Plenty International

Plenty International

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Summertown, TN

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In 1974 The Farm (Tennessee), an intentional community, started an outreach program called Plenty. In its first ten years, Plenty established a clinic in Bangladesh, a tree nursery in Lesotho, and a wind-powered electric lighting system in a Carib Indian school in Dominica. It provided disaster relief in Third World countries and free ambulance service to the South Bronx. It went to sea with Greenpeace and gave the Rainbow Warrior its radiation monitoring equipment. Plenty put Native American FM stations on the air, and pioneered amateur-band television and radio to keep its remote outposts of volunteers connected. In 1978, Plenty formed a scientific research team and litigation project to work on environmental issues and human rights. It founded the Natural Rights Center, the Environmental Resource Center in Portland, Oregon, and has been helping build a model ecovillage in Russia. By operating a retail store (The DeColores Fair Trade Center in Davis, California) which sells arts and crafts from many of the projects, Plenty has empowered more than 120 women's co-ops with economic independence in Chiapas, Mexico, and in Guatemala.

Related Topics:
The Farm (Tennessee) - Intentional community - Bangladesh - Lesotho - Carib - Dominica - Third World - Ambulance - South Bronx - Greenpeace - Rainbow Warrior - Native American - FM - Television - Radio - Volunteers - Environmental issues - Human rights - Portland, Oregon - Ecovillage - Russia - Davis, California - Chiapas - Mexico - Guatemala

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