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This is by no means an exhaustive list, but we hope this sampling will provide you with a starting point for your own exploration of what you can do to change the world.

Quaker groups

Quaker Institute for the Future (QIF)
1338 Shattuck Ave., #101
Berkeley, California 94709
USA

Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW)
173-B N. Prospect St.
Burlington, Vermont 05401-1607
USA

Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW)
Friends House
173-177 Euston Road
London
NW1 2BJ
UK

Quaker Ecology Action Network (QEAN)

Planet Quaker

Interfaith groups

Christian Alliance for Progress
P.O. Box 40495
Jacksonville, Florida 32203-0495
USA

The Interfaith Unity Newsletter
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

Religious Witness for the Earth
P.O. Box 642
Littleton, Massachusetts 01460-2642
USA

Sojourners
3333 14th St. NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20010
USA

United Religions Initiative
P.O. Box 29242
San Francisco, California 94129
USA

Land, water and wildlife stewardship

Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources (ANSAB)
P.O. Box 11035
Kathmandu
Nepal

Environmental Defense Fund
257 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010
USA

World Wildlife Fund International
Av. du Mont-Blanc 1196
Gland
Switzerland

Blue Planet Project
c/o the Council of Canadians
700-170 Laurier Ave. West
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5V5
Canada

International Institute for Sustainable Development
161 Portage Ave. East, 6th floor
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3B 0Y4
Canada

Adams, Jonathan S. The Future of the Wild: Radical Conservation for a Crowded World. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007.

Chiras, Daniel D. et al. Natural Resource Conservation: Management for a Sustainable Future. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2004.

Footprint reduction and simplicity

Merkel, Jim. Radical Simplicity. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers, 2003.

Robin, Vicki and Joe Dominguez. Your Money or Your Life. New York: Penguin, 1999.

Coperthwaite, William S. A Handmade Life. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2004.

Wackernagel, Mathis and William Rees. Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers, 1996.

Burch, Mark. Stepping Lightly. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers, 2000.

Smith, Alisa and J.B. MacKinnon. The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating. Toronto: Random House, 2007.

Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. New York: Harper Collins, 2007.

Global Footprint Network
312 Clay St., Suite 300
Oakland, California 94607-3510
USA

The Footprint Trust
Riverside Centre, The Quay
Newport, Isle of Wight
PO30 2QR
UK

Peace/antiwar

Rubenfeld, Frank. The Peace Manual. Berkeley: Lion-Lamb Press, 1986.

Vanderhaar, Gerard A. Active Non-Violence. Mystic: Twenty-Third Publications, 1990.

Lakey, George. Powerful Peacemaking: A Strategy for a Living Revolution. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1987.

Project Ploughshares
57 Erb St. West
Waterloo, Ontario
N2L 6C2
Canada

Human rights

Amnesty International
1 Easton Street
London
WC1X 0DW
UK

Norton, Michael. The Everyday Activist. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2006.

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders
Rue de Lausanne 78
CP 116-1211
Geneva 21
Switzerland

AfricaFiles
Room 21, 300 Bloor St. West
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 1W3
Canada

Human Rights Watch
350 5th Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, New York 10118-3299
USA

Climate change

de Rothschild, David. The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook. New York: Rodale Inc., 2007.

McKibben, Bill. Fight Global Warming Now. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007.

The Climate Project
2100 West End Avenue, Suite 620
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
USA

WorldChanging online magazine
1517 12th Ave.
Seattle, Washington 98122
USA

The David Suzuki Foundation
Suite 219, 2211 West 4th Ave.
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6K 4S2
Canada

It's Getting Hot in Here: Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement

1Sky
6930 Carroll Ave., Suite 1000
Takoma Park, Maryland 20912
USA

Recycling/reuse/waste management

Earth 911
14646 N. Kierland Blvd., Suite 100
Scottsdale, Arizona 85254
USA

The Greywater Guerillas

Urban environmentalism

Vasil, Adria. Ecoholic. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2007.

Wilson, Alex. Your Green Home. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers, 2006.

The World Green Building Council
Toronto Secretariat
9520 Pine Valley Drive
Woodbridge, Ontario
L4L 1A6
Canada

One Earth
Unit 1205 - 1255 Main St.
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6A 4G5
Canada

Eco-economics

Managing Without Growth: new book by acclaimed economist Peter Victor

CASSE: Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

Redefining Progress
1904 Franklin Street 6th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
USA

Brown, Peter G. The Commonwealth of Life: Economics for a Flourishing Earth. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2007.

Nickerson, Mike. Life, Money and Illusion: Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay. Lanark: Seven Generations Publishing, 2006.

Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
University of Vermont
617 Main St.
Burlington, Vermont 05405
USA

Brown, Lester. Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.

Costanza, Robert. An Introduction to Ecological Economics.

Globalisation for the Common Good, Dr. Kamran Mofid

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