Resources for Building
the Alternative Global Economy

50 Years Is Enough
1025 Vermont Ave. NW,
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
202-IMF-BANK (voice)
202-879-3186 (fax)
wb50years@igc.org
The 50 Years is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice is a network of over 200 organizations working together to bring about profound tranformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

(Challenging Rulemakers)

ACORN
739 8th Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
202-547-2500 (voice)
202-546-2483 (fax)
dcnatacorn@igc.org
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- Who is on the streets, in the neighborhoods, in the workplaces and on the airwaves organizing and building power for low and moderate-income Americans? ACORN stands alone in its commitment to organizing and winning power for low and moderate-income people.

(Alternative Business Models, Challenging Rulemakers)

Alliance for Democracy
PO Box 683
Lincoln, MA 01773
617-259-9395 (voice)
617-259-0404 (fax)
peoplesall@aol.com
The Alliance for Democracy is working to end the domination of large corporations and to build local alternative economics. National conference in Boulder, Colorado, April 29-May 3, 1999.

(Challenging Rulemakers, Future Directions)

Asset Based Community Development Institute
2040 Sheridan Rd.
Evanston, IL 60208-4100
847-491-8711(voice)
847-467-4140 (fax)
The Asset Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) publishes Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets (1993) by John Kretzmann & John McKnight, a guide for mapping community resources at the level of the individual, family, association, and formal institution. ABCD also has workbooks on community building tools, faculty available for presentations, and sponsors an electronic discussion group for community builders around the country.

(Alternative Business Models, Local Economy)

CSA of North America
Indian Line Farm, Box 57, Jugend Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230
413-528-4374 (voice)
413-528-4374 (fax)
csana@bcn.net
Community Supported Agriculture of North America is a not for profit, educational, networking and technical assistance organization for existing, aspiring and potential CSA in Canada, the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.

(Alternative Business Models, Sustainable Living)

Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems
8604 F.M. 969
Austin, TX 78724
512-928-4786 (voice)
512-926-4418 (fax)
cmpbs@greenbuilder.com
The Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, established in 1975, is a non-profit sustainable design and appropriate technology firm engaged in education, research, and demonstration activities.

(Sustainable Living)

Certified Forest Products Council
14780 SW Osprey Drive, Suite 285
Beaverton, OR 97009-8424
Contact: David Ford
503-590-6600 (voice)
503-590-6655 (fax)
cfpc@ix.netcom.com
The Certified Forest Products Council is an independent, not-for-profit, voluntary business initiative that was established in Fall, 1997, through the merger of the Forest Products Buyers Group and the Good Wood Alliance.

(Labeling Movement)

CertifiedProducts.org
All of the products in this web catalogue have earned the label of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an independent, not-for-profit organization that sets the highest standard for environmentally and socially responsible forest management.

The website allows you to search for specific products, to companies carrying certified products in your area or to find more information about FSC-endorsed certified companies.

(Labeling Movement)

Co-op America
1-800-58-GREEN (voice)
Co-op America, a national nonprofit organization founded in 1982, provides the economic strategies, organizing power and practical tools for businesses and individuals to address today's social and environmental problems.

(Alternative Business Models, Labeling Movement)

Conservation Agriculture Program
65 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
Contact: Sabrena Rodriguez
212-677-1900 (voice)
212-677-2187 (fax)
eco-ok@ra.org
ECO-OK Rainforest Alliance Approved label. This certification signals that bananas, coffee, and orange juice meet standards in conservation, cultivation, and community relations

(Labeling Movement)

Corporate Watch
c/o Transnational Resource and Action Center, PO Box 29344
San Francisco, CA 94129
415-561-6567 (voice)
corpwatch@igc.org
Corporate Watch provides in-depth information and analysis of corporate actions. Their Web site includes "An Activist's Guide to Research and Campaign on Transnational Corporations."

(Challenging Rulemakers)

E.F. Schumacher Society
140 Jug End Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230
413-528-1737 (voice)
efssociety@smallisbeautiful.org
The E. F. Schumacher Society, named after the author of Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered, is an educational non-profit organization founded in 1980. Our programs demonstrate that both social and environmental sustainability can be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment to economic issues.

(Alternative Business Models, Sustainable Living)

Eco-village Network of the Americas
556 Farm Road, PO Box 90
Summertown, TN 38483-0090
Contact: Albert Bates
615 964 4324 (voice)
615 964 2200 (fax)
ecovillage@thefarm.org
An eco-village is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy human development, and can be continued into the indefinite future.

(Sustainable Living)

EcoDesign Resource Center
P.O. Box 3981-MPO
Vancouver, BC V6B 3Z4
Canada
604-689-7622 (voice)
604-689-7016 (fax)
edrs@infoserve.net
The EcoDesign Resource Centre shares an office with the Recycling Council of BC and includes an extensive library of publications related to environmentally sensitive design and building, product literature and samples and a small staff of helpful volunteers.

(Sustainable Living)

Economics Working Group
3407 34th Place N.W.
Washington, DC 20016
202-244-0561 (voice)
202-537-6045 (fax)
rcaplan@igc.org
This website offers the text of GANE, the General Agreement on a New Economy, as well as supporting background material.

(Challenging Rulemakers, Future Directions)

Environmental Building News
28 Birge Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
802-257-7300 (voice)
802-257-7304 (fax)
info@ebuild.com
Environmental Building News is a newsletter on environmentally sustainable design and construction. EBN is read by several thousand architects and builders throughout the U.S. and Canada and is widely regarded as the leading newsletter in this field. EBN covers a broad range of issues relating to green building -- everything from energy efficiency and water conservation to recycled-content materials, indoor air quality issues, and waste reduction.

(Sustainable Living)

Fair Trade Federation
PO Box 390487
Mountain View, CA 94039
408-366-8909 (voice)
ftfok@fairtradefederation.com
The Fair Trade Federation (FTF) is an association of fair trade wholesalers, retailers, and producers whose members are committed to providing fair wages and good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged artisans and farmers worldwide. FTF directly links low-income producers with consumer markets and educates consumers about the importance of purchasing fairly traded products which support living wages and safe and healthy conditions for workers in the Third World.

(Fair Trade)

Focus on the Global South (FOCUS)
c/o CUSRI, Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok 10330
THAILAND
Contact: Muto Ichiyo
662 218 7363 (voice)
662 255 9976 (fax)
admin@focusweb.org
FOCUS is a program of progressive development policy research and practice, dedicated to regional and global policy analysis, micro-macro linking and advocacy work. FOCUS works with NGOs and people's organizations in Asia Pacific and other regions.

(Challenging Rulemakers, Future Directions)

Forest Stewardship Council
RD 1 Box 182
Waterbury, VT 05676
Contact: Ms Jamison Ervin
+1 802 244 6257 (voice)
+1 802 244 6258 (fax)
jervin@igc.org
The Forest Stewardship Council is introducing an international labelling scheme for forest products, which provides a credible guarantee that the product comes from a well managed forest. Based in Oaxaca, Mexico, but with official contacts in many countries.

(Labeling Movement)

Friends of the Earth / Green Scissors Campaign
1025 Vermont Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005-6303
Contact: Courtney Cuff
202-783-7400 (voice)
202-783-0444 (fax)
ccuff@foe.org
(Challenging Rulemakers, Sustainable Living)
Global Compliance Research Project
1230 St. Patrick St.
Victoria, B.C. V8S 4Y4
CANADA
Contact: Joan Russow
250-598-0071 (voice)
250-598-0071 (fax)
jrussow@coastnet.com
Working to address state non-compliance with international laws related to peace, human rights, social justice and the environment.

The organization is promoting the Citizens Treaty of Fairness, Equity and Ethics in the U.N.

(Challenging Rulemakers, Future Directions)

Good Wood Directory
503-590-6600 (voice)
The Certified Forest Products Council publishes this catalog of certfied wood products, manufacturers and distributors.

(Sustainable Living, Labeling Movement)

Grassroots Globalization Network
1175 G Street, Suite C
Arcata, CA 95521
707-826-1798 (voice)
419-831-6775 (fax)
ggn@earthisland.org
GGN advances positive alternatives to corporate-led globalization by challenging its adverse impacts; linking issues of economic justice with sustainable development; highlighting successful examples of community-driven projects; building local and global ties between groups and citizens involved in grassroots economic campaigns; and supporting socially and environmentally beneficial economic policies and livelihoods.
Harmony
800-869-3446 (voice)
This catalog offers a wide range of environmental and health products, including environmentally responsible paper and cleaning products previously available through the Seventh Generation catalog.

(Labeling Movement)

Heartland Labor Capital Network
c/o Steel Valley Authority
One Library Place, Suite 201
Duquesne, PA 15110
412-460-0488 (voice)
412-460-0487 (fax)
heartland.sva@att.net
The Heartland Network is an association of labor activists, progressive economists and pension experts, and regional economic democracy organizations from the US and Canada. We are working to increase the control of working people over their savings and assets by building a labor/capital investment network that invests union pension fund capital in environmentally-responsible, worker-friendly small businesses that create good jobs in our communities.
INFACT
256 Hanover Street
Boston, MA 02113
617-742-4583 (voice)
617-367-0191 (fax)
infact@igc.org
INFACT is a national grassroots corporate watchdog organization. Founded in 1977, INFACT is best known for its successful Nestle and GE Boycott Campaigns, and its Academy Award winning documentary "Deadly Deception."

(Challenging Rulemakers)

Institute for Local Self Reliance
2425 18th St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-232-4108 (voice)
ilsr@igc.org
The Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR) provides technical assistance and information on environmentally sound economic development strategies that extract the maximum value from local resources.

(Local Economy, Sustainable Living)

Institute for Trade and Agriculture Policy
2105 First Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
612-870-3400 (voice)
612-870-4846 (fax)
Institute for Trade and Agriculture Policy offers technical assistance to groups addressing economic and ecological issues through seminars, trainings, teleconferences, and on-site consultations. Current projects include working with farmers to develop markets for organic produce and helping landowners develop sustainably harvested wood products and wooded commons.

(Alternative Business Models, Sustainable Living, Labeling Movement)

International Federation of Alternative Trade
30 Murdock Road
Bicester, Oxon OX6 7RF
BRITAIN
+44 1869 249 819 (voice)
+44 1869 246 381 (fax)
cwills@ifat.org.uk
International Federation for Alternative Trade (IFAT) is a federation of producers and "alternative" trading organizations (ATOs). In IFAT, producers of handicrafts and food products from the developing countries come together directly with buyers and managers of ATOs as friends and partners in a spirit of mutual trust. They cast aside the traditional trading system of middlemen and create an "alternative" way of doing business that is beneficial and fair.

(Fair Trade)

International Forum on Globalization
P.O. Box 12218
San Francisco, CA 94112
Contact: Victor Menotti
415.771.3394 (voice)
415.771.1121 (fax)
ifg@ifg.org
The International Forum on Globalization represents more than 50 organizations in 20 countries concerned about the global economy. The next IFG teach-in will be held in conjunction with the WTO ministerial meeting in Seattle in November, 1999.

(Challenging Rulemakers, Sustainable Living)

Jubilee 2000
PO Box 100
London SE1 7RT
England
+44 (0)171 401 9999 (voice)
+44 (0)171 401 3999 (fax)
mail@jubilee2000uk.org
Jubilee 2000 is an international effort aimed at ending Third World debt. Their petition to end the debts owed by poorer countries is on their Web site for all to sign and circulate.

(Challenging Rulemakers)

Kensington Welfare Rights Union
PO Box 50678
Philadelphia, PA 19132-9720
215-203-1945 (voice)
215-203-1950 (fax)
kwru@libertynet.org
The Kensington Welfare Rights Union is an organization of poor and homeless women, men and children from all races struggling to survive and to end poverty. Kensington, located in North Philadelphia, is the poorest area in the state of Pennsylvania, USA.

(Challenging Rulemakers)

Marine Stewardship Council
+44-171-350-4000 (voice)
The MSC label, which will appear in stores by the end of 1998, will certify that frozen and fresh fish come from healthy fish stocks and ecosystems.

(Labeling Movement)

Mothers and Others
40 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011-4211
888-ECO-INFO (voice)
mothers@mothers.org
Newsletter is resource guide for environmental consumer issues. West Coast Regional Office:
870 Market Street, Room 654
San Francisco, CA 94102
email: westcoast@mothers.org

(Labeling Movement)

National Center for Appropriate Technology
3040 Continental Drive
Butte, Montana 59702
(406) 494-4572 (voice)
(406) 494-2905 (fax)
info@ncat.org
The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT), established as a non-profit corporation in 1976, works to find solutions that use local resources to address problems that face all Americans, especially society's most disadvantaged citizens. Through more than 20 years of service, NCAT's work has grown from addressing the immediate energy needs of low-income people to promoting a wide array of sustainable technologies and technology transfer, including nationally-recognized work in energy and resource efficiency and sustainable agriculture.

(Sustainable Living)

People's Global Action
info@agp.prg
The Peoples' Global Action against "Free" Trade and the WTO (PGA) an instrument for co-ordination, not an organisation. Its objectives are inspiring the greatest possible number of persons and organisations to act against "free" trade through non-violent civil disobedience and people-oriented constructive actions, offering an instrument for co-ordination and mutual support at global level for those fighting "free" trade and giving more international projection to the struggles against "free" trade and the WTO. The political analysis and call for action of the PGA are reflected in its manifesto, a living document that will be revised every two years.

(Challenging Rulemakers)

Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy
PO Box 246, So.
Yarmouth, MA 02664-0246
50-398-1145 (voice)
people@poclad.org
POCLAD does research on state chartering mechanisms and corporation codes aimed at changing local laws to nullify corporate privileges and challenging government officials who grant corporations privileges over human rights. POCLAD publishes a newsletter, articles, a resource list, and study circle guidelines, and can link you with local campaigns.

(Challenging Rulemakers, Future Directions)

Public Information Network
PO Box 95316
Seattle, WA 98145-7417
206-723-4276 (voice)
PIN@endgame.org
Public Information Network provides research support to citizens dealing with environmental, economic, and human rights issues. Publishes the "Directory of Transnational Corporations."

(Challenging Rulemakers)

Real Goods
1324 10th St.
Berkeley, CA 94710
800-762-7325 (voice)
Large product catalog and on-line store. Based in Hopland, CA, but they have a store in Berkeley: 510/558-0700

(Sustainable Living, Labeling Movement)

Redefining Progress
One Kearny Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
415-781-1191 (voice)
415-781-1198 (fax)
info@rprogress.org
Redefining Progress is a public policy organization that generates and refines innovative policies and ideas that balance economic well-being, the health of the environment, and social equity for a better quality of life today and in the future.

(Challenging Rulemakers)

Renewable Resource Institute
info@rri.org
RRI, a non-profit organization, promotes the use of Green Plans to achieve a sustainable environment and economy. Green Plans are dynamic programs by which all elements of society agree on long-term environmental goals and take responsibility for achieving them.

(Sustainable Living)

SERRV International
PO 365
New Windsor, MD 21776-0365
+1 800 723-3712 (voice)
info@serrv.org
SERRV International is a non-profit program which promotes the social and economic progress of people in developing regions of the world by purchasing and marketing their crafts in a just and direct manner. We have been creating a marketplace based on fairness for almost fifty years. We are known for our outstanding customer service and quality control.

(Fair Trade)

Scientific Certification Systems
1939 Harrison Street, Suite 400
Oakland, CA 94612
Contact: Debbie Hammel
510-832-1415 (voice)
510-832-0359 (fax)
SCS certifies such environmental claims as recycled content, biodegradability, and energy efficiency. "Certified Eco-Profile: the first comprehensive environmental performance declaration label." Website lists certified products by category.

(Labeling Movement)

SmartWood
65 Bleecker St. 6th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Contact: Richard Donovan
212-677-1900 (voice)
212-677-2187 (fax)
smartwood@ra.org
Accredited by the Forest Stewardship Council. Initiated in 1989, SmartWood is the first and largest forestry certification program in existence. SmartWood is a program of the Rainforest Alliance, an international nonprofit environmental group based in New York City. Though the program initially focussed on tropical forests, today SmartWood works in all forest types worldwide.

(Labeling Movement)

Social Criticism Review
Clara van Sparwoudestraat 120
2612 RW Delft
Netherlands
+3115-2138265 (voice)
editor@socialcritic.org
An outstanding selection of 1,000 online readings on the crisis of modernity: progress, science for sale, megatechnology, third world debt, counterproductive economics, globalization, corporate rule, anti-democratic media, advertising consumerism, environmental destruction, genetic manipulation, sustainable development, human rights, ethics, responsibility, citizenship, community building, arms race, and much more. A useful resource for a unified protest movement.
Sustainable America
42 Broadway, Ste. 1740
New York, NY 10004
212-269-0550 (voice)
sustamer@sa.network.org
Sustainable America works for diverse, strong local and regional economies that are sustainable and provide family supporting wages. Provides publications and organizers' kits on economic development strategies, welfare reform and job creation strategies, and environmentally friendly tax strategies.

(Local Economy, Sustainable Living)

Sustainable Seattle
514 Minor Ave. N.
Seattle, WA 98109-5516
Contact: Lee Hatcher
206-622-3522 (voice)
206-622-3611 (fax)
sustsea@halcyon.com
Sustainable Seattle is a citizen group working to improve our region's long-term health and vitality--cultural, economic, environmental and social. Our mission is to advocate for sustainability in Seattle/King County. Publishes Indicators of Sustainable Community--40 different indicators of economic, environmental, and social health.

(Sustainable Living)

TRANET
PO Box 567
Rangely, ME 04970
202-864-2252 (voice)
tranet@rangeley.org
TRANET is a transnational network of organizations and individuals creating the new social paradigm.

(Sustainable Living, Future Directions)

TerraChoice Environmental Marketing Inc.
1280 Innes Road
Ottawa, ON K1B 5M7
CANADA
613-247-1900 (voice)
613-247-2228 (fax)
ecoinfo@terrachoice.ca
The Environmental Choice Program (ECP), Canada's only ecolabelling program, provides a market incentive to manufacturers and suppliers of environmentally preferable products and services, and thereby helps consumers identify products and services that are less harmful to the environment. Established in 1988, the ECP was the second national ecolabelling initiative undertaken. There are now more than 25 such programs worldwide.

(Sustainable Living, Labeling Movement)

TerraChoice Environmental Services Inc.
300-2197 Riverside Drive
Ottawa, ON K1H 7X3
CANADA
613-247-1900 (voice)
613-247-2228 (fax)
ecoinfo@terrachoice.ca
The Environmental Choice Program's Mission is to reduce the stress on the environment by encouraging the demand for and supply of environmentally responsible products and services.

(Sustainable Living, Labeling Movement)

Third World Network
228 Macalist Rd.
Panang, Malaysia+60-4-373-511 (voice)
+60-4-368-106 (fax)
(Challenging Rulemakers)
Tobin Tax Initiative
P.O. Box 4167
Arcata, CA 95518-4167
Contact: Ruthanne Cecil
707-822-7144 (voice)
cecilr@humboldt1.com
(Challenging Rulemakers, Future Directions)
Transfair Canada
797 Somerset St. West, Box 57052
Ottawa, Ontario K1R 6PO
Canada
613-563-3351 (voice)
613-567-1468 (fax)
Fair Trademarks

(Fair Trade, Labeling Movement)

Transfair USA
52 Ninth Street
Oakland, CA 94607
Contact: Philip Arca
510-663-5260 (voice)
510-663-5264 (fax)
transfair@transfairusa.org
TransFair USA is a non-profit monitoring organization which certifies that participating traders are following fair trade guidelines.

(Fair Trade)

Transnational Resource & Action Center
P.O. Box 29344
San Francisco, CA 94129
Contact: Joshua Karliner
415-561-6567 (voice)
415-561-6493 (fax)
trac@igc.org
Corporate Watch is an online magazine and resource center designed to provide you--every day Internet users--activists, journalists and policy makers--with an array of tools that you can use to investigate and analyze corporate activity. We are committed to exposing corporate greed by documenting the social, political, economic and environmental impacts of these transnational giants.

(Challenging Rulemakers)

Triodos Bank NV
Prins Hendriklaan 9-11
Zeist, AB 3700
The Netherlands
+31 30 693 65 00 (voice)
+31 30 693 65 55 (fax)
Triodos Bank is a social bank lending only to organisations and businesses with social and environmental objectives. Triodos Bank is well known for its innovative and transparent approach to banking.

(Alternative Finance, Sustainable Living)

Union Label & Services Trades Department, AFL-CIO
815 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20006
202-628-2131 (voice)
202-638-1602 (fax)
ulstd@ufsi.com
The Union Label and Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO, was founded in 1909 to promote the products and services produced in America by union members - especially those products and services identified by a union label, shop or store card or service button.

(Labeling Movement)