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- 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, freedom of speech, and more.
www.cetos.org
- Coming Clean - Nonprofit organization now working with groups across the country to organize viewing events for the airing of Bill Moyers' documentary, "Trade Secrets" on Public Television.
www.comeclean.org
- Feel Good is NOT ~ good enough - Motley Fool criticizes SRI as "feel good," but ineffective investing.
csf.colorado.edu/co-op/coop-bus/volume4/0602.html
- General Electric and 3rd world workers - Corporate Monitor reported GE unions asked for minimum fairness for third world workers.
www.essential.org/monitor/hyper/mm0797.09.html
- Good Money's Survey - Market Basket survey aims to come up with what are fair wages in all parts of the world.
www.goodmoney.com/articles.htm#RUTH
- Got an idea? You can tell Better World - Better World Member Publications permits both print and electronic communication of your socially responsible actions, plans or even ideas.
www.betterworld.com/BW/pubs.htm
- Green Pages Online - Find thousands of green, environmentally responsible, socially responsible products services. Created by Co-op America.
www.greenpages.org
- 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.
cbs.marketwatch.com:80/archive/19990808/news/current/gadfly.htx?source=htx/http2_mw&dist=send
- Is It Wise to Invest in the Stock Market? - Cautions about investing are provided in this substantial, single page paper.
www.watchtower.org/library/g/2000/10/8a/article_01.htm
- Might As Well Face It, We're Addicted to Stuff - Hope Magazine, November 1998 editorial on materialism and money.
www.hopemag.com/issues/11-12-98/ed-n-d98.htm
- Mind Power by John Kehoe - Can the powers of your thought lead to socially responsible citizenship?
www.kehoe-mindpower.com/index.html
- Natural Wealth Seminar - October 15, 1998 begins this program in Colorado and you can join by clicking here.
csf.colorado.edu/sustainable-economics/natural-wealth.html
- Peace through Interamerican Community Action - PICA is an activist organization to enable dignity and human rights for workers everywhere. Based in Bangor, Maine they have confronted Wal-Mart and offer specific alternative places to buy clothing.
www.bairnet.org/organizations/pica/default.htm
- Political Activism Resources - Korean site with world wide links concerning information and activism strategies and organizations.
www.kimsoft.com/kimpol.htm
- 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.
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54701-2001Apr7.html
- RTMark: Investing in Chaos - The Magic Christian Fund at RTMark enables ordinary folks to "act up," protest corporate power.
www.rtmark.com/fundmagx.html
- Shell Game - Money allegedly used to destroy indigenous people's environments, rights and lives. Related to boycott of Shell Oil company.
www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/motherlode/shell/shellgame.html
- 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.
www.eco-bank.com
- Socially Responsible Investing - Information offered by Oberlin College, Ohio.
www.oberlin.edu/~ovoice/issue2.4/respons_invest.html
- SR Biz - europe Listserv - Students for Responsible Business in Europe, Mailing List.
tile.net/lists/srbeurope.html
- SR Biz: U.S. Listserv - Students for Responsible Business Mailing List
tile.net/lists/srb.html
- Student Alliance to Reform Corporations - Nationwide, college student movement to help make corporations more accountable through working with their school's investment committees to act and vote SR.
www.corpreform.org
- Students for Change - E Mail list for students to work together on ethical behavior of corporations.
groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/studentsforchange
- Students in Free Enterprise - SIFE Team teaches students about money management at Cameron School of Business, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas.
www.stthom.edu/stmary/sife/projectsumms.html
- SustainAbility Ltd. - UK think tank and business consultancy on sustainable business practices.
www.sustainability.co.uk
- Sustainable Business.com - Inspirational Center for Environmental Business on the Web: Up to date, informative, inclusive, progressive, and networking with comprehensive library.
www.sustainablebusiness.com
- 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
www.brown.edu/Administration/Brown_Alumni_Magazine/99/11-98/features/pledge.html
- The Union Institute Office for Social Responsibility - Annotated links to (1) Office for Social Responsibility, (2) Center for Public Policy, and (3) Center for Women.
www.tui.edu/OSR/index.html
- The World of Greenwash - Kenny Bruno teaches what is going on in the world profit versus humanity as he sees it.
www.corpwatch.org/trac/greenwash/world.html
- Training Materials and Resources - A directory of activism resources at enviroweb.org
www.enviroweb.org/enviroissues/system/activism/index.html
- Trillium Asset Management - News - Recent releases on the impact or changes made by Socially Responsible, shareholder activism.
www.trilliuminvest.com/pages/news/news_home.asp
- Tripod interactive Activism Pod - Socially responsible thoughts and actions. Activism networks and points of contact.
www.tripod.com/pod_central/pods/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.
www.brillig.com/debt_clock
- Unable to save for investments? - Weidner Investments shows how a simple, Reverse Budget can help you start to save.
www.weidnerinvest.com/reverse.htm
- Various Activism Connections - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) with phone numbers and links of world wide activism organizations.
www.interware.it/users/giz/eff/activism.htm
- 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
islamicity.org/voi/voi_soci.htm
- Wal-Mart Sweatshop Guides - People of Faith Network "Right to Know" campaign asks this multinational retailer to reveal who manufactures their products.
www.users.cloud9.net/~pofn/sitemap.html
- Washington's Cascadia Revolving Fund - Community economic development through your investments.
www.scn.org/civic/sri/crf.html
- WoodWise Consumer - Co-op America's Guide helps you conserve forests and trees by reducing consumption of wood and paper.
woodwise.org
- Youth Link for Social responsibility - Foundation of America's national youth in action campaign and first national youth conventions.
www.youthlink.org/main.htm
- 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.
www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved
- What is growth? What is 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.
betterworld.com/BWZ/9610/learn.htm
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