This is a great resource for communities who want to make the transition to zero waste. Learn from communities around the world who are successfully making the switch to zero waste in Argentina, India, San Francisco, Spain, Philippines, Chile, Belgium and Taiwan.

A great case study in opposing GMOs. This includes the history of the anti-GMO campaign in Vermont, a step-by-step guide for organizing your campaign, and sample resolutions.

The Mt. Shasta community is working with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and Global Exchange to ensure that residents of the city of Mt. Shasta can make governing decisions about their local water resources. They have written a local ordinance that specifically prohibits corporate water extraction for resale and export and corporate cloud seeding (including chemical trespass of toxins from cloud seeding). This is an excellent example of how communities can re-write local laws to protect their water supplies and breathing air, and oppose corporate abuse.

This fact sheet by the Center for Food Safety details the top agriculture commodities, organic sales, and GMO legislation and regulations passed in all 50 U.S. states. It’s a useful resource for anyone working on GMO issues, that need to know more about the biggest crops in their state and existing laws on GMOs.

The California Coalition to Stop Smart Meters (CCSSM) is a new, non-partisan group of organizations and individuals helping to coordinate statewide efforts to inform residents about the risks of “smart” meters and the “smart” grid. The first project of the coalition has been to produce a professionally designed brochure presenting the truth about the “smart” meter rollout. You can download it for free and get more info here: http://stopsmartmeters.org/.

This report was put together by California activists who played an integral part in stopping an aerial spray program in California in 2009. This could be a useful template to others who are trying to stop the use of pesticides or aerial spray in their communities. More information and resources are also available at http://www.lbamspray.com/.

The Fluoride Action Network is a great resource for communities who are seeking to stop fluoridation of their water.

One effective angle to oppose Smart Meters in your community is to cite the health risks. This report by the Public Health Officer in Santa Cruz County cites numerous health risks and problems associated with Smart Meters. It has helped citizens of Santa Cruz oppose mandatory installation, and can be adapted to aid other communities organizing against Smart Meters. 

A detailed shopping guide to avoid GMO products.

The US is the only industrialized nation that prohibits growing industrial hemp despite the fact that it’s highly profitable; can be used to make more than 25,000 products, including paper, fiber, plastics, textiles, and rope; and does not require the use of herbicides or pesticides to grow it. Many communities are aiming to make industrial hemp legal, which would benefit farmers, our economy, and the environment.

This brief by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is “intended to assist communities organizing to challenge the United States government's gift of constitutional powers to property organized as corporations. Accordingly, this Brief is NOT about corporate responsibility, corporate accountability, corporate ethics, corporate codes of conduct, good corporate "citizenship," corporate crime, corporate reform, consumer protection, fixing regulatory agencies, or stakeholders.”