Progressive Possibilities
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California :

• Acterra: Action for a Sustainable Earth :: Environmental education and action in the San Francisco Bay Area. Issues: environment; action; education; forests; youth; habitat restoration; toxics; green business; Earth Day. Location: Palo Alto, CA 94303.
• Architecture Sustainable Design :: James Heimler, Architect Los Angeles California. One of the leading architecture firms in California for environmental sustainable design practices, and spatial architecture. Issues: architecture; Architecture Links;Architecture;Architects,Sustainable Design links;Sustainable Design;Architectural Designs;spatial architecture. Location: Tarzana, CA 91356.
• Architecture Sustainable Design :: James Heimler, Architect Los Angeles California. One of the leading architecture firms in California for environmental sustainable design practices, and spatial architecture. Issues: architecture; Architecture Links;Architecture;Architects,Sustainable Design links;Sustainable Design;Architectural Designs;spatial architecture. Location: Tarzana, CA 91356.
• Association for Humanistic Psychology :: A diverse international, interdisciplinary non-profit community dedicated to the exploration, healing, and expansion of the human mind, body, and soul, and to building a society that advances our ability to choose, grow, and create. Produces events, publications, communities, and projects worldwide. Issues: psychology; transformation; consciousness; humanistic; health; somatics; community; transpersonal; holistic. Location: San Francisco, CA 94102.
• Bay Area Progressive Directory :: An index to about 1000 organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area that may be of interest to progressive activists, plus links to related web sites elsewhere, and a calendar of Bay Area events. Issues: networking; directories; calendars. Location: Berkeley, CA 94712.
• Beyond Self-Interest: APAs Toward a Community of Justice :: Policy analysis of Affirmative Action and Asian Americans. Issues: civil rights; Asian Americans; Pacific Islanders; Affirmative Action; Proposition 209. Location: Los Angeles, CA 90095.
• Building Libraries for Children in Mexico :: Tomas Tomas is a 501(c)(3) that builds libraries for children in Mexico. Founded by Tom Sawyer and Tom Waits. Issues: education; Libraries; Children; Mexico; Books in Spanish; Alamos Project; Education. Location: Santa Rosa, CA 95405.
• Bureau of Public Secrets :: Situationist and anarchist comics and articles on Wilhelm Reich, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, the Gulf war, radical women, socially engaged Buddhists, radical tactics, and utopian possibilities. Issues: anti-authoritarianism; anarchism; situationism; media; capitalism; ecology; consumerism; appropriate technology. Location: Berkeley, CA 94701.
• Butte Environmental Council :: Butte County's leading environmental advocacy, education and referral resource Issues: environment; environment; education; advocacy, water, land use. Location: Chico, CA 95928.
• Cafe Progressive :: An interactive community for progressives featuring forums, essays, music, books, progressive merchandise, and resources with an emphasis on education, multiculturalism, equity and social justice activism. Issues: justice; multiculturalism; corporate-welfare; democracy; education; politics; reform; community Location: berkeley, CA 94702.
• California Mission Studies Assn. :: CMSA, a multi-disciplinary nonprofit group, works to advance scholarship and historic preservation of the 21 California missions, the presidios and pueblos. Issues: education; historic preservation, conservation, multi-culturalism, community, California history, California missions, Spanish heritage, k12 education Location: Bakersfield, CA 93358.
• Californians for Responsible Gun Laws :: A nonprofit lobbying organization dedicated to combatting firearms violence through education and legislative lobbying. Issues: gun control; firearms; lobbying; violence; prevention; education; politics; guns. Location: Berkeley, CA 94704.
• Campus California TG :: An international non profit Campus that offer programs where you as a participant get the opportunity to take actions as a responsible world citizen. This as aDevelopment instructor working at projects in Africa, Asia and Central america. Issues: global understanding; development; environment; education; coopeeration; AIDS; future; global understanding; Africa. Location: Yreka, CA 96097.
• Carlessnesshood 101 for Cleaner Air, Healther Planet :: Driving down the environmental, health, ownership and operation costs of automobiles. Issues: air pollution; Environmenal protection; Ecological consumption; Clean air; Consumer education. Location: San Rafael, CA 94915.
• Center for Ecoliteracy :: A public foundation dedicated to fostering a profound understanding of the natural world, grounded in direct experience, that leads to sustainable patterns of living Issues: education; environment; farmland; food distribution; nutrition; organic; students; water; gardens. Location: Berkeley, CA 94702.
• Center for Partnership :: A nonprofit organization to promote partnership and Riane Eisler's Cultural Transformation Theory. Issues: education; partnership; gender equity; The Chalice & the Blade; Riane Eisler; Sacred Pleasure; Transformation; relationships; sustainability. Location: Pacific Grove, CA 93950.
• Cerebral Palsy FYI :: Offers information on cerebral palsy, its causes, and treatments. Issues: disabled; cerebral; palsy; lawyer; attorney; lawyers; attorneys; medical; malpractice. Location: San Diego, CA 92121.
• Community Peacemakers :: On-line resource for Peace, Nonviolence, Social Justice, Personal Development Programs and Events. Issues: conflict resolution; peace; nonviolence; social justice; personal development; conflict resolution. Location: Oakland, CA 94602.
• Cooperative Communication Skills ExtendedLearningCommunity :: Library of free self-help training materials, articles and essays about learing new commuication skills. Issues: self-help; communication; skills; conflict; resolution; education; family; marriage; work Location: Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
• Drug Crime Defense Attorney Legal Help and Information :: Drug crime information and a fast, free attorney consultation. Issues: civil rights; attorney; lawyer; arrest; legal; defense; rights; criminal; law. Location: Studio City, CA 91604.
• Envionmental Gaia work :: Gaia Action are taking actions to improve the situation for the planet earth and its people Issues: environment; eco volunteer, Gaia work, environment Location: Etna, CA 96027.
• Equus Sanctuary :: A permanent non-profit preserve that provides a tranquil, unexploitive retirement for equines that were rescued from the slaughter pipeline. Issues: animal rights; Animal Protection; Animal Rescue; Animal Liberation; Horse Rescue; Horse Protection; Animal Cruelty; Slaughter Abolition; Veganism. Location: Glendale, CA 91221.
• Executive Service Corps of Southern California :: Executive Service Corps of Southern California matches retired business consultants with nonprofit agencies seeking management assistance. ESCSC members are volunteer consultants, so we provide these services to nonprofits for low fees. Issues: volunteering; Management for nonprofits Location: Los Angeles, CA 90057.
• Global Energy Network International :: promoting a vision espoused by Buckminster Fuller of a global energy grid as a means for achieving optimal, sustainable energy solutions in the shortest possible time, for the peace, health, and prosperity of all. Issues: energy; sustainable energy; environment; Buckminster Fuller; global vision. Location: San Diego, CA 92138.
• Global Public Media :: Internet broadcasting station with indepth audio and video interviews with subject area experts on the social, physical, and economic causes of biosphere destruction; peak oil and gas; and relocalization. Issues: energy; biosphere; peak; oil; gas; destruction; contraction; relocalization; media; video. Location: Oakland, CA, CA 94608.
• Global Village School for Peace and Diversity Studies :: A non-profit, distance-learning K-12 school that is international in scope. We offer a full diploma program, college preparatory classes and college counseling. A dedicated team of staff and volunteer workers has created a quality educational program that integrates social justice studies with the core subjects. GVS is founded on the belief that knowledge and understanding are the keys to ending prejudice. We think that it is imperative for parents and concerned communities to replace government schools as stewards of children’s education and the Internet provides an ideal means to do this - students can build community and interact with each other regardless of where they live. Issues: education; child; conflict resolution; global understanding; homeschool; justice; peace; students; youth. Location: Ojai, CA 93024.
• Global Visions Humanitarian Directory :: Nonprofit Internet project of Creative Resources Guild helping spiritual and humanitarian people, projects and organizations get their message out. Issues: computer networking; social change; communications; Internet; humanitarian; directory; classifieds; calendar; web services Location: Santa Monica, CA 90408.
• Helen Woodward Animal Center :: Under one management, this unique, non-profit, with varied services benefits the community by providing educational and therapeutic programs for people, and humane care and adoption for animals. Issues: animal rights; shelter; humane society; education; pet assisted therapy; adoption. Location: Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92607.
• Holistic Hypnosis Presentations :: Hypnotic Shows and Presentations demonstrating the power of suggestions and how to program yourself. Issues: education; Consciousness; awakening; conditioning; events; empowerment; spiritual; catalytic; transformative. Location: Orinda, CA 94563.
• Goldman Environmental Prize :: The Prize is given to 6 environmental heroes per year- one from each continental region. The Prizes are awarded for important efforts to preserve the natural environment, including, but not limited to: protecting endangered ecosystems and species, combating destructive development projects, influencing environmental policies and striving for environmental justice. Issues: environment; grassroots activism; global understanding; sustainability; preservation. Location: San Francisco, CA 94111.
• GoodHumans Guidelines :: We are a website that helps you help the world. Get a rating of how good you are, learn how to be a goodhuman and help define what that is. Issues: environment; environmental; ethics; morals; family-values; eco-friendly; earth-friendly; natural; good. Location: Santa Cruz, 95060.
• GreenBiz.com :: A free, content-rich nonprofit resource on business, the environment, and the bottom line. It contains descriptions of, and links to, thousands of organizations, tools, award programs, mentoring programs, and government offices aimed at helping companies of all sizes and sectors align environmental responsibility with business success. Issues: corporate responsibility; green business; sustainable business; environmental business; climate change; energy efficiency; waste reduction; environmental careers; clean technology. Location: Washington, DC 20006.
• Independent Press Association :: A membership organization of nearly 200 independent, progressive magazine and newspaper publishers in North America. Issues: media; technical support; advocacy; magazine and newspaper publishers; progressive publishing; networks. Location: San Francisco, CA 94110.
• Institute for Global Communications :: Provides Internet services for people, not for profit. Extensive online conferencing, email, full Internet access; online services consulting for non-profit organizations. IGC's website, The Progressive Directory, is an extensive index of links to progressive issues. Issues: computer networking; PeaceNet; EcoNet; WomensNet; ConflictNet; LaborNet. Location: San Francisco, CA 94129.
• Left Curve Publications :: artist-produced critical cultural journal that encourages non-institutional defetishized work (traditional as wellas experimental essays, literature, visual art, etc.) from a radical perspective. Issues: arts; art; spectacle; radical; cultural; critique; modernity; postmodern; commodification. Location: Oakland, CA 94607.
• Macrocosm USA :: Issues: education; Location: Cambria, CA 93428.
• Mitsubishi Watch :: News, analysis and commentary based on published and unpublished material and personal experience related to unethical behavior of Mitsubishi group of companies. Issues: corporate responsibility; environment; workplace democracy; consumer protection; equal rights; forests; labor; minorities; racism. Location: Berkeley, CA 94702.
• NOCIRC :: Educates the public and health care professionals with the facts, history, and lifelong harm from the problems of infant male circumcision and female circumcision sexual mutilation. Issues: education; infant male circumcision; female circumcision sexual mutilation; care of the normal, natural intact [not circumcised] penis; what infant circumcision is and does. Location: San Anselmo, CA 94979.
• NOHARMM :: Educates men about the functions and benefits of the normal, natural, intact [not circumcised, not sexually mutilated] penis and foreskin; exposes the deception, fraud, ignorance, superstition [religion], myths, notions, absence of ethics, and greed that keep this human rights violation of children alive. Issues: education; human rights; legal rights; organized protest; research of harm. Location: San Francisco, CA 94146.
• National Steinbeck Center :: A museum dedicated to the universal themes espoused in the works of John Steinbeck including diversity and the struggles of common people. Issues: literature; diversity; youth; education; agriculture; humanities. Location: Salinas, CA 93901.
• North Coast Environmental Council :: It's time to organize all the smaller watershed groups along the North Coast into an integrated group that can speak with a unified voice for the environment. Issues: bioregional; Environmental Activism; Forest Defending; Watershed Restoration; Human Scale; Sustainable; Local Economies. Location: , .
• Planned Parenthood of Pasadena :: A nonprofit organization which offers information on medical, educational and advocacy services which are provided throughout the Northern San Gabriel Valley in California. Issues: family planning; birth control; abortion; pro-choice; sex education; sexual health information; sexually transmitted infections; political action; activism. Location: Pasadena, CA 91104.
• Post Carbon Institute :: An educational, think tank, and community outreach organization that explores in theory and practice how culture, governance, and economies might look without fossil fuels. Issues: energy; environment; fossil; oil; gas; peak; localization; depletion; contraction; fuels. Location: Oakland, CA 94608.
• Progressive Science Institute :: An independent educational organization that publishes books elaborating on "univironmental determinism" the scientific philosophy developed by Borchardt (1984) in "The Scientific Worldview". Being strictly scientific, this philosophy eschews religious and spiritualist notions, all of which are considered detrimental to scientific theory and to the development of a non-fatalistic and non-solipsistic personal philosophy. Issues: science; scientific worldview; scientific philosophy; univironmental determinism; theory. Location: Berkeley, CA 94705.
• RVL S.C.O.R.E. :: A non-profit organization that assists paralyzed individuals! Issues: disabled; spinal; cord; injury; paralysis. Location: Torrance, CA 90501.
• STOP THE WAR :: Working-class community newsletter for peace without borders. We oppose the violence of all claims of possession. We struggle to end the entire system that causes war. Issues: peace; protest; working-class; communism; socialism; anti-war Location: San Diego, CA 92159.
• Safety Awareness and Family Education Network, Inc. :: A non-profit whose goals include educating families, educators and children on effective ways to keep children safer from preditors and pedophiles. Issues: child abuse; family education, child abduction, child safety, sexual assault Location: Clovis, CA 93612.
• Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous :: A 12-step fellowship for individuals who are suffering from Sex, Love, Fantasy or Avoidance addiction. Issues: self-help; relationship; love; romance; recovery; 12-steps; codependence; avoidance. Location: San Diego, CA 92024.
• TechSoup Technology Donations for Nonprofits :: A nonprofit that distributes donated software from Microsoft, Cisco, Symantec, Intuit, Adobe and almost 20 other major companies, as well as refurbished Green hardware – for as little as 10% of retail cost. Issues: fundraising; networking; fundraising; computers; security, public relations; recycling; environment; technology. Location: San Francisco, CA 94107.
• Tetworld Peace Through Development Project and Game :: Based on Buckminster Fuller's concept for a global computer/internet based strategic game to "Make the World Work for Everyone". Issues: peace; development; world game; Buckminster Fuller. Location: Twentynine Palms, CA .
• The Be A Champion Foundation :: The Be A Champion Foundation is a San Diego based not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting academic acheivement, phyical fitness, and leadership & character development Issues: education; education; health; champion; achievers; community; academics; sports; football Location: San Diego, CA 91917.
• The Feminist Majority Foundation :: A nonprofit organization working for women's equality. Issues: equal rights; Clinic Defense; Rock for Choice; Women in Policing. Location: Los Angeles, CA 90048.
• The Nautilus Institute :: A nonprofit policy-oriented research and consulting organization that promotes international cooperation for security and ecologically sustainable development with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Issues: Pacific/Pacific Rim; environment; think-tank; Asia-Pacific; sustainable; development; security; research; information. Location: Berkeley, CA 94710.
• The Sacred Earth Society :: Dedicated to the perception of the Sacredness of Earth and in all it's living creatures, and the need to work towards creating a harmony in our co-existence. Issues: environment; Rainforests; Endangered species; Animal rights; New World Order; Crop Circles; The Media; Sacred Earth; indigenous peoples. Location: San Diego, CA 92162.
• The Share Guide :: A holistic health magazine and resource directory focusing on alternative medicine, personal growth and environmental awareness. Issues: health; environment; alternative-medicine; consciousness; spirituality; awareness. Location: Bay Area, CA 95436.
• Transformation Program :: Social Transformation Coaching: Finding your contribution to social transformation as part of your life purpose. Transformation Groups: Ongoing groups for personal/spiritual growth oriented toward social change. Issues: transformation; psychology; spirituality; personal growth; social transformation; coaching; life purpose Location: Larkspur, CA 94939.
• Tri-Valley CAREs :: Community group focused on encouraging cleanup of pollution around Livermore Lab and other DOE nuclear weapons sites; and advocating for cutting wasteful spending on nuclear weapons and non-nuclear solutions to world conflicts. Issues: disarmament; nuclear weapons, peace, environment, justice, nuclear pork-barrel politics Location: Livermore, CA 94550.
• Turtle Island Institute CLICs Network :: An organization dedicated to social transformation using Community Learning and Information Centers as a vehicle with Turtle Island Institute as a virtual university. Our ultimate goal is to achieve sustainable living in communities on an international scale. Issues: transformation; sustainable living; security; autonomy; consciousness; organic agriculture; Holodynamics. Location: Campo, CA 91906.
• USC Environmental Studies Program :: An undergraduate and graduate environmental studies program. Issues: education; global; development; law; policy; management; planning; analysis. Location: Los Angeles, CA 90089.
• engaged Buddhism :: Annotated portal of online resources pertaining to engaged Buddhism. Issues: interfaith; deep ecology; prison & death-row; gender equity; hospice; pacifism Location: San Francisco, CA 94109.
• indylabs :: A resource for innovators; media and action guides, directories, and tools. Issues: media; news; technology; resources; art; activism; directory; video; free speech. Location: San Francisco, CA 94014.