Naturalist Center's List: Sustainability

The Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS) is a gateway web site that provides access to data systems in the Endangered Species and Fisheries and Habitat Conservation program areas, as well as other FWS and Government data sources. ECOS provides a central point of access to assist FWS personnel in managing data and information as well as provide general public access to information from numerous FWS databases.\n\nECOS allows users to view and search data related to environmental conservation.\nSome of the information provided is information about:\n\n * Threatened and Endangered Species\n * Critical Habitat for Threatened and Endangered Species\n * Fisheries and Fish Passage\n * Conservation Plans and Agreements\n\nECOS also provides a mapping tool, the ECOS Mapper, that provides a way to visualize the information provided by ECOS.

Hawaii's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy The Division of Forestry and Wildlife and the Division of Aquatic Resources within the Department of Land and Natural Resources took the lead in developing Hawaii's CWCS.

The IUCN Species Programme working with the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) has for more than four decades been assessing the conservation status of species, subspecies, varieties, and even selected subpopulations on a global scale in order to highlight taxa threatened with extinction, and therefore promote their conservation.

Charitable organization of a group of companies which business relates to building green schools. See the resource and link page.
"The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is a nonprofit composed of leaders from every sector of the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work. Our more than 13,000 member organizations and our network of 75 regional chapters are united to advance our mission of transforming the building industry to sustainability."
see also: http://www.greenhomeguide.com/

Information on the association between student achievement and the physical environment of green school buildings, compiled by the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities.
Created in 1997 by the U.S. Department of Education and managed by the National Institute of Building Sciences, the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF) provides information on planning, designing, funding, building, improving, and maintaining safe, healthy, high performance schools.

Low Impact Living helps you lower the environmental impact of your home and your daily life. To do that, we help you find the best green products, practices and service providers to help you achieve your environmental goals. And we will also help you understand the environmental benefits and economic trade-offs of your choices.

This tool kit was originally created by the now defunct, California Sustainable Building Task Force to assist project managers and provide quick, direct access to helpful information and documents.

The City of Santa Monica has adopted a set of requirements and recommendations to encourage the development of "green" buildings without forcing excessive costs or other burdens upon developers, building owners or occupants. The City has also developed Green Building Guidelines to explain possible ways of achieving green building goals.

This site contains information both on what you must do and what you might consider doing in order to achieve Santa Monica’s standards of excellence in green building design and construction.

For information on green techniques in general, and strategies for both Required and Suggested practices, see the Green Building Design and Construction Guidelines link

Guide for building green roofs in Chicago a collaboration of the City of Chicago and The School of the Art Institute of Chocago

At FreeGreen we believe that design should be a collaborative interdisciplinary process in which multiple objectives are synthesized into a single solution. That’s why the FreeGreen design team has educational and professional backgrounds spanning architecture, engineering, construction, and finance.

Welcome to greenhomebuilding.com where you can find a wide range of information about sustainable architecture and natural building. As an example of natural building, the image at the upper left was taken during the construction of the earthbag house that has served as the home for greenhomebuilding.com and Kelly and Rosana Hart, your hosts.

The buildings in which we live, work, and play protect us from nature's extremes, yet they also affect our health and environment in countless ways. As the environmental impact of buildings becomes more apparent, a new field called "green building" is gaining momentum.
Green, or sustainable, building is the practice of creating and using healthier and more resource-efficient models of construction, renovation, operation, maintenance and demolition.
EPA leads the nation's environmental science, research, education and assessment efforts. The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and the environment. Since 1970, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people.

The Ecology Center's mission is to promote environmentally and socially responsible practices through programs that educate, demonstrate, and provide direct services.
EcoHouse is a demonstration home and garden located in a North Berkeley residential neighborhood. Classes, workshops, and tours of the house and garden are designed to teach people from all walks of life how to make their living space more healthy, harmonious, nontoxic, productive, energy and water efficient, carbon neutral, and ecologically friendly.
EcoHouse demonstrates ecological ways of living that are accessible and affordable to people of all ages, ethnic/racial backgrounds, and income levels.

Build It Green is a membership supported non-profit organization whose mission is to promote healthy, energy- and resource-efficient homes in California. Established in 2003, we offer a comprehensive package of local government support, professional training, collaboration forums, consumer education, and green product marketing to a range of stakeholders.

GreenerChoices.org, launched on Earth Day 2005 by Consumers Union, the non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports, is a Web-based initiative to inform, engage, and empower consumers about environmentally-friendly products and practices. GreenerChoices.org offers an accessible, reliable, and practical source of information on buying “greener” products that have minimal environmental impact and meet personal needs.

Chicago City Hall Rooftop Garden project

Emory Knoll Farms is a leading supplier of plants and plant expertise for extensive green roof systems. We offer a high level of service in selecting the optimal plants for each installation. We currently stock over 100 varieties of green roof plants and are always acquiring and testing new plants. We have supplied plants for green roofs in nineteen states, District of Columbia, and Canada; as well as overseas. We have R&D plots on site to test plants, and we work with universities, supporting various green roof research projects.

We've advised many developers and we're proud of their successes as well as our own success fostering the growth of green building in New York City and far beyond.
With this website, we aim to extend our ability to offer developers, facilities managers and other building professionals practical, tactical advice about green building.

Sustainable (Green) Building, Links to Other Green Building Sites

EQuilibrium™ is a national housing initiative led by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). Together, the private and public sectors are building homes designed to address occupant health and comfort, energy efficiency, renewable energy production, resource conservation, reduced environmental impact and affordability.