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The W. Alton Jones Foundation helps support sustainable economic models.
The Bionomics Institute is a nonprofit educational foundation seeking to replace mechanistic economic models with the notion that economies are living, self-organizing ecosystems.
Their 4th annual conference, entitled Cultivating the Netconomy, featured speakers from a variety of fields, all of whom investigated how economies self-organize and how they interact with people (and other life forms).
Check out what members of the Post-Keynesian Thought list (or related lists on the same site), or this general currency discussion newsgroup have to say.
Redefining Progress is gathering support for reforms in our economic indicators and measurements.
The Economic Policy Institute
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Center for Democracy and Technology
The Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education and the Foundation for Economic Education aim to educate the public about the risks of fiat money.
Electric Communities is working on marketplace technology.
International Institute on Sustainable Development provides several resource directories to help you keep up with sustainable development projects around the world.
Some organizations working on payment standards include the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and X9.
A few of the many organizations devoted to making the world safe for your private information include:
- The Internet Privacy Coalition
- The Encryption Policy Resource Center
- Privacy International
- The Center for Media Education
- The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and
- the Electronic Freedom Foundation
International Reciprocal Trade Association coordinates various mutual credit organizations and "barter networks".
The Eco-Village Directory links to sustainable communities around the world.
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
The Center for Economic Conversion is working toward a sustainable peace-oriented economy.
The New Party's Sustainable Cities project
Center for Sustainable Communities provides among other things some case studies on community projects.
AlterEco and European Youth For Action.
The Economic Security Project and The Alliance for Democracy are dedicated to economic liberty and justice for all.
The IGC Directory of Organizations
The Coalition to Reform Money, an organization dedicated to wealth-based (as opposed to debt-based) economies
The Center for Economic and Social Rights.
Ecovillage Network of the Americas
These are among the organizations promoting contributor-owned enterprises:
- The National Center for Employee Ownership
- The National Association for the Self-Employed
- The ESOP Association
- The National Cooperative Bank
- Coop America
- The Foundation for Enterprise Development and
- University of Wisconsin's Center for Cooperatives
Sustainable Development fora
The Sustainable Community Roundtable describes how to support local economies.
The E. F. Schumacher Society sponsors an annual Decentralist Conference and other projects cultivating sustainable local enterprises.
Partnerships for Change and the new Resource Exchange Bank

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