Here is a list of links to a variety of resources.
Environmental Health
- Environmental Health Strategy Center A Maine non-profit fighting for a healthy environment.
- Environmental Working Group Exposing threats to your health and the environment.
- Meaning as Medicine in Chronic Illness This is so good, I wish I had written it myself.
Health
- AddictionSearch A multitude of addiction resources.
- Environmental Working Group Exposing threats to your health and the environment.
- Hour Exchange Portland Find what you need: give what you want. Members of this network exchange a community currency based on time.
- Meaning as Medicine in Chronic Illness This is so good, I wish I had written it myself.
- True North Health Center Integrating state-of-the-art medical care with proven complementary therapies.
- Turn the Tide Complementary and alternative medicine for the uninsured and underinsured. Patients “pay it forward” through the “community currency” of Time Credits through Hour Exchange Portland, community service, or cash donation.
Local Resources
- Environmental Health Strategy Center A Maine non-profit fighting for a healthy environment.
- Hour Exchange Portland Find what you need: give what you want. Members of this network exchange a community currency based on time.
- Maine Humanities Council Literature and Medicine Program Groups meet all over Maine to read literature and discuss connections with contemporary medicine.
- Portland Playback Theater Company Ordinary people sit down comfortably in front of an audience of strangers and tell true stories from their lives. Then an improvisational troupe of actors “plays them back.” What fun!
- Salt Institute for Documentary Studies Photography. Writing. Radio.
- True North Health Center Integrating state-of-the-art medical care with proven complementary therapies.
- Turn the Tide Complementary and alternative medicine for the uninsured and underinsured. Patients “pay it forward” through the “community currency” of Time Credits through Hour Exchange Portland, community service, or cash donation.
Political Action
- A Little Girl Sets Out to Combat Homelessness and Change the World Here’s what happens when you mix idealism and drive.
- Environmental Health Strategy Center A Maine non-profit fighting for a healthy environment.
- Environmental Working Group Exposing threats to your health and the environment.
Social Justice
- A Little Girl Sets Out to Combat Homelessness and Change the World Here’s what happens when you mix idealism and drive.
- Environmental Health Strategy Center A Maine non-profit fighting for a healthy environment.
- Environmental Working Group Exposing threats to your health and the environment.
- Hour Exchange Portland Find what you need: give what you want. Members of this network exchange a community currency based on time.
- Prisoners Perform Shakespeare with Heart An episode of This American Life
Substance Abuse
- True North Health Center Integrating state-of-the-art medical care with proven complementary therapies.
Writing and Storytelling
- Maine Humanities Council Literature and Medicine Program Groups meet all over Maine to read literature and discuss connections with contemporary medicine.
- Portland Playback Theater Company Ordinary people sit down comfortably in front of an audience of strangers and tell true stories from their lives. Then an improvisational troupe of actors “plays them back.” What fun!
- Salt Institute for Documentary Studies Photography. Writing. Radio.
- StoryCorp Real people. Real stories. Real life. It’s what we’re here for.
- This American Life Ira Glass. My hero. These are stories of the real America.