Today it's the largest established environmental group in the world and has long followed a strategy of forging helpful alliances with smaller grassroots groups. Founded to bring the concerns of ecology together with the concerns of the civil rights and peace movements, it presaged the environmental justice movement by decades. I hope they recover and rediscover their roots. In other words, be careful with their endorsements, but by all means, check out their legislative scorecards . The Internet can be an effective tool for activists, but be aware of its limitations.
Online discourse is very limited, and often prone to generating more heat than light.
The forums listed here are a cut above the rest. And be careful not to fall into the trap of using them to the extent that you exclude activists who don't have the resources or time or inclination to participate in online forums. These have been much more productive forums than Usenet newsgroups. IGC is now out of the ISP business, and focusing on providing information. The conferences were moved to Topica , though members can still read some of them as newsgroups at IGC's news spool.