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Eco-Portal

EcoAction 2000

EcoNet Sustainable Development page

Environmental Organization Web Directory

Envirotech List

Planum
The European journal of planning - For February 2002, their 'Best Sites' list highlights web sites related to 'Healthy-Cities.'

Sustainable Earth Electronic Library

World Wide Web Virtual Library on Sustainable Development
The most comprehensive source of web and internet pointers to information on sustainable development and communities.

Building? ecodesign? ecocities

Green Home Building
A new website devoted to alternative building and sustainable architecture.

GreenClips
A great source of information on sustainable planning, development, building design, construction, and operation.

Sustainable Building Sources

Business? economy and finance

Business and Sustainable Development - IISD

Business for Social Responsibility

Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES)

Friends of the Earth (U.K.)
Create your own ISEW (Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare) see how assumptions change a measure of progress.

Friends of the Earth (U.S.) - Economics for the Earth

GreenMoney On-line Guide

International Society for Ecological Economics

Natural Logic - The New Bottom Line Newsletter

Rocky Mountain Institute
Efficient and sustainable use of resources and community economic development.

Sustainable Business Network Journal

Sustainable Business.com

Transaction Net - local currencies

World Business Council on Sustainable Development

Yellow Wood Associates, Inc.
Rural community and economic development

Consumption? population and simple living

Center for a New American Dream
Reducing and shifting consumption to enhance our quality of life

Dick Richardson's Ecological Footprint Worksheet

Ecological Footprints - in English and Spanish

Global Action Plan - Eco-Teams
How individuals, families, and neighborhoods can change their lifestyles to be more sustainable.

New Road Map Foundation

Right Livelihood

Simple Living Network

WWF Canada
Calculate your ecological footprint

Zero Population Growth

Data

Annual Energy Review

Canadian Statistics

Fedstats - United States Federal Statistics

Global Change Master Directory

National Library for the Environment

Oregon State University - Government Information Sharing Project

Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Data and Studies of Biota

Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center

The Right-to Know Network
United States data on hazardous materials and housing

United States Bureau of the Census

US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service

US Department of Housing and Urban Development

US Geographic Service - Geographical Analysis Program for Biological Diversity Studies

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Environment

Union of Concerned Scientists

United States EPA Office of Water
Surf Your Watershed web site

United States Global Change Research Information Office

GIS and other tools

Criterion Planners/Engineers
GIS tools for sustainability

The Millennium Institute
Threshold 21 National Sustainable Development Model

GreenMapping - mapping sustainable communities

Clary-Meuser Research Associates
GIS tools for sustainability

Modern World Design

Land use

Center for Livable Communities
Many documents relating to land use, transportation, resource use. Developers of The Ahwahnee Principles.

Lincoln Land Use Institute

Publications

Community Reporting
Summary of 70 reports done in Canada

Context Institute
Publishers of In Context: A Quarterly of Humane Sustainable Culture, in print from 1983 to 1995 and now continuing on their web site.

Democratic Energy
Periodic newsletter of news and information and policy ideas from the emerging debate between energy centralists and energy decentralists, between those who favor absentee ownership and regulation and those who favor local ownership and control.

Earth Policy Institute Eco-Economy Indicators Series
These indicators, which measure progress - or the lack thereof - in building an eco-economy, are released monthly. Data links included.

EcoCompass

EcoIQ Magazine
A quarterly online journal on sustainable communities.

New Society Publishers
Books published include: Our Ecological Footprint; Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and Their Governments; and Whole Life Economics: Revaluing Daily Life.

Northwest Environment Watch
Published a number of books on sustainability issues including: The Car and The City, Tax Shift, and Over Our Heads: A Local Look at Global Climate.

Planning Commissioners Journal
On-line resource for citizen planners including Sprawl Resource Guide.

Positive Futures Network
Publishers of YES! A Journal of Positive Futures.

Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly
Excellent, free weekly e-newsletter that provides understandable scientific information about the influence of toxic substances on human health and the environment.

Urban Quality Communications
Ppublishers of Urban Quality Indicators, quarterly newsletter on measuring the quality, health and sustainability of communities -- from neighborhoods to regions.

Rural communities? farming and forestry

American Farmland Trust Information Library

Appalachia - Science in the Public Interest

Canadian Forest Service

Heartland Center for Leadership Development, Lincoln, Nebraska

Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Nova Scotia Agreement on the Agriculture Component of the Green Plan

United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization Sustainable Development Department

USDA Rural Information Center (RIC)

Social capital

The World Bank Group: PovertyNet - Social Capital for Development

Sustainability

Earth Council Summit

Sustainability.com

Sustainable Living Network

The Sustainability Project

Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy -- Material Flow Accounting

Tourism

EcoTourism Explorer - EcoTourism Society

EcoTourism Resource Centre

Hawaii EcoTourism Association

Transportation

CarFree Times

Green Fleet

Transportation for Livable Communities Network

 






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