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The
American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) -- Committee on Sustainable
Development
"Engineers will play a critical role in sustainable development
through AAES and its Committee on Sustainable Development. The Committee has been
working to promote public recognition and understanding of its principles and challenges.
AAES has adopted a comprehensive policy and a series of position papers on the Role
of the Engineer in Sustainable Development, and in cooperation with the World Engineering
Partnership on Sustainable Development, has produced a book, slide show and video
on the subject."
The Bioneers
"Since 1990, The Bioneers Conference has brought together
leading scientific and social visionaries with practical solutions for restoring
the earth. The Bioneers Conference has helped define the biological model and galvanize
its many brilliant practitioners into a thriving culture. Their ideas are so original
and pragmatic as to uplift the spirit with their extraordinary creativity and ingenuity
-- to create a future environment of hope."
The Center for
Livable Communities
"The Center for Livable Communities is a national initiative
of the Local Government Commission and is a principal partner in the Environmental
Protection Agency's Transportation Partners program. The Local Government Commission
or LGC for short, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization of elected
officials, city and county staff, and other interested individuals throughout California
and other states (with over 600 current members), the Local Government Commission
helps local governments identify and implement solutions to today's problems.
In 1991, working with some of the country's leading architects
and planners, the Local Government Commission developed the "Ahwahnee Principles"
for resource-efficient local and regional land-use planning. The Center grew out
of the Commission's work helping local officials implement these principles.
Realizing that economic vitality and livability are inextricably
linked, the LGC followed up by developing a set of Economic Development Principles,
with guidance from numerous nationally recognized economic development experts."
Center
of Excellence for Sustainable Development
"The Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development
helps communities design and implement innovative strategies that enhance the local
economy as well as the local environment and quality of life. Created by the U.S.
Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy."
CERES: California
Environmental Resources Evaluation System
"CERES is an information system developed by the California
Resources Agency to facilitate access to a variety of electronic data describing
California's rich and diverse environments. The goal of CERES is to improve environmental
analysis and planning by integrating natural and cultural resource information from
multiple contributors and by making it available and useful to a wide variety of
users.
CERES: Information by Geographic Area for San_Francisco
"Themes: Economics and Demographics | Environmental
Groups and Projects | Governmental Institutions | Land Use Planning | Media Sources
| Recreation | Road and Weather Conditions | Special Status Species | Water Resources
| Vegetation and Habitats; Information Types: Maps and Spatial Data | Photos
and Satellite Imagery | Documents and Publications;| Related Geographic Regions:
Bay Delta"
CERES:
Land Use Planning Information Network (LUPIN)
"CERES and its project LUPIN are programs of the California
Resources Agency. The goal of LUPIN is to formulate and implement an information
service to support and address land use and planning via the CERES Web."
The Change Project: Healthy Cities
"You know what a healthy community is. Somewhere, you've
experienced it - a community that nurtures its members, that makes us all more than
we were. But what makes a community healthy? What builds health, it turns out, also
builds community, safety, wealth, and families. The health of a community grows from
how many children people have, in what kind of families, with how much money and
education, from a sense of choice, and from friends and family who give life meaning,
from clean water and air, and basic medicine, from families who eat well, are well
housed, secure from crime, and not deranged by drugs or alcohol.
Building a healthy community requires all the energy the
community can muster, from everyone who can make a difference - but it can be done.
There are ways to do it. This powerful idea has taken hold in over a thousand cities
and towns around the world. This is how to build a world that works."
Cities
and Counties: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
"Numerous cities and counties are designing and implementing
sustainable plans. ... This study examines how various governmental policies, institutional
configurations, and intergovernmental relationships are enabling local governments
to identify and achieve sustainability objectives."
City
of Santa Monica Sustainable City Program
The
Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities
"Across America, over twelve hundred multisectoral, comprehensive,
community-based health and quality of life improvement initiatives are seeking local
solutions to address America's challenges. This movement has its roots in community,
not in a national agenda. At its core, is a local phenomenon which mobilizes local
creativity and resources. In serving this movement, the Coalition is a strategic
linkage of these local forces. In its two primary directions of activity, it brings
together scores of local, state and national organizations, collaborative partnerships
and citizens to assist these local efforts in creating healthier communities and
improving the well-being of families and children."
Communications
for a Sustainable Future
Earth
Network for Sustainable Development
"The Earth Council is an international non-governmental organization
(NGO) that was created in September 1992 to promote and advance the implementation
of the Earth Summit agreements. It is led by a body of 18 Members, drawn from the
world's political, business, scientific and non-governmental communities. Sixteen
eminent world leaders serve as Honorary Members, and an 18 member Earth Council Institute
functions as an advisory board.
Three fundamental objectives have guided the work of the
Earth Council since its inception: to promote awareness for the needed transition
to more sustainable and equitable patterns of development; to encourage public
participation in decision-making processes at all levels of government; to build
bridges of understanding and cooperation between important actors of civil society
and governments worldwide."
EcoIQ
"EcoIQ provides internet publications, professional development
resources, and consulting and client services designed to help communities and their
local governments become more environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable.
To accomplish this, EcoIQ focuses on helping programs and professionals -- in resource
management, environmental management, and land use and transportation planning --
become more effective."
Ecological and Environmental Seminars @ CSF
The
E. F. Schumacher Society
"The E.F. Schumacher Society was founded in 1980 to promote
the ideas inherent in the decentralist tradition and to implement them in practical
programs that link economics, ecology, and culture. Named for Fritz Schumacher, whose
1973 book Small is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered continues to influence
new generations, the society has developed model self-help economic programs in its
home region of the Berkshires."
EnviroLink
"EnviroLink is dedicated to providing you with the most comprehensive,
up-to-date environmental resources available."
Environmental Defense
Fund
"EDF is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights
of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air, clean
water, healthy, nourishing food, and a flourishing ecosystem.
EDF will be guided by scientific evaluation of environmental
problems, and the solutions we advocate will be based on science, even when it leads
in unfamiliar directions. EDF will work to create solutions that win lasting political,
economic, and social support because they are bipartisan, efficient, and fair."
The Green
Plan Center
"This site has been developed to educate and inform those
interested in Green Plans as the means to a sustainable environment and economy."
Institute
For Local Self Reliance
"ILSR helps communities throughout the U.S. and abroad
reap the benefits of recycling. Our innovative advice and analysis link community
waste management needs with economic development. Through research, policy initiatives,
coalition building, and technical assistance, we lay the groundwork for developing
humanly-scaled, sustainable economic systems. For 21 years ILSR has helped businesses,
community groups and local governments."
The International Council for
Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
"The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
(ICLEI) is the international environmental agency for local governments. We know
from concrete experience that local actions can have a global impact. Global consumption
and waste production is increasingly concentrated in urban areas. The concentration
of people in cities provides unparalleled opportunities to both meet human needs
and reduce and manage wastes. Meanwhile, by strengthening rural communities we can
reduce the pattern of ecological destruction and population migration which is often
a result of rural poverty and desperation.
Local governments, in partnership with their residents and
local businesses, are taking action. ICLEI was established in 1990 through a partnership
of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Union of Local Authorities
(IULA), and the Center for Innovative Diplomacy."
International
Institute for Sustainable Development
"IISD's mission is to promote sustainable development in
decision making internationally and within Canada. We contribute new knowledge and
concepts, analyze policies, identify and disseminate information about best practices,
demonstrate how to measure progress, and build partnerships to amplify these messages.
Our audiences and clients are businesses, governments, communities and concerned
individuals. Through Internet communications, working groups and project activities
we create networks designed to move sustainable development from concept to practice."
Links
to other Healthy Cities
"The Healthy Cities project was begun by WHO's Regional
Office for Europe to develop local strategies and action for health for all. One
of the main objectives is to change the ways in which individuals, communities, private
and voluntary organizations and local governments think about, understand and make
decisions about health. Ultimately the Healthy Cities project aims to enhance the
physical, mental, social and environmental wellbeing of the people who live and work
in the cities. The project is a long-term international development effort that seeks
to put health on the agenda of decision-makers in cities and to build a strong lobby
for public health at the local level. A fundamental principle of the approach is
the recognition that city government can play a key role in promoting and maintaining
the health of its citizens and has a unique capacity to mobilize action for sustainable
development."
Livable
Places Initiative -- Southern California Association of Governments
"A shared community vision of pedestrian friendly, mixed
use and transit oriented places scaled to people, not automobiles, and connected
to vibrant civic and public spaces."
The
Local Agenda 21 Initiative (ICLEI U.S.)
"Through the Local Agenda 21 Initiative, ICLEI works with
local governments around the world to prepare Local Agenda 21 action plans, to develop
and test sustainable development planning, and to implement specific pilot projects.
In the United States, the Local Agenda 21-US Project develops and evaluates methods
to plan, develop, and manage communities sustainably: encompassing concern for the
environment, the economy and human equity."
The
Millenium Institute
"The Mission of the Millennium Institute is to use systems
thinking and the turn of the Millennium to catalyze a redirection of human civilization
toward a peaceful, just, and sustainable future."
The Natural Resources
Defense Council
"Dedicated to protecting the world's natural resources and
ensuring a safe and healthy environment for all."
The Nature Conservancy
"Among environmental organizations, we fill a unique niche:
preserving habitats and species by buying the lands and waters they need to survive.
The Nature Conservancy operates the largest private system of nature sanctuaries
in the world -- more than 1,500 preserves in the United States alone. ... All of
them safeguard imperiled species of plants and animals."
Neighborhoods Online
"Neighborhoods Online was created in 1995 by the Institute
for the Study of Civic Values and Philadelphia's LibertyNet as an online resource
center for people working to build strong communities throughout the United States.
Our aim is to provide fast access to information and ideas
covering all aspects of neighborhood revitalization, as well as to create a national
network of activists working on problems that affect us where we live."
Planet
Neighborhood
"A quiet revolution has been taking place in homes, workplaces,
and communities all over America. Led by mayors and mothers, little kids and big
corporations, this movement is changing the way we live and introducing innovative
ways to improve the environment through energy saving, wise use and re-use of resources,
and sustainable development practices.
WETA-TV, the Washington, D.C. public broadcasting station,
together with its funding and outreach partners, celebrated this national environmental
trend by producing a 3-part television series. ... The Planet Neighborhood web site
contains all of the spoken material from the television series, highlighted with
video images and links to relevant Internet sites."
The
Preservation Institute: What We Believe
"During the Nineteenth Century, most people still lived
at a near-subsistence level, and rapid economic growth was needed to provide everyone
basic education, health care, housing, and other necessities. The factory system
was increasing production so dramatically that many people believed every aspect
of life ultimately would be modernized on the factory model. Health care, child care,
education, transportation and housing would all be mass-produced by specialized technological
organizations managed by experts.
Today, most people recognize that modernization and growth
can harm the natural environment. The Preservation Institute believes that modernization
also damages the social environment -- that many of our social problems are
side-effects of modernization."
The
President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD)
"The President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD)
was established by President Clinton in June 1993 to advise him on sustainable development
and develop bold, new approaches to achieve our economic, environmental, and equity
goals. The Mission of the PCSD is to: Forge consensus on Policy ... Demonstrate
Implementation of policy that fosters sustainable development... Get the word out
about sustainable development; and Evaluate and report on progress"
Resources
for Urban Sustainablity
"Sustainable Community Experiments | Sustainable Communities
Technical Assistance Organizations | Guides and Workbooks | Books | Articles and
Reports"
Rocky Mountain Institute
"Rocky Mountain Institute is a nonprofit research and educational
foundation with a vision across boundaries. Its mission is to foster the efficient
and sustainable use of resources as a path to global security. The Institute creates,
and helps individuals and the private sector to practice, new solutions to old problems--mainly
by harnessing the problem-solving power of market economics and of advanced techniques
for resource efficiency."
SCN About Sustainable Communities
"Find out what's happening in Chattanooga, Tennessee,
and Seattle, Washington; what the Green Institute is doing in the Phillips Neighborhood
in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and how the Mountain Association For Community Economic
Development and Rural Action are helping rural areas of Appalachia. Learn about principles
of sustainability and visioning processes and how they can help guide community initiatives.
Discover how community indicators in Olympia , Washington
or Jacksonville , Florida are helping residents define and inventory what they value.
Find out about how $mart Growth can guide planning in neighborhoods and regions and
what tools are available to help. Locate your local community network and civic engagement
opportunities. Then tell us what other resources you need to help make your community
more sustainable."
Sprawl
Guide: Strategies for Dealing with Sprawl
* Creating A Sense Of Place
* Preserving Open Space & Farmland
* Concentrating Growth And Investment
* Transportation Priorities
Sustainable
Communities Network
"The Sustainable Communities Network is for those who
want to help make their communities more livable. Here a broad range of issues are
addressed and resources are provided to help make this happen. This web site is being
developed to increase the visibility of what has worked for other communities, and
to promote a lively exchange of information to help create community sustainability
in both urban and rural areas."
Sustainable Conservation
"The mission of Sustainable Conservation is to achieve conservation
through innovative strategies which incorporate the incentives and capabilities of
the private sector. We stay on the cutting edge of environmental thinking and take
risks to go beyond the conceptual stage and implement concrete solutions that are
both environmentally sound and economically sustainable."
Sustainable
Development Research Institute
"SDRI focuses on the production of applied, policy-relevant
and interdisciplinary research. We believe there is a strong need to move away from
simply predicting the negative impacts of environmentally unsustainable behaviour.
Instead, we must articulate ecologically and socio-economically desirable futures,
and determine what needs to be done to make these futures happen. The environmental
agenda therefore encompasses much more than staving off ecological disaster; it involves
trying to create a society that is sustainable in all its manifold dimensions."
SustainableDevelopment.Net
"This Web site... has been created to provide the public
with an introduction to the issues, major participants, success stories and resources
related to sustainable development. An important feature of www.SustainableDevelopment.net
is live Internet Webcast coverage of key international events beginning with the
Earth Summit +5."
Sustainable
Seattle
"Sustainable Seattle is a citizen group working to improve
our region's long-term health and vitality--cultural, economic, environmental and
social. Our mission is to advocate for sustainability in Seattle/King County. Specifically
we focus on:
Awareness: Creating opportunities to learn about the values, principles,
and practices of sustainable living.
Assessment: Developing resources and tools for citizens to monitor progress
and track sustainable practices in the region.
Action: Promoting citizen participation in making sustainability a reality."
Sustain
Sources
"Sustainable Sources provides resources that offer practical
options to the conventional methods of building, community, travel, and more."
U.S. Geological
Survey
"The U.S. Geological Survey provides the Nation with reliable,
impartial information to describe and understand the Earth. This information is used
to: minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water,
biological, energy, and mineral resources; enhance and protect the quality of life;
and contribute to wise economic and physical development."
WITS
-- Information by Geographic Area
"Currently, only information regarding the North Coast
Region is available. We expect to have information for the other regions soon."
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