Sustainable Living & Simple Living Resources

Hemp Clothing, Hemp Bags, Organic Cotton: Grass Roots Natural Goods
We specialize in all-natural hemp clothing, bags, food, footwear, household and body care products. We also carry a variety of organic cotton apparel and household items.

Home Ecology
I volunteer in people's homes by holding discussions about home ecology principles including waste reduction, energy conservation, recycling, composting, natural gardening, water conservation, junk mail reduction, safe cleaning products, chemical safety, food quality and safety issues, and more. In an effort to make all of this information available to a wider audience and to provide a reference source on these topics for all to use , I have created this non-commercial web site.

ICRISAT- Rainwater harvesting for agriculture in water deficient area.
ICRISAT's goal is to harness the power of technology for development, food security, poverty alleviation and environmental protection, targeted at poor rural families in general, and women in particular. We call this Science with a Human Face: research not for its own sake, but targeted at specific goals and implemented through genuine partnerships. Our science is planned and targeted accordingly. Specific research workplans are described in the Medium-Term Plan, a rolling 3-year plan that we update annually to reflect changes in the research, policy and funding environments. This Vision and Strategy document provides a broad overview of our research agenda and strategy, and the developmental context in which research partnerships are planned and implemented. An NGO firm working in the field of sustainable ecological farming in Africa and India.

Institute of Noetic Sciences

Institute of Noetic Sciences has been at the forefront of research and education in consciousness and human potential. We honor open-minded approaches and strive to bring discernment to our work. We are not a spiritual sect, political-action group, or single cause institute. We are a nonprofit membership organization that both conducts and sponsors research into the workings and powers of the mind, including perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition.

The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide
This recycling guide provides a starting point for consumers in the USA and Canada searching the net for recycling information. The information is for regular folks with regular household quantities of materials to recycle. The goal is to help make recycling so easy and automatic that it blends into the flow of everyday life.

Kingston Cultural Creative Initiative
Kingston, Ontario is home to a multi-dimensional cultural landscape, which includes music, visual arts , literature, drama, history, architecture and heritage. From live theatre and living museums to international festivals and events, Kingston is a community that is alive and vibrant.

Kraus Fitch Architects Environmentally Inspired Design
Integrating architecture with community, environment and the quality of our lives, we offer a full range of services with an emphasis on ecologically sound and socially responsible design.

Natural Living for Women
Information and tips for natural living. Being informed makes choosing organic, natural skincare, fashion and everyday living so much easier. Plus learn how to make sure your purchases are made in ways that respect animals, people and the environment.

Navigating Our Future
Fostering the environmental, economic and social vitality of the San Juan Islands. Navigating Our Future's mission is to offer San Juan County citizens ways to envision, and take action to ensure, the future environmental, economic and social vitality of our islands.

Northwest Intentional Communities Association (NICA)
For the last five years we have published Community Resources, a small, 6-12 page newsletter containing information for, about and by intentional communities in the Northwest. The newsletter provides a means for any community in our network to send information to all the communities in the area. We include information from the gatherings, resources such as books, websites, etc. and also list communities with openings and people looking for communities. Our goal is to connect people interested in intentional communities across the Pacific Northwest.

NRDC: Cities & Green Living
NRDC works to make our cities healthier and more livable, to preserve open spaces, and to revitalize central cities. The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends. We work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life -- air, land and water -- and to defend endangered natural places. We seek to establish sustainability and good stewardship of the Earth as central ethical imperatives of human society. NRDC affirms the integral place of human beings in the environment. We strive to protect nature in ways that advance the long-term welfare of present and future generations.

Organic Consumers Association
We are a consumer advocate for labeling of genetically engineered food. We promote organic food and sustainable agriculture. Watchdog group to monitor biotech, irradiated food, mad cow disease, gmo and rBGH. We want pesticide reduction, permaculture, biodynamic and sustainable farming.

Partnership Way - Center for Partnership Studies
For our children and ourselves, the most important work of our time is building a sustainable future...Partnership is more than working together. Partnership is a way of life based on harmony with nature, nonviolence, and gender, racial, and economic equity. Exploring our history and creating a more peaceful future through understanding and transforming ourselves and our culture.

PETA.org
PETA 's animal rights campaigns include ending fur and leather use meat and dairy consumption fishing hunting trapping factory farming circuses bull fighting rodeos and animal experimentation.

Planet-Era Action Inc.
Planet-Era is a non-profit technology transfer institute dedicated to innovation and public education in sustainable development and self-sufficiency. We are actively engaged in research and experimental development of cost-effective energy efficiency for homes, businesses, and farms. Planet-Era develops affordable solutions, sustainable technologies, and alternative practices in construction, including use of unconventional materials and methods. Our motto is "Keep It Simple and Save (KISS)." We practice a never-ending quest for excellence in the design and use of appropriate technologies.

Professors World Peace Academy
The Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) is a tax-exempt non-profit educational organization founded to support the academic community's role in the pursuit of world peace. PWPA publishes books, publishes the International Journal on World Peace, organizes conferences, and is forming a world university network. It was founded in 1973 and presently has chapters in over 100 countries.

Project Angel Food: "Earn Your Wings"
Project Angel Food's mission is to provide wholesome meals and nutritional counseling to men, women and children disabled by HIV/AIDS. We have never turned away a person in need nor have we had a waiting list. Our commitment can be directly attributed to the generous support of caring people like you! Donations from individuals account for over 70% of Project Angel Food's operating revenue.

Rainharvesting Systems - water conservation, recycling and reuse
Rainharvesting Systems Ltd is the UK leader in rainwater harvesting systems. We have been supplying equipment since 1994 and we have more installed systems than any one else in the country. We are the sole UK distributor for WISY AG, the market leading manufacturer of rainwater harvesting filters. We have designed rainwater harvesting systems for all types of buildings from garden sheds and houses to office buildings, industrial units, schools, garden centres and even environmentally friendly toilet blocks. We supply all the components you require in order to build a reliable rainwater harvesting system and have the design experience to ensure you get the right capacity system for your needs.

Rainwater Harvesting - Solution to water crisis - Technology and Systems
CSE is a public interest research and advocacy organisation which promotes environmentally sound and equitable development strategies. A campaign for participatory, equitable and decentralised paradigm for water management with the objective of making water everybody’s business. "The Real Green Revolution is about rainwater harvesting. Let us catch water where it falls. Let it transform human lives. Let it change social existence. If this happens, the world will be transformed. The world will merely be an agglomeration of ecological-rainwater harvesting-democracies." Anil Agarwal -Founder-Director, CSE.

Real Diaper Association
Cloth Diapers are Real Diapers. The Real Diaper Association organizes local advocates and activists for cloth diapers through a member-supported non-profit resource center which plans campaigns, trains organizers, distributes educational information, and supports local Real Diaper Circles.

Real Goods - Products For An Ecologically Sustainable Future
Shopping for a healthy home & planet - energy efficiency, non-toxic & environmental products for sustainable living, organic apparel & educational solar gifts - since 1978.

Religious Tolerance - An Agency Promoting Religious Tolerance, Freedom, and Understanding
This is a large religious web site which promotes religious freedom, tolerance and diversity as positive cultural values. The site contains over 2,500 essays and menus. But it is very different from almost all other religious sites: We do not promote our own religious beliefs. We can't because we are a multi-faith group. We try to explain the full range of religious belief in North America, from Asatru to Christianity to Zoroastrianism. We report on controversial religious topics, from abortion access to equal rights and protections for homosexuals and bisexuals including same-sex marriage (our most popular topic). We try to explain all sides to each topic fairly and objectively. You will find much in this site that you will agree with, and much to disagree with. Enjoy!

Rocky Mountain Institute
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of natural, human and other capital to make the world more secure, just, prosperous, and life sustaining. RMI does this by inspiring business, civil society, and government to design integrative solutions that create true wealth. Our staff shows businesses, communities, individuals, and governments how to create more wealth and employment, protect and enhance natural and human capital, increase profit and competitive advantage, and enjoy many other benefits—largely by doing what they do far more efficiently. Our work is independent, nonadversarial, and transideological, with a strong emphasis on market-based solutions.

Serenbe Community - A 900 Acre Sustainable Living Community
Let's say you could create the perfect place to live. Blank slate. Anything you want. Maybe Serenbe Community is the place you want to call home. A 900 -acre sustainable living community found in Palmetto Georgia on the Chattahoochee Hill Country. Where the principles of sustainability touched everything from your home’s methods of construction to the organic produce on your table that was grown by one of your neighbors. The founders of Serenbe realize that their largely untouched 900 acres presented a short window of opportunity for creating a community in a new and better way. How? By protecting this land from the typical growth patterns of urban sprawl. By merging ecologically sound sustainability principles with the design philosophies of walking neighborhoods made up of both homes and shops. By building villages and hamlets for single people, families and empty nesters of a wide range of economic and cultural diversity. And by creating real community, where people are drawn together over gardening, over cooking, over books, over art, over ideas, and yes, even over back fences.

SkyJuice - Rainwater Harvesting
SkyJuice is a New England based company dedicated to helping you become less dependent on public or private well-water systems. SkyJuice New England offers systems ranging from one rain barrel to much larger cisterns suitable for homes, gardens, farms, or businesses. We also offer low-flow drip irrigation systems, which use approximately 50% less water than other conventional watering methods. With the scarcity of water becoming a major national and world issue, SkyJuice offers affordable products helping you become part of the global water solution instead of being part of the problem.

Small Is Profitable
Small Is Profitable describes 207 ways in which the size of "electrical resources"-devices that make, save, or store electricity-affects their economic value. It finds that properly considering the economic benefits of "distributed" (decentralized) electrical resources typically raises their value by a large factor, often approximately tenfold, by improving system planning, utility construction and operation, and service quality, and by avoiding societal costs. Small Is Profitable introduces engineering and financial practitioners, business managers and strategists, public policymakers, designers, and interested citizens to the new value opportunities presented by considering these economic benefits. It also provides a basic introduction to key concepts from such disciplines as electrical engineering, power system planning, and financial economics.

Smart Growth Network
This nonprofit organization that helps created national and local coalitions to promote economic, social, and environmental development in communities. This site contains primers on alternatives to sprawl and a smart growth bibliography and policy database.

Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) - Investing in Socially Responsible Mutual Funds
SocialFunds.com features over 10,000 pages of information on SRI mutual funds, community investments, corporate research, shareowner actions, and daily social investment news. Learn how to invest with your values and earn competitive returns by ordering a free guide today!