Plenty International

Plenty International is an environmental and human rights organization based in Summertown, Tennessee.

1974 The Farm was a community of like-minded people founded, who started a program called Plenty. In the first decade of Plenty built a clinic in Bangladesh, a bush clinic in Lesotho and furnished with wind energy lighting system in a Caribbean Indian school. They led disaster relief programs in the Third World through and offered free first aid treatment of patients in the South Bronx on, drove with Greenpeace at sea and donated the radiation measurement system for the Rainbow Warrior. Plenty helped the Native Americans to the first radio stations. 1978 Plenty formed a team of scientists to solve environmental and human rights problems. The Natural Rights Center and the Environmental Resource Center in Portland, Oregon, USA, were founded. There, the model was developed Ecovillage for Russia.

Plenty has more than 120 communities of women from Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala allows for economic independence until today.

In The DeColores Fair Trade Center in Davis, California, USA, Plenty operates a store, products and works of art of many Plenty projects sold.

1980 Plenty International was awarded the Right Livelihood Award.