ECOPSYCHOLOGY
AND WILDERNESS WAYS
Animas Valley Institute www.animas.org
The Animas Valley Institute (AVI) offers vision
quests and other wilderness-based personal growth programs. AVI
programs are intended "for people ready to explore the collective
unconscious and use of ceremony as a form of self-improvement
and human development."
Wilderness Awareness School www.wildernessawareness.org
Offers a variety of wilderness-based programs
for adults and children.
Eagle Mountain Institute www.spiritquest.org
An educational institute dedicated to providing
wilderness retreats and ecopsychology-based personal enrichment
programs.
Naropa Institute www.naropa.edu
Offers a variety of ecopsychology studies and
accredited programs
Prescott College www.prescott.edu
A liberal arts college with strong emphasis on
wilderness study, environment, ecopsychology and sustainable design
SACRED
LIFE COACHING & RITES OF PASSAGE
WOMANWISE www.womanwiseways.com
Helping
women craft passionate lives of integrity, strength and spirit.
Offering counseling, sacred life coaching,
earth
wisdom teaching circles and midlife
magicwith Kate Greenway, LPCC.
PEACEWORK
Peace Action www.webcom/peaceact/
Largest membership and activist network working
for peace and social justice in the U.S. Educates the public on
peace and disarmament issues.
SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM
Shavano/Satyana Institute www.shavano.org
A nonprofit organization whose mission is to support
individuals, communities and organizations
to bring "the inner work of the heart into outer service
in the world." Satyana specializes in integrating, social
change leadership and gender reconciliation.
ECOLOGICAL
LIVING
Natural Building
www.strawhomes.com
Information site and reader-written journal that
provides up-to-date information on construction techniques, projects,
research/testing/code issues, resources, and other useful material
about straw-bale and natural buildings.
LifeVillage www.lifevillage.com
Provides a primer on sustainable village development,
a large database of green building resources, and links to intentional
communities.
Ecovillage Research www.home.earthlink.net/~clrwater/RDD/rdd.html
A wealth of information re: renewable
energy, green building, permaculture and more. The vision is beautifully
crafted and passionately presented by Jeff Clearwater. Here you'll
find all the tools we need to create a regenerative world.
Global EcoVillage Network www.gaia.org
An amazing network of ecovillages active throughout the world.
Lots of info here on community living. This is the alternative
to "globalization."
Sustainable Sources
www.greenbuilder.com
Offers a variety of green building information
sources and tools to implement green building ideas and services.
Includes a green building events calendar.
Green Clips News Service www.greendesign.net
Summary of news on sustainable building and design
and related government and business issues.
Rocky Mountain Institute www.rmi.org
World famous entrepreneurial, non-profit institute
that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to
create a more sustainable world. Contains lots of powerful, useful
informational material.
Seventh Generation Consulting and Development www.7thgeneration.net
Offers consulting in sustainable and regenerative
development. Regenerative development is a natural systems approach
that comprehends and builds on the complex human, economic and
ecological relationship that sustains the vitality and viability
of place. Seventh Generation also offers 3-9 day wilderness vision
quest programs for youth and adults.
SpiritMoney Mortgage www.spiritmoney.com
SpiritMoney Mortgage services provides competitive
mortgages for standard and green-built homes in Colorado and New
Mexico. SpiritMoney also finances off-grid homes.
Vegetarianism www.vegetarianismusa.com
Excellent directory of vegetarian food sources,
publications, centers, retreats and travel information.
CONSCIOUS MEDIA
Spiritual and Humanitarian Directory
www.globalvisions.org
A comprehensive directory of spiritual and humanitarian
groups, print and electronic media and projects and events. Lots
of great Internet links here to consciousness raising projects
and ideas.
MAGUS E-zine www.winged-horse.com/magus/magusindex.htm
A well-written online magazine featuring mysticism,
mythology, magic, metaphysics . . . and now contemporary political
commentary as well. Author Mary Devlin writes insightful articles
probing the deeper spiritual meaning of contemporary cultural
events such as the recent movie Lord of the Rings. Her
article, Where's our Frodo is a must read in the January-February
2002 edition.
RENEWABLE
ENERGY
Renewable Energy Policy Project www.crest.org
Excellent, comprehensive information service that
focuses on renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy sustainability.
CREST is an online community of more than 70 organizations working
to move the world toward a more sustainable energy future.
American Wind Energy Association www.awea.org
Very comprehensive database of information describing
wind energy as a reliable, environmentally superior energy source
in the United States and around the world.
EARTH EDUCATION FOR YOUTH
Institute for Earth Education www.eartheducation.org
An international network of individual educators
and member organizations deeply committed to creating and implementing
earth-based learning programs that fully embrace head, heart and
hands.
LIFE www.lifeweb.org
Leadership Initiative For Earth’s (LIFE) mission
is to inspire, educate and train young people to become effective
stewards of the Earth throughout their lives.
Youth for Environmental Sanity www.yesworld.org
An organization that educates, inspires and empowers
young people to join forces for social justice and environmental
sanity.
REALITY BUSTERS
The Disclosure Project http://www.disclosureproject.com/
The Disclosure Project is a nonprofit research project working
to fully disclose the facts about UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence,
and classified advanced energy and propulsion systems.
WingMakers http://www.wingmakers.com/
WingMakers is a comprehensive website that introduces
a new cosmology, combining poetry, painting, philosophy, metaphysics,
music, and an alien race of spiritual beings called the WingMakers.
Developed completely by an anonymous source, the website is a powerful,
consciousness-expanding adventure for the spiritual seeker in search
of something beyond the ordinary teachings