Green Economic Links

·         Green Business Links

·         People & Projects I

·         People & Projects II

·         Materials

·         Industrial Ecology

·         Appropriate Technology

·         Green Building / Construction Ecology

·         Corporations, Trade & Globalization

·         Value: Money, Finance & Indicators

·         Media & Publications

·         Toronto Sites

·         Green Education


 

Green Business Links (on York FES B&E course page; some overlap with links below)

 

People & Projects I

·         Research Foundation for Science, Technology & Ecology  (Vandana Shiva)

·         Institute for Local Self-Reliance  (David Morris)

·         Hazel Henderson

·         People-Centered Development Forum  (David Korten)

·         Maria Mies   (in German)

·         Ocean Arks International  (John Todd)

·         Center for the Biology of Natural Systems  (Barry Commoner)

·         Institute for Social Ecology  (Murray Bookchin)

·         Pattern Language.com   (Christopher Alexander)

·         Community Way currency  (Michael Linton)

·         Earth Policy Institute  (Lester Brown)

·         Rocky Mountain Institute  (Amory Lovins)

·         Natural Capitalism  (Hawken, Lovins & Lovins)

·         32 Hours: Action for Full Employment  (Anders Hayden)

·         FEASTA: Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability (Richard Douthwaite)

·         "Beyond Growth" 1997 online seminar  (Herman Daly)

·         Planet Drum Foundation  (Peter Berg)

·         Thomas Berry

·         Sandra Steingraber

·         David Suzuki Foundation

·         Program on Corporations, Law, & Democracy  (Richard Grossman)

·         Michael Moore

·         From the Sixties to the Future  (Bobby Seale)

                                             

 

People & Projects II

·         Canadian Society for Ecological Economics (CANSEE)

·         Earth Island Institute

·         E.F. Schumacher Society  

·         Worldwatch Institute   

·         Green Budget Coaliton (Canada)  

·         Wuppertal Institute (Germany)

·         Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

·         Friends of the Earth 

·         Canadian Institute for Sustainable Living

·         Natural Logic (Gil Friend)

·         International Society for Ecological Economics

·         Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, U. of Vermont  (Robert Constanza)

·         IISD Research Library

·         Center for Economic Conversion

·         Sustainable Communities Network

·         Center for Health, Environment and Justice (Lois Gibbs)

·         International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)

·         The Sustainability Advantage (Bob Willard)

·         Earth Future (Guy Dauncey)

·         Eco-Village Information Service

·         Center for Neighborhood Technology

·         Resource Renewal Institute

·         WWW Virtual Library on Sustainable Development

·         Smart Comunities Network  (US DOE)

·         Sustainability Project (Mike Nickerson)

·         Sustainability Institute (the late Donella Meadows)

·         Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)

·         Eve Online: Ecofeminist Visions Emerging

·         Indigenous Environmental Network

·         Tranet

·         Canadian Assn. for Renewable Energy

·         Renewable Energy Policy Project

·         Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory

·         Eco-Portal: the EnvironmentalSustainability.Info Source

·         Climate Ark

·         Climate Justice    

·         Center for a New American Dream

·         Ecotopia

·         Chattanooga Institute website

·         The Green Institute, Minneapolis

·         Shorter Work Time Action Page

·         Cohousing Network

·         Green@Work

·         Solar Living Institute

·         The Land Institute (Wes Jackson)

·         Sustain: the Alliance for Better Food and Farming

·         Farming Solutions: Success Stories for the Future of Agriculture

·         City Farmer Urban Agriculture

·         The Permaculture Activist

               

Materials

·  Blue Vinyl:  My House is Your House

·  ILSR Carbohydrate Economy Clearinghouse  

·  Greenpeace PVC Alternatives Database

·  World Resources Institute (WRI)

·  Wuppertal Institute (Germany)

·  Zero Waste America

·  Grassroots Recycling Network

·  ILSR Waste to Wealth site

·  Ontario Waste Materials Exchange

·  Recycling Council of Ontario (RCO)

·  Used Building Materials Assn.

·  National Center on Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery

·  INFORM: Strategies for a Better Environment   

·  Beyond Waste (deconstruction)

·  Hemptech

·  American Bamboo Society

·  Global Ecolabelling Network   

·  Consumer’s Choice Council     

·  ATHENA Sustainable Materials Institute

                                                

Industrial Ecology

·         Zero Emissions Research Institute  (Gunter Pauli)

·         Lowell Center for Sustainable Production  (Ken Geiser)

·         U. of Tennessee Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies (Gary Davis)

·         Product Life Institute, Geneva  (Walter Stahel)

·         Clean Production Action    

·         Centre for Sustainable Design   (Martin Charter)

·         International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund, Sweden

·         National Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery

·         Canadian Eco-Industrial Network (CEIN)

·         (US) National Center for Eco-Industrial Development

·         Consortium on Green Design & Manufacturing (UC-Berkeley)

·         Journal of Industrial Ecology

·         UNEP Environmental Management Tools

                                     

Appropriate Technology

·         Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST)

·         National Center for Appropriate Technology

·         Centre for Alternative Technology, Europe

·         Ocean Arks International   (John Todd)

·         Living Machines

·         Centre for Sustainable Transportation

 

                    
Green Building & Construction Ecology 

·        Environmental Building News (Alex Wilson & Nadev Malin)

·        Breathe By Association / Liefhebber Architects

·        Sustainable Edge green engineering and design

·        Just Homes

·        Green Building Information Council, Canada

·        Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC)

·        US Green Building Council (USGBC)   

·        ECD Energy & Environment consultants, Toronto

·        ATHENA Sustainable Materials Institute

·        Designing Green Virtual Sample Room

·        Development Center for Appropriate Technology   (David Eisenberg)

·        Deconstruction Institute

·        Powell Center for Construction and Environment, U. of Florida

·        GreenBuilder.com  (Austin)

·        Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (Pliny Fisk & Gail Vittori)

·        Healthy Building Network

·        Blue Vinyl:  My House is Your House

·         Healthy House Institute

·        Advanced Building Technologies, Canada

·        Center for Resourceful Building Technology

·       OIKOS: Green Building Source

·        U. of Minn. Center for Sustainable Building Research 

·        Van der Ryn Architects  (Sim Van der Ryn)  

·        William McDonough 

·        Tom Bender Design

·        Pattern Language.com (Christopher Alexander)

·        Ecotecture: Online Journal of Ecological Design

·        Green Home Building

·        Bau-Biologie USA

·        Green Clips

·        Earthship Biotecture

·        Natural Building Resources

·        The Last Straw

·        Cob Cottage Company

·        Rammed Earth Works (David Easton)

·        Eco-Home Network

·        US EPA Indoor Air Quality site

 

                             

Corporations, Trade & Globalization

·         WTOWATCH.org

·         Corporate Watch

·         Public Citizen Global Trade Watch

·         Global Exchange

·         Fair Trade Online

·         International Forum on Globalization

·         Ending Corporate Governance

·         Program on Corporations, Law, & Democracy  (POCLAD)

·         Whirled Bank

·         Independent Media Center (Indymedia) Ontario

·         Alliance for Responsible Trade

·         Centre for Research on Globalisation (Michel Chossudovsky)

·         World Social Forum 2004

 


Value: Money, Finance & Indicators

·         LETSystem Homepage

·         Community Way currency  (Michael Linton)

·         Ithaca Hours

·         Local & Interest-free Currencies, Social Credit & Informal Credit Systems

·         Center for the Study of the Gift Economy  (Genevieve Vaughan)

·         The Future of Money (Bernard Lietaer)

·         Community Information Resource Center (Thomas Greco)

·         Transaction Net   

·         Alternative Money Systems

·         Social Investment Organization, Canada

·         ShoreBank Pacific (eco-bank)

·         Solar Bank

·         Global Resource Bank

·         Sustainable Measures  (Maureen Hart)

·         Redefining Progress

·         Toronto’s Vital Signs

·         Compendium of Sust. Develop. Indicator Initiatives

·         Pembina Institute: Sustainability Indicators

·         Sustainable Seattle

·         Best Foot Forward (Eco-Footprint Tools)

 

Media & Publications

·         Rowman and Littlefield Publishers

·         Detour Publications

·         Sustainable Living Books

·         Toronto Women’s Bookstore

·         Sustainable Times

·         People- and Planet-friendly Events (Peter Blanchard)

·         Alternative Radio (David Barsamian)

·         Independent Media Center (Indymedia) Ontario

·         Communications for a Sustainable Future

·         Alternatives Journal

·         Natural Life Magazine (Wendy Priesnitz)

·         The Ram's Horn (Brewster Kneen)

·         YES! Journal of Positive Futures

·         Earth Island Journal

·         Adbusters

·         New Village Journal

·         Environmental Research Foundation /  Rachel's Health and Environment News  (Peter Montague)

·         Grist magazine online

·         Environmental New Network

·         AlterNet

·         In Context mag. Online

·         Resurgence Magazine Online

·         The Ecologist Online

·         Whole Earth magazine

·         Women and Environments (WE) International magazine

·         Environmental Building News  (EBN)

·         EcoCity Magazine

Be Careful:

·        Rev. Billy & the Church of Stop Shopping

·        The Meatrix (movie)

·        Seppo Leinonen’s EnvironMental Cartoon Gallery

·        DubyaSpeak.com

·        This Modern World: Tom Tomorrow

 

 

Toronto Area Sites

·         Toronto Green Businesses (on FES B&E page, some overlap with those below)

·         Toronto the Better (directory of businesses)

·         City of Toronto Environmental Task Force

·         Toronto’s Vital Signs

·         Toronto Dollar

·         Green Ontario

·         Food Policy Council

·         Food Share

·         Organic Advocates

·         Energy Action Council of Toronto  (EnerACT)

·         WindShare / Toronto Renewable Energy Cooperative

·         Dashcar / Green Fleet

·         AutoShare

·         Moving the Economy

·         Community Bicycle Network

·         32 Hours: Action for Full Employment

·         Toronto Atmospheric Fund (TAF)

·         Festive Earth Society

·         Green Communities Assn. (Ontario)

·         Ontario Environment Network (OEN)

·         Greenest City

·         Green$aver

·         CMHC Toronto Healthy House

·         Green Tourism Association

·         The Cardinal Group / Peck & Associates

·         Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA)

·         Recycling Council of Ontario (RCO)

·         Cycling in Toronto

·         Building Trades Council

·         Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA)

·         Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition

·         Toronto CED Learning Network

·         Riverdale Community Business Centre

·         Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN)

·         Metro Network for Social Justice

·         City of Toronto Garbage and Recycling

·         Mayor David Miller

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Green Alternatives Education

·         John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies

·         Institute for Social Ecology

·         Green Teacher

·         McGill U. School of the Environment

·         Environmental Studies Assn. of Canada (ESAC)

·         Schumacher College

·         Powell Center for Construction and Environment, U. of Florida

 

    Toronto Area:

·         Transformative Learning Centre, OISE/UT

·         York U. Faculty of Environmental Studies

·         U.of T. Institute for Environmental Studies

·         Elliott Allen Institute for Ecology and Spirituality

·         Labour Education Centre

·         Everdale Environmental Learning Centre

·         Grassroots Environmental Products (workshops)

·         Seneca College Centre for the Built Environment


 
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