ECOCLUB.com - International Ecotourism Club is a mutual aid network promoting ecological & socially just tourism which we understand as a tourism which meets the following criteria (The ECOCLUB.com Criteria):

ECOCLUB.com is an alternative, global, green, mutual aid tourism network comprised of individuals - tourism practitioners, academics, students and travellers, coordinated by a small team based in Athens, the city of Direct Democracy, Epicurus, Aristophanes and Diogenes the Cynic. Inspired by social ecology and mutualist principles and with the help of our Members worldwide we aim to cooperatively develop, improve, support, promote and propagate ecological tourism, leisure and living alternatives. Criticising and opposing the ecocidal and unjust capitalist (be it neoliberal or statist) status quo is necessary but not sufficient: we must also peacefully, practically and non-dogmatically build the alternatives, from the bottom up: small, local, community-owned and/or worker-managed businesses, voluntary cooperatives, collectives and non-profits. The emergence of many such examples at the local community level can then be a stepping stone (and a peaceful shortcut!) when and where possible, for a gradual, peaceful transition to genuinely free, stateless & classless societies, with freedom and solidarity, without authoritarianism, imperialism, borders, divisions, corporate greed, oppression or violence (including violence to animals), serving the well-being and respecting the individual & collective rights of all people and other life forms, a world where "All is for All" as Kropotkin once envisioned.

Our Logo: The colour (teal) combines green and blue, key colours of the earth. The smiling sun symbolizes an optimistic, non-violent, non-sectarian, non-dogmatic, philosophical attitude to life, the will to rise every day, a peaceful, daily revolution in all our individual and collective dealings, solar power - renewable energy in literal and figurative terms and light - the light of science, enlightenment. The ".com" stands for Community.

Getting involved: ECOCLUB.com welcomes as Members all who broadly share our philosophy and aims, as stated here, and who are able to conduct themselves in friendship and solidarity with other Members.

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Related Reading, Influences, Food for Thought:

What I discovered, much to my astonishment, was a story that had something of the character of a literary detective story, in which various disparate clues led inexorably to a single, surprising, source. In this case, the materialism of Bacon and Marx, and even that of Darwin (although less directly), could be traced back to a common point of origin: the ancient materialist philosophy of Epicurus. Epicurus’ role as the great Enlightener of antiquity—a view of his work that was shared by thinkers as distinct as Bacon, Kant, Hegel, and Marx—provided me for the first time with a coherent picture of the emergence of materialist ecology, in the context of a dialectical struggle over the definition of the world.
John Bellamy Foster, Marx's Ecology, 2000

To decide means to decide for oneself. To decide who is to decide is already not quite deciding for oneself. The only total form of democracy is therefore direct democracy. To achieve the widest and most meaningful direct democracy will require that all the economic and political structures of society be based on local groups that are real, organic social units. Direct democracy certainly requires the physical presence of citizens in a given place, when decisions have to be taken. But this is not enough. It also requires that these citizens form an organic community, that they live if possible in the same milieu, that they be familiar through their daily experience with the subjects to be discussed and with the problems to be tackled. It is only in such units that the political participation of individuals can become total, that people can know and feel that their involvement is meaningful and that the real life of the community is being determined by its own members and not by some external agency, acting "on behalf of" the community. There must therefore be the maximum autonomy and self-management for the local units.
Cornelios Castoriades, Workers'Councils and the Economics of a Self-Managed Society, 1972

Social ecology is neither deep, tall, fat, nor thick. It is social. It does not fall back on incantations, sutras, flow diagrams, or spiritual vagaries. It is avowedly rational. It does not try to regale metaphorical forms of spiritual mechanism and crude biologism with Taoist, Buddhist, Christian, or shamanistic Eco-la-la. It is a coherent form of naturalism that looks to evolution and the biosphere, not to deities in the sky or under the earth for quasi-religious and supernaturalistic explanations of natural and social phenomena.
Murray Bookchin, Social Ecology versus Deep Ecology, A Challenge for the Ecology Movement, 1987

I have never regarded the classical Athenian democracy as a "model" or an "ideal" to be restored in a rational society. I have long cited Athens with admiration for one reason: the polis around Periclean times provides us with striking evidence that certain structures can exist -- policy-making by an assembly, rotation and limitation of public offices and defense by a nonprofessional armed citizenry. The Mediterranean world of the fifth century B.C.E. was largely based on monarchical authority and repressive custom. That all Mediterranean societies of that time required or employed patriarchy, slavery and the State (usually in an absolutist form) makes the Athenian experience all the more remarkable for what it uniquely introduced into social life, including an unprecedented degree of free expression.
Murray Bookchin, What is Communalism? The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism, 1994 

We are not opposed to money or exchange. We believe in private property, so long as it is based on personal occupancy and use. We favor a society in which all relationships and transactions are non-coercive, and based on voluntary cooperation, free exchange, or mutual aid. The "market," in the sense of exchanges of labor between producers, is a profoundly humanizing and liberating concept. What we oppose is the conventional understanding of markets, as the idea has been coopted and corrupted by state capitalism. Our ultimate vision is of a society in which the economy is organized around free market exchange between producers, and production is carried out mainly by self-employed artisans and farmers, small producers' cooperatives, worker-controlled large enterprises, and consumers' cooperatives.
Kevin Carson

Corporate Social Responsibility...It allows corporates to play good guys and bad guys all at once. If Vedanta has a cancer hospital somewhere, a bauxite mountain can't be far.
Arundhati Roy

We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
Banksy