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<H2>Areas of Site</H2>
<I>(Pun aside, a work in progress)</I>
<H3>Issues</H3>
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<LI>Environment Health</LI>

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	<LI>Agriculture</LI>
	<LI>Energy</LI>	
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		<LI>Transportation</LI>
		<LI>Thermal Regulation (Heating/Air Conditioning</LI>
		<LI>Lighting</LI>

		<LI>Devices and Appliances of Convienence</LI>
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	<LI>Water Quality</LI>
	<LI>Air Quality</LI>
	<LI>eWaste</LI>
	<LI>Packaging Wastes</LI>
	<LI>Industrial Waste</LI>

	<LI>Chemicals</LI>
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		<LI>Household Cleaning Products</LI>
		<LI>Personal Hygeine Products</LI>
		<LI>Home Lawn/Garden Chemicals</LI>
		<LI>Industrial Manufacturing</LI>

		<LI>Pharmaceuticals</LI>
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	<LI>Clothes</LI>
	<LI>Food</LI>
	<LI>Water Stewardship</LI>
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		<LI>Ocean</LI>

		<LI>Rivers</LI>
		<LI>Lakes</LI>
		<LI>Aquifers</LI>
		<LI>Glaciers</LI>
		<LI>Snow Caps</LI>
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	<LI>Land Stewardship</LI>
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		<LI>Rainforest</LI>
		<LI>Farming Practices</LI>
		<LI>Top Soil</LI>
		<LI>Urban Planing</LI>

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	<LI>Biodiversity</LI>
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		<LI>Animal</LI>
		<LI>Plant</LI>
		<LI>Microflora</LI>
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<LI>Public Health</LI>
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	<LI>Diet</LI>
	<LI>Exercise</LI>
	<LI>Distress & Eustress</LI>
	<LI>Sleep</LI>

	<LI>Politics</LI>
	<LI>Pollution</LI>
	<LI>Education</LI>
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<LI>Human Rights</LI>
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	<LI>Civil Rights</LI>

	<LI>Religious Rights</LI>
	<LI>Gay/Lesbian/Transexual Rights</LI>
	<LI>Prisoner Rights</LI>
	<LI>Laborer Rights</LI>
	<LI>Homelessness and Poverty</LI>
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<LI>Politics</LI>
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	<LI>Elections</LI>
	<LI>eActivsm</LI>
	<LI>Political Watch</LI>
	<LI>News</LI>
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<H3>Internal Articles</H3>
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<LI>Path of Progress</LI>
<LI>What if...?</LI>
<LI>Conscious Eating</LI>
<LI>Synergy: A wholistic and comprehensive approach to understanding the interplay and far reaching nature of the issues</LI>
<LI>Permaculture</LI>
<LI>Vote Purple</LI>
<LI><A HREF="chemicalpeace/">Chemical Peace</A></LI>
<LI>Why Raw Food?</LI>
<LI>Detriment of Labels to Critical Thinking</LI>
<LI>Decline of Reasoning and Cognitive Abilities in Practice</LI>
<LI>But it's Not Even Food!</LI>
<LI><A HREF="jsivana/education.html">Niche-Filling vs. Problem Solving:  Education Reform</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="jsivana/permaculture.html">What Is Permaculture?</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="jsivana/consciousfood.html">Conscious Food</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="jsivana/eat.html">Eat (mini food manifesto)</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="jsivana/topicsofvalue.html">Topics of Value and Consideration</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="jsivana/eatlove.html">Eat L.O.V.E. !</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="jsivana/raw101.html">Raw Food 101</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="la revolution/initiatives.html">Revolution Manifesto</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="currency/history.html">Alternative to What? A Historical Context of Currency</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="currency/interest.html">Interest Serves the Special Interests</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="currency/punnotfun.html">A Physical and Fiscal Impossibility</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="currency/quotes.html">The Pithy Quotations Trading Pit</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="currency/trustdebt.html">In Debt We Trust</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="currency/cooperatingcurrency.html">Cooperating Currency</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="currency/rant1.html">Alternative Currencies Rant: 1 </A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="currency/ranta.html">Alternative Currencies Rant: A</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="currency/rantalpha.html">Alternative Currencies Rant: &#945;</A></LI>
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<H3>Erudition</H3>
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<LI>Communication</LI>
<LI>Political Awareness</LI>
<LI>Consumer Awareness</LI>

<LI>Media Sources</LI>
	<LI>Current News Sources</LI>
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		<LI>Radio</LI>
		<LI>Websites</LI>
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	<LI>Websites</LI>

	<LI>Books</LI>
	<LI>Films</LI>
	<LI>Peer Reviewed Journals</LI>
<LI>Volunteering</LI>
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<H3>Recommended Media</H3>
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<LI>Books</LI>

<LI>Articles</LI>
<LI>Radio Programs</LI>
<LI>Films</LI>
<LI>Websites</LI>
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<H3><A HREF="links.html">Bookmarks</A></H3>
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<H2>Progressive-Living.com's Purpose</H2>
Fortunately ours is a world of a wealth of information and ever growing accessibility to glean from and contribute to this information. This was in large part achieved by progressive visionary leaders and technological inventions of our forefathers and foremothers. In a world full of information, it is becoming clear that the next step in this information movement is a need for a trusted information portal.
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This site makes the assumption that the majority of its users want to maximize the quality and quantity of not only their personal leisure time but also of their fellow humans. However, due to the lack of quality and/or quantity of their leisure time or observed fellow human's leisure time, the user desires to procure progressive change. Change that would benefit the users' personal lives as well as the lives of those living in our local and global neighborhood communities.
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To this noble end, embarking upon such a journey can be a very daunting and consuming task, but Progressive-Living.com posits that this does not have to be so.
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Progressive-Living.com aims to provide its users with means of achieving efficient change in the progressive arenas they approach with passion while simultaneously marginalizing the compromise to their individual leisure. By providing networked resources of many trusted progressive institutions all under one location Progressive-Living.com's users may become exposed, informed, and empowered to readily effect the progressive change individually desired.
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<H2>The Political Progress Bottle Neck: $</H2>
<H3>Publicly Financed Campaigns: Clean Elections</H3>
Independent of the progressive issue for which you have the most passion and desire to realize legislative change, one of your current biggest hurdles is raising enough funding to compete against business and industry interests.  What's more, the politician's campaigns might even have received funding from these business and industry interests.<BR><BR>
Publicly financed campaigns go as far as the supreme court allows (protecting the first ammendment: free speech) toward removing financial biases from our political candidates and elected officials.  In addition, if elected while campaigning under public financing our officials are free of the time consuming burden of fund raising and can spend more time focusing on the interests of the tax paying constituency.<BR><BR>
Moreover, publicly financed campaigns provide the realistic opportunity for qualified (skilled) candidates to run for office, not just those potential candidates with access to monetary funding sources.<BR><BR>
For these reasons, change will be realized much more readily and accurately to the desires of the constituency if publicly financed campaigns were offered to potential candidates.<BR><BR>
Other importantly pressing political progress bottle necks are gerrymandering, simple plurality voting system, single plurality voting system for presidential elections via the indirect electoral college, low primary election voter turnout, ballot center fraud, and a disinformed electorate.  However, the path towards acheiving reform in each of these political bottle necks is exacerbated each step of the way if publicly financed campaigns are not an option for our political candidate pool.<BR><BR>

<A HREF="http://www.publicampaign.org/node/34047">[more]</A>
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<H2>The Revolution</H2>
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<LI><A HREF="la revolution/initiatives.html">la Revolution de Vicion: en Manifesto of Progress</A></LI>
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<H2>Email Democracy: eActivism</H2>
<H3>Email Campaigns and Action Alerts</H2>
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.nrdc.org/action/">Natural Resources Defense Council - NRDC</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.environmentaldefense.org/home.cfm">Environmental Defense</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.panna.org/">Pesticide Action Network</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/">GreenPeace</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://action.citizen.org/signUp.jsp">Public Citizen</A></LI>

<LI><A HREF="http://www.publicampaign.org/">Public Campaign</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://drugpolicy.org/homepage.cfm">Drug Policy Alliance</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.moveon.org/">MoveOn - Democracy in Action</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/PageServer?pagename=newsletter">Ocean Conservancy</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.hrcactioncenter.org/actioncenter/join.tcl">Human Rights Campaign</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/">U.S. Campaign for Burma</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.one.org/takeaction/">One: The Campaign to Make Poverty History</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.ewg.org/">Environmental Working Group</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.ran.org/">Rainforest Action Network</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.change.org/">Change.org</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.crisisgroup.org/">International Crisis Group</A></LI>

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<H3>Email Alerts</H3>
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.amnestyusa.org/index.html">Amnesty International</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.americanprogressaction.org/">Center for American Progress Action Fund</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.uspirg.org/">U.S. PIRG</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.savedarfur.org/content">Save Darfur</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?action=subscribe&l=1">International Crisis Group</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.aim.org/membership.php">Accuracy in Media</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://sentencingproject.org/contact.aspx?IssueID=0">The Sentencing Project: Research and Advocacy for Reform</A></LI>

<LI><A HREF="http://www.factcheck.org/subscribe/">FactCheck</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://cfinst.org/about/signup.aspx">The Campaign Finance Institute</A></LI>
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<H3>Personal Euridition</H3>
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.transparent.com/subscribe/subscription.php">Foriegn Language Word of the Day</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.m-w.com/word/subscribe.htm">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/list/">Dictionary.com's Word of the Day</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l">Wikipedia Daily Article</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="https://ecl.collegeboard.com/account/AccountProfile2.jsp?applicationId=206&destinationpage=http%3A%2F%2Fapps.collegeboard.com%3A80%2Fqotd%2Fquestion.do%3Fsrc%3DO%26questionId%3D55">College Board Official Question of the Day</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.number2.com">ACT/SAT/GRE Preperation</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.wordsgalore.com">WordsGalore</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4343&l=1">International Crisis Group Annual Report</A></LI>

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<H2>Dense Changes</H2> These changes will yield the greatest change for the least amount of effort
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<LI>Reduce new consumption, Reuse what you have already purchased, Recycle/Donate what you cannot reuse.</LI>
<LI>Purchase/Sign-up for 100% Green Energy from your power company.</LI>
<LI>Eat local unprocessed food (whole fruits and veggies) preferrablly from your local farmers market.</LI>
<LI>Sign-up for e-alerts and email campaign newsletters for a quick and easy way to become politically involved and make your voice heard.</LI>
<LI>Walk, jog, bike, blade, skate, or ride public transit to your destinations - [if you must have an individual vehicle convert it to battery powered]</LI>
<LI>Refrain from consuming flesh and flesh derived foods.</LI>

<LI>Use compact flourescent light bulbs, or better yet, the sun for your lighting needs</LI>
<LI>Vote purple - [meaning vote third party] and/or vote for candidates who elect to run publicly financed campaigns.</LI>
<LI>Join a local CSA</LI>
<LI>If it must be used, use ecofriendly sustainable dishwasher, laundry detergent, and soaps; thereby avoiding household chemicals and anti-bacterial soaps.</LI>
<LI>Choose organic, local, and fair trade products (e.g. organic whole produce, organic hemp clothing items)</LI>
<LI>Use recycled toilet paper [e.g. 7th Generation Brand].</LI>
<LI>Bring/use your own bags/glass jars at grocery stores and farmers markets</LI>
<LI>Once a month, watch a political documentary (many are free and can be watched online) and read a non-fiction book (many can be checked out for free from a library).</LI>
<LI>If your energy is green, set your computer up to perform calculations for science during its unused CPU clock cycles</LI>

<LI>Use pharmaceuticals as a last resort</LI>
<LI>Properly recycle your TV</LI>
<LI>Only support political candidates that run a publicly funded campaign</LI>
<LI>Open your windows in the summer and wear more layers in the winter - Keep your home temperature a few degrees colder in the winter and a few degrees warmer in the summer.  [U.S.A. is the only place in the wold where the average home temperature is colder in the summer than during the winter - think of all that energy to fight natural cycles :(]</LI>
<LI>Seek out independent and publicly funded media outlets for your information sources (NPR, PRI, BBC, CommonDreams)</LI>
<LI>Volunteer weekly.</LI>
<LI>Use reusable plates, silverware, and napkins (organic Hemp)</LI>
<LI>Use www.goodsearch.com for your search engine</LI>
<LI>In an effort to erradicate affluenza from your life simplify your life, donate your unneeded possessions, read books, spend time with your family.</LI>

<LI>If you must invest, be sure to only invest in socially responsible businesses and organizations.</LI>
<LI>Participate in your local currency.</LI>
<LI>Get in the sun every day and breathe deep into the belly.</LI>
<LI>Do not use chemicals on your lawn</LI>
<LI>Do not use a leaf blower, lawn mower, nor an edge trimmer</LI>
<LI>Convert your grass to produce bearing gardens</LI>
<LI>Practice Non-Violent Communication (NVC) - listen genuinely and refrain from imposing your moral judgements by avoid words like 'should', 'right', 'wrong', 'good', and 'bad'.</LI>
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<H2>Recommended Media</H2>To be sure there are many sources of information.  It is the intent of these lists to provide you with titles that are the most comprehensive and most informative and the least redundant.  This saves you time without compromising quality.
<H3>Books (Please borrow from a library)</H3>
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<LI>Campbell, T. Colin, and Thomas M. Campbell II. <U>The China Study</U>. Dallas: BenBella Books, 2006.</LI>
<LI>Robbins, John. <U>The Food Revolution: How Your Diet can Help Save Your Life and the World</U>. Berkeley: Conari Press, 2001.</LI>
<LI>Nestle, Marion. <U>Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health</U>. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002.</LI>

<LI>Perkins, John. <U>Confessions of an Economic Hit Man</U>. San Francisco: Berret-Koehler Publishers, 2004.</LI>
<LI>D'Souza, Dinesh. <U>What's So Great about America</U>. New York: Penguin Books, 2002. [Just Chapter One: Why They Hate Us: America and Its Enemies]</LI>
<LI>Ward, Diane Raines. <U>Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst</U>. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2002.</LI>
<LI>Rosenberg, Marshall B. <U>Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life</U>. 2nd ed. Encinitas: PuddleDancer Press, 2005.</LI>
<LI>De Graaf, John, David Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor. <U>Affluenza: The All Consuming Epidemic</U>. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001.</LI>

<LI>Lietaer, Bernard. <U>The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work and a Wiser World</U>. Century, 2002. [Avaialbe from Amazon UK]</LI>
<LI>McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. <U>Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things</U>. New York, North Point Press, 2002.</LI>
<LI>Bakan, Joel. <U>The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power</U>. New York: Free Press, 2004.</LI>
<LI>Hertz, Noreena. <U>The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy</U>. New York: HaperCollins, 2001.</LI>
<LI>Hawking, Stephen W. <U>A Brief History of Time</U>. Updated and expanded tenth anniversary ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1996.</LI>

<LI>Greene, Brian. <U>The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory</U>. Vintage, 2000.</LI>
<LI>Orwell, George. <U>Animal Farm</U>. Orlando: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1945.<BR>
---. <U>Nineteen Eighty-Four</U>. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1949.</LI>
<LI>Abbott, Edwin A. <U>Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions</U>. Seely & Co., 1884.</LI>
<LI>Gaarder, Jostein. <U>Sophie's World</U>. Phoenix Paperback, 1994.</LI>
<LI>Fisk, Robert. <U>The Great War for Civilisation - The Conquest of the Middle East</U>. London: Fourth Estate, 2005.</LI>
<LI>Bugliosi, Vincent. <U>The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder</U>. Vanguard Press, 2008.</LI>
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<H3>Films</H3>
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<LI>The Corporation</LI>
<LI>BBC's The Blue Planet</LI>
<LI>Who Killed the Electric Car?</LI>
<LI>Plan Columbia</LI>
<LI>BBC's The Life of Mammals</LI>
<LI>BBC's The Life of Birds</LI>

<LI>The Battle of Algiers</LI>
<LI>12 Angry Men</LI>
<LI>Mr. Smith Goes to Washington</LI>
<LI>Mena Connection</LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/watch/">PBS Frontline World</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/">PBS Frontline</A></LI>
<LI>Toxic Bust</LI>
<LI>Titles at <A HREF="http://www.ironweedfilms.com/">Ironweed Films</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279&ei=1txiSYqCCaDUqAOBjIWKDQ&q=Money+as+Debt&emb=1">Money as Debt</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-515319560256183936&ei=FxRjSbyrMZaEqQOC_NXhDw&q=money+masters&emb=1">The Money Masters</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6847507648836588010&ei=ZxRjSbGrBKDcqAPKz4HECA&q=911&emb=1">911 Ripple Effect</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5386487651203625811&ei=ZxRjSbGrBKDcqAPKz4HECA&q=911&emb=1">911: In Plane Sight</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&ei=-RRjSY26O6DUqAOBjIWKDQ&q=loose+change+2nd+edition&emb=1">Loose Change 2nd Edition Recut</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-594683847743189197&ei=RRVjSYOOC5r-qAOusrneAQ&q=zeitgeist&emb=1">Zeitgeist: The Movie</A></LI>
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<H3>News Sources</H3>
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<LI>NPR and PRI's <A HREF="http://www.theworld.org/">The World</A></LI>
<LI>BBC News</LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.commondreams.org/">Common Dreams</A> An Alternative Media Portal Site (Filters news services, periodicals, and radio for you)</LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.alternet.org/">AlterNet</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.aim.org/">Accuracy in Media: For Fairness, Balance and Accuracy in News Reporting</LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm">Znet</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/">Robert Fisk</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.globalresearch.ca/">Global Research</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.crisisgroup.org/">International Crisis Group</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.disinfo.com/content/">Disinformation</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.truthout.org/">T r u t h O u t</A></LI>
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<H3>Politician Accountability</H3>
<LI><A HREF="http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp">Find Your 4-digit Zip Code (to look up your representatives)</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.vote-smart.org/">Project Vote Smart</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://action.citizen.org/getLocal.jsp">Public Citizen Politician Look-up</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://clerk.house.gov/legislative/legvotes.html">U.S. House Legislation Watch</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/a_three_sections_with_teasers/votes.htm">U.S. Senate Legislation Watch</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.opensecrets.org/">OpenSecrets.org: Your Guide to the Money in U.S. Elections</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.911truth.org/">9/11 Truth</A></LI>
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<H3>Weekly Activism Assignments</H3>
Every week a new progressive activism assignment will be posted.  It is the hopes that through the coordinated efforts of such impulsed action the progressive community can gain attention and procure change.  Analogy: this is akin to a crew team of progressive advocates working hard in unison to the weekly call of the coach's "Stroke".
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<LI>Week of 10.12.2007: Register your address to be removed from direct marketing mailings.<A HREF="https://www.directmail.com/directory/mail_preference/">[ more ]</A></LI>
<LI>Week of 03.12.2007: Register your telephone number(s) at the National Do Not Call Registry.<A HREF="https://www.donotcall.gov/">[ more ]</A></LI>
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<LI>Week of 26.11.2007: Use stairs or just walk.  Do not use elevators, escalators, or moving walkways.</LI>
<LI>Week of 19.11.2007: Encourage a friend, family member, colleague, or neighbor to read <U>The China Study</U> by Campbell, T. Colin, and Thomas M. Campbell II.</LI>
<LI>Week of 05.11.2007: Inquire your work supervisor or landlord about why there are no recycling receptacles positioned throughout your office building.  Inform her/him that there are tax and monetary benefits to reducing waste as well as ethical and ecological considerations.</LI>
<LI>Week of 12.11.2007: Participate in Clean Elections week by explaining to five people the attributes of Publicly Financed Campaigns.</LI>

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<H2>F.A.Q.</H2>
<H3>Why is Progressive-Living.com designed so simply?</H3>
There are four reasons the site has such a simple design.<BR><BR>
First, the desire for individuals to access the information is superior to displaying this information in marketing attractive fashion.  Many of Progressive-Living.com's users have low bandwidth connections and by implementing a simple design these users are able to join the community.<BR><BR>
Secondly, Progressive-Living.com wants to maximize its liesure time while also doing its part to procure progressive change.  Adding fancy templates, color schemes, designs, logos, formating, and layout, pre and post markup scripting, and such similar considerations only makes things more complicated both for the Progressive-Living.com and its users.<BR><BR>
Thirdly, by designing Progressive-Living.com in a simple fashion allows it to be evolved upon by the progressive community.  In short, the simple design contributes to the continuation and longevity of the site's existance and, therefore, net efficacy.<BR><BR>
Lastly, as a symbolic gesture towards the movement of <I>Voluntary Simplification</I>.  That the simple design confers such positive allowances as stated above is testament to the voluntary simplification movement.

<H3>How does Progressive-Living.com make money?</H3>
Progressive-Living.com has a strict policy of receiving zero monetary proceeds or revenues either directly or indirectly from its online activities.
<H3>Is Progressive-Living.com a non-profit corporation?</H3>
No.  Progressive-Living.com is not a corporation or licensed business of any kind.  No accountants, attorneys, CEO, CFO, GMs, nor board meetings.
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<H3>American Heritage Dictionary</H3>
<H4>pro·gres·sive       (prə-grěs'ĭv) </H4>
adj.  
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   <LI>Moving forward; advancing.</LI>

   <LI>Proceeding in steps; continuing steadily by increments: progressive change.</LI>
   <LI>Promoting or favoring progress toward better conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods: a progressive politician; progressive business leadership.</LI>
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<H4>liv·ing       (lĭv'ĭng)</H4>
n.  
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   <LI>The condition or action of maintaining life: the high cost of living.</LI>
   <LI>A manner or style of life: preferred plain living.</LI>

   <LI>A means of maintaining life; livelihood: </LI>
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