| 18seconds.org:
"Change a bulb. Change everything."
Added 06092007
Adaptive
Environments Center: "A
non-profit organization, AE was founded in 1978 to address
the environmental issues that confront people with disabilities
and elderly people."
Added 01032002
AIGA
Center for Sustainable Design:
"Dedicated to providing designers with a wide range
of information regarding sustainable business practice.
Through case studies, interviews, resources and discourse,
this site will encourage and support designers as they incorporate
sustainable thinking into their professional lives."
Added 05132007
Architects
/ Designers / Planners for Social Responsiblity: "ADPSR
has a sixteen year history of educating design professionals
and the public about critical social and environmental
issues. Although established with a disarmament focus,
during the last nine years ADPSR has expanded its concerns
to include the protection of the natural and built environment,
and the promotion of ecologically and socially responsible
development"
Added 02092003
Architecture
for Humanity: "A
volunteer non-profit organization founded for the promotion
of architectural and design solutions to global, social
and humanitarian problems."
Added 05212002
BeGreenNow:
"Empowers you to take an active role in neutralizing
your carbon emissions and reducing your impact on global
warming."
Added 01202008
BetterBricks: "The
goal of BB is to help business professionals understand
the power of energy efficiency to make a real difference
in their buildings and in their business. Its about
how to make buildings work harder and smarter."
Added 04072003
Beyond
Grey Pinstripes: "Highlights the most innovative
MBA programs and faculty infusing environmental and social
impact management into the business school curriculum.
Our report and website are tools for prospective and current
business students, administrators, faculty and corporate
recruiters to compare MBA curricula and benchmark programs."
Added 06122004
Bioneers:
"Educational nonprofit that strengthens and expands
networks of practical visionaries working on behalf of the
environment and people. We spread solutions-oriented stories—including
both ecological models and social strategies—for restoring
the earth."
Added 03272004
Center
for Neighborhood Technology:
"CNT has a unique mission: To invent and implement
new tools and methods that create livable urban communities
for everyone. Until recently, CNT's work has focused primarily
on the Chicago region and its communities. The tools and
methods that help to create healthy urban communities in
Chicagoland, however, are relevant to many other urban settings.
At the same time we know that other regions have unique
problems and that we can learn from these differences. CNT
is now working in other urban areas, including South Florida,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Pittsburgh."
Added 05252005
Center
for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology: "Since
1994 Solstice, now simply CREST, has been a pioneering
force publishing information about renewable energy, energy
efficiency and sustainability available on the Internet."
Added 02092003
Center
for Resource Solutions: "CRS,
based in San Francisco, brings together diverse interests
to implement practical resource solutions. Our national
and international programs promote clean and efficient
energy use, encourage sustainable economic growth, and
help preserve the environment for present and future generationst."
Added 02102003
Centre
for Sustainable Design: "CSD
Facilitates discussion and research on eco-design and broader
sustainability considerations in product and service development."
Added 02092003
Center
for Sustainable Systems: "CSS
develops life cycle based models and sustainability metrics
to evaluate the performance and to guide the continuous
improvement of industrial systems for meeting societal
needs. We promote sustainability by developing these tools
and knowledge in collaboration with diverse stakeholders
so that better informed decisions are made."
Added 02092003
Center
for Understanding the Built Environment: "CUBE
brings together educators with community partners to effect
change which will lead to a quality built and natural environment,
one and interdependent."
Added 01032002
Center
for Universal Design: "A
national research, information, and technical assistance
center that evaluates, develops, and promotes universal
design in housing, public and commercial facilities, and
related products."
Added 09182001
CleanPrint
Canada: "Helping
printers: Reduce costly waste; Comply with environmental
laws and community standards; Improve operations, reduce
pollution and save money."
Added 06122004
Daylighting
Collaborative: "Started by utilities and the State
of Wisconsin to incorporate daylighting into mainstream
design and construction."
Added 03272004
Design
Business Association:
"DBA exists to promote professional excellence through
productive partnerships between commerce and the design
industry to champion effective design which improves the
quality of people's lives."
Added 08282004
Design
Council: "To 'inspire and enable the best use
of design by the UK, in the world context, to improve prosperity
and well-being.'"
Added 03272004
Design
for the World: "An
international humanitarian organisation whose objective
is to match the skills and commitment of volunteer designers
with the needs expressed by disadvantaged populations and
the organisations that serve them worldwide. Design for
the World unites graphic designers, industrial designers
and interior and architectural designers around one common
idea: voluntary design for people in need."
Added 11202002
Earth
Pledge: "EP is committed
to facilitating the transition to sustainability in the
agriculture, cuisine, architecture, and building industries."
Added 02272003
Ecological
Design Association: "EDA
is a non-profit making registered charity launched in February
1991 by, amongst others, David Pearson, architect and author
of the highly successful 'The Natural House Book'. The
Association aims to enhance awareness of environmental
issues amongst the design and building professions amongst
others, and to promote understanding of sustainable development."
Added 02062002
EcoDesign
Foundation: "EDF
is a not-for-profit research and education organisation
that exists to develop sustainability by design. It does
this through generating and disseminating theoretical and
practical knowledges that can engage current conditions
of unsustainability."
Added 01032002
Ecological
Design Center: "A
student organization of the University of Oregon for the
promotion of sustainable design solutions."
Added 03042003
Foresight
Design Initiative: "Seeks
to improve and sustain the quality of life in the urban
environment through intelligent design, without sacrificing
the needs of future generations."
Added 05302005
Graham
Foundation: "The
mission of the Graham Foundation is to nurture and enrich
an informed and creative public dialogue concerning architecture
and the built environment."
GreenBlue: "Acts
as a catalyst to transform the making of things... encouraging
and enabling the widespread adoption and implementation
of sustainable thinking and design. We provide the theoretical,
technical, and information tools required to transform
industry into an economically profitable, ecologically
regenerative, and socially empowering activity through
intelligent design."
Added 05292004
Green Design Network: "A resource for all those interested in building and designing a sustainable future. Featuring the Green Building Resource Center, the Network is a tool for finding products, case studies, experts, publications, regional resource directories, and web links."
Added 08162001
Green
Map System: "Green
Maps are locally created maps that chart the natural and
cultural environment. Using adaptable tools and a shared
visual language of Green Map Icons to highlight green living
resources, Green Maps cultivate citizen participation and
community sustainability."
Added 05162004
Institute of Destination Architects and Designers: "Planning and design for tourism and recreation revitalization is the most important ecological and human safety, health and welfare issue facing designers in the foreseeable future. IDAD is focused on developing and disseminating techniques which can make resort and hydroscape zones more successful: promoting the human equation and access to natural ecosystems, while preserving the natural conditions."
Added 07132005
International
Institute for Sustainable Development: "Advancing
policy recommendations on international trade and investment,
economic policy, climate change, measurement and indicators,
and natural resource management to make development sustainable.
By using Internet communications, we cover and report on
international negotiations and broker knowledge gained
through collaborative projects with global partners, resulting
in more rigorous research, capacity building in developing
countries and a better dialogue between North and South."
Added 03272004
Local
Government Commission: "A
nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization, the Local
Government Commission (LGC) is composed of forward-thinking
elected officials, city and county staff, and other interested
individuals. Commission members are committed to developing
and implementing local solutions to problems of state and
national significance. The LGC provides a forum and technical
assistance to enhance the ability of local governments
to create and sustain healthy environments, healthy economies,
and social equity."
Added 01032002
Manitoga/The
Russel Wright Design Center: "In
1975, one year before his death, Wright opened his land
to the public. In continuing Wright's mission, Manitoga
offers programs throughout the year for children and adults
which emphasize ecology, science, art and design."
Added 07092002
Natural
Capitalism: "Describes a future in which business
and environmental interests increasingly overlap, and in
which businesses can better satisfy their customers' needs,
increase profits, and help solve environmental problems
all at the same time."
Added 06122004
Natural
Step: "Accelerate global sustainability by guiding
companies and governments onto an ecologically, socially
and economically sustainable path. We are working together
with some of the largest resource users on the planet to
create solutions, innovative models and tools that will
lead the transition to a sustainable future."
Added 03272004
o2: "An
international network of designers. We challenge you in
sustainable design. This site shows the way to the most
interesting sources, ideas and people."
Added 01242003
o2-USA:
"o2-USA is dedicated to fostering environmental sustainability
in design-related fields. Comprised of professional designers,
students, and members of many related fields, it is part
of the o2 Global Network."
Added 01242003
Onsustain.com:
"Internet-based platform that markets sustainable design
and designers. This virtual space includes a showroom filled
with design products that are both creative and sustainable,
and an area where top ecodesigners share their concepts,
experiences, ideas, and proposals with you."
Added 05252005
Pioneer
Millworks: "We bring
together the people, resources and facilities to make getting
great wood reliable, easy and cost-effective. Since our
sources and processes are environmentally responsible,
you not only get beautiful wood, but you can feel good
knowing that youre doing the right thing."
Added 04072003
PreserveNet: "PreserveNet
is designed to provide preservationists with a comprehensive
database of regularly updated internet resources and current
professional opportunities. Established in 1994 by Cornell
University's Michael Tomlan and Bob Pick, PreserveNet was
the result of a collaborative effort by preservation students
of various universities interested in providing preservation
information in what was then a new and exciting arena,
the internet."
Added 07102001
Project
for Public Spaces: "PPS'
missionóto create and sustain public places that build
communitiesóis achieved through programs in parks, plazas
and central squares; transportation; public buildings and
architecture and public markets."
Added 02062003
ReThink
Paper: "ReThink
Paper has been in the business of charting a precise course
of action towards the solutions for wood use reduction.
In order for ReThink Paper to be successful in charting
this course, it is necessary for the American people to
engage in the environmental impacts that surround the disjointed
subject of paper."
Added 02092003
SustainAbility: "Founded in 1987, SustainAbility is the longest established international consultancy specializing in business strategy and sustainable development—environmental improvement, social equity and economic development."
Added 06122004
Smart
Growth America: "Coalition of national, state and
local organizations working to improve the ways we plan
and build the towns, cities and metro areas we call home.
The coalition includes many of the best-known national organizations
advocating on behalf of historic preservation, the environment,
farmland and open space preservation, neighborhood revitalization
and more."
Added 08192005
Social
Design Notes: "This
Web log is a collection of notes on the built environment,
graphic design, product design, architecture, the decisions
we make, and the impact they have."
Added 09022007
Sustainable
Buildings Industry Council: "SBIC's
mission is to advance the design, affordability, energy
performance, and environmental soundness of residential,
institutional, and commercial buildings nationwide."
Added 02092003
Sustainable
Development Communications Network: "SDCN is a
group of leading civil society organizations seeking to
accelerate the implementation of sustainable development
through broader, integrated information and communications
about what we know."
Added 03272004
Total
Environment Centre: "Since 1972 has campaigned
on a vast range of environmental issuesónatural
and urban, coastal and inland, country and city."
Added 03272004
Turning
Point Project: "Non-profit
organization, formed in 1999 specifically to design and
produce a series of educational advertisements concerning
the major issues of the new millennium. The ads appeared
in The New York Times and other newspapers across the nation.
The issues discussed in the ads will be crucial in determining
the quality of life on Earth in the near and distant future.
Despite this, they have not been given the in-depth coverage
in the major media that they deserve."
Added 02092003
Urban
Ecology: "UE believes
that vibrant, successful cities are not only possible but
necessary for the health of society and our planet. We
plan and design cities that sustain the people, natural
resources, and economy necessary for everyone to thrive."
Added 02062003
Urban
Land Institute: "ULI's
mission is to provide responsible leadership in the use
of land in order to enhance the total environment."
Added 01032002
World
Business Council for Sustainable Development: "Coalition
of 170 international companies united by a shared commitment
to sustainable development via the three pillars of economic
growth, ecological balance and social progress."
Added 05162004
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