Resources and Links

New Mexico Wilderness Alliance Mission Statement: The primary goal of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance is to ensure the protection and restoration of all remaining wild lands in New Mexico through administrative designations, federal Wilderness designation, and on-going advocacy. http://www.nmwild.org

Piedmont Wildlife Center Mission Statement:To support native North American wildlife through rehabilitation, education, and scientific study, with emphasis given to the conservation of wildlife and its habitat in North Carolina. http://www.piedmontwildlifecenter.org
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The goal of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association is to inspire, stimulate, and support the creative and artistic spirit. We believe that the integrative arts, combining dance, drama, music, visual arts, writing and architecture play a vital role in both individual and community development. IEATA encourages an evolving multimodal approach within psychology, community arts, and education. IEATA is committed to providing a professional guild and network for its members to make connections, exchanges and collaborations. IEATA intends to provide informative resources about the expressive arts and how they may relate to other disciplines, such as psychology, education and business. Visit http://www.ieata.org/main/mainhome.html

Slow Food USA brings food back to an art form. Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic organization that supports a biodiverse, sustainable food supply, local producers, heritage foodways, and rediscovery of the pleasures of the table. Carlo Petrini founded Slow Food as a response to the opening of a McDonald’s in Rome’s historic Plazza di Spagna in 1986. Since then, Slow Food has groun into an international movement with more than 83,000 members in 100 countries worldwide. Get involved by visiting http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.html

Quaker Earthcare Witness is a spiritually-centered movement of Quakers and like-minded people seeking ways to integrate concern for the environment with Friends' long-standing testimonies for simplicity, integrity, peace, and equality. Let us explore the spiritual roots of humanity's relationship to the earth. Let us transform our attitudes toward the earth and all living things! Together we can prevent further irreversible damage to the natural world, God's creation, through informed, spirit-led action on all ecological issues: pollution, toxic wastes, conservation, recycling, energy use, global warming, loss of species and habitats, loss of arable lands, population pressures, and eco-justice. To learn more, visit: http://www.quakerearthcare.org/

The NARSAD Artworks products showcase museum-quality art by talented artists whose lives share or have shared the common bond of mental illness. NARSAD Artworks is a volunteer 501 (c) 3 nonprofit corporation. All proceeds flow to causes supporting the mentally ill, especially scientific research. To raise funds for local projects, for state and local advocacy and for research through NARSAD, the Mental Health Reseach Association. NARSAD Artworks began nationwide marketing in early 1990 and has grown consistently since. It was born out of the search by its founders, Patsy and Hal Hollister, for a way that the art works of their daughter, Annick, stricken by schizophrenia in 1978, might be used to help her. That thought expanded into putting to work, on their behalves, art by any artist suffering from mental illness. To find out more about NARSAD Artworks and to order gifts and notecards, go to www.narsadartworks.org/

Carolina Health and Humor Association (Carolina Ha Ha) was founded in 1986 in Durham, North Carolina by Ruth Hamilton, MA Ed. as a non-profit educational service organization dedicated to promoting a healthy lifestyle thru humor and entertainment in health care, business, and the community. The staff of Carolina Ha Ha performs for audiences for both entertainment and employee stress management programs. Ruth Hamilton, former Executive Director, designs and assists in implementing humor programming in business, education, and community settings. Carolina Ha Ha is best known for implementing the Duke University Medical Center Humor Project. Cancer patients utilize the "Laugh Mobile"Laugh Mobile, designed by Ms. Hamilton, to engage in therapeutic humor.

Carolina Ha Ha first started humor outreach in 1987 with a joint program with Duke Oncology Recreational Therapy called the Duke Humor Project. This involves the Laugh Mobile that is used to present humorous materials to both inpatient and outpatient cancer patients at Duke Medical Center. Skilled volunteers engage in humor interventions and invite the patients to check out funny materials to use during the hospital stay. A new Laugh Mobile design replaced the original cart and is marketed to medical facilities nationwide. The Certified Humor Presenter Program and personal on-site consultations with Ruth Hamilton are offered for Laugh Mobile volunteers. If you are interested in volunteering once every two weeks and can give a six-month commitment, call Ruth Hamilton at 919-544-2370. http://www.carolinahealthandhumor.org

The Humor Collection web site states its purpose as "to promote more humor and laughter for everyone by encouraging individuals and groups to create Humor Libraries for themselves and others."

"The website contains the resources for these Humor Libraries, listing the "healthy" humor created over the years in movies, TV, radio, recordings, and books. Humor Libraries mean more laughs at medical facilities such as cancer centers, rehabilitation units, hospitals -- also senior facilities and public libraries. Of course, this material is fun for family and friends at home, too."