Ecological Sustainability in the Integral Culture

"Our biggest job is to change our whole way of thinking to a larger perspective, to recognize ourselves as a body of humanity embedded in, and with much to learn from, our living parent planet, which is all we have to sustain us."
-- Elisabet Sahtouris

Members of the Integral Culture value all aspects of ecology and sustainability and are leading the way. Some of these values include:

• Achieving Ecological Sustainability
• Desiring to rebuild neighborhoods and communities
• Supporting Limits to Growth
• Seeing Nature as Sacred
• Wanting Voluntary Simplicity
• Willing to Pay for Cleaning Up the Environment
• Willing to Pay for Stopping Global Warming
• Concern for Planetary Stewardship and Global Ecology
• Concern for Population Problems.

Some relevant links include:

• Sustainability Web Ring - an Internet tool that allows users to navigate easily between web sites that deal with the principles, policies, and best practices for sustainable development.
• The Global Network of Environment & Technology - dedicated to build an infrastructure for sustainable development.
• World Resources Institute (WRI) - provides, and helps other institutions provide, information and practical proposals for policy and institutional change that will foster environmentally sound, socially equitable development.
• Awakening Earth is dedicated to research and learning that fosters a sustainable, compassionate, and creative future. Created by Duane Elgin, author of Voluntary Simplicity.
  Upshifters: Pioneers of an Awakening Culture - An interview with Duane Elgin by Sarah van Gelder, Editor of Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures Summer/Spring 1996.
  Excerpts from Duane Elgin's book Voluntary Simplicity.
• Integral Culture: Cultural Creatives Making a Difference for the Future - published in Conscious Choice: The Journal of Ecology and Natural Living
• LifeWeb - the writings of Elizabet Sahtouris
• Union of Concerned Scientists - working for a healthy environment and a safe world. Publishers of The World Scientists' Warning to Humanity
• Global Visions Directory - a guide to people, projects, organizations events for a better world.
• The Shavano Institute - (formerly the Colorado Institute for a Sustainable Future) was founded in 1996 to advance new initiatives in ecological leadership and sustainable community.
• The Natural Step - a nonprofit environmental education organization that seeks to build consensus on how we can become ecologically and economically sustainable as a society.
• Green Pages - 10,000 green products & services
• Wood Wise - Sustainable use of wood & paper
• Millennium Institute - institute to help create the conditions for the peoples of the world to achieve a sustainable future for Earth
• Center for Partnership Studies - For our children and ourselves, the most important work of our time is building a sustainable future.
• WebActive - an effective Internet tool for progressive activism.
• Ecopsychology On-Line - seeks a fuller understanding by environmentalists of the psychological dimension of their work, especially with respect to winning the attention and support of the public and to finding more effective ways to encourage healthy environmental behavior.
• Sierra Club - nonprofit member-supported, public interest organization that promotes conservation of the natural environment by influencing public policy decisions--legislative, administrative, legal, and electoral.
• The EnviroLink Network - a grassroots online community that unites hundreds of organizations and volunteers around the world.
• Connecting with Nature - walk nature's path to a fulfilling livelihood, self-improvement and responsible relationships.
• Arcosanti - An experimental ecologically sustainable town in the high desert of Arizona.
• The Progressive Directory @igc - the U.S. member of the Association for Progressive Communications, a global partnership of computer networks that link activists around the world.

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