The websites listed in this section provide resources to help you communicate
more effectively for conservation. This is a new section, so please
bear with us as we continue to add new links. If you have suggestions
for websites for us to include, please let
us know! Thank you!
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a goodman |
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a goodman is a communications consulting firm for public interest groups, foundations, and progressive businesses. Books, newsletters, workshop information, and sample clients and projects are available online. |
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Academy for Educational Development |
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AED works with organizations that are trying to create social change. Among other services, they provide assistance with communications, evaluations, materials development, program design, marketing, and planning. One of AED's focus areas is on changing environmental behaviors. |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science & Policy |
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. In addition to the journal Science, AAAS publishes a number of online and print materials. The website provides a good resource for locating all the publications and facilitating communication between different groups. |
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Applied Environmental Education and Communication |
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This quarterly journal presents the latest environmental developments in the fields of education, communication, social marketing, journalism, and behavioral science, as well as information on sustainability education, environmental interpretation, risk communication, public relations and outreach, environmental health communication, governmental and corporate public awareness, and environmental campaigns around the world. |
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Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change |
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The Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change was formed in 1989 to help guide research in the United States on the interactions between human activity and global environmental change. The committee provides broad scientific expertise and judgment to the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and others, focusing on two main tasks: developing the intellectual basis for progress in understanding human-environment interactions, and setting research directions for the future. The committee`s publications and activities reflect its work on these tasks. |
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Conservation Psychology |
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Conservation Psychology is a network of researchers and practitioners who work together to understand and promote a sustainable and harmonious relationship between people and the natural environment. The website is intended to serve as a central location for research and practice associated with Conservation Psychology. It contains background information, a growing list of social scientists contributing to this field, and key resources. |
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Empowerment Institute - Global Action Plan |
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Empowerment Institute is the world`s premiere consulting and training organization specializing in the methodology of empowerment. Its state-of-the-art empowerment tools have been applied over the past twenty-five years to achieve significant and measurable behavior change at the organizational and community level. Its clients consist of corporations, public sector agencies and non profits. |
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Environmental Communication Network |
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The Environmental Communication Network (ECN) is a community of scholars, professionals and activists concerned with the role of communication in environmental affairs. The ECN web site is a good place to start when looking for information about environmental communication, including related journals, bibliographies, filmography, education programs, and additional links. |
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Fostering Sustainable Behavior |
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This website consists of six resources: an online guide which provides valuable information on designing and evaluating programs; a listserv and associated archive for sharing information and asking questions of others; and searchable databases of articles, downloadable reports, cases and graphics on fostering sustainable behavior. |
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Frameworks Institute |
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The Frameworks Institute aims to advance the non-profit sector`s communications capacity by identifying, translating, and modeling relevant scholarly research for framing and re-framing the public discourse about social problems, including global warming. The website offers samples of some of the reports and materials produced including a Framing Toolkit. |
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Green Media Toolshed |
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This organization was created to "strengthen the community`s infrastructure of the environmental movement". Green Media Toolshed has resources to raise public awareness. |
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GreenCOM Resources Center |
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The GreenCOM resource center has over 3,000 books, journals, reports, videos, audiotapes and other classroom materials for environmental educators and communicators. |
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International Association of People-Environment Studies (IAPS) |
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IAPS is the forum for scholars who have an interest in an interdisciplinary exchange and in the study of the transactions and interrelationships between people and their socio-physical surroundings (including built and natural environments) and the relation of this field to other social and biological sciences and to the environmental professions. |
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MarketingProfs |
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MarketingProfs bridges the gap between theory and business practice, publishing some of the best thinking in the industry ��� to the benefit of all marketing practitioners. MarketingProfs provides marketing know-how through its newsletters, templates, guides, online seminars, and conferences. It also provides platforms for learning and discussion through its blog, the Daily Fix, and its forum, the Know-How Exchange. |
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Now Hear This: The Nine Laws of Successful Advocacy Communications |
Fenton Communications |
This report offers insights and strategic marketing recommendations for nonprofits striving to influence public opinion and effect important social change. |
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PollingReport.com |
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This site includes recent public opinion surveys on the American public conducted by CNN, NBC, and CBS. This is a great place to get statistics on issues you care about with out generating the numbers yourself. |
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Population and Environmental Psychology (Division 34 of APA) |
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APA Division 34 members conduct research and advance theory to improve interactions between human behavior and environment and population. The Division 34 newsletter, Population and Environmental Psychology Bulletin, is an unrefereed forum for the sharing of news, ideas, and opinions in population and environmental psychology. |
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Smart Chart 3.0 |
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An interactive tool to help nonprofits hone their communications goals and craft a strategic plan for a successful campaign using a step-by-step process. |
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Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) |
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The Society of Environmental Journalists is the only U.S.- based membership organization of working journalists dedicated to improvements in environmental reporting. The site includes links about various environmental topics and biweekly news tips to notify journalists of potential environmental stories and sources. |
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Teaming with Wildlife Communications Initiative |
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This message kit provides the tools to help educate the public about the need for more resources to support wildlife conservation and the crucial role that State Wildlife Action Plans will play in this effort.
This toolkit uses data from polling, focus groups, and other public-opinion research to provide you with universal messages and a customized strategic communications plan.
Although this messaging was designed to help promote each state's Wildlife Action Plan, much of the messaging and lessons learned can be applied to a wide variety of issues related to conservation.
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The Biodiversity Project |
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Biodiversity Project works to make people aware of the importance of biodiversity and to build their commitment to saving it. The website provides various resources including publications, public opinion research, tools for advocates, and tip sheets. |
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The Communications Network |
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The communications network was formed to help foundations and other philanthropies communicate more effectively. |
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The EnviroLink Network |
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The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991. The website has a comprehensive listing of links organized by category. |
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The Rowan Report |
Rowan, Colin |
A blog providing best practices, tips and success-stories about communicating in the non-profit industry by Colin Rowan, a veteran public interest communicator. |
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The SPIN Project |
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Spin is about building communication capacity of non-profits. Their website is helpful all in its own; however, they also provide their readers with other helpful sites |
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Tools of Change: Proven Methods for Promoting Health, Safety and Environmental Citizenship |
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The Tools of Change web site, based on the principles of community-based social marketing, offers specific tools, case studies, and a planning guide for helping people take actions and adopt habits that promote health and/or are more environmentally-friendly. The case studies include a broad sampling of programs to offer a wide variety of approaches and tools used, locations, types of organizations and participants, activities being promoted and problems being addressed and approaches that have worked as well as examples of potential pitfalls. |
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Valuing Nature |
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ValuingNature.org provides a forum for asking: are the successes of today`s dominant strategies for creating behavioral change adequate if we are to meet the huge environmental challenges that we face, and might there be alternative approaches? The site discusses and evaluates recent research in psychology and developments in marketing along with the rationale to adopt behavioral changes. |
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Visitor Studies Association (VSA) |
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VSA is a professional organization focusing on all facets of the visitor experience in museums, zoos, nature centers, visitor centers, historic sites, parks and other informal learning settings. The VSA mission to understand and enhance visitor experiences in informal learning settings through research, evaluation, and dialogue. The site contains a searchable archive of VSA publications and recommended reading list. |
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Water Words That Work |
waterwordsthatwork.com |
Water Words That Work is a web video series and blog that helps nature protection and pollution control professionals become more confident and successful whenever they set out to change everyday citizens` minds and behavior by equipping professionals with the right vocabulary and perspective. |
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