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Activism

• CodePink - women for peace ****
• Co-op America - economic action for a just planet
• Corporate Accountabiltiy Project - of the world's 100 largest economies, 51 are now global corporations ****
• CorpWatch - holding corporations accountable ***
• Courage to Resist - support the troops that refuse to fight ***
• Dennis Kucinich - a wise voice in US Congress *****
• Earth First! - the radical environmental journal
• Electronic Frontier Foundation - leading defender of civil liberties on the net *****
• Global Exchange - effective human rights organization ****
• Green Party - grassroots politics baby!
• Halliburton Watch - keep an eye on 'the empire' ****
• IGC Internet - a vast activist network including Econet, Peacenet, WomensNet, and Anti-RacismNet
• Iraq Veterans Against the War - you are not alone *****
• McSpotlight - McDonald's spends over $2 billion a year broadcasting their glossy image to the world
• Native Forest Council - working to fully protect and preserve every acre of publicly owned land in the US ***
• Not In Our Name - US anti-war demonstrations ***
• Organic Consumers Association - campaigning for food safety, organic agriculture, fair trade & sustainability
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - global animal rights leader
• Protest.Net - a worldwide calendar of demonstrations, connections, and writings
• Public Citizen - protecting health, safety, and democracy
• United for Peace and Justice - another world is possible
• Universal Friends - great independent writing about current US political events
• Walmart Watch - the dirt on the world's largest retailer
• We Are Change - waking up the world ***
• Z Communications - the spirit of resistance lives ***

Alternative Energy

• Geothermal Home Guide - useful information and links regarding geothermal energy
• Green Power Science - amazing solar lenses and free power experiments ****
• Rocket Stoves - never run out of fuel again*****
• Sun Electronics - making solar affordable
• Wind Turbines - a social network for the wind turbine community

Community

• Abundant Dawn - community in Virginia
• Atlantis - ecological columbian community
• Craigslist - extremely useful global classified postings ****
• Cybertown - was once a hoppin' VR of the future!
• Dancing Rabbit - a growing ecovillage in northeast Missouri
• Facebook - largest socail network on earth
• Federation of Egalitarian Communities - a network of communal groups spread across North America
• Global Ecovillage Network - 1500+ pages on international ecovillages and sustainability
• Intentional Communities - a comprehensive directory of communities around the world ****
• Ionia Inc. - a multi-generational macrobiotic & mental health village located in Alaska ****
• Lost Valley - a community and nonprofit educational center located in the foothills of the Oregon Cascades
• Methernitha - a community that runs on free energy and spiritual values
• MySpace - once a great social network, now mostly good for music
• Organic Volunteers - educational exchanges in sustainability ****
• Point Worlds - open and creative vr pioneers ***
• RantMedia - parle vous WOG ? ****
• Sirius - an ecological community in Massachusettes
• Second Life - online virtual reality community ***
• Twin Oaks - large community of around 85 adults and 15 children living on 465 acres land in rural Virginia
• Twitter - share realtime status updates and media ****

Composting

• Composting Instructions - basic instructions on how to compost
• How To Compost.org - a central hub of composting information on the web
• Jenkins Publishing - the brilliant publisher of the Humanure Handbook *****

Culture & Consciousness

• The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension - y o w z e r ?
• neu ark net - tune in ***
• Peter Russell - brilliant and visionary thinker ***
• Phoot - a digital expression through the movement of creativity ****
• Pure Research Laboratories - contact with the non local galaxian broadcast network *****
• s e r k e t . n e t - f i r e a n d w a t e r ****
• USNISA - unified state network intelligence sythesis alliance

Environment

• Bioneers.org - visionary and practical solutions for restoring the Earth
• EnviroLink - online environmental community
• Friends of the Earth - fighting environmental distruction where it begins ****
• Rocky Mountain Institute - nonprofit organization that fosters the restorative use of resources to create life-sustaining world
• SEAC - a nationwide student environmental network on the cutting edge of current issues

Gardening

• Clemson University Home and Garden Information Center - plant cultivation, disease prevention, and food preservation
• GrowFood.org - connects farmers interested in teaching with people interested in farming *****
• Soil and Health - a free public library of holistic agriculture, holistic health, self-sufficient living, and personal development

Homeschool

• California Homeschooling - great homeschooling resource **
• Jon's Homeschool Page - one of the oldest and largest homeschool sites

Information Technology

• 2600 - the publishers of the "Hacker Quarterly" ***
• CGI Resource Index - lots of great scripts to add interactivity to your site
• Debian - a non commercial GNU/Linux distribution ****
• DistroWatch - check out the most popular GNU/Linux distributions ***
• Download.com - great source of freeware downloads **
• Drupal - well developed open source content management system ***
• The Gimp - love the gimp. (free photoshop) ***
• GNU - the great pioneer of information freedom *****
• HackerMedia - get your geek on *****
• HotScripts - vast & popular web script database
• HTML Source - very good web design tutorials for free **
• Linux Documentation Project - read, study, learn! ****
• Linux Online - an intro to the universal operating system
• Firefox - secure open source web browser (use it!) ****
• Google - best search engine on earth ****
• Joomla - quality free content management system
• Resonance Project - the seed of our Star Trek ****
• Scroogle - use Google without being tracked
• Slashdot - top high-tech news
• Thunderbird - free email client with great spam filters ****
• Ubuntu Linux - the free and user-friendly operating system *****

Media Education

• Adbusters - a great magazine and website devoted to critical views of commercial culture ***
• Billboard Liberation Front - revolution now!
• False Advertising - a hilarious gallery of mock advertising sure to brighten your whites
• Subvertise - a gallery of hundreds of subverts, political art, cartoons, and articles
• White Dot - anti-television facts and propaganda

Meditation

• Access To Insight - huge collection of Theravada Buddhist writings *****
• Quaker Meetings - a group meditative practice with a Bilbical base
• Vipassana - free worldwide 10 day meditation courses *****!!!
• Zen Meditation - a good introduction

Music

• Audacity - free multitrack digital recording & editing for any platform ***
• Creative Commons - master of flexible copyrights (ie: renaissance) *****
• Jamendo - open your ears! join the jam! *****
• Opsound.org - welcome to the now age music renaissance ****
• Renku Corporation - rhythmic electronics
• Scott Waddell - free music pioneer ****
• SHOUTcast - independent net radio providing diversity
• t r y ^ d - long live free music ^
• vavrek.com - free media for this now age renaissance * _ *

Native Skills

• Hawk Circle - wilderness education in upstate New York***
• Primitive Ways - vast collection of tutorials ***
• Tom Brown Tracker School - leading US tracking, nature, and survival school
• Tracker Trail - mother earth news articles from Tom Brown **
• Wilderness Awareness Shool - deep native skills training in the woods of Washington state ***

Natural Foods & Health

• Cybermacro - great macrobiotic discussion and resources ***
• Frugal Living in the UK - money saving ideas, thrifty tips and recipes
• Green People - the world's largest, searchable database of eco-friendly products **
• Living Earth Herbs - organic health and body care
• Local Harvest - the largest directory of local sources of sustainably grown food in the USA ***
• Not Milk! - get the facts about the hazards of dairy
• Physicians Committe for Responsible Medicine - fantastic and powerful non profit leader promoting preventative medicine
• Walton's Self Reliance Pages - a food distributor offering plenty of useful information and links
• Weston Price Foundation - wise traditions in food, farming, and healing arts****

News & Media

• Aljazeera.net - news from the Middle East
• AlterNet - one of the finest online source of alternative news and discussion
• BBC News - mainstream british press
• Clamor Magazine - new perspectives on politics, culture, media, and life
• Common Dreams - breaking news & views for the progressive community ****
• Democracy Now! - the best commercial-free news online ***
• Eat The State - political news with bite!
• Free Speech Radio News - daily half-hour progressive radio newscast ***
• Greg Palast - brilliant BBC investigative reporter and author
• Independent Media Center - street level news - all free of the corporate bias
• Off The Hook - weekly radio technology show
• OneWorld.net - beyond your own borders
• The Progressive - a journalistic voice for peace and social justice
• The Raw Story - liberal news with an edge **
• Reddit - user ranked submissions on multiple topics ****
• TED - ideas worth spreading ****
• Toward Freedom - a progressive perspective on world events
• Wikinews - a practical and good news source ***
• Yes! Magazine - a journal of positive futures ***

Privacy & Online Rights

• Electronic Frontier Foundation - leading defender of civil liberties on the net *****
• Electronic Privacy Information Center - a public interest organization bringing attention to important issues

Seeds

• Albert Lea Seed House - Minnesota seed producer since 1923
• Filaree Farm - producing organic seed since 1977 in Okanogan, WA
• Great Harvest Organics - seed producer in Atlanta, IN
• Johnny Seeds - producer of conventional and organic seed from Maine
• Seeds of Change - largest network of organic seed distribution
• Sow Organic Seed - seed producer from Oregon
• Territorial Seed Company - seed producer from Oregon

Shopping Green

• eco-artware.com - gifts made from recycled, reused, and natural materials
• EcoBusinessLinks - the first green directory (since 1998) **
• ecofreek - ecofreek searches over 45+ webites and 10,000 libraries worldwide for free and swappable items being given away by people who no longer need them
• GoodHumans - offering hundreds of earth, animal, and human friendly products at great low prices **
• Grass Roots - one of the better sellers of organic cotton and hemp products
• greenfeet - natural products for everyday folk
• Green People - the world's largest, searchable database of eco-friendly products ***
• NoSweat - union-made sweatshop-free Casual Apparel
• Not A Number, Inc. - battery-free flashlights & world peace posters! ****
• Real Goods - products for an ecologically sustainable future ***

Sustainability & Self Reliance

• Empowerment Zone - huge collection of text files on many different topics ranging from politics, to employment, to technology - designed for the visually impaired
• Homesteading Blog - useful tips and resources for sustainable living
• Simple Living Network - a vast and interactive site involving the interests of a more simple and ecological lifestyle

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