Sustainability

The Natural Step

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Sustainable Business Information

• Natural Capitalism
• Sustainable Business
• Forum for the Future - U.K. environmental charity working with business to achieve sustainable development
• Environmental Businesses Network
• Global Business Network
• SustainAbility
• World Business Academy
• The New Bottom Line - great articles on many aspects of strategic sustainability
• Natural Logic
• one world learning

Industrial ecology

• Biomimicry
• The Next industrial Revolution- The McDonough and Braungart Web Site
• The Biothinker - Weekly email focussing on different products - see example and subscription info
• Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE)

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Company Web Sites

• Milliken Industrials - E2 The Ecological Challenge
• The Collins Companies
• IKEA Worldwide
• Scandic Hotels
• Interface: Sustainable enterprise
  You can request a copy of Interface's 'Sustainability Report'
• Electrolux Corporate - Environment
• The Co-operative Bank - Our Ethical Policy

Economics

• COMPLEXITY, PROBLEM SOLVING, AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES
• A systems perspective on the interrelations between natural, human-made and cultural capital

Modern Economics

• FAREWELL LECTURE TO WORLD BANK by Herman E. Daly January 14, 1994
• ELEVEN INHERENT RULES OF CORPORATE BEHAVIOR by Jerry Mander
• One Government, With Free Trade for All, By David Morris
• What's wrong with the GDP?
• The World Bank Group
• IMF International Monetary Fund Home Page
• Welcome to the WTO

Sustainable Development and Economics

• VALUING THE EARTH: Economics, Ecology, Ethics
• STEADY-STATE ECONOMICS
• Redefining Progress      
• ME3's Ecological Tax Reform Project
• GREEN NEWS - When Green Begets Green
• Design for A Sustainable Economics
• The Institute for Local Self-Reliance

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Community Currencies

• Bernard Lietaer 'Community Currencies'      

General Science

• New Scientist - the magazine
• Transaction Net the Edge of Science
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian Ecology

Gaia Theory

• Good Introductry Article
• The Gaia Hypothesis

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Ecosystem research

• U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network

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Soil

Water

• Center for Watershed Protection
  Living Machines
• Living Machines (biological waste water treatment)
• Mersey Basin Campaign
• World Water Assessment Programme

Climate Change

• Climate Change homepage
• WWF's Climate Change Campaign
• Global Commons Institute

• Global Climate Change Briefing Book

• For a good example of an industry-sponsored group which seems to be showing unbiased scientific information (in this case in support of the use of fossil fuels) see Greening Earth Society

Mining and Minerals

• WebElements periodic table of the elements - the periodic table on the World-Wide Web

Energy and Energy Resources

• Rocky Mountain Institute

• Centre For Alternative Technology - Wales

• Solstice Sustainable Energy and Development Online

• The End of Cheap Oil
• Real Goods - Products For An Ecologically Sustainable Future

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Chemistry

• WebElements periodic table of the elements - the periodic table on the World-Wide Web
• The Molecular Expressions Photo Gallery

Complex Systems and Life

• LifeWeb The Writings of Elisabet Sahtouris


• Gould The Evolution of Life on the Earth
• A Walk Through Time - from stardust to us

Pollution

• Environment Defense Fund Scorecard - Pollution Information for the USA
• Friends of the Earth UK Factory Watch
• Summary of Dutch National Environmental Protection Plan
• Greenpeace Toxic Site
• Ecology Center - Plastics Report
• this is the web site of The Chemical Industry Association- it is worth looking at to see how the industry is defending a product, rather than looking at how to make the service it provides in a sustainable fashion

Alternative materials and chemistry

• Carbohydrate Economy Clearinghouse
• MBDC - Design Chemistry
• Renewable Raw Material for Chemical Technical Products
• Biomimicry, Janine Benyus (book) - review of book
• Sinan Company - Natural Building Materials and Paints

Biodiversity

• American Museum of Natural History
• Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)
• Genetic Engineering
• Biotechnology Resources
• Centre for Pest Information Technology and Transfer

Sustainable Agriculture (see also Permaculture)

• Towards a sustainable agriculture
• Howstuffworks.com's - How Food Works
• Welcome to the Fetzer Vineyards Web Site
• Genetic engineering

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Sustainable Design and Planning

• Resource Renewal Institute
• Esam - the Human Ecological Corporation (Sweden)
• Guiding Principles of Sustainable Design
• Allan Savory Center for Holistic Management
• Using Envisioning to Design a Sustainable and Desirable World in the Presence of Irreducible Uncertainty (pdf)
• Sustainability North West (U.K.)
• Integrated Visions for a Sustainable Europe (pdf)
• Van Der Ryn Architects
• Elements, Missouri, USA
• ecoTECTURE Welcome
• The Rocky Mountain Institute
• CUBE - Center for Understanding the Built Environment (U.S.)
• Green Maps - very useful tools, there may be a green map of your area - if not, maybe you can start to develop one

Permaculture

• PLANETARY PERMACULTURE DIRECTORY
• British Permaculture Association
• Permaculture Magazine
• The Permaculture Activist
• Jajarkot Permaculture Programme (Nepal)

Ecological Landscape Design and Gardening

• The Institute For Solar Living
• Habitat planting information for California
• Backyward Wildlife Habitat - National Wildlife Federation
• Thlolego Development Project - South Africa

Plants

• Plants for a future
• Seeds of Change - Certified Organic Seeds Bulbs and Food
• Shepherd's Garden Seeds
• Hidden Springs Nursery, 170 Hidden Springs Lane, Cookeville, TN 38501 - mail order catalogue, great selection of fruit bushes and trees, permaculture orientated plants

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Aquaculture

• The Fishace Sustainable Aquaculture & Freshwater Ecology Site

Social and Human Capital

• The Institute for Local Self-Reliance
• Human Needs

Fair Trade

• Fair Trade Organization
• Equal Exchange
• Bird Friendly coffee

''Two Thirds World' Development

• note - 2/3s world refers to the fact that roughly 2/3 of the world live in 'less industrialised regions'
• Net Aid - concert and information on Third World Poverty and campaigns
• Corporations; Media control
• Thlolego Development Project - South Africa
• Jajarkot Permaculture Programme (Nepal)
• Bethel Business and Community Development Centre, Lesotho, Southern Africa
• article on Holocene's permaculture work in Southern Africa
• Manfred Max Neef's Website - Human Scale Development

Participatory Democracy

• Policy - Futures thinking about the longer term for local government (UK)
• The New Rules Project
• Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development Compact - Draft
• Forum for the Future - Local Government Programme
• United Nations System

Eco-Efficiency

• International Institute for Environment and Development

Sustainability in the Home

• House Waste - EPA
• Green Shopping Info - EPA
• Sinan Company - Natural Building Materials and Paints

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• Green Builder
• Environmental Building News
• Green Building Center (Canada)
• Last Straw (Straw Bale Building)
• Real Goods - Products For An Ecologically Sustainable Future
• Oikos Green Building Source
• Renewable Energy Policy Project
• GreenClips Back Issues - search for a topic by key word
• Van Der Ryn Architects
• Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility - Northern California
• LEED - A green building rating system by the U.S. Green Building Council
  

Patterns

• A Pattern Language of Sustainability - Joanne Tippett's undergraduate thesis
• Pattern Language Christopher Alexander et al web site
• On the Nature of The Nature of Order (by Christopher Alexander) James O. Coplien
• SOME NOTES ON CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER. By Dr. Nikos A. Salingaros
• The Trillion-Dollar Vision of Dee Hock
• Welcome to The Chaordic Alliance
• Systems ThinkingMacroscope- a New World Scientific System, by Joel de Ros
• An Atlas of Cyberspaces - Web Site Maps
• An Atlas of Cyberspaces - Topology Maps

Creative Thinking Skills

• Edward de Bono's Home Page
• Enchanted Mind
• Creativity Web

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Mind Mapping

• Mind Mapping Info
• An Atlas of Cyberspaces - Web Site Maps
• An Atlas of Cyberspaces - Topology Maps

• British Permaculture Association - example of a web site using mind maps

• Comparison of Mind Mapping Software
• Mind Manager Software - includes free trials for download

Urban ecology

• Urban Ecology - Home Page
• Congress for the New Urbanism
• Sustainable Seattle
• Centre for Urban and Regional Ecology - Manchester
• Global Eco-Village Network
• A Pattern Language - Building Process Area of Design

Green plans

• A Green Plan Primer
• Resource Management Act (New Zealand)

• Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS)

• Sustainable Transport (UK)

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Metaphor and Mental Models

• THE NEED FOR TRANSCENDENCE IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD By Vaclav Havel
• MYTHS OF THE POLITICAL-ECONOMIC WORLD VIEW
• Are Symbols about Meaning ? By Joanne Tippett
• Corporate responsibility and mental models

Education for sustainability

• Second Nature Education for Sustainability
• National Wildlife Federation -- Campus Ecology
• Earth Centre
• WWF Global Network - panda.org
• Digital media - ECO IQ
• Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies
• Environmental Studies at Oberlin
• University of Chalmers and Goteborg in Sweden- Department of Physical Resource Theory
• CSEC - Centre for the Study of Environmental Change Lancaster University (UK)
• Living Technologies -Living Machines in the School

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Bay Area Resources

• Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development
• Bay Institute
• Bay Area Green Team Project
• The Green Resource Center - Berkeley
• Ecology Center Berkeley California
• The Sustainable Business Alliance - Berkeley
• Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility - Northern California
• Bay Area Green Maps - San Francisco and Berkeley

Bay Area Watershed Restoration Resources

San Francisco Estuary Project
Guide to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CREEKS The Oakland Museum of California

CalFlora Database

California Native Plant Society (CNPS)

CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY - Marin Chapter

North Bay Riparian Station

Friends of Five Creeks East Bay

City of Oakland Watershed Improvement Program

Green Retail

• Real Goods - Products For An Ecologically Sustainable Future
• THE REAL EARTH CO. - Office supplies - they sell cardboard three ring binders

Recycling

• California Materials Exchange Home Page - California Integrated Waste Management Board