Local Efforts
Solar Living Institute
contact:
13771 S. Hwy. 101
P. O. Box 836
Hopland, CA 95449
707.744.2017
Established in 1998 as a spin-off from Real Goods Trading Company, the Solar Living Institute in Hopland, CA, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization whose mission is to promote sustainable living through inspirational environmental education. The Institute provides practical, education by example and hands-on workshops on renewable energy, green building, sustainable living, permaculture, organic gardening and alternative, environmental, construction methods.
The Institute is headquartered at the Solar Living Center, a gorgeous 12-acre renewable energy and sustainable living demonstration site visited by nearly 200,000 people annually in the heart of Northern California�s wine country in Hopland, California. Since its inception nearly two million visitors have experienced the Solar Living Center.
The nonprofit Solar Living Institute depends upon your support to continue to offer you rich educational programs. Please support the Institute by joining our Membership Program, making a gift online, becoming an intern, or volunteering.
Emerald Earth Sanctuary
contact:
PO Box 764
Boonville, ca 95415
707-972-3096
Emerald Earth is an intentional community in Mendocino County, California. We are located on 189 beautiful acres of mixed forest and meadows, which is owned by our non-profit corporation Emerald Earth Sanctuary. We make decisions by consensus, and value direct, open communication and conflict resolution. We are currently looking for new members.
On our somewhat remote rural site, we practice sustainable living skills such as organic gardening, permaculture, herbal medicine, natural building, and home power generation. We teach workshops on these topics and our members have written books on natural building and green spirituality. We also have occasional work parties and are sometimes open to short-term visitors and longer-term work traders.
For more information on any aspect of our community and activities, select one of the buttons at left. You can also contact us directly by mail or phone:
The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
contact:
Coleman Valley Rd:
Occidental, CA 95465
(707) 874-1557
oaec@oaec.org
The Occidental Arts and Ecology
Center
The OAEC is a nonprofit organizing and education center and organic farm in Northern California�s Sonoma County. OAEC was founded in 1994 by a group of biologists, horticulturists, educators, activists, and artists seeking innovative and practical approaches to the pressing environmental and economic crises of our day. Much of the Center�s work addresses the challenges of creating democratic communities that are ecologically, economically and culturally sustainable in an increasingly privatized and corporatized economy and culture.
OAEC has eight core programs. Five are site-based, utilizing the 80-acre OAEC site to conduct research, demonstration and education activities that serve the general public. The other three programs are community-centered training, organizing and advocacy projects in service of specific communities and organizations in Northern California and beyond.
The Regenerative Design Institute
contact:
PO Box 923 Bolinas, Ca 94924
415-868-9681
http://regenerativedesign.org/courses-events/specialty-workshops
The Regenerative Design Institute (RDI) is a non-profit educational organization with the vision that all people can live in a mutually enhancing relationship with the earth. We envision a world in which people, inspired by nature, create and maintain healthy and abundant livelihoods that enhance fertility and biodiversity on the planet.
The Ecology Center in Berkeley
contact:
2530 San Pablo Avenue, Suite H
Berkeley, California 94702
Tel: 510-548-2220
Fax: 510-548-2240
The Ecology Center promotes environmentally and socially responsible practices through programs that educate, demonstrate, and provide direct services.
Natural Building Resources
contact:
resources@strawbalecentral.com
Natural Building Resources is an umbrella organization created to disseminate and coordinate information and activities regarding natural building, sustainable architecture, and ecological living.
World Changing
Contact:
1517 12th Ave.
Seattle, Washington 98122
WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together.
Coop America
Contact:
1612 K Street NW, Suite 600
Washington DC 20006
(800) 584-7336
http://www.coopamerica.org/about/
Co-op America is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982.
Our mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.
