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Links towards international websites
Kiva
Kiva partners with existing microfinance institutions. In doing so, we gain access to outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities world-wide. Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world
http://www.kiva.org/
Freegan.info
Multilanguages website denunciating human overconsumption habits and proposing various alternatives such as "food dumping" and "freegansism".
http://freegan.info/?page=home
Global Ecovillage Network
Home page of various ecovillages from around the world.
www.ecovillage.org
Idealist
Action Without Borders connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.
www.idealist.org
Wikipedia
Marvelous Encyclopedia in many languages, including Esperanto, with more than a million english articles. This project is very impressive.
www.wikipedia.org
Earthfirst
Earth First! was named in 1979 in response to a lethargic, compromising, and increasingly corporate environmental community. Earth First! takes a decidedly different tack towards environmental issues.
http://www.earthfirst.org/
My Climate
This organization offers ecological means of transportation. Part of your plane ticket is invested in diminution of the carbon dioxyde emission by efficient energy and renewable energy.
www.myclimate.org
BeWelcome
BeWelcome is a hospitality and culture exchange network, founded and managed by dedicated volunteers from all over the world. Our dream is to create a project which allows everybody (whether traveling abroad or near home) to see their destination through the eyes of local people and to experience their unique culture.
http://www.bewelcome.org/
WWOOF
The International WWOOF Association is dedicated to helping those who would like to volunteer on organic farms internationally.
http://www.wwoof.org/
Permaculture.net
Permaculture is the use of ecology as the basis for designing integrated systems of food production, housing appropriate technology and community development. It offers a practical, creative approach to the problems of diminishing resources and threatened life support systems now facing the world.
http://www.permaculture.net/
Self sufficient 'ish'
Self sufficient 'ish'.com - The urban guide to almost self sufficiency. Not all of us have the means the space or are perhaps unwilling to give it all up and suffer the highs and lows of going it alone on a smallholding. That is why self sufficient 'ish'.com came along. We provide a growing database of self sufficiency articles for the organic grower.
http://www.selfsufficientish.com/
Primitive Ways
The Primitive Ways website is an excellent encyclopedia about primitive technologies and simple life solutions. It is a tribute to our ancestors' wisdom everywhere on earth. Some of the basic survival knowledge : today's humans have forgotten...
http://www.primitiveways.com/
Lernu!
Lernu! is a multi-lingual website whose goal is to inform internet users about Esperanto and help them to learn it, easily and free of charge.
http://www.lernu.net/
Kurso de Esperanto
Kurso de Esperanto is a multimedia computer program for teaching yourself Esperanto. It contains everything you need, is fun and easy.
http://www.cursodeesperanto.com.br/
Survival International
Survival is the only international organisation supporting tribal peoples worldwide. It works for tribal peoples' rights in three complementary ways: education, advocacy and campaigns.
http://www.survival-international.org/
Médecins sans frontières
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 70 countries.
http://www.msf.org/
Links towards english websites from Quebec
The People's potato
The People’s Potato is a vegan soup kitchen run out of Concordia University. The project was initiated in 1999 in order to address student poverty. The student population at Concordia is typically in debt and has little access quality nourishing foods. Our soup kitchen emphasizes serving well cooked, wholesome foods.
http://peoplespotato.resist.ca/
Santropol Roulant
Santropol Roulant is a volunteer organization established in 1995 and run by motivated and dynamic young people in the community. We bring people and groups together across cultures and generations through our innovative meals-on-wheels service and intergenerational programs. New projects include Rooftop gardens, kitchen workshop, a Friperie and worm composting.
http://www.santropolroulant.org/
Les Lucioles
Since september 2002, Les Lucioles presents various social and political movies. The self-managed collective is focused on sharing and helping, all work done in a non-hierarchic way.
http://www.leslucioles.org/
Équiterre
Équiterre develops projects that empower citizens to make environmentally and socially responsible choices.
http://www.equiterre.qc.ca/
Terravie
The objectives of Terravie are to hold land, eliminate it from any real estate speculation and promote a model of viable communities with construction of environmentally sound housing, available to all, while preserving the natural resources.
http://www.terravie.org/
Quebec Vipassana Meditation Centre
The centre is dedicated to the practice of Vipassana meditation as taught by S. N. Goenka. Vipassana means "to see things as they really are". It is a logical process of mental purification through self-observation.
http://www.suttama.dhamma.org/
Coalition SOS Levasseur
One of Québec's last stretches of virtually untouched wilderness is found on René-Levasseur Island, 300 km North of Baie Comeau. It is now intensively logged by Kruger Inc! Québec's last old growth forests provide rare habitat for flora and fauna, constituting a treasure for all humanity: to condemn such a masterpiece to destruction is a crime. We must organize and resist!
http://www.soslevasseur.org/
Société québécoise d'espéranto
Information website about Esperanto, explaining the reasons of the language and its principal advantages. The Société québécoise d'espéranto also offers a free internet couse to learn the language.
http://esperanto.qc.ca/
Montrealo Esperanto MovadO
The MEMO website is used by Esperanto speakers of the Montreal area, to organize and enjoy activities in the metropolitan area.
http://www.esperanto-montreal.org
La Gaillarde
La Gaillarde is a non-profit organization with environmental mission : the recycling of textile products and the promotion of young eco-designers of Montreal.
www.friperielagaillarde.com
CCDHAL - Comité Chrétien pour les Droits Humains en Amérique Latine
The CCDHAL works mainly with Latin America and wants to bring together the academic community and civil society, particularly international cooperation organizations from community organizations, citizens' groups and environmental organizations.
http://www.ccdhal.org/
Links towards other english interesting websites
Médecins sans frontières, National Websites
[USA] http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
[UK] http://www.msf.org/unitedkingdom/
[Canada] http://www.msf.ca/
[Australia] http://www.msf.org.au/
Permaculture Associations, National Websites
[USA] http://www.permaculture.net/
[Britain] http://www.permaculture.org.uk/
[Canada] http://www3.telus.net/permaculture/KPIWebdesign.htm
[Australia] http://www.permaculture.org.au/
[New Zealand] http://www.permaculture.org.nz/
Charity Village
The purpose of Charity Village is to encourage, support and serve the 175,000 registered Canadian charities and nonprofit organizations, and the millions of professionals, staffers, volunteers, and donors who make this sector such an important part of our national fabric.
www.charityvillage.com
GoodWork Canada
Want to work for a more peaceful, more sustainable world? Subscribe today to receive job listings, contracts, requests for proposals, internships, networking & training opportunities, resources and tips. Also green/ethical business opps., and eco/organic real estate for sale or rent.
www.goodworkcanada.ca/
Youth Environmental Network (YEN)
The YEN strives to connect Canadian youth environmental groups from coast to coast to coast so that they can empower each other and have more successful local, regional and national environmental action based projects and campaigns. This exciting site is our newest effort in doing this!
http://www.yen-rej.org/
Bruno Comby Institute
The Bruno Comby Institute is a non-profit association whose object is "to promote scientific research in fields related to a better life style; the improvement of individual and collective health, prosperity and performance and the protection of the environment, in order to build a better future"
http://www.comby.org/index.html
Rawtreat
This is a Retreat and Educational Project based on a farm where a small community live and work according to permaculture/forest gardening philosophies. The farm is seasonal self sufficient, based on a great diversity of fruits, vegetables and edible wilds. Made from edible wilds and vegetables are prepared different compositions of delicious fermented meals and raw chocolate. All of this can be offered to visitors plus an adequate environment to live a simple raw vegan lifestyle.
http://www.rawtreat.org/
