Support of Nonprofits

The following list highlights organizations that we work with who are working to increase global awareness of humanity’s interdependence with nature and its finite resources. They are leading the way in the search for realistic means to enable human-kind to live in harmony with one another and with the environment.

The Land Institute

The mission of the Salina, Kansas based Land Institute is to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring. It is doing this by developing an agricultural system with the ecological stability of the prairie and a grain yield comparable to that from annual crops. Examples are perennial wheat, corn, and sorghum. This kind of breakthrough will allow the human species to maintain its food growing capacity by not having to plow up its farm land every year. Land Institute work is frequently cited in the most prestigious scientific journals, most recently Science and Nature.

The Positive Futures Network

The Positive Futures Network (PFN) on Bainbridge Island, WA is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting people's active engagement in creating a just, sustainable, and compassionate world. PFN is perhaps best known for its publication YES! A Journal of Positive Futures. This quarterly magazine invites the reader to be part of a global community of change makers. Each issue focuses on a theme, showing the possibilities and practical steps that can lead us all to a more positive future.

The Student World Assembly

The Student World Assembly (SWA) is a non-governmental, non-partisan organization created to represent students in much the same manner as the U.N. represents governments. It provides a deliberative assembly where students around the world can exchange views and vote on global issues through on-line discussion forums and an annual in-person International Convention. The SWA functions as a prototype for The World Assembly whose goal is to establish a deliberative assembly for the world’s people, acting in concert with existing governments, and exercising moral authority

Trees, Water, and People (TWP)

This Fort Collins, Colorado-based nonprofit organization sponsors and implements a number of innovative and very high leverage programs for reforestation and watershed protection in the US and Central America.

Reforestation. In the US, TWP sponsors tree planting events, enhances wetlands, protects wildlife habitats, and restores eroded riverbanks!  In Latin America, the organization implements programs for community reforestation, develops local community skills for the building of fuel-efficient stoves at the local level, and sponsors micro-enterprise tree nurseries.

Watershed Protection. TWP provides watershed groups with technical assistance, practical training, and capacity-building workshops.

Tribal Lands Program. TWP works with Native American communities to develop more culturally appropriate, environmentally beneficial and economically sound energy solutions.

The Worldwatch Institute

The Washington D.C. based Worldwatch Institute offers a unique blend of interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing that has made it a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and economic trends. Their work revolves around the transition to an environmentally sustainable and socially just society-and how to achieve it. Their annual State of the World publication is translated into over 25 languages and read by government leaders around the world. It is a highly popular text for courses in political science, geography, and the environment at numerous schools and colleges.