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These are resources that allow
you to get involved in the betterment of our communities and our
nation. Learning about these things and then taking actions
appropriate to our personal situation is a effective means of
changing the world for the better.
- Zero Population Growth.
- Avoiding pesticide and chemical pollution in your environment and products you consume.
- planning and building sustainable communities and stopping the hideous before it's built.
- How your federal tax dollars are actually being spent.
- Corporate Watch.
- Environmental Working Group.
- permaculture & regenerative agriculture sites.
- How advertisers capitalize on and commoditize you.
- kill your TV.
- Fighting and hurting Junk E-Mailers
- Alternatives to the automobile; mass transit links.
- Your Economic "Dollar Vote" and how it sometimes supports the wrong people.
- Enough! Anticonsumerism campaign (U.K.)
- Material appropriate to sustainability of society.
- Teacher's resources.
- Mad Cow Website.
- Books on Sustainability and controlling your personal
environment,
Philosophy and History, Work and the Economy. - Magazines.
- Non-print Resources.
- Movements.
Educating oneself as to the nature of the
threat to the environment and our personal health can be a challenge
because there is so much to learn and there are so many different
solutions offered. The following sites are clearly articulated so
that one can both learn and then take
action.
Arithmetic, Population and Energy: Dr. Albert Bartlett
http://globalpublicmedia.com/lectures/461
Now that sounds boring doesn't it?
Probably the most important video available to understand sustainability, the environment and the changes you will face.
One cannot call themself an environmentalist or a informed citizen until they have seen this video.
to learn about these things.
So just what's in the
non-organic
food that
you're eating?
This link shows you what
is there and its effects on you. If you don't care about
yourself at least check out the bad things that you are
feeding to your kids.
Combination of
Pesticides Linked to Parkinson's
Disease:
Learn how to avoid this fate in your old age.
Community self-defense against pollution that affects your health.
The next site discusses the actors in the drama that is involuntarily
being played out in every cell of your body.
Care to read the program? This is a description of several of the
largest chemical producing companies, the health and environmental
damage from their products and the brand names where these chemicals
are found as well as resources to boycott their other merchandise,
or rush out and buy lots
of it if you so choose.
REVOLT
AGAINST THE EMPIRE: DOW, DUPONT & MONSANTO
Bayer is desperately trying to improve Monsanto's image. Read about
this company and its products in Revolt Against the Empire above then
appraise for yourself their home
pages, an excellent example of
CORPORATE GREENWASHING.
Here's an
example of the real kind of thing Monsanto has done for
the environment in rural Missouri.
And now, in the latest gambit to convince the world that they are
really just nice plain-old down-home overall wearin' folks, Monsanto
unveils...
The Powers That Be want to deindustrialize America,
destroy investment in the public realm and export middle class jobs
as part of their model: In The Grip Of A Permanent War Economy by Seymour Melman
Planner's Web is a site that allows you to learn about the
positive changes happening in our communities at the town planning
level. Fabulous links to the history of American small towns, their
demise and their resurrection.
Home From
Nowhere An incredible illustrative essay that defines how
zoning and sprawl has ruined our towns and cities and what can be
done to restore them.
Beyond Sprawl: New Patterns of Growth to Fit the New
California An alliance of environmental groups and Bank of
America are doing something to stop sprawl.
Another example of the growing awareness that Non-Sustainability =
Economic Suicide.
National Priorities Project "is a community education,
research and training organization that for 16 years has dedicated
itself to making our nation's budget priorities something ordinary
citizens can understand and shape. We are the source that citizen
groups, progressive elected officials, the media and policy analysts
turn to find out the real, local impacts of federal policies. We have
an extensive data base of state and local information, and have
worked with many national organizations and hundreds of local citizen
groups to produce state and local impact reports. These reports
particularly illustrate the trade-off between excessive military
spending and tax breaks for the very wealthy, and resultant cuts to
community-based programs."
Straight from
Eisenhower's mouth:
"Every gun that is made, every warship
launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft
from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not
clothed.""The Chance for Peace" Address April 16.
1953
"In the councils of government, we must
guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether
sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."
Farewell Address. Radio and TV January 17. 1961
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The Organic
Consumers Association is
a non-profit, public interest organization dedicated to building a
healthy, safe, and sustainable system of food production and
consumption in the US and the world. It helps build a national
and
international consumer/farmer/labor/progressive retailer boycott of
genetically engineered and chemically contaminated foods and crops.
INTERGARDEN an incredibly through and well constructed set
of links to
PERMACULTURE & REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE sites.
Run away from anyone who says this to you:
"Want
to meet some really special people who will show you how easy it is
to get rich...?"
How commercialism and
parasitizing
your friends and family can make someone else rich. An excellent
article on
What's Wrong With Multi-Level Marketing?
Shaking
the Money Tree From Amway to Equinox...
Cripple advertisers that fill your E-mail box with junk.
Simple, clear instructions to find our just who sent that stuff
to you and how to get them kicked off their ISP
tip: Sick of junk mail? Just stuff all of their ads, the magnetic-'you're name here" credit card, the envelope addressed to you back into their postage paid envelope. Fold it so that's it's 'chunky' or fat. It'll cost them .91 cents in postage.
Your Economic
Influence on Politics and the Economy An old graphics-free site packed with very diverse resources. Still looking for something as good, but more contemporary.
Corporate Watch Info
has serious links for researching and tracking corporate
malfactors.
Alternatives to the
automobile.
What we once had: 
The conspiracy to destroy America's
streetcar systems
The
full costs of the car
financial studies that provide indisputable ammunition for transit
proponents.
Some Teachers' and Scholarly Researcher's
Resources:
The Environmental Working
Group Environmental contamination resources.
What is
Sustainable Agriculture? Nice overview from the University
of California
K-12 Curriculum Resources for
Botany
We have a large page
dedicated to organic gardening.
BOOKS (with ample illustrative quotes) & MAGAZINE section now has its OWN PAGE.
NON-PRINT RESOURCES:
Ithaca hours home page In Ithaca N.Y., people have the option of being paid for their labor or products in "Ithaca Hours" worth one hour's average wage of $10 per hour. This is a spendable local currency that at least 1,200 merchants and individuals accept; the ultimate in keeping money in the community. For a starter kit for your community or more information write to: Ithaca Money, Box 6578, Ithaca, NY 14851.
ready to get serious about anti-consumerism?
Radical Anti-Consumerism
O.
C. Accomplishes?
Active
Resistance
Hands
on methods
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Families compared
our
personal consumer choices
consumption
chart
How
to raise food
How
to raise trees
eliminate
polystyrene products
Corporate
officers and their interlocking interests
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