Some of our favourite environmental organizations, as well as sources of information on toxics, PCBs, Sludge.
BC Spaces for Nature
http://rcbc.bc.ca
Earthsave Canada
http://earthsavecanada.wildapricot.org
British Columbia Conservation Federation
http://bccf.com
Canadian Wildlife Federation
http://cwf-fcf.org
Wilderness Committee
http://wildernesscommittee.org
Friends of Clayoquot Sound
http://focs.ca
Dogwood Initiative
http://dogwoodinitiative.org
Ecotrust
http://ecotrust.ca
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
http://www.cpaws.org
David Suziki Foundation
http://www.davidsuzuki.org
Federation of BC Naturalists
http://www.bcnature.ca
Greenpeace Canada
http://www.greenpeace.org/canada
The Land Conversancy
http://blog.conservancy.bc.ca
Nature Canada
http://www.naturecanada.ca
Recycling Council of BC
http://rcbc.bc.ca
Save our Salmon
http://www.saveoursalmon.ca
Sea Shepard Society
http://www.seashepherd.org/canada/
Sierra Club Canada
http://www.sierraclub.ca
Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN)
http://www.cban.ca
World Wildlife Fund
http://www.wwf.ca
West Coast Environmental Law
http://www.wcel.org
Reach For Unbleached – working for a sustainable pulp and paper industry
www.rfu.org
Look up the polluters in your neighbourhood and find out what those chemicals do to human health. Based on Canada’s National Pollution Release Inventory data and 8 toxicological databases
www.pollutionwatch.org
Website for authors of Our Stolen Future, provides regular updates about the cutting edge of science related to endocrine disruption. Search this site for specific chemicals
www.ourstolenfuture.org
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity – Global Recognition Campaign for Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and other chemically induced illnesses, diseases and injury affecting civilians and military personnel, with extensive information links
www.mcs-global.org
Health Canada – the most conservative view
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/iyh/environment/pcb.html
US public health implications of exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/DT/pcb007.html
PCBs, Fish Consumption and Health Risks, Hudson Riverkeeper
http://www.riverkeeper.org/campaigns/stop-polluters/pcbs/
Cornell Waste Management Institute, Department of Crop & Soil Sciences, Sludge documents – authoritative evaluations of risks, especially useful for metal
http://cwmi.css.cornell.edu
Water
Blue Planet Links – water resource website
www.blueplanetlinks.ca