Local Links
Green businesses
- Find it in Fremont
- Search for neighborhood businesses that offer locally-produced, environmentally-friendly and socially-responsible products and services. Read about how to help grow local economies. We will be adding a number of businesses daily to the directory for the next few weeks, so keep checking back to discover additional businesses to support.
- Greener Lifestyles (Ballard)
- Greener Lifestyles focuses on products that are good for the environment, good for your sense of design, and good for your life. All our products are 100% natural, fair trade, contemporary and fun! We also offer vital space and design consultations to create supportive environments for health and well-being. Come check out our store on Ballard Ave.
- The ReStore (Ballard)
- The RE Store was begun in 1993 to address the growing concern of citizens in Northwest Washington regarding the huge amount of perfectly fine building materials that were being disposed of. Since that time The RE Store has turned that waste into a viable sustainable business venture that diverts more than 2,000,000 pounds of waste a year from needless disposal while employing 32 people.
- Resource Venture: Business Solutions for a Sound Environment
- See especially Find a Recycler (by category of items)
- Walt's Organic Fertilizer Company (Ballard)
- Specializes in organic gardening products and services
- Dr. Dan's Alternative Fuelwerks (Ballard)
- Biodiesel for sale in Ballard!!! Selling biodiesel, for vehicles, home heating, or any diesel powered equipment. People can set up an account for 24-hour access to Dr. Dan's fueling station or delivery.
- Tacoma Biodiesel Cooperative
- The Tacoma Biodiesel Cooperative is a group of people of all ages and walks of life who for varying reasons choose to fuel their diesel vehicles with vegetable oil-based biodiesel.
We have a single fueling facility in the alley of the home of one of our member families, at which we have a solar-charged battery-powered pump and storage capacity of approximately 550 gallons.
- Imagine Energy (Bainbridge Island)
- Imagine Energy provides individuals and communities with an easy access to a clean alternative fuel: BioDiesel. We make it easy for you to use BioDiesel and help preserve your air, land, and water. Imagine that! Dedicated to providing clean alternative fuel resources to progressive people and communities.
- Puget Sound Solar
- Puget Sound Solar is committed to bringing the Puget Sound region squarely into the solar age. We offer a complete energy production & conservation package, including pin-point energy audits, solar electric systems, solar water heating and total energy design that will put YOU in charge of your energy future.
- Seamonster Seafoods (Ballard)
- The Seamonster Project supports the Fair Trade Seafood Label, which was developed to create economic compensation and recognition for sustainable seafood producers. It is the first seafood labeling program that rewards and encourages small-scale family producers to aim the sales of their products directly to the public, chefs, and retailers. (More about the Fair Trade Seafood (FTS) label here)
- Sustainable Group (Ballard)
- Sustainable Group is an innovative product company that provides environmentally responsible office products at competitive prices. REBINDER is Sustainable Group's first product to market. Made of 35-38% post consumer recycled corrugated cardboard, REBINDER is an excellent alternative to traditional vinyl 3-ring binders.
- Puget Sound Green Pages
- Internet links of interest to people working on environmental issues in the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
- Wild Mountain Cafe (Crown Hill)
- "In July of 2003, Wild Mountain Cafe began a pilot program directed by the City of Seattle and King County using a commercial worm bin to compost our coffee grounds and clean kitchen scraps into soil for use in our spectacular garden! Our hope is that someday, other restaurants like ourselves will come on board with similar programs to help reduce waste in Seattle's landfills and our planet."
- Cascade Solar Consulting
- Cascade Solar Consulting provides consulting services on all aspects of solar energy use. Cascade Solar Consulting (CSC) operates the Northwest Solar Cooperative, which buys Green Tags from homes and buildings, putting money into the hands of solar energy owners.
- GoodFunds.com (Fremont)
- The good people at GoodFunds.com help people get their money sustainably invested and involved in community investing.
- Opperman Design (Ballard)
- Opperman Design has specialized for over 20 years in residential design, remodels and additions. We are interested in client-oriented, green home design solutions which integrate thoughtful use of less toxic building materials and practices with a team approach (designer-client-contractor): from initial design through construction.
- Olympia Green Fuels (Olympia)
- "Olympia Green Fuels is proud to announce our "Pelly Model A*" line of biodiesel processors. These are modular skid-mounted biodiesel processors capable of producing batches of biodiesel from (both waste and fresh) vegetable oil ranging from 25 Gallons (95 Litres) to 400 Gallons (1500 Litres) per batch. These processors will convert both fresh and waste vegetable oil into a washed and polished biodiesel capable of meeting ASTM standards."
- BikeSport (Ballard)
- BikeSport is the locally-owned bicycle shop in Ballard, on 24th Avenue NW. We help people recycle their old bikes and sell new and used bikes. We are active in the community, helping to conserve the environment by riding and promoting the use of bicycles!
- Small Wonder Farm
- SMALL WONDER FARM grows and sells edible seedlings for the home garden. We offer you Gourmet and Heirloom vegetables that you wouldn't necessarily find in the grocery store. Small Wonder uses a "Responsible Growing" approach to plant propagation to provide you with healthy and healthful plants that will give you the most delicious produce. Our plants are grown with organic, sustainable and renewable materials.
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Local Links
Consonant organizations
- Groundswell NW (Ballard)
- A Seattle neighborhood non-profit dedicated to creating and protecting parks and habitat
- ArtsBallard (Ballard)
- Our mission is to encourage local artists' participation and promote community involvement in the visual, performing and literary arts in Ballard. We advocate making art a part of every day life in our neighborhood, for the benefit of our own community as well as greater Seattle.
- Business Alliance for Local Living Economy (BALLE) - SEATTLE
- BALLE’s mission is to support, connect, and strengthen local (King County), independent businesses dedicated to building living economies, which increase prosperity, fortify community, and ensure environmental health.
- Sail Transport Network (Puget Sound)
- Sail Transport Network intends to resurrect renewable-energy travel and freight. STN was begun in 2000 in the Puget Sound where there are hundreds of harbor-towns and inlets in protected waters. We present this opportunity to network with sailors who are cognizant of the role sailboats will once again play in transport in coastal areas as gas, propane and diesel prices continue to climb according to the law of supply and demand.
- The InTerra Project
- The Goal of Interra: To facilitate a new economic infrastructure that engenders a virtuous circle of exchange among its participants citizen members, local businesses and social benefit organizations who agree to vote with their dollars, connect and support each other to grow a values-based economy.
- Seattle Value Unit System (SeaVU)
- Local currencies have been around since the beginning of time. There have been hundreds just in the United States in the last century. Why?
Because community currencies have a number of benefits that national currencies don't, e.g. Community currency is responsive to local economic needs;
It helps anchor wealth locally; Local money gives locally-owned businesses a competitive advantage over multinational corporations; It helps build
pride and a sense of community; Community currencies encourage local commerce and entrepreneurism
- The Phinney EcoVillage Project (Phinney Ridge)
- Creating Neighborhood Sustainability and Community in North Seattle's Phinney Ridge Community
- Phinney Neighborhood Association (Phinney Ridge)
- The Phinney Neighborhood Association is a non-profit community organization founded in 1980 by Phinney neighbors to build community. The PNA provides and promotes programs, services and activities aimed at encouraging connections between neighbors and fostering civic involvement in our diverse community.
- The New Road Map Foundation
- The New Road Map Foundation (NRM) seeks to foster a cooperative human community in a diverse yet interconnected world by creating and disseminating practical tools and innovative approaches to personal and cultural change. We promote love and service as routes to personal and social well-being.
- Institute for Environmental Research and Education - Sustainable Energy (Vashon Island)
- CoOp Fremont
- Coop Fremont seeks to engage the Fremont Community in the discovery and stewardship of our neighborhood's resources. Our strength comes from relationships of mutuality and caring which are personal, joyful, practical and support the community's self-reliance.
- NeighborNets
- What are neighbornets? "Neighbornets" are affinity groups of people who live in the same general neighborhood who
choose to form closer bonds with one another.
- 1000 Friends of Washington
- 1000 Friends of Washington is a statewide public interest group working to keep overdevelopment from consuming farms, forests and rural areas, while making our cities and towns great places to live.
- Friends of the Cedar River Watershed
- The Friends of the Cedar River Watershed (FCRW) is a private, non-profit organization incorporated in 1996 and dedicated to the protection and restoration of the Cedar River Watershed, an ecological preserve that is source of drinking water to more than a million greater Seattle area residents.
- Earth Ministry
- "Helping Individuals and Congregations Connect Christian Faith with Care for the Earth," the Seattle chapter is housed at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Ballard
- The Co-Intelligence Institute
- Co-intelligence: the ability to organize our collective affairs more wisely, in tune with each other and nature, all of us being wiser together than any of us could be alone.
The Co-Intelligence Institute (Eugene, OR) works to further the understanding and development of co-intelligence. It focuses on catalyzing co-intelligence in the realms of politics, governance and cultural evolution. We research, network, advocate, and help organize leading-edge experiments and conversations in order to weave what is possible into new, wiser forms of civilization.
- Solar Washington
- Solar Washington is a private not-for-profit association (501C) of solar energy equipment manufacturers, system integrators, distributors, dealers, designers, consultants, students, and interested people.
- The Whidbey Institute
- The Institute is grounded in the awareness that times of turbulent and unprecedented change call for commitment to a new vision of the future for Earth, Spirit, and the Human Future.
- Puget Sound Clean Cities Coalition
- The Puget Sound Clean Cities Coalition is a collaboration of public and private agencies and businesses working to promote the acquisition and use of alternative fuel vehicles and to create a network of alternative fuel facilities. The Coalition works in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and more than 80 other communities as part of the national Clean Cities Program.
- EcoPraxis: Putting the Vision of Sustainability into Practice
- Ecopraxis is a non-profit research/practice collaborative working to put the ideas of sustainable resource use and sustainable economies into practice
- Puget Sound Ishamel "society"
- Puget-ish is a group of folks in the Puget Sound region who have been changed by the writings and ideas of Daniel Quinn.
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Local Links
Government organizations
- Puget Sound Fresh
- Buy Produce Locally. Puget Sound Fresh is a program begun by the King County Agriculture Commission to encourage consumers, wholesalers, retailers and restaurants to seek out and purchase locally-grown products.
- New Apollo Energy Project Information
- Rep. Jay Inslee
- Seattle Sustainable Building (City of Seattle)
- Seattle Disaster Aid & Response Teams (SDART)
- Seattle Disaster Aid & Response Teams (SDART) is a neighborhood-oriented approach to emergency preparedness.
It is based on the belief that a cooperative effort between a City and its citizens is the only sure way to prepare for
major disasters.
- Puget Sound Clean Cities Coalition
- The Puget Sound Clean Cities Coalition is a collaboration of public and private agencies and businesses working to promote the acquisition and use of alternative fuel vehicles and to create a network of alternative fuel facilities. The Coalition works in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and more than 80 other communities as part of the national Clean Cities Program.
- Northwest Solar Center
- A project of Washington State University whose mission includes accelerated installation of solar electricity throughout the Pacific Northwest. NWSC manages the Washington State/DOE Million Roofs Project.
- Seattle Green Power
- The Green Power Program is currently adding live data displays to its solar projects. See how much electricity is being generated at various sites right now!
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Local Links
Living experiments with sustainability
- Cooperative Living of Seattle
- Cooperative Living of Seattle is a group of Seattle based activists working to promote and create democratic housing, in the form of housing cooperatives, urban communes, co-housing, and group houses.
- The Jolly Ranchers - The Commune
- The Jolly Ranchers devote to forging an intimate community of people who encourage each other to pursue the passion for creative change that comes from self-understanding.... striving to overcome the cultural normatives of late capitalism while living in an urban setting
- Northwest Intentional Communities Association (NICA)
- Mission: To coordinate the exchange of information and resources between NW intentional Communities and others.
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National Links
Green businesses
- Co-op America
- Practical steps for using your consumer and investor power for social change
- Co-op America's Green Pages Online
- Search for over 25,000 products and services from 2,000 green companies.
- Business for Social Responsibility
- A global organization (headquartered in San Francisco) that helps member companies achieve success in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities and the environment.
- The Business Resource for Understanding Climate Change
- An easy-to-understand overview of the world of business and climate change, including how to get started -- and what to do after that. Whether you are a beginner or an industry leader, this is a good place to start.
- Green Business Network
- The nonprofit, nonpartisan GreenBiz.com works to harness the power of technology to bring environmental information, resources, and tools to the mainstream business community.
- Solar Design Associates
- Solar Design Associates (SDA) promotes solar energy and sustainable development by providing design, engineering,
construction management, and technical support services to architects, electric utilities, private clients, and developers.
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National Links
Consonant organizations
- The Community Solution
- The Community Solution is a program of Community Service, Inc. Community Service is dedicated to the development, growth and enhancement of small local communities. We envision a country where the population is distributed in small communities that are sustainable, diverse and culturally sophisticated.
- Path to Freedom (Pasadena, CA)
- PathtoFreedom.com is run and maintained by members of the Dervaes family. We operate the website as a non-commercial, home-based effort with no advertising or things to sell.
Our objective is to live harmoniously and sustainably as possible in the midst of the city. On our urban homestead project incorporates many back-to-basic practices, permaculture methods, and appropriate technologies for our present circumstances.
- SweatFree Communities
- SweatFree Communities promotes the collective bargaining power of both workers in sweatshops and communities of consumers.
- Biomimicry.org
- Biomimicry is a new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf.
- Community Alliance with Family Farmers (Davis, CA)
- The Community Alliance with Family Farmers is building a movement of rural and urban people to foster family-scale agriculture that cares for the land, sustains local economies and promotes social justice.
- The Federation of Egalitarian Communities
- The Federation of Egalitarian Communities is a network of communal groups spread across North America. We range in size and emphasis from small agricultural homesteads to village-like communities to urban group houses. We share a set of core principles including nonviolence, egalitarianism, and participatory decision-making.
- Small Community.org
- Community Service is dedicated to the development, growth and enhancement of small local communities. We envision a country where the population is distributed in small communities that are sustainable, diverse and culturally sophisticated.
- "Friends of Ishmael"
- The Friends of Ishmael Society is an organization focused on publicizing the work of Daniel Quinn, award-winning author of Ishmael, My Ishmael, Story of B, Beyond Civilization, and other important works. Quinn's writings expose the roots of, and cultural myths behind, the most pressing social and environmental issues facing humanity today.
- EcoIQ.com
- EcoIQ.com exists to support and promote a transition to sustainability.
- Solar Living Institute (Hopland, CA)
- the Solar Living Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization that promotes sustainable living through inspirational environmental education. The Institute provides one- to nine-day workshops on renewable energy, green building, sustainable living, ecological design and alternative construction methods.
- Post Carbon Institute (Portland, OR)
- The Post Carbon Institute is an educational institution and think tank that explores in theory and practice what cultures, civilisation, governance & economies might look like without the use of (non-renewable) hydrocarbons as energy and chemical feedstocks.
- Citizens Committee on Oil Peak And Decline (COPAD)
- Read COPAD's Statement On The Global 'Oil Peak'
- The Meta Foundation (Oakland, CA)
- MetaFoundation seeks to start, develop and offer organisational assistance and financial support to programs, projects and organisations that will help humanity in its difficult transition to ways of living that understand the limits of our life support system, the biosphere. We seek to do this through research, policy analysis, education, communication and demonstration projects.
- Praxis Peace Institute - Reconciling Theory and Practice
- Praxis Peace Institute is dedicated to building coalitions with like-minded organizations, sharing research information, and cooperatively forging sustainable and respectful civil societies.
- Sustainable Step New England
- Sustainable Step New England (SSNE) was founded to help organizations excel while addressing the world's unprecedented
social, environmental and economic challenges....
- The Apollo Alliance
- Energy diversity is critical to our economy and our national security. We need power supplies that are affordable and reliable, secure and sustainable. That means deploying new energy technology to revitalize our economy and ease environmental pressure.
- Million Solar Roofs
- Announced in June 1997, Million Solar Roofs (MSRI) is an initiative to facilitate the installation of solar energy systems on one million U.S. buildings by 2010. The Million Solar Roofs Initiative is designed to support states and local communities as they develop a strong commitment to the sustained deployment of solar energy technologies. The initiative includes two types of solar technology: solar electric systems (or photovoltaics) that produce electricity from sunlight and solar thermal systems.
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National Links
Government organizations
- Minnesota Sustainable Communities Network
- Increasing numbers of Minnesotans recognize that a transition to a more sustainable society is needed if we are to leave a healthy natural environment, a prosperous economy and vibrant communities for future generations. The goal of MnSCN and this website is to encourage networking, information exchange, and better access to assistance.
- Green-Rated (Portland, OR)
- A program of the City of Portland's Office of Sustainabile Development
- Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA)
- The mission of Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT) is to demonstrate appropriate technology in a residential setting, to provide hands-on experiential learning opportunities to Humboldt State University and the surrounding community, to collect and disseminate information about appropriate technology, to examine the ethical and social consequences of technology, and to dispel the myth that living lightly on the earth is difficult or burdensome. CCAT is dedicated to sustainability and seeks to help others live likewise.
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Living experiments with sustainability
- Path to Freedom (Pasadena, CA)
- Highly Recommended! PathtoFreedom.com is run and maintained by members of the Dervaes family. We operate the website as a non-commercial, home-based effort with no advertising or things to sell.
Our objective is to live harmoniously and sustainably as possible in the midst of the city. On our urban homestead project incorporates many back-to-basic practices, permaculture methods, and appropriate technologies for our present circumstances.
- Urban Ecovillage Network
- EcoCity Cleveland
- Designing cities in balance with nature
- Los Angeles EcoVillage
- EcoVillage Detroit
- EcoVillage Cinncinatti
- A co-housing community
- Madison (WI) Urban Ecovillage
- "Without Borders"
- Earthaven Ecovillage
- Earthaven, a growing neo-tribal ecovillage, is dedicated to caring for people and the Earth by learning, living and demonstrating holistic, sustainable culture. Culture's Edge, our non-profit education center, offers hands-on workshops and programs throughout the year which are integral to the overall vision of Earthaven as a living demonstration ecovillage.
- EcoVillage Network of the Americas
- (An international site, there is no site dedicated to the USA)
- Lost Valley Educational Center
- The mission of Lost Valley Educational Center is to create and foster mutually beneficial relations between humans and all parts of the web of existence. We believe that these relationships provide a means to well-being as well as survival.
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International Links
Green Businesses
- Green Pages
- The Global Directory for Environmental Technology
- PlanetFriendly
- Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Wind Power, Green Energy: This page is intended as an introduction to sustainable energy in Canada and the world.
- Business for Social Responsibility
- A global organization (headquartered in San Francisco) that helps member companies achieve success in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities and the environment.
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Consonant organizations
- Sustainable Population Australia
- One Planet Living
- The vision of One Planet Living (OPL) is: A world in which people everywhere can lead happy, healthy lives within their fair share of the earth's resources.
- Sustainable World Coalition
- BioRegional Development Group (United Kingdom)
- BioRegional Development Group is an entrepreneurial, independent environmental organisation. We develop award winning, commercially viable products and services which meet more of our everyday needs from local renewable and waste resources, to help enable One Planet living – living within our fair share of the Earth’s resources.
- Natural Step
- The Natural Step's mission is to accelerate global sustainability by guiding companies and governments onto an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable path. We are working together with some of the largest resource users on the planet to create solutions, innovative models and tools that will lead the transition to a sustainable future. (An NPO)
- Best Foot Forward
- Best Foot Forward Limited (BFF) design and develop tools to measure and communicate environmental impact and sustainability using methodologies such as resource flow and ecological footprint analysis.
- The People-Centered Development Forum
- Seeking a just, inclusive, and sustainable world that works for all
- The World Future Council
- The World Future Council (WFC) aims for a global membership of wise thinkers, practical pioneers and young leaders. It will identify the "implementation gaps" between current practices and necessary measures to assure a sustainable and equitable world. As an institution representing humanity's common values, the WFC will provide an ongoing forum for debate and action.
- The Ideas Bank (Norway)
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Government organizations
- City Farmer (Vancouver, BC)
- Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture
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Living experiments with sustainability
- Sustainable Ireland
- Global EcoVillage Network
- The Hollies (County Cork, Ireland)
- A development centre for training in Practical Sustainability. The Hollies aims to create working examples of what a sustainable society might look like in the areas of agriculture, housing, energy, gardening, economics and community development.
- Intentional Communities
- Fellowship for Intentional Community
- Cuba Organic Support Group (U.K.)
- The Cuba Organic Support Group (COSG) was formed in 1997 by members of HDRA, Britain's largest organic gardener's organisation. COSG supports the organic movement in Cuba through fund-raising, speakers, publicity and the promotion of Gardening Brigades to Cuba.
- SURBAN
- A database on Sustainable urban development in Europe
- Kakwa Ecovillage (BC, Canada)
- 136 km east of Prince George, BC
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News, Information and Theories
News
- POPClocks U.S. and World Population Clocks
- Blue Skies, Green Cities July 20, 2005
- Ignoring inaction at the highest levels of the U.S. government, 145 mayors across the country have formed a coalition to combat global warming and begun to reshape their cities using innovative programs and technologies. The mayors say they can make urban living more eco-friendly and at the same time create jobs and stimulate local economies.
- Time is ripe for urban agriculture May 23, 2005
- Is America ready for a metropolitan agriculture policy? Is the time ripe to take some of the billions in subsidies now flowing to big commodity-crop operators and focus instead on sustainable farm production in and around the citistate regions where 80 percent of us live?
- Mayor Is on a Mission to Warm U.S. Cities to the Kyoto Protocol February 22, 2004
- Last week, on the day the Kyoto Protocol went into effect, [Seattle Mayor Greg] Nickels announced he would lead a campaign to get U.S. cities to adopt its terms, beginning with Seattle...."We want to show that a city - and I hope it turns out to be many cities - can act to meet the intent and spirit of the Kyoto Protocol," Nickels said. The goal would be to "inspire our federal government to take the action it should have done years ago."
- Energy converts in Seattle doing their part February 17, 2005
- As the Kyoto Protocol -- an international agreement aimed at reducing climate-warming gases -- took effect yesterday without U.S. participation, some Western Washington residents vowed to step up personal efforts to save the planet.
- Global Warming Approaching Point of No Return, Warns Leading Climate Expert January 23, 2004
- [Dr Rajendra Pachauri's] comments rocked the Bush administration... not least because it put him in his post after Exxon, the major oil company most opposed to international action on global warming, complained that his predecessor was too "aggressive" on the issue.
- The Food Bubble Economy January 10, 2005
- What's new in Lester Brown's message is that the most vulnerable economic sector may be food. Food production is facing imminent collapse unless the urgent problems of water shortage, overpopulation and rising temperatures are tackled right away.
- The beginning of the end for oil January 11, 2005
- One of the surprises in the oil world in 2004 was the success of an underground documentary on the perilous state of world energy.
- Towards Alternative Cities, the Green-Friendly Way November 20, 2004
- ...Portugal will serve as the launching pad for these planned ''eco-cities,'' said officials from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as they revealed the blueprint for the 'One Planet Living' initiative [in Bangkok] on Wednesday, at a major conservation conference.
- America should finally curb its addiction to foreign oil September 30, 2004
- Opinion page of the News Tribune, Tacoma, WA
- Get Ready for the Peak Experience August 30, 2004
- Two new realities are fast converging on the public consciousness with what may be serendipitous timing: climate change and peak oil.
- World Bank Rebuked for Fossil Fuel Strategy June 21, 2004
- IndependentUK - Global warming will plunge Britain into new ice age 'within decades'
- The full Ice Age article from The Independent IMC Maritimes
- The View from Hubbert's Peak - 5-26-2004, by Mike Davis
- Angry truckers celebrated this May Day by blocking freeways in Los Angeles and container terminals in Oakland and Stockton....
- P-I Focus: While we're off fighting terror, the planet's crumbling (5/30/04)
- Summer heat will cause deadly ozone The Guardian UK 5/9/04
- Scientists' Statement on Climate Change
- Union of Concerned Scientists - The scientific consensus around climate change is robust. To make this point clear to policy makers in Washington, D.C., more than 1,000 scientists from across the nation have signed the State of Climate Science letter.
- Oceans soaking up carbon dioxide
- Scientists say water becoming acidic, endangering sea life
- China swelters as energy crisis soars (June 22, 2004)
- The real reasons Bush went to war (July 28, 2004)
- WMD was the rationale for invading Iraq. But what was really driving the US were fears over oil and the future of the dollar
- Disaster at Sea: Global Warming Hits UK Birds (July 30, 2004)
- Record heatwave closes Mont Blanc to tourists (8/13/03)
- Bottom of the Barrel: The World is Running out of Oil - So why do Politicians Refuse to Talk About It? (Dec. 2, 2003)
- by George Monbiot
- Introducing . . . Denim Pine - and the bark beetle (August 27, 2004)
- ...But climate change's biggest toll on inland forests, so far, has been to turn them blue. Yes, trees in the inland Northwest, especially in British Columbia, are increasingly stained in azure shades.
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Information regarding methods, technologies and issues of Sustainability
- Natural Alternative Recipes
- Using safer cleaning products and reducing chemical use in the home can often help improve the health of those living in the home and the environment. Recipes for household cleaning and more, using baking soda, lemon juice, vinegar and other less toxic substances, courtesy of the City of Richland, WA.
- In The Wake
- This is the working website of a handbook in progress. The writings here are based on the premises that industrial civilization is unsustainable, and that its collapse is inevitable. In the Wake is pretty different from most books in the "survival book" genre, although it definitely does include skills to help people survive industrial collapse. This book has a greater emphasis on the survival of communities and larger groups.
- Culture Change- The coming global catastrophe - and ways to preempt it
- Waste Not - NASA to dev a fuel cell that extracts electricity from human waste
- The Simple Living Network
- Tools, Examples & Contacts For Conscious, Simple, Healthy & Restorative Living
- Simple Living magazine
- Connecting you with people, products and ideas that allow you to live more simply.
- Awakening Earth
- Building a Sustainable and Compassionate Future (Duane Elgin)
- Seeds of Simplicity
- A national, non-profit membership organization for the general public centered on voluntary simplicity.
- The Permaculture Activist
- North America's journal of sustainable culture for 20 years
- Global Village - The Institute for Appropriate Technology
- MuseLetter by Richard Heinberg (see booklist)
- MuseLetter's purpose is to offer a continuing critique of corporate-capitalist industrial civilization and a re-visioning of humanity's prospects for the next millennium.
- Permaculture Magazine - solutions for sustainable living
- This leading environmental magazine is the vanguard of permaculture.
- The Humanure Handbook
- The online version of this ESSENTIAL book on the safe composting of humanure!
- HUMANURE A solution for recycling human waste, and returning it to the earth as compost!
- And a guide for how to build a sawdust or a vermicomposting humanure toilet, and other technologies (put together by a Portland, OR couple with LOTS of practical experience)
- Journey to Forever
- See panel of links at left for online libraries, and many resources for tried-and-true sustainable technologies under "projects"
- The Official Site of the National Biodiesel Board (NBB)
- Mother Earth News
- The Original Guide to Living Wisely
- Ecotopia ...dedicated to a sustainable future...
- Best Foot Forward
- Best Foot Forward Limited (BFF) design and develop tools to measure and communicate environmental impact and sustainability using methodologies such as resource flow and ecological footprint analysis.
- New Village Magazine Building Sustainable Cultures
- A long list of resources on Community Revitalization, Community Scale Economics, Education for Community Building
- The Cohousing Association of the United States
- The Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US) is an organization whose purpose is to promote and encourage the cohousing concept, support both individuals and groups in creating communities, provide assistance to completed groups for improving their systems for living together in community, and provide networking opportunities for those involved or interested in cohousing.
- Community Gardens and Urban Farms
- A list of links regarding community and urban gardens
Information regarding climate change, "peak oil," and issues of unsustainable human practices
- U.S. Drought Monitor
- New Data Point to Man-Made Global Warming, Severe Climate Change February 18, 2005
- New measurements from the world's oceans, announced Thursday, give the most compelling evidence yet that man-made global warming is under way and hint at a more dramatic and sudden climate change in the future. "The debate is no longer whether there is a global warming signal," Tim Barnett, marine physicist ... "The debate is what are we going to do about it."
- See also: Energy converts in Seattle doing their part Feb. 17, 2005
As the Kyoto Protocol took effect yesterday without U.S. participation, some Western Washington residents vowed to step up personal efforts to save the planet.
- An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security, October 2003 (this link will open a PDF document.)
- Prepared for the U.S. Pentagon
- Global Warming Skeptics: A Primer
- ExxonMobil has poured millions of dollars into a disinformation campaign to discredit the science of global warming. Here's where some of that money went....
- A Chilling Possibility (NASA) March 5, 2004
- By disturbing a massive ocean current, melting Arctic sea ice might trigger colder weather in Europe and North America.
- Ocean Circulation Shut Down by Melting Glaciers After Last Ice Age (NASA) November 19, 2001
- The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas
- Founded by Colin Campbell
- Truth Out's Environment Section
- Index of news articles
- Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD)
- We work with politically active citizens, historians, lawyers, and others, exploring: a) how fundamental relationships that govern our lives were established (for example, why most corporate harms against life, liberty, property and democratic self-governance are regarded as legal; how corporations can deny their workers freedom of speech and other Bill of Rights protections); b) why decades of valiant citizen resistance, along with regulatory laws galore, have neither stopped corporate assaults nor shifted governing power to people and communities; c) what people can do.
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News, Information and Theories
Theories
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- Toward a Literacy of Cooperation
- Darwin had a blind spot. It wasn't that he didn't see the role of cooperation in evolution. He just didn't see how important it is....
- Ecological Footprints and the Sustainability Gap
- A lecture presented by Dr. William E. Rees on January 29, 1996
- Center for Partnership Studies
- Riane Eisler: Creating Partnership Futures
- Some people think the vision of a more equitable, less violent future is merely a utopian dream. A goal of my work has been showing it can be a viable model for transformative change and that the key components of such a model can be identified through cross-cultural and historical research.
- Inside the Frame, with George Lakoff
- Important article, discusses the technique of "framing," a communication tool that creates a "frame" for a message
that defines the terms of the debate
- Oil Gone Alternative Press Review (June 13, 2004)
- If peak oil theorists are correct, our dependence on oil is not only foolish, it's lethal. Does modern civilization have
just two choices--change or perish?
- The Corner House
- You will find here a wide range of briefings and documents on topical environmental and social justice issues
- The Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights
- Well-written articles, relative to issues of human population growth, and concepts of "population control," also see "Newsletters" section
- Solari
- Solari is an investment advisory company (in formation). Our intention is to make healthy local living economies the best investment worldwide, offering investment vehicles for regional and global investors to participate in the local equity financing and resulting capital gains.
- The Path to Living Economies (this link will open a PDF document.)
- A collaborative working document from members of the Social Venture Network: Through this writing, we seek to model the very kinds of cooperation between individuals, communities and organizations--large and small across the world--that we see reflected almost universally in nature and which we believe are essential for survival and fulfillment among living beings.