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Friends of the Schumacher Society

• Orion Society, publishers of Orion Magazine
• The Nature Conservancy: Last Great Places - Featuring the Berkshire Taconic Landscape of Massachusetts
• Business Alliance for Local Living Economies - Networks of independent businesses working for a just and sustainable economy
• Center for a New American Dream
  Turn the Tide - A program of 9 simple actions that have a measurable, positive impact on the environment. Join now and measure the impact of your actions!
• Ithaca Hours - A local currency project currently underway in Ithaca, NY
• Local Currencies and Informal Credit Systems
• Thoreau Institute - Also serving the Thoreau Society and Walden Woods Project.
• The Institute for Local Self-Reliance - A non-profit research and educational organization that provides technical assistance and information on environmentally sound economic development strategies.
• Institute for Sustainable Communities - Helping communities around the world address environmental, economic, and social challenges.
• Center for Respect of Life and Environment
• Buckminster Fuller Institute - Working to Advance Humanity's Option for Success
• Intervale Foundation - Develops land and farm-based enterprises to generate economic and social opportunity while protecting natural resources
• Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative - An urban community-based planning organization, with an affiliated land trust
• Ocean Arks International - Ecological design science and practice, including natural water purification systems




Magazines and Newsletters

• Local Heroes: E.F. Schumacher Society, a story by Metroland
• YES! Magazine, a Journal of Positive Futures
• New Village - Building Sustainable Cultures
• International Journal of Community Currency Research
• The Ecologist - Environmental affairs magazine founded by Edward Goldsmith
• Grist - Environmental news and commentary
• Common Dreams - Internet news and views for the progressive community
• Whole Earth Magazine successor of the Whole Earth Catalog
  

Films/Videos

• Coming Home: E. F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy - You can purchase the film from Local Harvest.
• Bullfrog Films - Publishers of independently-produced, environmental videos
  We recommend "On the Edge of the Forest," "a touching film in which E.F. Schumacher makes a plea for ecological balance as he visits a virgin forest in Australia, shortly before his death."
• Money - by Isaac Isitan, journey through the currency crisis of Argentina and Turkey
• The Take - Argentinian workers reclaim closed factories
• End of Suburbia - an exploration of the "Peak Oil" problem
  

Educational Programs

• Graduate Program in Environment and Community - Antioch University, Seattle, WA
• Ecological Economics, Values, and Policy - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY
• Brown University Center for Environmental Studies  - Links to environmental science and environmental studies programs throughout the U.S. and abroad
• Campus Center for Appropriate Technology - Humboldt State University, CA
• Gund Institute - University of Vermont
• Ecological Economics Certificate - School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
• Environmental Studies Concentration - Individualized MA Program, Goddard College
• Equal Exchange's Fair Trade Curriculum - Win Win Solutions: An Introduction to Fair Trade and Cooperative Economics (for Grades 4 through 9.)

Microcredit

• Grameen Bank
• Fonkoze - Microcredit in Haiti
• MicroCredit-NH
• Model Contracts and Other Documents
  • Green Loan Program Template Online  |  PDF

Land Reform

• Brazil's Landless Workers Movement
• Rural Development Institute
• Henry George Foundation - Land Rights

Worker Ownership/Cooperatives

• Mondragon
• South Mountain Company
• Industrial Cooperative Association

Appropriate/Intermediate Technology

• The Early Years of the National Ctr. for Appropriate Technology
  By Mike Morris, 2009

Other

• Efficology - Compilation of writings on the topic of efficiency
• Dr. Hazel Henderson - World renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of Beyond Globalization and seven other books.