Eco-Portal

Eco-Portal: An Information Gateway Empowering the Movement for Environmental Sustainability

EarthWatch Institute

 EarthWatch Institute.

Sustainability Academy

The Sustainability Academy provides experience-based education to accelerate mainstream practice of innovative solutions for economic success, ecological health and community benefit. The Sustainability Academy is strategically situated to interface with existing established domains, fostering greater integration.

Sustainability Practices Network

The Sustainability Practice Network (SPN) is a NYC-based forum and list server for professionals, academics and students working with corporate responsibility and sustainability issues to build a community based on learning, discussion, information and idea exchange. SPN supports the growth of sustainability practice and bridges disciplines to advance sustainable development by drawing on the knowledge and expertise of its members.

ReDefining Progress

Redefining Progress is the nation’s leading public policy think tank dedicated to smart economics. We find solutions that ensure a sustainable and equitable world for future generations.

Duquesne University Sustainability MBA

Duquesne University offers early- and mid-career professionals an unmatched proving ground: a transformative, 12-month MBA Sustainability degree that integrates multiple dimensions of sustainability across all business disciplines. Check out its perspective and resources.

Center for Sustainable Innovation

Can sustainability reporting be meaningful?

The list of companies in the world committed to measuring and reporting the sustainability of their operations using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework is growing. At last count, the number of companies producing GRI reports for 2006 was approaching 1300, a new high. We applaud this trend, and are proud to have been an Organizational Stakeholder of GRI since our founding in 2004. Check it out.

EcoEarth.Info - Enviro Portal

 EcoEarth.Info -- Environment Portal & Search Engine -- Empowering the Environmental Sustainability Movement 

Ecological Internet News Syndication Services

 

Ecological Internet, Inc. offers free news, links and commentary in XML/RSS format in order to allow other websites and information services to link to relevant environmental news stories gathered and commented upon by Ecological Internet as a service to the environmental communities. News, blog and link feeds are provided free of charge for use by individuals and non-profit organizations for personal, non-commercial uses and in accordance with this site's disclaimer and conditions for use.

Sustainability at the National Academies

The National Academies have established a Science and Technology for Sustainability Program (STS) in the division of Policy and Global Affairs to encourage the use of science and technology to achieve long term sustainable development - increasing incomes, improving public health, and sustaining critical natural systems. Specific projects under the STS program include the Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability and a workshop series entitled Strengthening Science-Based Decision Making.

EcoIQ.com

The EcoIQ.com Sustainability website is a rich resource of a variety of information media and tools for everyone interested in making smart choices about our future -- choices that are both economically and ecologically intelligent.

Sustainable Development Conferences Worldwide

Sustainable Development Conferences - Academic - Worldwide

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Conference Alerts brings together two groups of people - conference organizers, and academics who need to stay informed about conferences. We work with both small first-time conference organizers and established professional societies to ensure that notification of their conferences reach specifically interested parties. Both individual academics and a wide range of 'knowledge brokers' - such as journal editors, web site administrators and discussion list moderators - rely on our searchable online database and on Conference Alerts Monthly to remain informed about upcoming academic and professional events.

We are based in South Africa, but operate as a global organization maintaining an extensive, constantly updated database of conferences and subscribers all over the world. Our internet-based automated process enable us to provide this service at no cost to subscribers and at no cost (for a basic listing) or at a nominal fee (for the Featured Event service) to conference organizers.

We are affiliated with RegSoft.com, one of the largest and most highly respected secure online transaction companies on the web.

Contact information --The best way to contact us for general enquiries is via email at alerts@ConferenceAlerts.com.

GeSI -- The Global e-Sustainability Initiative

 
In 2000, 189 countries signed up to the Millennium Development Goals. These goals outlined action on matters as diverse as climate change and poverty elevation. The rapidly converging Information and Communications Technology Sector (ICT) recognized that addressing these issues would need an effective, industry-wide response.

As part of this response, GeSI, the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (www.gesi.org), was born in 2001 to further sustainable development in the ICT sector. GeSI fosters global and open cooperation, informs the public of its members’ voluntary actions to improve their sustainability performance, and promotes technologies that foster sustainable development.

In alliance with GeSI’s Secretariat, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), GeSI supports companies and institutions across the ICT industry, including manufacturers, network operators, service providers, trade associations and associate organisations connected to the industry.

The World Summit on the Information Society described information and communication technologies as “a powerful instrument, increasing productivity, generating economic growth, and improving the quality of life of all.“ GeSI considers this a crucial principle to extend the influence of ICT into all aspects of socio-economic development, applying these technologies to both rich and poor countries to achieve sustainable development across the globe.  (www.gesi.org)

Sustainability Store

Help Create a Sustainable Future. Sustainability Store helps you locate products, services and information for creating a sustainable future. Here you will find an online store, the latest news, and a comprehensive web directory dedicated to expanding the market for environmentally and socially responsible products and services. Sustainability Store is a free online service created with the help of users like you! Get Started Now... check it out!

	SHOP Sustainability Store
	Shop our store featuring thousands of products from some of our favorite sustainable businesses.
	BROWSE the Directory
	Browse or search our giant database of retailers, service providers and organizations working to create a sustainable future.
	READ Sustainability News
	Read the latest news about sustainability from all over the world.
	LEARN About Sustainability Store
	Learn about our efforts to expand the market for environmentally and socially responsible products and services -- and find out how you can help.

Sustainability NewsLadder - Tech Tool

NewsLadder is a new web tool.  Each ladder covers a subject. Every NewsLadder is sponsored by an organization or group interested in that issue. For example, the Sustain NewsLadder has been sponsored by Climate Counts, a group that is dedicated to fairly and accurately grading companies on what they are actually doing as regards to climate change and not just what they are saying. In keeping with the core concept of NewsLadder, all the voting, commenting, recommending and ranking of links is open and democratic. Everyone is free to sign in. Everyone is free to add links and everyone is free to rank stories up or down. I also wanted to gratefully thank Wood Turner and everyone at Climate Counts for being our initial sponsor of this site, they have given us the chance to aggregate so much information already that sharing the information has to help the cause. For that opportunity, I am very grateful. James Cannon Boyce Founder, NewsLadder.  Check it out!

SIF's Socially Responsible Investing Trend Report

From Press Release:  Spurred by such factors as rising institutional investor interest, growing demand for climate-related renewable energy alternatives, concerns about the Sudan humanitarian crisis, and the emergence of new products, socially responsible investing (SRI) in the United States is now growing at a much faster pace than the broader universe of all investment assets under professional management, according to the new edition of the Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States published by the nonprofit Social Investment Forum (SIF). The report found that, from 2005 to 2007, SRI assets increased more than 18 percent while all investment assets under management edged up by less than 3 percent.  (Read more).

Socially-Environmentally Responsible Investing

The Social Investment Forum (SIF) is the only national membership association dedicated to advancing the concept, practice, and growth of socially and environmentally responsible investing (SRI). Our members integrate economic, environmental, social and governance factors into their investment decisions and SIF provides programs and resources to advance this work. 

SIF's membership includes more than 500 social investment practitioners and institutions, including financial professionals, analysts, portfolio managers, banks, mutual funds, researchers, foundations, community development organizations, and public educators.

Live Green -- Join Co-op America

Since 1982, Co-op America has been pioneering progressive tools to amplify sustainability by voting with our dollars -- green consumption, production, and investing. Co-op America is a not-for-profit membership organization whose mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. They lead activist campaigns, and they produce and package access to resources, products, and services to buy green, trade fair, and invest for a sustainable future. To learn more, go to www.coopamerica.org

Sustainable Zoning Workshop

The American Planning Association's Sustainable Zoning and Development Controls Workshop. SOLD OUT, Chicago June 4–5, 2008, Embassy Suites.  Is your code sustainable? Does it address energy, climate change, and other cutting-edge green building issues? In this course, you’ll learn how to draft sustainable zoning codes and get tips on good code organization and managing the rewrite process.  You'll learn:

• How sustainable zoning codes can address energy, climate change, and other cutting-edge green building issues
• How to make smart codes, form-based codes, and hybrid codes work
• How to tell whether your code needs revisions
• The latest on big-box design standards, affordable housing, and infill
• How the First Amendment and recent case law affect local zoning
• What developers want from a code

Presenters James Duncan, FAICP  Christopher Duerksen   Craig Richardson   Certification Maintenance (CM).  The PTS workshops are approved for certification maintenance credits: CM | 14   Click here for Certification Maintenance program details.  http://www.planning.org/PTS/sustainablezoning.htm

Summer Institute in Sustainability (UBC, July 20-25)

Excerpt from the University of British Columbia's website: The UBC/UW Summer Institute in Sustainability is an intensive professional development program targeted to administrators in corporations, local and provincial governments, and universities and colleges who wish to integrate sustainability as a core value in their organization and develop sustainability policies and procedures that are mindful of public policy, stakeholder interest and the bottom line.

WiserEarth - Infrastructure For the Spontaneous Coordination of Sustainability Success?

Paul Hawkens founded WiserEarth in 2007 to provide an infrastructure for "people who are transforming the world;" to provide the connectivity needed to support the spontaneous coordination and cooperation needed by the "more than one million organizations and the one hundred million individuals who actively work towards ecological sustainability, economic justice, human rights, and political accountability" around the world everyday to enhance their effectiveness in remaking a sustainable world. The following excerpts from the WiserEarth website expand on its mission.

WiserEarth serves the people who are transforming the world. It is a community-editable international directory and networking forum that maps out and connects the largest movement in the world – the hundreds of thousands of organizations within civil society that address social justice, poverty, and the environment.

WiserEarth provides the tools and a platform for non-profit organizations, funders, social entrepreneurs, students, organizers, academics, activists, scientists, and citizens to find each other, make connections, build alliances and share resources.

The more than one million organizations and the one hundred million individuals who actively work towards ecological sustainability, economic justice, human rights, and political accountability work on issues that are systemically interconnected and intertwined. However, their effectiveness to prevent harm and institute positive change is undermined by the lack of a collective awareness, duplicative efforts, and poor connectivity. A widely diverse network of organizations is the best defense against injustice, but to be effective, it needs to be connected and intelligent. What is missing is a map and directory of this network that includes the resources for communication and cooperation, created and managed by the community; in essence, an infrastructure through which to coordinate our efforts. WiserEarth provides this movement a way to see itself and become connected. 

I have given hundreds of talks about the environment in the past fifteen years, I'm not sure how many. After talks people come up to talk, ask questions, or exchange business cards. People are creatures and we like to exchange, meet, touch our antennae. Many of my friends to this day I met this way. Those offering their cards work on the most salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and more. They were from the non-profit and non-governmental world, also known as civil society, and they looked after rivers and bays, educated consumers about sustainable agriculture, retrofitted houses with solar panels, lobbied state legislatures about pollution, fought against corporate-weighted trade policies, were studying hard at school, worked to green inner cities, or taught children about the environment. Quite simply, they were trying to safeguard nature and justice. I now believe there are over one million organizations working towards ecological sustainability and social justice. Maybe two.

This website is a result of counting. It is a gift of the thousands of organizations that want to save the earth from our basest instincts and create a culture of peace in its place. It is also the gift of the thousands and thousands of hours devoted to it by volunteers, interns, and staff members of Natural Capital Institute. It is now your site, top to bottom.