selected websites


• Alternatives for Community and Environment

ACE works together with neighborhood youth and adults to improve environmental justice. The website contains valuable links to environmental justice groups, environmental data sites, university resource centers on environmental justice, as well as community and environmental organizations. The focus of ACE is local (Boston area) but the links are of use nationally.

http://www.ace-ej.org/links.html

• Building Green

Building Green publishes Environmental Building News, hosts e-mail discussions, provides product reviews. This is a good source of information on energy-efficient, resource-efficient, and healthy building practices.

http://www.BuildingGreen.com/

• Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development, U.S. Department of Energy

The Center helps communities to design and implement new, more sustainable approaches to the planning and building of our communities. A wealth of articles can be found on this website dealing with such issues as indoor air quality, energy conservation, and habitat conservation.

http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/

• The Earth Policy Institute

The purpose of the Earth Policy Institute is to provide a vision of what an environmentally sustainable economy will look like, a roadmap of how to get from here to there, and an ongoing assessment of this effort, of where progress is being made and where it is not.

http://www.earth-policy.org/

• The Ecological Design Institute

Working with five basic design principles, the Ecological Design Institute creates innovative solutions that link nature, culture and technology to reintegrate the needs of human society within the balance of nature.

http://www.ecodesign.org/edi/

• EPA's Environmentally Preferable Purchasing

EPZ encourages consumers to combine environmental factors with price and performance in making purchases. The site has product and service information on buildings, cleaners, electronics, food service ware, carpets, and copiers.

http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/epp/

• Grow Smart Rhode Island

Grow Smart Rhode Island seeks to bring together diverse interests to protect and improve Rhode Island’s quality of life, economic vitality, and environmental health and the unique physical character created by the state’s historic cities, towns, and villages and by its farms, forests and open spaces.

http://www.growsmartri.com

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. The role of the IPCC is to assess the scientific, technical, and socioeconomic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change. It does not carry out new research nor does it monitor climate related data. It bases its assessment mainly on published and peer-reviewed scientific technical literature. IPCC reports are available online in pdf form.

http://www.ipcc.ch/about/about.htm

• JunkScience.com

This site provides a comprehensive listing of the literature challenging the need to be concerned with such things as global warming, ozone depletion, human-caused extinctions, and resource depletion.

http://junkscience.com/

• The National Wildlife Federation, Campus Ecology Network

NWF provides information, fellowships and stipends in support of campus projects. The web page has descriptions of campus projects in sustainability, training, and resources, including print and film materials.

http://www.nwf.org/campusecology/index.cfm

•The Natural Step

The Natural Step (TNS) is an international organization that uses a science-based, systems framework to help organizations, individuals and communities take steps towards sustainability. The mission of TNS is to catalyze systemic change and make fundamental principles of sustainability easier to understand and meaningful sustainability initiatives easier to implement.

http://www.naturalstep.org/

• Real Goods Design and Consulting Group

Real Goods concentrates on commercial renewable energy systems greater than 10KW. The company designed the world's first high profile Ecolodge--"Harmony" in 1992 in MaHo Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

http://www.solardevelopment.com/index.html

• Rhode Island Sea Grant

The Rhode Island Sea Grant College Program conducts research and outreach on important marine issues. Outreach topics include coastal management and fisheries, aquaculture, and seafood safety.

http://www.seagrant.gso.uri.edu

• Rocky Mountain Institute

This nonprofit think tank has a wealth of information on issues such as energy production and use, green architecture, hyper-efficient cars, business practices, and water use.

http://www.rmi.org

• Second Nature

Second Nature encourages institutions to make sustainability an integral part of their teaching, research and operations.

http://www.secondnature.org/

• SOL Energy

Sol Energy offers education and training, product development and consulting in the practical uses of renewable energy resources of sun, wind, and water.

• Solar Living Institute

Promotes sustainable living through education--workshops, events, tours, and publications. It grew out of the Real Goods Trading Company but is a non-profit educational organization based at the Solar Living Center in Hopland, California.

http://www.solarliving.org/index.cfm

• The Sustainable Communities Network

The Sustainable Communities Network is an umbrella organization and clearinghouse with an extensive resource lists on numerous topics that are relevant to the sustainability movement.

http://www.sustainable.org/

• The Worldwatch Institute

The Worldwatch Institute is a non-profit public policy research organization dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems.

http://www.worldwatch.org/

 

 

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