The Environmental Performance Measurement Project aims to shift environmental decision-making to firmer analytic foundations using environmental indicators and statistics. Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI). The ESI is a composite index tracking a diverse set of socioeconomic, environmental, and institutional indicators that characterize and influence environmental sustainability at the national scale.
The Environmental Performance Measurement Project aims to shift environmental decision-making to firmer analytic foundations using environmental indicators and statistics. Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI). The ESI is a composite index tracking a diverse set of socioeconomic, environmental, and institutional indicators that characterize and influence environmental sustainability at the national scale.
WiserEarth helps the global movement of people and organizations working toward social justice, indigenous rights, and environmental stewardship connect, collaborate, share knowledge, and build alliances.
All tools and content are free and include: The WiserEarth Directory: free and editable international directory of NGOs WiserEarth Groups: Online community forums WiserEarth Community: online community of over 20,000 members WiserEarth Taxonomy: detailed classification of issue areas related to social justice and environmental restoration.
The Access Foundation is an international, educational, non-profit organization dedicated to the betterment of mankind through the understanding and use of complementary monetary innovations.
This project is primarily the fruition of Josh Freeman's long standing dream to create a website for the entire town of North Fork, California. The main features of the website will be:
* A webpage or link to an existing site for every business and group in North Fork. * A daily calander of events. As far in advance as groups have dates we will post them (to help you avoid conflicts when your group has to choose a date). * A free classified ad section. * Promoting the arts locally, in all forms. * A center for local news... is it your lama in front of Gas'n'Stuff??
If you are looking for an intentional community, ecovillage, cohousing, commune, co-op, or other cooperative living arrangement, browse through our community lists (alphabetic, geographic, or by type of community), look at our maps, or search our database. You can filter your search on many key characteristics of each community such as location, size, etc.
Free academic online forum on community and complementary currencies.
Peer-reviewed journal articles on the research on community currencies. Seek to bridge the gaps in knowledge, practice and communication which exist between community currency 'activists' and 'academics'.
Provides technical assistance for communities wanting form a Time Bank, i.e. for every hour you spend doing something for someone in your community, you earn one Time Dollar. Time Banking is a social change movement in 22 countries and six continents.
Worldchanging is a 501(c)3 media organization that comprises a global network of independent journalists, designers and thinkers covering the world's most intelligent solutions to today's problems. Interest news articles. DWG
The Schumacher Society is a foundation that promotes the building of strong local economies that link people, land, and community. They have developed model programs, including local currencies, community land trusts, and micro-lending; host lectures and other educational events; publish papers; and maintain a library to engage scholars and inspire citizen-activists. Good directory of sustainable community projects. DWG
