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Organic, Natural, Sustainable: Health, Food, Nutrition, Business
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Coop Directory Service: Find A Natural Food Coop Near You The Doors Of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything Why Buy Organic? The best place to buy organic foods is at co-ops local harvest - why buy local? - Real Food, real farms, real community. When you buy local, you get products that are fresh, unlike the produce of agribusiness that is picked unripe to ensure it lasts longer. Ripe produce has way more nutritional value and tastes way better. Health World Online - HealthWorld Online is a 24-hour health resource center - a virtual health village where you can access information, products, and services to help create your wellness-based lifestyle. Mercola.com - One of the most popular natural health web sites on the Internet, offering researched articles on various aspects of optimal health. Apparently, the most popular article on this site is about how our current medical paradigm is resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands per year. The Cornucopia Institute - The Cornucopia Institute is dedicated to the fight for economic justice for the family-scale farming community. Through research, advocacy, and economic development our goal is to empower farmers both politically and through marketplace initiatives. The Organic Integrity Project acts as a corporate watchdog assuring that no compromises to the credibility of organic farming methods and the food it produces are made in the pursuit of profit. We will actively resist regulatory rollbacks and the weakening of organic standards to protect and maintain consumer confidence in the organic food label. Growing Washington - Focuses on sustainability at all levels of community Organic Consumers Association - Campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability Whole Foods Market - Find a store near you: Organics Unlimited - Organics Unlimited is proud to introduce The GROW Foundation - Giving Resources and Opportunities to Workers - a non-profit organization dedicated to helping farm laborers make better lives for themselves and their families. National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture - is a diverse nationwide partnership of individuals and organizations cultivating grass roots efforts to engage in policy development processes that result in food and agricultural systems and rural communities that are healthy, environmentally sound, profitable, humane and just. Humanlinks Foundation - The HumanLinks Foundation established in 1999 to help Washington State communities make systemic improvements in education, health care and sustainable agriculture. HumanLinks strives to strengthen voices and connections to make these essential systems more effective and responsible. CO-OP America - Practical steps using consumer and investor power for social change. Greenbiz.com - The resource center on business, the environment, and the bottom line. Stop junk mail, email and phone calls
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Updated: 11/30/14