Here are several articles and manuals you may want to read or download and circulate.

The Year 2000 Checklisk

By Elemer Magaziner. As the universal force of gravity pulls a river back to the total embrace of the sea, so does the ancient remembering of who we are irrevocably pulls humanity back to an unconditional consciousness of wholeness. This movement toward wholeness shows up as our growing concern for integration, for synthesis, for holism, and now for adapting to the Y2K experience. Andrew Weil, author of Spontaneous Healing, exhorts medical doctors and alternative practitioners to work together in an integrative medicine. Ken Wilbur, in The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad, proposes an integral theory of consciousness. Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics, along with many others, writes about our shift from looking at the world as a collection of disassociated parts to seeing it as an integrated whole. Countless others are now acknowledging Y2K as the consummate manifestation of unequivocal interdependence.

Community Based Research in the United States

By Loka Institute. This document, which is in PDF Format and requires Acrobat Reader to view, is an excellent overview of 12 different community based research projects in the United States -- projects which are giving people in communities a real sense of what is actually happening in their community.

Community Organizing Pamphlets from 3CE

The Coalition for Cooperative Community Economics (3CE) works "to promote a deep cultural transition which will give people in their communities more control over their own lives." 3CE intends to publish a series of pamphlets on "social innovations which empower people at the grassroots and promote local community self-reliance."

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Organizing Techniques and Tools   From our sister site at Y2KCommunity.org.  Please check out their links for information on how to organize and get things moving.

The Loka Institute Home Page The Loka Institute is a non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of science and technology. Loka seeks to make science and technology responsive to democratically decided social and environmental concerns. Loka does research and is interested primarily in the use of research.

TRANET TRANET is a bi-monthly newsletter which digests the ideas and actions which are now forming the base for a deep cultural transition from the Industrial Culture to a Gaial Culture. TRANET has been helping concerned Global citizens exchange ideas and techniques which empower people at the grassroots and promote local community self-reliance.

The Natural Step/US The Natural Step (TNS) is a non-profit environmental education organization working to build an ecologically and economically sustainable society. TNS offers a framework that is based on science. The Natural Step is a guide to thinking and acting in harmony with the earth's cyclical processes. It provides a pragmatic framework which can be used to guide social, environmental, and economic actions. The TNS framework helps individuals and organizations address key environmental issues from a systems. It gives people a common language and guiding principles to help change existing practices and decrease their impact on the environment.

A Guide to Simple Living The Simple Living Network is an on-line service containing thousands of pages of information about publications and tools for those wanting to learn how to live a more conscious, simple, healthy and earth-friendly lifestyle. Their focus is strictly upon presenting content and resources that may help you change your lifestyle.

Sustainability - A Choice to Consider Wherever problems arise, people notice. Some of the people who notice, study the problems and find solutions. This page seeks to link the collective wisdom of this spontaneous concern into a picture of sustainability. This understanding of sustainability should be the value by which public decisions are based.

Permaculture International Journal Home Page Permaculture is a practical concept applicable from the balcony to the farm, from the city to the wilderness. It enables people to establish productive environments providing for food, energy, shelter, material and non-material needs, as well as providing the social and economic infrastructures that support them. Permaculture means thinking carefully about our environment, our use of resources and how we supply our needs. It aims to create systems that will sustain not only the present, but future generations.

Center for Sustainable Communities Homepage This website is an introduction to the world of community sustainability. There are four main components to this site. This site includes extensive references on sustainability as well as case studies. It also offers ten exercises and policies to help implement sustainable thought in community planning. Finally contact information to groups doing sustainable work are offered.

A Guide to Simple Living The Simple Living Network is an on-line service containing thousands of pages of information about publications and tools for those wanting to learn how to live a more conscious, simple, healthy and earth-friendly lifestyle. Their focus is strictly upon presenting content and resources that may help you change your lifestyle.

Global Eco-village Network GEN supports the development of sustainable human settlements, facilitates the exchange of information amongst the settlements, and makes information available about eco-village concepts and demonstration sites. Eco-villages are attempts to create complete, working communities in which people can live sustainably, in harmony with each other and nature.

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