The Global Coalition of Alternative Voices

Nonprofit organization whose purposes are to preserve genetic diversity and support sustainable agriculture through acquiring and distributing native and naturalized seed, providing information on plant and seed propagation, and aiding in the preservation of native and naturalized plants through cultivation.

Organically grown seeds.

Hands- on activist for sustainable building in northern Arizona. Coconino County Sustainable Building Program.

Antipoverty agency whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide.

Founder :Kalleh Lasn, book, CULTURE JAM

Nonprofit organization dedicated to the complete inventory of all species of life on earth in the next 25 years.

Consumer advocacy programs.

Nongovernmental, international solidarity program. Open and in touch with the world.

Advancing energy efficiency as a way of providing economic prosperity and environmental protection.

Protect, restore and enhance natural capital of trees and forests.

Venerable social justice organization.

Seeks to promote human rights as provided in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Educates public about connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to safeguard our future.

Funding for projects and programs for preservation, protection and enhancement of parkway.

Encourages activism rooted in Buddhist teachings. Publishers of "Turning Wheel: The Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism".

Protects policies to protect health, the environment and sustainable living.

Robin Silver, contact. Taking cities and organizations which are endangering species to court in AZ.

Co-founder of Global Community Communications Alliance located in Sedona and Tubac, Arizona. A teacher on the San Carlos Indian reservation for fifteeen years, she broadened her horizons with studies of many world religions. She is currently a pastor and director of Global Community Communications Schools for Adults and Teens. She is co-executive director of The Alternative Voice periodical and has articles published in several periodicals including: New Thought Journal, Connecting Link, Quantum Thoughts, and Inner Word.

Writer, defender of alternative journalism, outspoken critic of modern media corruption.

Challenging the causes of poverty and making change happen.

Alliance of over 1000 organizations working to protect our nation's water resources.

A coalition of organizations working to pressure corporations to adopt socially responsible practices.

Conducts education and research in the areas of biodiversity, ecological farming practices and environmental restoration.

Common Dreams is a national nonprofit citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together to promote progressive visions for America's future. One of the best sources for daily alternative press articles on the web.

Promotes biodiversity conservation in endangered ecosystems worldwide.

Sustainable culture information service.

A multilevel participatory process which seeks to become an integrative platform that will enable people from all over the world to work together.

Harness economic power to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.

Makes expeditions to the Caribbean and Asia-Pacific to help protect threatened coral reefs and tropical forests, create reserves and wildlife sanctuaries, etc.

This organization observes and exposes corruption in corporate activities

A journal of emerging issues and insights published by the Cosmos Club of Washington, DC and founded in 1878.

Yavapai County (Arizona) Supervisor. Standing up for sustainability in Yavapai County. Has received a great deal of controversy from some due to his stand against building a bridge at Red Rock Crossing/Cathedral Rock in Sedona, AZ.

Works to protect wild animals and plants in their natural communities.

Musician, activist.

Organization dedicated to conserving forests, inspiring earth-honoring changes in consciousness and applying indigenous wisdom in ways that foster environmental and social balance.

Works to protect wilderness through natural means.

Environmental magazine

Provides organizational support in developing projects to protect the global environment.

Protects people and natural resources by enforcing and strengthening environmental laws.

A magazine and on line library that seeks to empower individuals and communities to live and work in touch with earth and spirit.

International organization aiming to address the challenge posed by the on-going damage to the earth's ecosystems by creating a world-wide network of earth restoration projects and facilitating volunteer and technical assistance to such projects. Contact Andreas Karnevall.

Moving toward a plant-based diet and to take compassionate action for all life on earth.

Manages workplace giving and campaigns for its member charities.

Sponsors scientific field research to improve understanding of the planet and its inhabitants.

Nonprofit, provides alternative sources of information, and comprehensive Internet services for progressive individuals and organizations

Provides multidisciplinary research and development of innovative and environmental technologies for the protection of air, water, and soil.

Grassroots on line community that unites hundreds of organizations and volunteers around the world providing the most up-to-date environmental resources available.

Combines science, economics and law to find economically sustainable solutions to environmental problems.

Finding practical environmental solutions.

Providing environmental education for school children that will have an immediate impact on pollution and climate change, and a long term impact by empowering the youth to be environmental guardians.

Offers links to environmental resources on the web.

National media watch group, offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship, anti-censorship organization; working with activists and journalists. Publishes EXTRA!, magazine of media criticism and weekly radio show, COUNTERSPIN.

An independent writer in the fields of energy, environment, economics, society and culture. He first published the system of TEQ's(formerly Domestic Tradable Quotas-DTQs) in 1996. TEQs are set in their context in his two forthcoming books, THE LEAN ECONOMY: A SURVIVOR'S GUIDE TO A FUTURE THAT WORKS, and LEAN LOGIC: A DICTIONARY FOR OUR TIME. He is founder of The Lean Economy Connection, an extended dialogue between people who are thinking ahead. Forthcoming book, THE LEAN ECONOMY: A VISION OF CIVILITY FOR A WORLD IN TROUBLE.

Acts to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide.

Musician, activist, has helped produce documentaries on the fallen state of the world.

National TV channel that reflects diversity of our society, provides perspectives not represented by mainstream media, and shines a national spotlight on citizens working for progressive social change.

Grassroots nonprofit groups of people giving and getting stuff for free in their own towns. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer. The network was started as an effort to promote waste reduction. It provides individuals with an electronic forum to recycle unwanted items.

The Venus Project is an educational think tank operating out of a 25 acre research center located in Venus, Florida.

Focuses on the underlying social and economic causes of environmental problems.

Natural way of farming. Method involves no tillage, no fertilizer, no pesticides, no pruning, and little labor. This is accomplished, along with high yields, by careful timing of seeding and careful combinations of plants. Fukuoka has brought the practical art of working with nature to a high level of refinement.

Gabriel of Urantia has been proactive in the spiritual, social and environmental arenas for decades. He is the spiritual leader, pastor and founder of Global Community Communication Alliance. He studied theology at Duquesne University, and was involved with the charismatic movement of the 1960's. He was a prison chaplain and spent years counseling others in organizations such as Nicky Cruz/Teen Challenge, Youth with a Mission, and Centrum. In 1989, he was the co-founder of Global community Communications Alliance along with Niann Emerson Chase, located in Sedona and Tubac, Arizona. GCCA is a church supporting a religious order and eco-village including over 100 members from all over the world. Part of this church includes Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm and Ranch; Personality Integration Rehabilitation Program for Teens and Adults; and Global Family Legal Services. Global Change Multimedia, The Soulistic Medical Institute and Soulistic Hospice.

Dedicated to explore the idea that we, humanity, are the earth becoming aware of itself.

"Grandpa Solar", ETA engineering for solar energy.

Dedicated to saving the Garry oaks and their ecosystems.

Studying and preserving Georgia's flora.

Author of "Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters" and compelling speaker on global water issues.

Alternative, progressive Jesusonian church, religious order, ecovillage and organic garden located in Sedona and Tubac, Arizona. Gabriel of Urantia and Niann Emerson Chase are the founders and pastors of this community, located in Arizona for the past 20 years. Individuals from all over the world participate in this eco-village preparing for the future with local and global outreach ministries, including an organic garden, farm and ranch; a personaity integration rehabilitation program for teens and young adults; Global Family Legal Services, a nonprofit immigration service; and a periodical with a spiritual perspective, The Alternative Voice; Global Change Multimedia, bringing positive ideas and services to the world; and the Soulistic Medical Institute and Hospice, serving people regardless of their ability to pay.

Mission is to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide. Crop diversity is fundamental to defeating hunger and achieving food security.

International human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.

Long-time defender of the planet's creatures and ecosystems.

Green Planet Environmental Ltd. is a nonprofit company whose focus is to promote environmental innovation with the profits being returned to help communities in need and to stimulate business where needed. Green Planet is one of the founding agents for the Southern Biomass Trading Floor. Green Planet investment is constantly looking for projects to invest in.

Uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems and force solutions.

Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

Assisting families in Flagstaff, AZ to obtain decent, affordable housing.

People restoring native vegetation in Hawaii.

Co-founder of Permaculture movement, author, teacher.

Association of local governments and regional local governmental organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development.

The world's alternative to agency- and industry-sponsored supplemental environmental education.

Actively pressing companies to engage in corporate social responsibility.

Mobilizes religious institutions and people of diverse faiths to strengthen their relationship with the sacred in nature and to take action for the earth.

Environmental education organization whose mission is to inspire and respect the natural world.

Works to provide activists with resources for a just response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.

Writer, speaker, activist. Known for her political analyses of corporate globalization.

Ohio state congressman who speaks the truth and has spearheaded the DOP movement. The Department of Peace is proposed in a congressional bill to establish a US governmental Department of Peace in order to find non-violent solutions to the problems of domestic and international conflicts.

Author of "Harvesting Rainwater". " At home my brother and I harvest over 100,000 gallons of rainwater a year on a 1/8th acre urban lot and adjoining right-of-way. This harvested water is then turned into living air conditioners of food-bearing shade trees, abundant gardens, and a thriving landscape incorporating wildlife habitat, beauty, edible and medicinal plants, and more. Such sheltering landscapes cool buildings by 20 degrees Fahrenheit, reduce water and energy bills, and require little more than rainwater to thrive."

Bipartisan group working to educate voters and win elections on behalf of the environment.

Dynamic leader in League of Women Voters and Keep Sedona Beautiful-working towards sustainability in the Verde Valley-original coordinator of Sedona's "Water Awareness Month" every spring.

The author of The Impossible Will Take a While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books,2004, and named the #3 political book of that year by the History Channel and the American Book Association), Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time (St. Martin's Press1999,now with over 95,000 copies in print), Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus (Rutgers University Press,1994), Nuclear Culture, and Hope in Hard Times.

Established a nonprofit institute focusing on energy policy.

Health foods empire.

Contact Dan Woods. Empowering citizens to take action with their hands and minds in order to break the cycle of enslaved consumerism.

Working toward a world economy with ecological and social responsibility.

Provides land grants and some financial support in Crestone/Baca, Colorado to qualified religious and spiritual projects, ecological and environmental sustainability projects and related educational endeavors.

Director of a grass roots movement that has successfully managed to shut down the Mohave Generating Station (MGS) which has pumped pristine aquifer water for 40 years in order to slurry coal for the MGS. He is also working to have the Hopi Nation switch their energy and economy base from coal to alternative energy.

Co-founder and spearhead for the world-wide permaculture movement.

Monte is a former National Park Ranger and the Energy Chair for the Sedona/Verde Valley Sierra Club Group. He also serves as senior moderator for http://peakoil.com and as the Site Administrator for www.sustainablearizona.org.

Environmental activist, established a research institution, Center for Development of the Environment.

Works through advocacy, policy, science, litigation, sanctuary management, grassroots outreach, and education to protect birds and their habitat.

Dedicated to conserving ocean fish, preventing over fishing, reducing bycatch, and protecting habitat.

Non-partisan organization dedicated to educating the American public on contemporary environmental issues.

Dedicated to protecting, preserving and enhancing the US national park system.

Integrate commitment to global sustainability into all aspects of religious life.

Nation-wide network of thirty university-based programs that work with coastal communities.

Protecting nature and wildlife.

Vital resource for those involved in development and advanced preservation of natural diversity.

Offering books, videos and workshops on straw bale, cob, bamboo, permaculture and more.

Since 1935, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (originally called the Soil Conservation Service) has provided leadership in a partnership effort to help America's private land owners and managers conserve their soil, water, and other natural resources.

Protecting the environment and human health.

Connecting people with their earthly roots by teaching courses in desert survival, bush craft, primitive skills and Southwest archeology.

A federation of over 90 member organizations from around the world. Their mission is to build a trained international civilian peace force committed to third-party nonviolent intervention.

Monitors nuclear activities worldwide and pursues strategies to reverse growth of nuclear arms.

Works to protect and restore the world's oceans.

Pioneering a new type of independent media based on exchange and participation. Readers and writers, spanning all continents, cover key questions of our time, publish clarifying debates, using the web to map intelligent discussions. Stands for human rights and democracy.

Explores an alternative world view; informed by a growing ecological awareness and the need for cultural change; it is a forum for thoughtful and creative ideas and practical examples of how we might live justly, artfully and wisely on earth.

Non-governmental organization (NGO) which protects human rights and promotes nonviolent transformation of conflicts.

The Urban Farm in Phoenix, transforming residential landscape into an edible delight is the inspiration behind Urban Farm. They publish excellent practical tips on living green every day in "Your Guide to Green".

Produces and hosts stories of value, wisdom, intelligence and good intent.

Saving the plants of Europe.

Working to end the threat of nuclear weapons.

A collective of activists that publishes a public record of activities on the web in search of creating a better world.

Provides information on issues ranging from abortion to welfare.

Watchdog organization dedicated to safeguarding the public interest and protecting the environment.

Journalists, writers, artists and activists.

Protects rainforests through education, grassroots organizing and nonviolent direct action.

Promotes research and education to conserve tropical rainforests.

Oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977.

Provides information about energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable technology information and connections.

Their mission is to strengthen Indigenous People's capacity to critically analyze tourism development, create projects that protect biodiversity, culture and traditional economics; and create a network.

Nonprofit research and educational foundation whose mission is to foster the efficient and sustainable use of resources as a path to global security.

Farmer, Rowgowski formulates solutions to problems afflicting American family farms. She lives in Pine Island, NY.

Cultivates markets, policies, and communities that support thriving, socially just and environmentally sound family farms.

Protects scenic roads, prevents billboards from trashing our highways, and helps create more attractive communities.

International organization of young people.

Making organically grown seeds available and preserving countless heirloom seed varieties in danger of being lost.

He is the director of the Center for Humanistic Future Studies at Western Michigan University since 1980, the director of the international course on the "Future of Religion" in the Inter-University Center for Post-Graduate Studies in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia/Croatia since 1975, and the international course on "Religion and Civil Society" in Yalta, Crimea and Ukraine since 1999.

Promotes environmental conservation by influencing public policy--legislative, administrative, legal and electoral.

An interactive catalog of earth-friendly products, resources and services.

Community of spiritual renewal grounded in ecological living.

Works for the elevation of underprivileged Children and Young Persons (CYP) using a holistic approach. They aim to facilitate the self-sufficiency of families and whole communities. SEEDS visualizes global transformation through local change.

Recovery of damaged ecosystems.

Enabling journalists how to better inform the public about critical issues facing the environment.

Progressive Christian publication

Protecting the natural resources of the southeastern United States.

Works to protect the magnificent canyon country and unspoiled public lands surrounding Utah's prized national parks.

Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization dedicated to spiritually grounded social change.

An organization dedicated to spiritually driven social activism.

Alternative press site.

Nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection and enhancement of the world's beaches.

Studying sustainable agriculture, organic csa and green development.

Founded science-based environmental organization.

Activist for protecting the N-Aquifer which supplies water to the Hopi Mesa. She is a Water Keeper of the Water Clan. She shows the film, "Mother Water's" which is an excellent film created by Marilyn's daughter about Hopi water issues.

Sponsors two day prayer vigil in Washington, DC and brings diverse communities together to begin healing a national wound, set an example of togetherness for youth to honor native elders, and to provide a time for traditionalists and government officials to meet and focus on issues of sustainability.

Independent, national organization with charitable status. It is the umbrella body for over 800 civic societies ,representing over 250,000 individuals committed to improving and caring for places where people live and work.

Collaborative web blog about free markets protecting the environment.

Provides analysis on key issues from a critical and progressive standpoint.

Supports grassroots projects in science and environmental education, sustainable development and environmental protection.

Working to protect plants, animals and their native communities.

A private foundation for the promotion of good social inventions.

Protects wild places in the US through public education, policy work, and litigation. New Mexico area, contact Deanna Archeluta, 505-917-4226.

Exists to encourage the understanding, appreciation and conservation of the natural and cultural resources of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

Addresses environmental issues through scientific research and education.

Internationally focused institute that works on global problems.

A global civil society organization leading the fight against corruption, brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and children around the world. Creating change towards a world free of corruption.

Empowering people by demonstrating that in helping each other we can unleash extraordinary power that impacts our lives. This is done by helping people plant fruit trees in developing countries.

Alternative media and support links.

Advancing responsible public policies where science and technology play a concerned role.

Reprints the best articles from over 2000 alternative media sources bringing you the latest ideas and trends emerging in our culture

Idyllic setting for the communal spirit of learning and deep inquiry.

Activist group promoting the use of video to increase awareness about current issues of social, economic and environmental justice.

Works to save wildlife and wild lands throughout the world.

Effectively teaching wildlife habitat improvement.

Links to and provides analysis of positive tools, models and ideas to form a toolkit for changing the world. They focus on resources that help people collaborate and cooperate, and believe that working together is the revolution that is changing the world.

Helps governments and private organizations cope with environmental resources and development challenges of global significance.

Revolves around the transition to an environmentally sustainable and socially just society--and how to attain it.

Dedicated to protecting the world's wildlife and wild lands.

Local to global environmental conservation.

Radio station owned and run by local people. WRFR is intended as a resource for everyone to use to help make our Rockland-Camden community a friendly, well-informed and creative place to work.

Positive Futures Network, publisher of YES! Is an independent nonprofit organization supporting people's active engagement in creating a just, sustainable and compassionate world