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New Page 3 Going Green is Your Business!
Earth Day Momentum
Nan Logsdon Mandelkorn

Earth Day is everyday. What are you doing to help our biosphere? Do you feel like you're part of the groundswell of environmentalist determination? Have you heeded the call to action? 

Everywhere there are examples of how with insight and ingenuity we can protect our eco-sphere and retro-fit our lives to make Green Living economically viable. We cannot fail. All life really does depends on us. What will you do tomorrow?
 
Community Organizing & Networking

The Permaculture Institute (www.permaculture.org) is an educational non-profit, offering Permaculture Design Courses, Topbar Beekeeping and Natural Building Intensive classes. From their site, you can connect with the growing Permaculture Network that lists an ever-growing registry of projects, demonstration sites, permaculture guilds and groups, with focus in the Southwest region of the United States.
The Natural Step
(http://www.naturalstep.org/en)
This international, nonprofit organization is dedicated to education, advisory work and research in sustainable development.
"Since 1989, we have worked with thousands of corporations, municipalities, academic institutions and not-for-profit organizations that have proven that moving strategically toward sustainability leads to new opportunities, reduced costs, and dramatically reduced ecological and social impacts."

Wiser Earth (www.wiserearth.org) is an online social network that connects people, nonprofits and businesses that are working toward a just and sustainable world.
 
 

The Dream Shop
A Unique Fair Trade Enterprise


The Dream Shop at Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, VA, is a fair trade business managed and staffed by resident mental health patients. The shop sells Guatemalan and African handcrafted items and returns 90% of the proceeds to help support the artisans and community development projects, including an orphanage, medical clinics, schools, education, clean water projects, and other vital initiatives chosen by individual communities.


Eastern State Hospital was the first hospital established in the United States in 1773. The hospital now only serves mental health patients, and The Dream Shop is a vital part of the hospital's therapeutic programs.


Hours: Noon to 5pm, Tuesday through Friday

Address:  4601 Ironbound Road, Williamsburg, VA 23187. Drive onto the hospital grounds at the intersection of Ironbound and Longhill Roads, make an immediate right, and park in the lot in front of the building. Tell the information desk attendant that you want to visit The Dream Shop.

Contact:  Laura Dollieslager, laura.dollieslager@dbhds.virgina.gov or 757.208.7330

Click the thumbnail images to view a slide show of The Dream Shop's wares.
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Grants, Scholarships & Fellowships
Earth Island
Institute
(Earth Island Institute)
Check out their Project Support Program that provides an opportunity for committed individuals and groups with a good idea to launch a project with them or to gain sponsorship for an existing project.

Natural Capital Institute
(Natural Capital Institute)
"Helping society move towards a socially just and environmentally restorative existence." NCI serves people who are transforming the world.

Open Society Foundations
(Open Society Foundations) Building Vibrant and Tolerant Democracies
 OSF offers scholarships, grants and fellowships throughout the year.
 

Green Resources
350.org
Alliance to Save Energy
American Council on Renewable Energy
American Rivers
American Solar Energy Society
American Wind Energy Association
Carbon Tax Center
Green America
Solar Electric Power Association
We Care Solar