Books and web links

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Books and Web Links

Books:

Changing the World
"Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World"	by Bill Clinton 2007
"Everthing Must Change: Jesus, Global Cises, and a Revolution of Hope"	by Brian D. McLaren Thomas Nelson Press 2007
"500 Ways to Change the World"	by The Global Ideas Bank; The Institute for Social Inventions Collins Publishers 2006
"Social Solutions to Poverty: America's Struggle to Build A Just Society"	by Scott Myers-Lipton 2006 Paradigm Publishers
"What A Difference A Day Makes: 365 Ways to Change Your World in Just 24 Hours"	by Karen M. Jones New World Library Publishers 2005
"The Better World Handbook: From Everday Intentions to Everyday Actions"	by Ellis Jones New Society Publishers 2001
"Creating a World That Works For All"	by Sharif Abdullah Barrett-Koehler Publishers 1999
Environment
"An Invonvenient Truth"	by Al Gore 2006
"Save Our Planet: 750 Everyday Ways You Can Help Clean Up The Earth"	by Diane MacEachern Nasco, Inc., publishers 1992
"Sustainable Planet; Solutions for the Twenty-first Century"	by Herman Daly, Mary Pipher Center for the American Dream Beacon Press 2002
Other Good Books
"Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things"	by John C. Ryan and Allan Thein Durning Northwest Environment Watch, Publishers 1997
WEB links
Changing the World
Do Something
The Social Edge for Social Entrepreneurs
Church World Service
Sojourners
World Vision
Hunger
The Presbyterian Hunger Program
Bread for the World
Oxfam
America's Second Harvest
Second Harvest Food Bank - San Mateo & Santa Clara counties
Second Harvest Food Bank - Santa Cruz, San Benito counties
Food Bank of Monterey County
Village Harvest
Souper Bowl of Caring
Homelessness
Presbyterian Network to End Homelessness
National Alliance to End Homelessness
EHCLifebuilders
InnVision
Community Homeless Alliance Ministry
Family Supportive Housing
My New Red Shoes
Fair Trade/SweatFree
Fair Trade Zone
Equal Exchange
Peace
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
San Jose Peace Center
Another Mother for Peace
Poverty
Social Solutions to Ending Poverty; Gulf Coast Civic Works Project
Catholic Charities US campaign to reduce poverty
Catholic Charities, Santa Clara County
United for a Fair Economy
University of the Poor
Community Organizing
Peninsula Interfaith Action - PIA
People Acting in Community Together PACT
Justice
Reach and Teach
MicahsCall
The Environment
Interfaith Power and Light
Eco-Justice Ministries
Presbyterians Restoring Creation
H20: Water Can Campaign
Living Waters For The World
An Inconvenient Truth
BOGO Lights
If the world were a village of 100
Film Making
White Noise Film Productions