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The aims of the El Arbol Foundation are environmental protection, gender and employment in Nicaragua.
Interesting links
These links will give you added information about inspiring initiatives from the Internet.
Subjects: globalisation and economy ; environmental issues ; global action and alternative news media.
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Globalisation and Economy INFACT: "campaigning for corporate accountability"; publishes annual "Hall of Shame" for corporations involved in influence peddling, environmental destruction, hazards to health, etc.
Multinational Monitor.
Multinational Monitor's on-line database. World Bank, IMF, environmental and labor issues, searchable back issues, and links to other sources on corporate and international issues.Achieving Eco-nomic Security On Spaceship Earth is a nuts and bolts, how to, common sense book about how to use free-market-forces to revitalize our national and world economies in ways that are completely ecologically sustainable.
Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the Decade
Development Center for Appropriate Technology: "DCAT fosters creative solutions for meeting current basic human needs in ways that preserve positive options for future generations."
Growth May Be Good for the Poor-- But are IMF and World Bank Policies Good for Growth? A Closer Look at the World Bank's Most Recent Defense of Its Policies.
Poverty in Africa -- World Bank
Bilderberg. The High Priests of Globalization.
The Transnational Resource & Action Center counters corporate-led globalization through education and activism. We work to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization -- a diverse movement for human rights, labor rights and environmental justice.
International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
World Economic Forum. Incorporated since 1971 as a foundation, the World Economic Forum is independent, impartial and not-for-profit, tied to no political, partisan or national interests.
Corporate Watch.
The creation & development of English commercial corporations and the abolition of democratic control over their behaviour.Global Village or Global Pillage?
Playing with the Numbers: How So-called Experts Mislead Us about the Economy by Richard Stimson.
How the world works and how we can change it by Richard Moore.
Environmental Issues Earth First Journal. Radical Environmental Journal.
Capitol Report - Environmental News Links.
Friends of the Earth opposes genetically engineered food, and has sued to force cost-benefit analysis of the US Forest Service's logging program.
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.
Planet Drum developed the concept of a bioregion: a distinct area with coherent and interconnected plant and animal communities, and natural systems, often defined by a watershed.
GreenBiz.com. The Resource Center on Business, the Environment and the Bottom line.
Natural Step. The Natural Step (TNS) is a non-profit environmental education organization working to build an ecologically and economically sustainable society.
Planet Project. Your Voice Your world.
Environmental Research Foundation
Centre for Science and Environment
La Via Maya. Ecotravel experience.
The Equilibrium Fund: helps indigenous and marginalized women find ways to produce food, earn income and raise healthy families without destroying their environment.
Global Action Physicians for Social Responsibility (US affil. of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) opposes hazardous transport and use of plutonium for nuclear energy plants around the world.
World Federalist Association works for more effective world government.
Mobilization for Global Justice
Debt Relief Now, an initiative to compel governments and international financial institutions to cancel and/or repudiate illegitimate debt in poverty stricken nations.
The Anti-Capitalist Convergence
Protest.net. A Calendar of Protest, Meetings and Conferences.
The Century Foundation (formerly Twentieth Century Fund) "New Ideas for a New Century".
Earth Charter: "We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace. Towards this end, it is imperative that we, the peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to future generations."
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - United Nations.
United Nations Systemwide Earthwatch
Natural Capitalism: Creating the New Industrial Revolution. "Natural Capitalism describes a future in which business and environmental interests increasingly overlap, and in which businesses can better satisfy their customers' needs, increase profits, and help solve environmental problems all at the same time."
Agenda 21. United Nations.
Toda Institute. For Global Peace and Policy Research. Dialogue of Civilizations for world Citizenship.
Stratfor.com. The Internet Source for Global Intelligence.
Covert Action. Keeps you up-to-date on covert activities, cover-ups, military affairs, and current trouble spots. Contributors include many ex-intelligence officers who saw the error of their ways.
A Community of People Concerned with Social Change (Znet)
The Foundation for Enterprise Development (Foundation) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and executives use employee ownership and equity compensation as a fair and effective means of motivating the workforce and improving corporate performance.
World Scientists' Warning To Humanity
Co-Intelligence Institute. Co-intelligence is living well WITH each other and life, creatively using diversity and uniqueness, consciously evolving together in partnership with nature, transforming culture. Use it for organizational development, better family relations, community renewal, and creating a more just, democratic and sustainable society.
Change Makers Net. The Site for Social Entrepreneurship Worldwide.
Alternative News Independent media reports, especially covering protest meetings against WTO, IMF and World Bank abuses, such as at Seattle and at the Republican and Democratic conventions.
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Project Censored at Sonoma State University in California compiles annual lists of the most neglected and the most overcovered news stories in the mainstream media.
Project Censored. Weekly release of important news undercovered by mainstream press.
World Daily Net. A Free Press For A Free People.
American Partisan. Hard Hitting Commentary and Informative News.
Independent News and Information
The MoJo Wire. Daily News and Resources for the Sceptical Citizen.
The aims of the El Arbol Foundation are environmental protection, gender and employment in Nicaragua.
