Local Organizations

Solana Center for Environmental Innovation is a San Diego-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that focuses on zero waste, composting, and water conservation. Our mission is to mobilize the local community through innovative outreach and provide consulting services to businesses and jurisdictions in order to address the region’s most pressing environmental issues and enact impactful change.

The Hill Country Alliance (HCA) is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to raise public awareness and build community support for preserving the natural heritage of Central Texas Hill Country through conservation and planned growth.

WHAT WE DO

We serve as a resource about Hill Country issues for elected officials at state and local levels, and we collaborate regularly with land trusts, universities, groundwater districts, government agencies, environmental groups and landowners.

Verde serves communities by building environmental wealth through Social Enterprise, Outreach and Advocacy.

Verde engages community members, peer organizations and policymakers about the connection between protecting the environment and building community, advocating and organizing with low-income people and people of color to drive environmental resources into their neighborhoods in response to existing needs.

Welcome to Beantown! The Boston Vegetarian Society seeks to help people, animals, and the environment by promoting a vegetarian way of life.

We provide education, community, and outreach to encourage healthy plant-based eating and compassionate, earth-friendly living.

In addition to recipes, we offer cooking classes, speaker events and dinners, tips for restaurant owners, holiday events, author events, and more!

Further, we organize the annual Boston Veg Food Fest, which usually takes place during one weekend in October.

Aspiring organic farmers can receive help to build their farm - and their farming business - from The Liberty Prairie Foundation's Farm Business Development Center.

We provide an incubator setting with affordable access to certified-organic land near Chicago, basic resources, infrastructure and access to experienced mentor farmers.

We're headquartered near Chicago at the Prairie Crossing Farm, our working organic farm nestled inside Prairie Crossing, the nationally-recognized conservation community.

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The Green Earth Institute promotes nutritional health and environmental sustainability through organic farming, education, and Community Supported Agriculture.

Using our organic farm as a demonstration and learning center, we grow healthful vegetables in an earth-friendly way and educate about nature, nutrition, and caring for the earth.

Tropical Audubon Society (TAS) is an environmental organization that endeavors to conserve and restore natural South Florida ecosystems, focusing on wildlife and its habitats, through advocacy and education for the benefit of biological diversity and humanity itself.

The Lakewood Sustainability Cooperative, also known as "The Scoop," is a network of Lakewood residents, businesses, and other community partners who are passionate about creating a more sustainable Lakewood. Participants volunteer their knowledge, experience and skills to support sustainability efforts in the community.