Sustainable Communities BA at Dominican University of California

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"Extreme poverty can be ended, not in the time of our grandchildren, but our time." Thus forecasts Jeffrey D. Sachs, whose twenty-five years of experience observing the world from many vantage points has helped him shed light on the most vital issues facing our planet: the causes of poverty, the role of rich-country policies, and the very real possibilities for a poverty-free future. This highly anticipated blueprint for world-wide economic success — is a goal, he argues, we can reach in a mere twenty years...read more

Sustainable livestock raising is custom-designed to region, has low inputs, maintains or improves soil conditions and forage, balances biodiversity with forage production, custom-designs predator control to minimize impacts on ecosystem, minimizes invasive exotics, shares watering areas with wildlife, and minimizes impacts on stream waterflows and riparian communities...read more.

Don't you find it odd that the experts blame butter and beef for heart disease, even though heart disease is new and traditional foods are old? Heart disease as we know it was first diagnosed by James Herrick in 1912; it is a 20th century disease..read more.

Permaculture emphasizes high-yielding, small plot, and greenhouse agriculture and aquaculture ponds as well as forage agriculture, forest agriculture and the development of self-sufficiency, including on-site alternative energy sources...read more.

Bat World-Mojave is located in the southern most part of California’s Mojave desert, in the fragile area between the Mojave and California desert ecosystems. Bat World-Mojave was established to provide bat rehabilitation services to a willing community, and has the complete support of the Joshua Tree National Park, the Mojave Preserve, the Marine Corps Air to Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), and local animal control agencies...read more.

Forest Gardening is a way of working alongside nature—an approach that results in great productivity with minimal maintenance, and a method for transforming even a small cottage garden into a diverse and inviting habitat for songbirds, butterflies, and other wildlife. Based on the model of a natural woodland, a forest garden incorporates a wide variety of useful plants, including fruit and nut trees, perennial herbs, and vegetables...read more.

Environmental law and policy refers to the practice of creating new regulations, laws, and practices, and of changing existing ones through campaigning, lobbying, advocacy, and direct action, which have been adopted by a government or an organization, and which govern activity related to the environment, such as laws and policies relating to land use planning or toxic dumping...read more.

To cross-pollinate the grassroots, by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools.

In the process of this effort we seek to take the “who made that!?” and “how much does it cost!?” out of our creative endeavors...read more.

This book provides a broad perspective on the intersection of indigenous peoples and the law, particularly within environmental law and international environmental law, emphasizing themes that are increasingly prominent on the agenda of the international community. In the anthology, twenty-four articles are collected that address significant conflicts with an interdisciplinary vantage point, where the interests of indigenous peoples and environmental law are closely intertwined. It analyses biodiversity, traditional knowledge, the responsibility of multinational corporations, and restitution...read more.

Law and policy reform refers to the practice of creating new regulations, and laws, and of changing existing laws that have been adopted by a government or an organization, and that govern activity related to laws, legislation, and policy-making, through campaigning, lobbying, advocacy and direct action...read more.

Garden for the Environment maintains a nationally acclaimed one-acre urban demonstration garden and offers environmental education programs about organic gardening, urban compost systems and sustainable food systems. Since its founding in 1990, the garden has operated as a demonstration site for small-scale urban ecological food production, organic gardening and low water-use landscaping...read more.

This book is about the flowering of the largest democratic mass movement in American history. It is also necessarily a book about democracy itself. Finally it is about why Americans have far less democracy than they like to think and what would have to happen to alter that situation.

The passionate events that are the subject of this book had their origins in the social circumstances of a hundred years ago when the American population contained huge masses of farmers...read more.

Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute (MCLI) seeks to promote social change by increasing the recognition and use of existing human rights and peace law at the local, national, and international levels. The Institute's highly regarded Studies in Law and Social Change include Alexander Meiklejohn: Teacher of Freedom, The Cold War Against Labor, and The Ford Hunger March. The Institute works with the India Legal Centre for Human Rights and the Law on common issues of concern....read more

The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund 675 Mower Road Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 17201 Municipality Becomes First in the United States To Ban Corporate Waste Dumping. Borough Also Strips Waste Corporations of “Rights” Within the Municipality...read more

One earth, many worlds: Sustainability attempts to coordinate, network, correct, and govern those actions of the many worlds that may harm the one earth (the global commons) and incite destabilizing violence. Some believe in world government, others in markets, still others in a hierarchy of "federated" state governments, and others in a web of non-state-based civil society organizations as the best management practice. . . read more

We are a research project that details how famine has been represented in the media, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Its aim is to provoke a debate about the political effect of such photographs on our understanding of the majority world. Our aim is to provoke debate among the producers and consumers of disaster imagery and encourage further reflection by all concerned. . . read more

"Can such a system conceivably deal with the problems we are now having to face? The answer is self-evident: greed and envy demand continuous and limitless economic growth of a material kind, without proper regard for conservation, and this type of growth cannot possibly fit into a finite environment. We must therefore study the essential nature of the private enterprise system and the possibilities of evolving an alternative system which might fit the new situation." - E. F. Schumacher. . . read more

. . .is a wage that allows a person to afford a basic standard of living. A living wage is often higher than the minimum wage and the definition of the standard of living enabled by a living wage is culturally dependent. A living wage description often encompasses the ability to afford housing, food, utilities, transport, health care, and some recreation, working an average of forty hours per week. . . read more

We are a member-supported organization providing access to reliable, non-judgmental information about psychoactive plants and chemicals and related issues. We work with academic, medical, and experiential experts to develop and publish new resources, as well as to improve and increase access to already existing resources. We also strive to ensure that these resources are maintained and preserved as a historical record for the future. . . read more

. . .includes practical guidance for the different tasks necessary to promote community health and development. For instance, there are sections on leadership, strategic planning, community assessment, grant writing, and evaluation to give just a few examples. Each section includes a description of the task, advantages of doing it, step-by-step guidelines, examples, checklists of points to review, and training materials. . . read more

Its purpose is to persuade consumers to buy more products. This can lead to overconsumption, health problems, and environmentally destructive consumption. However, sustainability tries to persuade those in wealthy nations to limit their rate of material and energy consumption and to avoid health problems or ingredients that may injure their bodies. . . read more

We are a global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption, bringing people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and children around the world. TI, through its International Secretariat and more than 85 independent national chapters around the world, works at both the national and international level to curb both the supply and demand of corruption. . . read more

. . . is a collection of world maps, using equal area cartograms where territories are re-sized on each map according to a particular variable. The maps and data files cover 200 territories, mainly United Nation Member States plus a few others to include at least 99.95% of the world's population. The maps presented on this website are equal area cartograms, otherwise known as density-equalising maps. The cartogram re-sizes each territory according to the variable being mapped. . . read more

. . .are created when the rooftops of buildings are designed or reengineered to be gardens planted with vegetation. Green roofs improve a building's thermal management by providing insulation in the colder months and by keeping the building cool in warmer months, with vegetation that produces oxygen, absorbs carbon dioxide, filters air pollution, provides wildlife habitat, and slows stormwater runoff by absorbing much of the rain that falls on the roof. . . read more

We are a non-profit association in partnership with MIT Media Labs aiming to provide low-cost laptops to children in poor communities around the world. Our sub-$100 laptop design, developed at MIT Media Labs, incorporates innovative technology with an emphasis on durability. In addition to Wi-Fi and peer-to-peer capabilities, our Linux-based laptop is encased in rubber and fitted with a hand crank power source for use in areas where access to electricity is limited. . . read more

On the banks of Mali's Niger River, Soumana Natomo and his family gather for a communal dinner of millet porridge with tamarind juice. In the USA, the Ronayne-Caven family enjoys corndogs-on-a-stick with a tossed green salad. This age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform diets worldwide. HUNGRY PLANET presents a photographic study of families from around the world, revealing what people eat during the course of one week. . . read more

. . . emphasizes high-yielding, small plot, and greenhouse agriculture and aquaculture ponds as well as forage agriculture, forest agriculture and the development of self-sufficiency, including on-site alternative energy sources . . . read more

was launched in 1995 to provide free and affordable legal services to grassroots, community-based environmental groups, and rural municipal governments. The Legal Defense Fund currently hosts four Program Areas: Grassroots Litigation Support Program, Grassroots Administrative and Technical Support Program, Corporations and Democracy Program and Sustainable Communities Program . . . read more

NOW on PBS is devoting an entire beat to covering people who use business strategies for humanitarian purposes - also known as social entrepreneurs. While the NOW broadcast will investigate more than a dozen social entrepreneurs, the website features news, inspiration and tools. Our blog covers the latest happenings in the field of social entrepreneurship . . . read more

. . .addresses the relationship between women and their environment, including the role of women in environmental protection, environmental leadership, and environmental education; environmental health and the impacts of pollution on women's health; and the empowerment of women through environmental restoration and conservation work. . . read more

Lasting peace and social justice require equitable and sustainable use of resources. BNB provides community-based education and assists development projects with recycled bicycles, related technologies and technical assistance, as concrete alternatives to the militarism, over-consumption & inequality that breed war and environmental destruction. . . read more

A free and accessible resource that highlights the number and variety of renewable energy projects from around the world. This site is a gateway to a world of information on renewable energy. . . read more

. . .is the concept that natural capital-natural resources and the ecological systems that provide vital life-support services-is scarce and that business, industrial, and economic activity must value and use natural capital wisely to continue to operate efficiently. . . read more

As an indigenous grassroots organization, we are taking the lead to educate and organize for the protection of Newe Sogobia and Newe rights. Since the 1950s, the U.S has tested hundreds of nuclear weapons on Western Shoshone homelands and disposed of thousands of metric tons of radioactive waste in unlined trenches at the Nevada Test Site. . .read more

This newsletter is produced by WOCAN, an organization that works to transform Natural Resource Management programs and organizations at all levels, supporting and empowering professional and rural women together to achieve gender equality and environmentally sustainable development. . . read more

Electricity is one of the defining markers in the transition from developing to developed nations. Electric power supply for burgeoning megacities is a central concern. Sustainable infrastructure must choose the right components (e.g. power plants, power grid, transmission lines, cables, etc.) in the right configurations to prevent brownouts and blackouts and to maximize efficiency.. . . read more

The Suitcase Clinic is a student and volunteer run organization founded by students from the UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program (JMP) and UC Berkeley's School of Public Health out of a desire to address the unmet needs of the city of Berkeley's homeless and low-income population. Structured around the principles of public health, social welfare, community activism and empathy, the Suitcase Clinic currently . . .read more