Links
Environment/Climate Change
Union of Concerned Scientists: The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.
National Resources Defense Council: NRDC is one of the nation’s most effective environmental action organization. They use law, science and the support of 1.3 million members and online activists to protect the planet’s wildlife and wild places.
Grist: A beacon in the smog, Grist has been dishing out environmental news and commentary with a wry twist since 1999. As the country’s leading online source of environmental news and analysis, Grist informs, inspires, and links America’s next generation of green citizens — with an irreverent twist that keeps people coming back for more.
Greenpeace: Around since 1979, Greenpeace is the leading independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful direct action and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.
Society of Environmental Journalists: The Society of Environmental Journalists is the only North-American membership association of professional journalists dedicated to more and better coverage of environment-related issues.
Scientific American: Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S., has been bringing its readers unique insights about developments in science and technology for more than 160 years.
Global Warming Is Real: Carbon Commentary for the Concerned Citizen. Global Warming is Real is your place for news, resources and commentary on climate change, energy and sustainability. A blog where debate is welcomed and the ‘content offered here is meant to educate, enlighten, perhaps enrage, and maybe even entertain’.
Peace
Antiwar is devoted to the cause of non-interventionism and is read by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, “greens,” and independents alike, as well as many on the Right who agree with our opposition to imperialism.
After Downing Street is a nonpartisan coalition of over 200 veterans groups, peace groups, and political activist groups that has worked since May 2005 to pressure both Congress and the media in order to hold Bush, Cheney, and their aides accountable for crimes and abuses of power.
Political
Huffington Post offers syndicated columnists, blogs and news stories with moderated comments.
Daily Kos is a daily weblog with political analysis on US current events from a liberal perspective. It is at once a news organization, community, and activist hub.
The Nation Unconventional wisdom since 1865, making an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred.
Think Progress is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The Center for American Progress Action Fund is a nonpartisan organization. Through this blog, CAPAF seeks to provide a forum that advances progressive ideas and policies.
