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The Action Hero Network is a 501(c)3 social profit project of the International Humanities Center, dedicated to promoting what action heroes are
doing everywhere.
For more information contact:
An action hero is the person you are when living your purpose-- using powers of
intelligence and love in service to community and Mother Earth. Different from super heroes, who have
super natural powers, action heroes do what they can with what they've got. That's why they are so
inspiring; we can all be action heroes! 
We create safe spaces for
people of all ages and cultures to gather, communicate and share skills, so that everyone has the
opportunity to be empowered, build community and travel freely.
Cory Richardson
Corazon Space Creator
aka: SoloMAX
cor.contact(at)gmail.com
506.635.4122
Current Projects
Objectives:
* Freely provide light weight cloth hammocks to those sleeping on the ground in displaced persons camps.
* Set-up sewing machines where locals will continue this hammock making project.
* Create public art projects and play spaces with tightropes, treehouse hammocks and dance hoops.
* Promote the efforts of all action heroes working in Gulu by broadcasting their stories through all forms of media: print, video, online, email, photography exhibitions, and public presentations.
Why Uganda?
UN Humanitarian Affairs & Relief consider the humanitarian crisis in northern Uganda to be among the worst on the planet. The on-going civil war in northern Uganda has displaced 1.6 million people. In a recent statement by Civil Society for Peace in Northern Uganda (CSOPNU), it was reported that 70 percent of the population in northern Uganda have no access to monetary income and 95 percent live in absolute poverty.
According to a random survey of over 2,500 individuals in displaced persons camps by the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Human Rights Center, 40 percent of respondents had been abducted by the rebel LRA (Lord's Resistance Army), 45 percent had witnessed the killing of a family member and 23 percent had been physically mutilated at some point during the conflict. The LRA is believed to have abducted over 30,000 children since 1986.
Teaching skills and gathering equipment to create hammocks will not only provide inexpensive portable beds, it will enable the Acholi to create many other useful items such as tents, tarps, blankets, backpacks and clothing. One thousand dollars will buy ten sewing machines. It is a small price for the abundance of basic needs these will manifest.
INVISIBLE CHILDREN (55 minutes) film exposes the effects of a 20 year-long war on the children of Northern Uganda.
Action Heroes working in Uganda: Beadforlife, War Child, Refugees International, Enlight Project, Lake Nukuruba Orphanage Project, Gulu Walk, Africa Greater Life Mission (watch video of kids dancing!), NGOs in Uganda listed at Idealist.org
Stitch Uganda Together (Africa)
The flow from these hammocks will buy sewing machines for former child soldiers in Uganda.
James from Invisible Children, who lives in Uganda, said hundreds of people in Gulu are trained with sewing skills but have no work.
If we can find enough demand for these hammocks, we'll set up shop in Uganda and support a lot of lives.
They come with everything you need... links and webbing straps... and set up in seconds.
This simple hammock will help you be free. Sleep anywhere there are trees!
You don't need to pay rent... simplify life down to a backpack and follow your bliss!
With a bug net and a tarp(a second hammock doubles as a tarp when you take out the strap), you don't need a tent.
Enjoy luxurious comfort in many places where you couldn't pitch a tent... like wet forest, rocky hillsides, or city parks.
These hammocks are a great gift... to yourself ...and others!
$50 each ...plus shipping (mailing 1 or 2 hammocks to the USA takes 2 weeks & costs $20).
To order yours, email: cor.contact(at)gmail.com or call: 506-635-4122
Tell me your address and the color(s) you want. The orange and plaid fabrics on the right are more durable($20 extra).
I'll email you the shipping cost, and then you enter the total here through Paypal:
Roblito Community Center for Cultural Exchange (Nayarit, Mexico)
Saint John Common Unity Circle (Saint John, NB, Canada)
Past Projects
Koshland Park Community Family Camp (San Francisco, CA.)
The Made with Love Cafe (St.Bernard, Louisiana)
Now on Goggle Video... Making Love in a Disaster Zone
- the story of Made with Love Cafe
a 30 minute documentary sharing an intimate look at the grassroots relief effort in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - the most devastating natural disaster to ever hit the United States.
Made With Love Cafe was a shining beacon in a sea of destruction and despair. In addition to serving thousands of freshly prepared meals each day, the cafe was a community space that fed the soul, offering live music and an opportunity for neighbors to reconnect.
We each have the responsibility to continue the growth and evolution of humanity. Be aware that what you do and what you create will have a lasting impression on generations to come. With this awareness, create beauty that will nurture and sustain these future generations and contribute to a more loving and beautiful world for them to live in. Allow yourself to visualize and recognize what you can offer as an unconditional gift for the future of humanity.
-Voice of the Galaxy, by Stacia Alana-leah and Raymond Mardyks
(it is tax-deductible)
Goods for Koshland Park Community Project donated by:
You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered:
Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community. Be good to each other. And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.
See who is in there with you and celebrate.
At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally. Least of all, ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
-The Elders
Oraibi, Arizona
Hopi Nation
All that we are is a result of what we have thought. -
Buddha
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
model that makes the existing model obsolete. - Buckminster Fuller So how can you
protect yourself from the vageries and vicissitudes of an economy you can't control? According to
the writers in this issue's cover section on money, hoarding a nest egg doesn't work; real security
comes not from money but from developing your interests and talents into useful skills and building
a network of mutually supportive family, friends, and neighbors. - Utne Reader 1992
Let the villages of the future live in
our imagination,
so that we might one day, come to live in them.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Super Community Builders
Kachina Katrina works for City Repair in
Portland, Oregon.
Check out their Village Building Convergence
Stephen Cataldo created SpaceShare,
a carpool tool for large gatherings,
to help people share and save resources while
building community.
Diamond Dave is a core member of the Rainbow Family
that hosts community
radio and a legendary open mic in San Francisco.
Kirsten Michel organized Ecopalooza
to support and celebrate
community and ecological sustainability with bioregional awareness in Ukiah, Mendocino County, and
the North Coast and Bay/Delta Bioregions of California.
Chris organizes Earthdance,
the
largest global synchronized dance event in the world, to unite the whole world through the
universal platform of dance and music.
What began in 1997, with 22 cities in 18 countries has
now occurred in over 240 cities, with 150 cities in 50 countries participating in 2004 alone!
Leo and Megan are members of Common Vision,
cultivating ecological
awareness and respect for the Earth while generating social and environmental changes towards
sustainable lifestyles.
Spring of 2005, Common Vision planted over 1000 fruit trees at urban
schools and community centers throughout California.
At each location they used performance,
music, and stories to create a springboard experience for students to realize their relationship
with the Earth.
Scott is Plant Trees,
who keeps everyone updated on where to be
and freely feeds
the revolution from the finest dumpsters.
Bradley Saul is the founder of OrganicAthlete,
an organization whose
mission is to promote health and ecological stewardship among athletes of all ages and abilities by
sharing information, building community and athletic example.
Leslie publishes The Carpe Diem Voice,
a free, online, international newsletter for peace and justice activists.
Its mission is to
educate activists with the real news, (adding spiritual and personal development quotes and humor
to provide some balance),
and encouraging people to BE the difference by taking actions that
will change the world.
To subscribe, send an email to Leslie at CarpeDiemVoice@aol.com with
"P&J" and the country and state in which you live, in the subject line of an email.
Steve runs Punta Mona,
a center for
sustainable living and education in Costa Rica.
Doug Wallace is a board member of the Trees Foundation.
Trees' mission is to restore the ecological integrity of
California's North Coast by empowering and assisting regional community-based conservation and
restoration projects.
I don't
know what your destiny will be, but the one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will
really be happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert
Schweitzer
Betty Biodiesel's Biofuels4schools is
dedicated to improving kids health,
by promoting the use of Biodiesel in school buses around
the country.
David Room is director of North American
Operations at Post Carbon Institute,
an
educational institution and think tank that explores in theory and practice what cultures,
civilisation, governance & economies might look like without the use of (non-renewable)
hydrocarbons as energy and chemical feedstocks.
Sydney, Danielle and Sasha of Next Generation,
empower young people to
understand and change the world
through forums, in-class workshops, assemblies and conferences.
Jonathan Youtt and Emily Butterfly are professional players running with The Big Tadoo Puppet
Crew,
creating and preforming politically and environmentally conscious puppetry,
and
members of the Bio-fuel Caravan Coalition.
"if there's gonna be a puppet in office... it might
as well be a real one!"
Dave Kupfer (picture with Sierra Hill) created the San Francicso Green Map,
to connect current and future San Franciscans with
their local urban environment and provide practical ways city residents can make more sustainable
choices and be stewards of the land on which they live and work.
Dr. Richard Jackson, California's Health
Director,
Links Children's Health & Safety With Neighborhood Vitality.
He also shared these stats:
Who passed fitness standards in California schools? 25% of 5th grade, 29% of 7th grade and 26% of 9th grade. 27% over-weight.
40,000 - the number of TV ads seen year children each year; mostly for food.
Average space for produce in corner stores: 2%
One million kids/teens in the US are on antidepressants.
Number of adults on antidepressants: 19 million.
Drop-out rates in LA schools: 61% latino, 53% black, 33% white, 23% Asian.
$1 in $40 spent in the USA is at Walmart.
400 acres per day of California is paved or built on.
One billion parking spaces in the USA; 4 spaces for every car. In LA there are 7 spaces for every car.
Dr. Jackson suggests reading:
American Mania - when more is not enough. -by Peter Whybrow
Eat, Drink and Be Healthy -by Walter Willet
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community -by Robert D. Putnam
No More Throw-away People -by Edgar Cahn
Senator Tom Torlakson is running/biking down the right path.
Brino founded World Peace
Clowns,
dedicated to charitable humor missions worldwide, helping children and the elderly.
Robert Garcia, J.D., Executive Director, Center for Law in the Public Interest
Pink Man of Berkeley... spreading joy around the world by unicycle.
Michael C. Ruppert drums out From The
Wilderness,
a newsletter he founded read by more than 20,000 subscribers in 40 countries
including 40 members of the US Congress, the intelligence committees of both houses, and professors
at 20 universities around the world.
Richard Heinberg wrote Powerdown: options and actions for a post-carbon world,
and regularly
publishes MuseLetter, a continuing critique
of corporate-capitalist industrial civilization and a re-visioning of humanity's prospects for the
next millennium.
Joeseph Kennedy is a co-founder and former director of Builders Without Borders,
an
organization dedicated to serving the underhoused with projects on the U.S./Mexico border and U.S.
Indian reservations.
He currently teaches in the EcoDwelling Concentration of New College of
California's Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community Program in Santa Rosa.
Jen Domeier is the Spidalady, with a resource-full web site: Spiderlinks.net
Jen said, "I do believe that every person has the power to make change and that what the method is
can only determined by the passions of that person.
I have spent many years as an activist,
then a grassroots organizer. Then I spilled down into the pool what my real passion is, which is
healing.
I do soul retrievals, rituals, weddings and other shamanic healing for people when I
come across someone that has the need."
"I also make jewelry that is infused with energies from the earth. From my own experience, I know how powerful a personal connection with a piece of jewelry can be."
Rudi Bega hosts Community
Activism.org
and founded We Save
Trees to protect ancient forest ecosystems through non-violent direct action and educate the
public about the effects of corporate industrial logging.
Bob Linden produces GoVeganRadio.com
Bob "asks all listeners to take THE ONLY ACTION that can truly save the Earth, her environment,
people, and animals, and create world peace - LIVING VEGAN, and not eating, wearing, and exploiting
animals for experimentation and entertainment. Meat and dairy are the root of all evil causing most
extensive environmental devastation including pollution, global warming, deforestation, erosion,
desertification and the squandering of resources including land, water, and oil, along with causing
world hunger and the deadliest diseases to plague humanity, and animal suffering for countless
billions that is beyond belief! Anyone can be a true action hero, just by going vegan! The life you
save may be your own - or your child's. What do we want? Animal liberation! When do we want it?
Now! Listen to GO VEGAN to find out how you can do it, how you can help save the most oppressed
beings on Earth, and how delicious it is! "
Matt Sluder is a health freedom organizer
Brooke Gardberg is Urban PILATES,
combining physical strength of the West with mindful movement of the East.
"By strengthening and stretching core abdominal and back muscles you will improve posture, balance and coordination, and increase flexibility, range of motion and resistance to injury and fatigue. By directing your mind toward the body through fluid movement and focused breath, you will bring a higher level of concentration and centering to your daily life."
Teresa Kurtak works for California Certified
Organic Farmers
How wonderful it is that nobody need
wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world
-Anne Frank
Amazing Innovators
Nate Byerley invented a bicycle powered
blender.
His Berkeley-based business, the juice peddler, creates gourmet bike blended snacks at: festivals,
schools, summer camps, concerts, corporate events and peace rallies.
Paul Freedman, a.k.a. Fossil Fool,
helps passionate cyclists
share the love in their communities, with accessories and music that deliver a fresh, stylish
message about bicycling. The Down Low Glow, a neon ground effects system he designed especially for
bicycles, is dubbed "the only safety product bikers can't wait to use." His bike raps, performed on
his 300-watt 'Soul Cycle' have been broadcast on MTV and the BBC. He also organizes the San
Francisco Cruiser Ride, a summertime group bicycle night ride that is more social and less
confrontational than Critical Mass.
Bruce Brennan is The Hippy Gourmet!
Chef extraordinaire, Bruce trained under some of the industryÕs finest French chefs. At 16 years
old Bruce was cooking for executives at IBMÕs Long Island Management Training Center. Bruce went on
to cook at several restaurants both in New York and Los Angeles, and invited to cater on Hollywood
sets and backstage events.
Bruce and his sister then renovated an old Victorian in the heart of San FranciscoÕs Haight-Ashbury, creating a successful bed and breakfast. This truly was the inspiration behind The Hippy Gourmet show, with BruceÕs knowledge of world recipes, natural ingredients and his warm hospitality!
ÒDude! Food IS creativity, because who can dream on an empty stomach!Ó
Matthew Levesque is Project Manager of Building REsources,
San Francisco's only source for reusable and recycled
building materials.
Asha Deliverance is Mother of Pacific
Domes.
She the mother of 7 children. As a midwife for 20 years, she delivered 200 babies or
more and trained 20 -30 midwives. She was one of the founders of the University of California,
Santa Cruz's organic farm project and part of it for 4 years. She is the founder and CEO of Pacific
Domes since 1980. In addition she organizes music fests and speakers. She studied spiritual healing
for 20 years and is extremely interested in physics.
Mother
Cultural teaches that a savior is what we need--some giant St. Arnold Schwarzenegger who is a sort
of combination of Jesus, Jefferson, Dali Lama, Pope, Gandhi, Gorbachev, Napoleon, Hitler, and
Stalin all roled into one. The other six billion of us, according to Mother Culture, are helpless
to do anything. We must wait quietly until St. Aronld arrives.
Daniel Quinn teaches that no single person is going to save the world. Rather (if it's saved at
all), it will be saved by millions (and ultimately billions) of us living in a new way. A thousand
living in a new way won't cause the dominant world order to topple.. But a thousand will inspire a
hundred thousand, who will inspire a million, who will inspire a billion--and then that world order
will begin to look a little shaky! I say again that, because we don't expect to overthrow
governments, abolish world capitalism, make civilization vanish, turn everyone in the world into
walking buddhas, or cure all social and economic ills, we don't have to wait for anything. If ten
people walk beyond civilization and build a new sort of life for themselves, then those ten are
already living in the new paradigm, from the first day. They don't need the support of an
organization. They don't need to belong to a party or a movement. They don't need new laws to be
passed. They don't need permits. They don't need a constitution. They don't need tax exempt status.
For those ten, the revolution will have succeeded. -Beyond Civilization, by Daniel Quinn,
published in 1999
Catalysts
Activista - the social-profit search engine.
In My Village - a self-forming, self-replicating, decentralized network, which serves the individual, and grows as the individual grows.
Spiral Muse - Our mission is to connect and inspire women as community.
With the Current - developing the ability to go beyond our own petty wants and desires and connecting with the grandeur of all of life.
The Orion Grassroots Network - the fastest-growing network of environmental and community organizations in North America.
Fellowship for Intentional Community
The Community Solution - How small communities offer the best solution to "Peak Oil," the end of fossil fuels.
Foundation for Global Community - a nonprofit educational organization, dedicated to reconnecting people, the planet, and prosperity.
Commmunity Activism.org - Dedicated To Networking Different Community Based Activist Groups For A Common Goal - A Better World For All Earth's Inhabitants.
Earth Share - a nationwide network of non-profit environmental and conservation organizations
ASSOCIATION OF WORLD CITIZENS - Working together to build a world community
Melanie St.James - Empowerment Works: a catalyst for community-based solutions
Superstar Nation - a radically inclusive organization that exists to facilitate and host interaction between existing communities.
Planetwork - illuminates the critical role that the conscious use of information technologies and the Internet can, and indeed must, play in creating a truly democratic, ecologically sane and socially just future.
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. - Marshall McLuhan
Gatherings
Bioneers - visionary and practical solutions for restoring the Earth
Burning Man - Black Rock City, NV
Solfest at the Solar Living Institute in Hopland, CA.
I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world. - Socrates (5th Century B.C.)
Community Spaces
New Schools - Better Neighborhoods
The Federation of Egalititarian Communities - a network of communal groups spread across North America
The Ilan Lael Foundation - to integrate art into the life of our communities and individuals through the building of parks and public spaces
The Casbah Teahouse - an international, eco-friendly, eclectic, organic, vegetarian restaurant, cafe, tea house, deli and bakery.
Arcosanti - an Urban Laboratory
Common Ground Garden Program - help low-income and limited-resource residents to grow and eat more nutritious vegetables and fruits.
Abundant Sugar - community space in East LA
Damanhur - A New Renaissance
Living Paradise - Restaurant and Living Center opening Winter Solstice 2004 in Seattle, Washington
Horse Cow Arts - educational arts center dedicated to positive cultural growth in Sacramento CA.
Sacred Earth project - Daniel Pettegrew's vision in Ivins, Utah
Agraria - an innovative Low-energy Use, Small, Sustainable Community.
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I
can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass
this way again... If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the
world. - Emmet Fox
-Mahatma Gandhi
Homeless Spaces
Alameda Point Collaborative - a supportive housing program serving 500 formerly homeless families and individuals.
Dignity Village - A self-governing urban village of formerly homeless people in Portland, Oregon
Home Away From Homelessness - nurtures and supports the needs of homeless kids and families in San Francisco.
Larkin Street Youth Services - Helping kids get off the street for good.
"$80,000 a year to send one youth to jail, or the same to send two kids to Yale!"
The cruel wild beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He stands in front of it. Kids coming out of gangs, I think they would need two hours of cloud watching a day. There are now more than 450,000 drug offenders behind bars, a total nearly equal to the
entire us prison population of 1980. Approximately half of California prisoners are there for drug
charges. The US spends 13 billion a year on domestic anti-drug enforcement alone - 800 times more
than 1981.
200,000 youth go to jail each year. Suicide in youth prison is 8 times higher than adult prison.
75% of people released from prison return in 5 years. A person in prison will cost tax payers a
million dollars over a life time. Money will be spent to send kids to prison instead of educating
them. - Juvies, a Chance film documentary
Half the people in federal prison are there for drug offences. -- history channel.
We will never become drug-free, only less free.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time
when we fail to protest. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
-Van
Jones at Bionners, speaking about Books not Bars
- Axel
Munthe
- Moriah Day
- Elie Wiesel
- Martin Luther King
Justice... Just us!
The beat within - A weekly publication of writing and art from the inside
Prision Creative Arts Project - to enhance creative opportunities for inmates and to bring them the benefits and skills that come with each art.
Northern California Service League - Our mission is to reduce crime by helping offenders and ex-offenders become responsible and productive citizens.
Books not Bars - waging a statewide campaign to close the notorious youth prisons of the California Youth Authority (CYA) and replace them with programs and rehabilitation centers that work.
Amnesty International - Act now for human rights
Naturewatch - CAMPAIGNING AGAINST ANIMAL CRUELTY
PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
ALL FOR ANIMALS - dedicated to raising awareness about cruelty-free living and the importance of compassion to ALL animals.
Earth friendly Construction
Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsibility
Plant SF - to promote permeable landscaping equally as sustainable urban infrastructural practice and as a beautification effort.
Robert Bolman - Environmentaly Responsive construction and consultation
Interstice Architects - Urban design and landscape architecture
Urban Ore - to end the age of waste
James Hubbell - sculpts unique living environments from nearby materials, providing beautiful shelters for humans to dwell in harmony with nature.
We know
deep in our hearts what is the Great Work. It is a moral cry to declare that we want to live
differently, that we want to express our love and our prosperity in terms of the quality of our
relationships, not in the amount we acquire and consume. -The Great Remembering, by Peter
Forbes
Organizations
Participate America Foundation - committed to strengthening the fabric of American democracy by encouraging American's to become active in their civic responsibilities
Centre for Research on Globalization
Tree People - to inspire the people of LA to take personal responsibility for the urban forest.
We Save Trees - Protecting ancient forest ecosystems through nonvillent direct action and educating the public about the effects of corporate industrial logging.
Riseup.net - activist group directory
Moms Rising - Working together to build a family-friendly America
Cyclecide Heavy Pedal Bike Rodeo
Heartbeat Ensemble - plays that tell universal stories of everyday people who take action to better their world
Indigenous Environmental Network
Northwest Tekno - The Northwest Electronic Music Community
Thimmakka's - resources for environmental education
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Global Footprint Network - advancing the Science of Sustainability
Foundation for Global Community - a nonprofit educational organization, dedicated to reconnecting people, the planet, and prosperity
Native Planet - to: Document & Preserve Cultures / Empower Indigenous People & Minorities
Youth Organizations
YES - Youth for Environmental Sanity
Challenge Day - provides youth and their communities with experiential workshops and programs that demonstrate the possibility of love and connection through the celebration of diversity, truth and full expression.
Narrows Crossing Next Generation Team -- the leading effort of Narrows Crossing is the coordination of a national campaign and premier event, the National Youth Forum for a Sustainable Future (NYFSF.)
SustainUS - a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of young people advancing sustainable development and youth empowerment in the United States.
Youth For Understanding - a worldwide movement of committed individuals and organizations working together to prepare young people for their responsibilities and challenges in a changing, interdependent global community.
UrbanMentor - promoting the mentoring movement.
Every step of modern food production is fossil fuel and petrochemical powered: In the US, the average piece of food is transported almost 1,500 miles before it gets to your plate. In Canada, the average piece of food is transported 5,000 miles from where it is produced to where it is consumed. - Life After the Oil Crash
Food
Village Harvest - We organize and coordinate backyard fruit harvesting, and provide education on fruit tree care, harvesting, and food preservation.
The FOOD PROJECT / BLAST - a global network of youth and adults working together to build sustainable food systems.
Nutiva - nourishing people and planet
Raw Stock - Health empowerment festivals of eco-regeneration, musical ecstasy & raw food delight!
Organic Volunteers - Educational exchanges in sustainability
Organic Entrepreneurs - an online hub for organic activists, farmers, teachers and entrepreneurs.
Many of the wars in this past century were about oil, but those of the next century will be over water. - Ismail Seragelgin, World Bank, 1995
97% of the earth's water is ocean water, unusable to man. Less than 1% of the world's water is available for drinking and other purposes, including agriculture and industry. This supply comes from rivers, dams and ground-water sources.
Water
Blue Planet Village - to create a healthier planet, beginning with people drinking the most powerful water.
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Sprawl
kills! Communities designed around automobiles promotes obesity.
-Dr. Richard Jackson,
California's Health Director
A car emits 10,000 lbs (three times its weight!) in carbon dioxide each year.
Transportation
Dont crush.com - the campaign to save electric cars
CalCars - The California Cars Initiative PRIUS+ conversions
San Francisco Electric Vehicle Association
511 - Your Bay Area travel guide
BioFuel Oasis - We sell high quality commercial biodiesel
Nova Fuels - Sustainable Fuel Systems
San Francisco Electric Vehicle Association
Terra Pass - members finance projects that reduce industrial carbon dioxide emissions.
Energy
Energy Star - a government-backed program helping businesses and individuals protect the environment through superior energy efficiency.
The US Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Dry Dipstick - a peak oil metadirectory
Sun Power - Geothermal Energy
Energy Action - youth united for clean engery
United Nations Environment Programme - Sustainable Consumption
Networking Tools
TakingITGlobal - Project Profiles are designed to provide members and organizations with tools and features to highlight their initiatives, objectives, challenges and progress within a unique online space.
Time Dollar - To create an economy that rewards caring, decency, and a passion for justice.
TIME TRADERS - You earn Time Credits every time you give a service to someone in the network.
Time Bucks - Volunteer and get Time Bucks.
Hour Exchange - Spending time.
Adopt-an-Activist - turning emotional support into financial solidarity
Coop America - Practical steps for using your consumer and investor power for social change scrapaction.org/
Scrap Action saving scrap from being waste in Portland, oregon.
Freecycle - get and give free stuff
Swap-o-rama-rama - clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops
The CryptoRights Foundation - securing human rights worldwide
Volunteer match - Get out. Do Good.
The Envirolink Network - The online environmental community
Grassroots.org - a hub of resourses
The Ultimate Camp Resource - free online resource for camp songs, camp activities, camp games, camp staff tips & tricks
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The responsibility of becoming a human being is great, but it also natural. It is prayer in motion.
It is your evolution and free will in action. It is the flow of life in all things. So, love the
Earth and make new life, for children are always a new beginning. Most of you have yet to
rediscover a world you've "already discovered". 
There is a great need for the men of your world to become intuitive and
focused on the development of the soul. Men must cultivate unconditional love on all levels. The
men of your world are too aggressive and full of self-imposed loneliness. Please remember that all
energy moves in a circle, so everything returns: the love, anger and despair. Please, we ask you to
also acknowledge the fact that the love you withhold is the pain you carry. So, let love warm your
voice. Let love be the wonder to children's ears. Let imagination create a world of unconditional
responsibility. It will also change the order of the old world. Let your emotions give motion to
the "hero" that struggles within all of you for the freedom to act, to be, to witness and to
apologize.
- Moranae to Alex Collier 2/24/95
We are each other's teachers.
-
Beth Altshuler
Guides/ Teachers/ Healers
Cory Richardson - Innerspace Travel Agent and Dragonfly Therapist
Astara - Feng Shui with Astara
Brian O'Connell - Innovative Touch
Sarah West - angelic messenger, powerful healer, mystic, teacher and author.
Jennifer Evonne - EXOTERICA... and other important stuff
Buckminster Fuller - the lengend lives on
Ocean Robbins - Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!)
Ananda Ji - Sera Soma, where sound and vibration are fused to create the ultimate sonic massage for stress reduction and relaxation therapy.
Christa Laririt - transforming personal experience into timeless mythology
Find what you really care about and live a life that shows it.
- Kate Wolf
Adventurers
Jean-Philippe Soule - photographer and native cultures expert
Michael Mitchell - Body and Soul Adventures
Barb Odanaka - International Society of Skateboarding Moms
Mark Mcmahon - Mission Playground clothing
Julia Butterfly Hill - founded the Circle of Life, that activates people through education, inspiration and connection to live in a way that honors the diversity and interdependence of all life.
Carlos de la Fuente - Kayaking for Peace (Santa Barbara, CA to Costa Rica)
Jeff - on bike
Michael Landes - the hook-up for Backdoor jobs
Shaman Randal - Randal's Travel Journals
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your
force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead
church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or
against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have difficulty
to detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper
life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man
must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect, I anticipate
your argument. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine
actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will
justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future. If I can be firm enough to-day to do right, and
scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now. Be it how it will, do right
now. Always scorn appearances, and you always may. The force of character is cumulative. All the
foregone days of virtue work their health into this. What makes the majesty of the heroes of the
senate and the field, which so fills the imagination? The consciousness of a train of great days
and victories behind. They shed an united light on the advancing actor. He is attended as by a
visible escort of angels. That is it which throws thunder into Chatham's voice, and dignity into
Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no
ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love
it and pay it homage, because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent,
self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.
- from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance.
Fire Gods and
Goddesses
Inferno Inc - league of fiery heros
Star Dust - fire dancer, music video star, model & hairstylist
Our deepest fear is not that we are
inadequate; our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our
darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing
enlightened about shrinking so that others won't feel insecure around you. As we let our light
shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. And when we are liberated from our
own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -N. Mandela
We are the music
makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.
~ Willie Wonka
Music Makers & Party People
Extra Action Marching Band The Be Good Tanyas - Groovers
Alcyone - Live electronic music act
David Rovics - Revolutionary music
Nicki Jack - Original Music for TV & film
Prophei - producer, sound engineer and dj
Chris "Gypsy" Lee - one man, one guitar
Mystic Family Circus - a nomadic magic healing arts circus that travels the globe
California Institute of Abnormal Arts
Designers / Techies
Roseann Dreasher - digital designer
Robert Lamarche - computer graphics and ceramic sculpture
Taylor Hanson - Web Consulting and Post Dot Com Specialist
Miquael Gaio - looking to establish a professional team of eco-tech designers and programmers.
It is not in your genes... it is in your dreams! What are you dreaming about?
Visual
Art
Alex Grey - painting spiritual dimensions
Tyler Blank - Photography exploring the beauty of Nature and Humanity
Francene Hart - visionary artist experiencing the interconnectedness between all things
Andreas Amador - Trippin' strings
Sean White - Photographer & film maker
Alba Elena Wejebe - Photographer
Michael Brown - painting soul flight
Sean Morris - film maker
Mariano A. Diaz - conceptual illustrator
Franklin Londin - special effects
Paul Holman - media artist and environmental designer for special events, film, music video, and live performance
Paulynn Cue - graphic design
Metal, Glass and
Jewels
Janis Lozano - Unique & Custom Handcrafted Jewelry
Linda and Charles Perkins - wire and broken glass made beautiful
No matter how empty the world seemed, no matter how degraded and used up the world appeared to us, we knew that anything was still possible, and given the right circumstances, a new world was just as likely as an old one. We should never simply write ourselves off, and see ourselves as the victims of various forces. It is always our decision who we are. -Waking Life.
Outlets
Common Dreams - Breaking News and Views for the progressive community
AuditionSpotlight - For Performers Of ALL Types Of Talent!
current TV - Al Gore's TV network for and by youth
Electronic Frontier Foundation - Blogging is what it is all about
For Those Who Want To Know - a concise, reliable introduction to vital information of which few are aware.
Channel G - Empowering Charitable Projects With Mass Media Exposure
Project Censored - the news that didn't make the news
Argus Fest -- Featuring the best films on human rights, globalization, social justice, environmental and media reform issues.
Outpost Magazine - The traveller's Journal
Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
Insurgent Desire - The Online Green Anarchy Archive
The Progressive Media Project - Diversifying America's Opinion Pages
The Aware Show - KPFK radio in Santa Barbara and LA
Democracy Now - Amy Goodman rocks!
Global Music Project - downloadable music... proceeds go toward global causes
Enlightenment.com - building a living community through transformation
Event Management Services - Successful media campaigns result from effective communications.
It is quite natural, in pursuing enlightenment or just in trying to be happier, to look to your
everyday experiences for signs of results. Indeed, your daily life is nothing else but an
expression of your spiritual condition. Your life will change as you become more loving, but not in
ways you can exactly predict. What happens is not important as how you react to what happens.
You can tune your vibrations to Christ Consciousness or Buddha consciousness and experience
supernal compassion. You can tune yourself to black magic and live in a world of weird shapes and
violent forces. You can tune to Mickey Mouse or Mr. Natural in the comic book. You can become one
with the Divine Mother and dwell in incredible sensuous luxury.
-The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment, by Thaddeus Golas
Action Hero
Training Camps
Burning Man - Black Rock City, NV
Living Routes - Ecovillage Education
The Ruckus Society - Oakland, CA
Punta Mona - Center for sustainable living and education, Costa Rica
Falls Brook Centre - New Brunswick, Canada
Cushing Nature Retreat - Ladysmith, Qc, Canada
Linnaea Farm - Cortes Island, BC, Canada
Regenesis - a sacred space for those who seek renewal and deeper self awareness.
Prescott college - Arizona
Lost Valley Educational Center
Hollyhock - retreat centre on Cortes Island, BC, Canada
Dragonfly Ranch - Hawaii
Raw Love - Living Your Life as Art
New Warrior Training Adventure
Katimavik - Canada
Village Free School - Portland, Oregon
Modern industrial civilization has
developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial
civilization has been individual material gain. Excess is legitimate, even praise-worthy on the
grounds that the private vices yield public benefits in the classic formulation. It's long been
understood, very well, that a society that is based on this principal will destroy itself in time.
It will only persist with whatever injustice and suffering it entails as long as it is possible to
pretend that the destructive forces that humans create are limited-that the world is an infinite
resource and the world is an infinite garbage can. At this stage of history, either one of two
things is possible. Either the general population will take control of it's own destiny and will
concern itself with community interests guided by values of solitary and sympathy and concern for
others or alternatively there will be no destiny for anyone to control. As long as some specialized
class is in a position of authority it is going to set policy in the special interests that it
serves. But the conditions of survival, let alone justice, require rational social planning in the
interests of the communities as a whole, and by now that means the global communities. The
question is rather should privileged elite dominate mass communication and use this power as they
tell us they must, mainly to impose necessary illusions, to manipulate and to deceive the stupid
majority, and remove them from the public arena. The question in brief is weather democracy and
freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided. In this possibly terminal phase of
human existence democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured, they may well be
essential to survival.
-Manufacturing Consent, by Noam Chomsky
Revolutionary Reading
We Are Everywhere - the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism
FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
THIRD WORLD TRAVELER - an alternative view to the corporate media about the state of democracy in America
Inspirational Speakers
Patrick Combs - A Good Thinker
Deanna Latson - Health Educator
Justin Boudreau - Just Within Sight Motivator
Bruce Elkin - Life Coach
Alex Ariza - "New Consciousness" author and speaker
Lori Ayers - HIV/AIDS Speaker
All you are unable to give, possesses you. - Andre Gide
The act of giving with its apparent loss, tends to throw us upon spirit and makes us depend upon God for supply. - HT Hamblin
Wealth only achieves meaning when it is shared. It is energy like any other; if it is dammed up and horded, it stagnates and becomes useless. We are all wealthier when we share.
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