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Here are some links to other web sites about:
Cooperatives
Co-op America
Co-op America offers practical steps for using your consumer and investor power
for social change. Includes Green Pages Online – companies that have made a
commitment to sustainable business practices and Boycott Action News. www.coopamerica.org.
International Cooperative Alliance
The ICA is an international non-governmental organisation which unites,
represents and serves co-operatives worldwide. Their web site contains information on the International Co-operative
Alliance, its aims and activities and information on the co-operative movement
in different economic sectors: agriculture, banking, credit, consumer, energy,
fisheries, housing, insurance, workers, tourism and health care, and from all
continents as well as links to other sites and issues of interest to
co-operators. www.coop.org/ica.
Midwest Natural Food Co-ops
Click here to visit the web site of Midwest Natural Food Co-ops and find information on midwest stores, recipes and more. www.mwnaturalfoods.coop
National Cooperative Business Association
This site presents information about cooperatives to help people understand how they can use the cooperative model to improve their lives and their communities. Includes a Co-op Primer & Buyer's Guide. www.ncba.coop/index.cfm.
Nonprofit Enterprise at Work (NEW)
Nonprofit organization located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that provides a variety
of services to the nonprofit sector and the larger community. www.new.org.
The University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives (UWCC)
The UWCC's mission is to study, promote and research cooperative action as a
means of meeting the economic and social needs of people. It conducts extension/outreach and
research directed at all aspects of cooperative business principles, organizing cooperatives, cooperative financing,
cooperative structure, cooperative management, leadership and governance, and related topics for both agricultural and consumer
cooperatives. Site includes many resources about cooperatives, headlines & news, lists of types of cooperatives
such as food. www.wisc.edu/uwcc/index.html.
Organics & Food Safety
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Information on Health & Nutrition, Biotechnology, Food Safety, Food
Additives, the Anti-biotics Resistence Project. www.cspinet.org.
Food Safety
Gateway to Government Food Safety Information includes news and safety
alerts, consumer advice, lists of Federal & State government agencies.
www.foodsafety.gov.
Michigan Organic Food and Farm Alliance (MOFFA)
MOFFA mission is to promote the development of food
systems that rely on organic methods of food production and that
revitalize and sustain communities. A list of all the certified organic growers in the
state of Michigan is available on the site. www.moffa.org.
Organic Consumers Association
Campaigning for Food Safety, Organic Agriculture, Fair Trade& Sustainability. Topics include genetically
Engineered Food, Organic Food, Irradiation, Mad Cow &Mad Deer, Fair Trade, Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH),
Globalization, Cloning, Food Safety. Sections on news, events, campaigns (protests and alerts). OrganicConsumers.org.
Organic Growers of Michigan (OGM)
OGM is a USDA accredited non-profit organization of
more than 200 organic farmers, gardeners and friends who are interested in
organic practices and organically raised food. OGM has a certification system that assures
the public that our crops and livestock are grown according to strict
organic principles. www.MichiganOrganic.org.
Organic Trade Association
The Organic Trade Association (OTA)
works to promote organic products in the marketplace and
to protect the integrity of organic standards. It is a membership based business
association of growers, shippers, processors, certifiers, farmer
associations, brokers, manufacturers, consultants, distributors and retailers representing
the organic industry in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Includes The Organic Pages,
online directory of hundreds of industry listings -- by Company Name, Brand Name, Business Type,
Supply Chain and General Product & Service and The O'Mama Report,
a newsletter for organic information & inspiration
(recipes). www.ota.com.
Fair Trade
Equal Exchange
Equal Exchange was founded in 1986 to
create a new approach to trade, one that includes informed consumers, honest
and fair trade relationships and cooperative principles. As a worker-owned
co-op, we have accomplished this by offering consumers fairly traded gourmet
coffee direct from small-scale farmer co-ops in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
A resource for the internationally recognized fair trade standards.
www.equalexchange.com.
Fair Trade Federation
The Fair Trade Federation (FTF) is an association of fair trade wholesalers,
retailers, and producers whose members are committed to providing fair wages
and good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged artisans and
farmers worldwide. FTF directly links low-income producers with consumer markets and educates
consumers about the importance of purchasing fairly traded products which
support living wages and safe and healthy conditions for workers in the
developing world. FTF also acts as a clearinghouse for information on fair trade and provides
resources and networking opportunities for its members. By adhering to social
criteria and environmental principles, Fair Trade Organizations (FTOs) foster a
more equitable and sustainable system of production and trade that benefits
people and their communities. www.fairtradefederation.org.
Oxfam
Oxfam America is an international
development organization dedicated to creating lasting solutions to hunger,
poverty and social injustice around the world. Oxfam provides financial, technical and networking
assistance to grassroots groups to support their self-help community
development initiatives. Oxfam also advocates among national and international
policy-makers, suggesting humane public policies that address structural
impediments to ending poverty and hunger. In addition, Oxfam educates Americans
about the causes and solutions to world hunger and poverty. A major component
of our educational and policy work is campaigning throughout the U.S. to get
Americans actively behind the important policy issues that we believe will make
significant differences to poor communities. www.oxfamamerica.org.
TransFair USA
TransFair USA's mission is to build a more equitable and
sustainable model of international trade that benefits producers, consumers,
industry and the earth. We achieve our mission by certifying and promoting Fair
Trade products. Includes sections on the benefits of fair
trade, how it works, products, resources for farmers. www.transfairusa.org.
Social Issues
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning
movement that works to promote internationally recognized human rights.
Amnesty International's vision is of a world in which every person
enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights
standards. Our mission is to undertake research and action focused on
preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental
integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from
discrimination, within the context of our work to promote all human
rights. http://www.amnesty.org.
Arborweb's City Guide
See their listing of Politics
and Social Action Groups (www.arborweb.com/cg/t0390.html) in the Ann Arbor area .
The City Guide provides comprehensive information about the Ann Arbor area and ArborWeb maintains a calendar of local events.
www.arborweb.com.
CorpWatch
CorpWatch is about holding corporations accountable and
countering corporate-led globalization through education,
network-building and activism. We work to foster democratic control over
corporations by building grassroots globalization a diverse movement for human
rights and dignity, labor rights and environmental justice. Includes news, campaigns,
issues, research and how to take action. www.corpwatch.org.
The Huron Valley Community Network
The Huron Valley Community Network (HVCN) is Washtenaw County's on-line
information resource. It's mission is to develop a system that will allow
individuals and community organizations, such as schools, governments,
libraries, businesses, religious groups, and clubs, to share information and
ideas with the community for little or no cost. www.hvcn.org.
Michigan eLibrary
Michigan eLibrary's (MeL) Social Issues & Social Services
web page provides indexed lists of internet sites concerning human & civil
rights; non-profit organizations, philanthropy, and volunteerism; Peace,
Nonviolence, Conflict Resolution; Hunger, Literacy, etc. Also see MeL's index on
Michigan and the Great Lakes (via Science & Environment then under Environment)
and their Health Information Resources page for indexes on Alternative medicine,
Bioethics, etc. mel.org/melindex.html.
Vegetarian
Vegetarian Information Network and Exchange (VINE)
Ann Arbor area group which promotes vegetarian lifestyle.
Sponsors speakers, presentations, restaurant outings, and summer potluck
picnics. Meets Sept.–Apr., first Sun., Friends Meetinghouse, 1420 Hill.
Nonmembers welcome. Annual dues $15. E-mail: veginfo@tc3net.com.
(Sorry, no web site.)
Vegetarian Organizations
Vegetarian Societies and Vegetarian Organizations
for vegetarian food and a vegetarian diet: 254 listings alphabetically by US state followed by
Canadian Provinces. www.veggiedate.org/vegetarian.htm.
Vegetarian Restaurants
Online Guide to Vegetarian Restaurants Around
the World. www.vegdining.com.
VegWeb (formerly Veggies Unite!)
An internet vegetarian community: lots of recipes, topics of
concern for vegetarians, discussion boards. Submissions for original articles, recipes, poems and other
veg-related content are welcomed. www.vegweb.com.
Environment
Envirolink Network
A non-profit organization which provides
access to thousands of online environmental resources, from air quality to
wildlife, includes legislative policy and contacts and an Animal concerns/rights
project. www.envirolink.org.
Environmental Organization Web Directory
Environmental Organization web directory: Earth's Biggest
Environment Search Engine. Amazing Environmental Organization WebDirectory! is the result of a group
of hard working people dedicated to helping others keep in touch and informed on
the World Wide Web. With thousands of sites, it is the largest exclusively
environmental organization directory on the Web and includes sites from over 100
countries. Our goal is simple - to make it easy for people from around the world
to find your web page. www.webdirectory.com.
GreenPeople
The World's largest, searchable database of eco-friendly
products: organic food, pet supplies, baby products, beauty products, home
improvement, hemp, organic cotton, health products, recycled products.
Search lists for health food stores & natural food coops, community
supported agriculture (CSA) & organic farming, local farmers' markets,
vegetarian restaurants around the world, etc. www.greenpeople.org.
Alternative Medicine
Alternative Medicine Homepage
The Alternative Medicine Homepage
is a jumpstation for sources of information on unconventional,
unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative,
integrative therapies. Includes list of internet resources for Alternative
Medicine Resources. point or reference to
complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) information
page. Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh. www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html.
The Ann Arbor Center for Holistic Health and Traditional Wisdom
Have you attended one of PFC's Herbal Wisdom classes? See this
web site for more offerings from Linda Diane Feldt – classes and programs on
Herbology, Polarity Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy, nutrition, music, movement
and communication. http://www.holisticwisdom.org.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Center (CAMRC)
Based in Ann Arbor, University of Michigan. CAMRC conducts
research on several complementary and alternative medicine modalities and their
effects on cardiovascular disease, obesity, stress reduction, etc. using
modalities of reiki, herbal medicine, meditation, yoga, qigong. The Center also
provides education on CAM to university health care professionals, students,
faculty and the local community. www.med.umich.edu/camrc.
Herbalgram by the American Botanical Council
The American Botanical Council is the leading nonprofit
education and research organization disseminating science-based information
promoting the safe and effective use of medicinal plants and phytomedicines.
It's vision is an educated public that makes responsible choices about
herbal medicine as an accepted part of healthcare. www.herbalgram.org.
Simple Living
Adbusters
Dedicated to reinventing the outdated paradigms of our consumer
culture and building a brave new understanding of living, this lively web site
promotes campaigns such as Buy Nothing Day, Turn-off Your TV Week , Two-Minute
Media Revolution. This site and the magazine are run by a global network of
artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs
who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age.
"Our language is culture jamming: the new activism." adbusters.org/home.
The New Road Map Foundation
Nonprofit 501(c)(3) volunteer-driven
educational and charitable organization that provides people with practical
tools and innovative approaches for managing and mastering basic life
challenges. Our educational work has traditionally focused on three realms of
life – personal finances, health and human relations. www.newroadmap.org.
The Simple Living Network
A small home-based business that provides resources and community services that
may help you live a more simple lifestyle – provides
Tools, Examples & Contacts For Conscious, Simple, Healthy & Restorative
Living. www.simpleliving.net.
Social Investment Forum
A national nonprofit membership
organization promoting the concept, practice and growth of socially
responsible investing. www.socialinvest.org.
Links to Other Businesses
Food for Thought
Providing organic and wild harvested gourmet products.
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