Climate Change:
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www.transitiontowns.org
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Transition Movement is a grassroots process for building
community resilience in the face of such challenges as climate
change, peak oil, and economic crisis. As a complement to existing
sustainability efforts, it empowers organizing efforts, engaging
people in transition to ways of life that are more abundant,
fulfilling, equitable, sustainable, and socially connected. Since
emerging in Ireland in 2005, the Transition movement has spread
globally, with hundreds of Transition initiatives now underway.
This site provides a focal point for all of the towns, villages, cities
and localities around the world as they implement their own
Transition Initiative.
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Community Living:
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www.ic.org
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Intentional Communities is an inclusive term for ecovillages,
cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops,
urban housing cooperatives, alternative communities, and other
projects where people strive together with a common vision. This
web site serves the growing communities' movement, providing
resources for finding a community home and creating more
community in your life.
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www.cohousing.org
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Cohousing communities are old-fashioned neighborhoods created
with a little ingenuity. They bring together the value of private
homes with the benefits of more sustainable living. That means
common facilities and good connections with neighbors.
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www.wannastarta
commune.com
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Wanna start a commune? Using a few simple tools you can start
sharing with your neighbors, friends or co-workers today. You'll
save time and money, connect more deeply with those around you,
and do right by the planet.
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"Community Land Trust is a form of common land ownership with a charter based on the principles of
sustainable and ecologically-sound stewardship and use. The land in a CLT is held in trust by a
democratically-governed non-profit corporation. Through an inheritable and renewable long-term lease, the
trust removes land from the speculative market and facilitates multiple uses such as affordable housing,
village improvement, commercial space, agriculture, recreation, and open space preservation. Individual
leaseholders own the buildings and other improvements on the land created by their labor and investment,
but do not own the land itself. Resale agreements on the buildings ensure that the land value of a site is not
included in future sales, but rather held in perpetuity on behalf of the regional community."
E. F. Schumacher Society.
www.schumachersociety.org/clts.html
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Community Land Trusts:
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www.cltnetwork.org
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National Community Land Trust Network provides access to
training, technical resources, and contacts to help you strengthen
and grow your community land trust. Started in 2007.
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www.schumachersociety.org
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E. F. Schumacher Society is a think and do tank. Through its
publications, conferences, seminars, website, speaker series, library,
and model economic programs, the Society works to engage
citizen activists in building sustainable local economies that link
people, land, and community. It is an innovator in the application
of the community land trust model.
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www.schoolofliving.org
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School of Living, non profit, is an educational organization
dedicated to learning and teaching the philosophy, practices and
principles of living that are self-empowering for individuals within
the general aim of establishing decentralized, ecologically-sound,
self-governed and humane communities. Focuses on community
land trusts, decentralism, cooperative living, land issues, monetary
reform, tax reform, alternative education, permaculture,
environmental and other current issues. Pennsylvania.
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www.iceclt.org
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Institute for Community Economics (ICE) is a national
community development organization promoting economic justice
through community land trusts and community investment. As
the originator of the CLT model, ICE has supported the growth of
CLTs across the United States and Canada. ICE is also a certified
Community Development Financial Institution with a loan fund
which provides financing to CLTs and other non-profit groups.
Springfield, MA.
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www.equitytrust.org
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Equity Trust works with groups across the country struggling to
find equitable solutions to economic problems. We provide loans
and ideas, and we help people gain community ownership over
resources like land, food, and housing that are vital to the health of
the community. Turners Falls, MA.
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Community Models: see sustainability below as well...
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www.schumachersociety.org
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Self-Help Association for a Regional Economy (SHARE) is a
model community-based nonprofit that offers a simple way for
citizens to create a sustainable local economy by supporting
businesses that provide products or services needed in the region.
Includes all the forms and agreements needed to start a SHARE
program in your region.
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www.sustainableplastics.org
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Institute for Local Self-Reliance works to enable communities to
increase economic effectiveness, reduce wastes, decrease
environmental impacts and provide for local ownership of the
infrastructure and resources essential for community well-being.
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Competitions:
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greeneffect.national
geographic.com
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Win $20,000 to Put Your Green Idea Into Action. SunChips and
National Geographic have joined forces to create the Green Effect,
an initiative to inspire people to take small steps for big change.
$20,000 each to five people or groups that have compelling ideas
for green change in their communities.
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Gardens:
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www.gardenmosaics
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Garden Mosaics- Connects youth and elders, to investigate the
mosaic of plants, people, and cultures in gardens, to learn about
science, and to act together to enhance their community.
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Land Conservation:
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www.tpl.org
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Trust for Public Land is a national, nonprofit, land conservation
organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks,
community gardens, historic sites, rural lands, and other natural
places. Since 1972, TPL has worked with willing landowners,
community groups, and national, state, and local agencies to
complete more than 3,500 land conservation projects in 47 states,
protecting more than 2 million acres.
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www.sandcounty.net
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Sand County Foundation. "The roots of Sand County
Foundation are private action inspired by the Leopold Land Ethic,
using responsible voluntary means to improve habitat. Today, the
role of Sand County Foundation has expanded from caretaker of
the Leopold Memorial Reserve to advising the managers of
hundreds of thousands of acres of land in several countries. The
Foundation works with private landholders to improve the quality
of their lands through science, ethics, and incentives."
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Land Use:
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www.landuse.org
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Smarter Land Use. Solving Persistent Problems with Effective
Collaboration. See their Collaborative Land Use Planning
Guidebook.
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Oil Dependancy:
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transitionculture.org
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Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan, a community-based
strategy for weaning a community from oil.
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www.postcarboncities.net
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Post Carbon Cities program helps local governments understand
the challenges posed by energy and climate uncertainty, and
provides resources for elected officials, planners, managers and
others to develop plans and responses appropriate to their
communities.
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Social Networking:
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www.greennexxus.com
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GreenNexxus is an environment social networking website that
provides people, organizations, and businesses with the ability to
share, publish, and contribute green knowledge with the purpose
of reducing our collective environmental impact.
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Suburban Living:
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culdesaccommune.org
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Cul-de-sac Commune Project. Do you live on a cul-de-sac? Or a
dead-end road? Or an apartment building (or condo) with an
interior courtyard? Why not come together with your neighbors
and share resources?
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Sustainability:
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www.conservation.org
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Conservation International works to benefit humanity by
conserving the Earth’s biodiversity – the species and ecosystems
that are our natural heritage- and the foundation for healthy
human societies that thrive on sustainable economic development.
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www.rri.org
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Resource Renewal Institute facilitates the creation, development
and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire
complex environmental problem by addressing it
comprehensively. An incubator of transformational ideas designed
to challenge and change the piecemeal way our resources are
currently managed and protected.
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www.sierraclub.org
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Sierra Club Safeguarding Communities Initiative will help
communities reduce and prepare for the current and coming
effects of climate change.
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sustainer.org
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Sustainability Institute. Focuses on understanding the root
causes of unsustainable behavior in complex systems to help
restructure systems and shift mindsets that will help move human
society toward sustainability.
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www.treeswaterpeople.org
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Trees, Water & People is a nonprofit organization which
develops and manages continuing reforestation, watershed
protection, renewable energy, appropriate technology, and
environmental education programs in Latin America and the
American West.
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futurewise.org
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Futurewise (formerly 1000 Friends of Washington) mission is to
promote healthy communities and cities while protecting farmland
and forests for this and future generations.
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www.wiserearth.org
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Wiser Earth a community directory and networking forum that
maps and connects non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
businesses, governments, and individuals addressing the central
issues of our day: climate change, poverty, the environment, peace,
water, hunger, social justice, conservation, human rights and more.
Content is created and edited by people like you.
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Urban Biodiversity:
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www.iclei.org
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Curitiba’s BioCity Programme combines public and private
initiatives in an effort to contribute to the global target to reduce
the loss of biodiversity by 2010. The BioCity Program aims to halt
the rapid rate at which cities develop, which can affect natural
areas, destroy ecosystems, fragment natural spaces and often
drives species to extinction. PDF.
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www.treetrust.org
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Tree Trust's mission is to improve the community environment
by investing in people.. Each day we work with young people and
adults, volunteers and trainees, and together with Tree Trust staff,
we transform the green landscapes of our communities.
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