Feel Good Links

The resources featured here just scratch the surface of what's available to you. However, this is a good starting point that could lead you on a wonderful journey of discovery. The intention is to highlight projects which are solution-oriented and empowering.


By and For the Youth:

Birthing the Future www.birthingthefuture.org

Challenge Day www.challengeday.org

Encouraging Your Child's Spiritual Intelligence www.childrensspiritualintelligence.com/index.htm

One World Children's Fund www.owcf.org

Peace Jam www.peacejam.org

YES (Youth For Environmental Sanity) www.yesworld.org

Communication and Mediation:

The Center for Nonviolent Communication Training www.cnvc.org

WomenRise for Global Peace www.womenrise.org

Community Economics:

Time Banks USA www.timebanks.org

Education and Community Building:

Books Not Bars www.ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=2

Circle of Life Foundation www.circleoflifefoundation.org/

CoHousing Association of the United States www.cohousing.org

National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools (NCACS) www.ncacs.org

The Center for a New American Dream www.newdream.org

Eco Travel:

El Monte Sagrada, Taos, NM www.elmontesagrado.com An exquisite facility with an eye toward beauty integrated with nature, environmental sustainability, and nurturing services.

The Outlook Hotel, Boulder, CO www.boulderoutlook.com This is the first "zero waste" hotel in the Boulder/Denver area with a wonderful approach to supporting both its patrons and the earth.

Empowering Aid Projects:

Doctors Without Borders www.DoctorsWithoutBorders.org

Heifer International www.heifer.org

One World Children's Fund www.owcf.org

Physicians for Social Responsibility www.psr.org

The Hunger Project www.thp.org

Entertainment

Spiritual Cinema Circle www.thespiritualcinemacircle.com

Environmentally Friendly Products: It's relatively easy to find earth-friendly products these days. The links below are for companies who have also multiplied their good by returning profits back to the earth and larger community as well.

Burt's Bees www.burtsbees.com This is a great story of how this company succeed by taking care of each other and the earth.

Newman's Own www.newmansown.com/commongood.cfm

Green Building, Restoration and Sustainability:

Context Institute www.context.org/GROUPS/CI/ci.htm

Ocean Arks International and Solar Sustainable Village www.thesustainablevillage.com/partners/ocean_arks.html

Tom Bender www.tombender.org Author of Building With the Breath of Life

William McDonough + Partners www.mcdonoughpartners.com/

Health Care and Education:

Dental Wellness Institute www.dentalwellness4u.com You can do a search in your area for holistic dentists who can safely remove metal amalgam fillings.

International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology http://www.iaomt.org/merc_release.swf

Recommended Reading (This list could go on for ever):

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things William McDonough and Michael Braungart

Extraordinary Healing: The Amazing Power of Your Body's Secret Healing System Dr. Art Brownstein

Ode Magazine www.OdeMagazine.net

The Soul of Money Lynne Twist

Visionary Leadership:

Bioneers www.bioneers.org

Institute of Noetic Sciences www.noetic.org

The Pachamama Alliance www.pachamama.org

Social Artistry training with Dr. Jean Houston and colleagues www.socialartistry.com

Spiral Dynamic Integral www.spiraldynamics.net/