Environmental Sites: Sustainability

• ARCOSANTI: a Prototype Arcology
  A three-dimensional, pedestrian-oriented city. - site intro
• Biosphere 2 Center
  Multi-biome experimental station by Columbia University.
• Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development
  Sustainable development is a strategy by which communities seek economic development approaches that also benefit the local environment and quality of life. It has become an important guide to many communities that have discovered that traditional approaches to planning and development are creating, rather than solving, societal and environmental problems. Where traditional approaches can lead to congestion, sprawl, pollution, and resource over consumption, sustainable development offers real, lasting solutions that will strengthen our future. Sustainable development provides a framework under which communities can use resources efficiently, create efficient infrastructures, protect and enhance quality of life, and create new businesses to strengthen their economies. It can help us create healthy communities that can sustain our generation, as well as those that
  follow us. - site intro. Topics include: Green Buildings, Green Development, Land Use Planning, Measuring Progress, Disaster Planning, Community Energy, Transportation, Sustainable Business, Financing, Rural Issues, and Resource Efficiency.
• Community-Based Approaches
  Community-Based Environmental Protection (CBEP) integrates environmental management with human needs, considers long-term ecosystem health and highlights the positive correlations between economic prosperity and environmental well-being. - site intro. Resources include: FAQs, news, CBEP projects, policy, contacts, publications, tools, case studies, resources, and links.
• Community Alliance With Family Farmers
  Founded in 1978, the Community Alliance with Family Farmers is a nonprofit member-activist organization. CAFF political and educational campaigns are building a movement of rural and urban people who foster family-scale agriculture that cares for the land, sustains local economies, and promotes social justice. Members are urbanites, farmers, environmentalists, rural activists, students, and anyone concerned with the social and environmental dimensions of agriculture. - site intro
• Computer Energy Saving Initiative
  Download our computer brochure with lots of information about computers, energy consumption, and climate change. - site intro
• Critter Crossings - Linking Habitats and Reducing Roadkill
  Site devoted to protecting wildlife along highways and the habitats that sustain them. - site intro. From the Federal Highway Administration.
• Education for Sustainable Development Tool Kit
  This new education tool kit provides a rather insightful look at the issues and topics related to education for sustainable development. K-12 (and early undergraduate colleges). Contents include: A description of the major thrusts and components of education for
  sustainable development (ESD); A discussion of 12 major issues that have stymied the progress of ESD and that need to be addressed for ESD to be successful; exercises and a case study. - Rosalyn McKeown
• Energy Source Builder Newsletter
  The Energy Source Builder newsletter is filled with nuts-and-bolts information on building energy-efficient homes. It includes design ideas, construction details and product information. - site intro
• Environmental Programs Division, City of Santa Monica
  Links to programs, information, reports, and organizations involved with
  making the city of Santa Monica more sustainable.
• Guiding Principles of Sustainable Design
  This guidebook articulates principles to be used in the design and management of tourist facilities that emphasize environmental sensitivity in construction, use of nontoxic materials, resource conservation, recycling, and integration of visitors with natural and
  cultural settings. Sustainability principles have been developed for nine topics: interpretation, natural resources, cultural resources, site design, building design, energy management, water supply, waste prevention, and facility maintenance and operations. Although material is presented in separate sections, the application of these principles
  must be interdisciplinary and reflect the interconnection of all systems and resources. - site intro. For the National Park Service
• Network ESDA
  The ESDA Network is a group of individuals and organizations committed to laying the foundations for a Sustainable and Desirable America. We believe that the cornerstone of this foundation must be a broad shared vision of what such an America will look like. - site intro
• Ocean Arks International
  Home of the Living Machine, The Restorer, The Intervale Bioshelter and
  other techniques to treat wastewater, grow food, and produce energy.
• Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index: An Initiative of the Global Leaders for Tomorrow Environment Task Force, World Economic Forum
  A composite measure of the current status of a nation's environmental systems,
  pressures on those systems, human vulnerability to environmental change, national capacity to respond, and contributions to global environmental stewardship. - site intro
• ReThink Paper
  The economic viability of rethinking paper use - site intro.
• SciDevNet
  News, views, and information on science, technology and development. Site discusses those aspects of modern science and technology that are relevant to sustainable development and the social and economic needs of developing countries - site intro. Includes features, opinion and editorial, book reviews, grant and job information, current topics, and regional gateways. Backed by the journals Nature and Science.
• SCN Sustainable Communities Network
  Topics include: Creating Community, Smart Growth, Growing a Sustainable Economy, Protecting Natural Resources, Governing Sustainably, Living Sustainably.
• Second Nature: Education for Sustainability
  Second Nature envisions a world in which all present and future humans are healthy, have their basic needs met, have fair and equitable access to Earth's resources, and have a decent quality of life. We imagine a sustainable world. Second Nature's vision is of a healthy, just and sustainable future. The critical role of higher education in achieving
  that vision by educating for sustainability. - site intro
• Smart Choices or Sprawling Growth
  A 50-state survey of development by the Sierra Club.
• Smart Communities
  The World Foundation for Smart Communities is a nonprofit educational organization founded to promote the concept and facilitate the implementation of "smart communities" -- communities using information technology as a catalyst for transforming life and work to meet the challenge of the new millennium - site intro.
• Smart Growth Network
  Issue areas: Buildings, Community, Economics, Environment, Financing, Fiscal Impacts,
  Implementation, Infrastructure, Land Use, Redevelopment, Regionalism, Transportation. Comprehensive site.
• Solving Sprawl: The Sierra Club Rates the States 1999
• Stop Sprawl: Sprawl Costs Us All
  How Your Taxes Fuel Suburban Sprawl Report Spring 2000. Sierra Club.
• Sustainable Building Sourcebook
  Topics include: water, energy, building  materials, solid waste, and links to green builders and realtors.
• Sustainable Communities Consortium
  The Sustainable Communities Consortium (SCC) draws upon campus programs and resources in areas of community and landscape design, environmental planning, and management and policy to create a national center of excellence in sustainable community development.
• Sustainable Communities Network
  Information about community resource inventories, building partnerships, civic engagement, justice and equity, mediation, culture, growing a sustainable economy, protecting natural resources, governing and living sustainably. Many pages include annotated links and bibliographies.
• Sustainable Development: World Wide Web Virtual Library
  Maintained by the Center for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment, located at Université Libre de Bruxelles. Best sources, Directories, Search internet, Organisations, Activities, Events, Mailing lists, Libraries, References, Electronic Journals, Databases, Tools, Fun, Communication, Related Virtual Library Topics.
• Sustainable Development in Latin America
  Agriculture, Development, and environment country-based, regional, and international resources. Site seems comprehensive; much material is in Spanish.
• Sustainable Development Reporting Project
  A look at the most promising and important sustainable development programs in Central America. - site intro. NPR Program by John Burnett.
• Sustainable Urban Environments
  EPA site promoting sustainable urban environments, promoting antidotes to urban sprawl.
• Switch Your Bulb! Program
  Download our lighting brochure with lots of information about lights, energy consumption, and climate change. - site intro
• United Nations Sustainable Development
  Agreements, issues, institutional issues, economic issues, and natural resource issues.