Sustainable Design and Development

Links

Hot Link

Sustainable Sites Initiative
www.sustainablesites.org/

Organizations

US Green Building Council
usgbc.org

AIA Committee on the Enviroenmnt
www.aia.org/cote/

Environmental Design Research Association
http://edra.org/

American Planning Association
http://www.planning.org/

Green Infrastructure
www.greeninfrastructure.net/

Smart Communities Network
http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/

Rocky Mountain Institute
http://www.rmi.org/

Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/

Global Green
http://globalgreen.org/

Architecture for Humanity
http://architectureforhumanity.org/

The Earth Institute
http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/

Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS)
http://www.swcs.org

FHWA DOT Critter Crossings
www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/wildlifecrossings/

Plant Stewardship Index
www.bhwp.org/db/

UN Division for Sustainable Development
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/index.html

Center for Urban Forest Research
http://wcufre.ucdavis.edu/

The Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
http://www.uvm.edu/giee/

Urban Land Institute
http://www.uli.org/

ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability
http://www.iclei.org/

Regional

Wahington Chapter ASLA -COTE
http://www.wasla.org/cote/default.htm

Alameda County Waste Management Board
http://www.stopwaste.org/

California Green Building and Design
http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/GreenBuilding/

Reference

Landscape Architecture and Sustainable Development
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/jawalke2/Publish/

UC Berkeley Environmental Design Library
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/

Center for Urban Forest Research
www.fs.fed.us/psw/programs/cufr/

Sustainable Landscape Construction
http://online.caup.washington.edu/courses/larc433/

McGraw-Hill GreenSource
http://www.construction.com/GreenSource/

Green Infrastructure Wiki
www.greeninfrastructurewiki.com

GreenBuilder
http://www.greenbuilder.com/general/BuildingSource

Publications

Natural Landscaping for Public Officials
http://www.epa.gov/greenacres/toolkit/index.html

Sustainable Landscape Construction
http://www.amazon.com/Sustainable-Landscape-Constr

A Green Vitruvius
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Vitruvius-Sustainable-

The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design
http://www.amazon.com/HOK-Guidebook-Sustainable-De

Stormwater Magazine
http://www.stormh2o.com/sw.html

Land and Water
http://www.landandwater.com/

National Park Service, Principles of Sustainable D
http://www.nps.gov/dsc/d_publications/d_1_gpsd.htm

Building Green, Envmtl Building News & Green Specs
http://www.buildinggreen.com/

Environmental Design + Construction Magazine
http://www.edcmag.com/

DOT - ECOLOGICAL
http://www.environment.fhwa.dot.gov/ecological/eco

Land Development Today
http://www.landdevelopmenttoday.com/

Databases

Recycling Markets Database
http://www.recyclingmarkets.net/

Blogs

WorldChanging
http://worldchanging.com/

Trehugger
http://treehugger.com/

Inhabitat
http://www.inhabitat.com/

Sustainable Metropolis
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/sustainable.php

Pruned
http://pruned.blogspot.com/

Misc

Architecture 2030
http://www.architecture2030.org/home.html

Next Generation Earth
http://nextgenerationearth.org/

TED: Technology Entertainment Design
http://ted.com/

An Inconvenient Truth
http://www.climatecrisis.net/

Grist - Environmental News and Commentary
http://grist.org/