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| Organizations (click box to expand) | ||
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| A Drop of Life DVD | ||
A Drop of Life DVD. Create a community of activists. 7th Empire Media presents a potent tool to stimulate discussion in living rooms, classrooms, and public forums. The DVD with special features includes the award-winning film A DROP of LIFE, Theatrical Trailer, Directors Commentary, and news footage. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) | ||
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has long sought to educate the public, advocate government policies that are consistent with scientific evidence on health and environmental issues, and counter industrys powerful influence on public opinion and public policies. Click here to view their website. | ||
| CISPES | ||
CISPES is the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, a 27-year old grassroots international solidarity organization. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Corporate Accountability International | ||
Corporate Accountability International protects people by waging and winning campaigns that challenge irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world. Their campaign to Challenge Corporate Control of Water is a direct challenge to the marketing muscle and political power of bottled water corporations. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Corporate Ethics International | ||
Corporate Ethics International's mission is to improve the effectiveness of corporate campaigns worldwide in order to make business practices more ethical in terms of the environment, health, social justice, and labor. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Council of Canadians | ||
Council of Canadians is Canadas largest citizens organization, with members and chapters across the country. We work to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Dogwood Alliance | ||
Dogwood Alliance is the only organization in the South holding corporations accountable for the impact of their industrial forestry practices and our communities. Corporations clearcut millions of acres of Southern forests every year for paper packaging, adding to our already over-burdened landfills and creating more waste for packaging that no longer serves any essential function, but acts as a marketing and branding tool for companies. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Earth Policy Institute | ||
Earth Policy Institute is an independent, non-profit research organization dedicated to providing a plan for a sustainable future. The plan, laid out in PLAN B 2.0 (http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/index.htm), includes a vision for eradicating poverty, stabilizing population, protecting and restoring natural systems, conserving biological diversity, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring sustainable access to water for all. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Environmental Defence | ||
Environmental Defence protects the environment and human health. We research. We educate. We go to court when we have to. All in order to ensure clean air, safe food and thriving ecosystems nationwide. Click here to view their website. | ||
| FLOW: For Love of Water Film | ||
With an unflinching focus on politics, pollution and human rights, FLOW: For Love of Water ensures that the precarious relationship between humanity and water can no longer be ignored. FLOW: For Love of Water, is a catalyst for people everywhere: the time has come to turn the tide and we can't wait any longer. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Food and Water Watch | ||
Food and Water Watch works with grassroots organizations and other allies around the world to stop the corporate control of our food and water. We are committed to creating an economically and environmentally viable future. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Global Exchange | ||
Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Green Corps | ||
Green Corps' mission is to teach the next generation of environmental leaders the strategies and skills they'll need to win tomorrow's environmental battles while providing critical field support for today's pressing environmental problems. Click here to view their website. | ||
| KAIROS | ||
KAIROS is the social justice organization of eleven Canadian churches and church agencies. Church communities across the country continue to work on bottled water issues as a follow up to our mass education and action campaign for 2005-2007 Water: Life Before Profit. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation | ||
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation has fought long and hard in its battle against Nestle on "Whose Water Is It". MCWC with your help will continue to "Think Outside the Bottle". Click here to view their website. | ||
| New American Dream | ||
New American Dream helps individuals and institutions consume responsibly for a better world and breaking the bottled water habit is an important step in making that better world a reality. Live consciously, buy wisely and make a difference in your every day life through simple steps such as avoiding bottled water and using a water purifier or other water filter. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Polaris Institute | ||
The Polaris Institute develops tools for research, education and action enabling citizens groups to challenge the power wielded by corporations in public policy making and bring about democratic social change. Our Inside the Bottle campaign is a Polaris Institute project designed to stimulate citizen awareness and action about the bottled water industry. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Rainforest Action Network | ||
Rainforest Action Network is campaigning to break Americas oil addiction, reduce our reliance on coal, protect endangered forests and Indigenous rights, and stop destructive investments around the world. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Rivers Withour Borders | ||
Rivers Withour Borders' mission is to maintain and protect the diversity and abundance of fish and wildlife species and their habitat in the transboundary watersheds of Canada and Southeast Alaska, and to encourage the adoption of long-term conservation-based planning to ensure the survival of these magnificent river systems. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Save Our Groundwater (SOG) | ||
Save Our Groundwater (SOG) is an all-volunteer citizen action group dedicated to protecting water as a natural resource held in the public trust now and for the future. Several neighbors organized in response to a large groundwater withdrawal permit by USA Springs, Inc. to bottle our water and ship it oversea. They are located in the southern New Hampshire towns of Nottingham and Barrington. Click here to view their website. | ||
| The Alliance for Democracy | ||
The Alliance for Democracy is committed to true democracy that emphasizes the voice and will of the people and the assertion of their rights over corporate rights. Our Defending Water for Life campaign works with communities to assert their authority over corporations in order to protect their water resources for people and nature. Click here for an example of this work. Click here to view their website. | ||
| The Campaign to Stop KillerCoke | ||
The Campaign to Stop KillerCoke's objective is to hold The Coca-Cola Co. accountable for widespread labor, human rights and environmental abuses. For further information, contact StopKillerCoke@aol.com or (718) 852-2808. Click here to view their website. | ||
| The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy | ||
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy. Click here to view their website. | ||
| The International Labor Rights Fund | ||
The International Labor Rights Fund is dedicated to achieving a world where all workers enjoy full protection of their rights. ILRF understands that the connections between the very companies that harm the environment and communities are often the same companies that disregard the rights of workers. All of these struggles are connected. Click here to view their website. | ||
| The Land Stewardship Project(LSP) | ||
The Land Stewardship Project (LSP) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1982 to foster an ethic of stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable agriculture and to develop sustainable communities. Click here to view their website. | ||
| The Pacific Institute | ||
The Pacific Institute works to create healthy communities and a sustainable planet. Drawing on numerous disciplines we create analytical tools, empower stakeholders, and develop sustainable solutions to move policy debates past ideology and into action. They are an independent non-profit organization based in Oakland and operating globally. Click here to view their website. | ||
| The Ruckus Society | ||
The Ruckus Society sees itself as a toolbox of experience, training, and skills. We provide instruction on the application of tactical and strategic tools to a growing number of organizations and individuals from around the world in skill shares and trainings that are designed to move a campaign forward. We do this work in strong collaboration with our partner organizations, working together to define and create the training agenda. Click here to view their website. | ||
| The Sierra Club | ||
The Sierra Club is a grassroots conservation organization with over 730,000 members. The Clubs Water Privatization Task Force works to promote safe water supplies for the benefit of all people and the natural environmentnot a commodity. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Thirst (Film and Book) | ||
Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman are co-authors with Michael Fox of the book "Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water" (2007, Jossey Bass division of John Wiley and Son), and they are producers of the documentary "Thirst", which aired on the PBS series "POV" and is used by water activists around the world to educate people about the corporate drive to privatize water resources and services. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Union of Concerned Scientists | ||
Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based non profit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Vermont Natural Resources | ||
Vermont Natural Resources has been the Green Mountain States leading environmental education, policy and advocacy organization since 1963. VNRC works from the grassroots to the Legislature to advance policies and practices that strengthen the foundation upon which Vermonts economy thrives vibrant communities and healthy downtowns, clean, abundant fresh water, working farms and forests, wild, majestic places, and a green energy economy. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Womens' International League | ||
Womens' International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) envisions a transformed world at peace, where there is racial, social, and economic justice for all people everywhere. We are an organization that works to end war and the causes of war. Safe water resources are shrinking and in danger of becoming a commodity to be controlled by corporations. This has already created conflict, and more is on the horizon. We must not allow water to become the valued commodity that is an excuse for war. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Brooklyn Green Team | ||
Brooklyn Green Team was founded in 2007 by a group of Brooklynites with a mission to lower the carbon footprint of ourselves and others and to fix the planet. Our blog and monthly email blasts which focus on a particular issue such as water or plastic bags are designed to raise awareness and connect individuals with resources locally and beyond to help lower their impact. We initiate challenges such as the No New Clothing Challenge and the No Disposable Water Bottle Challenge to foster more sustainable living. Click here to view their website. | ||
| International Labor Rights Forum | ||
ILRF is an advocacy organization dedicated to achieving just and humane treatment for workers worldwide. Click here to view their website. | ||
| kNObottledwater.org | ||
Concerned Citizens of Newport (CCN) was organized to stop Perrier Bottled Water (now Nestlé) from building a water bottling plant and taking our groundwater. We were successful in keeping them out of our commuity and state by organizing a campaign that had local, state and regional support. Click here to view their website. | ||
| New Community Project | ||
The New Community Project's mission is to challenge over-consumption, build relationships with our global neighbors, offer experiences and resources that challenge and change us, and provide a network of support to like-minded souls. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Faith Communities(click box to expand) | ||
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| Fransican Sisters of the Poor | ||
| Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters, Techny, IL | ||
| Little Franciscan Sisters of Mary, Worcester, MA | ||
| Loretto Community | ||
| Methodist Federation for Social Action | ||
| Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters, Huntington, IN | ||
| Presbyterian Hunger Program | ||
| Sisters of Notre Dame, Chardon, OH | ||
| Sisters of St. Francis, Rochester MN | ||
| Sisters of St. Joseph of of Carondelet and Consociates, St. Paul, MN | ||
| St. Joan of Arc Parish, Worcester, MA | ||
| Restaurants (click box to expand) | ||
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| Bella Luna and Milky Way Lounge and Lanes, Boston, MA | ||
| Chez Panisse, Berkeley, CA | ||
| White Dog Cafe, Philadelphia, PA | ||
| Matrix Coffeehouse | ||
| The Bay Side | ||
First Green-certified restaurant in MA Click here to view their website. | ||
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| Salt Lake City, UT | ||
| Minneapolis, MN | ||
| Boston, MA | ||
| Berkeley, CA | ||
| Santa Barbara, CA | ||
| San Leandro, CA | ||
| Emeryville, CA | ||
| Brainerd, MN | ||
| Hayward, CA | ||
| Student Groups(click box to expand) | ||
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| The BLS Youth Climate Action Network (Youth C.A.N.) | ||
The Boston Latin School Youth Climate Action Network is a student-led initiative. We are currently establishing a network of climate action groups working together to take effective action in our communities and beyond to address the problem of global warming. We are proud sponsors of the Think Outside the Bottle Challenge. Join us in taking the pledge Click here to view their website. | ||
| Student Campaign for Child Survival | ||
Student Campaign for Child Survival is dedicated to raising awareness and promoting better policies regarding child survival as part of a broader global justice agenda. Through leadership training, grassroots organizing, transformative education and direct action, SCCS seeks to mobilize a diverse movement of US students, in partnership with students internationally, to advocate for a more engaged role by government, corporations and civil society in promoting child survival programs. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Tuft's Environmental Consciousness Outreach (ECO) | ||
ECO's mission is to promote environmental consciousness at Tufts, in the local community and around the world. Think Outside the Bottle has been one their main initiatives for the past two years. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Sierra Youth Coalition Sustainable Campuses | ||
Sierra Youth Coalition Sustainable Campuses aims to empower students to lead initiatives on their campuses toward greater social, ecological and economic sustainability through campus operations, curricula and community member attitudes. Click here to view their website. | ||
| Brooklyn Green Team | ||
Brooklyn Green Team was founded in 2007 by a group of Brooklynites with a mission to lower the carbon footprint of ourselves and others and to fix the planet. Our blog and monthly email blasts which focus on a particular issue such as water or plastic bags are designed to raise awareness and connect individuals with resources locally and beyond to help lower their impact. We initiate challenges such as the No New Clothing Challenge and the No Disposable Water Bottle Challenge to foster more sustainable living. Click here to view their website. | ||
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Also supporting the pledge:
Martin Sheen
Adam Gardner - member of Guster and Co-founder of Reverb Would you like more information or to support the pledge? Contact us at info@thinkoutsidethebottle.org
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