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Websites on Sustainability

Below is some introductory material to give you an overview of sustainability if you are still struggling with the basic concept.

Introductory definitions/explanations of sustainability

• EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) website on sustainability

           http://www.epa.gov/Sustainability/

Online environmental journals

• Grist

        http://www.grist.org/

        Poke around, read, and comment.

Topic-specific sites on sustainability and…

Biodiversity

• Bill Moyers’ Journal: Conversations on Biodiversity

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07062007/megadiversity.html

• Warming killing off more trees in Western states  (Los Angeles Times)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/01/more-trees-are.html

Built Environment

• The Built Environment and Sustainability

  Georgia Tech

http://maven.gtri.gatech.edu/sfi/bes/index.html

• The Sustainable Built Environment

National Research Council of Canada

http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/sbe/index_e.html

Carbon Offsets

• Air Travel is Killing the Planet (Alternet)

http://www.alternet.org/story/43095

Climate Change and Religion

• “Is God Green?” at Bill Moyers’ Journal

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/green/documents.html

College Campuses

• Ecofoot: Office of Campus Sustainability at Michigan State

http://www.ecofoot.msu.edu/index.htm

Ecological Footprints/Carbon Footprints

• Global Footprint Network

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/footprint_basics_overview/

Economics

• Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes

http://www.sustainability-index.com/

• The Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont

http://www.uvm.edu/giee/

Microloans

• Collective Lens

Microloans: Providing Sustainability

http://www.collectivelens.com/blog/2008/02/14/microloans-providing-sustainability/

 

• MicroDevelopment Missions (MDM)

Micro-loan programs

http://www.micro-developmentmissions.com/documents/What-is-micro-lending.pdf

 

 

Fair Trade

• Oxfam International

http://www.maketradefair.com/en/index.php?file=issues_freetrade.htm

 

• University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh

Sustainability and Fair Trade

http://www.uwosh.edu/sustainability/fairtrade

Energy

• Special Online Collection of Articles on (many different aspects of) Energy and Sustainability in the February 2007 Science Magazine.

  These are just snippets from the original articles, but if you see a piece that looks as though it would be useful to you, you’ll be able to get access to the full article itself through one of our databases and/or in hard copy in our library.

  http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/sustainability/

Engineering

• Green Engineering

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

http://www.epa.gov/oppt/greenengineering/

Food/Agriculture

• The New Entrepreneurial Agriculture

From the Michigan Land Use Institute

http://www.mlui.org/downloads/newag.pdf

• Sustainable Table

http://www.sustainabletable.org/home.php

Global Warming

• Climatologist James Hansen on Bill Moyers’ Journal

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06272008/watch.html

• Arctic Melt Unnerves Experts, The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/science/earth/02arct.html?_r=2&oref=slogi &pagewanted=print

• Global Warming Is Irreversible, Study Says (NPR)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99888903

Oceans

• Unchecked global warming may lead to greater 'dead zones' in oceans (Los Angeles Times) 

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/01/unchecked-globa.html

Water

• Water Privatization

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-93309295.html

This link just provides the opening paragraph. If you want more on these issues, you’ll need to get the whole article on one of our college news databases.