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http://portlandfruit.org/

Register fruit trees, have harvest parties, share the fruit and donate to local food banks and kitchens.

http://www.opensecrets.org

Campaign financing details, lobbyist support details, program expenditure details. Nice.

VoteSmart.org does it again, bringing together a huge list of interest groups and national organizations and their ratings / report cards on the candidates.

It's easy to search the page for the groups that you support and respect, and see how they have rated each candidate according to their voting records, policies and platform.

Interest Group Ratings for Senator John McCain

VoteSmart.org brings us current lists of media, national, state, and group endorsements for each candidate.

Endorsements for Barack Obama

Endorsements for John McCain

VoteSmart.org brings us complete voting records for candidates.

Senator John McCain's voting record

Senator Barack Obama's voting record

Nine outdated beliefs and six particularly dangerous myths are revealed by looking at the pattern of bifurcations in mathematics, nature and cycles of species and ideas.

There are four phases to a macroshift, and we find these apply to all kinds of change and development, whether it is working out, growing an organization, or the evolutionary pattern of any system under stress.

Learn about Club of Budapest, its initiatives, the objectives of the GlobalShift University, and Global Peace Meditation/Prayer Days.

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A 21st-century implementation of a local commercial barter network, but with a community-building twist: individuals can participate by funding local non-profits through purchase of local business credits. These credits can be redeemed, dollar for dollar, with local businesses for goods and services.