate Watch provides news, analysis, research tools and action resources to respond to corporate activity around the globe. They also talk with people who are directly affected by corporate abuses as well as with others fighting for corporate accountability, human rights, social and environmental justice. As part of the independent media, Corporate Watch is free of corporate sponsorship. Our parent organization is the Transnational Resource and Action Center (TRAC), based in San Francisco.  This site has three main functions:  a.) News, information, analysis and first person accounts, b.) Tools for your own research on corporations c.) Activist alerts connected to grassroots action

EcoMall  EcoRestaurants, ecoinvestment, ecoactivism, ecoenergy,EcoQuotes

The Ecology Channel , news, Peters garden tips, t.v.programs, new films and an ecomart

Envirolink Online Env Community, ecogift ideas, sustainable business jobs, etc.

Earth Day  Earth Day Events, Organization info. & Env. Resource Info.

Earthtimes Daily Environmental News (population, U.N., etc.) publ 6 x per year.

Earthwrite pencils - pencils made of recycled newspapers and cardboard boxes (2.39 per doz)

Kenaf - a plant that enables Vision Paper to produce 100% tree-free paper.  It grows to maturity in 180 days.  Vision Paper 505-294-0293 (NOT A LINK)

League of Conservation Voters Informs you of how Congress voted on environmental bills. It can tell you how your senators and representatives voted by percentage.

Nature Conservancy Uniting individuals, organizations, business and government to protect wildlife & wild
       places

Plants website -has info about plants names symbols, endangered/threatened, wetland, noxious with photos

Planet Neighborhood - looks at ways people across the nation are using down-to-Earth concepts and innovative technologies in their quest to preserve the environment.

Real Goods Catalog and OrganizationGoods for you that are good for the planet, also the Solar Living Center

Right to KnowNetwork - The Right-to-Know Network provides free access to numerous databases, text files, and conferences on the environment, housing, and sustainable development. With the information available on RTK.NET, you can identify specific factories and their environmental effects; analyze reinvestment by banks in their communities; and assess people and communities affected. and the Toxic Release Inventory.

Sierra Club to protect America's families and our future

ZPG Online (Zero Population Growth)

US Environmental Protection Agency