Sustainable Development Links:
The American
Institute of Urban and Regional Affairs - The only non-governmental
association dedicated specifically to advancing sustainable development as a
field of professional practice
CARC Home Page - CARC, a national public interest
organization doing research, advocacy and public information on Arctic
sustainable and equitable development.
CARE is the world largest NGO in the field of international
relief and development.
Center for Economic and Social
Studies on the Environment - CESSE works on sustainable development
indicators and resources, green accounting, EIA, air pollution and modelling.
The Center for Regenerative
Studies - A CSU Pomona-based setting for education, demonstration and
research in self-sustaining technologies.
Center of Excellence for
Sustainable Development - Provides information and consulting to U.S.
communities on sustainable development techniques. Databases, publications,
articles, success stories online.
Centre for Sustainable
Technology - A Scottish Centre for Sustainable technology with a diverse
set of companies working to a common goal.
Communications for a Sustainable
Future (CSF) operates many mailing lists related to the topics of
sustainability, the environment, and related social issues.
Cottonwood Foundation
- A small foundation giving grants to grassroots groups worldwide that protect
the environment, empower people and promote cultural diversity.
Coyote's Way -
Alternatives to Environmental Destruction. Environmental events and issues in
the Cascadia bioregion.
Delft University - Interduct
Clean Technology Institute serves as contact between 'the outside world'
and groups within the University that conduct research in the environmental
field.
Earth Pledge Foundation is
a non-profit organization promoting Sustainable Development
Ecotrust is a private,
nonprofit organization established in 1991 to promote conservation-based
development, beginning in the temperate rain forests of North America.
ERIN -
Integrating Environment and Development - The Environmental Resources
Information Network [ERIN] aims to provide geographically related data of an
extent, quality and availability required for planning and decision making.
Findhorn Foundation
In Scotland, we are an educational charity and international, spiritual
community. We are developing as an eco-village.
Foundation for Global
Sustainability - An environmental advocacy/activist group for the East
Tennessee and Southern Appalachian region.
Global Environmental Options
- GEO supports the creation of sustainable buildings and communities through
education, integrated environmental planning and coalition building.
Green CrossRoads - A non-aligned, global networking
organisation building sustainable partnerships.
Green Parties of North America
are working in communities and in politics at all levels for a world that's
nonviolent, socially just, ecologically sane, and truly democratic.
ILSR WWW Home Page - Nonprofit working on environmentally
sound economic development strategies.
Integrating
Environment and Development - Ecologically Sustainable Development in
Australia - an index to documents and WWW information on Australia's approach
to sustainable development.
International Institute for
Resource Management - Focus on reconciling Scientific and Ecological
learning for sustainable development
Joiners' Quarterly -
Magazine focusing on timber framing and sustainable construction - we also have
a building school
The Latin American Alliance
- Its mission is sudevelop environmental and sustainable information for Latin
American
Menominee Sustainable
Development Institute - The Menominee have created a powerfull example of a
sustainable society that lives in the modern world.
Millennium Institute
- Millennium Institute provides tools to help nations achieve sustainability
and reports on the state of the world.
National Wildlife
Federation's International Office - Confronts worldwide threats to
wildlife, wetlands, clean water andother environmental values
Native Hawaiian Advisory Council
Water Rights into Reality
Northwest Environment Watch
- Northwest Environment Watch's mission is to foster a sustainable economy in
the Northwest to provide an example for the world.
O2W3
contains green design, environmental product design, design for the
environment, ecodesign, greener product development.
OneWorld Online is the
world's largest independent Web site devoted exclusively to sustainable
development and is the Internet's meeting place for everyone who is interested
in global themes, such as peace, justice, development and human rights
Resource Guide for
Straw Bale Construction
Stockholm Environment
Institute - Boston Center - SEI-B develops and applies methods for
sustainable development.
Sustainable
Communities Network of Nova Scotia The mandate of the SCN is to promote a
vision of resilient communities which are environment and people friendly. In
this vision, communities have a healthy and diverse economic, social and
cultural life, and a measure of self-reliance. The SCN promotes this vision by
facilitating information exchange, educational opportunities and cooperation
among groups and individuals with an interest in sustainable communities.
Sustainable
Development DIMENSIONS - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations
Sustainable Development
Institute - An environmental think and action tank exploring sustainability
programs for island communities.
Sustainable
Development Online is the home of the Chattanooga Tennessee Sustainable
Technology Forum. Host of the January Presidents Council on Sustainable
Development and soon to be home of the PCSD's ongoing information.
Sustainable Development Research
Institute - Interdisciplinary research-how our environment, the economy and
society can better work together. Partnerships with industries, interational
organizations, and NGOs.
Sustainable
Living - An effort to bring together information on how to LIVE sustainably
on a personal level and create a sustainable society.
Sustainable Technologies Inc.
- STI is committed to the commercialization of key sustainable tech using
bioconversion technology as a simple solution
Sustainable
TIMES on-line newspaper - An alternative environmental newspaper on
sustainability issues, green economics and natural living. Includes action
ideas and success stories.
The Trust for Sustainable
Development - The Trust is a not-for-profit federally chartered Canadian
corporation specializing in building Sustainable Communities.
Union for
Sustainable Development - Environmental group concerned with the ecological
view point
University of Arizona
- The International Arid Lands Consortium is an independent, nonprofit
research organization supporting ecological sustainability in arid and semiarid
lands worldwide.
University of British
Columbia - LFB Eco-Research Project - An interdisciplinary research project
investigating
University
of Kentucky - Institute for the Environment and Sustainable Development - An
organization dedicated to promoting multidisciplinary analysis and research on
needs, causes, and consequences of development.
University
of Oregon - The Oregon Land Use Information Center is dedicated to
providing information about Oregon's land use program
University of
Oregon - Coyote's Way Alternatives to Environmental Destruction.
Environmental events and issues in the Cascadia bioregion.
University of
Virginia - Yellow Mountain Institute for Sustainable Living offers an
introduction to low-cost, sustainable building techniques, such as rammed-earth
tire, straw-bale, and cordwood construction, and to a variety of alternative
energy systems.
We The People's School of
Sustainability - We The People is a membership organization dedicated to
political reform and social justice
World Conservation Monitoring
Centre - The World Conservation Monitoring Centre is a non-profit
organization working in the field of nature conservation through the its
sustainable development. It maintains the official 'red lists' of endangered
plant and animal species, etc.
Yellow Mountain Institute for Sustainable Living - offers an introduction to low-cost, sustainable building techniques, such as rammed-earth tire, straw-bale, and cordwood construction, and to a variety of alternative energy systems.