Art: & The art of working as an artist.... |
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Bamboo Style is a book by By Artist & Architect Gale Beth Goldberg including custom works and spiritually empowering bagua bamboo art created by Beverly Messenger |
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| http://www.bio-beetle.com/ | Bio-Beetle |
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EARTH STICKERS ; Earthseals Stickers of the NASA photo of the earth (Taken with the view of Africa & Antartica in December 1972) P.O. Box 8000 Berkeley, CA 94707 Environmentally safe ink. Choice of sizes. |
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Eco Friendly Printing - Environmentally Friendly Printing Company. Our Goal: To Provide Print Buyers With an Environmentally Friendly Option at a Competitive Price Without Sacrificing Print Quality or Service. Offer beautifully printed postcards and lots more.... |
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Web Design, photoshop artist, & pastel artist. Enjoy the whole site, but this link is to a deeply moving gallery of his unique artwork...It is beyond words...The magical quality and depth of Soul he has captured in his art again and again. |
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Photographs that capture the Soul of the beauty of our nature from his extensive world travels. Treat yourself to a visit. |
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Beautiful, creative, elegant, fun photography and card creations that enchant and satisfy every style and vision. For weddings, holidays, & personal expression perfected. 805-563-2212 |
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Women's Economic Ventures; Changing the World One Woman at a Time. Men welcome as well! Great organization that taught me transformative, Small Business, Self Employment Business Planning. THANK YOU WEV of Santa Barbara! |
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Beauty & Health: |
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Because some companies dedicate themselves to the true depth of beauty that includes honoring the earth. Aveda is exceptional in their commitment to healthy, wonderful products and their practices. |
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Books for finding peace of mind, as offered by Hyla Cass as books I could share to benefit people who are interested in a more flowing, joyful, healthy life . |
Depression-Free, Naturally By Joan Mathews Larson, Ph.D. Seven Weeks To Sobriety By Joan Mathews Larson, Ph.D. End Your Addiction Now By Charles Grant, M.D., Ph.D. & Greg Lewis, Ph. D. |
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Hyla Cass, MD is a psychiatrist and integrative health doctor with a unique and effective practice. Brilliant perspective and wisdom on integrative health, including ways to be healthy and happy, vital at any age, and aware of how to find your own personal balance and tools for a fulfilling life. |
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Marilu Henner is an incredible example of someone taking responsibility for her own health and well being, and sharing the abundance that comes from such a beautiful choice. She is a radiant example through her work, her art, and her presence. |
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Dr. Michael Roth, DC Chiropractic Kinesiologist, Integrative Health... Gave me true health & clarity with his support and expertise at integrating nutritional. physical, emotional & structural elements of my Being...and has been hugely helpful to me. |
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Claire's delicious Magic Pink Salt available here thanks to STARESSENCE! (888) 277-4955 or (805) 965-1619 Flower & Gemstone Essences too! Very special. Rose Salt from Maras, Peru; from ancient ocean inside the earth, comes out at 10,000 ft. altitude. Hand harvested by beautiful people, and has been since time of Christ. Completely natural, unrefined, & extremely pure, with a very high vibration. 8 oz. $22. at time of website update. |
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Eco-Design Building & Architects: |
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California Institute of Earth Art & Architecture Architectural Research site. Home of Nader Khalili's Super Adobe, Earth bag structures. Open House every first Saturday of the month. |
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Chris Brown, NSW. Kindred Builders in Australia; more dome building choices here. At DomeShells we have developed an innovative building system for curved shell structures. Our concrete dome technology is suitable for many applications including architect-designed dome homes, modular homes such as cabins and cottages, as well as general purpose commercial buildings for shops, restaurants and offices. |
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Gareth Cole, Australian Eco-Architect & EcoDesign Teacher. Works in US, and other countries as well |
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Great book, “A House of Straw.” Amazing story of Carolyn Roberts, a 40-something mother of 2 teenage boys, building her own straw bale home. |
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Earthways; Brian Woodward & Sally Middleton, Wollombi, NSW, Australia Mud Brick & other EcoDesign technologies |
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Eco-development with exceptional technologies & beauty in Nimbin, NSW, Australia-- |
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A city can change the world! One Australian Architects vision and work to bring positive change to our cities. |
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Source of quality woods from environmentally sound sources that support sustainable forestry. They offer many kinds of flooring; exotic, bamboo, domestic hardwoods, the rustic appeal of reclaimed wood and prefinished engineered flooring. Also, decking and exterior woods. 415-258-8454 |
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Green building and finishing materials for healthier homes and work environments. 805-966-1309 |
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Children: |
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KLARITY EARTH ART WORKSHOPS at ARTS ALIVE! Dance & Creativity Center 1 N. Calle Cesar Chavez, Suite 100 Santa Barbara, CA 93103 (805) 963-2ART |
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http://www.checnet.org/index.asp Children's Health Environmental Coalition |
Our ultimate goal is to eliminate children's exposure to man-made toxic substances by ensuring everyone’s right-to-know what is in their air, food, water and commercial products. We are working to achieve this goal through increased scientific research, government policies which are more protective of children, and educating and mobilizing individuals — like you — around the country |
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Fashion: |
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Wildlife Works is a great example... They protect their 80,000 acre Rukinga elephant sanctuary in Africa by providing jobs for the rural people. The organic cotton clothing they make is excellent quality, comes in beautiful colors, great designs, and, my favorite, it's "cozy!" Consumer Powered Conservation at its best! |
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Food: |
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Your guide to food additives & cosmetic ingredients. Please avail yourself of the simple & serious reality that we are being sold unhealthy ingredients in countless ways and we deserve to choose better. This book is small with a clear chart. |
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Find out here what genetic engineering is, and why it seriously matters that we all voice our choice to avoid GE foods. Know the truth about what you eat and choose healthy, real, whole foods. |
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Garden: |
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EcoDesign & EcoLiteracy; Evan Raymond & Morag Gamble of SEED International |
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Seedsavers in Australia, encouraging seedsaving around the world. |
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Healthy Home: |
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Environmentally friendly office and school supplies |
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Green Home; Healthy choices are abundant and green home has answers to all your questions and can help you find what you need to enjoy health and peace in your home. |
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Real Goods/Solar Living Center, Hopland, CA: Products for ecologically sustainable living. Green cleaning supplies, excellent catalog. |
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Kenaf, a crop used to make tree-free paper. Excellent company dedicated to Kenaf paper. Kenaf is a 4,000 year old NEW crop with roots in ancient Africa. |
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Magazines: |
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Organic Style Magazine |
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The Sun Magazine |
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HopeDance |
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Permaculture: |
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15-year-old, 640-acre permaculture community and teaching facility with 89 homes and excellent training in permaculture. Maleny, in Queensland, Australia. Great source of inspiration from life-enhancinng, award-winning designs. |
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The Dervaes family's transformation to living more sustainably; One Pasadena/ Los Angeles family's adventures and triumphant success. For inspiration and practical examples of their transition in an urban environment, check it out. |
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Pets: |
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Book & Video: Juliette of the Herbs The story of an herbalist, author, traveler and pioneer of holistic veterinary medicine. |
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Transportation: |
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Oceans & Wilderness: |
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A foundation and campaign set up to preserve old growth trees around the country. |
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Oceana campaigns to protect and restore the world’s oceans. Our teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates win specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life. Global in scope and dedicated to conservation, Oceana has campaigners based in North America (Washington, DC; Juneau, AK; Los Angeles, CA), Europe (Madrid, Spain; Brussels, Belgium) and South America (Santiago, Chile). More than 200,000 members and e-activists in over 150 countries have already joined Oceana. |
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Local & Global Community~Spiritual & Humanitarian: |
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A hub of practical solutions for restoring the Earth- and people. Visionary innovators. Pioneers for a world that is conducive to life. |
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Buckminster Fuller Institute; focused on educating the public about Design Science...and helping us see our world as a magnificent life-sustaining system requiring the cooperation of the entire crew--everyone on earth--in order to thrive. |
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California Association of Midwives 800-829-5791 |
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Citizen activists building a more community-oriented and ecologically sustainable ...an all-volunteer grassroots organization Thank you Mark Lakeman for your effective, visionary contributions. |
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The Center for Attitudinal Healing ~ Gerry Jampolsky A source of great inspiration and peaceful wisdom |
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Equality Now is an international human rights organization which is dedicated to action for the civil, political,economic, and social rights of woman and girls around the world. |
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The Findhorn Foundation is the educational and organisational cornerstone of the world-famous Findhorn Community, founded by Peter and Eileen Caddy and Dorothy Maclean in 1962. |
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Global Ecovillage Network site, with 1500+ pages on ecovillages and sustainability. |
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An environmental non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the use of solar and renewable energy in the U.S. to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels |
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Spiritual community, earth building opportunities Awesome, worldwide Intentional Communities Directory & video, "Visions of Utopia," available here. The Fellowship for Intentional Community nurtures connections and cooperation among communitarians and their friends. We provide publications, referrals, support services, and sharing opportunities for a wide range of intentional communities, cohousing groups, ecovillages, community networks, support organizations, and people seeking a home in community. |
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Lama Foundation: Spiritual community, earth building opportunities |
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The Natural Step provides a visionary blueprint for a sustainable world. Our upstream approach means we address problems at the source and turn them into opportunities for innovation. As an international advisory and research organization, we work with some of the largest resource users on the planet to create solutions, models and tools designed to accelerate global sustainability. Creating a sustainable world means creating new ways for people to live and thrive--while keeping the planet balanced and healthy. |
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THE NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL AND OCEANS FUTURES SOCIETY. Protecting the ocean from "LFA sonar testing" which will devastate and kill off 90% of our oceans ancient mammals. |
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ECO = Earth Communications Office. Their mission is to use the power of communication to improve the global environment. |
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http://www.resonanceproject.org/home.cfm . |
Discovering the rhythms of collective experience...the "magic" that transforms individuals and whole groups through access to greater sources of wisdom. When a specific fundamental frequency is created by any other object in the neighborhood of the original object, the original object responds to that frequency and that response is called resonance. |
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Rocky Mountain Institute (Amory Lovins): Fosters efficient, restorative use of resources, while working towards the goal of inspiring integrative solutions and creating true wealth for all people in a more secure, just, prosperous and life sustaining world. |
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An organization that is saving endangered wild places. A project of the Natural Resources Defense Council |
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SolFest is hosted by and benefits the Real Goods Solar Living Institute. |
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Activism |
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Woody Harrelson's site |
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Yoga Retreat & Yoga Teacher Training, Personal Retreat on 40 acres of sacred Chumash land in Santa Barbara, California...Dedicated to the total human being. |
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WOMENS INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM. The oldest and largest international women's peace organization in the world. |
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Willing Workers On Organic Farms=WWOOF |
Traveling throughout Australia & New Zealand as a WWOOFer is the best thing I've ever done for myself. Sharing and connecting with caring people who share my passion for Ecodesign & life on earth. Great way to be part of local culture and be of service while enjoying a whole new world of dear new friends & experiences & knowledge. There are WWOOFing opportunities all over the world. |
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THE OIL WE EAT...Following the foodchain back to Iraq. An article by Richard Manning |
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Why Societies Collapse. Jared Diamond at Princeton University Throughout human history, societies, civilisations have prospered and collapsed over time. The reasons, obviously, have lessons for the whole of our intricately interlinked planet today. At Princeton University in America, eminent professor Jared Diamond gave a speech about the collapse of ancient societies. |
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