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Helpful Links Index

The Eco-Sustainable Hub - offers an enormous list of websites ranging in topics from Alternative Energy to Zero Waste.

The Environmental Sustainability Info Source - offers a searchable database and sustainability news headlines.

The Smart Communities Network - sponsored by the US Department of Energy offers a list of websites dedicated to sustainable development.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Sustainable Business & Economies
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Business for Social Responsibility - a membership organization for companies

Center for a Sustainable Economy, a non-profit, non-partisan research and policy organization that promotes innovative tax and other market-based approaches to achieving a sustainable economy

Cool Companies, a cool site from the Center for Energy & Climate Solutions

Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index

GEMI - the Global Environmental Management Initiative

Global Futures Foundation, the resource on Industrial Ecology and more

Global Reporting Initiative - on environmental, economic and social activity

GreenBiz.com  "the Resource Center on business, the environment, and the bottom line"

Interface, a carpet company that's innovating sustainable practices

National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy - an independent advisory body that provides decision makers, opinion leaders and the Canadian public with advice and recommendations for promoting sustainable development.

Plastics Resource and Recycling

Sustainable Products Corporation - meeting and increasing the demand for sustainable products

Sustainable Business.com, a resource for businesses and green jobs

Envirolink - Sustainable Business Network news and information

Sustainable Building
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Austin Green Building Program - The Austin Energy Green Building Program is nationally known for expertise in "green" residential and commercial construction.

Building Green - Authoritative Information on Environmentally Responsible Building Design & Construction.  From the publishers of Environmental Building News.

Green Building News - Detailed information on sustainable design and construction

Healthy Building Network - promotes healthy building materials as a means of improving public health and preserving the global environment.

Operation Fresh Start - designed to empower communities as they recover from floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters by providing tools and resources to rebuild homes and business using sustainable principles and technologies.

Us Green Building Council - The Council is the nation's foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable, and healthy places to live and work.

World Green Building Council - a U.S. non-profit corporation striving to help countries form national green building councils of their own by providing valuable information and resources to its affiliates and members.

Sustainable Think Tanks
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Bioneers - a non-profit working to preserve biological and cultural diversity

Center for a New American Dream - their motto: more fun, less stuff!

Ctr. for Watershed & Community Health

Five E's Sustainable Development Solutions - check out what the 5 Es are

Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Friends of the Earth

International  Institute of Sustainable Development

Redefining Progress - a public policy organization

Rocky Mountain Institute - the folks who bring us "Natural Capitalism"

Solstice - info service of the Renewable Energy Policy Project and the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (REPP-CREST)

SunNetwork - for Sustainable USA

Sustainable Institute - a "think-do tank" out of Vermont

Sustainable Measures - develops indicators that measure progress toward a sustainable economy, society and environment.

Union of Concerned Scientists - check out their Green Game when you join!

A World Institute for a Sustainable Humanity (AWISH) - an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide models and support for life sustaining activities that integrate solutions to poverty and the environment while fostering self-reliance

World Resources Institute - a rich resource of current environmental news and data

ZERI - the Zero Emissions Research Initiative

Zero Waste Alliance - working for the elimination of wastes and toxics

Sustainable Communities
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Sustainable Communities Network - linking citizens to resources and one another

Smart Communities Network - energy efficiency and renewable energy - news and events

Sustainable Communities - for everyone interested in making smart choices about communities -- choices that are both economically and ecologically intelligent

Global Ecovillage Network - 1500+ pages on ecovillages and sustainability

Sustainable Architecture Building and Culture - ideas for sustainable communities

Sustainable Agriculture
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Sustainable Agriculture Network - communication and outreach arm of the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program.

Making the Transition to Sustainable Farming - Fundamentals of sustainable agriculture

Alternative Agriculture - Information and links to other internet sites and documents on sustainable agriculture

The Food Alliance - a non-profit organization that supports sustainable agriculture

Sustainable Government and Education
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University of British Columbia Campus Sustainability Office

Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF)

Second Nature - Education for Sustainability  is a non-profit organization that helps colleges and universities expand their efforts to make environmentally sustainable and just action a foundation of learning and practice

Oregon Solutions - Oregon's sustainability resource

New Jersey Future

Council for a Sustainable Florida

Minnesota Planning Sustainable Development Initiative

Minnesotans For Sustainability - provides information that will encourage a sustainable Minnesota and United States.

WASHINGTON & PACIFIC NORTHWEST ORGANIZATIONS
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Business and Industry Resource Venture - provides free information, assistance and referrals to help Seattle businesses improve their environmental performance

Friends of the San Juans - a non-profit working to protect and promote the health and future of the San Juan Islands

Northwest Earth Institute - a pioneer in taking earth-centered education programs to people where they spend their time-in their neighborhoods, workplaces, homes, schools, and centers of faith

Northwest EcoBuilding Guild - an educational forum whose mission is to encourage building practices that protect human health, encourage sustainable resource usage, and foster long-term economic vitality

Northwest Product Stewardship Council (NWPSC) - a group of government agencies and non-profit organizations working together with businesses to integrate product stewardship into the policy and economic structures of the Pacific NW

Office of Sustainability & Environment - The OSE guides Seattle's City governmental operations toward sustainability by coordinating implementation of Seattle’s environmental management program and the Mayor’s Environmental Strategy. Their mission: to foster Seattle’s compliance w/ environmental laws, to assist depts. to reduce environmental impacts from operations, and to improve environmental performance. 

Oregon Natural Step Network - sponsors trainings and workshops to help support The Natural Step framework for businesses and organizations

Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center (PPRC) - the Northwest's leading resource for promoting a cleaner environment through pollution prevention. PPRC provides high quality, unbiased information, facilitates information exchange, and catalyzes pollution prevention projects...

Sightline Institute - Formerly Northwest Environment Watch, a non-profit organization that aims to foster a sustainable economy and way of life in the Pacific Northwest, a bioregion defined by the watersheds of rivers flowing through North America's temperate rainforest zone.

Sustainable Seattle - an award winning, volunteer-based civic network and forum located in Seattle with a focus on the metropolitan city/county area

Sustainable Community Roundtable in Olympia - facilitating a process of dialogue, vision, action, and celebration to help create sustainable community in South Puget Sound. The Roundtable was initiated by the City of Olympia in 1991 and incorporated as an independent nonprofit organization in 1992.

Sustainable Northwest - a Portland, Oregon-based nonprofit organization dedicated to forging a new economy in the Pacific Northwest.

1000 Friends of Washington - Promotes sound planning under the state's Growth Management Act, educates citizens interested in local planning, and works with coalitions of business, citizen, and government leaders to achieve sustainable growth management. Site contains legislative updates, links for educators and children and online publications.

Washington Toxics Coalition - a non-profit, member-based organization dedicated to protecting public health and the environment by identifying and promoting alternatives to toxic chemicals