Resources to Inspire, Educate and Support our Elder-Actions

Elder organizations promoting activism and engagement:

CONSCIOUS ELDES NETWORK fosters a budding movement of vital elders -- dedicated to growing in understanding while actively addressing the demanding challenges facing our country.  Join us in this monumental endeavor!  www.consciouselders.orgwww.consciouselders.org/

COUNCIL OF 13 INDIGENOUS GRANDMOTHERS represents a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, with projects that protect our diverse cultures and that educate and nurture our children.  www.GrandmothersCouncil.org

THE ELDERS: an organization of independent global leaders strategically working together for peace and human rights, who are uniquely placed as global leaders to make a difference to promote neglected issues and speak out against injustice.   www.TheElders.org

ENCORE: promotes encore careers that combine purpose, passion and a paycheck in your “second act;” and offers many resources to steer folks to their encore careers.   www.Encore.org    

GRAY IS GREEN:  the “go to” organization for members of America’s older generations who are interested in environmental sustainability.  www.GrayIsGreen.org

GRAY PANTHERS:  Age and Youth in Action is an intergenerational, multi-issue organization working to create a society that puts the needs of people over profit, responsibility over power and democracy over institutions.  www.GrayPanthers.org

GREEN SENIORS: information & networks to create community and make a difference for people who care about the natural environment, have some time to spare and want to do something to fix the problems that we have created.  www.GreenSeniors.org

SAGE-ING INTERNATIONAL: dedicated to helping elders reclaim their role as leaders, sharing wisdom and spirit essential to creating a better world for current and future generations.   www.Sage-ing.org

SAGE-ING MENTORSHIP TRAINING building on the Spiritual Eldering legacy of Rabbi Zalman Schachter; and is the process of harvesting one’s wisdom, drawn from life experience, using the art of reflection and spiritual practice.  This 3-part program teaches how to mentor others and bring the Sage-ing process to community and friends; taught by those who were trained by Rabbi Schachter.  www.yerusha.org/sage-ing

UNSILENT GENERATION: a site for people who don’t believe that getting old means getting dumb, getting conservative or getting complacent; and, features information and commentary on a variety of timely issues and subjects, from a no-nonsense and progressive point of view.   www.UnsilentGeneration.net

Organizations that address social injustice and climate issues:

The GAIA THEORY is a compelling new way of understanding life on our planet – Mother Earth --  as a single living, self-regulating system that maintains its own habitability;  analogous to the workings of any individual organism that regulates body temperature, blood salinity, etc.   www.GaiaTheory.org     

CITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY's purpose is to create the political will for a stable climate, and, to empower individuals to have breakthroughs in exercising their personal and political power. www.citizensclimatelobby.org

ELDERS CLIMATE ACTION mobilizes elders to address climate change while there is still time to protect the well-being of our grandchildren, future generations and all life.  We are dedicated to using the power of our caring, our wisdom, and our numbers to push for policies and practices that will reduce greenhouse gases in our atmosphere to a level consistent with life thriving on our planet.

MOVE TO AMEND is a coalition of organizations and of individuals committed to social and economic justice, ending corporate rule, and building a vibrant democracy that is genuinely accountable to the people, not corporate interests. www.MoveToAmend.org

Creating the Great Turning

JOANNA MACY, herself an elder of 87 years, offers new ways of thinking, spiritual practices, and pioneering group methods – all in service to the "Great Turning" from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization.   www.JoannaMacy.net

THE PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE: engages people in transformational conversations and experiences that inspire and galvanize the human family to generate a critical mass of conscious commitment to a thriving, just and sustainable way of life on Earth; by transforming human systems and structures that separate us.   www.Pachamama.org