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  • Baikal Watch - Feisty environmentalists. Hundreds of pages. Many full-text newsletters. Thirty projects in everything from dolphin, whales and sea turtles to environmental justice to rethinking paper.
  • EcoDefense!inform - An information agency, created by the environmentalists to provide the world with environmental news from ex-USSR and Baltic States
  • Sources of funding - Database for environmental NGOs in former SU (in russian)
  • Transboundary Environmental Information Agency - The Transboundary Environmental Information Agency is an independent non-profit organization. Our goal is to promote international cooperation on a non-governmental level by assisting in the distribution of information across border areas in the Baltic states and northwestern Russia.

Santa Barbara

Discover the city of Santa Barbara, California, the birthplace of Earth Day. A 1969 oil platform blowout off the coast of Santa Barbara led to a wave of environmental laws nationwide. That gave impetus to what we consider now the cornerstones to the modern environmental movement. A year later, the first Earth Day was held followed by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. A succession of other laws protecting water, marine life and endangered species followed.