About Community Action Publications

About Community Action Publications

"When you start to be part of the solution,
the whole world gets to be a better place."
Howard B. Schiffer, President Vitamin Angel Alliance (www.vitaminangel.org)

(Quoted in Delicious Living, Dec. 2006, p54)

Community Action Publications (CAP)
is a volunteer, community-supported organization.
We create and distribute helpful information
that empowers us all to create
a healthier, happier world.

Our special focus areas include:
* Reducing toxics and encouraging alternatives such as organics
* Supporting a proactive transition to more ecological energy sources and ways of living
* Empowering true democratic choice about our world and our future
* Nurturing healthy connections with our authentic selves, each other, our communities, and the natural world

We believe that, deep in our hearts, we all see ourselves and our world whole and beautiful.
CAP seeks to help support that dream in becoming our shared reality.

* ABOUT CAP FOUNDER & PRESIDENT PATRICIA DINES

* WAYS WE BRING THIS VITAL INFORMATION INTO THE WORLD

CAP acts towards creating a healthier, less-toxic world by offering useful, practical, and empowering information on toxics and alternatives through a variety of means. We love to deepen people's understanding and empower their effective action!

- WEBSITE, with key information on our topic areas organized so it's easy for folks to find just what they seek. Much faster than an Internet search (much as we love Google!)
- EMAIL list, keeping members informed on key and current news in our topic areas

- HANDOUTS & REPORTS that folks can copy and use in their tabling, classes, etc.

- TALKS, EVENTS, CLASSES. We've given talks at EcoFest, Health & Harmony, Watershed Day. Two favorite topics are:

- Living a Healthy Life: Reclaiming health by systematically eliminating toxics from our daily lives
- Effective Activism

- WRITING ARTICLES to empower constructive action on these topics. For example,

- Laguna Farms: Sowing Seeds of Sustainability, by Patricia Dines, in Common Ground, about the North Bay's largest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm.
* Nurturing the Bounty of Local Organics, by Patricia Dines, Steppin' Out magazine (lead article)

- OFFERING INFORMATION to other writers on these topics. For example,

"Organic Wines: Are they better for you? (and how do they taste?)", by Andrew Nelson, Alternative Medicine magazine. www.alternativemedicine.com/AMHome.asp?cn=Catalog&act=GetProduct&crt=ProductKey=26653&style=\AMXSL\ArticleDetail.xsl

- COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS with other organizations

- WRITING THE ORGANIC GUIDES to inspire then make it easy for folks to support and enjoy local organic food and agriculture. Two editions have been produced: "The Organic Guide to Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino Counties" (5 editions) & "The Organic Guide to San Francisco" (2 editions). Both books are currently sold out.

* LINKED PUBLICATION: The Next STEP newsletter

Patricia Dines also edits and assists in creating The Next STEP newsletter six times a year. This 2-page newsletter provides information about toxics and alternatives, to support readers in reducing their toxic use and explosure, and to help create a healthier, less-toxic world for us all. This is a project of the City of Sebastopol made possible by local citizen volunteers. For more information, click here.

* HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT CAP

Our work depends on the support of the community to exist -- including people like you!

Our priority is creating and distributing empowering information as widely as possible. We don't want money to be a barrier to this information being used! So, even though it takes substantial time and expense to develop, we offer our information for a low cost or often even free (like on this website!). To continue doing this, we need the support of people like you! For instance, you can:

* Help spread the word about the CAP's organic vision and our website as a resource. You can tell your friends, put a link on your website, write articles, etc.
* Become an individual or business member of CAP. For more information, click here.

* Join our free email list and keep connected to local organics.

* Keep us informed about local organic activities &endash; including yours'!

* Collaborate with us on your projects and ours'.

* Suggest other ways we can act together towards our shared goals!

You can also volunteer to increase what we can accomplish in our information gathering, presentation, and distribution. Even a few hours helps us out a lot! Use your skills and energy to help create a better world. For instance, you can assist us with writing, research, website development, tabling, marketing, and more. For more ideas about our current needs and visions and how you can help, click here <www.healthyworld.org/volunteer.html>. Contact us to let us know more about your interests and how you might like to pitch in and help make our shared visions come true. (Our contact information is below.)

Thank you for supporting our work for a healthier world for everyone!

We were touched to be honored by the Sebastopol City Council. For more information, click here.

Special thanks for the support of: Petaluma Progressives; Dianna and Bob Coulombe; the Santa Rosa Alliance for Democracy; Santa Rosa's Community Market; the Sonoma County Herb Association and Vivien Hillgrove; The Organic Wine Company; Pesticide Watch; Californians for Pesticide Reform; Nan Love; James Gleaves; Kat Decker; Gillet; Douglas Ovaitt; and all the other people, too many to name, who have supported our work and done great work of their own!
Together, we are making a better world!

Thanks very much to everyone for your generous and kind support!

Information courtesy of:

"Information Empowering Action for a Healthier World"

We hope this information (and our work) is valuable to you,
and supports the health and well-being of yourself,
your family, our community, and our world.
If it is, please let us know. It makes us happy to hear!

You can support our work and ensure that it continues. For instance, you can link to our site and let others know about it. Or become a CAP member! For more information, click on the "About CAP" button above.

If you find a broken link or outdated information, or want to suggest an addition or edit to this page, please let us know by emailing info[at]healthyworld.org. Please include both the webpage name and the relevant information.

Thank you to everyone who supports our ability to offer this information
to our community, for our planet!