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The Cornucopia Institute
The Cornucopia Institute engages in educational activities supporting the ecological principles and economic wisdom underlying sustainable and organic agriculture. Through research and investigations on agricultural issues, The Cornucopia Institute provides needed information to consumers, family farmers, and the media.

The Meatrix
The Meatrix is a product of the first-ever Free Range Flash Activism Grant. Free Range, a cutting-edge design company, awarded a grant of free production of a Flash movie to GRACE (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment). GRACE works to end the destructive and dangerous practices of factory farming and to promote sustainable agriculture - a goal close to Free Range's heart. Reform of the farming industry would mean significant gains in many of the areas Free Range fights for: health, food safety, economic justice, workers' rights, environmental integrity and animal rights.

Food Routes
Where does your food come from?

Community Food Security Coalition
A non-profit North American organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local, and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times.

Union of Concerned Scientists
A non-profit alliance of scientists and citizens working for a healthy environment and a safe world.

Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
Based in Pittsboro, a membership association of North and South Carolina farmers, gardeners, and consumers dedicated to ecological farming methods and the development of a healthful, sustainable agriculture.

NC Plenty
Our local currency.

The Campaign
Link to the campaign to label genetically engineered foods.

The Foundation for Ethics and Meaning
Challenges the economic and cultural dominance of market-driven hyper-consumption; political, spiritual, and ethical apathy; and the ecological and human damage this worldview produces.

Center for Media and Democracy
A non-profit, public interest organization dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry. The Center serves citizens, journalists, and researchers seeking to recognize and combat manipulative and misleading PR practices.

Corporate Watch
Monitors transnational corporations and their social, ecological, and economic impacts.

Whole Earth
Provides information about restoring your local ecosystem, citizen advocacy, and socially responsible investing. Here are the tools for producing knowledge and creating communities according to your own values and ideals.

YES! A Journal of Positive Futures
Fosters the evolution of a just, sustainable, and compassionate future. YES! encourages people to put their values into action.

Adbusters
A magazine concerned about the erosion or our physical and cultural environment by commercial forces. Its mission is to transform our commercial media culture and direct it toward ecological and social awareness.

The Ethical Investment Cooperative
A firm of independent financial advisers dedicated to socially responsible investment – focusing on human rights, social justice, sustainability, and corporate accountability.

Institute for Local Self Reliance
ILSR combines research and action. It turns its reports into economically viable strategies. It helps communities, large and small, become self-sufficient while conserving resources. Its vision offers a prototype for the think global/act local recipe.

Consumers Choice Council
CCC work to ensure that consumers in the U.S. and around the world have the information they need to purchase products that are produced in more environmentally sustainable and socially just ways.

Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
An organization whose goal is to increase public understanding of corporate agribusiness through awareness, education, and action, and to advocate the importance of building alternative, democratically controlled food systems.

Food Alliance
A non-profit coalition of farmers, consumers, scientists, grocers, processors, distributors, farmworker representatives, and environmentalists dedicated to promoting expanded use of sustainable agriculture practices.

Food and Water
A national non-profit advocaacy organization working to combat the industrialization of culture and agriculture.

National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
The campaign is dedicated to educating the public on the importance of a sustainable food and agriculture system that is economically viable, environmentally sound, socially just, and humane.

National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
A national network committed to pesticide safety and the adoption of alternative pest management strategies that reduce or eliminate dependencies on toxic chemicals.

Organic Consumers Association
A public interest organization dedicated to building a helathy, safe, and sustainable system of food production and consumption. OCA utilizes public education, media work, direct action, grassroots lobbying, consumer boycotts, and litigation to achieve its three basic goals: a global moratorium on genetically engineered foods and crops; a phase-out of industrial agriculture; and at least 30 percent organic production in U.S. agriculture by 2010.

Rural Advancement Foundation International USA
With a focus on North Carolina, it helps to promote sustainable agriculture; to strengthen family farms and rural communities; to protect the diversity of plants, animals, and people in agriculture; and to ensure responsible use of new technologies.

Rural Coalition
An alliance of over 70 regionally and culturally diverse organizations working to build a just and more sustainable food system that brings fair returns to minority and other small farmers and rural communities; that establishes just and fair working conditions for farm workers; that protects the environment; and that brings safe and healthy food to customers.

Seed Savers Exchange
A non-profit organization dedicated to promoting preservation of genetic diversity by saving old-time food crops from extinction. SSE provides a seed exchange network, a seed catalog, and other publications.

Greenpeople.org
The world's largest, directory of eco-friendly products: Organic food, pet supplies, baby products, beauty products, home improvement, hemp, organic cotton, health products, recycled products.

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