Links

ISEC Partners

The Ecologist
'Rethinking basic assumptions'. Founded in 1969 by Edward Goldsmith, The Ecologist is the longest running environmental monthly in Europe. ISEC's directors form the editorial board.

Global Eco-Village Network
The GEN was founded in 1994 to support the development of Eco-villages - communities in which people strive to live and work sustainably - and to facilitate the exchange of information amongst these settlements. It makes information about eco-village concepts and demonstration sites available to the public.

International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
IFG is an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers, and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education against economic globalisation and its negative impacts on democracy, communities, human welfare, local economies, and the natural world.

Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation
The Foundation, named after two prominent Thai scholars, has become the 'mother' foundation of several 'sister' organisations struggling at the grassroots, national and international levels for freedom, traditional cultural integrity, social justice and environmental protection.

Seed Savers Network
SSN is a foundation that works to preserve traditional varieties of useful plants across Australia. It also has a strong training programme in the Pacific, Asia and Africa.

Edward Goldsmith
The personal website of Edward Goldsmith, founder of The Ecologist. The site contains a large and growing number of articles from The Ecologist and other magazines, chapters from books, and other writing dating from the 1970's to present day. All indexed and searchable.

UK Organizations

Wholesome Food Association
The Wholesome Food Association offers a low-cost alternative to official
'Organic' certification for smaller-scale fruit and vegetable growers,
meat producers and processors, including retailers. The WFA is based on a
unique system of peer review and pledges to uphold a set of simple
principles for local food production and consumption.

The New Economics Foundation
NEF is unique in bringing together the ideas, people, resources and influence to challenge business-as-usual. This radical think tank creates practical and enterprising solutions to the social, environmental and economic challenges facing the local, regional, national and global economies.

Schumacher College
Schumacher College is an international center for ecological studies that welcomes course participants from all over the world. The college runs short courses on ecological issues and a one-year MSc in Holistic Science.

Findhorn Foundation
One of the best-known intentional communities in the world, Findhorn is also a major international center of adult education, and personal and spiritual transformation. It offers tours, workshops and conferences, including courses in holistic education.

Center for Human Ecology
The CHE was founded in 1972 to catalyse Systems thought and practice. This well-known institution offers ground-breaking education on ecological issues through lectures, conferences and courses, including a Masters degree/diploma/certificate in Human Ecology.

SUSTAIN
The Alliance for Better Food and Farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, promote equity, and enrich society and culture.

National Association of Farmers Markets
The NAFM exists to promote Farmers' Markets and assist in the formation of new ones; to support existing Farmers' Markets and enable them to expand and remain self-sustaining; to define and accredit the Farmers' Market concept and grant accreditation only to those markets which conform to the agreed criteria; to represent the interests of Farmers' Markets and lobby for measures that would help them; and to seek support of the range of Regional, National and European agencies.

Small Farms Association
The SFA welcomes those who are interested in the conservation of the countryside and in developing a positive future for small traditional family farms. It aims to promote farming methods that are entirely sympathetic to the needs of the environment and wildlife and therefore produce good quality wholesome food for local people.

Local Food Works
Local Food Works is a partnership project between the Soil Association and the Countryside Agency. Local Food Works exists to build and support active and sustainable local food systems through the development of local food networks. They are working with a wide range of people - including farmers, consumer groups and local authorities - to develop these networks across England.

Farm
Farm is a campaigning and membership organisation, fighting for a viable future for independent and family farms. They exist to protect and promote the interests of farmers, to get their voices heard by decision-makers, and to campaign for a positive future for farming, rural communities and the countryside.

US Organizations

Center for Ecoliteracy
The Center was founded in 1995 to foster the experience and understanding of the natural world. It is a public nonprofit foundation that supports a network of Northern California grantees, many of which are schools and educational organizations engaged in programs like habitat restoration, school gardens and food systems.

Global Witness
GW works to expose the link between environmental exploitation and human rights abuses. Information obtained through research and fieldwork is used to brief governments, NGOs, the media and the world in order to archive positive change.

The Edmonds Institute
The Institute is a non-profit, public interest organization committed to the health and sustainability of ecosystems and their inhabitants. Its current emphasis is on: (a) biosafety and the legally binding international regulation of modern biotechnologies, (b) intellectual property rights and just policies for the maintenance and protection of biodiversity, and (c) exploration of the ethical implications of new technologies.

Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First)
Food First is a member-supported, nonprofit 'peoples' think tank and education-for-action center. Their work highlights roots causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right.

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
IATP promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.

International Rivers Network (IRN)
IRN supports local communities working to: (a) protect their rivers and watershed, and halt destructive river development projects, and (b) encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.

Multinational Monitor
The MM is a magazine tracking corporate activity - especially in the Third World - focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues, and the environment. It is published monthly, except July-August.

The Oakland Institute
The Oakland Institute is a non-partisan think tank dedicated to ensuring public participation and democratic debate on the most crucial economic and social policy issues that affect peoples' lives through research, analysis, and advocacy. Securing universal acceptance of human rights is the solid foundation for building global democracy. The Oakland Institute uses human rights to reframe the public debate and build common agenda for action.

Organic Consumers Association
OCA promotes food safety, organic farming, and sustainable agricultural practices in the USA and abroad. Campaign strategies include: public education, activist networking, boycotts and protest, grassroots lobbying, media and public relations, and litigation.

Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
PANNA challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to insure a safe food supply.

Redefining Progress
RD critiques the use of GDP as the prime measure of societal health, and works to establish the social and environmental costs of economic growth.

International Organizations

Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
Since 1982, this organization has worked to promote biodiversity conservation and the protection of people's rights, their livelihoods and the environment from centralised systems of monoculture in forestry, agriculture and fisheries. Their newly founded Institute, Bija Vidyapeeth, offers courses in Ecological Education in an environment that reinvigorates our vital link with nature, and promotes contemplation, enquiry and positive action.

Third World Network (TWN)
TWN is a network of NGOs and individuals working on development issues. It conducts research on economic, social and environmental issues pertaining to the South; publishes books and magazines; organizes and participates in seminars; and seeks to provide a platform representing broad Southern interests and perspectives at international fora.

Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability (Feasta)
Feasta aims to identify the characteristics (economic, cultural and environmental) of a truly sustainable society, articulate how the necessary transition can be effected and promote the implementation of the measures required for this purpose.

Compas (Comparing and Supporting Endogenous Development)
Compas is an international network, designed to understand the diversity of rural peoples' knowledge, encourage local experimentation within farmers' worldviews, and enhance inter-cultural dialogues on farmers' knowledge and indigenous learning. Compas aims to be a forum for exchange on testing field methods, on-farm research and participatory approaches, based on farmers' own concepts, indigenous institutions and cosmovision. Compas presently works with 26 partner organisations in 12 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe and is funded by DGIS, the Netherlands.

Via Campesina
Via Campesina is an international farmers' movement that coordinates organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe

Farming Solutions
Farming Solutions brings examples of successful, environmentally responsible farming systems to life from all over the world, illustrating how farmers can protect the environment while at the same time increasing food supply where it is most needed.

Resurgence
Resurgence is an internatioal forum for ecological and spiritual thinking, which publishes articles on deep ecology, holistic science and creative living, with a lively mix of arts, crafts and book reviews. Connecting readers to a world of ideas, tools and resources for sustainable living. Resurgence is available in print and on-line.