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Acorn Community: An egalitarian income-sharing community located in central Virginia. Founded in 1993, Acorn is dedicated to sustainable living and creating a vibrant, eclectic culture.
The Abominable SnowMansion: An HI hostel in Arroyo Seco, near Taos, NM. We stayed here while volunteering at Earthship, and it's a wonderful place. A sort of unintentional community has formed around it. Also, their prices are great!
Arcosanti: An experimental city designed by Paolo Soleri that is being built (slowly) in central Arizona. The model focuses on creating a compact and efficient city that incorporates and works alongside the existing environment.
Argonne Community Garden: A community garden in that is run by the San Francisco United School District.
The Art Yard: The old Santa Fe railroad yard has been sustainably rennovated into a park/art space.
Boggy Creek Farm: A USDA certified urban market farm in Austin, TX.
BRING: This is a Eugene, OR recycling organizaiton. One of the nation's oldest non-profit recyclers, BRING focuses on reuse of items that would otherwise end up in the landfill. In addition to processing recyclables, BRING sells donated used goods and offers education opportunities.
Burgerville: A Portland, OR area fast food chain that sells food made with local, sustainable ingredients.
Cayo Costa State Park: A Florida state park that is attempting to return the land to its native conditions. Among the spieceis slated for removal: Australian pines, Brazillian peppers, and African wild pigs (go see them before they're gone).
Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems: A non-profit education, research, and demonstration organization specializing in life cycle planning and design. CMPBS bases their projects on a flexible building system, allowing spaces to grow, shrink, and evolve with changing purpose.
Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture: A San Francisco-based organization that promotes sustainable food syestems through the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market and educational programs.
Chesapeake Climate Action Network: A Maryland-based grassroots non-profit dedicated exclusively to fighting global warming.
City Repair: An organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live. The Village Building Convergence, one of their major projects, focuses on bringing communities togther by turning intersections into places that bring people together instead of splitting them apart.
Drive Less Save More: Varoius transportation agencies in and around Portland, OR came together to form the Drive Less Save More campaign, which seeks to reduce car travel and eliminate single person car trips. While in Portland, we saw the showing of thier video contest and awards ceremony.
Earthship Biotecture: Designs and builds fully self sufficient houses using local and reclaimed materials, primarily adobe, tires, and old cans and bottles.
Emerald Valley Time Exchange: A Eugene, OR-based time bank, which is an organization that allows people to share skills and earn credits to recieve help from others with skills.
Even' Star Organic Farm: An organic farm in St. Mary's County, MD that provides a year round CSA, specializes in heirloom vegitables, and employs students from the local college.
Florida Trail Association: A non-profit dedicated to maintaining and advocating for the Florida Trail, a national scenic trail. The FTA works with state and federal agencies to ensure the protection and expansion of the Florida Trail.
Food Not Bombs: A national organization that provides free meals to all comers. The meals are made with donated food and prepared in the kitchens of local volunteers. We worked with the Denver, CO chapter and saw them again in San Diego.
The Green Arcade: A book store in San Francisco that specializes in books on the environment, politics, sustainability, the slow food movement, organics, urban planning, nature, and children's books.
The Green Project: A New Orleans-based environmental non-profit dedicated to creative reuse. They provide used paint building materials both donated and removed from condemned houses at affordale prices.
Growers Market: Eugene, Oregon's volunteer-run weekly food-buying cooperative.
Herring Run Watershed Association: An organization that works to improve the environmental quality of the Herring Run watershed in Baltimore, MD through stewardship and education.
Hostel in the Forest: A hostel that follows sustainable practices, in the middle of a Georgia pine forest. You can sleep in a tree house, hang out in a geodesic dome, and eat a free, vegan dinner.
Hot Lips Pizza: A pizza shop in Portland, OR that uses sustainable practices in evry possible aspect of thier store.
Houz House: Houzeau Collaborative is organized to provide information and demonstrations of affordable and sustainable home renovation practices for the New Orleans Community.
Mayfel's Restaurant: A restaurant in downtown Asheville, NC that specializes in from scratch New Orleans style cooking. They buy local when possible, and serve up great food!
M.E.C.C.A.: Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts is an organization that seeks to divert reusable materials from the landfill and put those items back into the hands of people that can make use of them, from artists and teachers to youth and their parents. They also host workshops and provide studio space for artists.
Mountain Homestead: An intentional community in southern Oregon that focuses on ecoforestry and sustainable living practices. They also lease land to the Cobb Cottage Company, who teaches people how to build their own cobb structures.
New Belgium Brewery: A Fort Collins, CO-based brewery that follows sustainable practices and brews great beer in the Belgian style (which basically means no rules).
Nyland Cohousing: The largest cohousing project in the nation, located outside Boulder, CO. Nyland aims to provide a community and common resources to its residents while allowing them to live in traditional family units or groups of thier choice. It's a lot like a an old fashioned community, but with a community center, garden, kitchen, etc.
Rebuilding Together: A national organization that focuses on providing basic necessities to low income communities and vulnerable neighborhoods.
Rebuilding Together New Orleans: Part of the Preservation Resource Center, RTNO helps New Orleans residents rebuild homes that ahve been ravaged by hurricaines. It also provides used building materials at low prices.
The River Project: An organization that is working to rejuvinate the LA river and its watershed (a daunting task).
S.A.M.E. Cafe: A Denver restaurant that allows patrons to pay what they think the meal is worth or trade work for a meal.
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition: Through day-to-day advocacy, education, and working partnerships with government and community agencies, the SFBC is dedicated to creating safer streets and more livable communities for all San Franciscans. The SFBC sponsored Bike to Work Day while we were in SF.
San Mateo Outdoor Education (SMOE): Hosts week-long camp sessions for students K-12 that teach children about the natural environment and sustainability.
Save Our Springs Alliance: An Austin-based non-profit dedicated to protecting the Edwards Aquifer and its streams and watershed.
S.C.R.A.P.: The School and Community Reuse Action Project focuses on creative reuse of materials that would otherwise be disposed of. Donated items are sold at low prices to provide art materials (both traditional and non-traditional) to anyone who needs them, but with a focus on schools and teaching environments.
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange: A seed business focused on heirloom and organic vegitables. SESE is run by Acorn, an intentional community in central Virginia.
Stanley Architects & Artisans: An architectural firm that incorporates sustainability principles into their projects. The firm's working space is also a demonstration of their interests, aims, and concerns.
Terraburger: A wholesome alternative to fast food, Terra Burger uses natural and organic ingredients and green practices.
The Tree People: An organization that is using natural means to improve Los Angeles' sustainability. In addition to tree planting and promoting tree-based technology (like cisterns), they train, support, and educate children and communities to improve their own areas.
Trees for the Future: Works with rural groups to restore tree cover to their lands.
Trek to Re-Energize America: A national bike trek where participants from all across America will converge on Washington DC on July 26 to lobby for legislaiton on climate change.
The Tumbleweed Tiny House Company: Designs and builds small houses, usually under 100 sq. feet. Tumbleweed houses are usually mobile and their small size greatly reduces their environmental impact.
Victory Gardens for All: A Eugene, OR-based victory garden organization. For $50, you can have a garden installed, including all of the plants and soil modifiers. The gardening team is made up of others who have had gardens installed, as they have to work on five other gardens as well.
wecommune.com: A resource sharing tool for communities, wecommune encourages everyone to start communes, which it defines as "any community that shares resources." The site is like a combination of facebook and craigslist/freecycle, that allows commune members to work together more efficiently, while also connecting communities to one another.
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