Earth Friendly Web Sites
Southern Arizona
- Solar Institute
in Arizona Natural Solutions for a Brighter Future. Advances in solar
energy and other environmentally responsive and responsible technologies are
leading a revolution in living better, more affordably and wisely. Take part
in this community and join in the solar revolution.
Straw Bale Vault Construction
Workshops in Arizona and New
Mexico in 2000 were offered by Women Build Houses. Women Build Houses
was a non-profit network dedicated to increasing women's access to building
skills and knowledge, and to promoting environmentally-safe building.
- The Food Conspiracy,
the local food cooperative in Tucson. In the produce department, I recommend
young green coconuts for the fresh coconut milk which is great in many live
food dishes fromThai soups to drinks and dessert. I've added their fresh tumeric,
thai ginger and wonderful baby turnips to my dishes as well. I depend on the
bulk herbs and teas, raw nuts and sugars too.
- Tucson Organic
Gardeners with its great
summer potlucks and winter guest speakers, always offering plantings, produce
and seeds plus a lot of support information.
- Milagro
a community in balance with nature. Sustainably-designed natural homes clustered
on 43 acres of preserved desert land.
- Tucson Traders
is a community group that provides a way for members to trade goods and/or
services with each other. Printed tender also makes trades with non members
possible. Please call 388-8844 about membership ($15 yearly). The list with
what members wish to trade and what members seek is sent out with the newsletter
to members.
- Community Garden
for people who need a place to garden organically near downtown
Tucson. You can contact Bill Zaffer through his EnviroGoods website or email
him: EcoBill@webtv.net. The garden is across from Pio Decimo Community Center
at 848 South 7th Avenue.
- KUAT
isTucson's excellent public TV station I would hate to be without.
- ARBICO Environmentals sells beneficial insects and natural products for home gardeners and
large farms. She worked with Dole to produce organically grown bananas in
Honduras.
- KXCI, 91.3FM, the community radio station, with great blues, reggae, bluegrass,
rock and more.
- AZ Tourist News if you're traveling or living in Arizona and need information
Webwide
- Mothers
for Natural Law have a good site on genetically
engineered foods. They took a petition to secure the mandatory labeling of
all genetically engineered food in the US to Washington DC. People in the
US are becoming aware of the controversy about this practice whereas Europeans
have been concerned about it for some time now. I really encourage you to
check out their Brand Names and enzymes pages.. good, specific information
you can take to the store with you. As I've always suspected, many vitamin
supplements may do enough harm to outweigh any actual vitamin therapy they
can offer the poor, toxic livers of modern man. In any case, you are playing
Russian roulette because manufacturers don't have to reveal ingredients in
their manufacturing processes. Since enzymes change into something else, it
doesn't have to be named as an ingredient, much less the nature or source
of that enzyme.
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- Common
Cause keeps track of campaign financing and who
is paying off the politicians.
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- INFACT, a group instrumental in saving thousands of 3rd world babies from
corporate formula producers. Currently, their focus is the unfair marketing
practices of tobacco companies aimed at kids.
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- Action Resource Center: Environmental activist group concerned with global impacts such as
destroying old growth forests indigenous people depend on. I discovered this
group from an ad in a small town paper for the site, http://www.homedepotsucks.com.
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- Subdivide and Conquer This
film won "Best Environmental Film" at the 1999 Telluride Film Festival.
Gersh and co-producer Chelsea Congdon explore the consequences of urban sprawl
in the West. They find look-alike strip malls, snarled traffic, polluted air,
and high-density subdivisions replacing ranches, farms, deserts and forests.
See Citizens
for Growth Management's site