Resources & Links

BALLE – Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
BALLE is an international alliance of 52 independently operated local business networks with more than 15,000 members dedicated to building Local Living Economies.

Chic Eco
Chíc Eco means vogue ecology. It is about the love of natural art, fashion, design, and healthy lifestyles. This site is a growing gateway to find pure creations, materials and formulations from everyday to eccentric and from economical to expensive.

Co-op America
Promotes socially and environmentally responsible business, publishes the national green pages.

E.F. Schumacher Society
Programs demonstrate that both social and environmental sustainability can be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment to economic issues.

GreenBiz.com
Green Business tips and tools

Home & Planet
Located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, retail store dedicated to high style, earth friendly home furnishings and gifts. Features work of artists and small companies using recycled materials, found objects, organically grown cotton and sustainably harvested wood. Representing over 300 artists and small companies

Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Supports humanly scaled politics and economics.

Rocky Mountain Institute
An entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining.

Social Venture Network
Bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, environmentalists, and social activists to promote new ways to make our economic system benefit the natural environment and people, particularly those in need.