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Resources to Meet Your Basic Needs

FOOD AND CONSCIENTIOUS CONSUMPTION:  
Find a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Program near you http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/csa/
Trace your ecological footprint http://www.earthday.net/Footprint/indx.asp
Find a Co-op in your city http://coopamerica.org
The True Foods Network http://truefoodnow.org
Food First Institute for Food and Development Policy http://www.foodfirst.org
AlterEco fair trade food product http://www.altereco.com/
TRADE:  
Focus on the Global South http://www.focusweb.org
Bilaterals.org(Everything That's Not Happening at the WTO) http://www.bilaterals.org
FTA Watch (Thai-US FTA) http://www.ftawatch.org
World Trade Organization official IPR policies http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/tris_ehtm
Public Citizen Global Trade Watch http://www.citizen.org/trade/
ENVIRONMENT:  
Solar Living Institute http://solarliving.org
International Rivers Network(IRN) http://www.irn.org/
World Commission on Dams (WCD); archived material including information about the Pak Mun Dam http://www.dams.org
Navdanya, Vandana Shiva's movement to promote fundamental rights and reponsibilities to seeds, food and water http://www.navdanya.org
Peggy Reents's sustainable community http://www.punpunthailand.org
MEDIA:  
Alternative Media Resource Page http://www.zmag.org/altmediaresources.htm
Adbusters Media Foundation http://www.adbusters.org/home/
Democracy Now! An independent media network http://www.democracynow.org
Indy Media http://www.indymedia.org
STUDENT NETWORKS:  
Educational Network for Global and Grassroots Exchange (ENGAGE) http://www.engage-humanity.org
United Studdents for Fair Trade (USFT) http://www.usft.org
United Students Against Sweat Shops (USAS) http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org
Living Wage Action Campaign http://www.livingwageaction.org
HOUSING:  
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) http://www.acorn.org
Intentional Communities Database http://www.ic.org
MISCELLANEOUS:  
Sulak Sivaraksa: Philosophy, practice, and vision of organizations http://www.sulak-sivaraksa.org
Asoke Buddhist community information http://www.asoke.info.asokeinfo_english/
   


 

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