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GoodHumans Guidelines - Visitors may obtain a rating of goodness, learn about how to be a "GoodHuman" and contribute to a definition of what that is.
Sustainable Settings - A demonstration and research project designed to focus community life around meaningful and environmentally sustainable practices.
Sxethic - Many essays on ethics, with a focus on animal and human rights in daily life. Covers vegetarianism, veganism, sexual and racial equality, straightedge, and hardliners.
Careers in the Common Good - Can your college education set the stage for a lifetime of human good? Brown University shows a way to do that.
To what extent do ordinary citizens in advanced industrial nations contribute to suffering around the world? - Paper by Robin Green which argues that ordinary people are contributing to terrible suffering of both human and non-human animals, often quite without being conscious of it. In view of this, the conclusion is that many ordinary people have the power, and the responsibility to change their lifestyles to more compassionate ones, and that the personal is inextricably political.
Human Rights - at The Mining Co. - Stay on top of human rights efforts and issues worldwide. Link to campaigns, organizations, and learn what actions you can take.
Together Foundation - A place to foster communication between individuals, groups, corporations and governments working in service to the Earth and humanity.
Opera Browser - Multilingual, anti US duopoly product. English, German, Norwegian, Spanish, Afrikaans, Italian and French versions.
The Green Liberal - Democracy UK style, for thinking progressively each and every day.
Green & Growing Environmental Education Project - Teaching site on clean growing. Breath taking photo of Lupines and bee home page.
Caution: Children at Work - Church World Service page with information about youthful activists, links to their library which has films about sweatshops where millions of children are imprisoned.
Enlightened Rebellion by Osho - Rebellion is individual action; it has nothing to do with the crowd. Rebellion has nothing to do with politics, power, violence.It is a spiritual metamorphosis.
Aim to understand what is in the public interest? - These and other socially responsible premises are examined by the Benton Organization.
Traveling Sweatshop - Dramatic enactment of sweatshop issue intended to awaken the awareness of people. U.S. shoppers as of early 1999 responded 2 to 1 as not thinking about sweatshops when they bought clothing in television poll.
Dads and Daughters - Organization of men with daughters. Provides tools to build relationships. Current project confronts western culture's valuing girls only for superficial aspects such as body weight and appearance.
A Spiral Path to Knowhere - One couple's experience and insights with simple living, peace and justice issues, creativity, and living in the spirit.
Who Will Love America? - Web book about how to be a responsible citizen. Contains 100 actions that, when done by each of us on a day-to-day basis and when the situations arise, keep America strong and thus free.
Civic Practices Network (CPN) - CPN shares a commitment to bring practical methods for public problem solving into every community and institutional setting in America.
Ecovillage Network - Links together a highly diverse worldwide movement of autonomous ecovillages (environmentally and socially sustainable settlements) and related projects.
Empowerment - A source for empowering people and communities via the internet with links to a wide range of progressive topics.
Campaign For Courtesy - UK registered charity emphasizing the importance of courtesy in a rapidly changing world.
Ethical Junction - Ethical shopping, ethical businesses, and ethical charities.
People Owning Infinite New Tomorrows - Bringing together individuals & groups who recognize the need for a raising of consciousness in our society, and who are willing to start taking responsibility for making a positive difference in their own lives.
Unwelcome Guests - - Opposes the New World Order.
Line Around the World - On-line world wide network, pledging in the process to do a good deed in order to earn the right to be in the Line.
Tony Schwartz "How To" - Review and summary of works of this media consultant and author. Focus is on how progressive, activists can effectively use air and print media.
Think About It - A few Socratic questions to enable self examination, a route to reduce modern folks' belief about what they really need. Clarifies the effects of consumption culture on animals, and environment.
Free Time to Free People Project - Because we spend so much more time at work today, we are losing the opportunities to truly comprehend and manage our own lives. Offers an approach to correct that imbalance.
Wastewatch - Promotes action on waste reduction, reuse and recycling throughoutt the UK.
Shopethical - An online ethical shopping directory featuring links to ethical goods and services and ethical campaigns and organisations.
Labour Behind The Label - A network of organisations supporting garment worker's efforts to defend rights and improve wages
Womens Environmental Network - WEN is an organisation which links women and the environment and is especially concerned with issues concerning women's health and reproductive systems.
Global Exchange - Shows actions and how to accomplish change on such far ranging issues as curtailing sweatshop practices to improving the environment. Internship program, volunteer work, activism with a purpose.
Unable to save for investments? - Weidner Investments shows how a simple, Reverse Budget can help you start to save.
Good Money's Survey - Market Basket survey aims to come up with what are fair wages in all parts of the world.
Feel Good is NOT ~ good enough - Motley Fool criticizes SRI as "feel good," but ineffective investing.
General Electric and 3rd world workers - Corporate Monitor reported GE unions asked for minimum fairness for third world workers.
Socially Responsible Investing - Information offered by Oberlin College, Ohio.
Better World Member Publications - Permits both print and electronic communication of your socially responsible actions, plans or even ideas.
Mind Power by John Kehoe - Can the powers of your thought lead to socially responsible citizenship?
Political Activism Resources - Korean site with world wide links concerning information and activism strategies and organizations.
Coming Clean - Nonprofit organization now working with groups across the country to organize viewing events for the airing of Bill Moyers' documentary, "Trade Secrets" on Public Television.
Shell Game - Money allegedly used to destroy indigenous people's environments, rights and lives. Related to boycott of Shell Oil company.
Training Materials and Resources - A directory of activism resources at enviroweb.org
Tripod interactive Activism Pod - Socially responsible thoughts and actions. Activism networks and points of contact.
U.S. National Debt Clock - Seven generations from now we will all be owned by the banks and be impoverished if this continues. See the seventh and eighth links on Debt Clock home page for activists concerning the U.S. debt problem.
Students for Change - E Mail list for students to work together on ethical behavior of corporations.
Trillium Asset Management - News - Recent releases on the impact or changes made by Socially Responsible, shareholder activism.
Various Activism Connections - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) with phone numbers and links of world wide activism organizations.
ShoreBank Pacific: The First Environmental Bancorporation - Dedicated to economic revitalization and ecosystem restoration. Lends to businesses in communities in Pacific Northwest. Loans support sustainably harvested timber, pollution prevention, water treatment, and affordable housing.
Investors should know how their fund votes - CBS.MarketWatch.com's The Gadfly writes of Domini Fund's challenge to other mutual funds to put their proxies up for all to see on the WWW. And warns shareholders to keep track of what is going on.
SustainAbility Ltd. - UK think tank and business consultancy on sustainable business practices.
Sustainable Business.com - Inspirational Center for Environmental Business on the Web: Up to date, informative, inclusive, progressive, and networking with comprehensive library.
Center for Ethics and Toxics (CETOS) - Information for making decisions about one's daily living as it pertains to money and its effects on environment, and freedom of speech.
Voice of Islam S.R. - Religious Friday khutba or sermons on Social Responsibility from the Islamic Center of Southern California in Real Audio and Real Video format
The World of Greenwash - Kenny Bruno teaches what is going on in the world profit versus humanity as he sees it.
Student Alliance to Reform Corporations - Nationwide, college student movement to help make corporations more accountable through working with their school's investment committees to act and vote SR.
Is It Wise to Invest in the Stock Market? - Cautions about investing are provided in this substantial, single page paper.
Learning For A Better World: Measuring Genuine Progress - "Normal Productivity" counts oil spills, toxic cleanup, even increases in prisons as "growth." New Genuine Progress Indicator at this site, reflects truer costs of human activity, and presents a more honest economic model.
RTMark: Investing in Chaos - The Magic Christian Fund at RTMark enables ordinary folks to "act up," protest corporate power.
Natural Wealth Seminar - October 15, 1998 begins this program in Colorado and you can join by clicking here.
Wal-Mart Sweatshop Guides - People of Faith Network "Right to Know" campaign asks this multinational retailer to reveal who manufactures their products.
Peace through Interamerican Community Action - PICA is an activist organization to enable dignity and human rights for workers everywhere. Based in Bangor, Maine they have confronted Wal-Mart and offer specific alternative places to buy clothing.
Might As Well Face It, We're Addicted to Stuff - Hope Magazine, November 1998 editorial on materialism and money.
Taking the Pledge - Brown University alumni report shows Brown University groups taking a pledge to not support sweatshops in various goods that relate to the university in anyway. - December 1998
Students in Free Enterprise - SIFE Team teaches students about money management at Cameron School of Business, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas.
Washington's Cascadia Revolving Fund - Community economic development through your investments.
Green Pages Online - Find thousands of green, environmentally responsible, socially responsible products services. Created by Co-op America.
WoodWise Consumer - Co-op America's Guide helps you conserve forests and trees by reducing consumption of wood and paper.
Prodding for Disclosure of Funds' Proxy Votes - Article in Washington Post on how investors can stop the self serving decisions of mutual fund managers when it comes to proxy votes.
Youth Link for Social responsibility - Foundation of America's national youth in action campaign and first national youth conventions.
Co-ops For Kids - International cooperative organization offers tips and ideas to enable children to think outside the consumer mold.
PICA Youth Adelanto - Peace group offering teenagers a venue for demonstrating clean clothes campaign in Maine. Aims to improve human rights where sweatshops might have been involved in clothing production.
Children's Videos - Videos on the environment and global issues for children and young people, grades K - 12, from The Video Project.
Unite Kids - Information for children to enable justice for non-union workers, the end of sweatshops, and legislation that supports workers and their families.
Youth Site Sweat Shop - Brief introduction for children to the human rights problems of sweatshops and how what they consume relates to that. Hosted by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Car Busters of Eastern Europe - Online Magazine & Resource Center for the car-free movement world wide.
Right of Way - Organization "dedicated to the overthrow of car tyranny."
Newsgroup on World Carfree Day - Discussions, primarily in U.S. for Summer 2000 event intended to encourage people to not use automobiles.
World Car Free - Non profit trying to build a consensus for change in the attitude and behavior of current car users.
Carfree Cities - Carfree cities past, present, and future. Presents solutions to the problem of the urban automobile.
Pedaling to Save the City - An examination of San Francisco's Critical Mass bicycling event in the context of the global fight against automobile dependency
Westside Transportation Alliance - Non-profit organization providing information on commute and transportation alternatives in the Portland, Oregon metro area.
International Car Free Day Campaign - A campaign to encourage public awareness of pollution caused by the increase in motorized traffic in the urban environment. Includes a summary of the campaign and which cities are participating.
Peace City Treasurehunt - Nationwide youth campaign searching for creative highschool, college and university students. It promotes creativity as an alternative to violence and drugs.
Campaign Action Tools and Resources - Offers students and teachers, tools for fighting sweatshop use in school purchased products.
Newark, N.J. Archdiocese Actions - Catholic clergy demand that school and athletic uniforms come from non-sweatshops and is urging students not to buy clothes made under abusive conditions.
Students Against Sweatshops - Canada - Tools, tips and networking for students opposed to sweatshops.
Lives Behind the Labels - Rethinking Schools supports this look at the widespread use of sweatshop labor for children's products and shows what can be done to confront it in the schools.
How to Research, Challenge, and Eliminate Military and Corporate Influence on Campus - Brief "how to" for students to confront what they believe is wrong when powerful interests may not like it.

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