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             SUSTAINABLE COTTON PRODUCTION

• Sustainable Cotton Project - Information about farmers, manufacturers, activists, retailers and others who are devoting their energies to making organic cotton a viable agricultural and economic alternative.
• Sweat Free Communities - Promoting the collective bargaining power of both workers in sweatshops and communities of consumers.
• The Organic Cotton Directory - Directory of hundreds of companies selling organic cotton products
• International Organic Cotton Directory -Use this Directory to locate all links in the organic cotton chain from supplier of organic agricultural inputs, to farmers, gins, mills and retailers of organic cotton products.
• A Better Feeling -A collaboration of the Sustainable Cotton Project and the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. The goal is to raise awareness of the value of organically-grown cotton among farmers and manufacturers and to encourage consumers, as the students put it, "to practice safe cotton."
  
  PESTICIDES
• Pesticide Action Network (PAN) - Working to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives.
• PAN Pesticides Database - The Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Database is your one-stop location for current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides.
  
  LABOR ISSUES AND SWEATSHOPS
• National Labor Committee - The National Labor Committee's mission is to educate and actively engage the U.S. public on human and labor rights abuses by corporations.
• Global Exchange - Global Exchange is a human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social justice around the world.
• Workers Rights Consortium (WRC) - A non-profit organization created by college and university administrations, students and labor rights experts on over 100 campuses. The WRC's purpose is to assist in the enforcement of manufacturing Codes of Conduct adopted by colleges and universities; these Codes are designed to ensure that factories producing clothing and other goods bearing college and university names respect the basic rights of workers.
• Campaign for Labor Rights - (CLR) is an organization that works to inform and mobilize grassroots activists in solidarity with major, international anti-sweatshop struggles. CLR has been called the "grassroots mobilizing department" of the anti-sweatshop movement
• United Students Against Sweatshops - United Students Against Sweatshops is an international student movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions and workers' rights. We define "sweatshop" broadly and recognize that it is not limited to the apparel industry, but everywhere among us.
• Sweatshop Watch is a coalition of labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious & student organizations, and individuals committed to eliminating sweatshop conditions in the global garment industry. Sweatshop Watch serves low wage workers, with a focus on garment workers in California, as well as nationally and globally.
• UNITE! (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees )is fighting for good jobs everywhere. Our union is supporting workers in other countries who are fighting to organize their own unions to improve wages and working conditions.
• Clean Clothes Campaign A worldwide Campaign to improve working conditions in the garment industry.
• SweatX A new line of "sweat-free" casual active wear. Designed and manufactured entirely within Los Angeles, SweatX clothing is made by teamX inc., an employee owned, and unionized garment factory

Healthy Living

• worldyoga.com Yoga's Meeting Place! WorldYoga.com is the yoga industry's online community.
• G Living The Contemporary Green Lifestyle Network covers all aspects of the next generation lifestyle.
• lime.com Healthy living with a twist.
• alternativeconsumer.com Unearthing the latest in green trends for healthy lifestyles.
• yogawares.com One stop shop for everything yoga. 
• MASSAGE Magazine  official Web site for news, articles, and information about massage and techniques;
• SustainLane.com is the largest community-powered directory of green products and businesses.

Champions for a Cause

            Great Non Profits

• DignityUWear providing brand new clothing to men, women and
  children in need. The new clothing is donated by partner manufacturers, including JONÄNO.

            Cooperative Associations

• Co-op America national nonprofit consumer organization, promoting environmental sustainability, social justice, and economic justice through marketplace strategies including green living, responsible shopping, fair trade, green business, corporate social responsibility, and socially responsible investing -- for consumers, businesses, workers, investors, and everyone.
• National Cooperative Business Assoc. Contains general information on American cooperative businesses, a co-op events calendar, and NCBA membership information.

Food/Grocery Co-ops
• Brattleboro Food Co-op
• East End Food Coop
• Coop Directory Service (CDS)
• North Coast Co-op
• Puget Consumer Cooperative
• The Wedge
  Local Champions

• Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture Nonprofit organization working to improve the economic and social prosperity of Pennsylvania food and agriculture. We work with the farmers that grow our food, the consumers that eat the food, and those concerned with the ecological well-being of our environment and natural resources.
• Bike PittsburghThe Pittsburgh Region's resource for bicycle awareness and safety, cycling community, news, and events!
• Just Harvest - A Center for Action Against Hunger  Promotes economic justice and works to influence public policy.
• Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council Nonprofit Literacy agency providing reading, writing, English, math, computer skills and workplace skills to adults and their families.
• Pittsburgh Mediation Center
• Midwife Center for Birth and and Women’s Health Birthing center provides gynecological services, prenatal care, and childbirth attendance.
• POWER(Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery) POWER’s mission is to provide gender-specialized quality treatment & support services to women who are changing their lives through recovery from addiction.
• PA Cleanways of Allegheny County A non-profit organization battling littering and illegal dumping in Pennsylvania.
• Nine Mile Run Watershed Association  urban watershed located in Pittsburgh's East End. While measuring just 6.5 square miles in area, the watershed is home to numerous exciting projects and initiatives. Among them is the largest aquatic ecosystem restoration in the U.S. being managed by the Army Corps of Engineers.
• Global Links ActionAid's interactive citizenship site for schools. It explores life around the world and encourages users to ask questions and share ideas.
• Three Rivers Center for Independent Living A Center for Independent Living (CIL) is a non-residential, non-profit, community-based human service agency. Its purpose is to enable people with disabilities to lead self-directed and productive lives within the community.
• Education Innovations
• Pittsburgh Cares Increasing community engagement through volunteerism.

   

   Retail Co-ops (non-grocery) 
• REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.)

   

     Rural Electric Co-ops 

• Cloverland

• Cherokee Electric

• National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

     Telecommunications Co-op 

• National Telecommunications Cooperative Association

     Producer's Co-ops

• National Milk Producers Federation

• National Council of Farmer Cooperatives

     Organic info 

• Organic Consumers Association Campaigning for health, justice and sustainability.
  

• EcoCouture  Bringing the philosophies behind green design and fair trade to haute couture, or even everyday clothing.

     Fair trade

• Trade River

• Equal Exchange

• Fair Trade Certified

• Just Coffee

• Café FAIR
• machja.com Machja, a clothing label based out of France, is a pioneer of fair-trade, organic fashion.

     Co-op Bookstores 

• University Co-op Bookstore

• Seminary Co-op Bookstore

     Artist's Co-ops 

• Artworks Gallery

• Creative Eye

• Noho Gallery

• October Rising

• Puget Sound Leather Artisans Co-op

• The Artists' Cooperatives Fine Art Galleries of Washington, DC

     Housing Cooperatives 

• Chateau Student Housing Cooperative

• National Association of Housing Cooperatives

     Multi-Product or Service Co-ops
  

     Credit Unions 

• Credit Union National Association

• National Association of Federal Credit Unions

• Green People

     Other links of interest 

• University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives

• Center for a New American Dream The Center for a New American Dream helps Americans consume responsibly to protect the environment, enhance quality of life, and promote social justice.

• undergroundbaby Edgy baby clothing
• Tropical Island Villa Carribean Eco Vacation Resort
• Ecoist Recycled candy-wrapper handbags,  movie billboard bags, and earth-friendly fabrics, welcome to the world of Ecoist.

 

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Thank you to the community of organic, sustainably made and fairtrade organizations.