Sustainable Development
tionship with stuff – including how we can make
innovative ideas, funny stories, and motivated
things better. It provides high quality educational
people active in making day-to-day life more
resources and programs to everyone from teachers
sustainable.
and people of faith to business and community
www.youthxchange.net
leaders, and it supports learning and action for more than 350,000 members of the Story of Stuff
Ecobasa This is a online social networking platform aimed
community. www.storyofstuff.org
at connecting people who are looking for alternative ways of living that include eco-sustainability,
The Ruckus Society
self-sufficiency, living without money, skill sharing,
Provides environmental, human rights, and
and independent learning. It includes an open direc-
social justice organizers with the tools, training, and
tory for eco-villages, eco-sustainable communities,
support needed to achieve their goals through the
farms, and projects, maintained by the people who
strategic use of creative, nonviolent direct action.
live there.
www.ruckus.org
Training for Change
www.ecobasa.org
Navdanya
Increases capacity around the world for activist
Dr. Vandana Shiva’s blog, an Indian environ-
training that helps groups stand up more effectively
mental activist and anti-globalization author. This
for justice, peace and the environment. They deliver
is also a network of organic producers and seed
skills directly that people working for social change
keepers and a program for the Research Foundation
can use in their daily work. The website contains
for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE).
manuals, training resources, and other tools in
www.navdanya.org
various languages. www.trainingforchange.org
World Resources Institute Informative website with interesting projects
Peace Bag for EuroMed Youth Provides an online toolkit with concepts, models, and methods concerning intercultural dialogue,
and publications on Sustainable Development from all over the world. You will also find figures and numbers about Sustainable Development here.
dealing with conflicts, ideas for action, and more.
www.wri.org
www.peacebag.org/articles/toolkit-index.html
United Nations Sustainable Development Worldmapper
Knowledge Platform
Provides different maps of the world showing, for example, the population, the income or the number
Website with publications, an overview of initiatives dealing with SD, and information about the UN.
of internet users by re-sizing countries and territo-
www.sustainabledevelopment.un.org
ries. It is helpful in explaining issues connected to globalization such as global inequality. www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper
International Institute for Sustainable Development Website with scientific articles and research
youthxchange towards sustainable lifestyles Looking for inspiration? Visit this website: It is designed to help facilitators and individuals understand and communicate about sustainable lifestyles. Explore more than 130 examples of organizations,
reports on very different topics from Canada. www.iisd.org
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