Macrocosm USA, Inc. (501 3-c) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt, educational clearinghouse for progressives founded by Sandi Brockway in 1989. Its purpose is to compile and edit materials into utilitarian formats such as handbooks, databases, an online databank, websites, and periodic news alerts. The organization has maintained a database of over 7,000 organizations, periodicals, publishers & businesses, media contacts, and other resource guides. A companion handbook was published in 1993. Macronet.org orginated in 1994 and will be going through a complete makeover in 2009.

In 2005 its Global Villages online project was converted to the Katrina Victims Information Portal. All our websites run on Solar and Wind Energy via Thinkhost.com. If you sign up to use them, please use the link from our website or tell them we referred you. We rely only on associate programs today.

Macrocosm USA strives to present solutions and holistic approaches to urgent social and environmental problems while providing materials to aid in understanding the social and environmental sciences. As an electronic networking hub, it has endeavored to become a vital international network of people, projects, and organizations.

Its core of activities center around a directory, maintaining an online database, and networking. A small staff and interns is necessary to continue its efforts: a directory/reader, computer network (MacroNet), periodic reports, online support, and supplemental updates. We are interested in merging and combining our work with other similar projects and organizations. Please contact me at: brockway[at]macronet.org

We are currently working with TRANSITION US, TRANSITION EUROPE,  TRANSITION CALIFORNIA (with HopeDance editor Bob Banner) and many others, to form a comprehensive cataloging, networking and mapping of transition initiatives throughout the world. Sub sites of regions, initiatives, organizations, states and countries will be developed to identify, collect, cross pollinate, and network transition communities.

Starting in early September 2005, the Global Villages Information Portal, meant to be an information site for local self reliance, climate change and life beyond oil, was temporarily forfeited in order to provide the Katrina Victims' Support Site. This is currently down, and will be replaced with a site supporting Transition Towns and Transition Initiatives. Currently I am collaborating and designing the following sites.

http://transitioncalifornia.ning.com/

http://transitionmichigan.ning.com/
http://transitiontennessee.ning.com/
http://transitionus.ning.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Towns

 

I will add more information later when I have greater free time.

Please contact me if you are interested in collaborating.

Tax-deductible contributions and memberships are welcome. Macrocosm USA has relied on no grant monies. It seeks to work with pragmatic individuals and organizations who desire to reduce duplication while combining efforts. Perhaps by reducing redundancy we may, with many hands, make lighter work - and improve collaborative efficiency in the face of dwindling resources.