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Starfish: Educational Resources for Sustainability - This
link goes directly to a section of Second Nature's Starfish site
that offers actual syllabi (donated by WRI) from business school
professors from universities around the country, showing how they
have integrated environmental issues into their classes. The Starfish
site also offers a vast collection of other resources designed
to help faculty from all disciplines integrate environmental and
sustainability issues into their teaching.
(To find WRI donated syllabi, please scroll down the Starfish
page to the section titled "World Resources Institute's Management
Institute for Environment and Business," and click on the link.)
- International Corporate
Environmental Reporting Site - This site provides information
on corporate environmental reporting (CER), including environmental
performance measuring and accounting.
- Environmental
Expert - The website for the Environmental Business Information
Service Center for Professionals Worldwide.
- Global Ecolabelling Network
- This site provides information on ecolabelling and some involved
organizations.
- Life Cycle Assessment Links
- This website provides links to LCA related sites in part as
a contribution to further the science and implementation of LCA.
- PRé - PRé Consultants
offers SimaPro LCA software, Eco-indicator life cycle assessment
methodology and ECO-it ecodesign software.
Trade and environment links
- Business and the Environment
(BATE) Newsletter - Since its launch in 1990, BATE has emerged
as the key international forum for executives worldwide to learn
about and debate environmental management issues.
- Business & Environment
at Stern (BES) - The Stern School of Business at NYU initiated
BES to coordinate and advance the various research and teaching
efforts at the Stern School in the area of business and environment,
and offers resources on education, performance measurement, and
other sustainability topics.
- Business Enterprise Trust
- Dedicated to identifying and promoting acts of business leadership
which combine sound management and social vision.
- Business for Social Responsibility
- A membership organization for companies of all sizes and sectors.
- Center of Excellence
for Sustainable Development - Access model codes and ordinances
other communities have used to implement sustainable development.
- e c o s u s t a i
n a b l e H u b - This site is a comprehensive one-stop web
connection to resources and tools on the environment and sustainability.
- Envirobiz - An environmental
business and technology marketplace, featuring companies, agencies
and associations, news, events and research.
- Environmental
Impact of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry - This site provides
comprehensive information on environmental problems surrounding
the offshore oil and gas exploration and development.
- Extended Product Responsibility
(EPR) - EPR is a product-oriented approach to environmental
protection that challenges players throughout the product chain
to work together to reduce the life cycle environmental impacts
of products.
- Global Futures - A nonprofit
environmental consulting company that specializes in business
and environment conflict resolution, environmental policy analysis,
and resource efficiency.
- Global Network of Environment
and Technology - Provides environmental market, technology,
and related government and financial information, as well as environment
and technology news.
- green3.com - An extensive
source of information, business news, educational stuff and useful
links on new business strategies; product and process innovation;
productivity and efficiency improvement; and innovation, value
and competitive edge from compliance.
- GreenBiz.com - The nonprofit,
nonpartisan GreenBiz.com works to harness the power of technology
to bring environmental information, resources, and tools to the
mainstream business community.
- GreenMarketing -
Positioning Your Company to Profit from Sustainable Development
and "Eco-Innovation"
- Green Pages - The Global Directory
for Environmental Technology - reference source for the public
and private sector community engaged in environmental activities.
- Holocene Design Co. -
A Sustainable Development visioning and training service.
- IMD's Managing the Industrial
Business Environment (MIBE) project - MIBE is the Environmental
Management Research Project at IMD. Corporations participate in
MIBE to build a sustainable business advantage.
- In Business, The Magazine
For Sustainable Enterprise and Communities - This magazine
is dedicated to helping innovative individuals grow sustainable
enterprises, and put smart growth strategies into real world practice.
- International Insitute for Sustainable
Development (IISD) - More about definitions, moving from principles
to practice, and the history and institutions of sustainable development.
- IISD's Business and Sustainable
Development website - Business is progressing on a journey
towards sustainability.
- The Lowell Center
for Sustainable Production - The Center conducts research
with business and community groups on measuring and promoting
sustainability, and it offers an Indicators of Sustainable Production
training curriculum for firms as well as citizen organizations.
- Prepared Mind - Strategic
Business Information Research
- President's
Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) - Established by
President Clinton in June 1993 to advise him on sustainable development
and develop "bold, new approaches to achieve our economic, environmental,
and equity goals."
- SEED Systems - A company
dedicated to promoting sustainable development in business through
the integration of principles of organizational learning, systems
thinking and basic science.
- Social Venture Network - A
community of leading business and social entrepreneurs engaged
in building a socially just and environmentally sustainable economy.
- Sustainable Methods
of Aquaculture - SBC is a web site based in the
- Sustainable Business.com
- A focal point on the Web for all environmental business sectors,
from recycling to green building, from renewable energy to organic
products, from social investing to certified forestry.
- Sustainable Methods
of Aquaculture - SBC is a web site based in the United Kingdom
that defines and provides links about sustainable development,
freshwater ecology and sustainable aquaculture.
- World Business Council on Sustainable
Development (WBCSD) - The World Business Council for Sustainable
Development (WBCSD) is a coalition of some 140 international companies
united by a shared commitment to sustainable development, i.e.
environmental protection, social equity and economic growth.
Education and Environment
- Beyond Grey Pinstripes:
Preparing MBAs for Social and Environmental Stewardship
- Joint report from 1999 by WRI and the Aspen Institute on business
schools and their incorporation of social and environmental issues
into MBA programs.
- Carnegie-Mellon's
Green Design Initiative - Carnegie Mellon University began
a campus-wide Green Design Initiative in 1992 to promote environmentally
conscious engineering, product and process design, manufacturing,
and architecture. The initiative involves forming partnerships
with industrial corporations, foundations, and government agencies
to develop joint research and education programs which improve
environmental quality while encouraging sustainable economic development.
- Center for Respect
for Life and Environment - The work of the Center is to awaken
people's ecological sensibilities and to transform lifestyles,
institutional practices, and social policies to support the community
of life.
- The Consortium for Environmental
Education in Medicine - Dedicated to advancing humans' quality
of life by demonstrating the close links between human health
and the environment. CEEM's goal is to make the relationship of
environment to human health an integral part of medical education.
- Directory of Higher
Education Environmental Programs - This site serves as a national
clearinghouse of information on environmental programs at colleges
and universities.
- International Institute
for Industrial Environmental Economics; Lund University, Sweden
- The mission of the Institute is to contribute to the international
advancement of sustainable development by conducting research
at the forefront of issues pertaining to cleaner production, and
to educate present and future decision makers within all sectors
of society in the formulation and implementation of preventive
environmental strategies.
- National Center for Environmental
Research - Science To Achieve Results (STAR), EPA (United
States Environmental Protection Agency)
- National Wildlife Federation's
Campus Ecology Program - The Wild in our world is more than
a luxury. Healthy wildlife, wild places and natural resources
are essential to our own health and quality of life.
- Net Impact - A network of
emerging business leaders committed to using the power of business
to create a better world.
- Second Nature - A nonprofit
organization that helps colleges and universities expand their
efforts to make environmentally sustainable and just action a
foundation of learning and practice.
- eSocrates - A unique
educational and environmental project that helps create Course
Web Sites and automatically updates them with business and environmental
information links.
- Stanford
Law School Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy
case study site - The case studies listed here are meant for
use in teaching environmental and natural resources law and policy,
although they are multidisciplinary in nature.
- University Leaders for
a Sustainable Future - The mission of ULSF is to advance global
environmental literacy by supporting the implementation of the
Talloires Declaration ten point action plan at all member institutions.
- WBCSD Sustainable Business
Challenge - Online quiz to test your knowledge of sustainability.
Certificates of business and environment literacy are awarded
to everyone who passes to the quiz.
The following are links referenced in the recent WRI Publication,
Measuring
Up: Toward a Common Framework for Tracking Corporate Environmental
Performance
- CERES Principles - Coalition
for Environmentally Responsible Economies
- General Motors - GM.com is the
point of entry to a vast world of information about the company,
products, the role we play as a leading citizen in the global
society.
- The Green Lane - Environment
Canada's vision is to see a Canada where people make responsible
decisions about the environment; and where the environment is
thereby sustained for the benefit of present and future generations.
- New Ideas in Pollution
Regulation - A site for researchers, government officials,
and citizens interested in understanding and improving control
of industrial pollution, especially in developing countries. NIPR
is the primary source for materials produced by the World Bank's
Economics of Industrial Pollution Control Research Project.
- Nortel - Telephone
and Network solutions
- Right-to-Know Network, United States
- Provides free access to numerous databases, text files, and
conferences on the environment, housing, and sustainable development.
- AsianEnviro.com
- The web's premier source of environmental business intelligence
for the Asia Pacific region.
- Best Practices Database
- This searchable database contains over 1100 proven solutions
from more than 120 countries to the common social, economic, and
environmental problems of an urbanizing world.
- The Center for a New American
Dream - A non-profit membership-based organization that helps
individuals and institutions reduce and shift consumption to enhance
our quality of life and protect the environment.
- Center for Sustainable
Systems - National Pollution Prevention Center (NPPC)
- Cornell Work and Environment
Initiative - Center for the Environment
- The Earth Council -
The mission of the Earth Council is to support and empower people
in building a more secure and equitable and sustainable future.
- EcoLinks - This dynamic
initiative of US-AID is seeking practical, market-based solutions
to industrial and urban environmental problems in Central and
Eastern Europe and the New Independent States.
- EnviroLink - The largest
online environmental information resource on the planet.
- Environmental Data Services
- Meeting the environmental information needs of professionals
since 1978 - ENDS (Environmental Data Services Ltd)
- Environmental Services Association
of Alberta - Established in 1987, the ESAA is one of Canada's
leading environment industry associations with nearly 300 member
organizations. Dedicated to building a strong environment industry,
the ESAA is a business association with a business approach to
providing programs leading to its members' corporate success!
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'FUSI@N' Business Magazine & News - Progressive and alternative
business issues and topics hoping to promote change, both business
and social.
- Greenwave Radio - with
your hosts Carey and Chandler, is all about the exciting things
people and businesses are doing to work with the environment.
- ID21 - ID21 publishes a wide
range of research reports on development issues--approximately
25 research reports are added every month.
- Industry
Canada's Sustainable Development Website - Detailed information
on the integration of sustainable development into Industry Canada's
policies, programs and day-to-day operations.
- National Wildlife Federation
- The nation's largest member-supported conservation group, uniting
individuals, organizations, businesses and government to protect
wildlife, wild places, and the environment.
- New Ideas in Pollution Regulation
(NIPR) - From the World Bank's Economics of Industrial Pollution
Control Research Project
- Patterns of a Conservation
Economy - This site presents a bioregional pattern language,
defining sectors of opportunity - and their linkages - for the
emerging sustainable economy of the 21st century.
- The Recycled Products
Purchasing Cooperative (RPPC) - This cooperative is working
to increase the use of recycled content copy paper in the public
and private sectors by providing 30% postconsumer recycled paper
at prices which meet or beat what most businesses and public agencies
are paying for virgin fiber paper.
- REED - Residential
Energy Efficiency Database - "Your Guide To Understanding
Residential Energy Efficiency"
- Rocky Mountain Institute -
An entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient
and restorative use of resources to create a more secure, prosperous,
and life-sustaining world.
- The Sustainable Communities
Network - This online service, co-directed by CONCERN, Inc.
and the Community Sustainability Resource Institute, links people
to the resources needed to become more sustainable, and includes
a number of case studies.
- Sustainable Development
- ONLINE - This is the website of the European Foundation
for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and comprises
four online databases with listings of sustainability-oriented
conferences, networks, tools and training courses.
- Sustainabledevelopment.org
- A resource center for information about sustainable development.
This is an information center that utilizes the latest in Intranet
Web technology to provide a community-center atmosphere for the
storing, searching and disseminating of sustainable development
information.
- TOMORROW on the Web
- Global Business Magazine, Tomorrow Magazine, Tomorrow Essentials.
- VirtualPresidio
- Helps businesses, citizen organizations, and governments to
promote a new vision of worldwide economic prosperity, incorporating
environmental stewardship.
- United Nations Earth
Summit+5 - Special Session of the General Assembly to Review
and Appraise the Implementation of Agenda 21.
- United Nations Environment
Program - Working Group on Sustainable Product Development.
We hope you will find this information
helpful. We welcome your reactions and comments.
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