I so appreciate the Sourcebook. I'm proud of you for your commitment and your tenacity. It's a work of art, love, and wisdom.
—John Robbins, bestselling author of Diet for a New America
I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!! Everybody I know needs this book--thank you so much for co-creating this beautiful epistle! And thank you from all of the little creatures, plants, spores, caterpillars, and all children of all beings, from all of those who have no voices.
-”Dr. Steve English, Charlotte, NC
Comprehensive, concise, and clear, the Sustainable World Sourcebook is essential reading for anyone concerned about the fate of humanity. With practical examples of steps we can each take towards a more sustainable lifestyle, this book is not only informative but personally empowering.
-”Peter Russell, author The Global Brain and Waking up In Time
We're challenged at this critical moment in history to change our thoughts and behavior in significant ways. What we don't know sometimes is exactly what to do and how to do it. That's why I love The Sustainable World Sourcebook: it tells us everything we need to know to create a healthier, more just and more peaceful world. It's a guidebook for going from unaware consumer to passionate world citizen.
-”Marianne Williamson, bestselling author and international speaker
A box of the Sourcebooks just arrived today..and it is just beautiful!! I really like how you all wove the numerous articles written by various people together...to create a greater synthesis...rather than individual names by individual articles. Really and truly Grand work!!!
—Jim Embry, Director, Sustain Lex — Sustainable Communities Network
This very helpful manual is full of useful ideas and policies that our engaged citizens can use for their action. It helps in terms of what we need to know and how we can make a difference.
—Charles McGlashan, Former Supervisor, County of Marin, CA
This incredibly practical and graphically useful Sourcebook conveys much of what is called for in these extraordinary times. It is chock full of the critical information necessary to save our planetary life-support system and create decent human communities. The Sourcebook helps each of us take effective action.
-”Randy Hayes, Founder, Rainforest Action Network
Spring of Sustainability
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The largest virtual sustainability education and engagement initiative ever — the Spring of Sustainability, featuring 100 of the top "stars of sustainability" in teleconference, online and live events. Produced by The Shift Network in partnership with Sustainable World Coalition.
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3-Month Continuous Event Program, 2012
Sustainable World Coalition is co-producing the largest sustainability education and engagement initiative ever — the Spring of Sustainability, which began March 26, 2012 and will continue through June 22.
The Spring of Sustainability is bringing the biggest names in sustainability to the world through half-hour daily teleconference presentations, one-day teleconference summits, live events, and telecourses.
Register FREE for Spring of Sustainability
Download Spring of Sustainability Press Release and Media Advisory here
This three-month series of events, which we're producing in partnership with the 180,000-member Shift Network, is being offered largely free worldwide. Our goal is to both raise awareness and empower large-scale shifts towards sustainability. Partnering with us in this massive effort are organizations like Bioneers, Green America, The Pachamama Alliance, Wiser Earth, Amazon Watch, New Reality, the Endangered Species Coalition - and many more.
For more complete information on events, presenters, scheduling, co-sponsors and more -- and to register for free (it takes 10 seconds!) -- visit the Spring of Sustainability website.
100 Stars of Sustainability
Jane Goodall
Bill McKibben
Vandana Shiva
John Robbins
Julia Butterfly Hill
Van Jones
Thom Hartmann
Michael Brune
Sobonfu Somé
Joanna Macy
Over 100 top leaders and experts from around the world are presenting on green living, thriving communities, global stewardship, social justice, and much more.
Additional presenters include: Van Jones • Thom Hartmann • John & Ocean Robbins • Joanna Macy • Adam Werbach • Michael Brune • Frances Moore Lappé • Randy Hayes • Kevin Danaher • John Perkins • Vicki Robin • Hunter Lovins • Denis Hayes • Andrew Harvey • David Korten • Satish Kumar • Duane Elgin • Chief Evon Peter • Richard Heinberg • Peter Russell • Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons
Affiliate Program
If you're an organization dedicated to sustainability or social justice, you can earn revenue while spreading the word about the Spring of Sustainability — at no cost to you other than a couple of email blasts and a blurb in your e-news!
When you promote this unprecedented series of events to your network, you will receive, via The Shift Network's Affiliate Program:
- 50% of the revenue from anyone from your list who purchases downloads or transcripts of the series during the spring, and
- 20% of the revenue from anyone from your list who later purchases other transformational courses, materials or programs of The Shift Network -- indefinitely
- We'll send you templates for email blasts and e-news blurbs you can easily modify to your unique voice or that of your organization.
Want to know more about the Affiliate Program, or sign on as an Affiliate for Spring of Sustainability? Click here.
Spring of Sustainability — List of Events
Here are the details of the Spring of Sustainability, spanning the entire spring of 2012.
Participating in all Daily Core Theme interviews (65 in all), as well as all One-Day Teleconference Summits, is free. All teleconference events are being recorded and transcribed and offered for download for a low package price.
1. Daily Core Themes
Half-hour interactive interviews (as teleconferences) of some of the best-known and most highly-respected visionaries in the sustainability movement. These are organized along five tracks (one track per weekday), for the entire 13-week duration, from 12-12:30 pm Pacific time:
- Green Business (Mondays)
- Green Lifestyles (Tuesdays)
- Activism for a Just and Sustainable World (Wednesdays)
- Global Stewardship (Thursdays)
- Sustainable World Pioneers (Fridays)
2. One-Day Teleconference Summits
All-day Interactive Summits, featuring presentations, panels and keynotes, on:
- Thriving Communities (April 28)
- Indigenous Wisdom & Modern Science (May 26)
- International Youth Jam (June 11)
3. Live Local Events and Webcasts
One-day events in cities across the world, featuring:
- Film & Potluck Houseparties (April 14)
- Earth Day Eve: Ceremony, Presentation & Performance-Live Webcast (April 21)
- Connecting the Climate Dots- 350.org events (May 5)
- Awakening the Dreamer Symposia-Live events & webcast (May 12)
4. Education & Engagement Programs
- Transition Challenge- Greening home & garden (month of May)
- Engagement Circles- 9-session learning & action series (month of June)
5. Multi-Media Telecourse
7-week and 14-week versions of the Sustainable World Coalition's certificate course in global sustainability: “Co-Creating A Thriving World,” a highly interactive experience in which participants:
- deepen their understanding of major global issues and how they impact environmental health and social justice.
- engage with a small community of cohorts who share values of sustainability and social justice.
- take positive action toward social and planetary healing.
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Spring of Sustainability
Largest-ever sustainability education/engagement initiative, featuring 100 top names in three-months series of virtual and live events spanning the spring of 2012. Download press release and media advisory here.
Audio Interview
Hear SWC Director Vinit Allen discuss what's needed now to move towards a just and sustainable world in a 2010 interview with Portland radio station KBOO.
Video Interview
Watch an interview of SWC founder and CEO Vinit Allen on San Francisco's “View from the Bay” TV show on Earth Day, 2011.
Become an SWC Affiliate – and Earn Revenue!
As a Sustainable World Coalition Affiliate, you can generate funding for your organization by introducing your network to the products and services of the Sustainable World Coalition, such as:
- the 2011 International Book Award-winning Sustainable World Sourcebook,
- its companion Learning & Engagement Guide, and
- our multi-media telecourse, Co-Creating a Thriving World
It’s free and easy to join.
Our Affiliate Program offers you a significant revenue stream in three ways:
1. Our online affiliate marketing program
As an affiliate partner, you keep 33% of the proceeds from sales on our website generated through your network–a real win/win proposition. We send you a monthly check for sales you've generated.
2. Selling the Sourcebook and/or Learning & Engagement Guide at your events
If you want to sell our books at your events, we will front you the books, and you can keep 50% of the sale proceeds in return for your efforts.
3. Offering the Sourcebook as a membership or donor premium
We will front you as many books as you think you’ll need, and you can pay for them -- $5 apiece – after you distribute them, returning the ones you don’t need.
Click for more information on the Sourcebook and/or Learning & Engagement Guide – including the Table of Contents and a free downloadable chapter.
If you’d like a complimentary copy of the Sourcebook or Learning & Engagement Guide – or for more information on the Affiliate Program – contact us today.
Sustainable World Coalition Affiliate Agreement
The following are the terms and conditions of participating in the Sustainable World Coalition (SWC) Affiliate Program. "Affiliate" or "you" refers to your self or your organization, and "SWC" refers to Sustainable World Coalition, a nonprofit project of Earth Island Institute, located at 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704.
1. Definitions
"Affiliate Link" means a unique URL designated by SWC which allows SWC to identify visitors from your web site as originating from you.
"Expenses" means taxes paid by customers, withholding taxes, discounts, bad debts and other write-offs, a reserve for returns, refunds, and currency exchange fees, if any.
"Product" refers to SWC products, which will include virtual courses and related products that will be more fully described at swcoalition.org.
"Buyer" means an individual or entity that purchases the Product.
2. Payments and Commissions
SWC will pay Affiliate a commission of 25% of the total amount actually collected by SWC for each Product sale attributed to a visitor from Affiliate's web site using its unique Affiliate Link ("Commission"). This amount will also apply to sales made to anyone brought into SWC's database via Affiliate's promotion of Product and who then makes a subsequent purchase of Product within three months of registration, provided that the purchaser is uniquely identified by an Affiliate Link in the registration process.
Each Affiliate may sign up sub-Affiliates and receive a commission for each of such sub-Affiliate's sales of the Product. This commission will be 10% to Affiliate for each such sub-Affiliate's sales.
Affiliate Commissions shall be paid by PayPal to an email address specified by Affiliate for this purpose, or as otherwise directed in writing. SWC reserves the right to make payments using other standard payment forms. All Commissions earned during a monthly period will be paid out on approximately the last day of the subsequent month. SWC reserves the right to delay issuance of Commission payments until the balance owed Affiliate reaches $50.00. Although the Affiliate Program is not limited to the United States, all payments will be made in U.S. dollars.
If a qualifying sale is canceled or refunded, the related Commission will be deducted from the next monthly payment. Affiliate will not be paid for its own orders of the Product.
All Affiliate applications are subject to approval by SWC in its sole discretion.
3. Affiliate Link
You will be issued an "Affiliate Link", or unique URL, which allows SWC to identify visitors from your site as originating from you. These visitors are tracked with this unique URL and sales are recorded with your Affiliate ID. To receive Commissions, you must use the provided Affiliate Link. The URL may be in various forms such as a banner, image, or text link.
Affiliate is solely responsible for insuring that its Affiliate Link is set up properly to qualify for Commissions.
SWC reserves all rights in and to SWC name and all related trademarks, trade names, logos, taglines, slogans and similar identifying marks (collectively, the "Trademarks"). SWC grants to Affiliate a nonexclusive right to display the Trademarks only in connection with the Affiliate Link on Affiliate's web site and in email.
Before using the Trademarks, Affiliate must have any materials on which the Trademarks appear approved by SWC. Affiliate may not change the proportion, color or font of the Trademarks or otherwise alter the Trademarks. Affiliate may not display the Trademarks in any manner that implies sponsorship or endorsement by SWC, except of Affiliate's involvement in the Affiliate Program described in this Agreement. Each Trademark must appear by itself, with reasonable spacing between each side of the Trademark and other graphic or textual elements.
The Trademarks may not be used to register Internet domain names for any purpose. Affiliate may not use the Trademarks to disparage SWC, its products or services, or in a manner which, in SWC's reasonable judgment, may diminish or otherwise damage SWC's goodwill in the Trademarks. Affiliate acknowledges that all goodwill generated through Affiliate's use of the Trademarks will inure to the benefit of SWC and hereby assigns and shall assign to SWC any and all goodwill generated through Affiliate's use of the Trademarks, without any payment or other consideration of any kind to Affiliate, and Affiliate further agrees to take all actions necessary to effect such assignment. Upon termination of this Agreement, Affiliate shall cease to use the Trademarks.
Affiliate may bid on keywords using their affiliate link EXCEPT affiliate may not bid on the company name, product names, website names, synonyms, or trademarks (registered or not) owned or operated by SWC or our joint ventures or partners. Doing so gives SWC the right to unilaterally end payments to that Affiliate for previous, current or future purchases tracked to that Affiliate or its sub-Affiliates.
4. Sending Unsolicited Email or Spam
Affiliate agrees to not send unsolicited mail or SPAM mail to promote any of SWC's products or services. Violation of this provision will result in immediate termination of your account, cancellation of any pending Commissions, and potential legal action.
5. Prohibited Sites
Web sites that promote sexually explicit material or violence are not eligible to be Affiliates. Sites that promote discrimination based on race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, or physical disability shall not be accepted. Web sites that promote illegal activities shall not be accepted. Websites whose products, services or mission directly or indirectly contradict SWC's mission shall not be accepted. Do not apply if your website promotes these kinds of activities. By applying, you are stating that your website does not directly promote or endorse such activities.
6. Term of Agreement
This agreement remains in effect until terminated by either party.
Within twenty-four (24) hours after termination (whether by Affiliate or SWC), Affiliate must remove all references to the Affiliate Link from Affiliate's web site and email lists.
Commissions by Affiliate earned through the date of termination of this agreement will remain payable only if the qualifying sales are not canceled or refunded by the Buyers referred by Affiliate. The final Commission payment to Affiliate will be submitted after the end of the current calendar quarter. The provisions of section 1, the last paragraph of section 3, and sections 4, 5, 7, 8, 11 and 12 shall survive termination of this Agreement.
7. Disclaimer
SWC will make every reasonable effort to track and pay Commissions for all sales that apply to Affiliate. However, SWC is not responsible for technical problems, acts by third parties, or other events outside our reasonable control which may temporarily disrupt or diminish this service.
SWC expressly disclaims any and all warranties, express, implied or statutory, and any and all warranties of merchantability, noninfringement or fitness for a particular purpose with respect to the Product. The warranties, if any, with respect to the Product will be considered to be offered directly by Affiliate to Buyers.
8. Privacy
To protect SWC customer privacy, we cannot provide identifying Buyer names and contact information to you. However, we will provide an online report detailing price, service, date of sale, and certain other data for your records.
9. Independent Businesses
The relationship between SWC and Affiliate established by this Agreement is that of independent businesses in a contract, and nothing in this Agreement creates any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative or employment relationship between Affiliate and SWC. SWC and Affiliate shall each conduct its respective business at its own initiative, responsibility and expense, and shall have no authority to incur any obligations on behalf of the other, except as otherwise provided herein.
The term "Affiliate" shall not be interpreted as a legal partner or affiliate, simply as an independent business doing marketing for SWC under this agreement. Affiliates are NOT employees of SWC, and are responsible for their own local, state, or country taxes. Affiliate understands that Affiliate does not have authority to make or accept any offers or make any representations on behalf of SWC. Affiliate shall not misrepresent SWC products or services.
10. Limitation of Liability
SWC shall not be held liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages or any loss of revenue or profits arising under or with respect to this agreement or program, even if SWC has been advised of the possibility of such damages. SWC aggregate liability arising under or with respect to this agreement or the program shall in no event exceed the total Commissions paid or payable by SWC to Affiliate under this agreement. In no event shall SWC be liable to any party for costs of procurement of substitute goods, lost profits or any other special, consequential, incidental, or indirect damages, losses, costs or expenses of any kind, however caused, and whether based in contract, tort (including negligence), or any other theory of liability regardless of whether SWC has been advised of the possibility of such damages, losses, costs or expenses.
Affiliate understands that Affiliate tracking can never be 100% accurate and SWC is not responsible for inaccuracies that might occur. Tracking of Affiliate sales depends on several factors which are out of the control of SWC. It is the goal of SWC to make Affiliate tracking as accurate as possible; however, SWC cannot guarantee 100% tracking for situations beyond its control.
11. Miscellaneous
This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California and the United States, without regard to conflict of law principles. All disputes arising out of or related to this Agreement shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in San Francisco, California, and the parties consent to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of these courts.
This is the entire Agreement between Affiliate and SWC with respect to the subject matter hereof. Affiliate may not assign this Agreement, by operation or law or otherwise, without SWC's prior written consent. Subject to that restriction, this Agreement will be binding on, inure to the benefit of and be enforceable against the parties and their respective successors and assigns. SWC's failure to enforce Affiliate's strict performance of any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of SWC's right to subsequently enforce that provision, or any other provisions of this Agreement. No waiver of any provision hereof will be effective unless in writing and signed by the party against whom such waiver is sought to be enforced.