LINKS
In our commitment to foster dialogue on emergent communities, we would like to offer a links page that will serve as a networking hub for existing communities, projects in gestation, tribes, alternative gatherings, earth-honoring festivals, and other social experiments.
CATEGORIESART & POETRY ENVIRONMENT: GENERAL ENVIRONMENT: SUSTAINABLE LIVING
HEALTH & MEDICINE SOCIETY & POLITICS SPIRITUALITY & PHILOSOPHY
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ART & POETRY
Anne Waldman - web page for Anne Waldman, poet and teacher, and with Allen Ginsberg co-founded of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado in 1974. She was featured along with Ginsberg in Bob Dylan's experimental film 'Renaldo and Clara.'
Rachel Rosenthal - workshops, art, videos and books by interdisciplinary artist Rachel Rosenthal.
Ron Lampi - philosopher, poet, writer and performance artist.
Tina Lemarque Denison - artist and author who documents primordial memory, myth and archetype using paint, digital photography, mediated imagery, and mixed media.
ENVIRONMENT: GENERAL
Alliance for Wild Ethics - a consortium of individuals and organizations working to ease the spreading devastation of the animate earth through a rapid transformation of culture.
Energy Action Coalition - a coalition of more than 40 organizations from across the US and Canada, founded and led by youth to help support and strengthen the student and youth clean energy movement in North America.
Pachamama Alliance - an organization protecting the Earth's rainforests and the indigenous people who live there, and blending the knowledge and wisdom of indigenous cultures.
Ocean Alliance - Ocean Alliance collects a broad spectrum of data on whales and ocean life relating particularly to toxicology, behavior, bioacoustics, and genetics. From that data they work with scientific partners to advise educators and policy makers on wise stewardship of the oceans.
Ocean Arks - founded in 1981 with a goal to create an ecological design science and practice adaptable to both rich and poor regions of the world.
Rural Vermont - Activates, advocates and educates for living soils, thriving farms and healthy communities.
Waterkeeper Alliance - connects and supports local Waterkeeper programs to provide a voice for waterways and their communities worldwide and to champion clean water and strong communities.
ENVIRONMENT: SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Chelsea Green - Chelsea Green Publishing is the preeminent publisher of books on sustainable living. With well over 200 titles in print, Chelsea Green sees publishing as a tool for effecting cultural change.
Cooperative Coffees - green coffee importing cooperative, comprised of 23 community based coffee roasters in the USA and Canada, committed to building and supporting equitable and sustainable trade relationships for the benefit of farmers and their exporting cooperatives, families and communities.
Dream Change Coalition - non-profit organization consisting of people around the globe dedicated to practicing and creating ways of sustainable living.
Four Season Farm - a year-round organic market garden in Harborside, Maine.
Gaian Studies - non-profit organization exploring - and participating with -the non-linear intelligence of nature. It is the opinion of the organization's founders that the survivability of the human species depends on human beings once more reconnecting to the Earth.
Organic Consumers Association - Campaigning for health, justice, sustainability, peace and democracy.
Paul Hawken - web site about Paul Hawken, an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author who has dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment.
Regenesis - Research, design, and development of innovative systems of sustainable land use, local community enterprise and bio-regional solutions to social and environmental challenges.
Schmuacher Society - an educational non-profit organization founded in 1980 whose programs demonstrate that both social and environmental sustainability can be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment to economic issues.
South Mountain Company - a 32-year-old employee-owned design/build and renewable energy company in West Tisbury Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Stonyfield Farm - the world's leading organic yogurt producer, based in Londonderry, New Hampshire.
Sustainable Cotton - web site dedicated to all farmers, manufacturers, activists, retailers and others who are devoting their energies to making sustainable and organic cotton a viable agricultural and economic alternative.
What Can I Do? - a guide and extensive list of web sites and information helping people to begin to explore the practices of sustainable living.
Zeri South Africa - Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives (ZERI) is a global network of creative minds, seeking solutions to the ever increasing problems of the world. The common vision shared by the members is to seek sustainable solutions inspired by nature's design principles.
Zeri South Africa - sister site, based in South Africa, to Zeri.org (see above).
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Paracelsus Klinik - Center for Biological Medicine and Dentistry in Lustmuhle, Switzerland which is widely recognized as a center of excellence for natural medicine.
Partners in Health - Partners in Health's mission is to provide preferential option for poor in health care.
Susun Weed - herbal medicine and spiritual healing the Wise Woman Way.
Physicians for Human Rights - web site dedicated to enhancing health, dignity and justice.
SOCIETY & POLITICS
Altai Foundation - a non-profit organization devoted to protecting the natural and cultural heritage of the Altai Mountains, and to supporting initiatives that sustain, enhance, or expand Russia's network of nature reserves.
AngryMoms.org - web site dedicated to fighting for the health of America's kids and featuring clips from "Two Angry Moms" a film about the national pandemic of obesity and eating disorders in children.
Anne Baring - a website devoted to the affirmation of a new vision of reality and to the exploration of the deeper issues facing us at this crucial time of choice.
Awakening in the Dream house - an innovative treatment and rehabilitation center in Mexico, that uses ibogaine, an entheogenic alkaloid of the iboga plant.
Bioneers - a forum for connecting the environment, health, social justice, and spirit within a broad progressive framework.
Bioneers by the Bay - east coast annual conference, held in October each year, in conjunction with the Bioneers (see above) conference on the west coast.
Center for Partnership Studies - A non-profit corporation that conducts research and develops and disseminates education on the partnership model, providing information and tools to promote the shift from domination to partnership in all aspects of society.
Center for Sacred Studies - non-profit, organization dedicated to sustaining indigenous ways of life through cross-cultural spiritual practices, ministry and education, and a commitment to peace and unity for all peoples.
Soldier's Heart - non-profit, organization addressing the emotional and spiritual needs of veterans, their families and communities.
Center for Whole Communities - Center for Whole Communities creates a more just, balanced and healthy world by exploring, honoring, and deepening the connections among land, people and community.
Circle of Life Foundation - activates people through education, inspiration and connection to live in a way that honors the diversity and interdependence of all life.
Code Pink - A women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement that seeks positive social change through proactive, creative protest and non-violent direct action.
Continuum Concept - the internet resource for readers of Jean Liedloff's acclaimed book, The Continuum Concept
Craig Barnes - international mediator, playwright, essayist and autho of In Search Of The Lost Feminine, Decoding the Myths that Radically Reshaped Civilization
Ecopsychology - Ecopsychology is a "WE" psychology. It is the science of relationships and the art of encountering.
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights - strategy and action center working for justice in the system, opportunities in our cities and peace in our streets.
Ethical Markets - Ethical Markets' mission is to foster the evolution of capitalism beyond current models based on materialism, maximizing self-interest and profit, competition and fear of scarcity.
Evolve - resource hub for individuals and communities worldwide that are choosing to embrace and apply the emerging principles, tools and templates of cocreative self and social conscious evolution.
Farms not Arms - farmers, farm-workers and those in the agricultural industry who support them, come together to oppose the war in Iraq and the dangerous cycle of war and terror that threatens our world.
Gaia Coach Institute - based on a 136-acre farm in the Black Mountains of Wales, focuses on personal and planetary renewal.
Global Living - connects people to over 450 pre-screened grassroots charity projects around the world.
Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies - a global fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners whose vision is to serve as a global enabling platform, giving space and encouragement to people who wish to dignify our world and transcend humiliation.
International council of thirteen indigenous grandmothers - a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come.
Majora Carter Group - a green-economic development consulting firm.
Jeffrey Masson - author of When Elephants Weep, Dogs Never Lie About Love and other books on the emotional lives of animals.
Native America - a non-profit organization dedicated to grassroots awareness, action, and advocacy.
OPA - a non-profit organization which emerged from the desire to combine permaculture and arts in order to build bridges between cultural, social and environmental sustainability in the urban setting.
Population Media Center - an organization which works worldwide using entertainment-education for social change.
Psychohistory - the science of historical motivations, combines the insights of psychotherapy with the research methodology of the social sciences to understand the emotional origin of the social and political behavior of groups and nations, past and present.
Raven Drum Foundation - a nonprofit organization based in Malibu, California that was established in 2001 by drummer Rick Allen of Def Leppard and Lauren Monroe. The foundation provides free educational programs to inspire personal growth during times of adversity.
Restorative Resources - and organization which provides consulting and training to people and organizations who serve survivors of extreme interpersonal trauma.
Riane Eisler - Web site for Riane Eisler, social scientist, attorney, social activist and best known as author of the international bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future.
Sahtouris - web site of Elisabet Sahtouris, evolution biologist, futurist, author and consultant.
Sista II Sista Freedom School for Young Women of Color - Brooklyn, NY community based organization dedicated to working with young black and latina women to develop personal, spiritual and collective power and creating alternatives to the system we live in by making social, cultural and political change.
Small Planet Institute - founded in 2001 to help define and further an historic transition: a worldwide shift from the dominant, failing notion of democracy as a set of fixed institutions toward democracy understood as a way of life, a culture in which the values of inclusion, fairness and mutual accountability infuse all dimensions of public life.
Soul of Money Institutea center supporting and empowering people in finding peace and sufficiency in their relationship with money and the money culture.
Supressed Histories - web site with aims to uncover the realities of women's lives, internationally and across time, asking questions about patriarchy and slavery, conquest and aboriginality.
Techgnosis - web site featuring the books and essays of Erik Davis, writer, culture critic, and independent scholar.
Triad Institute - a nonprofit organization devoted to developing and advancing a new vision of citizenship for a fast-globalizing and ecologically challenged world.
Vermont Commons - a newspaper dedicated to the proposition that Vermonters should peaceably secede from the United States Empire and govern themselves as a more sustainable independent republic once again.
VoteKindly.org videos help to change the way people vote, no matter what or whom they're voting for.
Wild Wolff - books and essays of Robert Wolff, social psychologist and author.
Who Killed the Electric Car? - companion web site to "Who Killed the Electric Car?" a documentary about electric cars, hybrids, hydrogen and the future of transportation.
Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership - an organization dedicated to future of American's young women.
SPIRITUALITY & PHILOSOPHY
The 8th Fire - web site about The 8th Fire, a documentary film about the visions and journey of Dave Courchene, Elder and spiritual advisor from the Anishnabe Nation, Eagle Clan.
Ark Books - on-line bookstore providing a comprehensive selection of books in such areas as spiritual traditions, psychology, health, healing sytems, astrology and many others. The store also has a selection of world and new age music, meditation and yoga aids and other unique items from many areas of the world.
Barbara Tedlock - distinguished anthropologist who is also an initiated shaman, reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world's oldest form of religion and medicine.
Breaking Open the Head - the companion web site for Daniel Pinchbeck's book Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
Deep Spirit - web site of Christian de Quincey - philosopher, author and media visionary.
Gaia Media - a non profit organization founded in 1993 and based in Basel, Switzerland, which conveys a holistic and up-to-date understanding of the potential of the human consciousness.
Green Earth Foundation - an educational and research organization dedicated to the healing and harmonizing of the relationships between humanity and the Earth, through a recognition of the energetic and spiritual interconnectedness of all life-forms in all worlds.
Hands of Alchemy - media, art, seminars and workshops of Marilyn Strong and Jerry Wennstrom.
Holotropic Breathwork - a powerful approach to self-exploration and healing that integrates insights from modern consciousness research, anthropology, various depth psychologies, transpersonal psychology, Eastern spiritual practices, and mystical traditions of the world.
The Human Design System - a new, unique and powerful system of knowledge which provides a framework for understanding human life itself and specific knowledge about each individual.
Mindfulness in Motion - Pathways of Sensory Awareness -- Exploration in Movement, Perception, Expression and Connection.
Motherpeace - Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble's feminist, woman-centric tarot deck and books and events.
Pagaian.org - Web site of scholar Glenys Livingstone’s Pagaian Cosmology dedicated to reinventing Earth-based Goddess Religion.
Power Path Seminars - An international school and consulting firm dedicated to the study and application of shamanism and indigenous wisdom to business and everyday life.
Savage Breast Book - web site for Tim Ward's book Savage Breast: One Man's Search for the Goddess.
Transmutation News - Sandra Ingerman's monthly newsletter the purpose of which is to inspire people to keep up spiritual practices regardless of what is happening in the outer world and to create positive change on the planet.
The Turtle Lodge - The First Nations center for learning and healing.
Upaya Institute - Residential Buddhist community located in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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