Web Content Links

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Organizations and Schools

Southface Energy Institute, Responsible Solutions for Environmental Living
http://www.southface.org

Georgia Quality Growth Partnership Toolkit  http://www.dca.state.ga.us/toolkit/index.asp

United States Green Building Council www.usgbc.org

United States Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.org

Energy Star www.energystar.gov
 

Sustainable Programs

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Sustainable Portland www.sustainableportland.org – City of Portland’s Office of Sustainable Development has a mission to provide leadership and contribute practical solutions to ensure a prosperous community where people and nature thrive, now and in the future. The site offers great information on energy management, waste and recycling, green building, and sustainable technologies and practices.

Sustainable Charleston. Sustainable Charleston is an awards program recognizing businesses and organizations around the Charleston area that demonstrate a commitment to the triple bottom line.

EPA Climate Leaders Partnership – www.epa.gov/climateleaders - Climate Leaders is a voluntary industry- government partnership that encourages companies to develop long-term comprehensive climate change strategies and set greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals.

EPA Green Power Partnership – www.epa.gov/greenpower - Across America, consumers increasingly have a choice when they buy electricity. With that choice comes the ability to buy green power. Green power is an environmentally friendly electricity product that is generated from renewable energy sources. Buying green power is easy, and it offers a number of environmental and economic benefits over conventional electricity. EPA’s Green Power Partnership provides assistance and recognition to organizations that demonstrate environmental leadership by choosing green power.
 

Periodicals

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Green@work Magazine www.greenatworkmag.com - Sharing success stories and profiling the individuals who are making sustainability happen.

Sustainable Industries www.sijournal.com - Economic Gain through Environmental Innovation

E the Environmental Magazine www.emagazine.com - News and resources about the environment

Mother Earth News www.motherearthnews.com   - The original Guide to Living Wisely

Home Power Magazine www.homepower.com - Renewable energy technologies, educating and empowering readers toward more sustainable lifestyles.

Environmental Design+Construction http://www.edcmag.com – The premier magazine dedicated to efficient and sustainable building

Environmental Building News - www.buildinggreen.com


Web Sites

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Greenroofs.com - www.greenroofs.com - Greenroofs.com is the international greenroof industry’s resource and online information portal.

Buildinggreen.com - http://www.buildinggreen.com - An independent company committed to providing accurate, unbiased, and timely information designed to help building-industry professionals and policy makers improve the environmental performance, and reduce the adverse impacts, of buildings.

SustainableBusiness.com - www.sustainablebusiness.com - Every person and organization must decide the path they will take to bring the vision of sustainability to reality. The Internet community for businesses that integrate economic, and social and environmental concerns into their core strategy.


Books

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The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken
Natural Capital: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken
Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model by Ray Anderson
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough, Michael Braungart
The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation by Brian Nattrass
Sustainable Architecture White Papers (Earth Pledge Foundation Series on Sustainable Development) by David E. Brown
Earth Odyssey by Mark Herstgaard
The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention by David W. Orr


Projects

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Products & Materials

Scientific Certification Systems - www.scscertified.com – SCS provides independent, third-party certification of environmental and food safety achievements, which is critical when differentiating a business from its competitors. It bolsters a company’s credibility by demonstrating a commitment to the truth. And in this era of green washing, consumers, businesses, and government/institutional purchasing agents reward the truth.

Green Seal - www.greenseal.org - Green Seal is an independent, non-profit organization that strives to achieve a healthier and cleaner environment by identifying and promoting products and services that cause less toxic pollution and waste, conserve resources and habitats, and minimize global warming and ozone depletion.

Greenguard - www.greenguard.org - The Greenguard Environmental Institute governs the GREENGUARD Certification Program and provides the world’s only guide to third-party certified low emitting interior products and building materials. All certified products undergo quarterly indoor air quality performance testing according to stringent environmental chamber testing protocols and meet current indoor air quality standards.

Green-E – www.green-e.org - Green-e is a voluntary certification program for renewable electricity products. The Green-e Program sets consumer protection and environmental standards for electricity products, and verifies that Green-e certified products meet these standards. Electricity products that meet the Green-e Standard for environmental excellence are denoted by the Green-e logo.