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Healthy Planet: Creating a Sustainable
World
- Natural Capitalism
& The Rocky Mountain Institute: Global
leaders in researching and activating a sustainable
world, the RMI is an independent, entrepreneurial,
nonprofit that fosters the efficient and restorative
use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous,
and life sustaining.
- The Natural
Step (TNS): takes an upstream approach
to sustainability and addresses problems at the source.
Their definition of sustainability includes four scientific
principles. These principles, also known as the "conditions"
that must be met in order to have a sustainable society,
provide a practical set of design criteria to transform
debate into constructive discussion and utilized to
direct social, environmental, and economic actions.
From here you can find several well designed online
e-learning modules, in different lengths and languages.
- The Small
Planet Institute: Seeks to identify
the root causes - economic, political, and psychological
- taking our planet in a disastrous direction that
individually, none of us would choose. They help define,
articulate and further a worldwide shift from the
dominant failing notion of democracy as a set of fixed
institutions, toward democracy understood as a way
of life --a culture in which the values of inclusion,
fairness and mutual accountability infuse all dimensions
of public life. They further this through collaborative
public education.
- The Society
for Organizational Learning (SoL): is an intentional
learning community composed of organizations, individuals,
and local SoL communities around the world. A nonprofit,
member-governed corporation,, SoL is devoted to the
interdependent development of people and their institutions
in service of inspired performance and meaningful
results. SoL serves as a space in which individuals
and institutions can create together that which they
cannot create alone.
- The Northwest
Earth Institute: has produced six discussion
courses: Choices for Sustainable Living, Voluntary
Simplicity, Discovering a Sense of Place, Exploring
Deep Ecology, and Globalization and its Critic, Healthy
Children / Healthy Planet. They have a national network
exploring these ideas in action.
- Find Local Food and Farm Events:
www.localharvest.org
- Discover a Farmers Market near you:
www.massfarmersmarkets.org
- Vegetarian Living Boston: www.bostonveg.org/links.html
- Permaculture Discussion Group:
forums.permaculture.org.au
- Chef's Collaborative: At Chefs
Collaborative, where Life Alive is a member, there
is a growing community of chefs, farmers, fishers,
educators, and food lovers dedicated to promoting
sustainable cuisine. www.chefscollaborative.org
- Urban Farming: Has a mission of
optimizing the production of unused land for food
and alternative energy...WOW! www.urbanfarming.org
- Veritable Vegetable: Committed
to creating and fostering sustainable culture, integrating
the environment, the economy, and society as sustainable
systems. Sustainable systems are inherently life affirming,
balancing input and output, conserving, if not augmenting,
energy and resources. V.V. has chosen to influence
these areas by distributing organic produce and promoting
sustainable agriculture. www.veritablevegetable.com
- Find an Organic Grower: http://www.organic-growers.com
- Learn about BIODYNAMIC Growing & Steiner:
www.biodynamics.com/
- Community Greenhouse Lowell: Learn
about growing inside, bring your compost and see it
transformed, join neighbors you've not yet met to
green our city. www.communitygardensgreenhouse.org
- The Food Project: is a national
model in the Greater Boston Area, The Food Project
creates fertile ground for new ideas about youth and
adults partnering to create social change through
sustainable agriculture. Their goal: sustainable,
local food systems that bridge race, class, age,
and more to ensure food security for all. www.thefoodproject.org
- The South Bronx Green Roof Project: is
a national model for turning cities into places where
healthy, organic food production also reduces energy
waste, pollution AND creates jobs and educational
opportunities! Let's replicate...Life Alive is hoping
to collaborate locally in order to make this happen
here.www.ssbx.org/greenroofs.html
- The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC):
CFSC is a non-profit 501(c)(3), North American
organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable,
local and regional food systems that ensure access
to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate
food for all people at all times. We seek to develop
self-reliance among all communities in obtaining their
food and to create a system of growing, manufacturing,
processing, making available, and selling food that
is regionally based and grounded in the principles
of justice, democracy, and sustainability.
www. foodsecurity.org/
- Free Rice.com: Whether you are
CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a
poor country, improving your vocabulary can improve
your life. It is a great investment in yourself. Perhaps
even greater is the investment your donated rice makes
in hungry human beings, enabling them to function
and be productive. Somewhere in the world, a person
is eating rice that you helped provide. www.freerice.com
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Beautiful Planet: Creative
Culture & Artist Contributors
- The
Revolving Museum: The Revolving Museum
is an evolving laboratory of creative expression for
people of all backgrounds, ages, and abilities who
seek to experience the transformative power of art.
Through public art, exhibitions, and educational programs
we promote artistic exploration and appreciation;
encourage community participation and growth; and
provide opportunities for empowerment and social change.
- Nadya
Volicer, Artist: Our magnificent recycled
wood counter tops were created by Nadya out of old
shelves, tables, walls and wood objects found in the
basements of local buildings. "containers could
hold more than just objects and the value of potential
is immeasurable. Everything I make is built with the
underlying intention of creating a space to call home;
a place to house my self. That space may be large
enough for several people to enter at once, or so
small that the only inhabitants can be thoughts..."
- Nora
Valdez, Artist: Nora is an Argentine-born
artist who has utilized sculpture and installations
to create images that reflect on the nature of change,
the life of the individual and the natural or societal
forces that buffet our souls. Her thematic concerns
are also reflected in her involvement with the community:
doing public art projects and giving workshops at
a variety of urban institutions. Art becomes not just
a way to explore issues of human rights, but to have
a direct effect on them as well.
- Virginia
Peck, Artist: attempts to convey the
idea that beneath the chaotic pace of our modern lives,
there exists the possibility for inner peace and transcendence.
She thinks the more technological, fast-paced and
brutal the world becomes, the more people gravitate
to its opposite - the eternal, the serene, and the
compassionate. All qualities she evokes in her Buddha
images.
- Jasmine Jain, Artist
- The
Women's Well: The Women's Well is a safe
and supportive community based in Concord MA that
encourages women to honor the power of the circle
and to trust themselves and their ways of knowing,
including the wisdom of the female body, their experience
of cycles, and a receptivity to intuition and the
unconscious. Their purpose is to encourage, strengthen,
inspire, and empower women.
- Celebrating
the Goddess Parties: Celebrate the Divine
Feminine Spirit and Nurture Your Soul. The Goddess
Party is a place to honor the wisdom of women,to connect
joyfully in the spirit of fun, and be blessed by the
beauty of each others' company. Plan the perfect party...
or take a class and learn about female archetypes
that relate to you and the women in your life!
- Lowell's
"Destination World": First
Thursdays Event celebrating Lowell's rich cultural
life and history.
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United Planet:
Reclaiming our Democracy & Collective Empowerment
- You can effect local change: Deval Patrick:
www.devalpatrick.com
- Get politically active with Michael Moore:
www.michaelmoore.com
- Learn about Legislation Affecting Us:
www.organicconsumers.org
- The Small
Planet Institute: Seeks to identify
the root causes - economic, political, and psychological
- taking our planet in a disastrous direction that
individually, none of us would choose. They help define,
articulate and further a worldwide shift from the
dominant failing notion of democracy as a set of fixed
institutions, toward democracy understood as a way
of life --a culture in which the values of inclusion,
fairness and mutual accountability infuse all dimensions
of public life. They further this through collaborative
public education.
- The Society
for Organizational Learning (SoL): is an intentional
learning community composed of organizations, individuals,
and local SoL communities around the world. A nonprofit,
member-governed corporation,, SoL is devoted to the
interdependent development of people and their institutions
in service of inspired performance and meaningful
results. SoL serves as a space in which individuals
and institutions can create together that which they
cannot create alone.
- Community
Greenhouse Lowell: Learn about growing
inside, bring your compost and see it transformed,
join neighbors you've not yet met to green our city.
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