The key to a successful Earth Month is learning as much as possible about how to protect clean water in your region. Learn more about how you and your salon can help protect water quality and conserve water by working with these experts from around the world.

UNITED STATES and CANADA

Alaska Conservation Foundation – Alternative Wares ( Alaska)
akcf.org
The Alaska Conservation Foundation builds strategic leadership and support for Alaskan efforts to take care of wildlands, waters, and wildlife which sustain diverse cultures, healthy communities, and prosperous economies.

Alliance for the Great Lakes – ASI Great Lakes and ASI MidAmerica ( Michigan)
lakemichigan.org
The mission of the Alliance for the Great Lakes is to conserve and restore the world’s largest freshwater resource using policy, education, and local efforts, ensuring a healthy Great Lakes and clean water for generations of people and wildlife.

Audubon Mississippi RiverCampaign – ASI Midwest ( Iowa)
audubon.org
Audubon Upper Mississippi River Campaign works to make the Mississippi River and its watershed a place where people prosper and birds, fish and wildlife thrive, in a healthy environment.

Clean Ocean Action – ASI Northeast and ASI Southeast ( New Jersey & Pennsylvania)
cleanoceanaction.org
The mission of Clean Ocean Action is to improve the degraded quality of the waters off the New Jersey and New York coast. Clean Ocean Action identifies sources of pollution by using research, public education, and citizen action to convince our public officials to enact and enforce measure, which will clean up and protect our ocean.

Clean Water Fund – ASI Midwest
cleanwaterfund.org
Clean Water Fund works to clean up contaminated lakes and rivers, to ensure that limited water resources are managed wisely, and to create a network of concerned citizens to speak with one voice for clean water.

Columbia Riverkeeper – ASI Northwest ( Oregon)
columbiariverkeeper.org
Columbia Riverkeeper’s mission is to restore and protect the water quality of the Columbia River and all life connected to it, from the headwaters to the Pacific Ocean.

Georgia Strait Alliance – Alternative Wares
georgiastrait.org
The mission of the Georgia Strait Alliance is to protect and restore the marine environment and promote the sustainability of Georgia Strait, its adjoining waters and communities.

Gulf Restoration Network – Neill Corp & The Salon People
healthygulf.org
Gulf Restoration Network is a diverse network of environmental, social justice and citizens’ groups and individuals committed to restoring the Gulf of Mexico to an ecologically and biologically sustainable condition.

Ohio River Foundation – ASI MidAmerica
ohioriverfdn.org
ORF's mission is to protect and restore the water quality and ecology of the Ohio River and its tributaries for the health and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Potomac Conservancy – ASI Southeast
potomac.org
The Potomac Conservancy protects lands vital to the health, beauty and enjoyment of the Potomac River and its tributaries. We do this by providing conservation solutions and hands-on restoration opportunities throughout the Potomac River Watershed.

*Puget Soundkeeper Alliance– ASI Northwest (Washington)
pugetsoundkeeper.org
The mission of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance is to protect and preserve Puget Sound by tracking down and stopping the discharge of toxic pollutants into its waters.

*Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence Coalition on Sustainability – Maritime
coalition-sgsl.ca
The Coalition and its members envision the future in which the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence is socially, economically and environmentally sustainable.

Surfrider Foundation – ASI Southwest
surfrider.org
The Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s oceans, waves and beaches for all people, through conservation, activism, research and education.

*Triangle Land Conservancy – ASI Southeast (North Carolina)
tlc-nc.org
Triangle Land Conservancy's mission is to protect important open space—stream corridors, forests, wildlife habitat, farmland and natural areas—in Chatham, Durham, Johnston, Lee, Orange and Wake counties to help keep our region a healthy and vibrant place to live and work.

*WaterCan – Collega
watercan.com
WaterCan is a registered charity that is dedicated to providing clean drinking water, basic sanitation and hygiene education to the world's poorest people. Since its creation in 1987, WaterCan has assisted more than one million people in 32 developing countries. WaterCan currently supports projects in Africa.

Western Resource Advocates – ASI Rocky Mountain
westernresourceadvocates.org
Western Resource Advocates' mission is to protect and restore the land, air and water resources of the Rocky Mountain States.

INTERNATIONAL

Global Greengrants Fund – Global Partner; Regional Partner for Aveda Europe and Australia
greengrants.org
Greengrants is Aveda’s 2008 Global Earth Month Partner, with 100% of proceeds from the Earth Month candle benefiting Greengrants and the organization’s clean water projects. Greengrants makes small grants to grassroots groups working to help people protect the environment, live sustainably, preserve biodiversity, and gain a voice in their own future.

Green Power – Hong Kong
greenpower.org.hk
Green Power was founded in 1988 by a group of dedicated volunteers concerned about local environmental affairs and problems. We have always put environmental education as our first and foremost priority because we believe that education is the ultimate way of transforming our thinking and behaviour.

Green Korea United - Korea
greenkorea.org
Green Korea is a civic organization working to protect ecosystems and to promote public awareness in order to harmonize people with nature. We work to halt destructive development projects on the Korean peninsula and to protect forests and wildlife.

*Ecoleague - Japan.
portal.eco-2000.net
Support the empowerment of youth by creating a network to communicate and maximize the strengths of youth power to build an ecologically consciousness society.


*The Society of Wilderness - Taiwan
sow.org.tw/
The mission of The Society of Wilderness is to protect wild lands, allowing nature to manage and revive itself, by obtaining guardianship and managing authorities of wilderness areas through means of purchases, long term leases, and funding from commissions and donations. To purposefully set aside wild lands and preserve nature in its original state for present and future generations to explore and be enlightened by the wonders of life.

* Denotes new partner in 2008