Community Sustainability
Community Sustainability
Community Sustainability Links
- Sustainability Ltd. An award-winning strategic management consultancy and think-tank. Founded in 1987, Sustainability Ltd. is the longest established international consultancy dedicated to promoting the business case for sustainable development. The three main areas of operation: foresight, agenda-setting and change management.
- Renew America Renew America is a non-profit organization founded in 1989. We coordinate a network of community and environmental groups, businesses, government leaders and civic activists to exchange ideas and expertise for improving the environment. By finding and promoting programs that work, Renew America helps inspire communities and businesses to meet today's environmental challenges.
- Rural Planning Network RPN combines extensive land use planning expertise to solve problems involving open space preservation and/or economic development in rural areas.
- International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) International clearinghouse on sustainable development and environmental protection policies, programs, and techniques being implemented at the local level by local institutions. Resources and links on Local Agenda 21, Green Fleets, environmental budgeting, other topics.
- U.S. EPA: Green Communities The Green Communities Assistance Kit that you will find here is packaged as a step-by-step guide for planning and implementing sustainable actions. Each of the five steps results in a specific outcome.
- Village Habitat Design Village Habitat Design, LLC is an award-winning architecture and planning firm with a 30 year family history of conservation design.
- Ecosustainable Hub Provides a team of international and Australian professionals committed towards a common goal of facilitating, developing and servicing sustainability. Also provides a Search engine for Sustainability using popular portals.
- Center for Neighborhood Technology (Chicago) Creative strategies for making cities and their surrounding areas work for everyone, environmentally and economically.
- Chattanooga Institute Seeking to provide communities and companies with the resources and support necessary to create a sustainable and competitive future by finding solutions that integrate business, social equity and the environment in ways that are both sustainable and profitable.
- "Healthy Communities - Indicators Project" This Community Indicators Project database is available for use in Maine classrooms; students will learn how to use "Indicators" to measure the health of their communities. The Indicators used in this project include: People and Population, Natural Resource Consumption and Natural Environment conditions. They provide a glimpse of some economic, social and environmental factors that affect our quality of life.
- Electronic Tools for Community Sustainability A group of scientists who specialize in environmental impact analysis and mitigation strategies. Provide consultation services and computer software to assist national and local governments, development agencies, planners, developers, and architects in minimizing the environmental impacts of developments.
- City Repair Project (The) Citizen activists educating and inspiring people to build a more community-oriented and ecologically sustainable society. (Portland, Oregon)
- Local community sustainability indicators Some new local community sustainability indicators developed in Australia. This site provides a new methodology for indicators that sustain and develop our community and that we can all count, measure and check them for ourselves.
- Cabo San Francisco Foundation Ecuadorian foundation working for a sustainable development of poor villages in coastal Ecuador.
- Sustainable Communities Network Connects citizens with resources to implement innovative processes and programs to restore the economic, environmental, and social health and vitality of their communities.
- Urban Sustainability Strategies Wayne State University's School of Architecture Community Sustainability pages. A Comprehensive Urban Regenerative Process. A Proposal for Pullman, Washington, USA.
- The HomeTown Advantage Book published by The Institute for Local Self-Reliance, provides comprehensive strategies for reviving independent businesses and Main Streets.
- Sustainable Environment Products Discover how you can reduce your impact on the environment by learning about and shopping for earth friendly products.
- Smart Growth Network Searchable databases of information resources on smart growth case studies, smart building design, smart development design and zoning, brownfields redevelopment and eco-industrial parks; and related topics.
- Criterion Planners/Engineers Criterion is an urban planning firm specializing in sustainable community development.
- Making News: An Innovative Community Indicator Project Developed by ten European cities a Community Sustainable Development Indicators (CSDIs) project that measures the quality of people's lives.
- Cities Environment Reports on the Internet An UN inititative, and part of UNEP. A program to facilitate easy access to environmental information for sound decision-making and general awareness-raising in cities.
- Community Sustainability Izaak Walton League Minnesota community sustainability workshop report.
- Urban Environmental Management Output of the Urban Environmental Management Research Initiative (UEMRI), a grouping of urban planning researchers from around the world. Looks at urban areas as the intersection of natural, built, and socio-economic environments.
- Philippine Resource Centre UK site with a resource library, information and translation services and projects on sustainable development in the Philippines.
- Monitoring Community Sustainability Workshop (23 page document) on a community's progress toward goals that promote sustainability
- Joint Center for Sustainable Communities sponsored by U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and National Association of Counties
- Five E's Unlimited Consulting firm that specializes in environmental sustainability, strengthened economies, and social equity, Based in Virginia.
- Guide to Implementing Local Environmental Action Plans in Central and Eastern Europe Explores planning process for community sustainability, including how to assess environmental issues and set environmental priorities; as well as how to implement selected actions and monitor and evaluate results.
- U.S. EPA Sustainable Ecosystems and Communities Implementing EPA's community-based environmental protection initiatives.
- Environment Canada's Green Lane/Environnement Canada Canadian government entity's vision is to see a Canada where people make responsible decisions about the environment; and where the environment is thereby sustained for the benefit of present and future generations.
- Books by Jane Holtz Kay Book summaries and articles concerning urban affairs, planning, transportation, and coping with pollution, sprawl, and other environmental challenges. Includes "Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back." By the architecture/planning critic of The Nation.
- SDNHM - Community Sustainability San Diego Natural History Museum definition, links and educational materials on community sustainability
- Holterra Wildlife Management Specialists in wildlife ecology providing community leaders and planners with assistance regarding conservation planning, wildlife population status, and nuisance wildife management.
- Project for Public Spaces A nonprofit technical assistance, research and educational organization that works internationally through programs in transportation, parks, plazas and civic squares, public markets, and public buildings to help grow public spaces into vital community places.
- Strategic Resources Institute A think tank research organization promoting strategic use of natural resources by community to achieve sustainable development. The Institute is part of BIOTROP Training and Information Centre based in Bogor, Indonesia.
- James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments A series of urban, community design events and university of british columbia-based research projects providing a number of potential solutions to the problems spawned by non-sustainable urban/suburban growth.
- A Vision of Community Sustainability: Model Principles Ontario Round Table on Environement and Economy (Bilingual: English, French.)
- Indicators of Sustainability develops indicators that measure progress toward a sustainable economy,society and environment.
- Rebuild America Program partners with communities to improve the energy efficiency of their commercial and multifamily residential buildings and reinvest energy savings back into the community. Rebuild America supplies business and technical tools and customized assistance.
- Grants - Sustainable Communities Jesse Smith Noyes Foundation makes grants for studying and enabling sustainable communities.
- Green Map System Project to promote healthy cities and sustainable communities by developing maps to chart the sites of environmental significance in urban places around the world. Includes examples.
- exSite Research Ltd. exSite Research Ltd. focuses on innovative and sustainable solutions for advancing the State of the Art in the regeneration of Brownfield and contaminated land.
- Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development This section offers a host of useful information to help you understand the concept of sustainable development. Youll find overview articles, slide shows, links to other sources of information, recommended books and videos, and educational materials and programs that can help your community in its sustainable development efforts.
- EcoGateway EcoIQ magazine and links to a large collection of Internet resources related to sustainable communities.
- Ecosystems South African consultants and advisors in the field of sustainable community and rural development describe their capabilities and discuss topics such as permaculture and handling issues of rapid urbanization through waste management, recycling, and incineration.
- 2001 Regional Planning Project - Queensland, Australia A cooperative regional planning project managing the effects of rapid population growth and planning for sustainable development in South East Queensland. It involves the three spheres of government and the community.
- The Sustainable Community The Rand Organization's example in the Arlington Community Sustainability Network.
- Chelsea Green's Books for Sustainable Living Chelsea Green publishes information to help design future lives where human activities of production and consumption are balanced in harmony with the natural state of the world.
- Center for Economic and Environmental Development Describes several projects to support sustainable development and improve community and regional leaders` understanding of how economic and environmental decisions can work hand in hand to bring a new vitality to Northwest Pennsylvania.
- Mid-Atlantic Conference on Sustainable Communities Ramapo College (NJ) "What works for Sustainable Communities" page presenting the 3rd annual Mid-Atlantic Conference on this subject.
- ICLEI: Electronic tools for a sustainable community. One stop guide for U.S. Local Governments. Enhance the Sustainability of Your Community Through: Environmental Protection; Economic Vitality; and Community Well-Being.
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