Links for Thinkers and Activists

Adbusters: “Our goal is to galvanize resistance against those who would destroy the environment, pollute our minds and diminish our lives.”

American Anti-Vivisection Society: An international organization that works to end vivisection (the use of animals in biomedical research, dissection, testing and education).

Center for a New American Dream: Not-for-profit membership-based organization that helps individuals and institutions reduce and shift consumption to enhance our quality of life and protect the environment.

Center for Partnership Studies: For our children and ourselves, the most important work of our time is building a sustainable future...Partnership is more than working together. Partnership is a way of life based on harmony with nature, nonviolence, and gender, racial, and economic equity.

Citizens For Health: Champions public policies that empower individuals to make informed health choices. Citizens protects consumer access to alternative health products and therapies such as dietary supplements, acupuncture, and homeopathy, and protects the public's right to be informed of the effectiveness of these treatments.

Collective Heritage Institute (CHI): conducts education and research in the areas of biodiversity, ecological farming practices, and environmental restoration. CHI also produces the annual BIONEERS conference.

Context Institute: A nonprofit research organization, has been exploring and clarifying just what is involved in a humane sustainable culture - and how we can get there.

E-The People: America's Interactive Town Hall, a nonpartisan Web service that makes it easy for people to reach over 170,000 officials in the local, state, and federal government.

Earth Island Institute: Develops and supports projects that counteract threats to the biological and cultural diversity that sustain the environment. Through education and activism, these projects promote the preservation, conservation restoration of the Earth.

EarthSave: A leading a global movement of people taking concrete steps to promote healthy and life-sustaining food choices. EarthSave works to promote environmental well-being and human health through food choices that promote health, reduce health care costs and provide greater independence from the medical system. We raise awareness of the vast ecological destruction resulting from the unsustainable production of animal foods promoting instead a delicious planet-friendly diet.

The E. F. Schumacher Society: Develops programs that demonstrate 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. Building on a rich tradition of decentralism, the Society initiates practical measures that lead to community revitalization and further the transition toward an economically and ecologically sustainable society.

Farm Sanctuary has established America's premier farm animal shelters and waged effective campaigns to stop farm animal cruelty.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance: Works to develop a sustainable society by building strong, democratic, self-reliant communities that can efficiently utilize local natural, social, and economic resources.

Institute of Noetic Sciences has been at the forefront of research and education in consciousness and human potential. We honor open-minded approaches and strive to bring discernment to our work. We are not a spiritual sect, political-action group, or single cause institute. We are a nonprofit membership organization that both conducts and sponsors research into the workings and powers of the mind, including perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition.

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Uses law, science, and the support of more than 400,000 members nationwide to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.

Northwest Ecosystem Alliance: Protects and restores wildlands in the Pacific Northwest and supports such efforts in British Columbia. The alliance bridges science and advocacy, working with activists, policymakers, and the public to conserve our natural heritage.

Northwest Earth Institute: Motivating individuals to examine and transform personal values and habits, to accept responsibility for the earth, and to act on that commitment.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals. PETA operates under the simple principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.

Preventing Harm is resource and action center on children and the environment. Researches links between toxins in the environment and there affects on the lives of children.

Rainforest Action Network: Works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.

The Sequatchie Valley Institute offers society an opportunity to experience and learn about living in harmony with nature by providing education, art and research opportunities, land conservation and restoration, a dynamic model residence and learning center and a vision for attaining a sustainable future.

Sustainable Ways is dedicated to promoting alternatives that help by fostering a sustainable relationship with the environment. Helping the environment doesn't have to mean making inconvenient, often expensive changes in our lives. Ultimately, it's about finding ways to live that are comfortable, satisfying, and sustainable.

The Time Dollar Institute: A non-profit corporation that creates and sponsors initiatives so that the beneficiaries of social programs can become co-producers of education, justice, self-sufficiency, opportunity, community development, and social change.

Trees for Life: Empowers people by demonstrating that in helping each other, we can unleash extraordinary power that impacts our lives. We do this by helping people plant fruit trees in developing countries. Each tree protects the environment and provides a low-cost, self-renewing source of food for a large number of people.

Worldwatch: A nonprofit public policy research organization dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems.