Cultural Heritage
Athens Charter of 1931
Venice Charter of 1964
World Heritage Alert!
UNESCO:
List of World Heritage Sites
List of World Heritage Sites in Danger
ICOMOS:
International Council on Monuments and Sites
The Australian Heritage Directory
Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Classical Political Economics
– Henry George (1879) Progress and Poverty
Free ebook:
includes Introduction to the 25th Anniversary edition
Dedication:
"To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring
from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege,
feel the possibility of a higher social state
and would strive for its attainment"
- Henry George, San Francisco, March 1879
Selected educational resources:
– Economic Rent Explained
– Henry George School of Social Science, University of The State of New York (USNYU)
– Henry George Institute's free online economics course.
– Locational Value Covenants: Systemic Fiscal Reform, Cambridge, UK
– Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
– The School of Cooperative Individualism: archive of historical documents
Cooperative movement
– .coop domain registration
– International Co-operative Alliance
– Australian Co-operative Links
– Business Council of Cooperatives and Mutuals (Australia)
– National Cooperative Business Association (USA)
– National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (USA)
– Co-operatives (UK)
Health and Sustainability
– World Values Survey – international social scientists
studying impact of changing values on social and political life.
– Trade Secrets: A Bill Moyer's Report
– What is "body burden"?
– Friends of the Earth (FoE) nanotechnology project.
– Open Letter to the Transition Town Movement
– Database on Autoimmune Disease Research
Water
Traditions and Beliefs about Water: A Selected World Survey
The Blue Planet Project
Human Appropriation of the World's Fresh Water Supply
The UN World Water Development Report
World Water Council
Sustainable Agriculture (a short list)
Permaculture
– Permaculture College Australia Inc.
– The Permaculture Research Institute
– Permaculture Credit Union
– Tagari Publications
Biodynamics "BD"
How to make your own BioDynamic Compost
Various BD resources
- Demeter: The BioDynamic Research Institute: AU Accredited Certification Body.
- Australia ~ Biodynamic Agricultural Australia
- European Commission ~ Agriculture and the environment
- Science in Society Archive - "Saving the World With BioDynamic Farming"
- USA ~ Biodynamic Farming & Compost Preparation
- USDA: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography
- Andrew Lorland: Biodynamic Viticulture, IN, USA
Organic Framing Associations
– Organic Consumers Association
– Organic Agriculture Association
– Organic Trade Association
Innovative Farming and Growing
– Natural Sequence Farming
– Wicking Worm Beds - DIY: Growing your own
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