LINKS TO RECOMMENDED WEB SITES
A compilation of web sites mentioned in ours, and other informative and helpful web sites links.
We are still in the process of updating; if you have a suggestion for a link, please email us, and we will review your request.
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Visionaries and Their Organizations
Vijali Hamilton — World Wheel: Global Peace through the Arts
Christopher Lane's Noraz Poets Page
Jane Disney — Mount Desert Island Water Quality Coalition
Michael Dowling — Medicine Wheel Productions
Lily Yeh — Barefoot Artists
Vernon Mesayesva — Black Mesa Trust
Joanna Crell — Willowind Therapeutic Riding Center
Dr. Gladys Taylor McGarey Medical Foundation
Creating Sustainability through Urban Gardens
The Greenhouse Project in the inner-city of Johannesburg turns one urban park into a seedbed to sustainable communities.
Evergreen — A not-for-profit organization that makes cities more livable.
Boston Schoolyard Initiative: The weaving together of community development, educational innovation, and environmental stewardship is strengthening the fabric of our city’s neighborhoods and empowering its residents.
The Edible Schoolyard, in collaboration with Martin Luther King Junior Middle School, provides urban public school students with a one-acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom.
Eco-schools Eco-Schools is a program for environmental management and certification, and sustainable development education, for schools.
Life Lab Science Program has been working in the field of science and environmental education for over twenty-eight years.
Kids Gardening Organization — Helping Young Minds Grow
Boston Schoolyard Initiative, an Outdoor Classroom Site
Medicine Wheel Productions: Youth Programs; Schools; Artist retreats; High School Outdoor Classrooms, and many more.
Joseph Kiefer in Vermont (interviewed in our video on Gardeners of the Spirit) integrating youth gardens into schools & communities: Cultivating Community Food Security Food Works at Two Rivers Center. They address the root causes of childhood hunger by returning students and their communities back to the land through hands-on food and gardening educational opportunities.
A marvelous book: James Jiler's Project: Doing Time in the Garden: Life Lessons Through Prison Horticulture
TKF Foundation Open Spaces - Sacred Spaces
Square Foot Gardening Mel Bartholomew
The Backyard Gardener's Garden Planner
Informative gardening site: Backyard Gardener
Urban Gardening: Why We All Will Be Gardeners
National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
Noguchi Gardens and Playgrounds
The Hammer Collection: Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden on the UCLA Campus
Click to Watch speech that Severn Suzuki (at 12 years of age) gave to the Plenary Session at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio Centro, Brazil; read article here.
Project Food, Land & People promotes approaches to learning to help people better understand the interrelationships among agriculture, the environment and people of the world.
Community Gardens; Food Gardens
Local Harvest CSA - US local listings for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Cultivating Community Food Security: Food Works at Two Rivers Center
Action for Nature — Encouraging young people to take personal action to nurture and protect a healthy environment on which all life depends.
Community Food Security Coalition — CFSC is dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times.
How Far Does Your Food Travel? A chart in PDF format
Fair Companies Sustainable News: The Embodied Energy in Your Food
Local Eating for Global Change: The 100 Mile Diet
Arizona's Food and Farming Advocate Gary Nabhan's web site
Sustainable Agriculture — The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Seedsavers Exchange non-profit organization that saves and shares the heirloom seeds or our garden heritage, forming a living legacy that can be passed down through generations.
Seeds of Change helps bio-diversity and promote sustainable, organic agriculture by cultivating and disseminating an extensive range of open-pollinated, organically grown, heirloom and traditional vegetable, flower and herb seeds.
Gardening ToolsPeaceful Valley Farm & Garden Supply
Passive Solar Heating: A passive solar water heater plan
Institute of Eco-Tourism IET — Promoting and Supporting Sustainable Tourism and Environmental Education
Sedona Recycles — Sedona Recycles is dedicated to public education and to demonstrating responsible resource recovery. With full community participation, we will promote and provide opportunities to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Plants In Motion Time-lapse photography that shows how plants grow and change.
Informative Web sites
Garden Forever: Gardening for people of all ages, abilities and lifestyles. Links to useful articles, tips and tools.
Links compiled by Sustainable Urban Gardens
National Gardening Association (NGA), founded in 1973, is a nonprofit leader in plant-based education.
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