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INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES / ECOVILLAGES
Intentional Community is an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing communities, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives, intentional living, alternative communities, cooperative living, and other projects where people strive together with a common vision.

• Intentional Communities: http://www.ic.org
  
• Video about LA EcoVillage: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/01/los-angeles-ecovillage.php
• Global EcoVillage Network: http://gen.ecovillage.org
• Northwest Intentional Communities
• Lotan Center for Creative Ecology
• Path to Freedom - Urban Homestead

• Transitional Towns: http://transitionculture.org
• Transition CA:http://transitioncalifornia.ning.com
• Transition US: http://transitionus.ning.com
• Transition Colorado: http://transitioncolorado.ning.com
• Transition South Africa: http://transitionza.ning.com
• Transition New Zealand: http://transitionaotearoa.org.nz
• Transition DC: http://ecolocity.ning.com
• Transition Boulder County: http://www.bouldercountygoinglocal.com/transitionnews.html

• Rob Hopkins' Transition Handbook
• Founder of the Transition Network spreading throughout the world, Rob Hopkins talks about Transition Town Totnes and moving towards a post-peak oil society.
• Transition, Opportunity, Resilience & Celebrating: How can we move through these most interesting times.
• Transition, Opportunity, Resilience & Celebrating: How can we move through these most interesting times.
• Transition in the media again; this time in Sebastopol
• Planting the Seeds of Community: A Report of the Transition Town Santa Barbara Introductory Meeting
• Five Transition Groups report on themselves
• Training for Transition in SF
• Financial Permaculture: Where Permaculture and the Financial World Meet
• THE TRANSITION HANDBOOK: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
• Transition Towns
• The Beginnings of the Transition Town Movement on the Central Coast by Larry Saltzman
• Transition Town Initiatives – A White Paper

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING

• Sustainable Village Provides Innovative Shelter and Safe Haven
• Cal-Earth - California Institute of Earth, Art & Architecture

ALTERNATIVE CURRENCY

• Reinventing Money - Thomas Greco Jr.
• Beyond Money - Thomas Greco's Blog
• Complementary Currency Help Desk
  
• E.F. Schumacher Society - Local Currencies
  
• How to Sustain a Local Economy: From PB&J to Regional Currencies by Mary Morgan - 10/1/2009
• Barter - Relevance and Relations to Money
• New Money Systems & Financial Innovations
• NCN Alternative Money System
• Transaction Net: Complementary Community Currency Systems
• Open Money: the Next Global Currency
• OpenMoney Projects
• Community Currencies
• Complementary Community Currency Systems on Asia, Africa and Latin America
• WalesOnline: Cymru currency could Boost local economies
• The Internet and the Future of Money
• International Journal of Community Currency Research
• Gill Seyfang: Grassroots Innovations and Sustainable Consumption
  

• Center for Global Development
• CEE Bankwatch Network
• The Development Gap
• Essential Action
• Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
• Global Exchange,
• Independent Media Center
• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
• Institute for Policy Studies
• International Forum on Globalization
• Jobs with Justice
• Oxfam
• Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
• Public Citizens Global Trade Watch/Citizens Trade Campaign
  
• Social Trade Organization - STRO
  
• Third World Network, (Malaysia)
• Tobin Tax Initiative
• TransFair USA
• Transnational Research and Action Center
• United Students Against Sweatshops
• U.R.G.E.
• Women' Thrive Worldwide
• World Development Movement
• World Development Movement UK
• OPTIMAES: Open Project to Investigate Money and Economic Systems 

• Crisis Economics