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Tired of websites? Rather read a book? Visit our Reading
List for some suggestions.
If you are ready for more web reading,
here are our suggestions of websites on the following topics:
UNPAC's
Gender Budget Project
Much more information
found on the site for UNPAC's newest project!
Gender
Responsive Budget Initiatives
Featuring extensive resources on gender budgeting from around
the world
Gender
and Budgets
A BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack
Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)
Many resources including alternative budgets, quarterly State
of the Economy reports, and a brand new series of primers on
economic and social issues called The (real) Bottom Line
Progressive
Economics Forum (PEF)
Promoting an alternative, progressive economics community
in Canada
Green
Economics
Website for the the Eco-Materials project
New
Economics Forum
An independent 'think and do' tank
The E.F. Shumacher Society
Linking people, land and community by building local economies. Check out the local currencies section.
Toronto
Dollar
An alternative money system in practice
LETSystems
Most well-known worldwide trade and barter system
Equal
Dollars
A Philadelphia-based local currency with over 1000 members
Berkshares Inc.
2.7 million issued through local banks
Liveable
Income for Everyone (LIFE)
A BC-based organization promoting the implementation of universal
guaranteed livable income in every country in the world
Campaign
for Interest Free Money
A UK-based initiative
Time Banks
For every hour you spend doing something for someone in your community, you earn one Time Dollar
DegrowthPedia
Economic growth appears more and more as the problem and not the solution
Genuine
Progress Index Atlantic Canada
Non-profit research group, founded in 1997, to develop an index
of sustainable development and well being
Happy Planet Index
A New Economics Foundation project that ranks countries and individuals according to life expectancy, life satisfaction and ecological footprint
Centre
for the Study of Living Standards
Ottawa-based group researching living standards
Center for Sustainable Economy
Beyond GDP
Measuring progress, true wealth and the well-being of nations
Ethical
Consumer
UK-based organization looking at track records of companies
behind the brand names
Responsible
Shopper
Information on hundreds of companies
Social
Investment Organization
Canadian organization encouraging socially-responsible investment
Buy
Nothing Day
A simple idea to challenge consumer culture
Buy
Nothing Christmas
Challenging a consumer Christmas
Corporate
Watch
Holding corporations accountable
Mining Watch
Transfair
Canada
Canada's only independent fair trade certification organization
Make
Trade Fair
OXFAM's fair trade site
Global
Exchange
Democraticizing the global economy
Maquila
Solidarity Network
Canadian organization advocating for sweat-free clothing production
Clean
Clothes Campaign
Netherlands-based sweat-free clothes campaign
Oxfam
Canada
Wxposing sweatshops across the world
UNITE
Union representing many Canadian garment workers and working
to end sweatshops
The
Simple Living Network
Providing resources for living more simply
Alternatives
for Simple Living
Equipping people of faith to challenge consumerism
Overcoming
Consumerism
100% commercial-free site
Enough
is Enough
A critical look at consumerism, poverty, and the planet
Earth
Day
Best
Foot Forward (USA, Europe, Australia)
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