FootNotes* 

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Sustainability Resources and Links

These links will provide you with information and resources for shifting your business and personal practices to embrace sustainability.

Green Office Guide from Sustainable Industries provides ideas and tools.

Northwest Earth Institute offers excellent discussion courses including Sustainable Systems at Work for getting a 'green team' up and running!

The Natural Step framework for sustainable decision-making is embraced by public and private entities here in the U.S. and around the world.

The Better World Handbook is "the definitive guide for the average person wanting to make a positive difference in the world."

The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental principles for building a peaceful, just and sustainable global society in the 21st century.

Climate Change information:

• The Climate Project
• The Great Warming (film and resources)
• Everything's Cool (film and resources)
• The Weather Channel
• Climate Ark
• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• The Union of Concerned Scientists
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• WorldWatch Institute
• US Global Change Research Information Office (Ask Dr. Global Change)
• SCIENCE MUSEUM (interactive exhibits)
• MELT – A Teenager’s View of Global Warming (Video, 16 minutes)

Other Sustainability sites:

• The Center for the New American Dream
• Global Change
• Global Green USA
• WorldChanging
• The Green Guide
• EPA: Sustainability
• GoCarbonZero.org
• SafeClimate.net

Programs and Organizations:

• Low Carbon Diet by the Empowerment Institute
• Campus Challenge
• Interfaith Campaign

*Previous FOOT*NOTES with information and suggestions for reducing our collective Eco-Footprint:

 May 2011 (Nuclear Energy; Film: "I AM")

March 2011 (Deep Green film:, TENDER cookbook)

Jan 2011 (Book: EcoBarons; Bottled Water)

Issue 13 (Certified B Corporations)

Issue 12 (Clean Coal?)

Issue 11 (Sustainable transportation)

Issue 10 (FSC Certification)

Issue 9 (Computer energy)

Issue 8 (All about kids)

Issue 7 (Running the Numbers)

Issue 6 (Greenwashing)

Issue 5 (Story of Stuff)

Issue 4 (Office footprint calculator)

Issue 3 (The Natural Step)

Issue 2 (Eco Labels)

Issue 1 (the Basics)