Websites
Suggested websites for Sustainable Resource Managers!
Innovative green ideas & thinking
- TED.com - inspiring ideas, fascinating people and great talks
- World Changing - Change your thinking to bright green
- Utopia.de - a German website for environmental change
- World Future Council Very interesting publications!
- Wuppertal Institute German think thank on sustainability
- World Watch Institute - an American think tank and NGO on sustainability and global issues.
- Earth Policy - building an economy for the earth
- root learning - making businesses better
- ecologic institute - applied research for environmental policy in Berlin.
- Ökoinstitut - German Think Tank for Sustainability
- FONA - Research for Sustainability - German government organisation
Sustainable design & consumption
- SCORE! - Sustainable Consumption Research Exchange (the Network project SCORE! acts as one of the EU`s central support structures for the UN`s 10 Year Framework of Programs for Sustainable Consumption and Production).
- Green Blue - offers an online primer on the basic concepts behind sustainable design principles. The training can be viewed with any broswer and requires no downloads!
- Cradle to Cradle Design - transforming industry towards eco-effectivness. True eco-design developed by Prof. Michael Braungart.
- Goodguide.com - a site for rating the ecological impact of products
Projects
- Best LIFE-Environment Projects - download all the best LIFE projects selected by the EU Environment Commission. A wonderful resource of best practices!
- Dropping Knowledge invites you to question yourself and the world around you. Every time you ask yourself a question, a new dialogue begins…
- Biofuel Cities - a European Partnership
- betterplace - a foundation for linking donors with recipients.
Climate change
- 350 - Global warming, global action, global future.
- CDIAC - Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center.
- World Resources Institute - Climate, Energy & Transport.
- World Bank Carbon Finance Unit
- We can solve it! - the goal of the alliance is to build a movement that creates the political will to solve the climate crisis. Take action!
- IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The main body research and advising on climate issues.
- Carbon Footprint - Home of Carbon Management
- The Climate Trust - Your path to a stable climate
- The Carbon Disclosure Project - an independent not-for-profit organisation which holds the largest database of corporate climate change information in the world.
Click here to download a word document with climate change web resources with screenshots from the sites.
Environment & Conflicts
- The Environment, Conflict and Cooperation website provides indepth information on environmental conflicts and how to overcome them through effective cooperation. It includes a newletter.
- The Fund for Peace - promoting sustainable society
Awareness raising
- Chris Jordan Photographic Arts Human minds normally fail to grasp the sheer numbers of pollution, wasted resources death etc. This artist has found a compelling way to visualize what we normally see as dry statistics.
Communities
- The SRM programme on Facebook.
Video clips
- Fora tv a video website on multiple issues - green, technology, politics, culture
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