Simply Living's Community Links
Check here for links to family life, community-building, neighborhoods, intentional communities, and other ways to live harmoniously with others. Also find sites about the larger culture and the global community.
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Simply Living's Community LinksCheck here for links to family life, community-building, neighborhoods, intentional communities, and other ways to live harmoniously with others. Also find sites about the larger culture and the global community. |
An impressively deep and informative site, Bagelhole.org provides information about low-tech sustainability for individuals and communities. Food, water, housing, survival, sanitation, health, energy, transportation, and communication all are covered in great detail. A terrific site - don't miss it!
An unusual twist on Internet search engines, Care2 is similar to About.com or Yahoo, but promotes environmental issues and makes donations to environmental nonprofits. Take a look at the Community section for action alerts, events, and activist opportunties, plus the Green Lynx search engine of environmental web sites.
The Center for Purposeful Living is an innovative, all-volunteer, non-profit, organization in Winston-Salem, North Carolina focused on service education and training for individuals and groups from all over the world, and built on the conviction that there is no human problem that cannot be solved through voluntary service by intelligence and love.
Good resources and timely news briefs from the national organization dedicated to providing a strong, effective voice for the needs and rights of all children.
Commercial Alert is a non-profit organization that helps parents, children and communities defend themselves against rampant commercialism and exploitative advertising, including corporate marketing in schools. Find support and resources here.
Located in Yellow Springs, Community Service, Inc. has been a champion for small sustainable communities and urban neighborhoods since its inception in 1940. Learn about small local communities and how to help them remain vibrant and healthy. Also take a look at Community Service's program web site, The Community Solution.
A project of the Aspen Institute, the Community Strategies Group (formerly Rural Economic Policy Program) advocates for rural community and economic development through collaborative and educational work.
Community Supported Agriculture
A service of University of Massachusetts Extension, this site includes background information and resources on Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and a list of farms in the US and Canada which follow this innovative, sustainable practice of local agriculture.
Contentbank.org is dedicated to building Internet content that works for low-income and underserved communities.It is a project of the Children's Partnership, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization advocating for America's children and youth, particularly the underserved. The Contentbank web site brings together community-building initiatives, web content about jobs, housing, health care, and education, and other resources that build the capacity of the Internet to serve low- and moderate-income people.
50 million innovative people of all ages and walks of life make up the broad subculture known as Cultural Creatives. If you question assumptions, seek social and personal change, and crave authenticity, you may find yourself here.
The United Nations declared October 12, 1999 the Day of Six Billion. Learn about the impact of having 5,999,999,999 neighbors, with considerations of human health, the environment, fellow species, and the future of all.
A colorful, kid-oriented site from PBS to help young people become media-savvy. The site offers fun, innovative ways for kids to evaluate advertising messages and become smart consumers.
Ecovillage Network of the Americas
Through research, education and networking, ENA encourages, promotes and facilitates communities working in harmony with nature. Learn about healthy human development and the ecovillage model!
Empowerment Institute (Global Action Plan for the Earth)
Creator of the Household EcoTeam Program, Global Action Plan is a pioneer in neighborhood organizing toward resource-efficient lifestyles. The Empowerment Institute also sponsors a Livable Neighborhoods Program, Water Stewardship Program, and Sustainable Lifestyle Campaign.
Active and flourishing since 1971, this community on Summertown, Tennessee exemplifies sustainable, intentional village life. Its projects include The Farm School, The Book Publishing Company, organic agriculature, a midwifery program (over 2,000 births!) and much more.
A Green Map identifies and describes the environmentally important (both for good and ill) locations in a specific city or geographic area. Each map is created locally, but this gateway site provides access to over 200 locally-maintained Green Map projects around the world. This is a great resource for community sustainability efforts.
Welcome to the non-polluting Imagination Factory for Kids At Art, with dozens of projects to recycle trash into art! Great for children and adults.
Intentional Communities Web Site
An intentional community may be a commune, or a monastery - any group of people freely choosing to live together in one or several buildings and to work together in ways that support shared core values. If you are interested in co-housing, ecovillages, or other varieties of intentional community, don't miss this site full of historical background, proactical information and a directory of Web-accessible commumities.
Started as a club by 6 children in Nashville, Kids F.A.C.E. has grown to over 300,000 members in 23 countries. On this site, children can choose missions to recycle, build habitat, or plant trees, and learn about other ways that kids are helping to protect and restore the environment.
MAP, a Columbus-based organization, serves as a free furniture bank for individuals and families in need. It was incorporated in March 1998 as a centralized clearinghouse for new, high quality, and used furniture, appliances and household goods. MAP is always in need of usable furniture and furnishings, and will be happy to arrange a pick-up at your home.
The online version of Mothering, the magazine of natural family living, includes lively discussion boards, editorials, a calendar of events, and alerts and actions you can take. Subscribers will especially appreciate the index to volumes 17-94 of the magazine.
National Cooperative Business Association
The National Cooperative Business Association helps people and groups use the cooperative model to improve their lives and their communities. Directories and tools for starting and maintaining any kind of co-op can be found here.
A very supportive site for parents and parents-to-be, the Natural Child Project works toward a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding and compassion. Good resources and advice on health, education and the nurturing of children.
North American Students of Cooperation
NASCO supports campus-based housing and retail cooperatives in the United States and Canada. Use their web site to find campus co-ops, start your own cooperative housing or retail operation, research funding, and learn about the cooperative movement.
Orion Magazine offers the Orion Grassroots Network of environmental and community organizations in North America. The network numbers over 740 nonprofit organizations, including Simply Living, in the fields of conservation, restoration, education, democracy, justice, health, and economics.
Partnership for Children’s Health and the Environment
The Partnership for Children’s Health and the Environment is a growing international coalition with almost eighty members representing government, academic, medical and community-based organizations committed to building a strong, sustainable and collaborative movement to protect current and future generations from harmful environmental exposures.
Rural Action works for the development of a sustainable culture and economy in Appalachian Ohio. Their good work focuses on regional stewardship and economic and community development.
Raven Rocks is a community near Beallsville, Ohio, which was founded to save a beautiful area of ravines, streams, rock formations and woodlands from strip-mining and devastation. The Raven Rocks community has embarked on numerous wonderful projects including sustainable Christmas tree farming, alternative energy demonstrations, and environmental design and construction. There seems no limit to the energy and integrity of this community.
Kick the TV habit with TV Turnoff Network (formerly TV-Free America), sponsors of TV-Turnoff Week, and spend more time living! TVFA encourages Americans to voluntarily reduce the amount of television they watch in order to promote richer, healthier, and more connected lives, families, and communities.
Pay a virtual visit to this self-supporting intentional community in rural Virginia. The 145 residents of Twin Oaks craft hammocks and furniture for income and work at life-enhancing pursuits that reflect their values of equality, ecology and nonviolence.
University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives
Working together for stronger communities, the UWCC offers a wide range of resources, news and information about all kinds of co-ops. Not to be missed!
Waldorf Education Columbus works to build the community and each individual, replace competition with association, and develop a higher imagination for what it means to be a Human Being in the fullest sense. Its school, the Briar Rose Children’s Center provides children (ages 3-6) with a firm foundation on which to build future learning.
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