links
Toronto
  • Beautiful City Billboard Fee (BCBF) – let’s tax the corporate billboards towering in our public spaces to raise money for art and beautification of Toronto
  • Community Bicycle Network – hands-on organization that promotes cycling, refurbishes donated bicycles and offers space to practice and learn bike mechanics
  • Street Are For People – creative, inspiring and informal grassroots organization that makes activism fun and the city a little friendlier. These guys are behind Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington and the Parking Meter Parties on Queen Street.
  • Toronto Cyclists Union – the good folks at the newly formed bike union are involved in many great projects and need volunteers.
  • Spacing – great Toronto magazine dedicated to public space (or lack thereof)
  • newmindspace – “interactive public art, creative cultural interventions and urban bliss dissemination based in New York and Toronto.”
  • Bells On Bloor – activist group trying to make Toronto a safer city for cyclists
  • Another Story Bookshop – our beautiful neighbourhood bookstore has a great collection of literature on social justice, equity, diversity and sustainablity, and was kind enough to sponsor our Sustainable Living Day.
  • Tinto – West End community hub for arts & activism where owners Ricardo & Elvia screen hard-to-find documentaries and host many human rights and social justice type events. Sign up for their newsletter to be in the know.
Elsewhere
  • Nowtopian – Chris Carlsson is a truly inspiring longtime activist based in San Fransisco. He helped launch the Critical Mass bike rides and is the author of several books, including Nowtopia (2008) which describes the social transformation happening right now as a growing number of people set out to improve their little corner of the world in creative and empowering ways. Chris’ blog is full of thought-provoking writing, great links and resources. 
  • Do your part - take David Suzuki’s Nature Challenge
  • Join the campaign to ban Terminator Seeds in Canada
  • Right On Canada – campaign to put human rights back on Canada’s agenda
  • Turning the Tide Bookstore – bookstore fave on the Canadian tour circuit. The selection of documentaries for rent is amazing. The kids in Saskatoon are lucky to have this gem in their backyard.
  • The Stephen Lewis Foundation leaped into existence with speed and urgency, in part due to the astonishing outpouring of support from Canadians who want to join the effort to address the horror of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. Stephen Lewis was the 2005 Massey Lecturer.
  • Greenpeace helps you stay informed and take action
  • Global Aware – organization for social and environmental justice
  • PlanetFriendly – great resource of links to sustainable living guides etc
  • George Monbiot’s blog – this brilliant journalist-activist’s blog will keep you updated on all things green
    MichaelPollan.com – first came Eric Schlosser’s exposé Fast Food Nation, then Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma; together they may have started a North American food revolution
  • The Long Emergency Blog – great blog compiling articles on peak oil (NOTE: the blog is not written by J.H. Kunstler though articles by him are featured here
  • Culture Change – demonstrating alternatives to sprawl and petroleum dependence while fighting unwise development such as new road construction.
  • Brave New Theaters – the film production company created by indefatigable activist and director Robert Greenwald who is behind many excellent documentaries such as Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Iraq For Sale and Outfoxed
  • New Urbanism – a movement promoting the creation of sustainable communities
  • Glencolton Farms – Michael Schmidt’s beautiful Durham, Ontario, farm, where we played a wind-powered show in Aug 2007. Support Michael as he fights the government for the right to deliver organic raw milk to those who want it.
  • Friends of the Earth – the largest international network of environmental groups in the world
  • CorpWatch – working to foster democratic control over corporations
  • The Yes Men – prankster activism at its best (see the documentary The Yes Men)
  • Greg Palast – maybe the world’s foremost investigative reporter
  • Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.
  • blackle.com – energy saving search engine
Links to some industrious friends
  • Dream Host (our carbon neutral webhosts)
  • Adam Audio (Adam Wright is our recording buddy who has been involved in the making of some fine records)
  • Stripped Media (our photographer Emma-Lee)
  • The Film Buff (our neighbourhood source for arty cinema, subversive documentaries & decadent ice-cream)
  • New Moon Kitchen (our friend Eden’s delicious, organic treats)