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Other groups doing great work worthy of support
Birds, Wildlife, and Habitat Conservation
The San Pasqual Valley Preservation Alliance was created to educate, protect and advocate for the ongoing preservation of the San Pasqual Valley, it’s surrounding lands, habitats, resources and wildlife. Currently we are joining other state and local groups opposed to the proposed Harvest Hills (previously Safari Highlands Ranch) development, a sprawling 550 home development being planned for the untouched lands to the north of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and east of existing homes in the San Pasqual Valley. This land is presently undeveloped and mostly inaccessible open space, home to a variety of habitats, animals, cultural and natural resources that face significant and/or long-term disruption and destruction if development of this size, scope and duration is undertaken. Future areas of concern are protecting the San Pasqual Valley Agricultural Preserve and opposing efforts to develop Rancho Guejito.
Sierra Club North County Group
Local education and advocacy organization is a group of the larger San Diego Chapter. Is a leader fighting Harvest Hills and champion of climate, conservation, waste, and other important issues. The North County Group also focuses on outings and wilderness education in inland north county. Key activities include a Wilderness Basics Course offered from January through March each year.
Environmental Center of San Diego
We envision a community working together to protect and enhance San Diego’s natural environment through education, advocacy and direct action, and to ensure access to the coast where feasible.
We work to promote healthy natural systems in San Diego by inspiring a deeper understanding and appreciation of positive environmental change and advocacy while working to improve the quality of life and economic vitality of our community.
Endangered Habitats League
www.ehleague.orgThe Endangered Habitats League is dedicated to the protection of the diverse ecosystems of Southern California and to sensitive and sustainable land use for the benefit of all the region’s inhabitants.
San Diego Audubon
San Diego Audubon leads the way in fostering knowledge and appreciation of the natural world and seeks to become an even more significant resource for our communities through our education, environmental recreation, and numerous conservation programs.
Palomar Audubon Society
The mission of Palomar Audubon Society is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds and other wildlife for the benefit of humanity and the earth’s biological diversity.
Cleveland National Forest Foundation
The Cleveland National Forest Foundation is made up of private citizens who believe that action must be taken to protect the remaining undeveloped lands within the forest, as well as those lands whose future may impact the integrity of the wilderness. We are not political. We are dedicated to preserving land and educating the public. Our goal is to acquire or help to maintain privately held land that’s still in its natural state and preserve it in perpetuity.
California Native Plant Society San Diego Chapter
The California Native Plant Society is a statewide nonprofit organization seeking to increase understanding and appreciation of California’s native plants and to preserve them in their natural habitat through scientific activities, education, conservation, and restoration.
The San Diego Chapter serves San Diego and Imperial counties. We invite you to come to our meetings and field trips, learn more about the flora of our state, and meet people who share your interest in native plants. You may email us to ask general questions about native plants or the chapter.
San Diego County Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP)
http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/pds/mscp/
http://www.sandiego.gov/planning/programs/mscp/summary/index.shtml
http://keepsandiegomoving.com/EMP/EMP-management-monitoring.aspx
The Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP) is a comprehensive habitat conservation planning program for southwestern San Diego County. The MSCP will preserve a network of habitat and open space, protecting biodiversity and enhancing the region’s quality of life
Lakes, streams, oceans, water quality, marine habitat
San Diego CoastKeeper www.sdcoastkeeper.orgSan Diego Coastkeeper protects and restores fishable, swimmable and drinkable waters in San Diego County.
Escondido Creek Conservancy www.escondidocreek.orgThe Escondido Creek Conservancy is dedicated to the preservation, restoration and protection of the natural open space within the Escondido Creek watershed.
San Dieguito River Conservancy
The San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy is a non-profit, citizen-based organization helping to implement the San Dieguito River Park and its Coast to Crest Trail stretching 70 miles from Volcan Mountain near Julian to the ocean between Del Mar and Solana Beach.
Climate Change
San Diego 350.org
SanDiego350.org is an all-volunteer team of San Diegans dedicated to raising awareness, developing leaders, and advocating for climate change action.
Whether you are an activist, lawyer, scientist, designer, educator, programmer, speaker, student, videographer, nurse, or musician, you can make a difference.
Join us to work on public education, public policy, demonstrations, coalition building, and more.
Climate Action Campaign
Climate Action Campaign has a simple mission: to stop climate change.
It’s a simple purpose to protect the people and places we love from the ravages of a warming world.
Recently published climate science overwhelmingly demonstrates that previous actions by local, national, and global actors are not enough to solve this problem. In order to stop climate change, we need experienced advocates at the local, state, and national levels promoting relevant, achievable, and legally binding climate policies. Climate Action Campaign is unique in the San Diego region in that it is solely focused on stopping climate change through policy action. 100% of our time, energy, and finances are dedicated toward achieving this essential mission.
Our Approach
We believe change happens from the bottom up. That’s why we’re focused on working with civic leaders and policymakers at the local level to enact legally binding policies designed to stop climate change. Our work in the City of San Diego has already resulted in the passage of the City’s groundbreaking 2015 Climate Action Plan, which has made San Diego the largest city in the United States with a legal commitment to reach 100% clean energy by 2035. We are also working with eleven other city, county, and regional government agencies located throughout San Diego County to help them implement similar 100% clean energy climate plans and other important climate action policies. We believe our locally based actions toward stopping climate change will yield measurable improvements in our communities and will create the momentum necessary to pass similarly effective and enforceable policies at the state and national levels.
Sustainability and Sustainable Living
Sky Mountain Institute
Sky Mountain Institute’s Expressive Arts Therapy Trainings and Ecological and Community Programs have the living earth at their core. They are designed to realign us with an ecological vision of a sustainable human-earth presence, imaginal competency, and relational depth as members within our global and local communities.
Environmental Justice
Environmental Health Coalition
The region’s leading environmental justice organization working in San Diego and Tijuana region to empower people, organize communities, and achieve justice in communities heavily burdened by toxic pollution.
California Environmental Justice Alliance
CEJA is a statewide coalition of grassroots, environmental justice organizations. We are working to achieve environmental justice by organizing in low-income communities and communities of color – those most impacted by environmental hazards – and by pushing for policies at the federal, state, regional and local levels that protect public health and the environment.
Environmental Regulators
Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC)
www.dtsc.ca.gov/InformationResources/
The mission of DTSC is to protect California’s people and environment from harmful effects of toxic substances by restoring contaminated resources, enforcing hazardous waste laws, reducing hazardous waste generation, and encouraging the manufacture of chemically safer products.
State Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Diego Region
www.waterboards.ca.gov/sandiego/
The mission of the San Diego Regional Board is developing and enforcing water quality objectives and implementing plans that will best protect the area’s waters while recognizing our local differences in climate, topography, geology and hydrology.
State Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)
OEHHA’s mission is to protect and enhance public health and the environment by scientific evaluation of risks posed by hazardous substances.
San Diego Air Pollution Control District (APCD)
The San Diego County Air Pollution Control District strives to protect the public from the harmful effects of air pollution, achieve and maintain air quality standards, foster community involvement and develop and implement cost-effective programs meeting state and federal mandates, considering environmental and economic impacts.If you have a link you’d like added here: email us!