(1) to work toward sustainability of life on earth, and of human life within its ecological connections to all other forms of life; to work for social justice; within the dimensions of class, racial, national and gender inequalities;

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(2) to promote sustainable forms of livelihood that involve the use of recyclable materials that are otherwise considered waste, and in so doing to provide opportunities for employment and income to artisans, artists, and craftspeople;

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(3) to decrease poverty and increase the resilience of community economies by conceiving and implementing alternative forms of economic practice which move toward the goals of sustainability and social justice;

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(4) to educate the public about the ecological, economic, social and justice-related problems arising from corporate abuses of power, and how these problems might be addressed;

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(5) to educate the public about the need to transform our current globally-sourced, corporate-based food and energy systems through appropriate knowledge and technologies in the direction of greater sustainability, local control, and accountability;

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(6) to work on behalf of the long-term sustainability and viability of the world's oceans, its ecological systems, and the human livelihoods these sustain;

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(7) to organize financial support of local enterprises that seek to achieve the purposes (1) – (6) enumerated above.