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Founded in 2003, Post Carbon Institute is leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world. Post Carbon Institute provides individuals, communities, businesses, and governments with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated economic, energy, and environmental crises that define the 21st century. We envision a world of resilient communities and re-localized economies that thrive within ecological bounds.
Yes! reframes the biggest problems of our time in terms of their solutions. Online and in print, we outline a path forward with in-depth analysis, tools for citizen engagement, and stories about real people working for a better world.
GRACE Communications Foundation works to highlight the interconnection of food, water and energy - and to support common sense approaches to meeting environmental challenges that take those connections into account. Foundation programs include: Eat Well Guide, The Meatrix, Sustainable Table, Ecocentric, H2O Conserve, and the Network for New Energy Choices
Event PartnersSeattle
The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) brings together independent business leaders, economic development professionals, government officials, social innovators, and community leaders to build local living economies. We provide local, state, national, and international resources to this new model of economic development. We’re showing that independent locally owned businesses can go beyond traditional measures of success. We're proving that these businesses are accountable to stakeholders and the environment. We're helping these businesses flourish in their local economies. And we're leveraging the power of local networks to build a web of economies that are community-based, green, and fair - local living economies.
Buddhist Peace Fellowship is a nonsectarian sangha that supports engagement in peace and social justice issues for people with a Buddhist or spiritual practice and encourages mindfulness and nonviolence among political activists. We show up, provide mindful presence, and have organized vigils and symposia on a topics such as environmental destruction, war, and racism. The practice of listening as a way of healing and being present with the suffering of the world is the focus for the chapter's efforts. We support each other as we take our practice into the world and allow the world into our practice.
Community Alliance for Global Justice is an alliance of individuals and organizations working in Seattle and the region who believe the global economy should embody the core values of social justice, environmental sustainability, democracy and self-determination. We aim to transform the global economy by identifying local and global impacts of trade and monetary institutions, by using education, grassroots mobilization, media and legislative strategies, and by building solidarity across diverse movements.
Compassionate Action Network is a network of self-organizing groups who share a common vision for a compassionate world. The mission is to build a global network for self-organizing groups to connect, collaborate, and take action to awaken compassion in our children, ourselves, and our world.
Imagine a world in which everybody wins, and no one has to lose to make that possible. It's not too good to be true. The ideal network makes it happen every day. We connect people with non-profits and local merchants in a mindful marketplace where great deals meet the greater good.
Located in the heart of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood business district, The Elliott Bay Book Company is a full service, independent bookstore, home to over 150,000 titles. We offer one of the region's best selection of new books, as well as a large collection of bargain editions. Elliott Bay presents an unparalleled schedule of author readings and events throughout the year. Our website, www.elliottbaybook.com, features our new Ship's B(Log), recommended reading and an online site for buying both physical books and ebooks.
Gross National Happiness World Project: World Happiness Provisioners. Research, development, and implementation of Gross National Happiness strategies, policies and cultural events for the West with the goal of fostering maximum happiness for individuals, families and societies worldwide.
Imagine an economy in which life is valued more than money and power resides with ordinary people who care about one another, their community, and their natural environment. It is possible. Millions of people are living it into being. Our common future hangs in the balance.
Seattle Good Business Network is an aspiring network of like-minded people who believe that local, independent businesses are the heart and soul of a sustainable local economy. Our members are individuals and businesses of all kinds... breweries and banks, restaurants and retailers, producers and professional services. We work together to promote, connect, and empower each other in the stewardship of our place.
SCALLOPS (Sustainable Communities ALL Over Puget Sound) hosts 60 local groups, including 13 within Seattle, that are working on community building through local action. Some current local projects include community kitchens, solar cooperatives, tool banks, weatherization workshops, movie nights, fruit tree gleaning, climate discussion groups, and bicycle rides.
Slow Food Seattle offers educational events and activities to promote sustainability and biodiversity and connect farmers, cooks, educators, students and everyone else who cares about their food and the environment. We also host the best potlucks!
Founded in 1991, Sustainable Seattle is a non-profit organization that promotes sustainability in the Central Puget Sound. We create cutting-edge products and processes to reach sustainability locally and globally. Our purpose is to build a sustainable future. We create healthy communities, economies, and ecosystems by serving as an incubator for ideas a convener for people, and a catalyst for action.
The Seattle Area Happiness Initiative is creating a model of subjective and objective indicators of well-being that can be replicated in any city to catalyze citizen dialogue and action in pursuit of happiness—a high quality of life in a fair and sustainable society.
350 Washington State helps to raise awareness of climate change and its impacts on the viability of our planet and our region. We support the international 350.orgactions though positive local events including 10/10/10 work parties, Green Carols, bike rides, tree plantings, and more.
Transition Seattle supports networks of community groups that can weather the challenges of Peak Oil and climate change by rebuilding local economies and creating local jobs. We raise awareness about our chronic addiction to carbon-based fuels and help to write long-term plans to include strategies for how Seattle is going to respond when energy is much less readily available. Transition Seattle is part of the international Transition Network.
Wallingford Neighbors for Peace and Justice is a group of concerned citizens in your neighborhood who are trying to make a difference in the defense of justice and pursuit of peace. We show social justice documentaries and have community discussions every Friday night (unless otherwise noted) at Keystone Congregational United Church of Christ, 5019 Keystone Place N., Seattle. We are part of the Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (SNOW Coalition).
Yes! reframes the biggest problems of our time in terms of their solutions. Online and in print, we outline a path forward with in-depth analysis, tools for citizen engagement, and stories about real people working for a better world.
BerkeleyBay Area Community Exchange (BACE) is a collaborative network that supports the development of alternative means of exchange in the San Francisco Bay Area. We provide research and development support, incubation of alternative exchange projects, and education to the Bay Area community about economic issues. Through our work with currency projects, we will create an economy that is more sustainable, just, and embedded in healthy community connections.
We inspire and support Bay Area residents in building equitable, resilient communities. We confront the challenges of climate instability, rising energy costs, and recession by boosting our region's capacity to provide for everyone's needs, sustainably and equitably. We achieve this by equipping organizers, entrepreneurs, and civic leaders with flexible tools, models, and policies that strengthen their communities.
The Berkeley Student Food Collective is a group based on the UC Berkeley campus, dedicated to providing fresh, local, healthy, environmentally sustainable and ethically produced food at affordable prices to the Berkeley campus and greater community. We seek to educate students about nutrition and food systems, empower new leaders, and train youth to work in and manage a sustainable business. Through inclusive, democratic decision-making, we operate a cooperatively-run grocery market, located across the street from the Berkeley campus, that promotes community-building and environmental stewardship.
Buddhist Peace Fellowship is cultivating the conditions for peace: in our hearts, in our communities, and in the world. Drawing on a diversity of views and experiences, we work to train and support Buddhist leadership, build and strengthen socially engaged Buddhist communities, and collaborate with other organizations. Our public voice brings Buddhist teachings of wisdom and compassion into conversation with current situations, inspiring and informing action for peace.
The Ecology Center provides the public with reliable information, tools, hands-on training, referrals, strategies, infrastructure, and models for sustainable living. Our programs enable people to adopt practices that are environmentally and socially responsible. We run Berkeley's residential curbside recycling program, the Berkeley Farmers' Markets, Farm Fresh Choice food justice program, EcoHouse demonstration home and garden, the Ecology Center Store, and a variety of Information and Climate Change Action programs.
The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First shapes how people think by analyzing the root causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and developing solutions in partnership with movements working for social change.
Founded in 1949 by Lewis Hill, a pacifist, poet, and journalist, KPFA was the first community supported radio station in the USA. KPFA broadcasts on 94.1 FM and KPFB 89.3 FM, Berkeley, and KFCF 88.1 FM, Fresno, California.
Throughout the world, solutions to some of the greatest challenges of the day are either nascent or fully thriving. Organized people's movements - sometimes with help from supportive government - are changing the structures which cause violence, poverty, inequality, and environmental destruction. At the same time, they are creating better quality of life in their communities. In other instances, people are preserving ancient cultures where individuals live in relative equity and harmony with other life and their communities, and without expectation of profit. The mission of Other Worlds is to document and educate about alternative models of social and economic relations.
Founded in 2003, Post Carbon Institute is leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world. Post Carbon Institute provides individuals, communities, businesses, and governments with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated economic, energy, and environmental crises that define the 21st century. We envision a world of resilient communities and re-localized economies that thrive within ecological bounds.
Shareable is a nonprofit online magazine that tells the story of sharing. We cover the people, places, and projects bringing a shareable world to life. And we share how-tos so you can make a shareable world real in your life. In a shareable world, things like clothing swaps, childcare coops, potlucks, carsharing, community gardens, and cohousing make life more fun, green, and affordable. When we share, not only is a better life possible, but so is a better world.
The Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) facilitates the growth of sustainable, localized, and just economies, through legal research, professional training, resource development, and education about practices such as: Cooperatives; Community-supported enterprises; Barter; Sharing; Local currencies; Intentional communities, ecovillages, cohousing; Affordable housing and limited equity housing; Urban agriculture; Community-based renewable energy; Community land trusts; Social enterprise; Microlending; Local investing; Co-op banks/credit unions
Inviting all of Albany, California to create a positive transition from fossil fuel dependency to vital, engaged, resilient and interdependent community.
Portland
The Center for Earth Leadership trains and motivates Northwest citizens to assume a leadership role in forging a sustainable culture. A singular vision guides the Center: Citizens must provide the true leadership to a sustainable future. Center programs recognize the immense potential of each individual to assume an expanded leadership role in daily life by (1) reducing personal impact on the earth, (2) being an agent of change, and (3) being an assertive advocate for the earth.
A non-profit organization, Illahee provides citizens with practical tools for understanding the nature of the Pacific Northwest and the planet, and for taking care of it. We provide the region opportunities for science-based, policy-relevant environmental inquiry.
Toronto
An interdisciplinary approach to social justice theories and practices in a variety of local and global contexts. Areas of study include disability, anti-racism, social advocacy, global food systems, global health and transnational labour. In addition to core courses, students are required to take equity courses from other programs and departments across the university. The Equity Studies Student Union (ESSU) is a vibrant and active student group whose members work throughout the year to provide extra-curricular events that will complement students' in-class education. Office of Residence & Student Life
University of Toronto's living laboratory of arts, culture, and recreation. The mission of Hart House Social Justice Committee is to raise awareness of social justice issues through proactive engagement of partnerships, networks and the student body as a whole, bringing about a well-established and long-lasting dialogue based around awareness, appreciation, and action into the lives of individuals and communities within and around the University of Toronto .... We aim to introduce many different issues and opportunities for participation around Social Justice, with free, secular and accessible events, in an effort to engage the entire student body.
FoodShare Toronto is a non-profit community organization whose vision is Good Healthy Food for All. We take a multifaceted, innovative, and long-term approach to hunger and food issues. At FoodShare we work on food issues 'from field to table' - meaning that we focus on the entire system that puts food on our tables: from the growing, processing and distribution of food to its purchasing, cooking and consumption.
Local Food Plus is committed to creating local sustainable food systems that reduce reliance on fossil fuels, create meaningful jobs, and foster the preservation of farmland – and farmers.
Meal Exchange is a national student-founded, youth-driven, registered charity organized to address local hunger by mobilizing the talent and passion of students. Since 1993, our programs have been run on over 50 campuses across Canada and generated over $2.75million worth of food or 1,100,000 meals to address local hunger.
Sustain Ontario is a province-wide, cross-sectoral alliance that promotes healthy food and farming. Sustain Ontario takes a collaborative approach to research, policy development and action by addressing the intersecting issues related to healthy food and local sustainable agriculture. Sustain Ontario is working towards a food system that is healthy, ecological, equitable and financially viable.
From its origins as one of Canada’s first food banks, The Stop Community Food Centre has blossomed into a thriving community hub where neighbours participate in a broad range of programs that provide healthy food, as well as foster social connections, build food skills and promote engagement in civic issues. Among the busy initiatives are community kitchens and gardens, cooking classes, drop-in meals, peri-natal support, a food bank, outdoor bake ovens, food markets and community advocacy.
The Toronto Food Policy Council partners with business and community groups to develop policies and programs promoting food security. Our aim is a food system that fosters equitable food access, nutrition, community development and environmental health.
New York City
The Brooklyn Food Coalition is a grassroots partnership of groups and individuals striving to give effective voice to all those who live or work in Brooklyn and wish to achieve a just and sustainable system for tasty, healthy, and affordable food.
The New Economics Institute is working to make the new economics, one which supports people and planet, mainstream in the United States. Our current economic system is failing in its essential purpose: to provide fulfilling and healthy lives for all people while nurturing the social and natural systems on which the economic system depends. The New Economics Institute is helping people imagine the kind of economy that is designed to enhance human well-being and ecological health.
The mission of the New Economy Network (NEN) is to support a transition to a new economy where the priority is to sustain people and the planet, social justice and cohesion are prized, and peace, communities, democracy and nature all flourish.
The New Rules Project, a program of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, was launched in 1998 with the goal of developing and implementing policies that constrain corporate power and foster a more equitable, democratic and community-rooted economy. It is a nimble program that has accomplished much by leveraging our research and policy expertise in partnership with grassroots groups, membership organizations, and other allies. In 2010, we had four main areas of focus: 1) implementing policies that expand locally owned businesses and limit the power and impact of big-box retailers, 2) transitioning from a financial system dominated by big banks and speculative activities to one that is rooted in and responsive to community needs, 3) fostering a shift to small-scale, locally owned renewable power generation, and 4) establishing community-owned broadband infrastructure that provides affordable access.
Slow Food NYC is the New York City chapter of Slow Food, a non-profit, member-supported organization founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life. We stand against the disappearance of local food traditions and people's dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.
GRACE Communications Foundation works to highlight the interconnection of food, water and energy - and to support common sense approaches to meeting environmental challenges that take those connections into account. Foundation programs include: Eat Well Guide, The Meatrix, Sustainable Table, Ecocentric, H2O Conserve, and the Network for New Energy Choices
The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design seeks to assist the Cooper Union in providing the cross-disciplinary knowledge and practical skills Architects, Engineers, and Artists need to successfully meet the professional and personal challenges of creating a sustainable society; one that prospers because its designed economic, social, and engineering systems work in harmony with the ecological dynamics and resource limitations of the earth. The Institute will exchange knowledge and acquired skills in a mutually enlightening dialogue with the larger intellectual and civic communities.
The Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium is an initiative of the San Francisco-based Pachamama Alliance. Currently offered in more than 40 countries in almost a dozen languages, the Symposium is an interactive, transformational workshop that awakens and inspires participants to find their unique contribution to creating a sustainable, fulfilling and just world, on a local and global level, with informed, grounded optimism about our future.
DublinCultivate's mission is to respond to energy vulnerability and climate change by providing access to the knowledge and tools to cultivate sustainable lifestyles and resilient communities.
FEASTA - The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability Feasta aims to identify the characteristics (economic, cultural and environmental) of a truly sustainable society, articulate how the necessary transition can be effected and promote the implementation of the measures required for this purpose.
We are a nationwide education programme, offering free courses to jobseekers, with a focus on upskilling the workforce for the growing opportunities within Ireland's Green Economy.
GIY aims to inspire people to grow their own food and give them the skills they need to do so successfully.
Happenings
Transistion Towns Ireland & Northern Ireland Part of the worldwide initiative building community resilience to face the effects of climate change, peak oil and economic breakdown.
New DelhiNavdanya is a network of seed keepers and organic producers spread across 16 states in India. Navdanya has helped set up 54 community seed banks across the country, trained over 500,000 farmers in seed sovereignty, food sovereignty and sustainable agriculture over the past two decades, and helped setup the largest direct marketing, fair trade organic network in the country. Navdanya is actively involved in the rejuvenation of indigenous knowledge and culture. It has created awareness on the hazards of genetic engineering, defended people's knowledge from biopiracy and food rights in the face of globalisation and climate change. Navdanya is a women centred movement for the protection of biological and cultural diversity. In the film: Voices from six continents, including:
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