Website Resources
Topic: Animal migration
Title: Journey North
Description: Seasonal change is all around us. Children see it in the length of a day, in the appearance of a flower, in the flight of a butterfly. Journey North is a free, Internet-based program that explores the interrelated aspects of seasonal change. Through interrelated investigations, students discover that sunlight drives all living systems and they learn about the dynamic ecosystem that surrounds and connects them.
Location/Website: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
Topic: Carbon Offsets
Title: Cheat Natural
Description: Cheatneutral is about offsetting infidelity. We're the only people doing it, and Cheatneutral is a joke. Carbon offsetting is about paying for the right to carry on emitting carbon. The Carbon offset industry sold £60 million of offsets last year, and is rapidly growing. Carbon offsetting is also a joke.
Location/Website: cheatneutral.com/
Topic: Climate Change
Title: Climate Story Tellers
Description: Subhankar Banerjee founded ClimateStoryTellers.org in August 2010. Subhankar is an Indian born American photographer, writer, environmental educator, and activist. Over the past decade he has been a leading international voice on issues of arctic conservation, indigenous human rights, and global warming, and over the past five years he has also been focusing on forest deaths from global warming. His photographs and writing have reached tens of millions of people around the world and he continues to give lectures on issues of global warming, resource development, biological diversity, human rights, and ecocultural sustainability. Subhankar is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. He is currently editing an anthology tentatively titled Arctic Voices.
Location/Website: http://www.climatestorytellers.org/storytellers/
Topic: Climate Change
Title: Coral Bones
Description: Blogs about the changes of coral reef ecosystem
Location/Website: coralstory.blogspot.com/
Topic: Climate Change
Title: Environmental Justice Matters
Description: Website that highlights climate change issues through blogs and other resources.
Location/Website: http://www.ejmatters.org/blog.html
Topic: Climate Change
Title: Grist
Description: Health, Sustainability, and green friendly focused blogs falling under topics such as; politics, food, living, business, politics, place making, climate and energy.
Location/Website: www.grist.org/
Topic: Climate Change
Title: Heat and the Heartbeat of the City
Description: Website that focuses on climate change and the rising temperture
Location/Website: http://turbulence.org/Works/heat/index2.html
Topic: Climate Change
Title: Climate Connection: A Global Journey
Description: Amazing interactive map from NPR that details and explains the various components of climate change and the impact on various regions around the world. Excellent tool.
Location/Website: http://www.npr.org/news/specials/climate/interactive/
Topic: Climate Change/Carbon Emissions
Title: Breathing Earth
Description: Welcome to Breathing Earth. This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.
Location/Website: www.breathingearth.net/
Topic: Climate Change Solutions
Title: 350.org
Description: 350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis--the solutions that science and justice demand. 350’s mission is to inspire the world to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis—to create a new sense of urgency and of possibility for our planet.
Location/Website: www.350.org
Topic: Community
Title: Garden Mosaics
Description: Connecting youth and elders to investigate the mosaic of plants, people and cultures in gardens, to learn about science, and to act together to enhance the community.
Location/Website: http://www.gardenmosaics.cornell.edu/
Topic: Consumption
Title: Affluenza
Description: Affluenza is a one-hour television special that explores the high social and environmental costs of materialism and overconsumption. Here you can learn more about the show, get an Affluenza diagnosis and check out resources for treatment. Don't miss our Teacher's Guide, available only on this Web site
Location/Website: http://www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza/
Topic: Consumption
Title: Quotes on Consumption
Description: This St. Thomas website highlights tons of famous quotations regarding man kinds infatuation with over consuming, wealth, and greed.
Location/Website: http://www.stthomas.edu/recycle/consume.htm
Topic: Consumption
Title: Share the Worlds Resources
Description: Share The World's Resources (STWR) is a think-tank that advocates for natural resources such as oil and water to be sustainably managed in the interests of the global public, and for essential goods and services (including staple food, adequate shelter and primary healthcare) to be made universally accessible.
Location/Website: http://www.stwr.org/
Topic: Consumption
Title: Youth Xchange: towards sustainable lifestyles
Description: Planet Earth is facing a severe global crisis. Inefficient consumption and production patterns are putting an unbearable strain on our planet. youthxchange is designed to help trainers and individuals to understand and communicate on sustainable lifestyles.
Location/Website: http://www.youthxchange.net/main/home.asp
Topic: Consumption/ Environmental Issues
Title: World Revolution
Description: The World Revolution is an idea for a new, global activist social movement for progressive social change. It aims to resolve in a definitive and comprehensive manner the major social problems of our world and our era. Major issue areas of the World Revolution include: peace, human rights, the environment, and world poverty.
Location/Website: http://www.worldrevolution.org/
Topic: Demographics
Title: MAP - Race and ethnicity, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley
Description:
I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
Location/Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4981425631/in/set-72157624812674967/
Topic: Economic Development
Title: MAQUILAPOLIS
Description: MAQUILAPOLIS is a documentary about (and by) workers in Tijuana's assembly factories, the maquiladoras: massive sweatshops often owned by the world’s largest multinational corporations. This film profiles the lives of workers in Tijuana’s maquiladoras and explores, through their eyes, the impact of globalization on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border.
Location/Website: http://www.maquilapolis.com/
Topic: Ecosystems
Title: Importance of nature
Description: SaveNature.Org learning guides invite you to explore rainforests and coral reefs and your own local nature to find the connection to saving wildlife and wild places forever. Learn where animals live and why rainforests and coral reefs are important.
Location/Website: http://www.savenature.org/content/nature_academy/guides
Topic: Energy
Title: European Commission Research and Innovation - Energy
Description: The EU supports research for a broad portfolio of energy technologies: renewable energies (bioenergy, solar, wind, ocean, hydro, geothermal energy), fossil fuels (CCS, clean coal), electricity networks, energy efficiency, fuel cells and hydrogen, socio-economic research, materials and future and emerging technologies.
Location/Website: http://ec.europa.eu/research/energy/eu/index_en.cfm
Topic: Energy
Title: Network for New Energy Choices
Description: The mission of the Network for New Energy Choices is to promote policies that ensure safe, clean, and environmentally responsible energy options. NNEC collaborates with all levels of government, planning agencies, public interest organizations, government and industry associations, professional societies, labor groups, businesses, and the public
Location/Website: www.newenergychoices.org/
Topic: Energy
Title: Peak Energy
Description: Various Blog enteries about peak oil, global warming, and viridian solutions.
Location/Website: peakenergy.blogspot.com/
Topic: Energy
Title: Peak Oil
Description: Website containing info. on oil related topics and theory: Peak oil theory states: that any finite resource, (including oil), will have a beginning, middle, and an end of production, and at some point it will reach a level of maximum output as seen in the graph to the left.
Location/Website: www.peakoil.com
Topic: Energy
Title: Peak Oil Crisis
Description: The End of Cheap Oil- Updated charts on the peaking of world oil production
Location/Website: www.peak-oil-crisis.com/
Topic: Energy
Title: Peak Oil Crisis
Description: This website shares the social and economic effects of the peak oil crisis
Location/Website: www.3k88.com/
Topic: Energy
Title: Post Carbon Institute
Description: Post Carbon Institute provides individuals, communities, businesses, and governments with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated economic, energy, and environmental crises that define the 21st century. We envision a world of resilient communities and re-localized economies that thrive within ecological bounds.
Location/Website: www.postcarbon.org/ www.energybulletin.net/primer.php
Topic: Energy
Title: The Coming Global Oil Crisis
Description: An individual's thoughts and facts on: As the price of oil increased in 2000 and the California "Energy Crisis" surfaced in early 2001, creating unrest and suspicions, I have begun to concern myself more with what people can do about the looming threat of an energy crisis and less with convincing people that my colleagues and I are "right" about the data which reveals that such a crisis is on its way.
Location/Website: www.oilcrisis.com/
Topic: Energy
Title: The Oil Drum
Description: The Oil Drum's mission is to facilitate civil, evidence-based discussions about energy and its impact on our future.
Location/Website: www.theoildrum.com
Topic: Energy
Title: Thematic Mapping, Graphs and Geodata Visualization
Description: A collection of images representing energy use globally.
Location/Website: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1478218@N22/
Topic: Energy/Environment
Title: NY Times: Green Blogs
Description: Blogs about energy and enviornment
Location/Website: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/
Topic: Energy/Sustainable Development
Title: The Baker Institute Energy Forum - Poverty, Energy and Society
Description: Energy is a basic necessity for human activity and economic and social development. Yet global strategies for how to meet this basic need for the world's rapidly growing population are sorely lacking. Lack of energy services is directly correlated with key elements of poverty, including low education levels, restriction of opportunity to subsistence activity, and conflict.
Location/Website: http://www.rice.edu/energy/research/poverty&energy/index.html
Topic: Environment
Title: Alternatives Journal
Description: Alternatives Journal, Canada’s national environmental magazine, delivers thoughtful analysis and intelligent debate on Canadian and world environmental issues, the latest news and ideas, as well as profiles of environmental leaders who are making a difference.
Location/Website: alternativesjournal.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=241&Itemid=1
Topic: Environment
Title: Blue Earth
Description: Photography projects that make a difference on environmental issues
Location/Website: http://www.blueearth.org/
Topic: Environment
Title: Clayoquot Biosphere Trust
Description: The Clayoquot Biosphere Trust supports local research, education, and training that is consistent with a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve's objectives of conservation and sustainable development. The CBT is responsible for both managing an endowment fund and developing guidelines for program funding from the income earned from the fund. The CBT was established to represent the region of the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve including those communities adjacent to the Biosphere Reserve boundaries.
Location/Website: www.clayoquotbiosphere.org/
Topic: Environment
Title: Earth First! Journal
Description: Online source for news and information about the global biocrisis and creative responses to it, particularly involving direct action. with various individual's comments and thoughts
Location/Website: http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/
Topic: Environment
Title: Earth Force
Description: All Earth Force programs offer educators innovative materials, training and support that help youth connect to their communities and address environmental issues.
Location/Website: http://www.earthforce.org/
Topic: Environment
Title: The Community Arts Network (CAN)
Description: The Community Arts Network (CAN) is a portal to the field of community arts, providing news, documentation, theoretical writing, communications, research and educational information. Search under “Arts the Environment” for news, organizations and artists with an eco bend.
Location/Website: http://www.communityarts.net
Topic: Environment
Title: Envirolink
Description: EnviroLink is a non-profit organization... a grassroots online community that unites hundreds of organizations and volunteers around the world with millions of people in more than 150 countries. EnviroLink is dedicated to providing comprehensive, up-to-date environmental information and news.
Location/Website: http://www.envirolink.org/
Topic: Environment
Title: Environmental Graffiti
Description: Environmental Graffiti is an eclectic mix of the most bizarre, funny and interesting environmental news on the planet. Editors search the vast realms of the internet on behalf of all environmentalists who don’t take themselves too seriously and compile it into a daily blog.
Location/Website: http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com
Topic: Environment
Title: Liz Christy Community Garden
Description: This was the First Community Garden in New York City founded in 1973; it is located on the northeast corner of Bowery and Houston Streets in Manhattan.
Location/Website: www.lizchristygarden.org/
Topic: Environment
Title: Superfund 365
Description: Each day for a year, starting on September 1, 2007, Superfund365 visited one toxic site in the Superfund program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We began the journey in the New York City area and worked our way across the country, ending the year in Hawaii.
Location/Website: www.superfund365.org/
Topic: Environment
Title: SF Green Schools
Description: San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance (SFGSA) envisions a future in which each schoolyard operates in concert with its neighborhood and local ecology to foster higher academic achievement, increased environmental stewardship, creativity and community building.
In order to realize this vision for schoolyards, the SFGSA:
• Partners with community members, educators, students, public officials and other supporters
• Actively encourages the integration of green schoolyards with student learning
• Makes the case for green schoolyards based on research and best practices
• Advocates for favorable public policy for green schoolyards
• Secures financial and volunteer resources, and
• Advocates and encourages efficacy and sustainability in the creation and stewardship of each green schoolyard
Location/Website: http://sfgreenschools.org/
Topic: Environment
Title: Silent Spring Institue
Description: To build an evidence-based strategy for preventing breast cancer, Susan G. Komen for the Cure invited Silent Spring Institute and their partners at Harvard University, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and the University of Southern California to assess the scientific evidence on environmental causes.
Location/Website: sciencereview.silentspring.org/index.cfm
Topic: Environment
Title: Students for the Earth
Description: Facts about the earth: population, over consumption of the earth's renewables, the ecosystem, etc.
Location/Website: www.escapefromdepression.com/studentsfortheearth/
Topic: Environment
Title: The Archdruid Report
Description: The Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), John Michael Greer has been active in the alternative spirituality movement for more than 25 years, and is the author of more than twenty books, including "The Druidry Handbook" (Weiser, 2006) and "The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age" (New Society, 2008). He lives in Cumberland, Maryland.
Location/Website: thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/
Topic: Environment
Title: Treehugger
Description: Treehugger is a blog (as well as radio program newsletter) dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. Targeting the 20-30-something demographic, Treehugger is a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information.
Location/Website: http://www.treehugger.com/
Topic: Environment/Climate Change/Energy
Title: Beyond Green
Description: Tom Laskaway is a media and technology consultant who thinks that wrecking the earth is a bad idea, His blog here and Grist about food policy, alternative energy, climate science and politics as well as the multiple and various effects of living on a warm planet.
Location/Website: http://beyondgreen.weaversway.coop/
Topic: Environment/Co2
Title: Community Solutions
Description: The Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions, founded in 1940 as Community Service, Inc., is a non-profit organization that educates on the benefits and values of small local community living. We envision a world where people live sustainably and cooperatively in local communities which are diverse, equitable, and just.
Location/Website: www.communitysolution.org/
Topic: Environmental Injustice
Title: BP Oil Spill Resource
Description: Here’s Where BP is Dumping Its Oil Spill Waste. As the map below shows, the Environmental Protection Agency has approved nine landfills in the Gulf Coast to receive the waste products from the country’s largest oil spill. Five of those nine landfills are located in communities where a majority of residents are people of color.
Location/Website: http://colorlines.com/archives/2010/08/heres_where_bp_is_dumping_its_oil_spill_waste.html
Topic: Environmental Injustice
Title: Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University
Description: Environmental and race resources (links, news articles, etc).
Location/Website: http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/
Topic: Environmental Injustice
Title: Environmental Research Foundation
Description: Environmental Research Foundation (ERF) was a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1980 to support grass-roots activists working on toxics and social justice issues locally, regionally and nationally. In 1986 we began publishing Rachel’s News which was published thru February 26, 2009. In the last decade of its operation, ERF's work was increasingly about preventing harm to the environment and human health and providing resources to environmental justice (EJ) community groups to better protect their local communities.
Location/Website: www.rachel.org
Topic: Environmental Injustice
Title: Partners in Flight
Description: Partners in Flight / Compañeros en Vuelo / Partenaires d’Envol was launched in 1990 in response to growing concerns about declines in the populations of many land bird species, and in order to emphasize the conservation of birds not covered by existing conservation initiatives.
Location/Website: www.partnersinflight.org/
Topic: Environmental Injustice
Title: Toxics Watch
Description: Washington Toxics Coalition protects public health and the environment by eliminating toxic pollution. WTC promotes alternatives, advocates policies, empowers communities, and educates people to create a healthy environment.
Location/Website: www.watoxics.org/
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: Digital Storytelling Resources
Description: Below are downloadable files and resources available to participants in the Everyone Has a Story to Tell: Digital Storytelling workshop.
Location/Website: http://www.todaysteacher.com/digitalstorytelling.htm
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: Earth Trends
Description: EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
Location/Website: http://earthtrends.wri.org/
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: Friends of the Earth
Description: Friends of the Earth (FoE) Australia is a federation of independent local groups working for a socially equitable and environmentally sustainable future.
Location/Website: http://www.foe.org.au/
Topic: Environmental issues
Title: Greenmuseum.org
Description: The Greenmuseum.org is an online hub for environmental artists. The site includes categorized images and descriptions of the work of hundreds of artists whose work addresses environmental issues.
Location/Website: http://greenmuseum.org/
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: La Neta
Description: S.C LaNeta Program. is a civil organization founded in 1991 as an electronic communication service for non-governmental organizations , other nonprofit organizations and agencies related to the work of them. Experience LaNeta S.C. Program focuses on the NGO sector . Most of its 1,300 users are nonprofit organizations .Location/Website: http://www.laneta.apc.org/emisiones
Topic: Environmental issues
Title: The Earth Times
Description: A website that deals with environmental issues. It is a collection of blogs, articles and videos that highlight many of the globes environmental issues, such as climate change, pollution, conservation/consumption, and energy.
Location/Website: http://www.earthtimes.org/
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: World Overpopulation Awareness
Description: Though more than two-thirds of the planet is covered with water, only a small fraction - around 0.3% - is available for human use and reuse. And no more of this renewable fresh water is available today than existed at the dawn of human civilization.
Location/Website: http://www.overpopulation.org/water.html
Topic: Environmental Issues/ Human Rights
Title: Change Makers
Description: A global community of changemakers. Provides links to form or join a group and share stories about making change. Also hosts competitions to find solutions for specific problems.
Location/Website: www.changemakers.org
Topic: Environmental Issues/ Human Rights
Title: Change.org
Description: Features information about a wide range of world issues such as education, human rights and sustainable food. Profiles changemakers and offers opportunities to take action.
Location/Website: www.change.org
Topic: Environmental news
Title: Truth Out
Description: Truthout works to broaden and diversify the political discussion by introducing independent voices and focusing on under-covered issues and unconventional thinking. Harnessing the expanding power of the Internet, we work to spread reliable information, critical thought and progressive ideas.
Location/Website: www.truthout.org/
Topic: Environmental news
Title: Utne.com
Description: Utne.com is a digest of independent ideas and alternative culture. Not right, not left, but forward thinking. Utne combs through and reprints (or posts) articles and features from over 1,500 magazines, newsletters, journals, weeklies, zines, and other lively dispatches from the cultural front.
Location/Website: http://www.utne.com/
Topic: Environmental news
Title: Worldchanging.com
Description: Worldchanging.com is a nonprofit media organization that comprises a global network of independent journalists, designers and thinkers. This site covers the world’s most innovative solutions to the planet’s problems, and inspires readers with stories of new tools, models and ideas for building a green future.
Location/Website: http://www.worldchanging.com
Topic: Environmental Sustainability
Title: AlterNet
Description: AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of hundreds of other independent media sources. AlterNet’s aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and more
Location/Website: www.alternet.org/envirohealth/49881/
Topic: Environmental sustainability
Title: MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory
Description: MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory investigates how emerging digital technologies can be employed to make cities more livable, sustainable and efficient. Projects focus on a range of issues, from tracing the journey of garbage with small wireless sensors to the development of hybrid e-bikes
Location/Website: http://senseable.mit.edu/
Topic: Environmental sustainability
Title: Nance Klehm
Description: A selection of blogs, articles, and papers that focus on the environment and sustainable practices
Location/Website: http://spontaneousvegetation.net/
Topic: Environmental sustainability
Title: No impact Man
Description: No impact Man is a blog, book and movie about Colin Beavan and his family who conduct an experiment trying not to make any negative impact on the environment. The experiment means that the family does not use electricity, produce trash, take subways, or use an air conditioner for a whole year while living in the middle of New York City.
Location/Website: http://noimpactman.typepad.com
Topic: Environment/Youth
Title: Element TV
Description: Element TV is a web-based television series focused on international environmental issues. Geared towards the MTV generation, the series covers topics such as the lives of extreme environmental activists, on-line environmental heroes in Iran, HIV in India and guerilla gardening.
Location/Website: http://www.element-tv.net/
Topic: Food
Title: 18 Reasons: Art, Community, and Food
Description: A non-profit engaging the community through food and art. We offer a year-round calendar of unique wine tastings, art shows, community dinners, food classes, interactive workshops, and more in our intimate community space.
Location/Website: http://www.18reasons.org/
Topic: Food/Climate Change
Title: Bite Blog
Description: Bite Blog is produced by Anna Lappé with friends and colleagues from around the country.
Location/Website: http://www.takeabite.cc/event/anna-lappe-at-edible-gardens/
Topic: Food Security
Title: Culinate
Description: At Culinate we’re engaged in an ongoing conversation about eating well. Our content — articles, cooking tips, interviews, recipes, podcasts, food news, blog posts — helps people put real food at the center of their lives.
Location/Website: http://www.culinate.com/articles/features/school_food_cheat_sheet
Topic: Food Security
Title: Food and Water Watch
Description: Works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. So we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of where their food comes from, keep clean, affordable, public tap water flowing freely to our homes, protect the environmental quality of oceans, force government to do its job protecting citizens, and educate about the importance of keeping shared resources under public control.
Location/Website: www.foodandwaterwatch.org/
Topic: Food Security
Title: Guerrilla Gardening.org
Description: Guerrilla Gardening.org is a hub for examples and tips on creating spontaneous urban gardens all over the world.
Location/Website: http://www.guerrillagardening.org/
Topic: Food Security
Title: Harvest of Fear
Description: Harvest of Fear explores the intensifying debate over genetically modified (gm) food crops. Interviewing scientists, farmers, biotech and food industry representatives, government regulators, and critics of biotechnology, this two-hour report presents both sides of the debate, exploring the risks and benefits, the hopes and fears, of this new technology. The site includes articles, a short video, and interactive games including one that allows players to genetically engineer a crop.
Location/Website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/
Topic: Food Security
Title: Kids Gardening
Description: A website that highlights the importance of pollinators and security of food production
Location/Website: http://www.kidsgardening.org/pollinator/curriculum/resources.php#organizations
Topic: Food Security
Title: Navdanya
Description: Navdanya has a primary membership of more than 5,00,000 farmer families in sixteen states of India namely Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Orissa, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka.
It has also established 54 Community Seed Banks (CSBs) in 16 States across India.
Location/Website: http://www.navdanya.org/blog/?page_id=2, http://www.navdanya.org/component/acajoom/
Topic: Food Security
Title: Slow Food USA
Description: Blog on: Slow Food is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating. It is a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world that links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment.
Location/Website: http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/slow_food/blog/
Topic: Food Sustainability
Title: California School Garden Network
Description: The California School Garden Network serves as a central organization that distributes school garden resources and support throughout the state. The Network's mission is to create and sustain school gardens to enhance academic achievement, a healthy lifestyle, environmental stewardship, and community and social development.
Location/Website: http://www.csgn.org/
Topic: Food Sustainability
Title: Center for a Livable Future
Description: Within CLF’s program areas — farming, eating and living for our future — we are engaged in three principal activities: research, educational outreach, and community action. All of our work is driven by the concept that diet, health, food production, the environment, population and equity are all elements of a single complex system, illustrated here in the CLF Concept Model. Change to one element invariably affects the others, sometimes in unpredictable ways.
Location/Website: www.jhsph.edu/clf/programs/farming/proj_sg.html
Topic: Food Sustainability
Title: Civil Eats
Description: Civil Eats promotes critical thought about sustainable agriculture and food systems as part of building economically and socially just communities. In our efforts, we support the development of a dialog among local and national leaders about the American food system, and its effects abroad. Civil Eats can be humorous, serious, academic, philosophical, conversational – its style of conversation is as diverse as its 40 contributors – but it is always thought provoking, innovative, and focused on food politics.
Location/Website: http://civileats.com/
Topic: Food Sustainability
Title: Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Description: Today's Community Alliance with Family Farmers is the result of efforts by both farmers and urban activists working together for almost 30 years. Our mission is to build a movement of rural and urban people to foster family-scale agriculture that cares for the land, sustains local economies and promotes social justice.
Location/Website: http://www.caff.org/
Topic: Food Sustainability
Title: Local Harvest
Description: The best organic food is what's grown closest to you. Use our website to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies. Want to support this great web site? Shop in our catalog for things you can't find locally!
Location/Website: http://www.localharvest.org/
Topic: Food Sustainability
Title: The Eat Well Guide
Description: The Eat Well Guide® is a free online directory for anyone in search of fresh, locally grown and sustainably produced food in the United States and Canada. Eat Well’s thousands of listings include family farms, restaurants, farmers' markets, grocery stores, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs, U-pick orchards and more. Users can search by location, keyword, category or product to find good food, download customized guides, or plan a trip with the innovative mapping tool,
Location/Website: www.eatwellguide.org/
Topic: Food Sustainability
Title: Hungry Planet slide show online
Description: Online slide show from the book hungry planet with a focus on what people eat around the globe
Location/Website: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373675,00.html
Topic: Food Sustainability
Title: Lettuce Eat Kale
Description: Lettuce Eat Kale is a home for musings on food, family, friends, and growing greens. I hope the recipes, tips, and tidbits found here give people big and small a way to enjoy the pleasures of the table – one meal at a time.
Location/Website: http://lettuceeatkale.com/
Topic: Food Sustainability
Title: The Organic Consumers Association
Description: The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. The OCA deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children's health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics. We are the only organization in the US focused exclusively on promoting the views and interests of the nation's estimated 50 million organic and socially responsible consumers.
Location/Website: www.organicconsumers.org/
Topic: Food Sustainability
Title: Sustainable Table
Description: Sustainable Table celebrates local sustainable food, educates consumers on food-related issues and works to build community through food.
Location/Website: www.sustainabletable.org/
Topic: Food Sustainability
Title: Urban Farm Guide Coast to Coast
Description: This site highlights urban farming and food sustainability
Location/Website: http://marketplace.apartmenttherapy.com/features/us-urban-farm-guide-coast-to-coast
Topic: Food Sustainability
Title: Victory Grower
Description: "VictoryGrower" is published under the auspices of the University of California. Agriculture and Natural Resources, by Rose Hayden-Smith, a 4-H Youth Development Advisor and a Food and Society Policy Fellow. Hayden-Smith's work focuses on providing gardening and food systems education to youth, educators, and community audiences
Location/Website: http://groups.ucanr.org/victorygrower/
Topic: Food Sustainability
Title: WHY
Description: WHY is convinced that solutions to hunger and poverty can be found at the grassroots level. WHY advances long-term solutions to hunger and poverty by supporting community-based organizations that empower individuals and build self-reliance, i.e., offering job training, education and after school programs; increasing access to housing and healthcare; providing microcredit and entrepreneurial opportunities; teaching people to grow their own food; and assisting small farmers. WHY connects these organizations to funders, media and legislators.
Location/Website: http://www.whyhunger.org/index.php
Topic: Food Sustainability
Title: Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods
Description: My name is Sandor Ellix Katz, and I am a fermentation revivalist.
I created this site and wrote the book Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods, published in 2003 by Chelsea Green Publishing Company.
My interest in fermentation grew out of my overlapping interests in cooking, nutrition and gardening. I am also an herbalist and an activist and a writer and a builder and a craftsperson and a bicyclist and many other things: a generalist. I am a native of New York City, a graduate of Brown University and a retired policy wonk. Seventeen years ago I moved from New York to Short Mountain Sanctuary, a queer intentional community deep in the wooded hills of Tennessee. I have AIDS and consider fermented foods an important part of my healing. (See AIDS Links below.)
Location/Website: http://www.wildfermentation.com/
Topic: Food Systems/Sustainability
Title: Bryant Terry
Description: Bryant Terry is an eco chef, food justice activist, and author of critically acclaimed Vegan Soul Kitchen. For the past ten years he has worked to build a more just and sustainable food system and has used cooking as a tool to illuminate the intersections between poverty, structural racism, and food insecurity. His site includes a blog with videos, recipes and articles.
Location/Website: www.bryant-terry.com
Topic: Green Resources
Title: Edutopia: Think Green Resource Guide
Description: Looking for ideas and resources to inspire environmental awareness and action in your classroom? Edutopia brings you Think Green: Tips and Resources for Earth-Friendly Learning Projects. This practical guide, filled with inspiring ideas and classroom-tested resources, will help you plan green projects that take student learning deeper. Full of succinct and practical ways to prepare our students for 21st-century success, this guide will help you deliver the relevant and meaningful education all students deserve.
Location/Website: http://www.edutopia.org/think-green-classroom-resource-guide
Topic: Population
Title: Population Matters
Description: This website many of the worlds population issues and solutions to make these problems easier to control. Including news, issues, analysis and ways to get involved with the organization. The site also has articles pertaining to the following topics: womens rights, social empowerment, family planning, and reproductive health.
Location/Website: http://populationmatters.org/
Topic: Population
Title: Population and Natural Resources
Description: This website has a number of different case studies that follows population growth and the affect it has on different things such as agriculutre, urban development and the dipletion of resources.
Location/Website: http://globalgeography.aag.org/PopulationandNaturalResources1e/CS_US_July09/index.html
Topic: Population
Title: Sustainable Population
Description: This is a blog that discusses the importance of family planning in order to stabalize the worlds population at the estimated 2050 population of 8 billion.
Location/Website: http://sustainablepopulation.blogspot.com/
Topic: Population
Title: Sustainable Populatio Austrailla
Description: This website is a collection of articles that highlight different issues pertaining to the issue of over-population.
Location/Website: http://www.population.org.au/
Topic: Population
Title: World Population Sustainability
Description: This site reveals several questions about sustainable population growth. It also has a population counter that tracks how fast the worlds population is growing.
Location/Website: http://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/
Topic: Population/ Family Planning
Title: People and the Planet
Description: A gateway to the greatest issue of our time...the wellbeing of the growing human family as it pressesever more heavily on the natural resources of our planet.
Location/Website: http://www.peopleandplanet.net/?lid=29045&topic=27§ion=33
Topic: Sustainability
Title: AlterNative Gardner
Description: A blog in which issues relating to sustainability are discussed. Contributors highlight various articles, films, etc. and provide information on how to take action
Location/Website: http://alternativegardener.blogspot.com/
Topic: Sustainability
Title: Environmental Change Institute
Description: ECI is an interdisciplinary unit within Oxford University that undertakes research on environmental issues, teaches an MSc in Environmental Change and Management, and fosters university-wide networks and outreach on the environment. Founded 1991 through benefactions, ECI was designed to answer questions about how and why the environment is changing and how can we respond through public policy, private enterprise, and social initiatives.
Location/Website: http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/index.php
Topic: Sustainability
Title: The Urban Ecology Institute
Description: Founded in 1998, the Urban Ecology Institute (UEI) and its community and educational partners have been improving the health of urban ecosystems through research, education, and community action. Our mission is to help urban communities build healthy, vibrant cities by educating residents about their environment, connecting them to each other, and engaging them in the transformation of their neighborhoods into places where people love to live.
Location/Website: http://www.urbaneco.org/home.asp
Topic: Sustainability
Title: Practical Action Schools
Description: This website is a collection of resources, lesson plans and activities aimed towards all sorts of environmental issues. Including climate change, resource sustainability, and renewable energy sources.
Location/Website: http://practicalaction.org/education
Topic: Sustainable agriculture
Title: Milpa agriculture
Description: Milpa agriculture is a form of swidden agriculture that is practiced in Mesoamerica. Traditionally, a "milpa" plot (from the Nahuatl word for "corn field") is planted with maize, beans, and squash (known as the Three Sisters) and might include a variety of other plants. These plots are planted for two or three years and then allowed to lie fallow for some years in order to restore the fertility of the soil. Milpa agriculture varies somewhat by region and it has changed in a variety of ways in different areas but it remains an important part of life for millions of people throughout Mesoamerica.
Location/Website: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Milpa_agriculture#cite_ref-Bassie-Sweet1999_1-1
Topic: Sustainable economic development
Title: NEF ( The Unhappy Planet Index)
Description: NEF is an independent think-and-do tank. We believe in economics as if people and the planet mattered. We aim to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environment and social issues. We work in partnership and put people and the planet first.
Location/Website: www.happyplanetindex.org/
Topic: Sustainability/Development
Title: Alternative Channel
Description: Alternative Channel is a communication company focused on sustainability and corporate social responsibility. Our mission is to work closely with companies and organizations to help develop communication strategies and improve communication on sustainable development.
Location/Website: www.rethos.com
Topic: Sustainable Development
Title: Center for Global Development
Description: The Center for Global Development works to reduce global poverty and inequality through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community to make the world a more prosperous, just, and safe place for us all. A nimble, independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit think tank, CGD combines world-class research with policy analysis and innovative communications to turn ideas into action. They look at climate change, economic development, population, food and agriculture, and much more.
Location/Website: http://www.cgdev.org/
Topic: Sustainable Technologies
Title: Maker Faire Africa
Description: Maker Faire Africa asks the question, “What happens when you put the drivers of ingenious concepts from Mali with those from Ghana and Kenya, and add resources to the mix?”
Maker Faire Africa will engage on-the-ground breakthrough organizations like Ashesi University and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to sharpen focus on locally-generated, bottom-up prototypes of technologies that solve immediate challenges to development. Specifically, Maker Faire Africa will take an approach that will achieve three principal aims:
* Brighten the light on local examples of the “fabrication” ethos
* Provide mechanisms to incubate these innovators and their products to a point where they can be taken to market
* Connect refined plans to disseminate innovations with venture finance
Location/Website: http://makerfaireafrica.com/
Topic: Sustainable Technologies
Title: STEP
Description: This website discusses nemerous sustainable technological ideas, practices and solutions to sustainability issues.
Location/Website: http://www.stepin.org/
Topic: Technology
Title: Tech Tips For Teachers: Free, Easy and Useful Creation Tools
Description: Site highlights technology methods for teachers, tools for using technology in the classroom.
Location/Website: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/tech-tips-for-teachers-free-easy-and-useful-creation-tools/?nl=learning&emc=a1
Topic: Urban Sustainability
Title: Women for sustainable Cities.
Description: Women for Sustainable Cities seeks to harness the democratic potential of participatory education together with social media, digital photography and video, mobile telephony and other Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), in support of socially inclusive, community-based resilience networks in Indian cities. This website is a collection of blogs and other resources for sustainable cities.
Location/Website: http://womenforsustainablecities.org/
Topic: Water
Title: Clean Water Minnesota
Description: The Clean Water Minnesota Media Campaign, a subgroup of Metro WaterShed Partners, is your source for public stormwater pollution prevention education materials and products.
Location/Website: http://www.cleanwatermn.org/
Topic: Water
Title: Learn about the Water Crisis
Description: This website focuses on the worlds water crisis, gives many comparrisons of developed nations water consumption with that of developing countries water consumption.
Location/Website: http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/facts/
Topic: Water
Title: Minnesota Project WET(Water Education for Teachers)
Description: An international, interdisciplinary, water science and education program for formal and non-formal educators of K-12 students. Minnesota Project WET trains classroom and other educators in hands-on, interactive lessons that are focused on water and encourage critical thinking. By providing training, materials, and support to these educators and water festivals for students, MN Project WET works to improve Minnesotans' understanding of our water resources.
Location/Website: Topic: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/projectwet/index.html
Topic: Water
Title: Water Aid UK
Description: WaterAid uses practical solutions to provide clean water, safe sanitation and hygiene education to the world's poorest people. We now work in 26 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific region.
Location/Website: http://www.wateraid.org/uk/default.asp
Topic: Water
Title: Water in the World: Science, Society Scarcity
Description: This professional development program was offered through the University of Minnesota in 2009-2010. The program goal was to enable educators to learn about current, pressing issues in water resources across the globe. The program was led by University of Minnesota faculty members on issues such as changes in precipitation patterns, water quality and accessibility, public health, and sustainable agriculture.
Location/Website: http://witw.cfans.umn.edu/index.htm
Topic: Water
Title: Wet City
Description: This website offers curriculum and activities that focus on water quality in urban areas. The WET in the City Curriculum and Activity Guide is a multi-disciplinary, hands-on urban water education curriculum that engages K-12 students in explorations of the science of water and complex issues surrounding its management and stewardship.
Location/Website: Topic: http://www.wetcity.org/resources.htm
Topic: Water, Climate, Ecosystems, Energy, Natural Hazards, Environmental health
Title: The US Geological Survey
Description: The USGS is a science organization that provides impartial information on the health of our ecosystems and environment, the natural hazards that threaten us, the natural resources we rely on, the impacts of climate and land-use change, and the core science systems that help us provide timely, relevant, and useable information.
Areas of focus: Climate and Land Use Change, Core Science Systems, Ecosystems, Energy and Minerals, and Environmental Health, Natural Hazards, Water
Location/Website: http://water.usgs.gov/
Topic: Waste
Title: Ecoscraps
Description: Ecoscraps provides international current and offbeat news in an easily digestible format.
Location/Website: http://ecoscraps.com/
Topic: Waste
Title: Terracycle
Description: Terracycle is a company that makes products out of trash. They invite people all over the world to start/ join brigades that collect trash and get paid to their favorite charity for the trash they collect. This trash is then “up-cycled” into new products. Site includes short videos and they also have a National Geographic television show called Garbage Moguls.
Location/Website: http://www.terracycle.net/
Topic: Waste
Title: The Global Waste Research Institute (GWRI)
Description: The Global Waste Research Institute (GWRI) is a collaborative effort between Cal Poly and industry to promote the development of sustainable waste and byproduct management technologies and advance current practices in resource management.
Location/Website: http://gwri.calpoly.edu/cgi-bin/complex2/showPage.plx?pid=1
Topic: Waste
Title: Your Environment Your Choice
Description: Your Environment Your Choice is an educational website of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency designed for teens. The site includes interactive activities, tips and games about reducing wastes and conserving resources.
Location/Website: http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/education/teens/
Topic: Wildlife
Title: Project WILD
Description: Project WILD is an interdisciplinary conservation and environmental education program emphasizing wildlife. Designed for educators of kindergarten through twelfth grade, Wild capitalizes on the natural interest that children and adults have in wildlife by providing hands-on activities. The mission of Project WILD is to provide wildlife-based education that fosters responsible actions toward wildlife and related natural resources. The goal of Project WILD is to assist learners of any age in developing awareness, knowledge, skills and commitment to result in informed decisions, responsible behavior, and constructive actions concerning wildlife the environment upon which all life depends.
Location/Website: http://www.projectwild.org/
