Web Links

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Building Environment and Thermal Envelope Council

http://www.nibs.org/betechm.html

e design Online

http://www.fcn.state.fl.us/fdi/index.html

Environmental Design Library, University of California Berkeley

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/

Guilding Principles of Sustainable Design

http://www.nps.gov/dsc/dsgncnstr/gpsd

Minnesota Sustainable Design Guide

http://www.sustainabledesignguide.umn.edu/

Sustainable Architecture Compendium

http://www.umich.edu/~nppcpub/resources/compendia/

architecture.html

Sustainable Buildings Industry Council

http://www.sbicouncil.org

Whole Building Design Guide

http://www.wbdg.org

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The American Solar Energy Association

http://www.ases.org

Building Energy Tools Directory

http://www.eere.energy.gov/

Canadian Association for Renewable Energies

http://www.renewables.ca

Center for Renewable Energy & Sustainable Technology

http://www.crest.org

Energy Star Website

http://www.energystar.gov

Florida Solar Energy Center

http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/

Home Energy Magazine

http://www.homeenergy.org

Home Power Magazine

http://www.homepower.com

IdaTech Corporation

Residential Fuel Cells

http://www.idatech.com/

International Forum for Sustainable Energy

http://www.inforse.dk/index2.php3

International Solar Energy Society (ISES)

http://www.ises.org

Lighting Resource Center

http://www.lrc.rpi.edu

The Masonry Heating Information Website

http://www.mha-net.org

Pacific Energy Center

http://www.pge.com/pec/

The Source for Renewable Energy

http://www.sourceguides.com/energy/index.html

Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives

http://www.zeri.org/index.cfm?id=home

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Religions of the World and Ecology

http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/publications/rel_world_ecol.html

Ecophilosophy, Ecosophy, and the Deep Ecology Movement: An Overview

http://www.deepecology.org/deepplatform.html

Spirit Wheel

http://www.spiritwheel.com/specology.htm

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The Abalone Alliance

2940 16th Street #310
Sanfrancisco, CA 94103
Don Eichelberger
415-861-0592

http://www.thevolunteercenter2.net/org/1264243.html

The Alliance to Save Energy

1200 18th Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036
David Hamilton
202-857-0666

http://www.ase.org

American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy

1001 Connecticut Street NW, Suite 801
Washington, DC 20036
Howard Geller
202-429-8873

http://www.aceee.org

The American Solar Energy Society

2400 Central Avenue, Unit G-1
Boulder, CO 80301
Larry Sherwood
303-443-3130
http://www.ases.org

American Wind Energy Association

122 C Street NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20001
Randall Swisher
202-383-2510
http://www.awea.org

Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR)

http://www.adpsr.org

California Public Interest Research Group

926 J Street, Suite 523
Sacramento, CA 95814
Suzana Churchill
916-448-4516

http://www.calpirg.org

Carrying Capacity Network

2000 P Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
Robi Lazaro
202-296-4548

http://www.carryingcapacity.org

Center for Environmenatl Research and Techonology

1084 Columbia Ave
Riverside, CA 92507
Dr. Robert M. Zweig
909-779-0560

http://www.cert.ucr.edu

Clean Air Council

1739 W. Seventh Avenue
Mesa, AZ 85202
Roy and Debbie McAlister
480-827-7915
http://www.cleanair.org

Climate Action Network

1200 Newyork Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20005
202-289-2401

http://www.climatenetwork.org

The Climate Institute

333 1/3 Pennsylvania Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
John Topping
202-547-0104
http://www.climate.org

Conservation International

1919 M Street NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
Ms. Sonal Pandya
202-912-1000 x804

http://www.conservation.org/xp/CIWEB/home

Northwest Earth Institute

http://www.nwei.org

Ecoforestry

http://www.ecoforestry.ca

The Ecology Center (Berkeley)

http://www.ecologycenter.org

Foundation for Deep Ecology

http://www.deepecology.org

Hydrogen Now

http://www.hydrogennow.org/index.html

The International Forum on Globalization

http://www.ifg.org

The International Solar Energy Society

http://www.ises.org

The Land Institute

http://www.landinstitute.org

Natural Resources Defence Council

http://www.nrdc.org

Northern California Solar Energy Association (NCSEA)

http://www.norcalsolar.org

Ted Mosquin's Website

http://www.ecospherics.net

The Trumpter: The Journal of Ecosophy

http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca

Urban Ecology

http://www.urbanecology.org

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Certified Forest Products Council (CFPC)
Independent, non-profit, voluntary business which promotes the purchase use and sale of third party independently certified forest products

http://www.certifiedwood.org

The Coastal Rainforest Coalition
An organization which seeks to protect ancient temperate rainforests in Canada by redirecting U.S. markets to more ecologically sound alternatives.

http://www.coastalrainforest.org

Conservatree
A non-profit developed from the environmental paper company that first introduced most types of recycled printing and writing papers.

http://www.conservatree.com

The Forest Action Network (FAN)
A grassroots organization which uses direct action to both stop destructive logging directly, and to create media opportunities to effectively articulate important ecological principles.

http://www.fanweb.org/index.shtml

The Forest Conservation Portal
Forests.org, Inc. works to end deforestation, preserve old-growth forests, conserve and sustainably manage other forests, maintain climatic systems and commence the age of ecological restoration.

http://forests.org/

Forests for Life
World Wildlife Fund's campaign to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation. WWF advocates doubling America's forest protected areas and halting the construction of new logging roads in national forests. Where timbering occurs, WWF urges that it meet the highest standards of the Forest Stewardship Council.

http://www.panda.org/forests4life/index.cfm http://www.worldwildlife.org/forests/forest.cfm

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
The main "independent" certification organization

http://www.fscus.org/

Forest Stewardship Council Controversy
A dialog started on our website on 12/11/00

#Dialog/SustainableForestry

Greenpeace
This organization is well known for protecting oceans systems also has substantial forest systems program.

http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/forests/
Principles for ecological forest use
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/forests/bioguidelines.htm

Institute for Sustainable Forestry - Smartwood
Certification organization in the western region of the USA

http://www.isf-sw.org/

Luna
The archives of Julia Butterfly's tree sit, a successful EarthFirst campaign against the Pacific Lumber/Maxxam Corporation, aimed at saving part of the Headwaters Forest in California

 

http://www.zerocircles.com/luna/

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
A national environmental organization which advocates elimination of old growth wood products and promotes the use of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified forest products and wood efficient practices, especially in residential construction.

http://www.nrdc.org/land/forests/default.asp

The Raincoast Conservation Society
A non-profit research and public education organization dedicated to the protection of the Great Bear Rainforest on Canada's west coast. It's mission is to ensure the long term survival of coastal bears, wild salmon and the interdependent life forms that define the ancient temperate rainforest.

http://www.raincoast.org/

Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
A non-profit organization which seeks to protect the earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants by creating eliminating the markets for old growth wood products while redirecting consumption towards ecologically sustainable alternatives.

http://www.ran.org
Also see their 500 year plan.
http://www.ran.org/info_center/plan.html

ReThink Paper
A project of Earth Island Institute, which promotes a transition to an ecologically sound pulp and paper industry that protects forests, prevents air and water pollution, and conserves energy.

http://www.ReThinkPaper.org

Save the Redwoods
A grass-roots organization struggling against a large corporation to save the coastal redwoods in Medecino and Sonoma counties in California. It made a fiercely critical appraisal of the FSC certification process recently.

http://www.elksoft.com/gwa/boycottnews/

Scientific Certification Systems (SCS)
SCS's Forest Conservation Program audits the practices of forest managers and certifies them under the Forest Stewardship Council's (FSC) standards and principles as "well managed." The forestry program also includes FSC chain-of-custody certification for companies who make wood products from certified forests.

http://www.scs1.com/forestry.shtml

The Sierra Club
Another mainstream environmental organization with a committment to protecting forest systems.

http://www.sierraclub.org/forests/

The Sierra Club Canada
This group has had concerns about the FSC certification process.

http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/media/appeal-jdi-se98.htm http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/media/fsc-cert-concerns-00-01-21.htm

Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)
A program adopted by members of the American Forest and Paper Association. This is the main industry supported program.

http://www.afandpa.org/forestry/sfi/menu.html

The Sustainable Forestry and Certification Watch
We're not sure who's watching who yet.

http://www.sfcw.org/

Trees for the Future
This worldwide organization is working to combat issues of deforestation and climate change with innovative sustainability projects.

http://www.treesftf.org/

The Woods Hole Research Center
Specializes in global forests and their controlling influence on climate.

http://www.whrc.org/science/science.htm

WoodWise
Co-op America's program to educate the public to be forest friendly.

http://www.coopamerica.org/woodwise/index.html

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Context Institute (formerly In Context magazine)

http://www.context.org/

EcoTrust
A wonderful site which uses a pattern language to describe a sustainable regional economy for the northwest coast of North America. Beautiful photos and lots to think about.

http://www.conservationeconomy.net/

Livable Communities

http://www.livablecommunities.gov

Smart Growth

http://www.smartgrowth.org

Sustainable Florida

http://sustainable.state.fl.us

SustainableUSA

http://sustainable-usa.org

Walkable Communities

http://www.nsc.org/walk/wkcheck.htm

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Awakening Earth: Voluntary Simplicity

http://www.awakeningearth.org/simplicity.html

Context Institute (formerly In Context magazine)

http://www.context.org/

Simple Living: The Journal Of Voluntary Simplicity

http://www.simpleliving.com/

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Action Design

http://www.actiondesign.com/

Dialog on Learning Organizations

http://world.std.com/~lo/

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook Site

http://www.fieldbook.com/

Mental Model Musings

http://www.outsights.com/systems/welcome.htm

Stanford Learning Organization Web (SLOW)

http://www.stanford.edu/group/SLOW/

Systems Archetypes

http://www.outsights.com/systems/arch/arch.htm#archdg

The Ststems Dynamics Society

http://www.albany.edu/cpr/sds/

Systems Dynamics Meta Link List

http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/users/gossimit/links/bookmksd.htm

Systems Dynamics at MIT

http://sysdyn.mit.edu/sd-intro/home.html

Systems Primer

http://www.systemsprimer.com

Systems Thinking

http://www.thinking.net/Systems_Thinking/systems_thinking.html

Systems Thinking Practice

http://www.sgzz.ch/links/stp/index.html

Whole Systems Design Association

http://www.earthcorps.com/wsda/

Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives

http://www.zeri.org/index.cfm?id=home

Designer/Builder

http://www.designerbuildermagazine.com

EcoCity Clevelend Journal: Ideas and Tools for a Sustainable Bioregion

http://www.ecocitycleveland.org

Energy Conservation News

http://www.energyconservationinfo.org

Energy Design Update & Others

http://www.aspenpublishers.com/environment.asp

Environmental Building News

http://www.buildinggreen.com

Environmental Design and Construction

http://www.edcmag.com

Green Building Digest

http://www.qub.ac.uk/arc/research/gbd/index.html

Home Energy

http://www.homeenergy.org

Home Power: The Hands-On Journal of Home-Made Power

http://www.homepower.com/

Landscape Architecture

http://www.asla.org/nonmembers/lam.cfm

The Last Straw

http://www.strawhomes.com

Natural Home & Garden

http://www.naturalhomemagazine.com

New Urban News

http://www.newurbannews.com

New Village Journal: Building Sustainable Cultures

The new national magazine from Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility
http://www.newvillage.net

Renewable Energy World

http://www.earthscan.co.uk/defaultREW.asp?sp=&v=3

Solar Today

http://www.solartoday.org/

Solplan Review: Journal of Energy Conservation, Building Science, and Construction Practice

http://www.iaqresourcescanada.com/directory

Terrain: The Magazine of the Berkeley Ecology Center

terrain@ecologycenter.org
http://www.ecologycenter.org

Urban Ecology

http://www.urbanecology.org/

Whole Earth: Access to Tools, Ideas and Practices

http://www.wholeearthmag.com

Yes!: The Journal of Positive Futures

http://www.futurenet.org

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The American Solar Energy Association (ASES)

http://www.ases.org

DOE Renewable Energy

http://www.eere.energy.gov

California Energy Commission (CEC)

http://www.energy.ca.gov

Canadian Association for Renewable Energies

http://www.renewables.ca

Center for Renewable Energy & Sustainable Technology (CREST)

http://www.crest.org

Florida Solar Energy Center

http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/

Home Energy Magazine

http://www.homeenergy.org

International Solar Energy Society (ISES)

http://www.ises.org

The Masonry Heating Information Website

http:www.mha-net.org

Northern California Solar Energy Association

http://www.norcalsolar.org

Pacific Energy Center

http://www.pge.com/pec/

The Source for Renewable Energy

http://www.sourceguides.com/energy/index.html