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Active Projects of
Development Alternatives Group - India

Alternative/Sustainable
tourism - Haiti and Dominican Republic

ARCOSANTI a Prototype
Arcology

Bear River
Solar Aquatics Waste Water Treatment Plant - Canada

Berlin
Digital Environmental Atlas

Bremen Initiative -
Germany

Capitalismo Natural
in Brazil

CareBridge - Cultivating
the social and environmental sustainability

Celestopea Project - City of
Dreams 2011

Centre for Development and
Environment (CDE) - Projects

China Projects -
International Center for Sustainable Development

Community Modeling Center -
USA

CRATerre EAG - Unesco
Projects (In French)

Cuba
Campaign Cuban Projects in Sustainable Development

Curitiba
References Electronic Sources and Links

Current projects of the
Sustainable Forestry Partnership - USA

Dismantling the cities
> Cities taking the lead

Earth Homes - The
beginning of styles for the new millennia

Earth
Island Institute Project Directory

Earth Pledge Foundation

Ecocity Builders
Projects Building Cities in Balance with Nature

Eco-city
(Ekostaden Malmo) - Sweden

Ecofindhorn - creating
sustainable community

Eco-Home
Network

Eco-Index -- Project
Search

Econtur - Environmental
Education and Consultancy Institute

Eco-Resources -
RochesterEnvironment.com

Eden Project ... that celebrates
life ...a sanctuary for all - UK

EDI - Design
Projects

Egyptian Initiative, Model in
Sustainable Living - SEKEM

Environmental Projects
in China

Environs Australia - Working
examples of sustainability in action

European
Sustainable Cities & Towns Campaign Barcelona City

Global
Environment Facility Projects

Handmade Projects and
Journey to Forever

INDIGENOUS
ECOTOURISM & SUST. DEV. RíO BLANCO - ECUADOR

Indigo Development -
International Industrial Ecology Research

InfoAgrar
- Projects-by geographic region

ING-bank Architecture -
Architects A. Alberts and M. van Huut

International Centre for Sustainable
Cities - Canada

International
Education for Sustainable Development - Projects

Kawasaki City
Environmentally Harmonious Project - Japan

Livable
Cities for the 21st Century New Urbanism II

Lizuna-house
- Case Study - Japan

Middelgrunden
Wind Turbine Co-operative - Denmark

Mowbray Falls Enviro Park
Experience - Australia

Natural
Building Project - StrawBale Studio

NCBS
Sustainable Strategies - Projects - UK

New Projects -
Australia

North
Sea Region Projects - Sweden

One World Projects -
Rainforest Preservation Products

Organizations
& projects of conservation & ecotourism - Domin.
Rep

Orienting
Urban Planning to Sustainability in Curitiba - Brazil

Other Projects
[Sustainable Sweden Association]

OUR ENVIRONMENT -
BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

Priority
Programme for China's Agenda 21

Project
Agastya transforming Bangalore into a Sustainable eco-city

Project on
Environment, Population and Security - Canada

PROJECTS AND
EVENTS FOR LOCAL SUSTAINABILITY - EUROPE

Projects
International - Learning to Create a Sustainable World

Projects Search - Sustainable
Management Fund - New Zeland

Projects-Participants
Sustainable Toronto

Purdue Sustainable
Agriculture Group Staff

Solar Energy
Projects and Green Power Program

Stockholm Partnerships
for substainable cities

Suspro Sustainable Projects -
USA

Sustainable
Agriculture Projects CERES - USA

Sustainable Architecture
at Auroville - India

Sustainable
Communities ZERI NM Projects - USA

Sustainable Construction -
Finland

Sustainable Design and Construction
of Large Scale Projects

Sustainable
Development EE Organizations and Projects - USA

Sustainable
House built by Michael Mobbs' - Australia

Sustainable Projects Ireland
- the village eco village

Sustainable
Urban Housing in China - Projects

TakingITGlobal -
Action - Projects

The
Best Practices Cities Habitat UNCHS

The Energy and Resources Institute
Projects & Events - India

The International Rescue Committee
Humanitarian Projects

The Natural Edge Project -
Sustainability, Business, ... Innovation

The
Sustainable Village.com Projects around the world!

The Venus Project - The
Redesign of a culture

Tibetan Village
Project

Virtual World Congress of
Entrepreneurs

VISION 2020 -
Action Towards a Sustainable Community - Canada

West Stevenage New
Sustainable Town - UK

WIRE
Renewable Energy Projects

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ADA
Ethical Investments - Luxembourg

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Association for Sustainable &
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Center - USA

Cascadia Revolving Fund -
USA

Cantor Fitzgerald's
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Community Development Venture Capital
- Sustainable Jobs Fund

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Eco Bank - Shore Bank Pacific -
USA

Ecologic Investor - Profit
Without Pollution

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Sustainable Development - Hong Kong

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Global Environment Facility

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Grameen Bank - removing the need
for collateral - Bangladesh

Grameen Bank and Prof. Yunus -
Nobel Peace Price

GreenMoney Journal -
USA

Industrial Common Ownership
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Inter-American Development
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Internet's First
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Investing in a Sustainable
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Islamic
Finance - Le Monde diplomatique

Microcredit and Microfinance The WWW
Virtual Library

Online Venture Capital - New
Zeland

Prometheus Ethical Finance - New
Zeland

Raising Money for
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Rocky Mountain Humaine
Investing - USA

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Social Investment Forum
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Compass - Europe

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developing world

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Switzerland

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Initiative (SEFI UNEP)

Sustainable
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Sustainable
Finance - Seeking Global Financial Security

Sustainable Management Fund - New
Zealand

Sustainable Performance Group -
Switzerland

Sustainable Technology
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Tejoori working within
a framework of Sharia principles - Dubai

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Group

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Time
Dollars > A New Currency in Community Building - USA

Transaction Net -
Complementary Community Currency Systems

Trends towards socially
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Trillium Asset Management -
socially responsible investing

Triodos Bank > a social bank -
Netherlands, Belgium, UK

Venture
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Award - Stockholm

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Global Response -
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Go For Green - Active Living and
Environment Program

Green Economics Website -
Canada

Green Tax Shift -
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Growing Planet - Replenishing
the earth one tree at a time

Iclei in Europe
- Sustainable Procurement

ICLEI Local Governments
for Sustainability

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sustainability

Institute for International
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International Foundation for
Science

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and Development (IIED)

International Institute for
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Investors & Environmentalists for
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Managing a green,
innovative, competitive business - green3.com

MAYRADA building people's institutions
- India

Natural Capitalism-Creating the Next
Industrial Revolution

ReBATE Business to
Business Sustainability - Australia

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What is Sustainable Development? -
IISD

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Gateway

Zero Emissions Forum

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Amazon Alliance -
Opportunities

Building
Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency - Ursula Sherman
Village

E-Commerce Link for Community
Entrepreneurs

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business, Change the world

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UK

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Opportunities IFC Identifying Opportunities

European Partners for the
Environment

Europe in the
World

Find
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Forum for the Future
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Gambia Help Health
Education and Sustainability

Global Futures - eliminates conflict
and creates opportunity

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Partnership Report 2001 The Co-operative Bank

New Ventures Linking Investors
and EnviroEntrepreneurs L America

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Regional Business and
the Environment Network - Australia

Sustainability
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Ecosustainable Projects
(a representative list)

Healthy Homes and Eco-Sustainable
Interiors

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Design and
development of cost-effective Healthy Homes packages to include
sustainable alternative energies, eco-compatible materials, water
and effluent treatment systems.

•

Design and development of
Interior furniture and furnishing products using natural finishes
and materials, sourcing timbers from sustainably managed
resources.

Eco-Sustainable Village

•

First stage

Construction and
development of approximately one hundred units including services,
retail and recreation facilities such as swimming pool, health care
centre, local arts and crafts centre.

•

Land
requirement

Approximately 20 hectares
for the first stage and an additional 20 hectares for the second
stage of development.

•

Construction

These units to be
constructed with natural materials sourced locally where possible.
The interiors and exteriors in eco-compatible natural finishes,
forms and colours that harmonise with the local surroundings and
environment.

•

Energy

Clean energy sources like
solar heating, photovoltaic panels, wind, compatible electric
wiring, etc. Eco-compatible heating and cooling systems.

•

Waste, water and
effluent disposal

Internal treatment and
recycling package.

Waste to energy conversion (green
electricity)

•

Solid Waste Energy
Recycling Facility with the annual capacity of 150,000 tonnes of
household waste to generate sufficient power for 12,000
households.

•

The technology to have
one of the most environmentally sustainable options for the
treatment of waste. Separating high value recyclables such as
metals, plastics and glass from the organic matter. The organic pulp
is then transformed into biogas which is to be used in the
production of electricity.

•

Environmental benefits
will include; the reduction of landfill putrescible materials, the
recovery of high value recyclable materials, as well as substantial
greenhouse gas abatement by offsetting the use of methane generating
virgin fossil fuels for electricity generation with biogas.

Energy efficient lighting

•

ESD is interested in the
development and distribution of energy efficient lighting systems
for domestic and public sectors. These systems to include LED,
compact fluorescent and high efficiency linear fluorescent
lighting.

International centre for sustainable
living

•

Ecosustainable living
models with infrastructure and facilities

•

Ecosustainable display
homes, offices and recreational facilities

•

Ecosustainable education,
research and development

•

International exchange
centre for sustainability

Eco-Estates/Global
Eco-Villages

Ecovillages:
Thoughts on igniting a revolution >>>

by Reinhold
Ziegler and Chris Cogswell

A major key to
their long-term success is helping them go from "good idea" to
"economic and ecological imperative." Another key to their success
is creating designs for a superior way of life that are so
compelling to the general public that their adoption becomes but a
matter of time. Here are some suggestions toward these ends.

Economic
Abundance, Time Freedom, Genetic Potential, and Ecological
Integrity

The idealized
and emerging ecovillage is a wonderful thing. No doubt permeating
modern life with insights and technologies designed to enhance
ecological balance and social cohesiveness is a vast improvement
over the status quo. However, because of the speed of ecological
breakdown on planet Earth, it is essential that we make ecovillages
more than a good idea - they must be inevitable, irresistible, and
unstoppable, and their proliferation must solve many of humanity's
most intractable problems at the same time. Ensuring this requires
tapping the two most powerful forces on the planet - Nature and
evolution itself.

Life in the
21st century western world is characterized by greed, speed, and
scarcity. All around the world people know that there is something
wrong with the status quo, but what alternative is there? With the
fall of Communism as an (even theoretical) alternative, there is
truly no robust challenge to the hegemony of global capitalism; that
is, except Nature. While capitalism wars with the biosphere, pitting
citizens by design against the interests of their children and
grandchildren, ecovillages can offer a powerful alternative, but
only by working with, and very respectfully, harnessing the vast
forces of Nature. We can unleash the ecovillage revolution without
having to beg for money, ask for permission, or wait for decades
until the oceans rise and everyone finally wakes up. All we need is
to find one person with a few million dollars who wants to help turn
things around on this planet (and double their investment).

There is
nothing more abundant than a seed, carrying within it the potential
for a whole tree which, over its lifetime, will produce countless
seeds and other abundance. In fact, for sheer, outrageous excess,
Nature knows no equal. By harnessing this abundance through
Eco-Estates and added-value production, we can ensure the creation
of ecovillages all around the world, for time immemorial. With one
investment of $12 million, a "Mother Grove" can be established on
1000 acres of land in need of regeneration by pioneering
ecovillagers. Over the next 10 years, imagine if the $200 million in
revenues (conservatively estimated) from this grove were apportioned
in the following ways: ($ in US Dollars)

$24 million -
Investor returns <> $11 million - GEN (or other global
co-ordinating body/network) <> $10 million - Mother Grove
operations <> $10 million - Mother Grove Ecovillage (self
supporting) <> $10 million - Establish Center for Ecology,
Entrepreneurship, and Ecovillages to train people in the ways of
sustainable agriculture/forestry, ecological business/natural
capitalism, and ecovillage design (self-supporting) <> $15
million - Establish global Gaia Bank for ecovillages and their
businesses <> $120 million - Creation of 10 new "Mother
Groves" around the world, on all continents (interest-bearing
investment, repaid over 10 years)

This is not a
get rich quick scheme - rather, it is about getting rich slowly but
surely, and using the wealth to heal the planet. By the year 2020,
with ten Mother Groves around the world, total revenues will be $2
billion, and 20 million trees will have been planted. A precondition
for the creation of these Mother Groves would be that they would be
required to invest 60% of revenues in new Groves: ten per decade per
grove. The exponential growth of these groves would yield over a
hundred thousand groves with ecovillages, over 30 billion trees
planted, and trillions of dollars in total revenues by 2050. Such a
plan would present the world an irresistable alternative to the
status quo, and would make ecovillages truly inevitable and
unstoppable,

Year #
Groves/Ecovillages Global Revenues # Trees Planted To Date <>
2011 11 $200 million 200,000 <> 2021 110 $2 billion 20.2
million <> 2031 1,100 $20 billion 220.2 million <> 2041
11,000 $2 trillion 2.2 billion <> 2051 110,000 $20 trillion
22.2 billion

Such a plan
would go a long way toward eliminating money as a limiting factor
for the development of ecovillages around the world, and could
easily form the basis for an entirely new global currency and
economy based on a sustainable, regenerative relationship with
nature. This plan would fix carbon massively, thus benefiting the
biosphere and helping to reduce global warming. Keep in mind that as
these measures are shown to be successful and superior to the status
quo, their rapid adoption around the globe could result in figures
that dwarf those listed above.

Additionally, a
new culture based on sustainable abundance, diversity, co-operation,
and the celebration of humanity's genetic potential could be
established. Were these groves to also emphasize synergistic,
sustainable, high quality nutrient-dense added-value food
production, they could be beacons of light for humanity, leading the
way toward an era of optimal health, magnificent physical
development, and productive/creative longevity. After the assaults
of the 20th century, humanity's degenerative spiral could stop, and
our physical and spiritual evolution could resume in full
force.

(Imagine global
codes of conduct that include a maximum 20 hour work week, creative
co-operation, celebration of nature, and lots of creative
expression, culture, and fun! All made possible by the fabulous
abundance of the ecologically designed Groves....)

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