Actionbioscience.org
Actionbioscience.org provides articles by scientists, science educators, and science students on issues related to seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers in science, and bioscience education. In addition, the web site provides educators with lessons and resources to enhance bioscience teaching.

Allan Savory Center for Holistic Management
The Savory Center is an international not-for-profit organization established in 1984 to coordinate the development of Holistic Management worldwide. Holistic Management is a new, profoundly simple decision-making framework that can be used in any situation from your personal life to empowering people to deal effectively with problems as great as worldwide desertification, global climate change, or the development of an agriculture that could truly sustain civilization. Semi-literate villagers in Africa to sophisticated scientific teams are using it. This center provides education and training so landowners can regenerate their farms and ranches. Available on their web site is information about the Holistic Management model and details on planning and monitoring. The Savory Center also offers on-site technical assistance.

Alliance for Redesigning Government
Alliance for Redesigning Government promotes public/private partnerships. It is a center and clearinghouse for state, local and federal innovators.

Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC), U.S. Department of Agriculture
The AFSIC web site provides information about organic food production, sustainable agriculture, and community supported agriculture.

American Corn Growers Association
American Corn Growers Association works to develop national legislation that protects the interests of corn growers. This web site attemtps to educate and organize corn growers politically.

American Farmland Trust
American Farmland Trust is a nationwide nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting agricultural resources. Founded by a group of concerned farmers in 1980, AFT's mission is to stop the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming practices that lead to a healthy environment.

American Farmland Trust Info Center

American Forests
American Forests' mission is to help people improve the environment with trees. We work to ensure a sustainable future for our nation's forests -both urban and rural - through national and international tree planting, forest policy, urban forestry, and popular programs, such as The National Register of Big Trees and Famous & Historic Trees. The Forest Policy Center provides policy information and promotes dialogue on issues related to the protection and sustainable management of forest ecosystems. The Urban Forest Center brings cutting-edge technology such as the CITY green software package and local action together to ensure that urban communities are green and healthy. Their national sprawl initiative offers communities a plan and solid economic rationale for retaining trees and forests and offers tools to measure environmental benefits.

American Planning Association
The American Planning Association and its professional institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners, are organized to advance the art and science of planning and to foster the activity of planning -- physical, economic, and social -- at the local, regional, state, and national levels. The objective of the Association is to encourage planning that will contribute to public well-being by developing communities and environments that meet the needs of people and society more effectively. APA's planning research includes Growing Smart, a multiyear project to draft the next generation of model planning and zoning legislation for the U.S.

American Rivers
American Rivers is a nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring rivers nationwide. Founded over 25 years ago, today American Rivers has offices in Washington, DC and across the country.

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