Local Organic Links
Regional information and environmental activism
- Hunter Advocate
The Hunter Advocate is published by a grassroots not-for-profit
community association in the Lower Hunter. It is a local newspaper
presenting news, views and issues from the community of the Lower Hunter
region in Australia.
http://www.hunteradvocate.com.au/
- Octapod
Newcastle based independent arts and new media organization
http://www.octapod.org/
- The Wilderness Society
The Newcastle Campaign Centre is hard at work protecting our wonderful
natural world in a range of campaigns at a local, state and national
level. Anyone who is interesting in lending a hand is welcome to come in
and get involved.
http://www.wilderness.org.au/regions/nsw/newcastle/
- Rising Tide Australia
Newcastle based Grassroots climate action group
http://risingtide.org.au/
- Hunter Community Environment Centre
http://www.hcec.org.au/
- enviro-geek / e-geek
Cooperative that offers reduced-rate or free web and computer services,
support, and technical education to not-for-profit community, social
justice, and environment focused organisations. The enviro-geek web site
is a place for like-minded geeks to organise and share knowledge. The
e-geek web site is for the commercial side of the cooperative and offer
home and small office computer and web services for the Newcastle
region, including web design, computer sales and repair and networking.
http://enviro-geek.net
http://e-geek.com.au
National Sustainable Agriculture Information and Industry links
National / Global Information and Environmental Activism
- Greenpeace True Food Network
gives information about genetically modified food and Greenpeace campaigns
http://www.greenpeace.org.au/truefood/index2.html
- Friends of the Earth Australia
http://www.foe.org.au/
- Australian Consumers Association
http://www.choice.com.au/
- Gene ethics network
http://www.geneethics.org/
- The Good Life bookclub
great site for alternative living books and other resources
http://goodlifebookclub.com/catalog/index.php
- Slow Food network
 An international association that promotes food and wine culture, but also defends food and agricultural biodiversity worldwide.
The Slow Food movement opposes the standardisation of taste, defends
the need for consumer information, protects cultural identities tied to
food and gastronomic traditions, safeguards foods and cultivation and
processing techniques inherited from tradition and defend domestic and
wild animal and vegetable species.
http://www.slowfood.com
- The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements
An international, grassroots-based federation, comprised of 730
organisations in 103 countries. IFOAM actively participates in
international agricultural and environmental negotiations with the
United Nations and multilateral institutions to further the interests of
the organic agricultural movement worldwide. IFOAM is uniquely
recognized for taking on this important role.
http://www.ifoam.org
Other interesting websites/ environmental blogs
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