Links To Live By
Agricultural Advocacy
Alternative Energy
Environmental Advocacy
Contact Your Government
Co-ops
Health Issues
Links to Service
Recipes
Some of Our Favorite Producers
Agricultural Advocacy:
Alliance for Sustainability
Animal Welfare Institute
The Campaign (for GMO labeling)
The Center for Food Safety
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Community Supported Agriculture
Eat Wild (pasture-based farming source)
The Ecological Farming Association
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Future Harvest
Local Harvest (source for marketing of small and local)
Marine Stewardship Council
Midwest Food Alliance
Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch
National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
The New Farm
Organic Consumers Association
Organic Trade Association
Public Citizen
TransFair USA
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Who Owns Who In Organic Foods
Alternative Energy: 
Alliance to Save Energy
American Solar Energy Society
American Wind Energy Association
The Energy Foundation
Global Wind Energy Council
Midwest Renewable Energy Association
Minnesota Renewable Energy Society
Wind Power Monthly
Contact Your Government:
Find committees in individual state legislatures
Find your elected officials using C-SPAN’s Congressional Info Center
Minnesota State Legislature
Thomas: The US Congress Legislative Information Service
United States Department of Agriculture
US House of Representatives
US Senate
Co-ops: 
OTHER LOCAL CO-OPS:
Eastside Food Co-op (Minneapolis)
Hampden Park Co-op (St. Paul)
Just Food Co-op (Northfield)
Linden Hills Co-op (Minneapolis)
Mississippi Market Natural Foods Co-op (St. Paul)
North Country Co-op Grocery (Minneapolis)
Saint Peter Food Co-op (St. Peter)
Seward Co-op (Minneapolis)
Valley Natural Foods (Burnsville)
Wedge Co-op (Minneapolis)
RESOURCES ON COOPERATIVES:
International Cooperative Alliance
Twin Cities Natural Foods Co-ops
Minnesota Association of Cooperatives
National Cooperative Business Assoc.
U. of Wisc. Center for Cooperatives
Environmental Advocacy: 
The Conservation Fund
Defenders of Wildlife
Environmental Law Institute
Friends of the Earth
Greenpeace
League of Conservation Voters
Natural Resources Defense Council
The Nature Conservancy
The Natural Step
Public Citizen
Rainforest Action Network
Sierra Club
More in our Environmental Issues Section
Health Issues:
American Diabetes Association
The American Academy of Medical Acupuncture
The American Cancer Society
The American Heart Association
Steve Carper’s Lactose Intolerance Clearinghouse
Celiac Sprue Association
Homeopath International Article Arhive
National Center for Homeopathy
Physicians for Social Responsibility
U.C. Berkeley Wellness Letter & Archive
USDA Nutritional Database
The Vegan Society
Vegetarian Times
Links to Service: 
Bridging (furniture donations to local families in need)
CARE U.S.A. (fighting poverty)
Charity Navigator (evaluates charity organizations)
Crisis Nursery (Hennepin County children’s shelter)
Habitat for Humanity Twin Cities
Meals on Wheels
Opportunity Partners (creating opportunities for people with disabilities)
Oxfam America (fighting poverty)
Person to Person (Warm Hands, Warm Hearts program)
Red Cross Local Chapter
Second Harvest Heartland (local food shelf)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
United Way (Greater Twin Cities)
Recipes:
Eating Well Magazine
Epicurious.com (home of Gourmet and Bon Appétit magazines)
MIX magazine recipes
Linden Hills Co-op recipes
Organic Valley Co-op's Recipe Collection
People’s Food Co-op (La Crosse, WI)
Seward Co-op recipes
The Wedge Co-op's "What's for Supper?" recipes
Vegetarian Times Recipe Finder
Some of Our Favorite Producers: 
Amy’s
Annie’s Naturals
Annie’s Homegrown
Applegate Farms
Arrowhead Mills
Barbara’s Bakery
Beeler’s Naturally Pure Pork
Bob’s Red Mill
Buffalo Gal Farms
Cedar Summit Farms
Choice Organic Teas
Daddy Sam’s BBQ Sauce
Dakota Lamb Growers Cooperative
Ener-G Foods
Equal Exchange
Fantastic Foods
Frontier Herb
Gardens of Eagan
Hans Sausages
Lundberg Farms
Manitoba Harvest
Morey's Fine Fish and Seafood
Muir Glen
Natural Choice
Newman’s Own Organics
Organic Soy Delicious
Organic Valley
Pastureland Dairy
Rising Moon Organics
Sambazon
Seeds of Change
Serrv International (fair trade gifts)
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Seventh Generation
Spectrum Naturals
St. Pete’s Blue
Still Meadows Cheese
Stonyfield Farm
Ten Thousand Villages (fair trade gifts)
Thousand Hills Cattle Company
White Wave
Whole Soy
