"Starter Kit" Destinations Here are a few distilled destinations that OtherWise folks might find useful and somewhat sympatico. This listing includes the more commonly known, and also a growing number of personal friends and connections. Our goal is to enlighten you, bring you tools, save you time, inspire you and grace your day. Not every site has content and form that does all of that, but if they're listed, your visit will be worthwhile.

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C O N T E N T S Basic Sleuthing Books & CD's Business Finance Health & Healing Arts Legal Media Music Travel Personal Development Spiritual Hardball Technology & Internet Training & Professional Development Networks & Umbrella Sites Note: If a link has been reviewed in the GoldenRetriever Newsletter, the issue number will be listed. Click it to go to the archived issue!

Basic Sleuthing

Yahoo's Internet Yellow Pages http://yp.yahoo.com Search for a business anywhere in the United States or find businesses near any address. Yahoo's Internet White Pages http://www.four11.com Find anyone by email, name, location. "Find an old friend or lost relative!" InterNIC Search http://rs.internic.net Search for domain name availability, or domain name owner information.

Books & CD's

Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com Needs no promotion. Try it once, from our site - even. Great service. A model of Internet business with heart and bottom line.

Business

Iconoculture GR2 http://www.iconoculture.com A savvy, irreverent take on trends in the contemporary cultural and business landscape that will let you know if and where you live in this century. If it turns out you do, they tell you how to capitalize on it... Not exactly Meher Baba - but some fun pragmatism. Heartland Institute, Conscious Business Alliance GR5 http://home.earthlink.net/~hiinc/ Run by Craig & Patricia Neal, they offer programs, create conferences and a network of people and companies who are interested in "spirit-based" work and business. They were planting these seeds long before "heart, soul, and spirit" became co-opted jargon. Fast Company, the magazine http://www.fastcompany.com "How Smart Business Works." Run by former Harvard Business Review guys. Smart, slick, provocative, useful, very American. A little soulless, despite cries to the contrary, but a pulse on how successful "values-driven" businesses can be. Back issues. GreenMoney http://www.greenmoney.com As the name suggests, business & finance that think green. The site is not Rembrandt, but art is not their focus. Responsible money is. Related to Simple Living Network.

Finance

The Motley Fool http://www.fool.com The irreverent investors' guide to beating the pundits at their own humorless game. Street-smart investment education and advice with a Shakespearean flavor. Working Assets http://www.wald.com "Plastic with a Purpose". Visa/MC 1.800.877-3872 Pax World Fund http://www.paxfund.com Socially responsible funds.1.800.767-1729.

Health & Healing Arts

Sustainability Store GR13 http://www.sustainabilitystore.com info@sustainabilitystore.com Call: 1-800-273-6138 "Sustainability Store is a new Internet retail shopping site, featuring products from the most environmentally and socially responsible businesses known today. Every product in Sustainability Store comes from a Provider company that is screened and sponsored by Co-op America, a 15 year old national nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a socially just and environmentally sustainable society." - Joel Metzger, Online Noetic Network. Peter D'Adamo GR10 http://www.dadamo.com "Eat Right for your Type", by Peter D'adamo, is an increasingly popular book that makes the compelling proposition that your corporeal well-being might depend upon supping according to your blood type. The good Dr. D'Adamo has seen many philosophically-driven vegans and die-hard meatheads have their beloved points of view bite the dust, - go through the blender or meatgrinder, depending, as a compromise towards being able to get through the day clear-headed. Visit the web site for more details and resources. We like this guy... Astrology.Net GR11 http://www.astrology.net Honor Socrates by knowing yourself in 22 seconds flat. Now, mind you: the technical term for these investigations is "mundane astrology" which is about personality pampering... "Spiritual astrology" (actual term) takes at minimum twice as much time, and requires more than a modem.

Legal

Nolo Press http://www.nolo.com Finessed, professional resources for "the people" (they're based in Berkeley) for do-it-yourself law... Great selections. Even good for getting the most out of your legal advisors. "For who would bear the proud man's contumely, the law's delay?" - Mr. Hamlet Telephone: 1.800.992-6656.

Media

Utne Reader GR5 http://www.utne.com "The Best of Alternative Media". A cross between the New Age Journal and the New Yorker, which makes sense, given the Minneapolis location. Artful, playful, informative, discriminating. Good resource sections. Check out "Cafe Utne", voted best conversation site.

Music

Harmonia Mundi http://www.harmoniamundi.com Label for 40 years has been offering some of the best in period, world-traditional and classical music with artful, informative notes. The site reflects it. RootsWorld http://www.rootsworld.com A no-compromise world music resource center. They don't want you to call with tips or send your favorite home-spun cassette. World music.

Travel

The Ring of Kerry GR11 http://www.bess.tcd.ie/ireland/munster/kygems.htm Even though the Emerald Isle is being pummelled with re-discovery these days,... for the adventurous, there is always the untrammelled backroute to delight. We recommend the Ring of Kerry region in southwestern-most Ireland which is kind of a secret in a well-known sort of way.. A peculiar gulf current induces a tropic-like wind and lush plant life lending the area a prehistoric, primordial feel... Check out the endearingly home-spun, frill-less "Kerry Gems" home page to start. Accuweather.Com GR11 http://www.accuweather.com Get an immediate 5-day forecast with pictures, temperatures, moving images for the destination of your choice. For the US, just enter the Zip code or city/state for the place of your fancy ("frontyard" would be considered an invalid entry). A simple webtrot on our end opened up Thanksgiving Day to a wholesome outdoor ramble and picnic on an unexpectedly balmy November afternoon. The Air Courier Association GR9 http://www.aircourier.org or phone: 1.800.822-0888 If you are looking on a moment's notice to shake loose of e-mail or to the music in Brazil, para example, consider these vastly cheaper, impromptu-friendly air fares to various destinations. Time Out Guides http://www.timeout.co.uk:81 Indispensible guides to what's current and off the beaten path in the major cities. A contemporary slant. Rick Steves "Europe through the Back Door" GR1 http://www.ricksteves.com Nextdoorneighbor guy who just can't help having fun, wandering around Europe Speaking only Enlish and smiling his way into rewarding moments. Good resources and product catalog. Alternative Travel Group GR5 E-mail them at info@alternative-travel.co.uk England. Classy and humane company sending you out footloose in Europe across farmer's fields, through villages and glens. They cart your stuff, arrange for inns, balance nature and culture (Europeans still do that). Beautiful catalog. Telephone: 01144.1865.315678

Personal Development

TRIZ GR14 The Russian invention system for resolving irresolvable problems. http://www.triz-journal.com/whatistriz.htm If you are a hell-bent problem solver, particularly with an invention gene, or creativity junkie, you can go to the above mercilessly unromantic website offered by James Kowalick, a neighbor and national expert on TRIZ, the Russian-devised system for solving difficult invention problems. As usual, the Russians love the theoretical development and the Americans go for the bottom line possibilities. Sounds True GR9 http://www.soundstrue.com For catalog call 1.800.333-9185 (Classy tunes, while you're on hold.) Fine recordings of contemporary Wise Ones, like Pema Chodron, Gangaji, Joseph Campbell, Julia Cameron, et. al. Excellent gifts for people who would enjoy an uplift or whom you'd like to finally straighten out...They also have recordings for helping people who have a need to straighten out other people. Omega Institute http://www.omega-inst.org Located in NY state, this mecca for upgrading your personal stock brings some of the best, brightest and deepest together. 1.800.944-1001 Dan Millman http://www.danmillman.com Many people have heard of the "Way of the Peaceful Warrior", a contemporary classic (if such a phrase is possible) of evolutionary breakthrough. Dan continues to do good work and refer good people. A true athelete in the traditional and spiritual sense. The To Do institute http://www.anamorph.com/todo/default.html A Zen inspired, Western based, no-nonsense resource center for de-contructing personal limitations in a thoughtful, action-based way. No overstated cheerleading and compulsory hugging here.

Spiritual Hardball

Gangaji GR1 http://www.gangaji.org The message is clear. You are not your thoughts, feelings, sensations and experiences. And that's that. An awakened American woman delivers the uncompromised transmission from Ramana maharshi. Heartfelt, and mercilessly cogent. Moksha GR7 http://www.moksha.org The message is clear. You are not your thoughts, feelings, sensations and experiences. An American man delivers the transmission in his own particular, non-particular way.

Technology & Internet

OtherWise Design http://www.wisefools.com/otherwisedesign Phone: (530) 692-1275 Our approach to the Internet is to bring a delightful artistry and a high quality of craftsmanship into the digital world to create custom web sites that offer a uniquely engaging experience. NetPromote Free Information GR8 http://www.Promotion101.com FREE information on web site promotion and the rapidly changing search engine maelstrom. Promotion 101: Web Site Marketing and Promotion Info Center. Free Articles, Resources, Tools, and Links to Help You Promote Your Site. VeriSign GR8 http://www.verisign.com/whitepaper_50 SECURING YOUR WEBSITE FOR BUSINESS! A FREE online guide from VeriSign, one of the leading Internet security companies. A very useful, technical and tolerably self-promotional guide. Microsoft's "Outlook Express" for MAC or PC GR6 http://www.microsoft.com. If you don't like "email puree", especially lots of it, one solution is to consider at the least a package like OutlookExpress that sorts it out automatically. It's not difficult to use, even for technophobics. A free download! Submit It GR5 http://www.submitit.com Services for properly listing your site on search-engines. The only drawback is that you have to submit to Yahoo yourself to make sure you are listed properly. NetPromote GR5 http://www.netpromote.com Another dedicated web site promotion company offering services in listing web sites on search engines. Cheaper than SubmitIt... less known. Remember that you have to submit to Yahoo yourself to make sure you are listed properly. The Ultimate E-Mail http://www.pacificharbor.com/ultimate/ Lenny Charnoff, E-mail pasha, instructs you how to deal with it, harness it, get around it, make it serve your business.

Training & Professional Development

Dr. Niche http://www.falkenstein.com Lynda Falkenstein & Falkenstein Learning Corporation offer a lot of value with free teleclasses & fee services for all manner of business focus issues.

Networks & Umbrella Sites

Simple Living Network http://www.slnet.com Just as it says. A tidy, informative site for resources and connections in the simple living way. Very useful, until which time you are living simply and forget the web. Real http://real.org A catch-all site, not unlike your Wisefools, - except for the lack of Wisefoolishness. But further along and useful if you feel like picking and sorting. A real comprehensive listing of what's "real" in business, travel, conferences, etc. Briarpatch Network http://www.ic.org/fic/cdir/res/BriarpatchNetwork.html Yuck URL, but worth a visit if you are interested in intentional communities.