Sustainability Resources and Links

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

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

The New Energy Movement educates the public about exciting new developments in emerging energy technologies, making the appeal for public and private support for the research, development, and deployment of breakthrough approaches to clean energy generation.

Global Warming:

• 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)

Washington:

• Executive Order No. 07-02

• ESSB 6001 for reduction of greenhouse gases

Oregon:

• Executive Order of the Governor
• Climate Change Oregon

Peak Oil:

• The Coming Global Oil Crisis

Sustainability:

• RenewUS – Make Climate Change History a mini-movie (looking back from 2056) and LOTS of resources
• 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
• Northwest Earth Institute (excellent discussion courses)
• The Natural Step Network (office in Portland)
• The Natural Step (international gateway)