Links
Excellent resources for sustainability abound on the web.
Web Resources for Sustainability Courses
- Green Facts (excellent resource) - they summarize many international reports: http://www.greenfacts.org/en/
- The World's Water: http://www.worldwater.org/
- The New Economics Foundation: http://www.neweconomics.org/
- Ecological Economics: http://www.rprogress.org/index.htm
- Steady State Economy: http://steadystate.org/discover/
- Ecosystem Valuation: http://www.ecosystemvaluation.org/
- Sustainability in Higher Education: http://www.secondnature.org/ and http://www.aashe.org/
- Sustainable Health Care: http://www.anhcampaign.org/campaigns/sustainable-healthcare
- Social action: http://www.wiserearth.org/
- Energy efficiency & renewable resources: www.energysavers.gov
- A Guidebook to energy efficient appliances: http://www.appliancepartspros.com/a-guidebook-to-energy-efficient-appliances.aspx
- A Guide to Energy Efficient Home Lighting: http://www.mortgagecalculator.org/helpful-advice/energy-efficient-lighting.php
- U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program: http://www.eere.energy.gov/
- Getting Clean by Going Green: http://www.bbcleaningservice.com/get-clean-go-green.html
- Worldwatch Institute: Vision for a Sustainable World: http://www.worldwatch.org/
- Yale Environment 360: http://www.e360.yale.edu/
- SustainVU: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/sustainvu/
- Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Reports: http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.aspx
- Transition Towns: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/ , http://www.transitionus.org/, and http://www.tellus.org/programs/greattransitioninitiative.html
- Congress for the New Urbanism http://www.cnu.org/
- How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic: Responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming: http://www.grist.org/article/series/skeptics/
- Tool for charting data related to sustainability: http://www.gapminder.org/
- IUCN Red List of Endangered Species: http://www.iucnredlist.org/
- World Wildlife Federation http://www.worldwildlife.org/
- Nature Conservation: International Union for Conservation of Nature: http://www.iucn.org/
- Sustainable Development: Foundation for Sustainable Development: http://www.fsdinternational.org/
- Human Environmental Impacts: The Ecological Footprint: Ecological Footprint Quiz by Redefining Progress: http://myfootprint.org/
- Green Building: U.S. Green Building Council: http://www.usgbc.org/ and http://www.igreenbuild.com/
- Sustainable Landscaping: U.S. EPA Greenscapes program: http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/rrr/greenscapes/
- The Ecodriver’s manual: A Guide to Increasing Your Mileage and Reducing Your Carbon Footprint: http://www.ecodrivingusa.com/files/EcoDriving_Manual.pdf
- Water conservation: http://wateruseitwisely.com/ and http://www.h2ouse.org/.