PPgis.net serves as a global avenue for discussing issues, sharing experiences and good practices related to community mapping, participatory mapping, counter mapping, Public Participation GIS (PPGIS), Participatory GIS (PGIS), and other geo-spatial information technologies and systems used to support integrated conservation and development, sustainable natural resource management and customary property rights in developing countries and First Nations. Members of the network are able to share information and lessons learned and post questions, resource documents and announcements which are relevant to the practice.
Participatory Avenues acts as focal point for sharing information and technical progress on community-based mapping and Participatory GIS (PGIS). The website provides ample documentation on Participatory 3D Modelling (P3DM), an efficient tool for merging indigenous technical knowledge and traditional spatial information. P3DM applications include community-based natural resources management, collaborative research and planning, safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, resource use, control and tenure, and related conflict management.
Resources to help communites investigate the connection between contamination issues and health problems. Registry (for networking) of communties with environmental health problems.
Global Response is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping indigenous communities fight environmental destruction and ensure their cultural survival. Global Response seeks to educate people about environmental issues and motivate them to take action by initiating letter campaigns when indigenous people or grassroots organizations request our help. Many of the campaigns have been successful, benefiting the indigenous community as well as allowing people worldwide to become responsible global citizens.
CAIED provides technical assistance and training to Arizona's 21 Native American tribes, organizations, and individuals; supports Native American development and land-use planning efforts; assists entrepreneurs in Indian communities with preparation of business plans; conducts specialized workshops based on client need; and maintains a small resource library. CAIED is involved with a number of statewide activities, including actively supporting the Native American Economic Coalition and the Arizona American Indian Tourism Association.
Resurgence magazine is an international forum for ecological and spiritual thinking. Resurgence publishs articles that are on the cutting edge of current thinking, promoting creativity, ecology, spirituality and frugality.
Relevant information on the views, critiques, and any other sources about Patrick Tierney's book Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon. At the moment much of the information is not indexed within search engines or other sources. The goal of the site is to provide the most information that can be found on the internet in one place.
This site is dedicated to the open investigation of mycoherbicides. This site will attempt to consider many aspects of the proposed and actual use of mycoherbicides against drug crops: i.e. marijuana, coca, and opium, including issues of mutability and toxicity that are rarely discussed by their proponents.
Indigenous leaders and scientists caution that aerial fumigation of drug crops with chemical herbicides could seriously threaten the health of Amazonian communities and ecosystems that are among the most diverse in the world. Studies show that fumigation abroad will not decrease drug use in the US.