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Cooperative business 
Write Some Words Compilation School  
The “Write Some Words Workshop” established in 2014 intends to publish works where “everyone can tell a story.” This idea is originated from the farm owner practicing BD agricultural technique in Hualien. He said, “To live a life is similar to a tree.” As a tree grows stronger and taller, birds, butterflies, and insects that need the nutrients from a tree naturally will approach the tree to form a versatile and diverse small ecosystem. He suggests that there is no need to strongly promote the rules about planting and living a life to people. As long as a farmer quietly does what he/she needs to do, he/she certainly will have a beautiful harvest. “Write Some Words Workshop” is similar to a farm. As long as a writer/editor quietly does what he/she needs to do, the stories will develop their own power.
The courses are opened at the end of each year from October to December. 10 local young people will be trained to learn to perform interviews and editing works. Publications or exhibitions will be used to attract attention to local issues.
https://www.facebook.com/happywriter2015/?epa=SEARCH_BOX
Associations of Environmental issues 
Kuroshio Ocean Education Foundation  
Kuroshio Ocean Education Foundation was established at 1998. It started from investigating and recoding whale and dolphin. Furthermore, it takes ‘’ caring the marine environment, ecology and culture in Taiwan’’ as their goal. It hopes that people in Taiwan who loves ocean can keep stable warm committed attitude to spread the idea of practicing ocean reservation and have the public to get closer, to know more, and to cherish the ocean.
http://www.kuroshio.org.tw/newsite/
Hualien Perma Tribe  
A crowd of like-minded friends hastogether learned Perma sustainable design since 2010. They are building Hualien County as a “dream island” in their mind. Through three stages and a two-year Perma course, they incorporate living wisdom and real actions to practice a Perma spirit of “take care of the earth, take care of the people, and share what we still have left.”
http://hualien-permaculture.blogspot.tw/
2022 Forum  
"2022 forum" is a platform for folk opinions exchange and spread, which is established spontaneously by the folk community in Huatung. This forum aims at ‘’The developmental issues in Hualien and Taitung’’ to discuss. In one hand, it keeps tracing and supervising how the government apply of the 40 billion ten years fundament of Huatung act, and spread messages online for the public to know the execution process periodically. In other hand, this forum will invite folk community and local personality to put their heads together to discuss the idea and acting project of the Eastern development.
http://2022forum.blogspot.tw/
Eastern Taiwan studies conference  
Eastern Taiwan studies conference was original from a group of partners who care and study eastern Taiwan for long time. They were aware of the loss of local reference and there is no platform for them to exchange and communicate. Thus, they united eastern Taiwan studies conference, which aims at the promotion of eastern Taiwan academic studies and offer of academic services.
In academic studies, they held academic activities, launch journals, serial books, collect and reorganize every kind of eastern Taiwan reference systematically, and bulit an open library.
http://www.etsa-ac.org.tw/
Community 
Spring of Hakatown  
Spring of Hakatown is located in Yuli townm, which is launched by Luo Yong Ching, postdoctoral research fellow of Academia Sinica. The motivation is to reorganize the old farmhouse in this remote small town. Then, it can open for travelers from anywhere to work exchange and develop a space to practice field living. Currently, the workshop continually hold field programs, lecture, teen tribe action plan, and ‘’ Help Workshop.’’ In the future, it will plan to expand the exhibition to held art exhibition, photo exhibition, concert, rice contract farming, artist in residency, field stargazing, storytelling, menu-less cuisine, community currency, barter economy, backpacker, bicycleman, and mountain climber service.
https://www.facebook.com/SpringofHaktowntw?fref=ts
Geektopia  
Geektopia, located in Yuli Township, Hualien, was formed by a free corporation group. Geektopia strengthens the local community network and targets sharing, learning, interest and sustainability as their goal.
https://www.facebook.com/GeektopiaYULI
Colleague of a crowd of people in Eastern Taiwan  
Colleague of a crowd of people in Eastern Taiwan is an internet community which was organized by individuals and local groups who care the environment issue of Huatung. The number of members has reached nearly 1700, who come from different works and spontaneously discuss correlational issues about environment in Huatung.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/195976067103264/?fref=ts
Kaluluan  
It was built by three young people who come from different tribes. Kaluluan is a little village with multiple ethnics(Amis, Sakizaya, Bunun, Kamalan, Hoklo, Hakka, Taroko, Mainlander) Kaluluan is a workshop which is full of different cultural stories, artifacts, mountains, ocean, ecological knowledge of river, outdoor adventure, life education, spiritual exploration, forest camping, forest farm, traditional fishing village and local delicious cuisine.

They hope to revive the specific culture and economic model that Kaluluan and other tribes help each other and succeed the dream of tribe.
https://www.facebook.com/%E7%A3%AF%E5%B4%8E%E5%A5%BD%E8%81%9A%E8%90%BD-749485728472022/
Hualien Fulian Rice Marketing Cooperative  
Because the average age is getting higher, Fulian Rice Marketing Cooperative was organized by a group of local and returned young farmers. They are going to find out the way through helping each other and sharing to promote the value of little farmers. They gather together not just for producing and marketing, but they take care their hometown and colleagues through the community. Now, they produce and sale by the platform built by cooperative. Moreover, they develop local economic with the surplus. In 2015, they held Funan community grass musical, which attracted visitors to Fuli successfully.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np2LJ7uIdRE