Subject: Sustainable Sources: Directories and Misc

From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 11:52:24 -0400

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Sustainable Sources

Directory

Catalogues and Commercial Sites

Schools

North Central Institute for Sustainable Systems (Sustainable Agriculture)
The Fox Maple School of Building
Yestermorrow Design Build School
Yellow Mountain
Real Goods' Institute for Solar Living
Findhorn College

Housing Chats

Home and Design Online's Home Building Chat Room

Intentional Communities

Knoxville Intentional Community Forum
The Eco-Village Information Service has connections and info on the Eco-Village Network (currently 9 villages around the world), Green Business and Resources, and the Gaia Trust.
Intentional Community Page
CoHousing
Findhorn
The Co-op News Network & Co-op "Alliance", with a pointer to a directory of US retail food cooperatives.
Cerro Gordo Community
Center for Sustainable Communities
The Eco-village Challenge by Robert Gilman, from In Context issue 29
Dancing Rabbit

Environmental Site for Teachers

Green and Growing is a great series of lesson plans on sustainable agriculture. Of course, there are lots of other related topics linked too!

General Environmental Sites

Vista
Arizona Toxics Information
Organic Tree Care
Keep America Beautiful (see also affiliates Keep Texas Beautiful and Keep Austin Beautiful
Renew America
Green Disk
US Environmental Protection Agencey (EPA)
The Vanguard's Web site has an abundance of info and resources that will help keep you from poisoning yourself (and those around you) with bad choices in cleaning products, building materials, fragrances, pesticides, and more.
Rainforest Action Network
EcoTips
National Audubon Society
Friends of the Earth
Center for Alternative Technology
EE-Link, The Environmental Education Gopher
Man and the Biosphere
MacroNet
Information Center for the Environment
Environmental Resource Center
EcoNet Gopher
EcoNet Web page

Energy & Solar Related Sites

DOE's Green Lights Program
The Source Renewable Energy database
Solar Car Page
Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST)
HomePower Magazine
American Solar Energy Society
Solar Today

Sustainable Forestry Sites

The Forest Partnership's Sustainable Forests Directory
The Good Wood Alliance (formerly known as Woodworkers Alliance for Rainforest Protection)

Permaculture sites

Proceedings of the Sixth International Permaculture Conference
CFS's Permaculture section
Australian Correspondence Schools offers courses in Permaculture and other aspects of sustainability

Water Related Sites

American Rivers
Universities Water Information Network
National Wetlands Inventory
Constructed Wetlands (example)
J. Payton's Constructed Wetland site

Parks and Wilderness Sites

National Park Service WWW Server
The Wilderness Society
National Parks and Conservation Association (NPCA)

Environmental Law

Steven M. Taber's Environmental Law site
Indiana U.'s international and environmental law site
Environmental Law Institute

Sustainable Futures

The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
FutureProbe
Communications for a Sustainable Future(CSF)

Government Related or Sponsored Sites

EPA / OSHA Regulations Etc.
CIESIN Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
Environmental Health Clearinghouse, sponsored by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Some Other Progressive Sites

Institute for Global Communications
Socially Responsible Business
Eartheart
IVAM Environmental Research at the University of Amsterdam

The Same Directories That Everyone Else Points To (and maybe a few others)

Yahoo Environmental Index
Amazing Environmental Directory
EnviroWeb
EcoWeb
Envirolink Gopher
EcoGopher
UN Environmental Gopher Source
ERIN - The Australian Environmental Resources Info Network

General Construction sites

AEC Info Center

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This file last updated on Thu, Apr 24, 1997