"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

Henry David Thoreau

 

Environmental Activism

 

This page is intended to serve as a guide to actions we can all take to help to preserve our natural world. Some issues require immediate or relatively quick action. Others, while perhaps no less important, may require less immediate action.

Bookmark a site (such as the League of Conservation Voters, or one of the National Environmental organizations), or follow a link from this page, for the latest news on national issues. Since many national environmental organizations make information for environmental activism available on their sites, this site will probably be devoted to state (Pennsylvania) and local issues in the future, and it may be moving.

Thanks for helping to save the planet.

 

"The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic, and aesthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people."

Article I, Section 27, Pennsylvania Constitution

 

 

 

"Wilderness, once we have given it up, is beyond our reconstruction."

Wallace Stegner

 

Addesses and Phone Numbers

Federal

President and Vice President

President ____________________

The White House The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20500

 

Vice President____________________

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20500

 

(202) 456-1414, or

White House Switchboard for Public Comments: (202) 456-1111 (9:00am - 5:00pm, M-F)

U.S. Representatives and Senators:

The Honorable _______________

U.S. House of Representatives

Washington, DC 20515

 

The Honorable _______________

U.S. Senate

Washington, DC 20510

Capitol Switchboard: Toll-free 800-723-5246, or

House Switchboard: (202) 225-3121 Senate Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Ask for your Representative or Senator.

Pennsylvania State

The Honorable ____________________, Governor

Main Capitol

Harrisburg, PA 17120

(800) 932-0784

Representatives and Senators

The Honorable______________

House of Representatives

Main Capitol Building

Harrisburg, PA 17120

 

The Honorable_______________

Senate Post Office

Main Capitol Building

Harrisburg, PA 17120

" If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything."

Representative Don Young, Chairman, House Natural Resources Committee

 

Links to Other Sources of Information

Defenders of Wildlife

Environmental Defense Fund

Greenpeace

League of Conservation Voters

National Audubon Society

National Wildlife Federation

Natural Resources Defense Council

Sierra Club

Teaming With Wildlife

The Wilderness Society

World Wildlife Fund

 

"Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us -- if only we were worthy of it."

Edward Abbey

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Inflatable Damnation.

 

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