These organizations use tactics varying from direct action to job training, but they all are working to protect the planet in a substantial way.
Through twitter, anyone can stay up to date with their latest efforts to restore and protect habitats, influence environmental policy, and curb climate change. Take the opportunity to tap into the thoughts of those pushing for change and perhaps find some ideas of how you can help.
In alphabetical order:
AIDG – @aidg
Alliance for Climate – @ClimateEd
Alliance to Save Energy – @ToSaveEnergy
Amazon Watch – @AmazonWatch
Animal Aid – @AnimalAid
Bikes for the World – @bikesftworld
Blue Planet Society – @Seasaver
Camp for Climate Action – @ClimateCampLdn
Chesapeake Climate Action Network – @CCAN
Clean Air Conservancy – @CleanAirConserv
Clean Air Georgia – @CleanAirGA
Climate Cycle Africa – @ClimateCycle
Climate Rescue – @ClimateRescue
Conservation NW – @ConservationNW
Defenders of Wildlife – @Defenders
Earth Hour – @earthhour
Earth Institute – @earthinstitute
Earth Island Institute – @EarthIsland
Earthjustice – @Earthjustice
Earth Share – @EarthShare
ECO Canada – @ecocanada
Ecojustice – @Ecojustice_ca
Eco Preservation Society – @EcoPreservation @EcoInteractive
Endangered Species Coalition – @stopextinction
Environmental Defense Fund - @EnvDefenseFund
Farm Animal Rights Movement – @FARMUSA
FarmForward – @FarmForward
Farm Sanctuary – @FarmSanctuary
Food & Water Watch – @Foodandwater
Forest Ethics – @ForestEthics
Friends of the Earth – @wwwfoecouk @foe_us
Global Green USA – @globalgreenusa
Go Sustainable – @gosustainable
Greener Leith – @greenerleith
Green For All – @GreenForAll
Greenpeace – @Greenpeace @Greenpeace_Intl @GreenpeaceUSA
Healthy Child Healthy World – @healthy_child
Hawk Conservancy – @HawkConservancy
Heal the Bay – @HealtheBay
Humane Society of the United States – @HumaneSociety
Institute for Sustainable Communities- @SustainableComm
International Elephant Foundation – @IEF_elephants
Just Green – @Just_Green
Kiva – @Kiva
LCA Trust – @preserveland
Liberation BC – @liberationbc
Live Earth – @LiveEarth
National Park Foundation – @GoParks
National Wildlife Federation – @NWF
Natural Resources Defense Council – @NRDC @NRDCswitchboard
Nature Conservancy – @nature_org
Nature New South Whales – @naturensw
Northwest Earth Institute – @nwearth
Ohio Wildlife Rehab – @OWRA
Oregon Wild – @OregonWild
Pacific Forest Trust – @PacificForest
Rainforest Action Network – @RAN
Rainforest Alliance – @RnfrstAlliance
Rainforest Rescue – @SaveRainforests
Royal Society for Protecting Birds – @Natures_Voice
RSPCA – @RSPCA_official
Save Our Rivers – @SaveOurRivers
Save the Frogs – @savethefrogs
Sierra Club – @Sierra_Magazine
Sierra Club Great Lakes – @SC_Great_Lakes
Student Conservation Association – @the_sca
Surfrider Foundation – @SurfriderHQ @surfridereurope
Sustain US – @SustainUSAgents
The Australian Conservation Foundation – @AusConservation
The Climate Project – @ClimateProject
The Model Forest Policy Program – @MFPP
The Wilderness Society – @Wilderness
The Wild Foundation – @WILDfoundation
Trees, Water & People – @treeswater
Urban Land Institute – @UrbanLandInst
Vegan Outreach – @VeganOutreach
WA Wilderness – @Wa_Wilderness
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust – @wwtlondon
World Wildlife Fund – @World_Wildlife
1planet1ocean – @OceanDoctor
1Sky – @1Sky
This will be most useful as a comprehensive list, so please let me know if I missed any by sending me a tweet @AFelsinger.
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Alex Felsinger
Alex is primarily concerned with animal welfare, wildlife conservation, and environmental justice. As a freelance writer in San Francisco, he leads a deliberately simplistic and thrifty lifestyle, yet still can’t help gawking at the newest green gadgets and zero-emission concept cars.
23 Responses to 80+ Environmental Organizations to Follow on Twitter
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[...] you’re both super caring folks and want to live a super green life, there are plenty of worth environmental organizations out there that could use a helping hand (or four) and I’m sure the large majority of them [...]
Can you please add the following twitter accounts the are Environmental friendly sites –
http://www.twitter.com/Rubberecycle
http://twitter.com/rubbermulch
http://www.twitter.com/arosaenergy
Recycle Reuse Reduce
Thanks
Please add us, a project from MSc in Environmental Management and Policy from the IIIEE at Lund University
http://twitter.com/Rebelin140chr
Thank you.
Don’t forget the League of Conservation Voters! @LCVoters
Great list – very useful.
Also you can follow us at http://twitter.com/CoronaSTB – We are running an environmental campaign this summer to protect and clean Europes worst beaches.
Lots of eco/green/environmentla tweets
Brilliant list, thanks for sharing!
I’d recommend also following…
@RainforestSOS
@BumblebeeTrust
@TreeHugger
@1M_ActsOfGreen
Please add http://www.ensobottles.com. ENSO is an environmental company trying to do something about plastic bottle pollution.
Max
You should add @ConservationMN We are a state based organization, but talk about all types of conservation issues.
Great list. Thanks so much for taking the time to compile this. I am now following them all
Great list. Please also add these (mostly UK) environmental groups:
Stop Climate Chaos @scccoalition
Friends of the Earth Scotland @FoEScotland
Plane Stupid @planestupid
WWF UK @WWF_UK_web
Soil Association @SoilAssociation
Sustrans @Sustrans
Climate Rush @ClimateRush
Green Party @TheGreenParty
Woodland Trust @WoodlandTrust
Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk
UN Climate Change 09 @cop15
Centre for Alt Technology @centre_alt_tech
Thanks so much for the mention, Alex. We appreciate it!
this is a great list! thank you soo much for this great info
is there anyway we could be considered to be added to this list?
@randomprogress
thanks again!
Just the list I had been looking for a day ago! Thank you, Planetsave.
http://www.twitter.com/terracurve
Please add wwww.twitter.com/starecostation thx great list!!!!
We were delighted to be named one of 80 environmental organizations to follow on Twitter – thank you! We welcome any feedback, suggestions and ideas for making our tweets more valuable to everybody.
You might also consider joining the Tweet Group at TWIBES, an interesting resource to gather and share information.
http://www.twibes.com/group/Wildlife#
Thanks Alex for this great resource and the mention – we’ve already seen a new batch of followers since your post.
Awesome list, thank you!
This is a great list. Thanks.
http://www.twitter.com/milieunet
@Milieunet
Add to the list: http://twitter.com/ProjectGreenBag
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For those interested in China based groups.
China Environmental Law – chinaenvirolaw
Cleaner Greener China – @greenerchina
future China – @FutureChina
Greenpeace – @greenpeacecn
Grenovate – @greennovate
JUCCCE – @juccce
NRDC – @greenlawchina
Don’t forget @oceana!