Local Links

• Cincinnati Nature Center
  Rowe Woods 4949 Tealtown Road
  Milford, Ohio 45150-9752
  (513) 831-1711
  Providing the Greater Cincinnati community, especially young people, with the opportunity to experience, study and enjoy the natural world. CNC encourages understanding, appreciation, and responsible stewardship of the environment through education, while preserving the integrity of CNC natural and agricultural lands.
  
  
• Community Supported Agriculture
  Grailville
  932 O’Bannonville Rd.
  Loveland, Ohio 45140
  (513) 677-3241
  grailvilleCSA@Care2.com
  Offers a wide variety of certified organic vegetables, herbs and fresh-cut flowers - a weekly grocery bag of produce for 5-6 months from May to October -an opportunity to support local agriculture, meet like minded people, and enjoy chemical free produce.
  
  
• Greater Cincinnati Earth Coalition
  6404 Ridge Ave.
  Cincinnati, Ohio 45213
  (513) 569-7966
  GCEC is a community of not-for-profit organizations, businesses and government agencies and individuals from the tri-state region who work cooperatively and actively to promote the beauty and quality of life in the local area. GCEC sponsors Earth Day.
  
  
• Greater Cincinnati Environmental Educators
  2828 Vernon Place
  Cincinnati, Ohio 45219
  Connecting students with the earth. GCEE holds an annual teacher conference each June offering field trips, presentations and workshops to enhance your classroom environmental curriculum.
  
  
• Hamilton County Environmental Services
  250 William Howard Taft Rd.
  Cincinnati, Ohio 45219-2660
  www.hcdoes.org
  The Hamilton County Solid Waste Management District’s mission is to reduce the reliance on landfills through reduction, reuse and recycling programs.
  -publishes Household Hazardous Materials
  -publishes Once is Not Enough: A resident’s guide to reducing, reusing & recycling
  -2001-2002 Recycling Outlets
  -Yardwaste drop off sites: (513) 946-7755
  
  
• Imago Earth Center
  700 Enright Ave.
  Cincinnati, Ohio 45205
  (513) 921-8455
  earthcenter@imagoearth.com
  -greenspace
  -preservation
  -environmental education programs
  -nature day camps
  -Western Wildlife Corridor, land preservation
  
  
• Keep Cincinnati Beautiful
  (513) 352-3711
  www.rcc.org/oem/kcb.html
  
  
• Land Reformers
  35703 Loop Rd.
  Rutland, Ohio 45775
  (740) 742-3478
  -alternative sustainable landscaping
  -native prairie flowers, grasses, medicinal and culinary herbs for our bioregion
  -reduce your lawn, save time, money and fuel
  
  
• Rumpke Waste, Inc.
  recycling: (513) 242-4600
  www.rumpke.com
  
  
• TERC Tri-state Environmental Resource Center
  2828 Vernon Place
  Cincinnati, Ohio 45219
  (513) 221-4820
  terc@queencity.com
  http://terc.uc.edu
  TERC is a non-profit public service organization providing environmental data, news, and information that is relevant to the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana tri-state region
  
  
  
  
  National Links
  
  
• Co-op America
  1612 K Street NW, Suite 600
  Washington, DC 20006
  (202) 872-5307 or (800)58-GREEN
  www.coopamerica.org
  -Coop America’s mission is to harness economic power - the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace - to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. It is a national non-profit organization celebrating 18 years of service to people and the planet. They publish the National Green Pages annually, featuring thousands of products and services including strategies for buying and investing green.
  
  
• The Center for a New American Dream
  6930 Carroll Ave. Suite 900
  Takoma Park, Maryland 20912
  (877) 68-DREAM
  newdream@newdream.org
  www.newdream.org
  The Center for a New American Dream helps individuals and institutions reduce and shift consumption to enhance quality of life and protect the environment. Membership benefits include "Enough!" quarterly newsletter, "More Fun, Less Stuff" starter kit and bumper sticker, and supporting public education campaigns like "Kids and Commercialism" and "Simplify the Holidays". The website has hundreds of practical tips on how to consume more responsibly.
  
  
• Eastern Heartland Earth Institute
  Dan Hughes
  c/o Simply Living
  335 E. 19th Ave.
  Columbus, Ohio 43201
  (614) 447-0296
  www.simplyliving.org/sl
  
  
• The Northwest Earth Institute (NWEI)
  506 SW Sixth, Suite 1100
  Portland, OR 97204
  (503) 227-2807
  info@nwei.org
  www.nwei.org
  
  
• The Sierra Club
  85 Second Street
  San Francisco, CA 94105
  (415) 977-5500
  www.sierraclub.org
  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 since 1892.
  
  
• Green Party of Ohio
  SW Ohio Green Party
  243 Parkway Ave. #3
  Cincinnati, Ohio 45216
  (513) 761-6978
  SWOGP@fuse.net
  http://WMBLAKE.com/GREENS/
  
  
• Ohio EPA
  www.epa.ohio.gov

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