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A list of assorted Cassandras prepared by Mike Haywood
"Hope for the future" organizations and groups.
GROUPS WHO THINK CHANGE WILL BE SLOW AND CONTROLLED
• Resilience http://www.resilience.org/
• Post carbon Institute http://www.postcarbon.org/
• Transition movement http://www.transitionnetwork.org/
• Zeitgeist movement…. http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
• Initiatives of change International http://www.iofc.org/
• Earth Future http://www.earthfuture.com/
• Ethical Markets http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/
• Peoples’ Sustainability Treaties http://sustainabilitytreaties.org/
• Four Worlds International Institute http://www.fwii.net/
Groups who think the change will be fast and uncontrolled
• Chris Martenson’s crash course for building resilience http://www.peakprosperity.com/crashcourse
• Videos about building resilience http://www.nextworldtv.com
• Survival blog http://www.survivalblog.com/
• Homesteading and survivalism store http://homesteadingsurvivalism.myshopify.com/
• Apollo-Gaia project http://www.apollo-gaia.org/
• Automatic Earth http://theautomaticearth.com/
Groups that believe advanced technology is the answer to all the problems
• The Venus Project http://www.thevenusproject.com
• Buckminster Fuller institute http://bfi.org/
• Smart Planet http://www.smartplanet.com/
• New America Foundation http://www.newamerica.net
POPULATION AWARENESS GROUPS (Links provided by Luca Pardi)
Population Media Center: http://www.populationmedia.org/
Population Matters: http://www.populationmatters.org/
The European Population Alliance: http://europeanpopulationalliance.org/page.php?id=introduction
Population Connection: http://europeanpopulationalliance.org/page.php?id=introduction
World Population Awareness: http://www.overpopulation.org/aboutWOA.html
Miscellaneous groups
• Deep social networks….. http://www.scribd.com/doc/47582568/Deep-Social-Networks-and-the-Digital-Fourth-Way
• People and Planet http://peopleandplanet.org
• United Nations Development Program http://www.undp.org
• Collaborative consumption hub http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/
• Earth Times http://www.earthtimes.org/
• People’s World http://peoplesworld.org
• Sum of us http://sumofus.org
• 350.org http://www.350.org
• CHANGE.ORG http://www.change.org
• Globalisation Research http://www.globalresearch.ca
• Fellowship for International Community http://www.ic.org/
• Fantsuam Foundation http://www.fantsuam.org/
• Free World Charter http://www.freeworldcharter.org
• Clinton Global Initiative http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/
• Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/
• One Earth Org http://www.oneearth.org/
• Community• Planet Foundation http://www.communityplanet.org/index.php
• David Suzuki Foundation http://www.davidsuzuki.org/
• Chopra Foundation http://itakethevow.ning.com/
• Intent www.intent.com
• Wiser.org www.wiser.org
• Todd Landman's Institutue of Democracy and Conflict Resolution http://www.idcr.org.uk/about/director
• David Fynch Foundation http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org.uk/
Groups wanting to change the Economic system
• New Economics Foundation http://www.neweconomics.org/
• Positive Money http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/
• Foundation for the economics of sustainability http://www.feasta.org/
• Full reserve banking http://www.fullreservebanking.com/index.htm
• The Money Masters http://www.themoneymasters.com/monetary-reform-act/
Educational
• www.ted.com/talks
• Global Education Conference Network http://www.globaleducationconference.com/
Promoting sustainable business
• Tomorrow’s Company http://www.tomorrowscompany.com/
• Ellen Macarthur's Foundation http://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/
• Association of Sustainability Practitioners http://www.asp-online.org/
• Global Association of Chief Sustainability Officers http://www.gacso.org/Discovery
• Ashridge Business School http://www.ashridge.org.uk/website/content.nsf
Campaigning
• AVAAZ http://www.avaaz.org/
• Oil sands truths http://oilsandstruth.org/projects-region/enbridge-gateway-pipeline-bc
Independent journalism
• http://www.alternet.org/about
• Blazing Kat Productions http://www.blazingkatproductions.com/