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Building Better Communities Network
Intentional Communities Directory
International Network of Forests and Communities
The Federation of Egalitarian Communities
Directory of Christian Websites
Center for Creative Communities
Center for Community-based Theater
Progressive Portal - Activism Online
Design Principles for Online Communities (paper)
Hosting Web Communities (paper)
Smart Communities Resource Exchange
Virtual Communities - Abort, Retry, Failure (paper)
American Studies Communities (Georgetown University)
ATLAS Communities - mold-breaking for educational environments
BioScience Regional Communities
Institute for Global Peace Work
Transnational Communities Programme (Economic and Social Research)
McAuley Institute - Building Healthier Communities
Creating Learning Communities Online Resource Center
Open Society Institute - Criminal Justice Initiative
Institute for Sustainable Communities
National Environmental Training Center for Small Communities
Southwest Educational Development Laboratories
Threatened Species and Ecological Communities
Funding for Community Development
Rebuilding Communities Initiative - Annie E. Casey Foundation
Request for Proposal for the Livable Communities Grant Program
California Statewide Communities Development Authority
Infrastructure Information Resources
Catalytic Communities - support for low-income communities
Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network
Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development
City of Austin, TX Sustainable Communities Initiative
Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities
EcoVillages Sustainable Communities
Sustainability Toolkits for Communities
Firewise Communities - wildland and urban interfacing
International Information Programs - Global Issues (electronic journal)
Sierra Club Livable Communities
Partners for Livable Communities
Rural Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Program
Transportation for Livable Communities Network
United States Environmental Protection Agency - Green Communities
The Commission on Global Governance
Stories from the Elders - Multi-media
Foundation for the Law of Time
Earth Dancing - Traditional Shamanism
Wolf Lodge Cultural Foundation
Nemenhah Band & Native American Traditional Organization
One Community - An Intentional New Thought Community Project
Nuclear Survival with Intentional Communities List
Utopian EcoVillage Network in Ecuador
Therapeutic Communities of America
Communities Against Violence Network
Something Weird Is Going On - Wanderers
Center for Sustainable Regional Communities - Australia
Autonomous Communities of Spain
Camphill Soltane - Special Needs Community
Crystal Waters Permaculture Village
EcoVillage of Loudoun County, Virginia
Kookaburra Park EcoVillage - Australia
Valley Farm EcoVillage - New Zealand
Bruderhof Christian Communities
Communities Can! - Georgetown University Child Development Center
"Well, I go back to the center tree of peace, that spiritual center. That is to highest form. That's what everything has to come around. Because it's what we call the great law, the common law, the natural law. The law says if you poison your water, you'll die. The law says if you poison the air, you'll suffer. The law says if you degrade where you live, you'll suffer. The law says all of this. And if you don't learn that, then you will suffer. There's no discussion with this law.
There's no mercy in nature. And there's very much something that people should understand that you suffer in direct ratio to your transgressions against the natural world. The natural would will prevail. You know, human beings are still a biological experiment as far as the world's concerned. We've only been here a short time. In the time of the earth and the time of the world, the human being is here a short time. You see, when you're dealing in the time of an oak, or the time of one of the great sequoias, you can take a chainsaw and in ten minutes kill a tree that's four hundred years old, and there's no way that you can make that tree grow back. You'll have to wait another four hundred years for another. So the technology has overtaken the common sense of human beings and the understanding of time. And just as the time of the ant is very very short, the time of the mountain is very very long. If you don't have a good understanding of what this time is, then you can get yourself and your people and your generation into a log of trouble. And I think that's where we are right now."
Chief Oren Lyons, Onondaga, faith keeper of the Turtle Clan.
"So the question becomes: how does one attempt to transform this meaninglessness and hopelessness into a more effective kind of struggle and resistance? It's a very difficult task, but there are many highly courageous people, working people, ordinary people, who are trying to hold on to meaning and value in a society that revolves more and more around the market mentality, the market ethos that permeates almost every sphere of this society.
It makes it very difficult to hold on to nonmarket values, such as commitment in relationships, solidarity, community, care sacrifice, risk, and struggle Market values encourage a preoccupation with the now, with the immediate.
There are still some neighborhoods, black, white, brown and Asian, that are holding together. They have to hope. They have to hold on to some notion that the future can be different if they sacrifice, if the fight if they struggle."
Cornel West, cultural critic, academic, author and preacher
"Think of it in terms of the children who come upon the face of the earth in different parts of the world. It is clear that in some parts of the world there are more advantages than in others. This comes about not only through nutrition, not only through care, but through education and through the people's opportunity to express themselves. To become positive contributors to the future becomes their purpose in life.
What we are talking about now are the values that we espouse and the values that we instill in the generations of the future. I like to think that we are in a very unique position now, and I ask the question, are we being good ancestors? Are we contributing to shaping the human beings of the future by what we do now? And are we doing what we should to provide for them the optimal opportunities for carrying those values into the future?"
Jonas Salk, doctor
Personal conviction and ethics statement: I will to do good for all,
desiring to serve humanity in the highest and best use of my
mind/body/spirit complex, in the facilitation of a new world order of
harmony among people and planet through the development of a
state-of-the-art model community and website that promotes this endeavor.
