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PARTICIPATION
PATHWAYS
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ACT

This section offers curated lists of volunteer opportunities and ways to get involved, pulled together by organizations already active in the Ecocivilization movement.

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We hope that the options presented here might spark something useful, interesting, or inspiring for you, but please note that we have not vetted every organization. Use your own good judgment.

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Resources

Active Hope Foundations Training
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A free, self-paced video course based on the book Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. It guides you through gratitude, honoring our pain for the world, seeing with fresh eyes, and going forth into action. Start any time, from anywhere.
Second Renaissance Ecosystem
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The Second Renaissance Ecosystem is a directory of 300 profiled organizations and initiatives — primarily European — mapped across sectors (education, governance, health, justice, arts, economics, relations & peace) and activity types (research, convening, community spaces, advocacy, etc.).
Global Compassion Coalition
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The Global Compassion Coalition is committed to using the power of compassion to accelerate effective collective action. They offer a number of 'Action Initiatives to Alleviate Suffering'--a list of groups actively working on the ground to turn them into measurable steps toward a more compassionate world. Click or scroll to 'Action Initiatives to Alleviate Suffering'.
Regeneration/Nexus
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A project by Paul Hawken — a growing library of climate and ecological solutions across land, forests, oceans, food, energy, and society — organized to help anyone find practical action pathways in the areas they care about most.
Global Ecovillage Network
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Learn about and get involved with an ecovillage: A community where people have deliberately chosen to design their life together around sustainability. The Global Ecovillage Network envisions a world of empowered citizens and communities, designing and implementing their own pathways to a sustainable future, and building bridges of hope and international solidarity.
Planet Project
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Planet Project offers curated databases, pathways of action, an online community, and connections to initiatives — essentially a meta-hub for the transition movement. Explicitly frames its mission as co-creating "a world that works for all life,” it is hosted on Mighty Networks as an accessible meta-hub for people new to this space.

The Ecocivilization Coalition is a strategic initiative of the Institute for Ecological Civilization, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

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