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IAL organizations

Over 70 groups and organizations in 26 countries worldwide have joined the International Alliance for Localization and the list is still growing! Browse through a selection below:

Australia IAL Organizations

AUDAcities
is a catalyst to relocalise production in cities. Enabling people to produce more of what they need for themselves.

CERES Community Environment Park
is an environmental education centre, community garden, urban farm and social enterprise hub spread across four locations.

The Commons
is a community space in Newcastle, Australia. It works to build stronger communities rooted in interactions of justice and mutual support.

 Community and Public Sector Union
is a federal trade union for Australian Public Services, with representation in every state and territory. 

Echo Credits
is a organization focused on providing data management, exchange and consultancy services, to any individuals, businesses and communities.

Eco Villages Australia
is a non-profit organisation that provides the legal and financial model to create collaborative housing eco-communities for small groups of people.

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Hill Fold Music
original live music events for the Adelaide Hills community, Peramangk Country, South Australia

Kommuniti
is a non-profit focusing on Kommunity Hubs – ‘It takes a village to raise a child is a well known African proverb that means that an entire community of people must interact with children for those children to experience and grow in a safe and healthy environment.’

The Local Green Pages
is a free-to-list community directory to help you easily share & find unique products, people and experiences in your local area that enrich our communities and care for our planet.

Localising Leanganook
brings community members together to sustain viable local economies; act on social and ecological justice, reclaim democracy, and revitalise spirituality.

The Magic Theatre
is a multi disciplinary production company specialising in immersive experiences and unique event management.

Permital Global
is making permaculture tools and knowledge accessible to everyone, working with people to strengthen food sovereignty, mitigate climate change and build resilient and sustainable communities.

Transition Streets Geelong
is a grassroots initiative that focuses on connecting and supporting neighborhoods around the issues of sustainability, giving real meaning to the phrase, ‘think globally; act locally’.

Transition Warringal
cultivates connections with nature for healthy local communities across Heidelberg and Rosanna, Australia.

Wild Search Australia
offers a wide range of nature-based, environmental, plastic-free, educational and rewilding events, public presentations, article writing, and workshops for adults, teens and children.

Bangladesh Network for Radio and Communication
builds a democratic society based on the principles of free flow of information, affordable access to information and communication technology for a remote and marginalized population.

Nayakrishi Andolon
is a farmers movement for biodiversity conservation and food sovereignty.

Noakhali Rural Development Society
works with farmers, producers and community organizations to achieve sustainable livelihoods and social justice in the Chittagong region of southeastern Bangladesh.

Pacari Network 
operates herbal pharmacies in four states in the Cerrado, Central Brazil. The pharmacies serve communities with remedies prepared from medicinal plants, by healer. 

Nasako Besingi 
envisions a world that natural environment provides undisturbed free goods and services to born and unborn generations.

Shiloh Farms Cameroon
is a youth inspired and youth led agricultural organization, founded in 2014.

Bennington Hills Farm
is a regenerative farm near Orangeville, Ontario.We raise grass fed beef and lamb, heritage pork, pastured poultry & grow legumes and small grains.

Centre for Local Prosperity
promotes local economic solutions and climate readiness for rural and local communities. CLP organizes conferences and community working sessions, and conducts evidence-based studies.

Grand River Forestry
designs ecological landscapes by creating food forests, edible landscapes and pollinator gardens, all are invaluable to our long term sustainability, yielding organic food, as well as habitat and food for wildlife.

Institute for Bioregional Studies
has as mission to foster community and regional development through research, consultation and educational programs.

Local Solutions
is a non profit organization based Victoria British Columbia, founded in 1999. We have been implementing urban agriculture projects in Vancouver.

Permaculture Association of Canada
is a supporting permaculture education, charities and more throughout.

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Spirit of the Land
is a a community-based network of people across Western Canada working on the premise that our external ecological crises have their foundation in spiritual and cultural disconnections.

St.James Town Community Cooperative
was created by residents of the neighbourhood of St. James Town to address the growing need for food security, capacity building, and emergency preparation.

Transition NDG
raises awareness about the multiple crises we are living today and their possible solutions through crises community film screenings and discussions, swaps, storytelling, ceremonies, and more.

TorontotheBetter Learning and Development
works to strengthen Toronto’s social economy by promoting, researching and and partnering with, Toronto’s many and diverse social enterprises.

Bosque Frio
is a consultancy in content management and projects related to the world of sustainability, environmental education and good living.

Raíces Para Una Vida Consciente
is a blog and magazine for regenerative cultures from a community of families and friends in La Serena, Chile.

Colectivo Flora de Vida
is a permaculture collective practicing and promoting the use of local resources, permaculture, natural medicine, harmony with nature, eco-construction, consciousness of the global situation, open thinking, spirituality, handcraft, creativity and diversity.

Fundación Para La Paz
the Foundation for Peace in Costa Rica, informs about industrial agriculture, mining, fossil fuel extraction, free trade etc. and other aspects of the economic growth model, while sharing news of alternatives and initiatives for a sustainable future.

Fundación Para La Paz
the Foundation for Peace in Costa Rica, informs about industrial agriculture, mining, fossil fuel extraction, free trade etc. and other aspects of the economic growth model, while sharing news of alternatives and initiatives for a sustainable future.

Huaravito Reserve
is a private protected area located at Montes del Aguacate Biological Corridor of the Central Volcanic Mountain Range Biosphere Reserve.

Source Creative Association
is a platform for people to offer language classes and creative courses like photography, ceramics, guitar, upcycling, jewelry, etc.

Africa Organics – The Home Farm Project
helps young people establish permanent home farms on their own lands, in their own villages, and works to give more prestige to traditional skills and practices —portraying them as valuable assets within a sustainable community.

Teach For The Gambia
is committed to end educational injustice in The Gambia.

Rónaőrző Természetvédelmi Egyesület
focuses on conservation and sustainability issues as well as preserving traditional culture, in part by promoting localization through farmer-consumer cooperation and the initiation of the first community supported agriculture programs in the region.

Cargonomia
is a cooperation between three socially and environmentally conscious small enterprises: Cyclonomia DIY Bicycle Social Cooperative, Zsamboki Biokert, an organic vegetable farm and sustainable agriculture education center, and Kantaa, a self-organized bike messenger company.

Gaia Ecological and Rural Development Foundation
is based around an award winning ecovillage built near Galgahévíz. The ecovillage, which was started in response to the unsustainable economic growth model, includes an organic farm, a hotel and a restaurant. The Foundation run campaigns and host training events related to permaculture and sustainable food and farming.

Ahead Initiatives
is committed to alleviate poverty by addressing hunger and food insecurity as the primary focus of our development endeavour.

Bhoomi College
is committed to joining the younger generation to co-create meaningful and empowering learning environments to address challenges for ecologically and socially sane living on Earth today.

Earth&Us
born out of a passion for promoting sustainable living through trans-disciplinary research and action.

The Green Kashmir –
The Green Hope Foundation

is a Permaculture based organization working in the conflict zone of Kashmir valley to address the environmental and social crises in the state with the practices of Permaculture.

LAKSHYA for Sustainable Development
focuses sustainable development in Uttar Pradesh, India. LAKSHYA believes in the power of local communities to develop their own agriculture and food systems, using traditional knowledge and without the interference of big corporations.

5th Pillar
is a citizens’ coalition for democracy, working to equip citizens with non-violent strategies to fight corruption.

Research and Action Centre for Local Democracy
has as mission to take democracy and holistic development to the citizens in the grass roots of India by strengthening the structures of democracy across tiers, by empowering citizens to realize their absolute power and by bringing transparency in all levels of governance.

Swadeshi Jagaran Manch
has organized seminars for the past 24 years to create awareness about the perils of globalization, GATT-WTO, and GM crops, as well as events to promote organic agriculture and local business.

Global Hub for the Common Good
Open think tank with the vision to co-create a more sustainable, fair, collaborative and people-oriented new economy. We are also promoters of the Global Forum NESI of New Economy and Social Innovation: www.neweconomyforum.org

Onchenda Open Global Food Co-op
Assists local farmers and market gardeners to start producing healthy food and the e-commerce infrastructure to market, sell and deliver their produce to local consumers, commercial establishments, and institutions.

Permaculture Education
is the leading worldwide provider of the 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC) online. This certification is the first step in learning how to design for yourself and others, and for working professionally in the field of Permaculture Design.

System Change Alliance
is a platform and a growing network of activist organizations, policy makers, businesses, and individuals, working on deep, regenerative systems change.

Vete A La Fruta
is a plant-based coop promoting sustainable lifestyle and social projects, and exploring new ways to make a living while preserving the common good.

Network for Environment and Economic Development
(NEED Myanmar)

educates, trains and empowers the next generation of Burmese civil society leaders in sustainable agriculture, environmental conservation and community-based economic development in order to protect the livelihood, interests, and human rights of all Burmese people.

Digo Bikas Institute
is a Kathmandu-based research and advocacy organization committed to promoting ecological sustainability and social equity at the policy and the community level.

Eco-Reach Foundation
is a non-governmental and non-profit organization focused on sustainable development and conservation of natural resources.

Rights of Nature
their mission is to increase awareness of the importance of Rights of Nature, the implementation of rights for nature in legislation, and encouraging a participatory society that actively participates in a transition to sustainability.

Working Group Food Justice
works towards an European trade, agriculture and climate policy that respects human rights and enables a just and ecological food supply.

Far North Resilient Communities
is a Charitable Trust with a strong desire to work with other groups, organisations and individuals so that together we may all achieve more.

Greenback
is a female-founded start up, building technology solutions to support climate action.

The Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa
non-profit Trust dedicated to the ethics and principles of sustainability and Permaculture.

Localise NZ
is about sharing ideas and networking of creative visionaries, providing tools and bringing people together in a collaborative way for the betterment of our community.

Project Lyttelton
is a grass roots community group whose vision is to create a vibrant and sustainable local community. We engage in a variety of projects e.g. a timebank, festivals, community garden, farmers market, etc.

Humane Earth Advocacy Link – HEAL
is open to individuals and groups who share a common concern to make the world more humane and more self-sufficient.

Boikanyo Motlhabeng Foundation
focuses on social and economic development of rural communities around the SADC region in Southern Africa.

Greyton Transition Town
brings the community together to find local solutions to the global challenges of peak oil and climate change, with programs that over food security, waste management, etc.

Rucore
is a social enterprise focused on connecting ecology to strategies for rural development and sustainability.

Stop Reset Go
is not a movement, but a holistic framework consisting of complimentary digital tools that will help bring together the countless amazing but highly fragmented movements, change agents and organizations already out there doing amazing work.

The Sustainability Institute
is an educational institution that focuses on combining practice with theory in a way that integrates ecology and equity in support of a sustainable South Africa.

Butroi Bizirik Transition
An open, grass-roots movement for personal and social transformation.

Projecto Regeneración: La Bolina
this project aims to be a win-win project taking ‘problematic factors’, the depopulation of Spanish countryside and villages, degradation of land, high local unemployment, and housing and combine these factors to create a positive solution.

Mae Wang Project
is a collaborative effort surrounding the Mae Wang Sanctuary with a mission to support, restore and preserve the fringe-forest habitat in this critical watershed, while also striving to improve the wellbeing of the residents and community.

The Dream Foundation of Uganda
is a non-profit organization with focused on helping street kids, abandoned pregnant teenagers, widows, and vulnerable children in Uganda.

Kibengo Youth Care Activists
is a non-profit organisations with a focus on climate restoration projects and raising awareness in schools, churches and with the greater community.

Local Economy
supports the local economy by strengthening the role and capacity of local farmers, promoting farming businesses as a livelihood amongst younger generations, running seeds saving campaigns and more.

The Arkbound Foundation
aims to widen access to literature and improve diversity within publishing. 

Bioregion Birmingham
is a community based think tank that provides a platform to key thinkers, activists and community groups with a view to creating a practical vision for a resilient Birmingham.

The Brixton Pound
is a local currency, lottery, and now a shop. Showcasing what a social economy can be like in Brixton. A better high street is possible!

Circular Economy Wales
leads on the diversification and resilience of communities and people-focused resource conservation. We represent a People’s Circular Economy where localism is centre stage.

Earth Kind
is a social enterprise which is founded on our passion for Permaculture and its core three ethics for Earth care, People care and Fair share.

Gaia Education
is a leading-edge provider of sustainability education that promotes thriving communities within planetary boundaries via Ecovillage Design Education courses, an E-learning programme “Design for Sustainability,” and specific activities in the Global South.

International Simultaneous Policy Organisation
invites citizens around the world to use their votes in a powerful new way to encourage governments to cooperate to solve global problems.

Just Cooperate Limited
is a Commons Equity Co-operative, a new form of business structure designed to align enterprise with the challenges, and the opportunities, of our time.

Landworkers Alliance
is a union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers with a mission to improve the livelihoods of our members and create a better food and land-use system for everyone.

Localise West Midlands
is a think tank, campaign group and consultancy working towards a more just and sustainable economy through localisation.

Permaculture Picturehouse
is a regular permaculture social event in London that shows feature-length and short films on subjects from the whole permaculture spectrum of interests.

Schumacher College
is a centre for cutting-edge learning. Our work is to inspire, challenge and question ourselves as co-inhabitants of the world, to ask the questions we all struggle to find answers to and to find sound knowledge, intuition and wonder in our search for solutions.

Steady State Manchester
is concerned about increasing wealth inequality, climate change and financial instability.

TimeBank Hull & East Riding
a TimeBank is used to engage people in a system of exchange. Everyone’s time is valued equally regardless of the skills being exchanged.

ThoughtBox
is a learning forum for schools to encourage critical thinking, empathy and unlearning. Topics covered include: Climate Change, Culture and Stereotypes, Food, Waste, Happiness, Faith and many more.

Totnes REconomy Project
the main objective is to create a new kind of community-led economic development that would create an abundance of opportunity for people to meet their needs, and to do so in ways that work with natural systems.

Transition Liverpool
is a global network whose aim is to help society to move away from the consumption of fossil fuels.

Transition Truro
is a group of people working on projects to increase the resilience of their small city and make room for wildlife.

Awakening/Art & Culture
is a non-profit organization dedicated to artistry, heritage, imagination and the public interest.

BALE (Building A Local Economy)
is a community resource center for local economy initiatives in the White River Valley of Vermont.

Better (not bigger) Vermont
informs and motivates the public to take positive actions that reduce the harmful impacts that growing consumption, development and population have on the environment, economy, and quality of life for current and future generations.

Cambridge Naturals
is a locally owned family business, founded in 1974 with the vision of establishing a community natural health.

Farm Fresh Home
the aim is to help people grow great-tasting, organic food at their homes, schools and workplaces. Farm Fresh Food designs, installs and maintains a garden specifically to grow food.

Center for Environmental Transformation
engages, educates, and inspires people to practice a more environmentally responsible way of living on the planet.

Center for Global Justice
engages in local community support and outreach to promote and advance initiatives and movements toward social justice, grassroots empowerment and democracy, as well as environmental sustainability. 

CODEPINK/Growing A Local Peace Economy
promotes the peace economy model, which encourages us to reinvest in our local communities and calls for creating cultural, social and economic models.

Eat Local NY
is an online marketplace showcasing products that are exclusively made in New York. The goal is to create a streamlined flow of products that will strengthen local food systems and support local economies.

Films for the Planet
is a streaming online platform featuring the best in environmental and social action films.

Grow Local Greenwood Lake Initiative
has as mission to create a regenerative , resilient, local food system to enhance the environmental and social health of Greenwood Lake NY

Herbal Education Center
provides education about plant-based medicines derived from primarily bioregional plants that are harvested ethically, sustainably and with the utmost concern for future plant communities and their resiliency.

Holy Cross International Justice Office
unites the social justice work of the four Congregations of the Holy Cross, with particular focus on global economic justice, ecological sustainability, the rights of marginalized peoples, peacemaking and nonviolence.

Local Education & Action Partnerships
the vision of LEAP is to co-create a community culture of joy, celebrating & fostering, local diversity, resilience, and regeneration.

Local First Arizona
empowers individuals to build the life they want in their local community. Together we can create a stronger economy, a more vibrant community, and better job opportunities for Arizonans.

MACOMA
is an Aquaponics farm in Southern Nevada.

Our Common Heart
supports indigenous people worldwide in the survival of their ancestral knowledge and practices and in the wise choice of future development.

Permaculture Education
is a worldwide provider of the 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC) online, which is the first step in learning how to design for yourself and others, and for working professionally in the field of Permaculture Design.

Right Livelihood College
is a network of students and faculty worldwide that work with some of the world’s leading changemakers in social and environmental justice.

Schumacher Center for a New Economics
educates the public about an economics that supports both people and the planet, through programs that work to build strong local economies.

SEEDS
is a nonprofit organization established to implement local solutions to global issues at the intersection of ecology, education, and design.

SeeingTao
produces images of natural events and their inter-connectedness.

Shareable
is an non-profit news, action network, and consultancy for the sharing transformation — a global movement of movements emerging from the grassroots to address today’s biggest challenges.

Simply Living
focuses on creating a compassionate and sustainable world through personal, community and cultural transformation. Simply Living also serves as a Transition Hub in the US Transition Network.

Small Farm Training Centre
is a working organic farm that teaches the ABC’s of local food production and cow husbandry on 1200 acres in Southern Mississippi, while emphasizing the spiritual aspects of localization.

Solar Gardens Institute
promotes the development of community solar arrays.

Village Design Institute
is an educational non-profit organization focused on creating and disseminating a scientific, multi-disciplinary knowledge-base to inform the design and development of sustainable community models for the 21st century.

ZIMSOFF
to create and nurture a dynamic alliance of Small holder Farmer Organizations, or SFOs, that promotes organic farming, processing and marketing, in partnership with PELUM Zimbabwe Service Provider Organizations or SPOs, to uplift the welfare of smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe through participatory ecological land use planning and management.

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