Organizations and Opportunities
Melanie St.James - Empowerment Works: a catalyst for community-based solutions
Jeffree Trudeau - (Special Projects Director)World Bamboo Organization
Mary Tidlund - Tidlund Foundation
Taking it Global - Project Profiles are designed to provide members and organizations with tools and features to highlight their initiatives, objectives, challenges and progress within a unique online space.
Planetwork - illuminates the critical role that the conscious use of information technologies and the Internet can, and indeed must, play in creating a truly democratic, ecologically sane and socially just future.
The Orion Grassroots Network - the fastest-growing network of environmental and community organizations in North America.
Fellowship for Intentional Community
The Community Solution - How small communities offer the best solution to "Peak Oil," the end of fossil fuels.
With the Current - developing the ability to go beyond our own petty wants and desires and connecting with the grandeur of all of life.
Foundation for Global Community - a nonprofit educational organization, dedicated to reconnecting people, the planet, and prosperity.
Earth Share - a nationwide network of non-profit environmental and conservation organizations
ASSOCIATION OF WORLD CITIZENS - Working together to build a world community
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. - Marshall McLuhan
Gatherings
Bioneers - visionary and practical solutions for restoring the Earth
Burning Man - Black Rock City, NV
Solfest at the
I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world. - Socrates (5th Century B.C.)
Community Spaces
New Schools - Better Neighborhoods
The Federation of Egalititarian Communities - a network of communal groups spread across North America
The Ilan Lael Foundation - to integrate art into the life of our communities and individuals through the building of parks and public spaces
The Casbah Teahouse - an international, eco-friendly, eclectic, organic, vegetarian restaurant, cafe, tea house, deli and bakery.
Arcosanti - an Urban Laboratory
Common Ground Garden Program - help low-income and limited-resource residents to grow and eat more nutritious vegetables and fruits.
Abundant Sugar - community space in East LA
Damanhur - A New Renaissance
Living Paradise - Restaurant and Living Center opening Winter Solstice 2004 in Seattle, Washington
Horse Cow Arts - educational arts center dedicated to positive cultural growth in Sacramento CA.
Sacred Earth project - Daniel Pettegrew's vision in Ivins, Utah
Agraria - an innovative Low-energy Use, Small, Sustainable Community.
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I
can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass
this way again... If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the
world. - Emmet Fox
-Mahatma Gandhi
Homeless Spaces
Alameda Point Collaborative - a supportive housing program serving 500 formerly homeless families and individuals.
Dignity Village - A self-governing urban village of formerly homeless people in Portland, Oregon
Home Away From Homelessness - nurtures and supports the needs of homeless kids and families in San Francisco.
Larkin Street Youth Services - Helping kids get off the street for good.
"$80,000 a year to send one youth to jail, or the same to send two kids to Yale!"
The cruel wild beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He stands in front of it. Kids coming out of gangs, I think they would need two hours of cloud watching a day. There are now more than 450,000 drug offenders behind bars, a total nearly equal to the
entire us prison population of 1980. Approximately half of California prisoners are there for drug
charges. The US spends 13 billion a year on domestic anti-drug enforcement alone - 800 times more
than 1981.
200,000 youth go to jail each year. Suicide in youth prison is 8 times higher than adult prison.
75% of people released from prison return in 5 years. A person in prison will cost tax payers a
million dollars over a life time. Money will be spent to send kids to prison instead of educating
them. - Juvies, a Chance film documentary
Half the people in federal prison are there for drug offences. -- history channel.
We will never become drug-free, only less free.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time
when we fail to protest. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
-Van
Jones at Bioneers, speaking about
- Axel
Munthe
- Moriah Day
- Elie Wiesel
- Martin Luther King
Justice... Just us!
The beat within - A weekly publication of writing and art from the inside
Prision Creative Arts Project - to enhance creative opportunities for inmates and to bring them the benefits and skills that come with each art.
Northern California Service League - Our mission is to reduce crime by helping offenders and ex-offenders become responsible and productive citizens.
Books not Bars - waging a statewide campaign to close the notorious youth prisons of the California Youth Authority (CYA) and replace them with programs and rehabilitation centers that work.
Amnesty International - Act now for human rights
Naturewatch - CAMPAIGNING AGAINST ANIMAL CRUELTY
PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
ALL FOR ANIMALS - dedicated to raising awareness about cruelty-free living and the importance of compassion to ALL animals.
Earth friendly Construction
Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsibility
Plant SF - to promote permeable landscaping equally as sustainable urban infrastructural practice and as a beautification effort.
Robert Bolman - Environmentaly Responsive construction and consultation
Interstice Architects - Urban design and landscape architecture
Urban Ore - to end the age of waste
James Hubbell - sculpts unique living environments from nearby materials, providing beautiful shelters for humans to dwell in harmony with nature.
We know
deep in our hearts what is the Great Work. It is a moral cry to declare that we want to live
differently, that we want to express our love and our prosperity in terms of the quality of our
relationships, not in the amount we acquire and consume. -The Great Remembering, by Peter
Forbes
Organizations
Participate America Foundation - committed to strengthening the fabric of American democracy by encouraging American's to become active in their civic responsibilities
Centre for Research on Globalization
Tree People - to inspire the people of LA to take personal responsibility for the urban forest.
We Save Trees - Protecting ancient forest ecosystems through nonvillent direct action and educating the public about the effects of corporate industrial logging.
Riseup.net - activist group directory
Moms Rising - Working together to build a family-friendly America
Cyclecide Heavy Pedal Bike Rodeo
Heartbeat Ensemble - plays that tell universal stories of everyday people who take action to better their world
Indigenous Environmental Network
Northwest Tekno - The Northwest Electronic Music Community
Thimmakka's - resources for environmental education
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Global Footprint Network - advancing the Science of Sustainability
Foundation for Global Community - a nonprofit educational organization, dedicated to reconnecting people, the planet, and prosperity
Native Planet - to: Document & Preserve Cultures / Empower Indigenous People & Minorities
Youth Organizations
YES - Youth for Environmental Sanity
Challenge Day - provides youth and their communities with experiential workshops and programs that demonstrate the possibility of love and connection through the celebration of diversity, truth and full expression.
Narrows Crossing Next Generation Team -- the leading effort of Narrows Crossing is the coordination of a national campaign and premier event, the National Youth Forum for a Sustainable Future (NYFSF.)
SustainUS - a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of young people advancing sustainable development and youth empowerment in the United States.
Youth For Understanding - a worldwide movement of committed individuals and organizations working together to prepare young people for their responsibilities and challenges in a changing, interdependent global community.
UrbanMentor - promoting the mentoring movement.
Every step of modern food production is
fossil fuel and petrochemical powered: In the US, the average piece of food is transported almost
1,500 miles before it gets to your plate. In Canada, the average piece of food is transported 5,000
miles from where it is produced to where it is consumed. -
Village Harvest - We organize and coordinate backyard fruit harvesting, and provide education on fruit tree care, harvesting, and food preservation.
The FOOD PROJECT / BLAST - a global network of youth and adults working together to build sustainable food systems.
Nutiva - nourishing people and planet
Raw Stock - Health empowerment festivals of eco-regeneration, musical ecstasy & raw food delight!
Organic Volunteers - Educational exchanges in sustainability
Organic Entrepreneurs - an online hub for organic activists, farmers, teachers and entrepreneurs.
Many of the wars in this past century were about oil, but those of the next century will be over water. - Ismail Seragelgin, World Bank, 1995
97% of the earth's water is ocean water, unusable to man. Less than 1% of the world's water is available for drinking and other purposes, including agriculture and industry. This supply comes from rivers, dams and ground-water sources.
Water
Blue Planet Village - to create a healthier planet, beginning with people drinking the most powerful water.
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Sprawl
kills! Communities designed around automobiles promotes obesity.
-Dr. Richard Jackson,
California's Health Director
A car emits 10,000 lbs (three times its weight!) in carbon dioxide each year.
Transportation
Dont crush.com - the campaign to save electric cars
CalCars - The California Cars Initiative PRIUS+ conversions
San Francisco Electric Vehicle Association
511 - Your Bay Area travel guide
BioFuel Oasis - We sell high quality commercial biodiesel
Nova Fuels - Sustainable Fuel Systems
San Francisco Electric Vehicle Association
Terra Pass - members finance projects that reduce industrial carbon dioxide emissions.
Energy
Energy Star - a government-backed program helping businesses and individuals protect the environment through superior energy efficiency.
The US Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Dry Dipstick - a peak oil metadirectory
Sun Power - Geothermal Energy
Energy Action - youth united for clean engery
United Nations Environment Programme - Sustainable Consumption
Networking Tools
TakingITGlobal - Project Profiles are designed to provide members and organizations with tools and features to highlight their initiatives, objectives, challenges and progress within a unique online space.
Time Dollar - To create an economy that rewards caring, decency, and a passion for justice.
TIME TRADERS - You earn Time Credits every time you give a service to someone in the network.
Time Bucks - Volunteer and get Time Bucks.
Hour Exchange - Spending time.
Adopt-an-Activist - turning emotional support into financial solidarity
Coop America - Practical steps for using your consumer and investor power for social change scrapaction.org/
Scrap Action saving scrap from being waste in Portland, oregon.
Freecycle - get and give free stuff
Swap-o-rama-rama - clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops
The CryptoRights Foundation - securing human rights worldwide
Volunteer match - Get out. Do Good.
The Envirolink Network - The online environmental community
Grassroots.org - a hub of resourses
The Ultimate Camp Resource - free online resource for camp songs, camp activities, camp games, camp staff tips & tricks
The responsibility of becoming a human being is great, but it also natural. It is prayer in motion.
It is your evolution and free will in action. It is the flow of life in all things. So, love the
Earth and make new life, for children are always a new beginning. Most of you have yet to
rediscover a world you've "already discovered". 
There is a great need for the men of your world to become intuitive and
focused on the development of the soul. Men must cultivate unconditional love on all levels. The
men of your world are too aggressive and full of self-imposed loneliness. Please remember that all
energy moves in a circle, so everything returns: the love, anger and despair. Please, we ask you to
also acknowledge the fact that the love you withhold is the pain you carry. So, let love warm your
voice. Let love be the wonder to children's ears. Let imagination create a world of unconditional
responsibility. It will also change the order of the old world. Let your emotions give motion to
the "hero" that struggles within all of you for the freedom to act, to be, to witness and to
apologize.
- Moranae to Alex Collier 2/24/95
We are each other's teachers.
-
Beth Altshuler
Guides/ Teachers/ Healers
Cory Richardson - Innerspace Travel Agent and Dragonfly Therapist
Astara - Feng Shui with Astara
Brian O'Connell - Innovative Touch
Sarah West - angelic messenger, powerful healer, mystic, teacher and author.
Jennifer Evonne - EXOTERICA... and other important stuff
Buckminster Fuller - the lengend lives on
Ocean Robbins - Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!)
Ananda Ji - Sera Soma, where sound and vibration are fused to create the ultimate sonic massage for stress reduction and relaxation therapy.
Christa Laririt - transforming personal experience into timeless mythology
Find what you really care about and live a life that shows it.
- Kate Wolf
Adventurers
Jean-Philippe Soule - photographer and native cultures expert
Michael Mitchell - Body and Soul Adventures
Barb Odanaka - International Society of Skateboarding Moms
Mark Mcmahon - Mission Playground clothing
Julia Butterfly Hill - founded the Circle of Life, that activates people through education, inspiration and connection to live in a way that honors the diversity and interdependence of all life.
Carlos de la Fuente - Kayaking for Peace (Santa Barbara, CA to Costa Rica)
Jeff - on bike
Michael Landes - the hook-up for Backdoor jobs
Shaman Randal - Randal's Travel Journals
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your
force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead
church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or
against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have difficulty
to detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper
life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man
must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect, I anticipate
your argument. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine
actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will
justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future. If I can be firm enough to-day to do right, and
scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now. Be it how it will, do right
now. Always scorn appearances, and you always may. The force of character is cumulative. All the
foregone days of virtue work their health into this. What makes the majesty of the heroes of the
senate and the field, which so fills the imagination? The consciousness of a train of great days
and victories behind. They shed an united light on the advancing actor. He is attended as by a
visible escort of angels. That is it which throws thunder into Chatham's voice, and dignity into
Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no
ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love
it and pay it homage, because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent,
self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.
- from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance.
Fire Gods and
Goddesses
Star Dust - fire dancer, music video
star, model & hairstylist
We are the music
makers and we are the dreamers of dreams. Music Makers & Party People Extra Action Marching Band David Rovics - Revolutionary music
Nicki Jack - Original Music for TV &
film
Prophei - producer, sound engineer and dj
Chris "Gypsy" Lee - one man, one guitar
California Institute of Abnormal
Arts
Designers / Techies Roseann Dreasher - digital
designer Robert Lamarche - computer
graphics and ceramic sculpture
Taylor Hanson - Web Consulting and Post Dot
Com Specialist
Miquael Gaio - looking to establish
a professional team of eco-tech designers and programmers.
It is not in your genes... it is in your dreams! What are you dreaming about?
Visual
Art Alex Grey - painting spiritual dimensions
Jentri Chancey - Lost in Sunshine / Aether Paranormal
Tyler Blank - Photography
exploring the beauty of Nature and Humanity
Francene Hart - visionary artist
experiencing the interconnectedness between all things
Andreas Amador - Trippin'
strings
Sean White - Photographer & film maker
Alba Elena Wejebe - Photographer
Michael Brown - painting soul
flight
Sean Morris - film maker
Mariano A. Diaz - conceptual
illustrator
Franklin Londin -
special effects
Paul Holman - media artist and
environmental designer for special events, film, music video, and live performance
Paulynn Cue - graphic design
Metal, Glass and
Jewels Janis Lozano - Unique & Custom
Handcrafted Jewelry
Linda and Charles Perkins - wire and
broken glass made beautiful
No matter
how empty the world seemed, no matter how degraded and used up the world appeared to us, we knew
that anything was still possible, and given the right circumstances, a new world was just as likely
as an old one. We should never simply write ourselves off, and see ourselves as the victims of
various forces. It is always our decision who we are. -Waking Life.
Outlets Common Dreams - Breaking News and
Views for the progressive community
AuditionSpotlight - For
Performers Of ALL Types Of Talent!
current TV - Al Gore's TV network for and by
youth
Electronic Frontier Foundation - Blogging is
what it is all about
For Those Who Want To Know - a
concise, reliable introduction to vital information of which few are aware.
Channel G - Empowering Charitable
Projects With Mass Media Exposure
Project Censored - the news that didn't make
the news
Argus Fest -- Featuring the best films
on human rights, globalization, social justice, environmental and media reform issues.
Outpost Magazine - The traveller's
Journal
Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
Insurgent Desire - The Online
Green Anarchy Archive
The Progressive Media
Project - Diversifying America's Opinion Pages The Aware Show - KPFK radio in Santa
Barbara and LA
Democracy Now - Amy Goodman rocks!
Global Music Project -
downloadable music... proceeds go toward global causes
Enlightenment.com - building a living
community through transformation
Event Management Services -
Successful media campaigns result from effective communications.
It is quite natural, in pursuing enlightenment or just in trying to be happier, to look to your
everyday experiences for signs of results. Indeed, your daily life is nothing else but an
expression of your spiritual condition. Your life will change as you become more loving, but not in
ways you can exactly predict. What happens is not important as how you react to what happens.
You can tune your vibrations to Christ Consciousness or Buddha consciousness and experience
supernal compassion. You can tune yourself to black magic and live in a world of weird shapes and
violent forces. You can tune to Mickey Mouse or Mr. Natural in the comic book. You can become one
with the Divine Mother and dwell in incredible sensuous luxury.
-The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment, by Thaddeus Golas Action Hero
Training Camps Burning Man - Black Rock City, NV
Living Routes - Ecovillage Education
The Ruckus Society - Oakland, CA
Punta Mona - Center for sustainable
living and education, Costa Rica
Falls Brook Centre - New Brunswick,
Canada
Cushing Nature Retreat - Ladysmith,
Qc, Canada
Linnaea Farm - Cortes Island, BC,
Canada
Regenesis - a sacred space for those
who seek renewal and deeper self awareness.
Prescott college - Arizona
Lost Valley Educational Center
Hollyhock - retreat centre on Cortes
Island, BC, Canada
Dragonfly Ranch - Hawaii
Raw Love - Living Your Life as Art
New Warrior Training Adventure
Katimavik -
Canada
Village Free School - Portland, Oregon
Modern industrial civilization has
developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial
civilization has been individual material gain. Excess is legitimate, even praise-worthy on the
grounds that the private vices yield public benefits in the classic formulation. It's long been
understood, very well, that a society that is based on this principal will destroy itself in time.
It will only persist with whatever injustice and suffering it entails as long as it is possible to
pretend that the destructive forces that humans create are limited-that the world is an infinite
resource and the world is an infinite garbage can. At this stage of history, either one of two
things is possible. Either the general population will take control of it's own destiny and will
concern itself with community interests guided by values of solitary and sympathy and concern for
others or alternatively there will be no destiny for anyone to control. As long as some specialized
class is in a position of authority it is going to set policy in the special interests that it
serves. But the conditions of survival, let alone justice, require rational social planning in the
interests of the communities as a whole, and by now that means the global communities. The
question is rather should privileged elite dominate mass communication and use this power as they
tell us they must, mainly to impose necessary illusions, to manipulate and to deceive the stupid
majority, and remove them from the public arena. The question in brief is weather democracy and
freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided. In this possibly terminal phase of
human existence democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured, they may well be
essential to survival. Revolutionary Reading We Are Everywhere - the
irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism
FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
THIRD WORLD TRAVELER
- an alternative view to the corporate media about the state of democracy in America
Inspirational Speakers
Patrick Combs - A Good Thinker
Deanna Latson - Health Educator
Justin Boudreau - Just Within
Sight Motivator
Bruce Elkin - Life Coach
Alex Ariza - "New Consciousness"
author and speaker
Lori Ayers - HIV/AIDS Speaker
All you are
unable to give, possesses you. - Andre Gide The act of giving with its apparent loss,
tends to throw us upon spirit and makes us depend upon God for supply. - HT Hamblin
Wealth only achieves meaning when it is shared. It is energy like any other; if it is dammed up
and horded, it stagnates and becomes useless. We are all wealthier when we share.
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Our deepest fear is not that we are
inadequate; our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our
darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing
enlightened about shrinking so that others won't feel insecure around you. As we let our light
shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. And when we are liberated from our
own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -N. Mandela
~ Willie Wonka
-Manufacturing Consent, by Noam Chomsky
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Vaudeville Fashion Show
Mazatlan Awareness Festival
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