The following is a list of sites and resources, gathered over the past few years (and especially this summer), regarding sustainability and sustainable business. This is a TON of information. consume responsibly. The technology section is way incomplete – but that’s a whole other evening, and it’s already past 1:00 a.m., so it’ll have to wait. otherwise, enjoy!
Organizations
-
- Smaller Organizations
- Center for Neighborhood Technology
- Catalytic Communities – Solutions
- Practica Foundation » Homepage
- Engineers Without Borders USA > Home
- Building Materials Reuse Association
-
- Appropriate Technology
- Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group
- webring.com – a portal for all kinds of sustainability links
- Scenarios for Sustainability – A great site talking about possible situations & solutions
-
- Schools & Departments
- Stanford Institute of Design | Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability
- The Cloud Instititute for Sustainability Education
- The Sustainability Initiative » Sustainability: Not What You Think It Is « MIT Sloan Management Review
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
- Design for the Other 90%: Jaipur foot and below-knee prosthesis
Businesses
- hyphae1 design lab
- Nikebiz : Nike Responsibility : Considered Design : The Considered Index
- KickStart :: Products :: Pumps
- The Natural Step: Guidelines for Sustainable Business
- TerraCycle Inc: Taking Recycling beyond the bin
- Proteus Environmental Technologies – About Us
- Sustainability Marketing – ecoAmerica
- Idealab – Careers in Sustainable Thinking
- AMEX Members Project – Funding for Innovation
- IDE – Enabling Prosperity
- community based social marketing – an awesome website
Books (an initial list of books for this fall’s Sustainable Business class at Warren Wilson college, which I’m helping put together.)
-
- Individual Resources
- Contents of Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
- Cradle To Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
- The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (9780887307041): Paul Hawken: Books
- Customer Reviews: Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
- Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model (9780964595354): Ray Anderson: Books
-
-
- common resources
- Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (Global Century Series)
- The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany (9780393329995): David Blackbourn: Books
- Sustainable Industrialization by David Wallace
- Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage (9780470393741): Daniel Esty, Andrew Winston: Books
- Customer Reviews: Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
- Ecological Anthropology – a free site, for students, by students
- Customer Reviews: The Triple Bottom Line: How Today’s Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success — and How You Can Too
- Customer Reviews: A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
- Customer Reviews: Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
Blogs
- My “Daily Green Blogroll” (not each one, every day, but all great sites)
- TreeHugger
- Energy and Green Business – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com
- Worldchanging: Bright Green
- Grist
- Earthly Comics
- OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC
- Group: Developing Beyond Sustainability – WiserEarth
- Solar Thermal Innovation
- Environmental Capital – WSJ
- Yale Environment 360
- — ClimateWire — The Politics and Business of Climate Change
- Strategies for Sustainability
Technology
-
- Solar Thermal
- Innothermal – 3 months of solar thermal and renewable energy research, including info on GHG trading, solar cooling and the congressional energy bills, rolled into one mighty little blog.
Advertisements
Recent Comments