An empowering concept: Once we recognize that the choices we make ripple around the world, touching numerous people and impacting the environment, a "better world" ceases to be just a dream... and becomes our choice.
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MAKE CHANGE RIGHT NOW! INVITE your friends to join this Razoo Group & when we reach 3,000 members, WorldofGood.com will fund La'waach Poqom, an Indigenous Women Artisans weaving co-op in Guatemala in need of support for their workshop!
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WorldofGood.com has created; a lively online community focused on commerce as a powerful force for good! VISIT US TODAY!:

http://www.worldofgood.com/sn/g

WorldofGood.com combines World of Good, Inc.’s leadership in poverty alleviation through trade with eBay’s global reach and expertise in building online marketplaces.

Through articles, insightful blogs, dynamic discussions, and revealing polls, WorldofGood.com connects thousands of socially-conscious shoppers, non-profits, sellers, trust providers and producers together in a lively exchange of ideas and information. Topics span from ethical sourcing to responsible travel, to starting a Fair Trade town and eco-shopping tips -- all focused on changing the world, one good choice at a time.

Check out the new community at: http://www.worldofgood.com/sn/g

The WorldofGood.com community, is the first phase in constructing the world’s largest online people-positive marketplace. Launching spring 2008, the marketplace will feature your favorite people-positive items alongside trusted product and producer information, to make shopping for people- and planet-positive products easy and reliable.

Why WorldofGood.com? Because we believe that there's a need for a social network that's truly cares about social change and poverty alleviation. Check us out: http://www.worldofgood.com/sn/g

How does it work? WorldofGood.com connects thousands of socially-conscious shoppers, non-profits, sellers, Trust Providers (TransFair, Co-op America, etc.) and real producers in the global south - allowing a wide exchange of ideas to bridge communication gaps with fascinating conversations and pertinent info!

What's on WorldofGood.com? Original articles by publications like Ode and Plenty Magazines. Insightful blogs by artisans and producers in the global south. Dynamic discussions and revealing polls, on all kind of topics from ethical sourcing, responsible travel, starting a Fair Trade town, and eco-tips for living Green-- all focused on changing the world, one good choice at a time!

Questions? Contact community.info@worldofgood.com. For instructions on getting started, use this PDF: http://tinyurl.com/ypwo9x .

(I'd start by copying this into my browser:
http://www.worldofgood.com/sn/p )

Institute Fair Trade across the board.
Alleviate Poverty through responsible Commerce.
Empower the youth.
Converse on issues of social change and conscious consumerism.

Permaculture, permaculture, permaculture!
Plant trees and massive gardens and help restore biodiversity.

Abolish the use of fossil fuels.
Abolish nuclear weapons and war.
Combat patriarchy and misogyny.
Exonerate political prisoners.

Create art, performance, and generally creative community spaces in every neighborhood.

People inspired to change the world, one responsible choice at a time! This includes conscious consumers, eBay fans, bloggers, techies, guiding eco-living gurus, planet-positive people, people-positive planets, and all-around GOOD folks!

Author Charlotte Opal, southern producers, and Fair Trade activists in the Global South.

"The earth is for all the people. That is the demand. The collective ownership and control of industry and its democratic management in the interest of all the people. That is the demand. The end of class struggles and class rule, of master and slave, of poverty and shame-- the birth of freedom, the dawn of Brotherhood. That is the demand."
~Eugene V. Debs

"As anyone knows who has been part of a movement, a demonstration, a campaign, or a strike, struggles undertaken for the most limited and prosaic goals have a way of opening the most profound and lyrical sense of possibility in their participants.

To experience even briefly a movement's solidarity, equality, reciprocity, morality, collective and individual empowerment, reconciliation of individual and group, is to have a foretaste of the peaceable kingdom; Once we have experienced solidarity, we can never forget it. It may be short-lived, but its heady sensations remain. It may be still largely a dream, but we have experienced that dream. It may seem impossible, but we have looked into the face of its possibilities."
~Ronald Aronson, 'After Marxism'

......................................................................................................................................................... "There's enough wealth for everyone, but some have most and most have some.
And there's enough food for us all to flourish, tell me why are so many malnourished?
You say there's weakness in an empty pocket- No.
I tell you there's weakness in an empty heart.
You say there's strength in the power to control,
and I say NO, there's strength in only love and compassion.

All that we have is hope and love... so we can rise above, we can RISE ABOVE THE MADNESS."
~Brett Dennen

all over the world!

* Empowering Producers
* Ethical Sourcing
* Shopping Responsibly
* Social Innovators
* The simple ways to Make a Difference

Blogging, discussions and polls.

Fair Trade, conscious shopping, responsible consumerism, eBay, green living, community gardens, global warming, recycling, reducing, reusing, Democracy, commerce as a force for poverty alleviation.

Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle east, Southeast Asia, India.

English, Spanish, & ni mnogo Russian.
... and the Universal languages: $$ and Love.