Delaware

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The following organizations are dedicated to educating and encouraging the citizens of Delaware to protect and preserve the environment around them.
  • The Delaware Clean Marina program: The Delaware Clean Marina Program recognizes and promotes marinas, boatyards and yacht clubs of any size that meet legal requirements and voluntarily adopt pollution prevention practices.

  • The Delaware Green Industries Program: Promotes the use of recycled materials and reduced waste generation within Delaware's business and industrial community.

  • Delaware's Green Lodging program: Promotes pollution prevention practices in the tourism and hospitality industry

  • The Delaware Healthy Homes program: Information about improving indoor air quality

  • Delaware Landowner Incentive Program The Delaware Landowner Incentive Program provides technical and financial assistance to private landowners interested in restoring habitat for wildlife.

  • Delaware Native Plant Society - The purpose of the Delaware Native Plant Society (DNPS) is to participate in and encourage the preservation, conservation, restoration, and propagation of Delaware’s native plants and plant communities.

  • Delaware Nature Society - The purpose of the Delaware Nature Society is to foster understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of the natural world through education; to preserve ecologically significant areas; and to advocate stewardship and conservation of natural resources.

  • Delaware Pollution Prevention (P2): The Pollution Prevention Program was established in DNREC by Delaware's General Assembly in 1990 as a non-regulatory program to provide assistance to businesses and industrial facilities in identifying and implementing waste reduction opportunities.
  • Delaware's "Composting University": Everything you need to know about composting

  • Delaware's Private Lands Assistance Program: Cooperative solutions for Delaware’s private landowners to restore and enhance wildlife habitat on their properties.

  • Delaware's Scrap Tire and Cleanup program: Disposing of scrap tires without harming the environment.

  • Delaware's Sportsmen Against Hunter program: Encourages hunters to share their harvest by donating venison to Delawareans in need.

  • Delaware Wild Lands - Delaware Wild Lands, Inc. is a private, nonprofit tax-exempt organization dedicated to the conservation and preservation of natural areas through the acquisition and management of strategic parcels of land.

  • Recycling in Delaware: Specific information about recycling – why, what, and where to recycle

  • Volunteering for Wildlife in Delaware: Adopt a Wetland, Monitor a species or take other actions to support the wildlife in Delaware

  • Delaware Division of Fish & Wildlife's Youth Fishing Tournament: Encourages children to get outside and enjoy nature.

  • Delaware's Artificial Reef Program: Delaware Reef Program is one part of a comprehensive fisheries management effort and is designed to enhance fisheries habitat, benefit structure-oriented fish and provide fishing opportunities for anglers. Over the long haul, artificial reefs are seen as a salvation for depleted or endangered fisheries.

  • Delaware's Storm Drain Marking Program: In Delaware, runoff drains into the Delaware River, Delaware Bay or the Chesapeake Bay, where residents spend summer days swimming, fishing and boating. Educating the public about pollutants contained within stormwater runoff is a vital, yet daunting task.

  • Thank You, Delaware Bay: Find out what you can do to help protect Delaware Bay

  • The Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve (DNERR): The Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve (DNERR) is one of 27 National Estuarine Research Reserves across the country whose goal is to establish, protect, and manage natural estuarine habitats for research, education, and coastal stewardship.

  • Delaware RiverKeeper - the Delaware Riverkeeper, backed by the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, staunchly champions the needs of the Delaware river and in so doing ensures its unfettered ability to protect and provide for all the human and nonhuman communities that love, appreciate and depend upon it.

  • Delaware Audubon Society - Delaware Audubon is dedicated to developing a better appreciation of our natural environment and working for species and habitat conservation.

  • The Nature Conservancy, Delaware Chapter - The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.

  • The Sierra Club, Delaware Chapter - Explore, enjoy and protect the planet.

  • Delaware Breeding Bird Atlas - The Delaware Breeding Bird Atlas offers a great opportunity to survey the state’s breeding bird fauna and to map distribution of all breeding species.

  • Delaware Center for Horticulture - The Delaware Center for Horticulture (DCH) is a non-profit community resource organization dedicated to promoting knowledge and appreciation of gardening, horticulture, and conservation

  • Institute of Energy Conversion - The Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC), established at the University of Delaware in 1972, is a laboratory devoted to research and development of thin-film photovoltaic solar cells and other photonic devices.

  • Delaware Valley Green Building Council - The mission of the Delaware Valley Green Building Council is to advance and promote sustainable and environmentally responsible planning, design, construction and operation of the region’s buildings, landscapes, cities and communities, mindful of the legacy we leave for future generations.

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