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"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."................................

                                    ..Andre Gide

I've spent a good part of my life trying to remain uninformed. I've never wanted to know about anything I can not affect. Recently I have been looking for ways to change what needs changing. The only problem is the more things I find to do, the more responsibility I have to do them. I don't think people are apathetic by nature. We just need to find ways to make a difference. Here are some avenues....

Yes Paul, I'll look at these sometime, but right now I just want to know how I can CHANGE THE WORLD!

kpfa radio 94.1fm berkeley Here is a kind of liberal ground zero in Northern California. Unfortunately, KPFA is threatened right now because the powers that be are trying to create a national mainstream radio station instead of the liberal community radio that KPFA has become in it's 49 years of service. What can we do? Go to...

amnesty-usa.org If you want to know what's going on in the world from a human rights standpoint without spin...

Bioneers (CHI) conducts education and research in the areas of biodiversity, ecological farming practices, and environmental restoration. The collective heritage of the cultural and genetic diversity of the earth is the living treasure of the world--CHI seeks to cultivate both a material and spiritual basis for its ongoing conservation. Educating the public and the media to such solutions is essential for promoting positive change.

Conservation Int'l Conservation International (CI) is a field-based, non-profit organization that protects the Earth's biologically richest areas and helps the people who live there improve their quality of life. CI uses science, economics, policy, and community involvement to promote biodiversity conservation in tropical rain forests and other endangered ecosystems worldwide. Through CI's environmentally sensitive and economically sound approach, resource protection is good business for everyone.

Earth First!

Earth Island Institute Earth Island Institute (EII) was funded in 1982 by veteran environmentalist David R. Brower to foster the efforts of creative individuals on critical ecological issues. Unique within the environmental community, EII incubates diverse new initiative and provides a support system for on-going projects.

Ecology Communications

  The Ecological Society of America

  Environmental Defense Fund

  The Environmental Protection Information Center in Garberville, Ca. has been working to protect biodiversity and ancient forests on the North Coast of California for over a decade. Currently their main focus is protecting Headwaters Forest, the largest unprotected ancient redwood forest in the world.

Greenpeace is an independent, campaigning organization which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force the solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future. Greenpeace's goal is to ensure the ability of the earth to nurture life in all its diversity. Therefore Greenpeace seeks to: Protect biodiversity in all its forms | Prevent pollution and abuse of the earth's ocean, land, air and fresh water | End all nuclear threats | Promote peace, global disarmament and non-violence

Green Earth Foundation: a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the healing and harmonizing of the relationships between humanity and the Earth.

Haven: Edge-ucation, Right Livelihood, Deep Ecology

Institute for Deep Ecology: The Institute for Deep Ecology's mission is to promote ecological values and actions. At their core is a recognition of and reverence for the interdependence and inherent value of all life. To nourish these values they provide opportunities for inquiry and practice through workshops, publications, and support networks, seeking to encourage and empower people to do good work in their home communities.

  Jane Goodall Institute: For wildlife research, educate and conservation. Home page of Jane Goodall, the remarkable woman who turned the scientific community upside down at the age of 28.

  Luna Media (Julia "Butterfly" Hill's home page)

  Nature Conservancy

New Society Publishers   New Society Publishers' mission is to publish books that contribute in fundamental ways to building an ecologically sustainable and just society, and to do so with the least possible impact on the environment, in a manner that models this vision. We are dedicated to social change through nonviolent action.

  Rainforest Action Network A non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to the protection of the Earth's remaining rainforests and the indigenous people who depend on them.

  Schumacher College   An international centre for ecological studies which welcomes course participants from all over the world, from a wide range of ages and backgrounds. The College runs short residential courses on ecological issues, led by teachers and writers with an international reputation. It also runs a one-year MSc in Holistic Science.

  Sierra Club

  Society for Conservation Biology

  Sustainable Communities Network   The Sustainable Communities Network (http://www.sustainable.org) is an online service linking people to resources they need to become more sustainable. CONCERN, Inc. co-directs the site with the Community Sustainability Resource Institute. Six sections--creating community, smart growth, growing a sustainable economy, protecting natural resources, governing sustainably, and living sustainably--provide a vast amount of information with links to both general and specific resources. One section, what works', contains case studies illustrating the dimensions of sustainability in each state and the District of Columbia.

  Zero Circles Project  From the megalithic stone rings of Britain to the medicine wheels of Native America, humans have built circles to celebrate their connection to Earth. Circles are zeroes as well, and today it is the zero we must employ to help protect the ecosystems which sustain us: zero pollution, zero waste, zero population growth, Zero Cut on Public Lands. The purpose of this project is to artfully engage Americans with the crisis in their National Forests by building and documenting 'zerocircles' that dramatize the need to end commercial logging on OUR public lands. Media attention and increased citizen participation can pressure our government in a new and powerful way. We must end the senseless exploitation of OUR National Forests and restore their status as protected reserves--the original intent of Congress. Recent polls show that two-thirds of Americans are in favor of ending commercial logging on public lands and their is a bill that will soon be considered in Congress (H.R. 2789) that can achieve this. With ZeroCircles as our symbol, we can achieve solidarity to protect our forests and have Zero-Cut in OUR National Forests by the millennium. Please participate in this effort. Together we can make Zero Cut on public lands a reality.

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