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Global Urban Sustainability Solutions Exchange (GUSSE) - World Urban Forum 2006
The Global Urban Sustainable Solutions Exchange (GUSSE, www.gusse.org) is an online place where the world will collectively discuss, review and apply the best ideas for sustainable cities.
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http://www.ahva.ubc.ca/WUF/program/gusse.html
GUSSE: Urban Sustainability Meets Social Networking : TreeHugger
A team of techies and visionaries from the University of British Columbia have created GUSSE, an open-source platform for exchanging sustainability solutions.
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/06/gusse_urban_sus.php
Community Solutions
A non-profit organization that educates on the benefits and values of small local community living. We envision a world where people live sustainably and cooperatively in local communitie...
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http://www.communitysolution.org/talks.html
Top MBAs: "Want More Values, Will Work for Less" | Sustainable Life Media
The study of 759 graduating MBAs at 11 top business schools, conducted by Stanford Graduate School of Business and UC Santa Barbara, found respondents ranked a company's ethical conduct n...
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http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/content/story/strategy/top_mbas_want_more_values_will_wo...
Center for Neighborhood Technology
A leader in promoting urban sustainability—the more effective use of existing resources and community assets to improve the health of natural systems and the wealth of people, today and...
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http://www.cnt.org
USGBC: LEED
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ is a third-party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, cons...
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http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19
City Farmer News
For the past 30 years, City Farmer has encouraged urban dwellers to pull up a patch of lawn and plant some vegetables, kitchen herbs and fruit.
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http://www.cityfarmer.info
Welcome to Livable Streets!
We are re-envisioning our cities, reversing decades of automobile-dominated planning and policy to create healthier, more sustainable, people-oriented neighborhoods, better prepared to me...
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http://www.livablestreets.com
Al Gore lays down green challenge to America
Gore acknowledged that there are barriers to reaching his goal. The nation's electric grid is still not sufficiently developed to move solar power from sunny states out West or wind power...
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/18/MN2711QRVL.DTL
Trying to Build a Greener Britain, Home by Home - NYTimes.com
In an era when movie stars build $5 million eco-mansions, families here have made their old Victorian houses eco-friendly, too.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/world/europe/20greenhouse.html
Nude Fire Extinguisher
Polycarbonate Cylinder*™*(PC)™ Polycarbonate Cylinder*TM* for Pressure-Containers can be used for Fire Extinguishers, Aerosol Sprays for insect killers, Hair Sprays or Topics and also...
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Sustainable by Necessity: Traditional Lifestyles in the Modern Environmental Crisis : Sustainablog
We have to stop living like we have a blank check or a limitless credit card and start living instead as if our resources are scarce, precious, and quickly lost without some real ingenuit...
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http://sustainablog.org/2008/06/25/sustainable-by-necessity-traditional-lifestyles-in-the-mo...
We Need a Definition of "Sustainability"... And Here It Is - Harvard Business Online's Leading Green
An activity is sustainable when all costs are internalized, because if the costs are too high, the activities stop.
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http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/leadinggreen/2008/06/we-need-a-definition-of-sustai.html
Solids
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http://www.solids.nl
Demotech, design for self reliance
By re-designing the way we live, Demotech works to improve our lives with techniques and tricks aimed at a single over arching goal: "More Joy Per person"
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http://www.demotech.org
Permaculture Principles
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http://www.permacultureprinciples.com
Architect Directory, Building Designers, Interior Design Information
Architect2.com provides listings of architects, building designers, interior design, architect information, building materials, landscape architects, lighting designers & drafting services
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http://www.architect2.com
FT.com / Wealth - Investments in people
As models such as venture philanthropy, microfinance and social entrepreneurship are embraced by non-profit organisations, and corporations start to focus on social issues, the barriers b...
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/771993f0-3423-11dd-869b-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=d8e9ac2a-30dc-11da-a...
About SSF | sustainable style foundation
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http://www.sustainablestyle.org/about-ssf
G-Sky | Welcome!
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http://www.greenrooftops.com/Default.aspx
Sustainable Insight
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http://www.sustainableinsight.com.au
SPONGE
Sustainable Development Network For Property and Construction Professionals in the UK
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http://www.spongenet.org
Sustainable Architecture
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http://www.umich.edu/~nppcpub/resources/compendia/architecture.html
National Building Museum: The Green House
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http://www.nbm.org/Exhibits/greenHouse2/principles/principles.html