Links Introduction
The criteria in selecting these links are based upon the threefold nature
of effective citizen action, i.e. ability to analyze, theorize and mobilize.
Thus, links that connect to US Government agencies show the intent of
influencing the aviation and transportation industry towards greater sustainability
and equity. Links to sustainability and equity web sites show a discussion
of principles of this civic action. As aviation, both passenger and especially
freight are a crucial support of the socially and ecologically unacceptable
corporate globalization process, links to major globalization sites are
included.
See studies section for additional information.
www.access.GPO.gov/Congress
Congressional publications include the Federal Register, the Congressional
Record, and pending bills. At this website, online databases are searchable.
www.aef.org.uk
The Aviation Environment Forum works closely
with local, national and international decision-makers to achieve the
objective of a sustainable, equitable and accountable aviation industry,
having representation on UK Government and European Commission working
groups and observer status to the environmental committee of the International
Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).
www.aet.org.uk
The Airfields Environment Trust works
to promote a real understanding of the effects of aviation both locally
and internationally and to explore ways in which pollution and other
adverse effects can be reduced.
www.airportwatch.org.uk
Member of the Aviation Environment Federation; has good publications.
www.air-transport.org
The only trade organization for the principal US
airlines.
www.alpa.org
The Airline Pilots Association is a union representing 59,000 at 49
United States and Canadian
airlines. It is part of the International Federation of Air Line Pilots
Associations. (www.ifalpa.org)
www.aopa.org
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has a membership of 360,000
and is often referred to as the National Rifle Association of the air
transportation industry.
www.areco.org
The Alliance of Residents Concerning O’Hare is one of most established
citizens groups with a very informative website.
www.aviationnow.com
The major trade publication of the aviation industry, published weekly.
www.aviationnoise.org
The National Organization to Insure a Sound-Controlled Environment
(NOISE) is non-profit association of local governments and others that
advocates noise abatement policies that are both responsible and acceptable
to all parties involved.
www.cstctd.org
Publishers of Sustainable Transportation Monitor, online.
www.earthcharter.org;
www.earthcharterusa.org
This peoples’ covenant of an intergrated system of social and ecological
values can be a major ethical basis for an aviation industry that is
ethical for human and other lifeforms. Additional
information at:
www.brc21c.org
www.crle.org
www.ulsf.org
www.globalepe.org
www.epa.gov/globalwarming/climate/index.html
See also the FAQ on that website and additional information on www.ncdc.noaa.gov and www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases
2000
www.faa.gov
Government body that supposedly regulates the airline industry.
www.greenskies.org
The key objectives of the GreenSkies Network are to
a) reduce noise at airports, especially at nights; and
b) reduce the industry's growing contribution to global climate change.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aviationwatch/
Aviationwatch is an Informative site with some 200 members,
mainly concerned with aircraft noise and other aviation pollutants in
the USA.
www.HACAN.org.uk
The Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise is the world’s
largest anti-noise groups. It raised about $200,000 in two months to
support its case in the European Court of Human Rights.
www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/snap
Safety and Noise as Airport Problems - SNAP is an unmoderated
email list the sponsor of which is Heathrow Association for the Control
of Aircraft Noise (HACAN)
www.NATA-online.org
The National Air Transportation Association represents the interests
of general aviation services companies at the federal level, it lobbies
for airport expansion and sponsors a political action committee.
www.natca.org
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association is the collective
bargaining unit for 14,000 air traffic controllers serving the FAA,
the Department of Defense, and the private sector.
www.nonoise.org
The Noise-Pollution Clearinghouse is national non-profit organization
with extensive online noise related resources.
www.nrdc.org
The Natural Resources Defense Council is engaged in general environmental
activism. It published an outstanding report in 1996 entitled “Flying
Off Course: Environmental Impacts of American’s Airports”.
http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/ACNewsmenu.htm
The Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter tracks the local, national and international
stories of the ever-expanding aviation industry's environmental assault
on the people of the world.
A list of groups fighting aviation pollution around the world can be
found at: http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/AviationGroupList.htm
www.reconnectingamerica.org
Organization works for integrated or intermodal
transporation system in the USA.
www.us-caw.org
National organization of local groups with links to the international
citizens movement for sustainable, equitable and accountable aviation
www.planetwork.net/2003conf/frames/index.html
The PlaNETwork organization organizes annual conferences and advocates
for a specific linkage between the purpose and principles articulated
in the Earth Charter, and individuals, NGO's and companies which commit
to support these values, through the Planetwork Consortium.
www.simplycsl.org/vision.html
BloomingVision is a livable community network that raises awareness
about city and county planning issues and encourages participation in
public inoput meetings
www.sustainableenergy.org
The Sustainable Energy Coalition brings together more than 30 national
business, environmental, consumer, and energy policy organizations.
Founded in 1992, the Coalition promotes increased federal support for
energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies and reduced federal
support for unsafe or polluting energy resources.
www.eginitiative.org/index.html
The Ethical Globalization Initiative seeks to integrate human rights
norms and standards into a more ethical globalization process and to
support local and national human rights capacity building efforts using
the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) as a case study.
www.ifg.org
The goal of the International Forum on Globalization is twofold: (1)
Expose the multiple effects of economic globalization in order to stimulate
debate, and (2) Seek to reverse the globalization process by encouraging
ideas and activities which revitalize local economies and communities,
and ensure long term ecological stability. Representing over 60 organizations
in 25 countries, the International Forum on Globalization associates
come together out of a shared concern that the world's corporate and
political leadership is undertaking a restructuring of global politics
and economics that may prove as historically significant as any event
since the Industrial Revolution. This restructuring is happening at
tremendous speed, with little public disclosure of the profound consequences
affecting democracy, human welfare, local economies, and the natural
world.
http://lhh.org
The League for the Hard of Hearing is the world's leading not-for-profit
hearing rehabilition and human services agency for infants, children
and adults who are hard of hearing, deaf and deaf-blind. It is host
to the tri-state metro new york area of ANAG--Anti-noise Action Group,
most of members of which belong to aircraft noise groups.
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