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- Global Exchange: Shows actions and how to accomplish change on such far ranging issues as curtailing sweatshop practices to improving the environment. Internship program, volunteer work, activism with a purpose.
- Learning For A Better World: Measuring Genuine Progress: "Normal Productivity" counts oil spills, toxic cleanup, even increases in prisons as "growth." New Genuine Progress Indicator at this site, reflects truer costs of human activity, and presents a more honest economic model.
- Better World Member Publications: Permits both print and electronic communication of your socially responsible actions, plans or even ideas.
- Center for Ethics and Toxics (CETOS): Information for making decisions about one's daily living as it pertains to money and its effects on environment, and freedom of speech.
- General Electric and 3rd World Workers: Corporate Monitor reported GE unions asked for minimum fairness for third world workers.
- Good Money's Survey: Market Basket survey aims to come up with what are fair wages in all parts of the world.
- Green Pages Online: Find thousands of green, environmentally responsible, socially responsible products services. Created by Co-op America.
- Greenwash Awards: Given to corporations that put more money, time and energy into PR campaigns aimed at promoting eco-friendly images than in protecting the environment.
- Investors should know how their fund votes: CBS.MarketWatch.com's The Gadfly writes of Domini Fund's challenge to other mutual funds to put their proxies up for all to see on the WWW. And warns shareholders to keep track of what is going on.
- Is It Wise to Invest in the Stock Market?: Cautions about investing are provided in this substantial, single page paper.
- Might As Well Face It, We're Addicted to Stuff: Hope Magazine, November 1998 editorial on materialism and money.
- Mind Power by John Kehoe: Can the powers of your thought lead to socially responsible citizenship?
- Peace through Interamerican Community Action (PICA): An activist organization to enable dignity and human rights for workers everywhere. Based in Bangor, Maine.
- Political Activism Resources: Korean site with world wide links concerning information and activism strategies and organizations.
- Prodding for Disclosure of Funds' Proxy Votes: Article in Washington Post on how investors can stop the self serving decisions of mutual fund managers when it comes to proxy votes.
- RTMark: Investing in Chaos: The Magic Christian Fund at RTMark enables ordinary folks to "act up," protest corporate power.
- SIFE - Students in Free Enterprise: Non-profit organization educating people on concepts like market economics, entrepreneurship, and business ethics through educational outreach projects.
- Shell Game: Money allegedly used to destroy indigenous people's environments, rights and lives. Related to boycott of Shell Oil company.
- ShoreBank Pacific: The First Environmental Bancorporation: Dedicated to economic revitalization and ecosystem restoration. Lends to businesses in communities in Pacific Northwest. Loans support sustainably harvested timber, pollution prevention, water treatment, and affordable housing.
- Socially Responsible Investing: Information offered by Oberlin College, Ohio.
- Students for Change: E Mail list for students to work together on ethical behavior of corporations.
- SustainAbility Ltd.: UK think tank and business consultancy on sustainable business practices.
- Sustainable Business.com: Inspirational Center for Environmental Business on the Web: Up to date, informative, inclusive, progressive, and networking with comprehensive library.
- Taking the Pledge: Brown University alumni report shows Brown University groups taking a pledge to not support sweatshops in various goods that relate to the university in anyway. - December 1998
- Trillium Asset Management - News: Recent releases on the impact or changes made by Socially Responsible, shareholder activism.
- U.S. National Debt Clock: Seven generations from now we will all be owned by the banks and be impoverished if this continues. See the seventh and eighth links on Debt Clock home page for activists concerning the U.S. debt problem.
- Various Activism Connections: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) with phone numbers and links of world wide activism organizations.
- Voice of Islam S.R.: Religious Friday khutba or sermons on Social Responsibility from the Islamic Center of Southern California in Real Audio and Real Video format
- Washington's Cascadia Revolving Fund: Community economic development through your investments.
- WoodWise Consumer: Co-op America's Guide helps you conserve forests and trees by reducing consumption of wood and paper.
- Youth Link for Social responsibility: Foundation of America's national youth in action campaign and first national youth conventions.
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