*Adbusters Media Foundation (1243 West 7th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V6H 1B7 CANADA, (604) 736-9401; www.adbusters.org) Works to redirect the commercial media culture towards ecological and social awareness, provides alternative news and analysis through their website and magazine, and promotes campaigns like Buy Nothing Day and TV Turnoff Week.

*Alternatives for Simple Living (5312 Morningside Ave., Sioux City, IA 51106, 712/274-8875, www.simpleliving.org) Encourages people to live more simply by giving them nuts-&-bolts ideas about how to do it. Shows how overconsumption damages the Earth and our spirits, and shows voluntary simplicity as the solution.

*Aprovecho Research Center (80574 Hazelton Rd., Cottage Grove, OR 97424, 541/942-8198, www.efn.org/~apro) Located on a forty-acre land trust, Aprovecho researches and designs alternative technologies that help people in the U.S. and developing countries conserve precious resources and teaches organic farming.

*Center for a New American Dream (6930 Carroll Ave., Suite 900, Takoma Park, MD 20912, 301/891-3683, www.newdream.org) Helps individuals and institutions reduce and shift consumption to enhance quality of life and protect the environment by offering a wide variety of services and educational tools.

The Circle, One Planet, One People (11160 Glade Drive, Reston, VA 21091, 703/620-2577 www.oneprayer.org) Supports increased environmental awareness and collaboration among groups through an annual Prayer Vigil for the Earth in Washington D.C., which brings together participants from many religious traditions.

*The Co-Intelligence Institute (436 -- 48th Street, Oakland, CA 94609; www.co-intelligence.org) Provides broad-range thinking about culture and contemporary society and works on projects that support positive outcomes.

Collective Heritage Institute (901 West San Mateo Road, Suite L, Santa Fe, NM 87501, 505/896-0366; www.bioneers.org) Spreads the good news about biological pioneers who are working with nature to heal nature; produces an excellent annual conference, "The Bioneers," in the San Francisco Bay area.

Conscious Consumer (PO Box 95650, Seattle, WA 98145, 206/898-4822, www.consciousconsumer.org) Assists consumers who wish to support socially responsible businesses by providing a web-based database on companies' activities and policies in the areas of environmental responsibility, women and minority representation, and union issues.

Cottonwood Foundation (Box 10803, White Bear Lake, MN 55110, 651/426-8797, www.pressenter.com/~cottonwd/) A funding organization that promotes empowerment of people, protection of the environment and respect for cultural diversity. The foundation funds grassroots organizations that rely strongly on volunteer efforts.

Creation Myth Project (2447 Prince Street, Berkeley, CA 94705) Encourages creativity in children and adults by re-telling and illustrating creation myths from around the world.

Earth Connection (370 Neeb Road, Cincinnati, OH 45233, 513/451-3932) Based in a sustainably-built community center that offers community gardening, demonstrates and teaches practices for sustainable living and fosters spirituality and deeper understandings of humans as part of an interdependent Earth community.

Ecotopia Project (3508 SE Madison Street, Portland, OR 97214, 503/736-9701; www.tnews.com/ecotopia) Informs and assists residents of Portland neighborhoods in their movement toward community self-reliance, social equity, and ecological balance.

Genesis Farm (41A Silver Lake Road, Blairstown, NJ 07825, 908/362-6735) Offers Earth Literacy programs, focusing on connections between the health and sustainability of the Earth and the health of human communities; program topics include organic gardening, sustainable agriculture, appropriate technology, nutrition, simplicity, ecological ethics and global ecological security.

The Giraffe Project (PO Box 759, 197 Second St., Langley, WA 98260, 360/221-7989; www.giraffe.org) Honors "Giraffes," people who stick their necks out to make the world a better place. Their strategy is to overcome apathy, cynicism and feelings of powerlessness by showing what a courageous, caring person can achieve.

*Harvest Moon Community Farm (14363 Oren Road North, Scandia, MN 55073, 651/433-4358; www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/3226/) A sustainable living education center based at a family farm that assists children, youth and adults in search for meaning, balance and community, while nurturing the environment and animals, through programs exploring the relationships between the arts, agriculture and nature.

Imago (EarthSpirit Rising) (553 Enright Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45205, 513/921-5124) Seeks to create a new vision of human presence within the Earth community, drawing on Earth-centered traditions and bioregional consciousness, through education for sustainable living, including EarthSpirit Rising Conference.

Institute of Cultural Affairs (1504 25th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122, 206/323-2100 www.ica-usa.org) Promotes social innovation through community building and participation.

Ithaca Health Fund (Box 362, Ithaca, NY 14851) Provides locally-controlled, democratic, nonprofit, preventive- and complementary-oriented health insurance for the benefit of members who cannot afford standard insurance and to create a model for a national health plan.

*Kaisagait Environmental Conservation Youth Group (PO Box 27, Kesogon, Via Kitale, Kenya) Trains farmers and community groups in farming practices that conserve top soil, reduce use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, and promote wildlife habitat restoration.

Maasai Environmental Resource Coalition (2020 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 136, Washington, DC 20006, 202/785-8787; www.lcp2.com/merc) Works to protect Maasai environment, wildlife and habitat, as well as Maasai indigenous land rights.

Mid-Missouri Peaceworks' Center for Sustainable Living (804-C E. Broadway, Columbia, MO 65201, 573/875-0539; http://peaceworks.missouri.org/homepage.html) Provides outreach and education for earth-friendly lifestyle choices.

*Neighborhood Gardens Society (2093 East 12th Ave., Vancouver, BC V5N 2A9, Canada, 604/879-4562 www.cityfarmer.org/Neighborgardens.html) Matches people who own untended garden space with people who would like to grow organic vegetables in their neighborhood, and runs an organic gardening school for immigrants, low income earners and other city dwellers.

Northwest Regional Facilitators (East 525 Mission Avenue, Spokane, WA 99202, 509/484-6733; www.nrf.org) Collaborates with individuals, small groups and communities to create locally based solutions that strengthen community life in the areas of affordable housing, support of working families and their employers, enhancing communication in communities and strengthening the performance of nonprofit organizations.

*Pathways to Peace (PO Box 1057, Larkspur, CA 94977, 800/201-4932) Works with young people around the world, using dance and storytelling to teach conflict resolution, non-violence and mediation.

Planet Earth Eco-Region Society (Box 119, Winlaw, BC V0G 2J0, CANADA, 250/226-0065; www.peersfund.com) Provides funding to proactive grassroots eco-regional projects and produces a directory of projects, products, services and organizations contributing to sustainability in the Slocan Valley Eco-Region.

*Plenty (PO Box 394, Summertown, TN 38483; www.plenty.org) Works to demonstrate that if we protect, manage wisely and share the abundance of the Earth, there will be enough for all. Their projects are in Latin America and the U.S.

Positive Futures Network (PO Box 10818, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110, 206/842-0216 www.futurenet.org; www.yesmagazine.org) Publishes Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures quarterly to help shape and support the evolution of sustainable cultures and communities.

Presbyterian Appalachian Broadcasting Council (PO Box 40472, Nashville, TN 37204, 615/298-4786; www.neighborhoodlink.com/org/pabc) Produces public service announcements for radio and TV to proclaim the gospel and to address the needs of the people of Appalachia.

Puget Sound Network for Compassionate Communication (PO Box 15353, Seattle, WA 98115) An all-volunteer organization that lives and promotes a compassionate way of communicating to create empathic connections and win-win resolutions to conflicts.

Radio Catskill -- WJFF (PO Box 797, Jeffersonville, NY 12748, 845/482-4141) Local public radio station run primarily by volunteers, who also produce 40 percent of its programming.

*Sarvodaya (Lanka Jaitika Sarvodaya Shramadana Sangamaya, "Dhamsak Mandiraya", 98 Rawatawatte Road, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka) A dynamic, grass-roots national organization promoting peace in Sri Lanka, based on buddhist principles of self-reliance, community participation and planned action.

E. F. Schumacher Society (140 Jug End Rd., Great Barrington, MA 01230, 413/528-1737 www.schumachersociety.org) Promotes the values of small-scale, place-based approaches to restoring economic, social and environmental vitality to our communities.

*Simply Living (PO Box 82273, Columbus, OH 43202, 614/447-0296 www.simplyliving.org/sl) Teaches people to live responsibly and joyfully in relation to the earth and each other.

University Street Ministry (4515 16th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105, 206/522-4366) Provides evening meals and other services to homeless youth living on the streets.

*U'wa Defense Project (c/o 445 Summit Road, Watsonville, CA 95076, 408/846-8680; www.uwacolombia.org) Provides legal, community development, advocacy and research support to the Colombian indigenous U'wa people as they strive to defend their ancestral territory and environment.

*Wilderness Volunteer Corps (4649 Sunnyside Ave. N #520, Seattle, WA 98103, 206/633-1992 x101 www.wawild.org/youthvolunteer) Takes low-income and at-risk youth through an intensive three week summer wilderness course followed by service learning and mentoring throughout the following school year.

Youth for Environmental Sanity/YES! (420 Bronco Rd., Soquel, CA 95073, 831/465-1091; www.yesworld.org) Sponsors summer camps for young people from diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds who desire to make our world a better place. The camps foster a sense of community, team spirit and a commitment to living simply.