Local
Common Ground www.commongroundcenter.org
Common Ground's mission is to create and support community building
and leadership through an understanding of the natural environment,
with the purpose of renewing the spirit of individuals and communities
in all dimensions of life and work. The original and continuing
vision of Common Ground is to create a space that fosters the development
of human potential. Our facility serves as an alternative meeting
space where organizations and individuals may gather to engage in
dialogue and create relationships--the core of community building
and leadership.
Lorain County MetroParks www.loraincountymetroparks.com
Cleveland
Cleveland Green Building Coalition www.clevelandgbc.org
"The purpose of the Cleveland Green Building Coalition (GBC)
is to generate broad support for various individual efforts, build
momentum, and advance the green building agenda in Cleveland and
Northeast Ohio through education, consultation, and cooperation.
The Cleveland GBC is an umbrella organization for various building
industry interest groups, including those involved in residential,
commercial, institutional, and industrial green building. The Cleveland
GBC acts as a clearinghouse for information on green building activities
in Cleveland and other cities, as well as gives Cleveland-area individuals
opportunities to meet with colleagues and potential clients interested
in green building. Additionally, the GBC works to coordinate green
building efforts within Cleveland and to aid and promote specific
projects."
EcoCity Cleveland www.ecocitycleveland.org
"EcoCity Cleveland is a nonprofit environmental planning organization
that promotes the design of cities in balance with nature in Northeast
Ohio.
In the cities: We work in the urban core of the metropolitan region
to promote environmentally-friendly redevelopment that improves
quality of life and makes cities more sustainable.
In the country: We work in the countryside to promote sensitive
development that preserves open space and the ecological integrity
of the landscape.
Balancing city and country: Connecting these two areas of work are
policy issues related to urban sprawl and smart growth at the regional
and state levels (including land use planning, transportation planning,
and issues of regional governance). In all this, the metropolitan
region is the key unit of analysis, and we play an important role
in helping citizens and policy-makers adopt a more thoughtful regional
perspective — a "bioregional" perspective that transcends
the political fragmentation of our region.
Since being founded in 1992, EcoCity Cleveland has earned a national
reputation for the quality of its work. We have been a key player
in expanding public awareness of urban sprawl as a fundamental environmental
problem. Our reporting in the EcoCity Cleveland Journal and other
publications has been influential in supporting and shaping the
local environmental movement. And our programs add value to the
work of many other organizations promoting sustainability and ecological
cities."
Global Links and Resources
Natural Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org/
"NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action organization.
We use law, science and the support of more than 1 million members
and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places
and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things."
Envirolink http://www.envirolink.org
EcoLinks http://www.ecolinks.org
EcoNet http://www.igc.apc.org/home/econet
Mitch's Environmental Links http://www.bloomington.in.us/~mitch/envlinks.html
Ecomall http://www.ecomall.com
The Sierra Club www.sierraclub.org
Greenpeace www.greenpeace.org
Energy
National Renewable Energy Lab www.nrel.gov
"The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is a leader
in the U.S. Department of Energy's effort to secure an energy future
for the nation that is environmentally and economically sustainable."
US Department of Energy www.usdoe.gov
Architecture and Sustainable Design
The John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies http://www.csupomona.edu/~crs/
"The John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies (The Lyle
Center) is an interdisciplinary university-based setting for education,
demonstration and research in regenerative and sustainable systems.
Students from all disciplines on campus can participate in courses
and a community of up to 20 residents live on the site working with
regenerative systems as part of their daily lives. The term "regenerative"
was chosen for the Lyle Center to emphasize the intention of the
design to restore natural systems, not merely sustain them, while
integrating the needs of the human community."
Rocky Mountain Institute www.rmi.org
"Rocky Mountain Institute is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization
that fosters the efficient and restorative use of natural, human
and other capital to make the world more secure, just, prosperous,
and life sustaining. We do this by inspiring business, civil society,
and government to design integrative solutions that create true
wealth."
William McDonough + Partners http://www.mcdonoughpartners.com
"In all our work, we seek a creative balance of nature and
culture by practicing a sustaining approach that expands upon basic
considerations of materials and methods. Reflecting our firm belief
that all sustainability is local, we rely on the inherent power
of design to instruct us about the relationship between people,
nature, and place. Our work looks to honor the local context, embodying
the ideas and ideals of human community in which they take shape
while rendering visible the interconnectedness of a place -- its
water, its natural flows of energy, the indigenous materials, the
health and well-being of its inhabitants. Another way to say this
is that all our designs tell stories -- stories about natural history
and material flows, about daily and seasonal cycles of sun, wind,
and water, about people and their histories and cultures."
www.buildingGreen.com
www.usbgc.org
www.rmi.org
www.southface.org
www.cmpbs.org
Agriculture
Urban Agriculture http://www.cityfarmer.org |
