Additional Links
- Center for Rural
Affairs The Center for
Rural Affairs is a not-for-profit organization
that works to build communities that stand for
social justice, economic opportunity, and
environmental stewardship. The Center
engages in research, education, advocacy, and
service to further this vision of rural America.
- Center of
Excellence for Sustainable Development
The US
Department of Energy's web site provides
information and services on how communities can
adopt sustainable development as a strategy for
well-being.
Co-op America
- Fine Gardens
Sustainable
urban landscapes ... distinctive gardens in
harmony with nature.
Rebecca Rose Smith can be contacted at: rr@sustainablelandscapes.com
- Institute for Local
Self Reliance
The Institute
for Local Self Reliance (ILSR) is a small
organization that promotes sustainable
communities. Since the 1970's, the ILSR has
been an advocate of ecological and locally
controlled economies and has provided help to
communities sharing that vision.
- National Trust for
Historic Preservation
The National
Trust for Historic Preservation, chartered by
Congress in 1949, is a private, nonprofit
organization dedicated to protecting historic
buildings and the neighborhoods and landscapes
they anchor.
- Natural
Capitalism
A web
site and book that can be used as a field guide
to sustainability for the business world. Natural
Capitalism describes how the emerging Second
Industrial Revolution will properly value nature
and people to create competitive advantage and
profitability, eliminate waste and pollution,
often employ more people, and achieve innovation
and morale.
- Planner's
Resource Center
The Planning
Commissioner's Journal has articles available
on-line and is a source of information on
planning topics of interest to practitioners and
professionals.
- Resource Renewal
Institute
The Resource
Renewal Institute (RRI) is a not-for-profit
organization that supports innovative
environmental management strategies. RRI's
mission is to catalyze the development and
implementation of green plans.
- Rocky Mountain
Institute
Rocky Mountain
Institute is an entrepreneurial, not-for-profit
organization that fosters the efficient and
restorative use of resources to create a more
secure, prosperous, and life-sustaining world.
- Sustainable
Communities Network
Linking
citizens to resources and to one another to
create healthy, vital, sustainable communities.
- United States Census
Bureau
This is the
home page of the Census Bureau and is a starting
point for access to population and housing data
from the US government. It provides a world
and US population clock.
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