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Native American and University Campus Programs EarthKeepers provides curriculum consultation, instruction and special appointments at major universities throughout the United States. EarthKeepers philosophy encompasses a wide range of disciplines in the academic community including schools of religion, history, theology, environmental law and science, anthropology and medicine as well as numerous others. |
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EarthKeepers offers Apprenticeship Programs for those seeking a stronger connection with their spiritual path and a deeper understanding of their relationship with the earth. Programs vary in length and are designed to fit the unique needs and goals of the individual. With sincere dedication and commitment, EarthKeepers Apprenticeship Programs provide rewarding new perspectives and opportunities for transformation. For more information on EarthKeepers Apprenticeship Programs, please contact Bluewolf@earthkeepers.net. |  |
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EarthKeepers promotes environmental action in everyday life. We each impact the planet on a daily basis in the choices we make through the food we eat, the goods we consume and the energy we use. We also impact the planet with our attitudes and the thoughts we think. Because environmental action at its core is so intricately linked with our daily lives, EarthKeepers offers education on lifestyle changes that support personal growth and reconnection to sustainable values that reflect a healthy relationship with the rhythms and balance of the natural world. |
| EarthKeepers Clean Water Coalition There once was a time when indigenous
people of the world thought that water came from a place that
had no beginning and went to a place that had no end. Water
was revered as "the source of all life" and was known
among First Nations people as the "longman". It has
become apparent in today's world that we have lost touch with
this relationship. According to the World Watch Institute, over
the next twelve years, if current trends continue, at least
75% of the earth will experience a severe water shortage due
to unprecedented drought, misuse, abuse, and lack of water conservation.
The push for privatization of water rights only intensifies
the complexity of the situation and suggests that Albert Einstein
may have been correct when he stated, "If we don't do the
unimaginable, we will be forced to live with the unthinkable."
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Youth Resources
Links to great organizations serving
young people
Acterra: Action for a Sustainable Earth
290 Santa Rosa Ave., Mountain View, CA 90043
650-321-1994
www.acterra.org
An environmental education and action nonprofit based in the San Francisco
Bay Area
Action for Nature
2269 Chestnut Street, #263, San Francisco, CA 94123
(415) 421-2640
action@dnai.com
http://www.actionfornature.org/home_noframe.html
Encourages and offers resources for young people to take action for
humans and nature
Active Element Foundation
532 LaGuardia Place #510, New York, NY 10012
718-783-6856 / Fax 718-783-1927
ActivElement@aol.com
www.activeelement.org, http://www.dannyhoch.com/aef.html
grant-making and philanthropic education to support arts, media and
youth organizing
Art of Radio
WRTE 90.5 FM
(312)-455-9455 / Fax. (312)-455-9755
http://www.radioarte.org/home.html
An educational radio station initiated by youth at Mexican Fine Arts
Center to motivate and teach through the art of radio
At the Table
Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development
6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 502, Takoma Park, MD 20912
info@atthetable.org
http://www.atthetable.org
Provides resources and information about how to involve young people
in decision-making, with some incredible links
Barrios Unidos
1817 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062
(831) 457-8208 / FAX (831) 457-0389
barrios@cruzio.com
http://www.barriosunidos.net/
Offers resources and assistance to stop violence and abuse in low
income Latino communities and helps young people find meaningful ways
to lead life
The Beat Within
275 Ninth Street
San Francisco, California 94103
Tel. 415.503.4170
mmelamed@pacificnews.org
http://www.thebeatwithin.org/news/
A weekly publication of the writings and art from youth at Juvenile
Hall in San Francisco
Brower Youth Awards
c/o Earth Island Institute, 300 Broadway, Suite 28 , San Francisco,
CA 94133
415-788-3666 / Fax: 415-788-7324
bya@earthisland.org
www.earthisland.org/bya
Annual awards for environmental and community activists ages 13-22
Campus Greens
PO Box 1510, Northampton, MA 01061-1510
(413)-268-7215
info@campusgreens.org
http://www.campusgreens.org/
A national student-based, non-profit organization that supports and
offers resources to build a broad-based movement for radical democracy
on America's high school and college campuses and make campus sustainable
and green
Center for Court Innovation
Harlem Youth Court
520 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10018
212-397-3050 / Fax 212-397-0985
info@courtinnovation.org
http://www.courtinnovation.org/demo_11hyjp.html
Problem solving oriented court system, working with young people in
at-risk situations through outreach and the youth court
Center for Environmental Citizen
200 G Street, NE #300, Washington, DC 20002
202-547-8435 / Fax 202-547-8572
Cec@envirocitizen.org
http://www.envirocitizen.org/index.asp
Aims to educate, train and organize a national network of young leaders
to protect the environment
The Center for Young Woman Development
1550 Bryant Street, Suite 700, San Francisco, CA 94103
415-703-8800 / Fax 415-703-8818
http://www.cywd.org/
A non-profit social service organization run by women 25 and under
who help young woman that have been homeless, incarcerated, involved
in the juvenile justice system, or otherwise severely impacted by
poverty to achieve self-sufficiency and become positively engaged
in their communities
Challenge Day
PO Box 1366, Martinez, CA 94553
925-957-0234
http://www.challengeday.org/
workshops in leadership, service, mentorship and intervention, primarily
for high schools and middle schools
Circle of Life
P.O. Box 3764, Oakland, California 94609
510-601-9790 / Fax 510-601-9788
info@circleoflifefoundation.org
www.circleoflifefoundation.org
activates people through education, inspiration and connection to
live in a way that honors the diversity and interdependence of all
life
Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org
An incredible news center for progressive media, privately funded
without advertisement
Community Coalition for Environmental
Justice
105 14th Ave, Suite 2D, Seattle, WA 98122
206-720-0285 / Fax 206-720-5241
ccej@halcyon.com
www.ccej.org
People of color-led, multiethnic nonprofit working on social, economic
and environmental health issues (not exclusively youth organization)
Do Something
423 West 55th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10019
212-523-1175 / Fax 212-582-1307
mail@dosomething.org
http://www.dosomething.org/index.cfm
An organization that teaches leadership skills for young people on
how to get involved in their community and make a difference
Each1Reach1
PO Box 1098, Pacifica, CA 94044
650-738-3023 / Fax 650-738-3028
info@each1reach1.org
http://www.each1reach1.org
Giving hope and a voice to incarcerated youth through mentoring and
education in theatre arts and playwriting
The Earth Charter Initiative
www.earthcharter.org/youth
youth component of the International Earth Charter initiative, sets
forth principles to help build a sustainable world
Earth Team
PO Box 4686, Walnut Creek, CA 94596
925-274-3669
info@earthteam.net
www.earthteam.net
a network of high school environmental leaders, classes and clubs
EarthYouth.net
EarthYouth c/o TakingITGlobal, 42 Charles St. East, Toronto, Ontario,
CANADA M4Y 1T4
416-928-3362 ext. 4225
earthyouth@earthyouth.net
http://earthyouth.takingitglobal.org
web portal by and for young people taking action for a more sustainable
planet
Earth Force
1908 Mount Vernon, Second Floor, Alexandria, VA 22301
703-299-9400/ Fax 703-299-9485
earthforce@earthforce.org
http://www.earthforce.org
Gives youth the skills and knowledge to create lasting solutions to
environmental problems in their communities
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
PMB # 409, 1230 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
415-951-4844 / Fax: 415-951-4813
Nicole@ellabakercenter.org
www.ellabakercenter.org
documents, exposes, and challenges human rights abuses within the
US criminal justice system
Environmental Media Services
1320 18th Street NW 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20036
202-463-6670
ryan@ems.org
http://www.ems.org/index.html
EMS is a nonprofit communications clearinghouse dedicated to expanding
media coverage of critical environmental and public health issues.
They build relationships with top scientists, physicians, and other
experts to bring journalists the latest and most credible information
to the public.
EnviroLink Network
P.O. Box 8102
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
Websupport@envirolink.org
http://www.envirolink.org/
Provides an amazing global compilation of sites concerning the environment
Environmental News Network
http://www.enn.com/index.asp
Not an activist site but tries to show all sides of environmental
news in a fair and balanced manner.
European Youth Forum
Rue Joseph II Straat, 120, B-1000 Brussels, BELGIUM
32 2 230 64 90 / Fax 32 2 230 21 23
youthforum@youthforum.org
www.youthforum.org
international organisation of European youth councils and NGOs
FAIR
112 W. 27th Street, New York, NY 10001
212-633-6700 / Fax: 212-727-7668
fair@fair.org
http://www.fair.org/
An anti-censorship organization that exposes neglected news stories
and defends working journalists
Free Child
PO Box 6185, Olympia, Washington, USA, 98507-6185
Info@freechild.org
http://www.freechild.org/
Compilation of resources from around the world in an effort to promote
social change by and with young people
Free the Planet
218 D Street SE Washington D.C. 2003
202-547-3656
info@freetheplanet.org
http://www.freetheplanet.org/
A network of student–led campaigns to protect the environment and
offers resources, newsletter, and contacts
FREE SPEECH
P.O. Box 6060 • Boulder, Colorado 80306
viewercomments@freespeech.org
http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/html/aboutus.shtml
Progressive television
Future500
www.Future500.com
This is a must for any youth activist. It offers a directory of 500
activist groups
Global Information Network
146 West 29th Street #7E, New York, NY 10001
212-244-3123
http://www.globalinfo.org
webmaster@globalinfo.org
Developing world news and information and of the industrial as it
pertains to developing world
Global Spin
http://www.globalspin.org/
The focus is on political stories and views of foreign cultures, links
to global press
goodnews
http://www.goodnewsagency.org/
The Green
http://www.earthteam.net/the_green/index.htm
An environmental newsletter by and for youth in the Bay Area
Idealist
Action Without Borders, Inc.
79 Fifth Avenue, 17th floor, New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212-843-3973 / Fax: 212-564-3377
http://www.idealist.org
A center of information, job openings, volunteer opportunities, internships,
events, and resources posted by nonprofits in 153 countries
INIYA (Indigenous & Non-Indigenous
Youth Alliance)
www.iniya.org
a network of committed youth participants in the movement towards
global justice and sustainability
Youth Organizing Communities (YOC)
http://innercitystruggle.org/index.php
Roosevelt and garfield schools in east los angeles
International Youth Parliament
Oxfam Community Aid Abroad
GPO Box 1000, Sydney NSW 1043 Australia
+61-2-8204-3900 / +61-2-9280-3426
info@iyp.oxfam.org
http://www.iyp.oxfam.org
global network of young activists and development workers, sponsors
events
Kids Can Free the Children
http://www.freethechildren.org
Local Initiative Support Training and
Education Network (LISTEN) Listen
http://www.lisn.org
seeks to develop leadership and strengthen the social capital of urban
youth ages 14-29 for civic engagement and community problem solving.
MediaWatch Youth
http://www.mediawatchyouth.ca/
Offers information sources and articles on media and the negative
protrayal of woman in the media
Mendicino County Youth Project
http://www.mcn.org/n/mcyp
Miami Students Activist’s Center
http://www.miamistudents.org/links.htm
National Youth Development Center
http://www.nydic.org/nydic
A Process that prepares youth for adulthood through positive development
programs
National Wildlife Federation
(800) 822-9919
http://www.nwf.org
It is a great site for resources and offers a program to make campuses
more sustainable
United Students Against Sweatshops
888 16th Street NW, Suite 303, Washington DC, 20006-202
Fax: 202 347-0807
Oblivion
PO Box 95227, Seattle, WA 98145-2227
oblivion@oblivion.net
http://www.oblivion.net
The site started as a zine but has moved to an internet site run by
a volunteer staff of teens, posting articles and news that concern
youth, youth rights organization
Pacifica News Service
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/
A space for youth to post their voices on the internet to create an
open forum of discussion
People’s Grocery
820 Wood St., Oakland, CA 94607
510-504-0323
peoplesgrocery@hotmail.com
http://www.peoplesgrocery.org
Trains and employs neighborhood youth and supports local organic farmers
of color in its mission to build food security, community self-reliance
and economic justice
Population Communications Network
http://www.population.org/
soap operas
Power to the Youth
http://www.youthpower.net
organization of youth (and cool adults) around the nation who are
taking charge of their schools, lives, and world
Roaddawgz
Pacific News Service
275 9th Street | San Francisco, CA 94104
Tel. 415-923-9085
http://home.roaddawgz.org/stories/
a non-profit organization that gives space through internet the voices
of homeless youth writing, art and multi-media expression
Second Nature
PO Box 120007, Boston, MA 02112-0007
http://www.secondnature.org/
An amazing source of resources and workshops towards implementing
changes in higher education curriculum in a quest to integrate sustainability
into higher education
Self Educate Foundation
http://www.selfeducation.org
a non-profit organization seeks to help young people self-educate
through grantmaking, community organizing and outreach
Sistas and Brothas United
Ginette Sosa
Northwest Bronx Coalition
103 East 196th Street
Bronx NY 10468
Students for Sensible Drug Policy
1623 Connecticut Ave., NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, DC, 20009
Phone: 202-293-4414 / Fax: 202-293-8344
http://www.ssdp.org
SSDP is a non-violent youth oriented organization that seeks to reduce
the harms caused by drug abuse and drug policies
TakingItGlobal
http://www.takingitglobal.org
run by young people, wants to create a safe environment to explore
social entrepeneurship through technology, bridge between events,
scholarships, and organizations around the world and give life to
art and writing
Tides Foundation
http://www.tides.org/index_tds.cfm
Tree Muskateers
136 Main St.,Ste. A, El Segundo,CA. 90245
ph:(310)322-0263 / fax:(310)322-4482
Info@treemusketeers.org
http://www.TreeMusketeers.org/
Young people educate other youth to make a difference in the environment.
They are part of Partners for the Planet Network.
What Kids Can Do, Inc.
P.O. Box 603252 | Providence, RI 02906
(401) 247-7665 phone/fax
Info@whatkidscando.org
http://www.whatkidscando.org/featurestories/YOcommunities.html
youth organization directory focused on school reform, features stories
of youth activists
Youth Activism
youthact@youthactivism.org
http://www.youthactivism.com/
a site of stories, articles, news of activist work around the globe
and an incredible list of resources
Youth Environmental News Desk
http://ens-news.com/ens/youthdesk/youthdeskwelcome.asp
For youth environmental workers to publish work or tell about what
others are doing
Youth Media Network
Contact: Elizabeth Kanter
Media and Society Initiative Coordinator
2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Tel: (415) 553-2811 / Fax: (415) 553-2192
ekanter@kqed.org
http://www.kqed.org/youthmedia
Teaches kids media skills and helps to include their voices in mainstream
media
Youth Outlook
Email: crew@youthoutlook.org
415-503-4170, fax 415-503-0970
http://www.youthoutlook.org/mainframe.php3
literary monthly journal of youth life in the Bay Area
Youth Venture
Info@youthventure.org
http://www.youthventure.org/home.asp
Helps young people launch positive enterprises that enrich their community
and neighborhood
Vegan Action
PO Box 4288, Richmond, VA 23220
804-254-8346
information@vegan.org
http://www.peoplesgrocery.org
Educates the public about the benefits of vegan lifestyle and campaigns
against animal cruelty and public accountability
Vegetarian Youth Network
P.O. Box 1141, New Paltz, New York 12561
VYNet@mhv.net
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/4482/
The Vegetarian Youth Network is an informal, grassroots, non-professional
organization run entirely by, and for, teenagers who support compassionate,
healthy, globally-aware, vegetarian/vegan living
4-H
http://www.4-h.org
offers opportunities for youth to express, resources, news, and other
links to youth organizations
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