http://www.nonviolence.org/
Nonviolence.Org is your source for up-to-minute news and commentary on peace and nonviolence.
We give you the organizations and individuals working to make real change in the world. Check out the latest essays and links on Nonviolence Web Upfront. Read the latest essays forwards by our readers in NV Commentary. Springboard to the contempoary peace movement through our NV Links and NV Issuepages.

http://www.foei.org/
Friends of the Earth International is a federation of autonomous environmental organizations from all over the world. Our members, in 66 countries, campaign on the most urgent environmental and social issues of our day, while simultaneously catalyzing a shift toward sustainable societies.
friends of the earth international
secretariat po box 19199, 1000 gd amsterdam, the netherlands
tel: 31 20 622 1369. fax: 31 20 639 2181. e-mail: foei@foei.org

http://www.gaia.org/
An Ecovillage is a community of people who strive to live sustainably
The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) links and supports sustainable settlements.
Search our database of ecovillages around the world.
Live in an ecovillage for a day, a month or more and learn about sustainability hands-on.
Consult our resource database for sustainability-related publications, videos, weblinks
The Global Ecovillage is a global confederation of people and communities that meet and share their ideas, exchange technologies, develop cultural and educational exchanges, directories, and newsletters and are dedicated to restoring the land and living "sustainable plus" lives by putting more back into the environment than we take out.
Network members include large networks like Sarvodaya (11,000 sustainable villages in Sri Lanka), EcoYoff and Colufifa (350 villages in Senegal), the Ladakh project on the Tibetian plateau, ecotowns like Auroville in South India and Nimbin in Australia, small rural ecovillages like Gaia, Argentina and Huehuecoyotl, Mexico, urban rejuvenation projects like Los Angeles EcoVillage and Christiania in Copenhagen, permaculture design sites such as Crystal Waters, Australia, Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Barus, Brazil, and educational centres such as Findhorn in Scotland, Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales, Earthlands in Massachusetts, and many more.

http://envirolink.netforchange.com/
Network for Change is a collaboration between the EnviroLink Network, the Animal Concerns Community, the Sustainable Business Network and GreenMarketplace.com, who are working together to develop a comprehensive resource for individuals, organizations and businesses working for social and environmental change.

http://www.gandhiinstitute.org/
The Mission of the Gandhi Institute is to promote and apply the principles of nonviolence locally, nationally, and globally, to prevent violence and resolve personal and public conflicts through research, education, and programming.
The Institute, founded by Arun Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi's grandson) and his wife Sunanda, was established to promote and teach the philosophy and practice of nonviolence to help reduce the violence that consumes our hearts, our homes, and our societies.
We hope the contents of our website will be both informational and inspirational to all who wish to learn more about M.K. Gandhi and Nonviolence. At the Gandhi Institute we continue to build upon Mahatma Gandhi's teachings through our many programs, seminars, talks, and events. For an overview of the contents of this website at a glance, please see our site index.

http://thekingcenter.com/tkc.html
Established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King, The King Center is the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of America's greatest nonviolent movement for justice, equality and peace.

More than 650,000 visitors from all over the world are drawn annually to the King Center to pay homage to Dr. King, view unique exhibits illustrating his life and teachings and visit the King Center's Library, Archives, his final resting place, his birth home, gift shop and other facilities. Located in Atlanta's Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, The King Center utilizes diverse communications media, including books, audio and video cassettes, film, television, CDs and web pages, to reach out far beyond its physical boundaries to educate people all over the world about Dr. King's life, work and his philosophy and methods of nonviolent conflict-reconciliation and social change.

In these web pages, you will find invaluable resources to become informed about Dr. King and the ongoing efforts to fulfill his great dream of the Beloved Community for America and the world. With your support, The King Center will make a major contribution to preparing coming generations of Dr. King's followers to carry forward his unfinished work into the 21st century.

http://www.clubofrome.org/
The Club of Rome is a global think tank and centre of innovation and initiative.
As a non-profit, non govermental organisation (NGO), it brings together scientists, economists, businessmen, international high civil servants, heads of state and former heads of state from all five continents who are convinced that the future of humankind is not determined once and for all and that each human being can contribute to the improvement of our societies.
The Club of Rome's mission is to act as a global catalyst of change that is free of any political, ideological or business interest.
The Club of Rome contributes to the solution of what it calls the world problematique, the complex set of the most crucial problems - political, social, economic, technological, environmental, psychological and cultural - facing humanity.
It does so taking a global, long term and interdisciplinary perspective aware of the increasing interdependence of nations and the globalisation of problems that pose predicaments beyond the capacity of individual countries.

http://www.worldwatch.org/
Worldwatch is a non profit public policy research organization dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems.

http://www.greenpeace.org/
Greenpeace is a non-profit organisation, with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific.
To maintain its independence, Greenpeace does not accept donations from governments or corporations but relies on contributions from individual supporters and foundation grants.
As a global organisation, Greenpeace focuses on the the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment.
We campaign to:
--Stop climate change
--Protect ancient forests
--Save the oceans
--Stop whaling
--Say no to genetic engineering
--Stop the nuclear threat
--Eliminate toxic chemicals
--Encourage sustainable trade
Greenpeace has been campaigning against environmental degradation since 1971 when a small boat of volunteers and journalists sailed into Amchitka, an area north of Alaska where the US Government was conducting underground nuclear tests. This tradition of 'bearing witness' in a non-violent manner continues today, and our ships are an important part of all our campaign work.
We exist to expose environmental criminals, and to challenge government and corporations when they fail to live up to their mandate to safeguard our environment and our future.
In pursuing our mission, we have no permanent allies or enemies. We promote open, informed debate about society's environmental choices. We use research, lobbying, and quiet diplomacy to pursue our goals, as well as high-profile, non-violent conflict to raise the level and quality of public debate.
And we believe that the struggle to preserve the future of our planet is not about us. It's about you. Greenpeace speaks for 2.8 million supporters worldwide, and encourages many millions more than that to take action every day.
We take the name of our flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, from a North American Cree Indian legend. It described a time when humanity's greed has made the Earth sick. At that time, a tribe of people known as the Warriors of the Rainbow would rise up to defend her.
As one of the longest banners we've ever made summed things up, "When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can't eat money."

http://www.citizen.org/trade/wto/
World Trade Organization (WTO)
"We are writing the constitution of a single global economy"
-- former WTO Director, General Renato Ruggiero
Established in 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a powerful new global commerce agency, which transformed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) into an enforceable global commerce code. The WTO is one of the main mechanisms of corporate globalization.
Under the WTO's system of corporate-managed trade, economic efficiency, reflected in short-run corporate profits, dominates other values. Decisions affecting the economy are to be confined to the private sector, while social and environmental costs are borne by the public.
http://www.citizen.org/about/
Want To Know About Public Citizen?
1600 20th St. NW
Washington, DC. 20009
(202) 588-1000
Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded by Ralph Nader in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts. We fight for openness and democratic accountability in government, for the right of consumers to seek redress in the courts; for clean, safe and sustainable energy sources; for social and economic justice in trade policies; for strong health, safety and environmental protections; and for safe, effective and affordable prescription drugs and health care.

http://www.gatswatch.org/
GATSwatch is a joint project of Corporate Europe Observatory and Transnational Institute. One of the main objectives of the GATSwatch project is research and analysis of the role and agenda of corporate lobbies with regards to the WTO GATS 2000 negotiations. Results will be presented in a series of briefing papers and fact sheets.
GATSwatch supports global networking against GATS through the GATSwatch web site as well as through the GATSwatch mailing list. Outreach is also achieved through workshops and by active participation in strategy meetings.
The GATSwatch website was launched in January 2001. It provides links to key organisations and institutions as well as to key documents on GATS and the GATS 2000 negotiations. It is unique in bringing together the growing body of NGO and academic critique on GATS as well as official government position papers and documents of the corporate GATS proponents.
I regularly update and expand the GATSwatch website. If you find this site useful, or if you have any comments regarding its content, please contact me by e-mail.
Erik Wesselius
GATSwatch

http://www.ru.org/
New Renaissance is a quarterly magazine serving as a forum for progressive discussion on the future of society. Since 1990, it has been bringing a holistic perspective to the economic, environmental, political, social, spiritual and cultural concerns of today. As its name implies, New Renaissance, hopes to inspire a creative burst of energy which will help humanity surmount its present global crisis. New Renaissance thus highlights the writings of people with a positive approach towards contemporary problems. In an age of increasing economic disparity New Renaissance promotes ideas and programmes which will lead to a decentralised, cooperative and democratic economic system, and advocates a new humanism in which our concern is expanded to include all living beings.
http://www.ru.org/articles.html

http://www.interspecies.com/
Interspecies Inc. (IC)...
... merges aesthetics with ethology to help ground the human species' emotional, spiritual, and cultural ties with nature. We sponsor artists, musicians, and philosophers working to discover creative solutions to the ecological problems of our day. Interspecies Inc. is best known for a 25 year program of musical communication with free-swimming cetaceans. Certain dolphins and whales possess a brain that exceeds our own in size and complexity, and these same species utilize melody and rhythm to communicate among one another. At the very least, creating music with cetaceans provides a unique context for exploring animal behavior. Ultimately, we promote a model for communion between species.

http://www.nothingness.org/SI/
The Situationist International archives have been updated and reorganized to ameliorate their utility.Texts by and pertaining to the Situationist International have been entered into a database, and are available at the Text Library by clicking the link on the left. The library is fully searchable, and features more texts than ever before. Information on related articles are linked from each text, and biographical blurbs about the authors are just a click away. Situationist images and related graphics are available from the Images link, which currently offers a selection of graphics, and a picturebook of posters from May 1968 in Paris. Links to other Situationist and prositu websites are available through Links.
http://links.nothingness.org/section/si/French/
French Links