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Topia!: Science: Environment: Sustainability: Sustainable Living (25)
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One Individual - Tips for sustainable living and environmental news. Intended to bring environmental issues into the consciousness of Australian web users. Planet-Era Action Inc. Institute - Non-profit technology transfer institute dedicated to innovation and public education in sustainable development and self-sufficiency. Research and experimental development of cost-effective energy efficiency for homes, businesses, and farms. The Busy Person's Guide to Greener Living - Site offers weekly tips and other information to email subscribers, some information and links accessible without subscription. Green Building Primer by B.E.S.T. - Green Building: A Primer for Builders, Consumers and Realtors published by B.E.S.T. (Building Environmental Science and Technology). Provides a detailed review of green building approaches and considerations. USA centric, globally useful. The Green Design Initiative - Carnegie Mellon University - Carnegie Mellon University's Green Design Initiative. Promotes environmentally conscious engineering, product and process design, manufacturing, and architecture. Information includes research, publications, education. Green Living Center - Information about creating a healthier, more energy and resource efficient and generally more naturally sustainable home environment. The Importance of Living Things in Our Everyday World - Did You Know? - Discussion of declining quality of various world systems, extracted from book "The Vital Vastness". Includes some positive suggestions. Book available for order online. Lots of assertions. Sources used in book are not referenced online. Home Ecology - Extensive noncommercial information source on strategies for ecologically sound living: composting, natural gardening, junk mail reduction, energy and water conservation, garbage reduction, safety of household chemicals and cleaners, and related topics. National Wildlife Federation - Backyard Wildlife Habitat program can help you save a place for wildlife right in your own backyard and community, while opening your eyes to the natural world around you, to be nourished by its wonders. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Saving the Environment - Table of contents, excerpts, and environmental tips from book by Greg Pahl. Brief review of book by Seventh Generation of Burlington, Vermont. Also lists links to relevant resources. Book is offered for sale online. EcoLiving Center - Online community that represents the values of cultural creatives. Stated focus is on naturally healthy, earth friendly living. Sections include message boards, articles, links, e-cards and current events. Primary issues include health, home, gardens, eco-living, environment, spirituality, vegetarianism, animals, energy saving, green building and politics. Home*A*Syst: - An Environmental Risk Assessment Guide for the home. Covers eleven topics that every homeowner or resident should understand: evaluating a property for environmental risks, stormwater management, drinking water well management, household wastewater usage, hazardous household products, garden care, lead risks, liquid fuels, indoor air quality, heating and cooling systems, and household waste management. Michael Mobbs | Sustainable Projects & Design - Michael Mobbs is a Sustainable Projects and Design consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Michael has held an interest in sustainable design for over 20 years, advising about technology, design, environmental law and policy to government, the private sector and community groups. EcoLogic - Creating a Sustainable Future - Australia's Powerhouse Musuem has developed this online resource to complement its physical exhibition of sustainable living ideas and technologies. EcoLogic will exist both physically and online until at least 2008. Institute for Sustainable Futures - The Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) is an initiative of the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). The ISF conducts applied research and consulting on a wide range of sustainability related topic areas. Low-Impact Living Initiative - Low-Impact Living Initiative (LILI) is a UK based non-profit organisation dedicated to helping protect the global environment by researching and promoting sustainable, low-impact living alternatives. Includes information sheets, information on workshops, installations and newsletters. Sustainable Consumption - Information about sustainable consumption issues with resources, newsletters, and polls available. Ekotecture - Buildings which by design are completely self sustaining by using gravity geo-thermal envelope to heat and cool buildings without using fossil fuels as well as lights, gas, water, waste and food production. Southwest Desert Sustainability Project (New Mexico) - Non Profit hands on work study program in sustainable affordable building in earthen construction, passive solar design with bio-sewage options. The Solar Harvest Organization - Promotes renewable energy and sustainable living in the Rocky Mountain west. reHOUSE Project - Contemporary perspective on sustainability in the household. Household appliances in ceramics form a water network in the appartement. Heartwood Alberta Straw Bale Home - Provides information regarding the planning and development of a simple and self-reliant environmentally friendly home, with emphasis on how or why choices were made. Includes references to helpful resource materials. Urban Farmstead - A story of making an inner city home into an "urban farmstead" including the topics of raising ducks and chickens, greywater, gardening, solar energy, composting, and the economic benefits. Sustainable Buildings Industry Council - All aspects of sustainable design and construction: energy efficiency, renewable technologies, daylighting, healthy indoor environments, traditional materials, and resource conservation.
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