The Community Center
What better means to express the culture of a community than the
people who live there? The community center offers citizen leadership
training, and connections to public interest organizations working to
promote democratic access to the economy, social equity and
environmental protection. Initiaves that grow out of the citizen base
of the community center affect all sectors of TOES Town.
Sustainable Culture Info
WELCOME! Since 1979 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.
Sourcebook
contents
THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
1.0 What do we mean by Sustainable Development?
1.1 Principles for a Sustainable Society
Sustainable
Societies -- Sustainable production and consumption.
Friends of the Earth International present: SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES
Sustainable production and consumption. Lots of European examples.
Sustainable Communities
Network Homepage
A comprehensive resource for citizens working to create
healthy,vital, sustainable communities. Did they say comprehensive?
They're being modest.
National Center for Environmental
Decision-making Research
The National Center for Environmental Decision-making Research
(NCEDR) provides decision makers, especially state, regional, and
local government officials, with the information, techniques, and
processes needed to solve environmental problems effectively and
fairly. (Still in early stages of development)
ACORN home page
Who is on the streets, in the neighborhoods, in the workplaces and on
the airwaves organizing and building power for low and
moderate-income Americans? ACORN stands alone in its commitment to
organizing and winning power for low and moderate-income people.
Transformational
Resource Center
In this Resource Center you will find a number of different
things:
Opportunities for Involvement: Announcements of upcoming events and
opportunities. Open Conferences where you can discuss
transformational issues with other concerned folks. Internet Courses
on specific transformational topics.
Education and Information: TLC maintains a database that contains
hundreds of items, links, and other entries.
Center for
Sustainable Communities Homepage
The Center for Sustainable Communities invites you to select from the
topics listed below. A library that includes a bibliography,
abstracts, multimedia, and art. A 10 session tutorial, sponsored by
the US Environmental Protection Agency Region 10, on helping your
community to become more sustainable. Case studies of communities and
organizations with sustainable ideas and practices. Contacts leading
to a better world.
NAFCM
The National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) is an
organization of community mediation programs and volunteer mediators
that subscribe to the Association's: Preamble, Mission Statement,
Definition of Mediation, Organizational Goals, Community Mediation
Characteristics.
Youth Earth
Force
The Mediation Center - Conflict
Resolution and Mediation Training, Resources and Services Our
mission is to offer the highest quality conflict resolution,
negotiation and mediation training, resources and services available.
Foundation for Global
Community's Home Page
The mission of Foundation for Global Community is to contribute to a
transformation of cultural values, a transformation from the dominant
culture of growth, of more, of materialism, to a culture of enough,
of quality and excellence, of spirit, a culture which works for the
diversity of life.
CultureWatch Home
Page
For timely, accurate and up-to-date information on the U.S. religious
right--let CultureWatch help keep you informed.
Green Map
Distribution Center
This copyrighted Green Map Icon Font is freeware for registered
users. Registration is free, and you can put these Icons on your
city's Green Map and otherwise participate fully in the System once
you sign up. These Green Map Icons are
designed to help people navigate the urban green sites easily, with a
spirit of discovery, in whichever Green Mapped cities they visit.