Policy Area Resources

Beauty, Art and Aesthethics

Community Organizing

Education and Thought Systems

National dialogue project addressing the criminal justice system
http://www.thousandkites.org/

Blog by the Center for Rural Strategies
http://www.thedailyyonder.com/

Increasing Democracy

Race Poverty & the Environment Journal: Race and Regionalism, Vol. 15, No. 1, Fall 2008, Focus on race and regionalism and how to move from organizing to governance
http://www.urbanhabitat.org/rpe

Hartzok, Alanna. The Earth Belongs to Everyone, The Institute for Economic Democracy, 2008.
http://earthrights.ejnet.org/

Land and the Physical Environment

The Land Institute
http://www.landinstitute.org/

Chemical Valley
Video co-directed by Mimi Pickering about environmental justice issues in Institute, West Virginia.
http://appalshop.org/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=215

The Vancouver Action Plan
http://habitat.igc.org/vancouver/vp-intr.htm

The Rural Advancement Foundation International - USA (RAFI-USA
http://www.rafiusa.org/pubs/Seeds%20and%20Breeds.pdf

UN Habitat II Agenda 1996
http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?ID=1176&catid=10&typeid=24&subMenuId=0

Multicultural and Multilingual

Restorative Justice and Humane Reform

Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative sponsored by Annie E. Casey Foundation
http://www.aecf.org/MajorInitiatives/JuvenileDetentionAlternativesInitiative.aspx

White, Andrew. “Scale of Change: Creating and sustaining collaborative child welfare reform across cities and states,” Center for the Study of Social Policy, 2008.
http://www.cssp.org/uploadFiles/ScaleOfChange.web.pdf

Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY)
http://rjoyoakland.org/restorative.htm

Sustainable Development

Food Policy Councils
http://foodsecurity.org/FPC/

Counties and Local Food Systems from National Association of Counties
http://www.naco.org/Content/ContentGroups/Programs_and_Projects/Communit...

American Planning Association Policy Guide on Community and Regional Food Planning
http://www.planning.org/policy/guides/adopted/food.htm

Community Food Assessments
http://foodsecurity.org/cfa_home.html

Food Circles
http://www.foodcircles.missouri.edu/index.htm

Community Food Security Coalition Policy Pages
http://foodsecurity.org/policy.html

Urban Agriculture
http://foodsecurity.org/policy.html#urbanag

World Hunger Year’s Community Food Security Learning Center
http://www.whyhunger.org/programs/fslc.html

American Farmland Trust
http://www.farmland.org/

International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology Development Reports
(available in summary form)
http://www.agassessment.org/

Systems of Support and Care

The Commission on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cerd.htm

Beyond the Farmers’ Market: Planning for Local Food Systems in Illinois
http://asap.sustainability.uiuc.edu/groups/localfood/lfgrouppics/BeyondF...

National Farm to School Network
http://www.farmtoschool.org/

Technology and Communications

Save the Internet
Coalition of over one million individuals, nonprofit organizations, businesses and bloggers fighting to protect Net Neutrality
http://www.savetheinternet.com/

Media Action Grassroots Network 10-Point Plan for Media Justice
http://www.mediagrassroots.org/

Pew Internet and American Life Project
http://pewinternet.org