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If you want to take responsibility for the world and environment and to find happiness in your life, then work towards the ideal society you see. On the home page re-read the words, that is how you do it. You may want to say positively and firmly...
Consider the words rea(c)tive and (c)reative. To be reactive is to re-enact a past behaviour. When you see (c) first you become creative... So go and create the world you desire, perhaps these links may be of service.
Web site links
ActivismZ Net Anti War Site http://www.zmag.org/antiwarres.cfm WebActive - "WebActive is a weekly World Wide Web publication designed to keep you up-to-date on the latest in activism and progressive politics on the Internet. http://www.webactive.com/ Noam Chomsky http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/ejournal/chomsky.htm Michael Moore – produced Bowling for Columbine, The Awful Truth, Stupid White Men and Dude Where is my country http://www.michaelmoore.com/ Café for social activism http://www.whitedog.com Peace News http://www.peacenews.info/
Aid/Relief OrganisationsRelief Web (and maps) http://www.reliefweb.int Australian Council For Overseas Aid (ACFOA) – access NGO’s http://www.acfoa.asn.au/ Red Cross http//www.redcross.org.au
Anti-bullyingThe Allanah and Madeline Foundation http://www.amf.org.au Bully-Busters. http://www.insideouted.com.au
Community Networks - LocalVictorian Peace Network http://www.vicpeace.org Friends of the Earth http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/ Borderlands an Independent Community Action and Resource Centre for Melbourne http://www.borderlands.org.au
Conflict ResolutionThe Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution http://www.trinstitute.org/ Conflict Resolution network - to create conflict-resolving community in a culture of peace and social justice. http://www.crnhq.org/
Creativity & humourEdward De Bono inventor of lateral thinking http://www.edwdebono.aust.com/debono/fdebono.htm Dr. Patch Adams http://www.patchadams.org/links/index.htm Patricia Cameron-Hill and Dr. Shayne Yates http://www.chy.com.au
DemocracyWorld Social Forum http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/ Soros Foundation - Private agency supports global and national interest initiatives, usually with a human rights and openness emphasis. Includes program profiles. http://www.soros.org/
EnvironmentWorldwatch Institute: An independent research organization working for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society. http://www.worldwatch.org/ Australian Conservation Foundation http://www.acf.org.au CERES Community Environment Park http://www.ceres.org.au/ David Suzuki Foundation http://www.davidsuzuki.org/ Greenpeace International http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/ http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/sitemap/ - site map covering a wide range of in depth topics World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). http://www.panda.org/ Johannesburg World Summit http://www.joburgsummit2002.com/ Friends of the Earth International http://www.foei.org Permaculture International Limited http://www.permacultureinternational.org/whatispermaculture.htm Acres – the national newspaper on sustainable agriculture (permaculture) http://www.acresaustralia.com.au/category50_1.htm People's Earth Summit http://www.peoplesearthsummit.net Greenpeace Earth Summit website http://www.greenpeace.org/earthsummit/index.html Union of Concerned Scientists – Genetic engineering http://www.ucsusa.org/index.html Pesticides http://members.aol.com/rccouncil/ourpage/ Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies (CERES) - US coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies www.ceres.org/about/main.htm
FutureRobert Theobold - futurist http://www.abc.net.au/rn/events/theobald.htm School for designing a society http://www.designingsociety.com
Gateways to more sourcesNational Library of Australia – an excellent resource eg. Journals, newspapers, internet, pandora, search engines http://www.nla.gov.au/ http://www.nla.gov.au/nlaindex.html - content A-Z http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/gov/ - Australian government http://www.nla.gov.au/guides/discoverguides/unihandbooks.html - university handbooks http://www.nla.gov.au/libraries/path.html - gives you a pathway to all libraries and topics The University Of Auckland library / Te Tumu Herenga http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/stats/offstats/OFFSTATSmain.htm
GovernmentGovernments of Australia entry point http://www.gov.au/ Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs http://www.immi.gov.au/ Federal Government http://www.fed.gov.au/KSP/ Gold.gov search the Commonwealth Government online http://www.gold.gov.au/ Australian Bureau of Statistic http://www.abs.gov.au/
Human RightsHuman Rights Watch is a human rights organisation http://www.hrw.org/ Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org.au/index.html
International OrganisationsUnited Nations http://www.un.org Peace and Security http://www.un.org/peace Humanitarian Affairs http://www.un.org/ha Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights http://www.unhchr.ch Office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees http://www.unhcr.ch Economic Commission for Europe (also "UN in your daily life") http://www.unece.org UN Research Institute for Social Development http://www.unrisd.org International Labour Organisation http://www.ilo.org UN Conference on Trade and Development http://www.unctad.org World Food Program http://www.wfp.org Food and Agricultural Organisation http://www.fao.org International Criminal Tribunal / Former Yugoslavia http://www.un.org/icty Basic Facts About UN/Charter/Members http://www.un.org/aboutun Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development / Earth Summit http://www.un.org/esa UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation http://www.unesco.org Statistics Division and Monthly Bulletin of Stats Online http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd
World Trade Organisation
http://www.wto.org
Militarisation / weaponsNuclear Policy Research Institute, founder Dr. Helen Caldicott http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/index.cfm World revolution provides statistics on war www.worldrevolution.org
MediaInformation Clearing House - alternative news not found on CNN or Fox http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ Alternet - Launched in November 1987 by the Independent Media Institute (IMI), AlterNet is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting and strengthening the independent press in an increasingly concentrated media landscape http://www.alternet.org/ FAIR – Fairness and accuracy in reporting http://www.fair.org/ The British Broadcasting Commission - BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/ New Internationalist magazine - people, ideas, action in the fight for global justice http://www.newint.org The Guardian Newspaper – UK http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian/ The Australian Broadcasting Commission – ABC http://www.abc.net.au Radio National http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ Arab media http://home.hccnet.nl/ad.beljaars/arabesque/media.htm
Non-violenceMahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service http://www.gandhiserve.com/ The Non-violence Web http://www.nonviolence.org/ Alternatives to Violence Project http://www.avpnh.org The Albert Einstein Institution http://www.aeinstein.org Albert Einstein Institution is a non-profit organisation advancing the study and use of strategic non-violent action in conflicts throughout the world.
PeaceVictorian Peace Network http://www.vicpeace.org/ Peace Brigades International http://www.igc.apc.org/pbi/
SocietyAustralian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) - towards a fair and inclusive Australia http://www.acoss.org.au
Spiritual / consciousnessConversations with God http://www.cwg.org/ Peace Pilgrim http://www.peacepilgrim.net/index2.htm Lao Tzu http:www.carleton.ca/~rgray/TaoTeChing The Foundation for a Global Community http:www.globalcommunity.org Ken Wilbur - spiritual/intellectual http://wilber.shambhala.com Carl Jung - depth psychology http://oldsci.eiu.edu/psychology/Spencer/Jung.html Quakers http://www.quakers.org.au |