Affinity Partners
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Amazon Watch
Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the
rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon
Basin. We partner with indigenous and environmental organizations in
campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the
preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems.
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Agricultural Institute of Marin (AIM)
AIM was the first land trust in the
United States to focus on farmland preservation. Founded in 1980 by a
coalition of ranchers and environmentalists to preserve farmland in
Marin County, California, AIM acquires agricultural conservation
easements on farmland in voluntary transactions with landowners. MALT
has so far permanently protected more than 41,500 acres of
land on 64 family farms and ranches.
Awakening the Bay: The Holistic Network
Connect with like-minded people, interested in well being, growth, and sustainability. Find workshops, classes, and events in your area.
Barefoot Artists
Barefoot Artists works with poor communities around the globe practicing the arts to bring healing, self-empowerment, and social change.
Biohabitats, Inc.
Since pioneering the practice of ecological
restoration in the 1980s, Biohabitats has been combining sound science
with integrated design
to protect and restore natural habitats throughout
the world.
The Biomimicry Guild is the only innovation company in the world to use a deep knowledge of biological adaptations to help designers, engineers, architects, and business leaders solve design and engineering challenges sustainably.
Black Water Mesa
Our Black Mesa campaign is focused on maintaining community input in any
Black Mesa- related energy projects and advancing a well-formed Navajo
Nation energy transition plan.
BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies)
BALLE's mission is to catalyze, strengthen and connect networks of
locally owned independent businesses dedicated to building strong Local
Living Economies.
The Breast Cancer Fund
The Breast Cancer Fund works to connect the dots between breast cancer
and exposures to chemicals and radiation in our everyday environments.
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)
Building sustainable communities by assisting people to assert their right to local self-government and the rights of nature.
Center for Ecoliteracy
The Center for Ecoliteracy
is dedicated to education for sustainable living. They provide information, inspiration, and support to the vital movement
of K-12 educators, parents, and other members of the school community
who are helping young people gain the knowledge, skills, and values essential
to sustainable living.
Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture
The Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) is
dedicated to promoting a sustainable food system through the operation
of the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market and its educational programs. They are a tax-exempt 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation organized in 1994 to educate
urban consumers about sustainable agriculture and to create links
between urban dwellers and local farmers.
Center for Mind-Body Medicine
The Center for Mind-Body Medicine is an educational organization
dedicated to reviving the spirit and transforming the practice of medicine.
The Center is working to create a more effective, comprehensive and
compassionate model of healthcare and health education.
Center for Social Inclusion
The Center for Social Inclusion works to unite public policy research
and grassroots advocacy to transform structural inequity and exclusion
into structural fairness and inclusion.
Creative Facilitations
Connecting people to ideas, each other, and themselves.
Clark Nexsen
International architecture and engineering firm
specializing in retail, offices, industrial, recreation, colleges,
universities, healthcare, and inspections.
Dedicated to the wild blooming of the compassionate trickster heart stirring within all of us everywhere and always and of the cultivation of the unique, empathetic, imaginative ingenuity which encourages this blooming.
Evolver
Connect with other evolvers through their 40+ regional Spore chapters in
the US and abroad, or jumpstart your own Spore. Together they are
building an international network for an emerging planetary culture
based on ecological values and creative collaboration.
Floracopeia
Essential oils, aromatherapy products and essential oil education.
Currently touring around the country, Josh Tickell's (Fuel) new movie takes a hard look at North
America’s ever-growing addiction to foreign oil, and delves into the
pros and cons of the “black sheep” that is ethanol.
Fungi Perfecti
Through effective marketing, Music Matters has helped revolutionize social change in the music industry. They've led an expanding network of partners through a process that embeds sustainability into the foundation of their brands, translating sustainability into increased profits for over 20 years.
Goldthread Herbal Apothecary
is a full service dispensary specializing in custom formulated
preparations. Both a storefront and clinic, we offer professional
walk-in advice and the highest quality herbal products & supplements
available.
Helping to build loving relationships with their traditional products and resources.
Google Earth Outreach gives non-profits and public benefit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to visualize their cause and tell their story in Google Earth & Maps to hundreds of millions of people.
Global Greengrants Fund invests in local leaders calling for environmental justice in their own communities.
Dedicated to solving global warming and transforming our economy to one powered by clean energy and grounded in justice. They are committed to forming new partnerships with diverse allies.
Greenbiz.com
GreenBiz.com™, Business Voice of the Green Economy, is the leading source for news, opinion, best practices, and other resources on the greening of mainstream business.
Harmony Festival
They've expanded to Southern California so save the dates of October 21st-23rd, 2011.
Interfaith Power and Light: A Religious Response to Global Warming
The mission of Interfaith Power & Light is to be faithful stewards of Creation by responding to global warming through the promotion of energy conservation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. This campaign intends to protect the earth’s ecosystems, safeguard the health of all Creation, and ensure sufficient, sustainable energy for all.
Kalliopeia Foundation
Kalliopeia Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that contributes to the evolution of communities and cultures that honor the unity at the heart of life's rich diversity. Through their grantmaking they seek to strengthen a collective recognition of the oneness of humanity.
New
Energy Economy
Dedicated
to solving global warming and transforming our economy to one powered
by clean energy and grounded in justice. They are committed to forming new partnerships with
diverse allies.
Pachamama Alliance
Pachamama's
two fold mission is to preserve the earth's tropical rainforest by
empowering the indigenous people who are its natural custodians.
Secondly, to contribute to the creation of a new global vision of equity
and sustainability for all.
Participant Media
Participant believes that a good story well told can truly make a
difference in how one sees the world. Whether it is a feature film,
documentary or other form of media, Participant exists to tell
compelling, entertaining stories that also create awareness of the real
issues that shape our lives.
Pie Ranch
Inspires and connects rural and urban people to know the source of their food and to work together to bring greater health to the food system from seed to table.
Project Survival Media: Survival is the Issue
This global youth journalism network is dedicated to broadcasting stories of survival and ingenuity in the face of climate change. Their media teams, on all seven continents, are reporting on the most compelling climate stories, amplifying voices underrepresented by traditional media.
REVERB
Rooted in the music and environmental communities to educate and engage musicians and their fans to take action toward a more sustainable future.
Royal Society for Encouragement of the Arts (RSA)
A virtual meeting place for RSA fellows and their guests to share ideas, news, and events.
Science and Nonduality Conference
Explores how cutting-edge science is converging with ancient wisdom to deepen our understanding of the nondual nature of reality and the interconnectedness of life.
Tree People
An environmental nonprofit that that unites the power of trees, people, and technology to grow a sustainable future. They inspire, support, engage people to take personal responsibility for their urban environment, making it safe, healthy, and sustainable as a model for the world.
Women's Intercultural Center
Provides a place for women to learn and work together to develop their social, economic, spiritual, and political potential.
Sustainability Partners
Conservation Corp North Bay
Founded in 1982, Conservation Corps North Bay (originally the Marin Conservation Corps)
was the nation's first local nonprofit conservation corps. In the last year alone, we've restored 84 miles of trail, maintained 41.4
miles of country creeks and re-vegetated 11 acres of land. The Conservation Corp North Bay has helped Bioneers have a 78% diversion rate (78% of the waste generated at the Bioneers Conference is diverted from the landfill).
Ecology Center
The Ecology Center provides the public with reliable
information, tools, hands-on training, referrals, strategies,
infrastructure, and models for sustainable living. Our programs enable
people to adopt practices that are environmentally and socially
responsible. We run Berkeley's residential curbside recycling program, the Berkeley Farmers' Markets, Farm Fresh Choice food justice program, Terrain magazine, EcoHouse demonstration home and garden, the Ecology Center store, and a variety of Information and Climate Change Action programs.
Epicurean Group
Epicurean Group is an independent, privately-owned company established in 2003 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area with
over 25 years of culinary and dining management experience.
We're a fresh face for the 21st Century, specializing in business,
campus and fine arts dining plus exquisite catering services.
Veritable Vegetable
Veritable Vegetable is the nation’s oldest distributor of
certified organic produce. Through the creativity and hard work of many women
and men who have worked here since 1974, Veritable Vegetable is proud to have earned a
reputation for quality, integrity, and leadership. Their business model is based on principles of diversity,
advocacy, integrity, and a rigorous work ethic. We see our work as an
opportunity to be both individually creative and cooperative, and we see
ourselves as both a business and an instrument for social, economic, and
environmental change.
