http://www.aclu.org - Organization that has long served as a watchdog for individual rights and the U.S.Constitution, of particular value in these times.
www.care2.com - makes it easy to support a wealth of good causes with e-petitions and more.
www.world.org - has organized a list of sites dedicated to conservation, renewable energy, sustainable growth, transportation, and everything else that can give us hope.
www.conservation.org - Finding ways to save the natural environment is almost fun with a carbon calculator, cheap ways to protect forests, and thoughtful articles on green living.
www.nrdc.org - The Natural Resources Defense Council has a guide for businesses who want to be green and paints a clear picture with videos. Where would poets be without the natural world for solace and inspiration? www.defenders.org/index.php - The Defenders of Wildlife site is another place making it easy to take action for dolphins, wolves, cerulean warblers, and other struggling species.
www.moma.org - Whether you're irretrievably inbound or just want to pretend you're getting sore feet at a real museum, this could be the place. The staggering collection of visual arts includes a current feature on German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of our faves.
www.abc.net.au/ - Website of the Australian radio station that's so interesting it almost makes us wish our great-great-great-grandfather had been a British pickpocket.
www.observer.com/ - Online home of the refreshing, sometimes abrasive periodical that's held its own in the same city as The Village Voice - and that's saying something.
www.medialeft - a politically and culturally focused media collective whose mission is to develop and facilitate online presences for groups and individuals. Medialeft's Gary Ghirardi is Bread & Lightning's cyber-savior.
http://www.creation-centre.com - Part of a recent wave of free, rapid transmission of original music, much of it from Japan. Find tracks by Oto (who provided music for Bread and Lightning) and more - and if you download from the site, please give the musicians a donation!
http://www.bookhabit.com - You may have to read 15 poems to find a good one, but (nearly) immediately uploading writing, along with exploring tons of poetry and prose posts by others, can be addicting.
http://www.boingboing.net - Boing Boing calls itself "a directory to all wonderful things." We can relate to the ambition, the sense of humor, and, yes, to the wonderfulness stemming from the well-written gleanings of four or five dedicated posters. Includes links to an intriguing essay site called Content, Boing Boing Gadgets, and much more.
http://chromafunkycards.com/chroma_funky_cards.html - Speaking of gadgets... this is the online presence for what at one time might have been called a magic, junk, or gadget shop in, of all places, Fairfield, Connecticut - haven't ordered from them but the proprietor obviously had some fun making this site.
