The World Wide Web Virtual Library

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

description: A comprehensive list of internet sites
dealing with sustainable development, including organisations, projects and
activities, electronic journals, libraries, references and documents, databases,
directories or metadatabases

keywords: sustainable development, index, environment, development,
resources, internet, world wide web, sites, WWW, durable, sustainability,
Virtual Library, ecological economics

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Last update: 2 Feb
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Latin America (ES, PT, EN, FR),
documents and researches

Global Development and Environment
Institute, research and teaching materials.

Ecological Sustainability and Human
Well-Being, December 16-19, Delhi, India. International Society for
Ecological Economics.

Forest conservation, all. Ecological
Science Based Forest Conservation Advocacy

Rain forest, all. Rain
forest portal

Ecogeste, FR, que faire de ses
dˆ©chets

OCEANS-L in cooperation with Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands.
(Coverage of the Third Global Conference can be found at
http://www.iisd.ca/ymb/globaloceans3/)

Clean Energy Decision Support
Center, Canada (EN, FR, AR, BN, ZH, DA, NL, FI, DE, EL, HI, IT, JA, KO,
PL, PT, ES, SV, TE, RO, RU).

Demotech, technology, applications,
local materials

RETScreen Clean energy decision
support software (free), accessible in 21 languages including hindi, bengali,
chinese, arabic etc.

The Environment and Poverty Times

Resources Containing Lists of WWW Sites and other
Sources Relevant to Sustainable Development

Auxilliary lists
for environmentalists and SD workers.

Aviation, airports, encyclopedia
Links, statistics. Reduce noise at airports, especially at nights

Best environmental
directories, selection of WWW lists of lists, by subject.

Basel Convention, Hazardous waste,
Basel, import, export, transit, encyclopedia.

Brazil, rights, fauna, flora,
biodiversity, birds, , nature conservation, children, women, indian, Human
Rights, culture, philosophy, speleology (pt, en), encyclopedia. Numerous
links and legal arguments for many subjects linked to nature conservation.

Central Africa, Central
African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Congo Kinshasa, Equatorial Guinea,
Angola, Burundi, Rwanda,metadatabase. Databases and collections on Central
Africa from the last century.

Choike: A Portal on Southern Civil
Societies, Searchable directory of NGOs from Africa, Asia and Latin
America. News, campaings, features and information on social, economic and
environmental issues.

Community
based indicators, United States

Country profiles, UNEP, Country
profiles, indicators, data, maps.

Cyprus (gk, en),
environmental protection on a local scale, campaigning, seminars and talks,
publications, research.

Data accessible
on-line.for environmentalists and SD workers.

Directory of development
organizations, NGOs, development. 45000 contacts in 227 countries, 35000
WWW links of International Organizations, Governments, Private Sector
Institutions, Development Agencies, Universities, Research and Training
Institutes, NGOs/PDOs, Grantmakers, Banks, Microfinance Institutions and
Development Consulting Firms.

Directory of Human Rights Sites
(es), peace, human rights, cooperation, development and environment,
education, health, and social justice.

Directory of Non-Governmental Organisations Active in Sustainable
Development. Part1: Europe, 3900 European NGO. Book + CD-ROM. Contact: OECD, 2 rue André Pascal, F-75775
Paris. Extract for
Belgian NGOs,

Earthworks, database, career
opportunities, environmental scientists, sd professionals, geotechnical/civil
engineers, remediation specialists, soil scientists,
hydrologists/hydrogeologists, archaeologists, ecologists, plant scientists,
forestry/agricultural scientists, geographers, remote sensing/GIS staff,
climate/atmospheric scientists, oceanographers, geoscientists and petroleum
scientists/engineers in the academic, water, upstream oil and gas, civil and
mining sectors, UK, Europe, North America, Pacific Rim, Africa.

Ecologia.deeuropa.net
Continentes de enlaces excelentes (es).

Earthsummit, directory of
links.

ECONET on sustainable
development

Ecotopie, encyclopédie sur les
réalisations écologiques (Belgique-France), sustainable living (fr).

EnviroDirectory,
metadatabase on environmental lists of links.

ELDIS: Electronic Development and
Environment Information System, metadatabase.

Forest conservation, all. Ecological
Science Based Forest Conservation Advocacy

GREENTIE Directory 8,500
international suppliers of technologies, services, research, data, and
literature, pertinent to greenhouse gas mitigation

Gender, Science and Technology
Gateway, women's science and technology contributions to sustainable
development

Guide to Sustainable
Community Indicators, searchable metadatabase.

Habitat in developping
countries, habitat, developping countries, thirld world

Human development
indicators, data. A portal to all available data par country. A very
efficient tool for indicator building.

Global change,metadatabase

Information sources for sustainable
development, comprehensive metadatabase.

International Economic Development
Resources

International Institute for Sustainable
Development, Information Center Database (IISD), sustainable development,
metadatabase. The best!, Weekly
Journal review, International institutes,
NGOs, The UN, the Bank
and ODA, Contact list for
all organizations, Regional work, Sectoral work, Communications for SD, Information resources, ...

International Institute for
Sustainable Development (IISD), International Forest Policy

International Research Development
Centre - Asia Regional Office

Internetwork for sustainability,
news, information, opinion, searchable directory of links.

icp-forests, Forest health, air
pollution effects, UNECE.

Millennium Eco-Communities on
the Green Lane, Canada, resources, local community groups, making changes.
Environmental issues, best practices, tools, tips and networking
opportunities, community efforts about nature, pollution, and ecology.

Minnesota resources and
networking in Minnesota, USA.

Natural resources, coastal and
marine ecosystems; forests and grasslands; water resources and freshwater
systems; agriculture and food; climate and atmosphere; population, health, and
human well-being; economics and business; energy; biodiversity and protected
areas; and environmental governance, countries, encyclopedia, data

NextStep, resources and
information related to sustainability.

Openair-Market Net

Pakistan Development GatewayPakistan,
Sustainable Development Networking Programme.

PANOS, actuality on developping
countries

Rain forest, all. Rain
forest portal

Renew America's
Environmental Success Index, renewable energy, sustainable living,
programs, projects, success stories, USA.

http://www.docrenewableenergy.info/,
renewable energy (en, sp, it)

Répertoire des Organisations Non Gouvernementales actives dans le
domaine du développement durable. Tome 1: Europe., 3900 ONG européennes.
Livre, CD-ROM. Contact: OECD,
2 rue André Pascal, F-75775 Paris. Les ONGs belges sont sur
internet,

Roots,
bibliographic database

Small grains, small grains
(wheat, ...) production, statistics, producers directory (USA)

Small islands information
network, information sources on small islands sustainability

Solarch,
Sustainable Living Education and Innovation Program, Australian High Schools,
school visits, teaching materials, over $20,000 worth of prizes through annual
AGL Sustainable Living Competition. Australia.

Steady State
Economics, link between economy and environment.

Surf your watershed,Communities,
watersheds (USA).

SD Gateway, Calendar of Events,
Electronic Mailing Lists (listservs), News Services, Library Collections.

Sustainable Architecture, Building
and Culture architecture, building, ecology, materials, consultants,
events

Sustainable
Architecture: Eco Design and Landscaping

Sustainable Business
Network, news, resources, insight, green economy

Sustainable
development best starting points, selection from this Virtual Library !

Sustainable
Development Indicators initiatives

Sustainable Development
Internet Resources,

Sustainable forestry.

Sustainable mobility
information system (SMIS), mobility, transport, environment, Belgium

Sustainable
development reports, data. A portal to all available sustainable
development reports by companies. Environmental reports are also recorded.

Sustainable Products
Description

Sustainable resources database (North
America), metadatabase

Web sites on
Contribution of Telecommunication on Sustainable Development,
communication, telework, telecommunication

Tobacco (fr), encyclopedia (for
and against tobacco).

Tobacco, encyclopedia
including "secret" documents by industry.

Universite Europeenne de
l'Environnement, fr

World Directory of
Environmental Organisations, 360,000 words, international, country, and
subject sections

World Wide Web
Ressources in Economics

Yearbook of International
Co-operation on Environment and Development, international environmental
treaties, IGOs and international NGOs, country profiles.

Search engines results for Sustainable Development

A successfull search is proposed here in different search engines, with some
criteria to augment the relevance of hits.

Alta
Vista advanced search, 'sustainable development' in title and hyperlinks,
reference to Agenda 21, resources listing, last updated in 1996 (aboud 15 hits
out of 30000 with sustainable development).

Excite,
sustainable development as a concept.

Yahoo,
sustainable development, last 3 years, (aboud 111 hits, including many
duplicates).

Ecosustainable Search

Organisations

ACDI-CIDA, Canada, development
cooperation, thirld world, telephone Directory

ACUNU (American Council for
the United Nations University), challenges of the millennium.

Addresses of SD
organisations, postal address, phone, fax, e-mail.

Albemarle Environmental Exchange

Alkmaar (Netherlands),
case-law, crimes, juridiction (nl)

Amnesty International human rights.

Through The Bagelhole, grassroots,
collecting and sharing low-tech, alternative information, self-reliance,
self-sustainability, autonomy, mutual cooperation, building low-tech,
self-reliant infrastructures.

BC Wild wilderness protection
and sustainable development in British Columbia

BuildingEnvelopes.org ,
sustainable architecture.

Bureau of Resource Sciences
scientific analyses and advice.

Business and the Environment/Sustainable
Commerce Business for Social Responsibility, Sustainable Commerce, climate
change, sustainable forestry, supply chain environmental management.

CEAbureau voor communicatie en advies
over energie en milieu B.V.The Netherlands, duurzaamheid, leefbaarheid,
energie-efficiëntie, duurzame energie, strategie en beleid, implementatie,
instrumentontwikkeling, communicatie en procesbegeleiding, natuur en milieu,
energie

Center for Alternative Development
Initiatives, Philippine, Agenda 21,South America, Africa and Asia/Pacific.

Centre for Arid Zone Studies,
University of Wales Bangor, UK

Center for Economic and Social
Studies on the Environment, Université Libre de Bruxelles, indicators,
data sources

Center for Field Research
at Earthwatch sponsors scholarly field research in biology, sociology,
culture, sustainable development.

Centre for international university
cooperation, development, research, developing countries, cooperation,
education.

Centre for Research into sustainable
systems of agricultural production Cali, Valle, Colombia , sustainable
agriculture research

Center for the
Environment at University of California, Environmental Management, Land
Use and Planning, Agriculture, training.

Clean Energy Decision Support
Center, Canada (EN, FR, AR, BN, ZH, DA, NL, FI, DE, EL, HI, IT, JA, KO,
PL, PT, ES, SV, TE, RO, RU).

Commonwealth Scientific Industrial
Research Organization (CSIRO) , research, Australia.

Communications for Sustainable
Development

Communications for a Sustainable
Future ,education, international studies, peace, conflict, progressive
sociology, sustainable economics.

Context Institute, Sustainable
culture, information; from economics to education, from art to architecture,
from ceremony to community.

CSF Colorado Environmental Files
Collection education, international studies, peace, conflict, progressive
sociology, sustainable economics.

Cultural Survival

Cyprus Conservation
Foundation, Cyprus (gk, en)

Demotech, technology, applications,
local materials

Earthwatch sponsors scholarly
field research in biology, sociology, culture, sustainable development.

Earth Pledge Foundation

Earthfoot, small scale ecotours

Eco-Ethics International Union

Ecosustainable Hub, links, search,
forum, projects.

Ecotopie, encyclopédie sur les
réalisations écologiques (Belgique-France).

Ecotrust nonprofit, conservation
economy, coastal temperate rain forests of North America.

ECNC, European Centre for Nature
Conservation

Energie-Cités (fr) Cities,
Europe, urban environment, energy

EcoVillage at Ithaca,
green market.

EPA, Office of Sustainable
Ecosystems & Communities, Community Challenge Grants", library,
Integrative Approaches.

European Fair Trade
Association, fair trade

EUROS (IT), urban ecotecnology,
Italy, sustainable cities (it).

FAO, rural development, developing
countries, food security.

Friends of the Earth

Global
Change Education, The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute climate
change, education

Global Development and Environment
Institute, research and teaching materials.

Global March, child labour

Greenpeace, Greenpeace-USA, activism, sea,
whales, radioactivity, toxic releases, scandals, danger

GREENTIE Center greenhouse gas
mitigation technologies

Halmstads municipality,
Agenda 21, Sweden

Haribon Foundation, Inc.,
non-profit organization preserving the environment through sustainable
development strategies.

Industry
Canada's Sustainable Development

Institut pour un Développement
Durable, indicators, Belgium, World

Institute for Sustainable Regional
Development, Australia.

Institute of Energy and Sustainable
Development, Research, Consultancy services, business, sensible and
sustainable energy management strategies

Intercultural Institute of Montreal,
Canada

The International Business Leaders Forum
(IBLF), responsible business practices, corporate governance, human rights
and business standards, conflict prevention, health, enterprise,
communications in development, tourism and the environment, socially inclusive
business policies.

International Center for the Advancement
of Adult Learning (ICAAL), training and workshops for government agencies,
organizations and communities.

International Centre for Integrative
Studies - ICIS, integrative research

International Centre for
Trade and Sustainable Development, weekly e-newsletter

International Collective in Support to
Fishworkers, artisanal fisheries, small-scale fishworkers, sustainable
fisheries and sustainable livelihood

International Council for Local
Environmental Initiatives

International Development Research
Centre, Canada

International Institute for Sustainable
Development, information sources.

International Rivers Network protection
and conservation of the world's rivers and riverine communities.

International Urban Development
Association, not-for-profit Association of public and private
organisations, government agencies, business and individuals. Promotion and
improvement of integrated urban and regional development approach.

IRSUD-Researchers for
Sustainable Development, Economy, Sociology, Territorial Planning

Islands and Small States Institute of the Foundation for
International Studies at the University of Malta. University Building, St.
Paul Street, Valletta VLT 07, Malta. Tel: 356-248218; Fax:356-230551; e-mail:
mailto:[email-masked], fragility
index, islands, small states, global change.

MA Toxics Use Reduction Institute,
University of Massachusetts

Malaysian Timber Council, tropical
rainforestry, Malaysia.

Maryland Sea Grant, marine ecology,
biotechnology

Mining Impact Coalition,
mineral resources, mining, impact

Ministry of the
environment Catalonia (en)(Spanish) (Catalan), Catalonia
(Spain), sustainable development.

Joint Center for Sustainable Communities,
Wash. DC

National Association of Environmental
Professionals

National Parks and Conservation
Association

Natural Resources Institute

Nautilus Institute for Security and
Sustainable Development, security, environment, economic and social issues
in Northeast Asia.

Nimbkar Agricultural Research
Institute, India, agriculture, renewable energy, animal husbandry and
sustainable development.

Norway

Nuclear-Free Future Award
(international money prizes), rid the world of the nuclear scourge, indigenous
peoples

Office
of the Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development, (en, fr)
Canada

Office of Sustainable
Ecosystems and Communities - OSEC, ecological integrity, economic
sustainability and quality of life, Community Based Environmental Protection,
EPA

One world volunteers

Ontario Waste Management Association ,
waste, Ontario.

OREE (fr) environmental management of
firms and activity areas, France

PANOS, actuality

People's Commission on Environment and
Development, India

Population Action
International

The President's Council on
Sustainable Development USA, integrate economic and environmental policies

Priorities Instute, U.S.A.,
research, sustainable land use planning, renewable energy, carfree city
design.

Redefining Progress,
ecological footprint, genuine progress indicator

ReliefNet

Rocky Mountain Institute, Colorado,
problem-solving power of market economics and of advanced techniques for
resource efficiency

Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew

Royal Netherlands Society for
Agricultural Sciences, agricultural development, education

Royal Road University, Canada,
environmental management systems

The Rural Advancement Foundation
International (RAFI), conservation and sustainable improvement of
agricultural biodiversity, socially responsible development of technologies
useful to rural societies. loss of genetic diversity - especially in
agriculture - and impact of intellectual property rights on agriculture and
world food security.

SD Gateway: Development Alternatives,
Earth Council , Environmental Development Action in the Third World (ENDA),
Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN), International Development
Research Centre (IDRC), International Institute for Sustainable Development
(IISD), Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC),
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Calendar of Events, Electronic
Mailing Lists (listservs), News Services, Library Collections.

Second Nature education for
sustainability

Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y
Desarrollo Sustentable, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

SeedTree, tree planting, endangered
forest ecosystems, biodiversity, renewable energy, human development.

SkogForsk

Small islands information
network, small islands environment and sustainability

Smart Communities Network

Society
for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences nonlinear dynamical
systems, complex systems, fractals, chaos, bifurcations, ecology, economics,
social development.

South Centre, developing
countries

SPECTRA- research project on
Sustainability Development and Spatial Planning, spatial planning,
sustainable development. Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the United
Kingdom and the Netherlands.

Stephen Bedford Clark SBC &
Associates, Sustainable Freshwater Ecology & Aquaculture Consultancy
Services.

Sustainable Cities
Research Institute , Newcastle on Tyne

Sustainable Development Department (SDS)
of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), (en, es), metadatabase,
Full-text publications. Human resources, social development; environment and
natural resources; infrastructure, financial markets and private enterprise
development. Strategies, policies, best practices, guidelines, technical
studies, conference proceedings, newsletters, books, and other documents.
Financial assistance for Latin America and the Caribbean. Education,
Indigenous Peoples and Community Development, Microenterprise, Poverty and
Inequality, Small and Medium Enterprise, Women in Development.Index. Search
engine. Publications database. Agriculture, Biodiversity, Children and Youth,
Coastal and Marine Resources, Committee on Environment and Social Impact
(CESI), Domestic Violence, Early Child Development, Education, Energy,
Environmental Law and Economics, Environmental Management, Events, Financial
Markets, Forestry, Health , Household Surveys , Indigenous Peoples ,
Inequality , Infrastructure , Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty,
Involuntary Resettlement, Labor Markets, Microenterprise, Poverty,
Publications, Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology (FONTAGRO), Rural
Development, Science and Technology, Small and Medium Enterprise, Social
Development, Social Dialogue, Special Programs, Strategies and Policies,
Sustainable Development, Sustainable Markets for Energy, Training, Urban
Development, *Urban Environment, Water Resources, Women in Development,
Women's Leadership

Sustainable
Development Unit in the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
(DEFRA, UKUnited Kingdom, indicators

Sustainable Economic Growth Program; Centre for Strategic Economic
Studies; Victoria University of Technology; City Campus, P.O. Box. 14428,
MCMC, Melbourne, Vic., Australia 8001, Phone: 61 - 3 - 9248 1022, Fax: 61 - 3
- 9248 1048: Email: [email-masked]

Sustainable Future
Instructions, instructions and consultancy (en, de)

Target Earth International(USA)
Serving the Earth, Serving the Poor

Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI)
, energy, environment, biotechnology, plant tissue culture, biodiversity,
urban transport, sustainable development, Green India 2047, hydrocarbons, oil,
natural gas, coal, renewable energy, regulatory studies, regulatory policy,
regulation, deregulation, energy reforms, urban and rural environments,
natural resources, forestry, energy data, energy forecast,energy model, energy
efficiency, urban waste, climate change, global warming, Eco-refrigeration,
power sector, Biogas, biomass energy system, India, energy policy, fuels,
solar energy, wind energy, New Delhi

Texas Environmental Center

Tong-Len, NGO, Himachal Pradesh,
India. Internally-displaced communities living in Himachal's Kangra Valley.

Tools for Self Reliance, supports
workers, poor countries, basic hand-tools, local tool-making initiatives

Trees for the Future, agroforestry
self-help projects, developing countries, sustainable agriculture.

TUE Centrum Technologie voor Duurzame
Ontwikkeling sustainable development, The Netherlands (nl)

uicnhumedales

UNEP-GRID-Arendal, environment, North
Europe, Antarctic, Norway, data, GIS, maps.

United Nation's Department for
Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development, indicators

United Nations (UN)

United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP)

United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP)

United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, Office of the (UNHCR)

United Nations Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO)

Urban Ecology Australia Inc,
urban, evolution, ecological cities, education, example

Victoria Transport Policy
Institute

Le village des associations,
equity, NGOs, telematics, social development.

Volunteers in Technical Assistance WWW,
technology adaptation, development

VROM, Nederland, The Netherlands
(Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)(nl, en)

Wageningen Agricultural University
Library, agriculture Netherlands

William McDonough + Partners,
architectural firm promoting and utilizing sustainable design and building
techniques

The World Against Cancer (TWAC), Fight
cancer.

World Bank, development

World Business Council for Sustainable
Development , eco-efficiency through high standards of environmental and
resource management in business.

World Forest Institute forest
resources

World Health Organization

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

World Resources Institute (WRI),
sustainable development indicators, biodiversity, climate change,
environmental education, forest frontiers initiative, forest resources, health
and environment, africa, sustainable agriculture, trends and indicators, world
resources.

World Trade Organization
(WTO)

World Wildlife Fund, WWF-UK, WWF-US natural habitats and species
conservation.

Worldwatch Institute

WorldWatch Institute,
desenvolvimento econológico (sócio-econômico-ecológico)(pt)

Wuppertal Institute for Climate,
Environment and Energy

Yellow
Mountain Institute for Sustainable Living

Projects, activities

5th World Network

Alcan Prize for
Sustainability, Funding, World Economic Forum.

Après développement,
post-development, décroissance

Arcosanti Project

Baltic 21, Baltic Sea Region

Biodiversity Information Network,
biodiversity

BioGems, America, most
endangered wild places.

Bremen initiative,
business-municipality partnerships, Delphi, ecology, participation

Citizens Network for Sustainable
Development information ecology, information habitat, information for
sustainable development, children's summit.

COGEN, biomass energy
technologies, Europe, ASEAN.

Developing the Economy from Within’
(DEW), 52 projects. Lundby (SE), Venice (IT), Genoa (IT), Leipzig (DE),
West Yorkshire (UK), Bath (UK) and Leicester (UK). Coherent vision of
sustainable local economy, partnerships, implementation, experience, European
Union.

Earth Action Network

Earthhope Action Network,
environmental activism

Ecotopia Box,
sustainable development, environment, Europe.

ELDIS: Electronic Development and
Environment Information System, metadatabase, environment, development

EcoHouse,
making a typical building (560 residents, built in 1966) in St Petersburg
ecological sustainable.

The Economic
TeleDevelopment Forum, relationship between telecommunications
infrastructure investment, and enhanced community economic development.

EcoRecycle Victoria,
reduction of waste, better recycling, home composting, waste wise businesses,
waste education, recycled products, recycling services and statitistics,
Australia.

EcoVillage Network, market

European Partners for the Environment,
future a better balance between the environmental, social and economic
elements of life. Dialogue, long-term relationships, practical action.

European Foundation for the
Improvement of Living and Working Conditions , (en, fr) European Union,
Conferences, Networks, Tools, Training courses, SME Support initiatives.

The European International Policy Forum
(EIPF), European Union, the World Bank group and Developing Countries.

European Sustainable Cities
& Towns Campaign, Co-operation 750 cities, European Commission, urban
sustainability

Fairtrade, fairtrade labels

Forêt de Marie-Victorin, Projet AVEC
nature, Québec.

Forum for Sustainable Development -
Nepal, Environment & Energy, health, education, poverty Alleviation,
gender equality, good governance, public interests. Awareness and Advocacy,
strategic education, legal support, research and development, capacity
Building

Forum on Science and
Technology for Sustainability

The
GeoSphere Project Report visualizations Earth processes.

The Global Change Master
Directory (GCMD) "federated" directories, global change

Global Dialogue of Governments
on Mining/Metals and Sustainable Development, forum

Global Environmental Change
Programme, United Kingdom, research.

Global
Labelling Network

Global Volunteer Network,
China, Ecuador, Ghana, Nepal, Romania, Russia, Thailand, and Uganda.
Educational, environmental and community aid programs.

Greenpeace's
Arctic Action campaign against BP Amoco's arctic drilling projectcampaign,
Arctic, videoclips and multimedia stories, photo gallery

GreenNet Home Page environment,
peace, human rights, development groups

Histocity , historical
cities sustainable development, research, training, network, GIS

HungerWeb

Implementing
Sustainable Development in High Consumption Societies: A Comparative
Assessment of National Strategies and Initiatives, (research project),
high consumption societies, government responses, industrialised countries,
Framework Convention on Climate Change; Convention on Biological Diversity,
national governments of Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Norway, the
Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA, strategy, policy, law, sustainable
development.

INFORSE, the International Network for
Sustainable Energy

Intelligent Systems for
Sustainable Design sustainable building, Italy

InterAction

International
registration of forests, sustainable forestry cooperation

The King Baudouin International
Development Prize, which has a value of 150.000 EUR , is awarded every
other year to an individual or organisation that has made a significant
contribution to the development of countries of the South.The official award
ceremony is held at the Royal Palace of Brussels, in the presence of HM King
Albert II and 500 guests, including the highest Belgian and European
authorities and a high level UN delegation.

Leadership for Environment and Development
Program

Legecartridge, empty cartridge
recycling, Netherlands.

Mamirauá Sustainable
Development Reserve, Brazil, Amazon, flooded forest, wetland, local
biodiversity, economic development of local people, Ramsar Convention,
ecotourism

Mega-Cities Project,

Melissa Program, Managing the
Environment Locally in Sub Saharan Africa, local environment, knowledge
management

Mistra
Sustainable Building research program, Sweden

MOSES, Car sharing Europe

Mountain forum, mountain cultures,
environment and sustainable development

The Natural Step

New Forests Project

Norwegian Universities'
Committee for Development Research and Education, development,
cooperation, research, education, developing countries

Observatory of
Innovation & Business Development

OECD/DAC Donor-Developing Country Dialogues
on National Strategies for Sustainable Development review of experience,
developing countries, stakeholders

Plantages
PortoMari, island of Curacao, centre for nature oriented living and
recreation on a former plantation, nature conservation, restoration of the
coral reef, reef balls, local population, after school program, children,
sustainable lodges.

Poor to advocate for their
own economic freedoms

Population and
Sustainable Development Programme, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, human population, environment, natural resource
consumption, demography, reproductive healthcare, gender, culture.

Rainforest Action Network, activism

Renew America's
Environmental Success Index, renewable energy, sustainable living,
programs, projects, success stories, USA.

Saving the Amazon

SD Gateway, Calendar of Events,
Electronic Mailing Lists (listservs), News Services, Library Collections.

Small Island Developing States
Network, Sustainable Human Development, SIDS, Barbados Program of Action,
UN, UNDP, SDNP, Internet, Information and Communications Technology, Coastal
and Marine Resources, Sustainable Tourism, Biodiversity, Energy, South
Pacific, Indian Ocean, Caribbean, AOSIS, Alliance of Small Island States,
Training, Resources, Databases, Waste management, Freshwater Resources,
Climate Change, Land Resources, Connectivity

Small islands information
network, information sources, small islands sustainability

Small Island Developing States
network. Small islands, sustainable human development, SIDS, Barbados
Program of Action, coastal and marine resources, sustainabletourism,
biodiversity, energy, South Pacific, Indian Ocean, Caribbean, training,
resources, databases, waste management, freshwater, resources, climate change,
l

Snowchange Global Climate Change,
Indigenous Views, Circumpolar Perspective, Ecology, North, Canada, USA,
Russia, Sami, Finland

SPECTRA- research project on
Sustainability Development and Spatial Planning, spatial planning,
sustainable development. Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the United
Kingdom and the Netherlands.

Students Partnership Worldwide (SPW),
Health Education and Environment Programs in India, Nepal, South Africa,
Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda. Volunteers from North America, the UK and
Australia, Africa and Asia. Mixed nationality teams in rural communities,
raising awareness, changing attitudes to vital health and environmental
issues, deforestation, waste disposal, sanitation and nutrition. World Bank,
UNAIDS, UNESCO, UNICEF.

Sustainability Web Ring, link
exchange open to any organisation dealing with sustainability

Sustainable
cities programme (UNCHS (Habitat)/UNEP), urban sustainable development,
cities, developping countries

Sustainable Development Networking
Programme SDNP, United Nations.

Sustainable Development Networking Project
of Bangladesh, information, resources, sustainable development, debates,
discussions, development, environment, actions.

Sustainable Deveopment Research
Network, UK.

Sustainable fisheries, (en, fr, es)
artisanal fisheries, small-scale fishworkers, sustainable fisheries and
sustainable livelihood

Tech Museum
of Innovations Awards

Technology, Business and
Environment at MIT linking technological change with sound environmental
management.

Terra-2000 IST programme of the
European Commission, scenario and model development.

Third
Sector and Employment Pilot, employment potential of the third system,
social and neighbourhood services, environment and arts, dissemination of
results, European Union.

TouNet,
sustainable tourism.

Tradeable Assets for
Sustainable Communities, turning blight - deteriorated housing, pollution,
and unemployment - into assets - jobs and profits, educational oppurtunities,
and clean, healthy rural and urban communities, America.

UK Social Investment
Forum (UKSIF)

UNDP - Devwatch ,
sustainable development indicators

United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA), population assistance, developing countries. Fund. Programmes,
projects.

Urban Habitat Program
(UHP) cultivating multicultural urban environmental leadership to create
socially just and ecologically sustainable communities.

Urban mobility, car-sharing,
Europe, encyclopedia.

Vasundhara, environmental
actions in Kolkata India

Verde, (nl) duurzaam verbruik

Worldlights, humanitarian
capitalism, lighthouse, Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, columbarium

Events

Ecological Sustainability and Human
Well-Being, December 16-19, Delhi, India. International Society for
Ecological Economics.

environmental events database,
metadatabase, events, environment.

Protest net, Protest events, human
rights, demonstrations, activism

Courses

Catedra UNESCO of
Sustainable Development, Online Courses of Building simulation models in
Ecology and Environment, ES.

Environmental
Management and Sustainable Development, 12-week course, UK.

Postgraduate Course on Technology and
Sustainable Development : Innovative and integrated approaches in emerging
countries, Chennai (Madras), India starting January 2002.

News, discussion groups, Listservs, ...

Access:To receive a listserv, send an e-mail message to a listserver, leave
subject line blank and write 'subscribe list-name [Your Name]' (without quotes
or square parentheses) in your message. If it is a majordomo, do not specify
your name.

List-name and keywords (main sources: IISD,
1996 and Earthsystems, 1999):

ACDGIS-L , GIS (de)

AE , energy.

AFRICA-L , Africa, Internet

bitl.africa , Africa,
Internet

AFRICA-N , Africa news

AFRICANA-L , information
technology

AG-ECON , agricultural economy

AG-FORST , agro-forestry

Ag-Sieve , tropical
agriculture

ASLE - The
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment

BIODIV-L , biodiversity
network

AUDUBON

BIOREGIONAL , bioregion,
global to meet local

BIOSPH-L,
biosphere

CED-NET , community economic
development

CERRO-L development Central
Europe

CIAMAA-L , atmosphere (es,
en)

CITES-L , trade in wildlife,
endangered species.

citnet-list , information ecology,
information habitat, information for sustainable development.

Climate/Ecosystem Dynamics -
Mailing List, climate, weather, ecosystems

CLIM-ECON, Economics of
Climate Variability and Global Change

CLIMLIST ,
climate change

CMEP - Critical Mass
Energy Project

COASTGIS , coast, GIS

COMDEV , communication and
international development.

Communications for a
Sustainable Future

CONSBIO -
Conservation Biology, protection of life, conservation

CONSGIS , biological
conservation and GIS

DEBT, debt, International,
Private, Government

DEVEL-L , technology
transfer, development

DevMedia , media for development
and democracy

Duurzaamlijst,
duurzame ontwikkeling en (Lokale) Agenda 21 (nl)

EAF-L , EcoAgroForestry

EARTHSAVE - Diet
and the Environment Mailing List

ECOCITY - List
no longer exists, but you can still read the old archives. , urban
sustainability

ECO-ISLA - Ecological
and environmental matters of Puerto Rico

ECOFEM - Women and
the Environment List

ECOL-ECON - ,
ecological economics

ECOLOG-L -
Ecological Society of America List

EcologiaSocial,
Human and Social Ecology in Latin America

ECOLOGY - List
no longer exists, but you can read the old archives.

ecolview , ecology

ECONET , environment

ECONOMY, economy and
politics of less developped countries.

ECOPSYCHOLOGY, Ecological
Psychology

ECOSYS-L , ecosystem modelling.

ECOTALK - The
Environmental Non-Profit List

EECONET-L, ecological networks

EGT, Environment and Game
Theory

EHS-L , environmental health
system

ELAN - Environment in
Latin American Network List

ENERGY-L , energy in Israel.

ENV-BIOTECH , biotechnology

ENVBEH-L, environmental
behaviour

ENVCEE-L -
Environmental Issues in Central and Eastern Europe List

ENVINF-L -
Environmental Information Distribution List

ENVIROETHICS -
Environmental Ethics Forum List, ethics and philosophy

ENVSEC_F , environmental
dimensions of security, population growth, natural ressources.

ENVST-L -
Environmental Studies Discussion List

ENVTECSOC -
Environmental Technology and Society List

ENVST-L , environmental
studies programs.

ENVTECSOC, Environment
Technology and Society

eon, Environment on the net

eon-digest, Environment on
the net, digest

FEMISA, Feminist Studies

FISH-JUNIOR -
List no longer exists, but you can still view the old archives

FMDSS-L , forest management
planning information and decision systems

FOREST - Forest List

FUTUREWORK, Designing for
Post-Industrial Realities

GIS-L , geographical
information systems

GLIPF-L , great lakes

GLOMOD-L , global modelling

GLOSAS-L , global systems
analysis and simulation

GREEN , green movments

GREEN-TRAVEL -
Green Travel List

GREENYES - The
GrassRoots Recycling Network List

GRNSCH-L reducing
environmental impact of colleges and institutes activities

GRNSD-XX , research on
sustainable development

H-ASEH -
Environmental History List

Habitat2 , Habitat II
conference.

HimNet Hymalaya, geology.

HOMELESS, Homelessness

IAPWILD , International Arctic
Project Wildlife

IDS , Indonesian Development
Studies

INTDEV-L , International
development and global education

IPE, International
Political Economy

isdrn-list, International
Sustainable Development Research Network

iwc-l , Small islands sustainability

LIST GLOBAL, all available lists.

MARINE-L, seas, oceans

MARMAM, marine mammals

mideastenviro, Middle East,
environment

Mountain forum, mountain cultures,
environment and sustainable development

NATIVE-L, Aboriginal Peoples

NATLIT-Lpublications on
nature, environmental science and outdoor activities

NATURA-L, Chile

NWFOR - The North
West Forests List

OCEANS-L in cooperation with Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands.
(Coverage of the Third Global Conference can be found at
http://www.iisd.ca/ymb/globaloceans3/)

PACIFIC-BIOSNET -
Pacific Biosnet Mailing List

PDBLIST, Paradigms for boosting
development

PEACE, Peace Studies

PLACECOMM - Place and
Community Studies Discussion List

RECYCLE - Recycling
in Practice Mailing List

RIMAFNET marine policy

RURALDEV, Community and rural
economic development internationally

RUSAG-L, American and Russian.

SAL-NYC - Animal
Rights in New York and New Jersey

Sanet-mg, sustainable
agriculture

SARDTABLE-L indicators of
sustainability

SAVE - Student
Alliance for Virginia's Environment at the University of Virginia

SEA - Student
Environmental Action at the University of Virginia

href="http://www.earthsystems.org/list/seac-discussion">SEAC+DISCUSSION,
student action

SEASIA-L, South-east Asia

SIIN-L, small islands.

specieslistspecies lists
inventory.

STAMP - Sensible
Transportation Alternatives to the Meadowcreek Parkway

SUSAG-LIBRARY, Sustainable
agriculture related documents.

SUSDEV, sustainable
development publications.

SUSTAG-L, sustainable
agriculture.

sustain, sustainability

sustainable-development,
sustainable development

thrdwrld, Third World

TRADE-LIBRARY, trade.

Trade-News, trade.

UIGIS-L, user interface
for GIS

UN, United Nations

UNDP SDN Mail server, To
receive documentation on the Sustainable Development Networking Project, type
"HELP" in body of text to obtain instructions.

urban-forestry, urban-forestry

URBANITES,
self-sufficiency

WALL - Witness Against
Lawless Logging

WATER-L, water quality

WATER-L, water policy

wsn, world-systems,
transnational, transdisciplinary

WILDNET, conservation

Documents, references

IISD directory of resources, by region, by subject, on the Internet, Audio Video resources.

The "1996 Baseline Environmental
Management Report" (BEMR), life-cycle cost and schedule estimate for the
cleanup of the former nuclear weapons complex

AMVTN Seminar on Health
Research Ethics in Africa proceedings (126 pp.), Acta Tropica Vol. 78
Supplement 1 (January 2001). Parasitology-online.

Articles on Sustainablity

Combustion
in the RainForest: Ecology, Energy and Economy for a Sustainable
Environment, combustion, rainforest, ecology, energy, economy.

Country reports
(global change, Kyoto), climate change, Kyoto conference 1998.

CSD
Indicators, indicators

Global
crisis (Ted Trainer), economic hegemony, alternative, sustainable
lifestyle, Conserver society.

Daughters of the Pacific, de Ishtar, Zohl. 1994. . Spinifex Press.
Melbourne, Australia. Contains oral testaments from Indigenous Pacific and
Australian women of the impact of colonisation on their people. Social,
economic, political, cultural aspects, development issues.

Definitions of
sustainable development. Définitions du développement durable (fr, en),
definitions, litterature, implicit model, définition, littérature, modèle
implicite.

Droit des établissements sanitaires et
sociaux (fr)

Earthscan Publications Ltd,
United Kingdom

Ecodesign and Sustainable Strategic
Development

Ecogeste, FR, que faire de ses
dˆ©chets

Ecologically
Sustainable Development in Australia, Australia, sustainable development

Effet de serre, conséquences
multiples, livre (fr), techniques, socio-économiques, juridiques ou
philosophiques

Electronic
Global Networking and the NGO movement... (Shelley Preston)

Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems

Environmental Change and Human
Health in Countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP).

Environmental
Ethics: Sustainability, Competition, and Forestry

Environmental
Sustainability Index (ESI), indicators, ranking 122 countries with 67
variables.

The Environment and Poverty Times

L'environnement du
Moyen-Orient, Middle East, environment, book (fr), 1997

Executive
Summary , sustainable development indicators

FAO,
SD-Dimensions, rural development, developing countries, internet,
communication

FoEI Position paper for
the 1995 Session of the CSD

Geodata, Global Environment
Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online
database holds more than 400 different variables, as national, subregional,
regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering
themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters,
Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, raw values or
download the data in different formats.

Global Governance
(references,1996)

Global Development: Problems,
Solutions and Strategy, obstacles to sustainable development, ways to
overcome, strategy.

Going Local: Creating
Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age, (book, 1998) locally owned
companies, import substitution, new community financial institutions, smart
local policymaking

Greenpeace
Principles and Guidelines for Ecologically Responsible Forest Use

Guide to Sustainable
Community Indicators

Human Development Reports, United
Nations, UNDP

Ikea

Indicators
of sustainable development for the United Kingdom, download selected
indicators (The economy, Transport use, Leisure and tourism, Overseas trade,
Energy, Land use, Water resources, Forestry, Fish resources, Climate change,
Ozone layer depletion, Acid deposition, Air, Fresh water quality, Marine,
Wildlife and habitats, Land cover and landscape, Soil, Minerals extraction,
Waste, Radioactivity) on PDF or Works files.

Indicateurs(fr),
indicators (open list for wide consultation)

Indicators of sustainable
development, Selected tested indicators and methodology sheets, by United
Nations

Infoagro, Desarrollo
Sostenible. Costa Rica

The
International Journal of Sustainable Development

The International
Journal of Sustainable Development and World ecology

The International
Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

International metal Study Groups,
intergovernmental, Lead and Zinc, Nickel, and Copper, non-ferrous metals and
their contribution to sustainable development.

The Internet Consumer
Recycling Guide, home recycling, junk mail & email.

Joburgmemo, World Forum on
Sustainable Development, Johannesburg.

Journal of Solid Waste
Technology and Management, solid waste, (only abstracts and index are
available on the Web).

Kyoto convention, climate change,
global warming.

Latin America (ES, PT, EN, FR),
documents and researches

Livestock Research
for Rural Development Scientific Journal , sustainable agriculture
research

Living planet 2000,
ecological footprint

Living
planet report, environmental sustainability, ecological footprint, living
planet index.

Measure Sustainable
Forest Management in the US

Memegroup Business ethics
information, news, actuality (economic, environment, social)). Electronic
journal. Business ethics, ethical finance & investment,
sustainability,accountability, strategy, governance, corporate social
responsibility,future of work, community, citizenship, renewable energy,
consumerism, risk& reputation management, crisis, fair trade, ecology.

A Modest
Proposal to Save the World by Jay Hanson.

Mortality,
data.World mortality statistics.

National strategies for sustainable
development

Nature photography book,
WWF

OECD
Factbook, indicators, OECD countries, Demographic trends; International
migration; Trade; Foreign direct investment (FDI); Employment; Unemployment;
Air, water and land; Energy use; Government deficits and debt; Public
expenditure and aid; Taxes; Regional disparities; World energy supply; Gross
domestic product (GDP); Economic growth; Productivity; Commodities: production
and supply; Consumer and producer prices; Purchasing power and
competitiveness; Research and development (R&D); Information and
communication technology (ICT); Outcomes; Expenditure on education; Health;
Work and leisure; Crime; Transport.

offshore-environment,
environmental problems surrounding the offshore oil and gas exploration and
development, marine environment, fish stock, fisheries, shelf waters,
anthropogenic impact, coastal waters, marine pollution; drilling,
transportation and storage accidents; oil fate, behavior and transformations
during an oil spill; sources and volumes of waste discharges from the offshore
activity (drilling muds, drilling cuttings and produced waters); biological
impact of the natural gas (impact on fish and other marine organisms);
abandonment options and secondary use of the offshore installations; oil and
gas developments on the Russian shelf.

Partnership for
Change. Practical examples of Agenda 21 follow-up (Norway's Special Report
to EARTH SUMMIT+5, the Special Session of the UN General Assembly to Review
and Appraise the Implementation of Agenda 21)

Pattern language for a
sustainable, conservation economy

Population Index

Presidio Conference

The Process Of
Business/Environmental Collaborations: Partnering For Sustainability, by
Alissa J. Stern and Tim Hicks, Quorum Press, 88 Press Road, Westport CT 06881
(204 pp $67 2000) ISBN: 1-56720-292-6, practical real world advice, business
and environmental collaborations

Real Wealth of Nations
(references,1996)

Rights &
Responsibilities (references,1996)

Sinai Bedouin
Women Sinai Bedouin women and development, anthropology

Smoke and
Illusion, tobacco, biomass energy, pesticides, victimes, literature.

Social Criticism Review - Selected
readings on modern society and its ills, alienation between man, nature,
and a dysfunctional technical complex, responsible community, goodness in a
complex world.

Social Indicators
of Development (1994), data

State of the Environment report for
Tasmania, Australia

Sustainable
development reports, indicators, United Kingdom, Official reports,
documented indicators.

Sustainable Resources
Use And Development

SD-Dimensions
(FAO) news and analytical articles on people, institutions, knowledge and
environment.

Sustainable Building
Sourcebook

Sustainable-building

Sustainable communities ,
world beach communities living on a barrier island

Sustainable Development
in Canada , sustainable development, Canada

Sustainable
Development, forests.

Sustainable
development Encyclopedia

Sustainable
Development-English , minerals, metals, Canada.

Sustainable
Development Indicators initiatives

Sustainable
Development: A Chance for Harvesting and Protection of Forest Ecosystem,
sustainable development indicators

Sustainable
Development And The Delaware Estuary Program , sustainable development
indicators

Sustainable development
and the environment in East Timor

Sustainable
Development- General , Bibliography, sustainable development (references,
1995)

The Sustainable Development
Networking Programme... (UN: Q. I. Daudpota, R. Zambrano, UNDP

Sustainable Fisheries
(references,1995)

Sustainable ICT Case
Studies, institutional, social, poor, ICT.

Sustainable Livelihoods
(references,1995)

Sustainability
Consciousness

sustain magazine

Syllabi and Readings in Ecological
Economics, ecological economics

Technological Education and
National Development (TEND), proceedings from TEND '97

Threatened species, red lists
species profiles, threats

Théorie de la
réciprocité, reciprocity, ethics, gift, reciprocidad, ethica, don,
vengeance, marché, mercado, échange, exchange.

Towards
Sustainable Development

TouNet,
sustainable tourism definition and case studies.

Trends in
Developing Economies (1994)

Tropical
Forestry and The Environment

UNCED
documents, Rio declaration, Agenda 21, Rio 1992.

UNEDforum , multi-stakeholder
information hub to aid the follow-ups to the conferences on sustainable
development and the environment.

UNESCO World Science Report
1996 research, education, regional

The United
Nations Commission on Sustainable Development

United Nations Conference
on Population (Cairo), demography

United
Nations, Agenda 21 Country reports, sustainable development, Agenda 21,
information, indicators

United
Nations Task Force on Environmental Labelling

A Universal
Declaration of Human Responsibilities (draft discussion paper),
responsibility, human rights.

Vedams Books
International books published in India; sustainable development;
biodiversity, environment

WaterforumNews, water (nl, en)

Why
sustainability is wrong anti-sustainablility, against.

worldcitizenship, helping
pupils to have better understanding of inter-dependence of humanity.

Women, Environment and
Development (references,1995)

Working papers on
international environmental law development

World Commission
on Forests and Sustainable Development

World Resources 1996-97: A Guide to the
Global Environment

Yellow
Mountain Institute for Sustainable Living

Electronic journals

ASEAN Review of Biodiversity

billy-globe.org , newsletter

Bond Beterleefmilieu,
News, Flanders (Belgium)

Catedra UNESCO of
Sustainable Development, Online Courses of Building simulation models in
Ecology and Environment

Conservation ecology,
electronic peer-reviewed scientific journal, environmental economics,
ecological economics.

Développement durable et
territoires (fr) économie, géographie, politique, droit, sociologie

e-design
online, sustainable building

Earth Negotiations
Bulletin

Earthsummit

Earthsummit2002

EcoNews Africa

Ecoworld, News, species,
ecosystems, trees, air, water, fauna, flora

Environmental Building News,
sustainable design and construction (news, events, highlights from past
issues, product reviews).

The Environment and Poverty Times

ENDS Environment Daily,
European environmental information

FAO,
SD-Dimensions, articles and news focused on developing countries, rural
development, communication.

Global
Change Education, The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute climate
change, education

The Guardian bi-monthly
newsletter, research assistance, repairing hiking trails, wildlife habitat
restoration and preservation, rebuilding of international communities,
teaching languages to other cultures. News, eco-products, classifieds.

International Centre for
Trade and Sustainable Development, weekly e-newsletter

Internetwork for sustainability,
news, information, opinion, searchable directory of links.

journal of sustainable
development

La revue durable Actualité
(FR).

Livestock Research
for Rural Development Scientific Journal , sustainable agriculture
research

Memegroup Business ethics
information, news, actuality (economic, environment, social)). Electronic
journal. Business ethics, ethical finance & investment,
sustainability,accountability, strategy, governance, corporate social
responsibility,future of work, community, citizenship, renewable energy,
consumerism, risk& reputation management, crisis, fair trade, ecology.

News (fr), environment,
France.

OGM et les biotechnologies (fr),
journal, GMO, biotechnologies

OneWorld
Online

PANOS, news, Thirld World

Passerelle Eco magazine (fr)

Permaculture
International Journal horticulture, permaculture, Australia

Solutions, peer reviewed
answers to problems in environment, health, population and development

Sustainable Business
Insider from recycling to green building, from renewable energy to organic
products, from social investing to certified forestry.

Sustainable
Development and Energy

Sustainable Development
International, journal, editorial, case studies, industry

Sustainable
Energy Newsletter

Value Created
Review, furniture design, wood design, SMEs, Canada.

VirtualPresidio
Journal, critical commentary on sustainability.

Vivre Autrement (fr),
sustainable cities, villes durables, Sud.

Water Online Newsletter by Ian
Lisk, water/wastewater industry.

WaterforumNews, water (nl, en)

Databases

Database of
Sustainable Development Resources in USA

ELDIS: Electronic Development and
Environment Information System, comprehensive metadatabase on all types of
sources.

European Partner
Search for Local Sustainability, Open database, constitution local
sustainable development projects

Global System for Sustainable Development
(GSSD), Internet, SIN, information system

Information sources for sustainable
development, comprehensive metadatabase on all types of sources.

Satellite photos from
brazil

Statistical
Resources on the Web, agriculture; business and industry; cost of living;
demographics; economics; education; energy; finance and currency; foreign
economics; foreign governments; foreign trade; government finances; government
resources; health (natality, morbidity, mortality); housing; labor; military;
politics; science (computers, environment, personnel, R&D); sociology
(children, crime, elderly, immigration); transportation; weather.

Tools

building energy and sustainable
design, software and demos, energy efficient buildings

Calculators

Eco-indicator, SimaPro, Life Cycle
Asssessment, software, environment

Let's Save Our
Earth, educational board game

RETScreen Clean energy decision
support software (free), accessible in 21 languages including hindi, bengali,
chinese, arabic etc.

Small Site
Waste-Energy Recovery Plant

Solarwall, building component used
to solar heat large buildings in North America, and for crop drying in
theThird World

Sustainable world software,
Year 2000 bug in microcomputers, GPS rollover bug, developing countries

Tools, ideas and
technologies to save or recycle energy, waste, energy, sustainable
behaviours.

Worldometer,
continuous data, population, health, environment, energy, food, economy,

Communication for Sustainable Development

APEC Master of
Sustainable Development, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum.
University of Sydney, Asian Institute of Management, University of Malaya,
University of Queensland.

Citizens Network for Sustainable
Development information ecology, information habitat, information for
sustainable development, children's summit.

Griesinger Films, videotapes
on ecological economics

NRM_changelinks: a guide to
managing change for environment, water, land ..., adaptive management,
participatory monitoring and evaluation, conflict resolution, partnership
development, collaborative problem solving, decision support, action research,
information management and collaborative/organisational learning. Interlinks,
Internet for sharing information, networking, decision support and learning.
International job opportunities

IISD metadatabase

Fun, humor

Affluenza, the desease of
modern life Check out Quest of the Ringleaders onhttp://www.ringleader.com/q
uest - it's an environmental quest

Let's Save Our
Earth, educational board game

New dream, reduce consumption

Quest of the Ringleaders,
environmental quest

Other WWW Virtual Library Sites that could be Relevant to
Sustainable Development

African
Studies

Anthropology

Arbitrage

Asian
Continent

China

Culture

Demography and
Population Studies

Ecology and Biodiversity

Economics

Education

Epidemiology

European Integration

Forestry

India

Indigenous
Studies

Indonesia

Information
Quality

International Affairs
Resources

International Development
Cooperation

International Relations and
Security

Japan

Latin American
Studies

Law

Library Resources

Microcredit and Microfinance

Migration and Ethnic
Relations

Non-Governmental Organizations
(NGOs)

Public Health

Social
Policy

Social
Sciences

Sociology

Statistics

Urban Environmental
Management

West
European Studies

Women's
Studies

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