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| Building: The Green Building Council http://www.usgbc.org A coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible: see their LEED link. Developed by USGBC membership, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System was designed to accelerate the development and implementation of green building practices. Green Building http://www.greenbuilding.com/sourcebook/ Building Green: http://www.buildinggreen.com Architect Michael Reynolds http://www.earthship.org/ Architect Kendrick-Bangs Kellogg http://www.kendrickbangskellogg.org/ Organic. Architect Malcolm Wells http://www.malcolmwells.com Environment and Sustainability: Sustain http://www.sustainusa.org Redrawing the boundaries of advocacy communications. Their goal is to change the cultural landscape and inspire the creation of a truly sustainable society Scientists' video report on the Kyoto protocol http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php Environmental Sustainability: A huge information gateway http://www.environmentalsustainability.info EcoIQ http://www.ecoiq.com/ Provides media and educational products and services, and focuses on the strategies, tactics and tools needed by leaders, educators, and advocates working for sustainability. HUGE useful site. Orion Online http://oriononline.org/index2.html Society's mission is to inform, inspire, and engage individuals and grassroots organizations in becoming a significant cultural force for healing nature and community. Community: Optional types Co-Housing http://www.cohousing.org/ Cohousing communities balance the traditional advantages of home ownership with the benefits of shared common facilities and ongoing connections with your neighbors Ecovillages http://www.ecovillage.org/ Only different from a traditional village in its ability to be sustained indefinitely into the future.. Urban Ecovillage Network http://urban.ecovillage.org/index.shtml The purpose of the Urban Ecovillage Network is to engage urban neighborhoods throughout the world in the process of re-inventing how we live in cities, to be more ecologically, economically, and culturally sustainable. . Intentional Communities http://www.ic.org/ Intentional Community is an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects and dreams Sustainable Communities Network http://www.sustainable.org/ Links citizens to resources and to one another to create healthy, vital, sustainable communities Federation of Egalitarian Communities http://www.thefec.org/ Shares resources, strives for equality, conservation Living: Simple Living http://www.simpleliving.net/seedsofsimplicity/ a national, non-profit membership organization for the general public centered on voluntary simplicity. It is a Los Angeles-based program of the Center for Religion, Ethics & Social Policy at Cornell University http://www.simpleliving.net/tools/examples/contacts for conscious, simple, healthy & restorative living Homestead http://www.homestead.org “Rural Living for Real People” They want you in their group if you like to be independent; if you enjoy living in the outdoors and at harmony with the earth |
| In Example of What Others are Doing: Portland, OR http://www.sustainableportland.org A city with quite a plan in their striving for environmental sustainability The Solaire http://www.thesolaire.com Environmentally advanced building techniques in a NYC highrise. Chicago, IL "Greenest City in America" campaign http://www.cityofchicago.org/Environment/ |
| San Diego EarthWorks http://www.earthdayweb.org/index.html See what citizens can do Dayton, OH www.cityofdayton.org/planning/citizen_participation.asp Dayton has gained national recognition for the process of gaining input from its citizens The Farm http://www.thefarm.org/ What a community! A primary link for communal studies EcoVillage at Ithaca http://www.ecovillage.ithaca.ny.us/ An intentional community. Raven Rocks http://www.ravenrocks.org/ A demonstration Earth Sanctuary http://www.earthsanctuary.org/ A private restoration project for all species. L.A. Urban Ecovillage http://www.ic.org/laev/ A public demonstration of sustainable community. Humboldt University Center for Appropriate Technology http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~ccat/ Dedicated to sustainability and seeks to help others live likewise |
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