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Healthy Planet: Organics, Urban Food, Permaculture & Sustainable Living
- Human Potential: SelfGrowth.com
- Find Local Food and Farm Events: www.localharvest.org
- Discover a Farmers Market near you: www.massfarmersmarkets.org
- Vegetarian Living Boston: www.bostonveg.org/links.html
- Permaculture Discussion Group: forums.permaculture.org.au
- Chef's Collaborative: At Chefs Collaborative, where Life Alive is a member, there is a growing community of chefs, farmers, fishers, educators, and food lovers dedicated to promoting sustainable cuisine. www.chefscollaborative.org
- Urban Farming: Has a mission of optimizing the production of unused land for food and alternative energy...WOW! www.urbanfarming.org
- Veritable Vegetable: Committed to creating and fostering sustainable culture, integrating the environment, the economy, and society as sustainable systems. Sustainable systems are inherently life affirming, balancing input and output, conserving, if not augmenting, energy and resources. V.V. has chosen to influence these areas by distributing organic produce and promoting sustainable agriculture. www.veritablevegetable.com
- Find an Organic Grower: http://www.organic-growers.com
- Learn about BIODYNAMIC Growing & Steiner: www.biodynamics.com/
- Community Greenhouse Lowell: Learn about growing inside, bring your compost and see it transformed, join neighbors you've not yet met to green our city. www.communitygardensgreenhouse.org
- The Food Project: is a national model in the Greater Boston Area, The Food Project creates fertile ground for new ideas about youth and adults partnering to create social change through sustainable agriculture. Their goal: sustainable, local food systems that bridge race, class, age, and more to ensure food security for all. www.thefoodproject.org
- The South Bronx Green Roof Project: is a national model for turning cities into places where healthy, organic food production also reduces energy waste, pollution AND creates jobs and educational opportunities! Let's replicate...Life Alive is hoping to collaborate locally in order to make this happen here.www.ssbx.org/greenroofs.html
- The Northwest Earth Institute: has produced six discussion courses: Choices for Sustainable Living, Voluntary Simplicity, Discovering a Sense of Place, Exploring Deep Ecology, and Globalization and its Critic, Healthy Children / Healthy Planet. They have a national network exploring these ideas in action. www.nwei.org
- The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC): CFSC is a non-profit 501(c)(3), North American organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times. We seek to develop self-reliance among all communities in obtaining their food and to create a system of growing, manufacturing, processing, making available, and selling food that is regionally based and grounded in the principles of justice, democracy, and sustainability. www. foodsecurity.org/
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Beautiful Planet: Creative Culture & Artist Contributors
- Free Rice.com: Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your vocabulary can improve your life. It is a great investment in yourself. Perhaps even greater is the investment your donated rice makes in hungry human beings, enabling them to function and be productive. Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide. www.freerice.com
- Jasmine Jain, Artist
- Virginia Peck, Artist: Lowell artist www.virginiapeck.com
- The Revolving Museum: The Revolving Museum is an evolving laboratory of creative expression for people of all backgrounds, ages, and abilities who seek to experience the transformative power of art. Through public art, exhibitions, and educational programs we promote artistic exploration and appreciation; encourage community participation and growth; and provide opportunities for empowerment and social change.www.revolvingmuseum.org
- Lowell's "Destination World" : First Thursdays Event celebrating Lowell's rich cultural life and history.www.destinationworld.org
- Nadya Volicer, Sculptor: Our magnificent recycled wood counter tops were created by Nadya out of old shelves, tables, walls and wood objects found in the basements of local buildings. "containers could hold more than just objects and the value of potential is immeasurable.Everything I make is built with the underlying intention of creating a space to call home; a place to house my self. That space may be large enough for several people to enter at once, or so small that the only inhabitants can be thoughts..." www.nadyavolicer.com
- The Women's Well: The Women's Well is a safe and supportive community based in Concord MA that encourages women to honor the power of the circle and to trust themselves and their ways of knowing, including the wisdom of the female body, their experience of cycles, and a receptivity to intuition and the unconscious. Their purpose is to encourage, strengthen, inspire, and empower women. www.womenswell.org
- Celebrating the Goddess Parties: Celebrate the Divine Feminine Spirit and Nurture Your Soul. The Goddess Party is a place to honor the wisdom of women,to connect joyfully in the spirit of fun, and be blessed by the beauty of each others company. Plan the perfect party... or take a class and learn about female archetypes that relate to you and the women in your life! www.mygoddessparty.com
- HAUS KIDS: "the art of playful living" Haus stocks high quality European toys and modern gifts for children and parents in historic downtown Lowell, Massachusetts www.hauskids.com
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United Planet: Reclaiming our Democracy
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