.Protecting the Long Island ENVIRONMENT - How You Can Help!

Long Island – Your Home - Help Take Care of the Land & Water

Links to organizations & programs dedicated to improve the environment. 

Many offer one day volunteer opportunities for clean-ups, events and information tables at community awareness days.

Alley Pond Environmental Center

 .

American Littoral Society – Northeast Chapter  -                                                                                 NYS Beach Cleanup - every September   For specific dates, locations & contacts l>>>

.

Association for Resource Conservation - Materials Resource Center

.

Beautiful Baldwin Foundation

.

Caleb Smith State Park Preserve

.

Coastal Steward

.

Caumusett State Historic Park, Huntington

.

Connetquot River State Park Preserve

.

Environmental Protection Agency 

Floral Park Conservation Society

Friends of Hempstead Plains

Friends of Massapequa Preserve

Friends of the Bay

Garden City Bird Sanctuary

Glen Cove Beautification Commission

Grassroots Environmental Education

Homecoming: Sofia Garden/Sofia Learning Center

Keep Brookhaven Beautiful

Keep Islip Clean

Keep Manhasset Beautiful

LINature.org

Long Island Greenbelt Trail Conference

Long Island Pine Barrens Society

Long Island Seaport and Eco Center

The Long Island Sound Foundation

Long Island Sound Study   Opportunities around the Sound

Long Island Sound Lobster Initiative   

Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation & Museums

The Nature Conservancy    

New York Sea Grant   and  New York Sea Grant/I FISH NY Program

North Fork Environmental Council 

North Shore Land Alliance

Operation Splash 

Peconic Estuary Program

Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park

Quogue Wildlife Refuge

Sagamore National Historic Site 

Sands Point Preserve 

Save the Sound

Sierra Club - Long Island Group 

South Shore Audubon Society 

Starflower Experiences   

Suffolk County Parks, Recreation & Conservation   

Sweetbriar Nature Center

The Waterfront Center

Wildwood State Park

..............................................................................................................................................................................

Nicodemus Wilderness Project - Apprentice Ecologist Initiative™  Become an Apprentice Ecologist and help save wildlife and the environment in your community ($500 Scholarship for students ages 13-21 ). Application due December 30, 2009

......................................................................................................................................................

Stop Throwing Out Pollutants - S.T.O.P  Collection Days 

Brookhaven, East Hampton, Riverhead, Shelter Island, Southampton, Southold

Hempstead         North Hempstead

RESOURCES

Green Street Long Island

How Green is My Town?

Center for Environmental Health

NYS Department of Environmental Conservation