Organizations I feel have a genuine commitment toward supporting and bettering the lives and environment of the globe. Please go deeper and explore, volunteer, or donate to any of these links. If you have thoughts or questions message me and I will respond to the best of my knowledge and experience. 

Quiet Parks International - An international non-profit committed to saving quiet for the benefit of all life.

Life Mosaic - Global non-profit focusing on Indigenous communities. “Enabling communities to protect and recover their commons and cultures, and to be better equipped to vision and determine their own futures.”

*Organikh - Cambodian permaculture farm hosting travelers and volunteers to learn about natural building and permaculture farming. “Promoting self-reliant & sustainable agricultural practices in Cambodian countryside, as well as generating income from sustainable tourism to help local communities.”

*Children’s Future - Cambodian social work organization focusing on lower income/higher risk areas. “Children’s Future provides 251 marginalized children in Battambang, Cambodia, with cutting edge social work and educational services, so that they can grow to be the country’s next generation of leaders.”

*Teen Feed Seattle - Seattle based organization helping homeless youth with meals and support. “With the tremendous support of the community, Teen Feed responds to the most basic needs of homeless and at-risk youth in the following focus areas: healthy meals and lives, youth support coordination, street outreach, healthcare access, and engaging the community through service.”

*Vipassana - Global non-denominational meditation centers, focusing on the nature of reality. “Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is one of India's most ancient techniques of meditation.”

*Accepting volunteers or participation

Further Viewing:

Samsara & Baraka - "SAMSARA is a Sanskrit word that means “the ever turning wheel of life” and is the point of departure for the filmmakers as they search for the elusive current of interconnection that runs through our lives.  Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, SAMSARA transports us to sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial sites, and natural wonders." 

Human - "Directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. With Luis Cancu, Atman, Berthony, Bruno. A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.”

The Men of the Fifth World - "The aboriginal culture of Australia, includes a large number of tribes inhabiting the oceanic continent before the arrival of the white man. But all that rich culture is doomed to survive in stocks in which its people are destined to extinction. In this episode one of the elders that preserve aboriginal culture will show the most important elements of a culture that struggles not to disappear.”

Recent & Current Readings:

Island, by Aldous Huxley

The World We Used to Live In, by Vine Deloria Jr.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari

Man's Rise To Civilization As Shown By The Indians of North America, by Peter Farb

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by, Haruki Murakami

1Q84 by, Haruki Murakami

Shantaram by, Gregory David Roberts

From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by,  Pascal Khoo Thwe