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Resources
The page is intended to provide you with information about other groups with similar intentions to ours and products that help with our mission.
MALLORCA LOCAL LINKS
GOB Mallorca - A group who are protecting the environment of Mallorca
www.mediambient.caib.es - Ministry of the Environment for the Balearic Government. The president of the Ministry is Magdelena Estrany Espada (http://www.caib.es/govern/organigrama/area.do?lang=ca&coduo=2)
cristina.gutierrez-cortines@europarl.europa.eu - European parliament member who serves on the following committees : Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Committee on Petitions, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, Temporary Committee on Climate Change
http://www.revistanamaste.com - Revista Namaste is a free magazine distributed in various places like healthshops etc.It's a magazine that wants to impulse care for the Soil,the Soul and The Society. They are based in Palma de Mallorca.
INTERNATIONAL LINKS
Environment/Ecology
www.wecansolveit.org - The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection -- a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. The goal of the Alliance is to build a movement that creates the political will to solve the climate crisis -- in part through repowering America with 100 percent of its electricity from clean energy sources within 10 years. Our economy, national security, and climate can’t afford to wait.
Toyota Prius - The car with great fuel efficiency and ultra low carbon emissions
www.thegrowingconnection.org - The Growing Connection links people and cultures in a revolutionary campaign that introduces low-cost water efficient and sustainable food growing innovations hand in hand with access to technology and information via existing and emerging technologies.
www.worldwatch.org - The Worldwatch Institute is an independent research organization known around the world for its accessible, fact-based analysis of critical global issues. Worldwatch research is the gold-standard for sustainability analysis for decision makers in government, civil society, business, and academia.
www.earthbox.com - The patented EarthBox was developed by commercial farmers and proven in the lab and on the farm. Our maintenance-free, award-winning, high-tech growing system controls soil conditions, eliminates guesswork and more than doubles the yield of a conventional garden-with less fertilizer, less water and virtually no effort.
www.avaaz.org - Avaaz.org is a new global web movement with a simple democratic mission: to close the gap between the world we have, and the world most people everywhere want. Across the world, most people want stronger protections for the environment, greater respect for human rights, and concerted efforts to end poverty, corruption and war. Yet globalization faces a huge democratic deficit as international decisions are shaped by political elites and unaccountable corporations -- not the views and values of the world’s people.
www.Slowfood.com - Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.
http://www.ceroco2.org - CeroCO2 es una iniciativa conjunta de la Fundación Ecología y Desarrollo y de la Fundación Natura, que pretende sensibilizar a la sociedad sobre la necesidad de iniciar una acción inmediata contra el calentamiento del planeta, para lo que ofrece herramientas para calcular, reducir, y compensar las emisiones de CO2.
http://www.transitiontowns.org - It all starts off when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: how can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of Peak Oil and Climate Change?
www.ross-jackson.com - Ross is a Ph.D. in Operations Research (the theory and practice of problem solving), born in Canada in 1938, educated in Canada and the USA. He has lived in Denmark since 1964 and been a Danish citizen since 1972.Through most of his life, Ross has operated in the business world, while giving a high prioriy to his family. He is now semi-retired, focussing on writing and Gaia Trust. For many years, he was a very successful businessman and independent management consultant in the field of Information Technology, working in many branches of business, later specialising in investment and international finance. Besides his continuing role as CEO of Gaia Trust, Ross is a majority shareholder and director of Scandinavia's largest wholesale organic food company, Urtekram A/S.
www.Gaiaeducation.org - Gaia Education is an international programme whose aim is to develop courses on sustainable community design and development. The courses are designed by a team of ecovillage-based educators, collectively known as the GEESE -Global Ecovillage Educators for a Sustainable Earth.
www.navdanya.org - Navdanya started as a program of the Research Foundation for science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE), a participatory research initiative founded by world-renowned scientist and environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva, to provide direction and support to environmental activism.
http://www.wiserearth.org - WiserEarth serves the people who are transforming the world. It is a community directory and networking forum that maps and connects non-governmental organizations (NGOs), businesses, governments, and individuals addressing the central issues of our day: climate change, poverty, the environment, peace, water, hunger, social justice, conservation, human rights and more.
http://www.paulhawken.com - Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author. Starting at age 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy.
http://www.naturalcapital.com - The Natural Capital Institute serves the people who are transforming the world. We are a team of researchers, teachers, students, activists, scholars, writers, social entrepreneurs, artists, and volunteers committed to the restoration of the earth and the healing of human culture. We do two things: we describe pathways of change in books and research reports, and we create tools for connecting the individuals, information, and organizations that create change.
Ecology/Spirituality
www.noetic.org - We are a nonprofit membership organization located in Northern California that conducts and sponsors leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness—including perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition. The Institute explores phenomena that do not necessarily fit conventional scientific models, while maintaining a commitment to scientific rigor.
www.odemagazine.com - Ode is a print and online publication about positive news, about the people and ideas that are changing our world for the better.
www.anhglobal.org - Alliance for a new humanity - The Alliance recognizes at the core of its vision the unity of all life, and a wholehearted adherence to the noblest aspirations of humankind, as proclaimed in all spiritual and humanist traditions that call for compassion and the celebration of life.
Books
"Rekindling Community:Connecting :Connecting People, Environment and Spirituality"
"Soil and Soul"
Alistair Mc Intosh (www.amazon.co.uk)
"The Global Mind Change"
Willis Harman (Noetic Institute of Sciences)
Berett Koehler Publishers.Inc ,San Francisco.
"The Field"
Lynne Mac Taggart
Harper Collins Publishers
"Power versus force"
David R.Hawkins
Hayhouse(www.hayhouse.com)
"Gaia"
James Lovelock
Oxford Paperbacks
"When God was a woman"
Merlin Stone
A Harvest Book
"The body of the Goddess", Sacred Wisdom in Myth, Landscape and Culture
Rachel Pollack
Vega
"The Chalice and the Blade"
Riane Eisler
Harper San Francisco
"Plug-in hybrids"
Sherry Boschert
New Society Publishers
"Natures Death"
Carolyn Merchant
"Natural Grace"
Rupert Sheldrake and Matthew Fox
"Spritual Compass"
Satish Kumar
Green Books Ltd
"And we are doing it"
Building an Ecovillage Future
JT Ross Jackson PHD
Robert D Reed Publishers, San Francisco
"Rediscover your heart - Seven keys to personal and planetary transformation"
Fred Matser
Findhorn Press
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