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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Links from the The World Wide Web Virtual Library.
Reports
- World Resources Report 2000-2001
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Prepared by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP), the World Bank, and the World Resources Institute
- Living Planet Report 2000
- Natural Capitalism (Book)
- - Creating the Next
Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins.
This interactive website goes even beyond the book.
Research Organisations
- Context Institute by Robert Gilman.
- Since 1979 Context
Institute, a nonprofit research organization, has been exploring and clarifying just what is involved in
a humane sustainable culture - and how we can get there.
- Earth Network for Sustainable Development
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The Earth Council is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) that was
created in September 1992 to promote and advance the implementation of the Earth Summit
agreements.
- Rocky Mountain Institute
- Rocky Mountain Institute is an
entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to
create a more secure, prosperous, and life-sustaining world.
- Wuppertal Institute
- ZERI - Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives
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The ZERI Foundation's goal is the efficient production of all the goods and services
society needs without any form of waste - no liquid waste, no gaseous waste, and no
solid waste.
- ICLEI
- International Council for Local Environmental
Initiatives
- IISD
- The International Institute for Sustainable
Development
- World Resources Institute
- World Resources Institute
provides information, ideas, and solutions to global environmental problems. Our mission is to move
human society to live in ways that protect Earth�s environment for current and future generations.
- EDF - Sustainments Pathfinding Reseach and Education
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This site has been established to explain and further the idea of sustainments. Sustainments are
carefully designed environments (products, buildings, services, institutions, plans, policies etc)
that bring about major cultural changes, promoting and sustaining more sustainable habits and values.
This website can introduce you to the idea of sustainments and give you access to activities undertaken
to conceptualise and realise sustainments.
Local Sustainability Initiatives
- Local Agenda 21 UK
- BioRegional Development Group, UK
- Established in 1994, BioRegional Development Group is founded on the green ideal of local production
for local needs. The Group takes a market-led approach to sustainable development and promotes the
application of appropriate technology.
Indicators
- Ecological Footprint
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by Redefining Progress
- What is an Ecological
Footprint?
- Genuine Progress
Indicator (GPI)
- GPI - The Australia Institute
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The Genuine Progress Indicator or GPI is an alternative to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of progress in
Australia. At this site, you can: * Find out about how GDP is failing as a measure of progress, * Read the rationale for the GPI
* See how the GPI is constructed and how its components are measured * Build your own GPI by varying some of the major
components to reflect your own view of the world * Read more about well-being and happiness
- Measurement and Indicators for Sustainable Development
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Intro to Indicators, by IISD
- Global Reporting Institute
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Reporting Initiative (GRI) is an international, multi-stakeholder effort to create
a common framework for voluntary reporting of economic, enivronmental and social impact
of organisation level activity. The GRI mission is to elevate the comparability and
credibility of sustainability reporting worldwide.
- Environmental
Sustainability Index
- Developed for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
- Ecological Indicators
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The aim of this site it to promote all aspects of ecological indicators and indices, including
the promotion of appropriate symposia, organizations, programs, advances in science, case studies in the
use of indicators in policy applications, and through many other tools.
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