The Apeiron Foundation, is a non-profit environmental organization working to create ecologically healthy communities by bringing sustainable living practices from around the world to this region. We support environmentally friendly building technologies, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, prevention- and holistic-oriented healthcare, and green business practices. We believe sustainability should be an integral part of all decisions our society makes and support efforts to create a long-term vision for sustainability at the local, state, regional, national, and international levels.

Clean Water Action, A national citizens' organization working for clean safe and affordable water, prevention of health threatening pollution, creation of environmentally-safe jobs and business and empowerment of people to make democracy work. CWA organizes strong grassroots groups, coalitions and campaign to protect our environment, health, economic well being and community quality of life.

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management - Enhance the high quality of life for this and future generations by protecting, managing, and restoring the natural resources of the State; enhancing outdoor recreation opportunities; protecting public health; and preventing environmental degradation. Guide the utilization of the State's natural resources to provide for sustainable economic opportunity while sustaining our natural environment. Motivate the citizens of the State to practice an environmental ethic based upon an understanding of their environment, their own dependence on it, and the ways in which their actions affect it.

The Environment Council of Rhode Island (ECRI), a coalition of organizations and individuals, serves as a powerful voice for developing, advocating, and lobbying for policies and laws that protect and enhance the environment. The Council embodies and promotes the vision that together we can build an ecologically healthy future in a sustainable economy.

Green Light Foundation ,Environmental protection and economic development can and must work together so that our children will have the opportunity to enjoy the same, if not better, quality of life experienced by our ancestors. The Green Light Foundation will be nurturing broad adoption of sustainable environmental technology in business practices and in individual lifestyles through shared understandings, collaborative design and coordinated interaction.

Green Party of Rhode Island ,politics are about ordinary people working together to make a better future for ourselves and our children. We are a political party that really stands for something: healing the Earth and rebuilding Rhode Island's communities, expanding democracy and fostering peace.

Grow Smart Rhode Island-a 501(c)3 organization, provides a statewide voice for the many organizations working locally and regionally to combat suburban sprawl and urban decay. Our primary objectives are to educate citizens and public officials about sprawl's impacts on environmental health, economic vitality, and social equity; to educate citizens and public leaders about state policies that will expand economic opportunity while protecting our special places; and to promote cooperative effort and information sharing among the different organizations addressing sprawl. 345 South Main Street Providence, RI 02903 401-273-5711

The Rhode Island Sustainability Coalition, is a broad partnership of more than 35 state agencies, non-profits, schools, businesses, and community members to bring the best sustainability practices from around the world to this region. The coalition undertakes projects in areas such as building, energy, agriculture, health care and business. Since its incpetion, the coalition has participated in: planning a statewide sustainability conference, creating a legislative commission on sustainability, and beginning a project to create school gardens to meet a portion of schools¹ food needs.

Save the Bay, The mission of Save The Bay is to ensure that the environmental quality of Narragansett Bay and its watershed is restored and protected from the harmful effects of human activity. Save The Bay seeks carefully planned use of the Bay and its watershed to allow the natural system to function normally and healthfully, both now and for the future. In defense of Narragansett Bay and its watershed, Save The Bay's actions include: Watching over the activities and programs of government and the citizenry that degrade the environmental quality of the Bay, basin, and watershed. Leading the community by initiating programs and activities that increase the environmental awareness and knowledge of the public. Initiating action that will directly clean up the Bay.

Second Nature, works to help higher education teach and practice how to achieve a sustainable relationship between humans and the environment so that the health, social, and economic needs of all current and future generations can be met. Our goal is to have the systematic interdependence of scientific, economic, cultural, political and humanistic learning applied to all learning and practice to achieve a sustainable relationship between humans and the environment. We focus on colleges and universities because they educate our future teachers, leaders, managers, policy makers, and other professionals. We work to expand the capability of future decision makers to make environmentally sustainable living a central and continuing part of education, research and campus operations and community outreach. It is only through this type of effort that environmentally-sound living will become "second nature" to the next generations of leaders, managers, teachers and other professionals in society.

Sierra Club Rhode Island Chapter, To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.

SWAP - is a community development corporation working to make the neighborhoods on the South Side of Providence safe, healthy and affordable places to live. SWAP creates home ownership, rental and cooperative living opportunities for low and moderate income families. SWAP also provides education for home buyers, home owners and neighborhood contractors.

Why Drive? Rhode Islanders for Transit Alternatives, Why Drive? is a Rhode Island coalition of users of and advocates for alternative transportation. We focus on policy change and visibility for transit user issues on the local, municipal, and state levels.

Woonasquatucket River Greenway Project - is a program of The Providence Plan. The goal of the project is to reclaim the trashed river and abandoned adjacent lands for beneficial reuse. The Project area includes the neighborhoods of Smith Hill, Valley, Olneyville, Manton and Hartford in Providence.