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BlackRhinocerosBlackRhinceros is a non-partisan, unaffiliated collective. We produce a directory for environmental activists wishing to campaign on these ecological issues: biodiversity, conservation, energy, environmental justice, habitat and pollution. We work from the principle that in the past few decades greed, ignorance and acquiescence have rammed life on Earth into its most precarious phase. These behaviors critically jeopardize the system of which all living things are an integral part. That system's components are at best severely compromised, and at worst terminally threatened by a host of destructive, polluting, wasteful practices. These practices are the work of aggressive and powerful 'forces' (companies and governments – often acting illegally). Yet there are ready, practical technical solutions now to all the challenges that follow from such behavior. Our issues pages detail these solutions. Acting togetherThe best chance to save the Earth (for nothing less is at stake) is to maximize and mobilize the Actions of all of us: there is nothing so strong as people acting whenever and wherever we can. The basis for all our actions is an unswerving opposition to those who do not and/or will not (or maybe even cannot) acknowledge and honor the richness of nature. To these powerful minorities the Earth is seen as an infinitely exploitable 'commodity'. Attendant on this usually conscious deception these organizations emphasize economic growth as a panacea and as an end in itself. Consequent on this growth is the industrialization of all activity, from forestry to farming to fishing, and to education and culture. Necessary for this industrialization is the drive towards economic globalization, cultural homogenization, commodity accumulation, urbanization, and human alienation – without regard to the best resource we have to sustain life: Nature. Sustainability and DiversityIt is self-evident that the destruction of everything which has evolved over the Earth's entire history must not happen. And equally self-evident that all of these destructive, wasteful and polluting practices are fundamentally incompatible with ecological and biological sustainability on the Earth. In the place of this negativity we feel must come greater awareness of the twin needs for biodiversity and sustainability. In time – if the Earth is to survive – we trust that everyone will subscribe in their own way to restoring essential ecological richness and maintaining ecological balance. BlackRhinceros makes common cause with every individual and group genuinely flowing with this tide. We surf high on it – and proudly too! ActionsWe categorize environmental issues confronting destruction, pollution and waste into six main areas. Each has several subcategories:
It is in these areas that BlackRhinoceros has aggregated and annotated links to many hundreds of carefully screened sites. Please go to these to take what the promoters of each campaign and organizations deem appropriate Action. This extends from prewritten emails supplied on the site to faxes, telephone numbers, personal visits, mounting or joining boycotts, handwrite letters and so on. Take partPlease notify us if you know of a site or campaign or organizations working in an area which interests you but which is not linked to here. Thank you! The BlackRhinceros site is maintained entirely by volunteers, is non-partisan, unaffiliated and based on optimism. BlackRhinoceros Environmentalists is a Public Benefit nonprofit corporation (number 2360165) under Californian law, and has 501(a) tax-exempt charitable status under United States federal law.
BlackRhinoceros The BlackRhinoceros site is produced and hosted on open systems and best viewed on generation 4 browsers and above with JavaScript enabled. 
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