American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC)
The American College &
University Presidents Climate Commitment is a high-visibility effort
to address global warming by garnering institutional commitments to
neutralize greenhouse gas emissions, and to accelerate the research
and educational efforts of higher education to equip society to re-stabilize
the earth’s climate.
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
AASHE is a membership-based
association of colleges and universities working to advance sustainability
in higher education in the U.S. and Canada.
BuildingGreen.com and Environmental Building News
BuildingGreen, Inc. is an independent
company committed to providing accurate, unbiased, and timely information
designed to help building-industry professionals and policy makers improve
the environmental performance, and reduce the adverse impacts, of buildings.
They offer both print and electronic resources to help you design and
build construction projects from a whole-systems perspective and take
an integrated design approach that minimizes ecological impact and maximizes
economic performance.
Clean Air-Cool Planet creates
partnerships in the Northeast to implement solutions to climate change
and build constituencies for effective climate policies and actions.
Cradle to Cradle Certification
Cradle to Cradle Certification
provides a company with a means to tangibly, credibly measure achievement
in environmentally-intelligent design and helps customers purchase and
specify products that are pursuing a broader definition of quality.
EcoCity Cleveland is a nonprofit
environmental planning organization that promotes the design of cities
in balance with nature in Northeast Ohio.
ENERGY STAR is a joint program
of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department
of Energy helping us all save money and protect the environment through
energy efficient products and practices.
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
The Forest Stewardship Council
(FSC) is an international organization that brings people together to
find solutions which promote responsible stewardship of the world’s
forests.
Full Circle Fuels is a new
multi-faceted alternative fuels center dedicated to increasing awareness
and use of biofuels in northeast Ohio.
GreenBiz is a leading information
resource on how to align environmental responsibility with business
success. They provide valuable news and resources to large and small
businesses through a combination of Web sites, workshops, daily news
feeds, electronic newsletters, and briefing papers. Their resources
are free to all users.
GREENGUARD Environmental Institute (GEI)
The GREENGUARD Environmental
Institute (GEI) is an industry-independent, non-profit organization
that oversees the GREENGUARD Certification Program. As an ANSI
Authorized Standards Developer, GEI establishes acceptable indoor air
standards for indoor products, environments, and buildings.
The New Agrarian Center is
committed to building a stronger and more sustainable regional food
system in Northeast Ohio- a food system that promotes health in the
broadest sense of the word: healthy land, healthy communities, healthy
individuals, and a healthy economy.
Sustainable Community Associates (SCA)
SCA is a development group founded in 2001 by three recent Oberlin College graduates: Naomi Sabel, Josh Rosen, and Ben Ezinga. SCA promotes environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable development. SCA's first endeavor is the East College Street Project, a community development venture that redevelops an abandoned brownfield in downtown Oberlin into a sustainably designed, mixed-use building containing 46 apartments for sale and 12,000 square feet of commercial space.