Sustainability

a group of people working in the field who blog news, updates from their projects and opinions here.

Sightline Institute is a not-for-profit research and communication center--a think tank--based in Seattle. Founded in 1993 by Alan Durning, Sightline's mission is to bring about sustainability, a healthy, lasting prosperity grounded in place. Our focus is Cascadia, or the Pacific Northwest.

It's a slow-motion revolution, but it's happening. Since 1993, we've equipped northwesterners with the research and tools they need to make progress on a range of solutions, from creating a regional market-based system for slashing global warming pollution to banning toxic chemicals that have shown up in our food and our bodies to defeating ruinous land-use ballot measures across the Northwest in 2006 and 2007.

Information on becoming carbon neutral, how to build a sustainable house, organic clothing, delicious organic food, clean energy resources, an organic farm, a sustainable community or eco products, etc... The Sustainable Living Directory was created to give people green resources and tools for making positive contributions.

Roots of Change (ROC) is a collaborative of diverse leaders and institutions unified in common pursuit of achieving a sustainable food system in California by 2030. ROC is an emerging alliance; its purpose and beliefs will continue to evolve as the community of allies grows.

The Earth Policy Institute was founded May 2001 by Lester Brown and Reah Janise Kauffman to provide a vision of a sustainable future and a plan for how to get from here to there.

A website that brings the best of the Green Web together. Use it as a research tool, or keep up to date on the latest trends in the Green Revolution.

Thousands of organizations and millions of people are currently working to effectively tackle a set of profound global challenges through the creation, adoption and commercialization of sustainable approaches and clean technologies. Our efforts are fragmented. It is time to promote a culture of working together while maintaining our own special niches by leveraging shared and openly licensed solutions.

Join us for the first Open Sustainability Network unconference as we explore free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty.

A husband and wife team living off the grid in the deserts of West Texas. On their web site they publish an extensive collection of information on alternative energy and other forms of sustainable living necessary to live off the grid.

The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) is the Northeast’s leading organization of professionals and concerned citizens working in sustainable energy and whole systems thinking. NESEA facilitates the widespread adoption and use of sustainable energy by providing support to industry professionals and by educating and motivating consumers to learn about, ask for, and adopt sustainable energy and green building practices. NESEA accomplishes this through its Building Energy conference and trade show, K-12 resources, an advocacy network, high profile public events such as the Tour de Sol and the Green Building Open House, its chapters and members, and its Sustainable Yellow Pages.

Scottish Renewables is Scotland’s Forum for the Renewable Energy Industry, supporting the development and provision of a sustainable energy future for Scotland.

Scottish Renewables supports the development and provision of a sustainable energy future for Scotland. Sustainable energy comes from sources that are safe, clean and renewable, and which should also be secure, diverse and competitive. Scottish Renewables therefore promotes the effective use of Scotland’s abundant biomass, geothermal, hydro, landfill gas, tidal, wave and wind resources to generate social, economic and environmental benefits for all.