Sustainable Development Organizations:
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is a nonprofit research and
Educational organization that provides technical assistance and
Information on environmentally sound economic development strategies.
Since 1974, ILSR has worked with citizen groups, governments and private
businesses in developing policies that extract the maximum value from
local resources. Does excellent work on non-chemical economies and
ideas for new economies.Great links.
Contact:
Michelle Carstensen
Address:
1313 5th Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
USA
Phone: (612) 379-3815
Fax: (612) 379-3920
E-mail: michelle@ilsr.org
Website: http://www.ilsr.org
Natural Step
working internationally on a set of principles referred to as the Natural Step. (see Rachel’s Newsletters #676,
667, 668, 670)
Currently there are offices in Australia, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands,
Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In addition, groups are starting in South Africa and
New Zealand.
http://www.naturalstep.org/
Resources:
Centre for Sustainability Studies - Centro de estudios para la
Sustentabilidad
The purpose of the Centre is to develop capacity and tools for
sustainability and to continue the development of the ecological footprint
concept, created by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees at the
University of British Columbia. Its main research activity currently is to
update and improve the ecological footprint accounts of nations. The 1995
updates, commissioned by the "Union des Banques Privées" from
Geneva, will be completed by June 1999. In 1998, the Centre gave over 70
presentations, seminars and courses on sustainability and ecological
footprint applications in 10 countries. Starting January 1999, Mathis
Wackernagel will also be directing the indicator program of Redefining
Progress, an activist think-tank in San Francisco.
Address:
Universidad Anáhuac de Xalapa,
Obreros Textiles 57
dep.6 Col. M.A. Muñoz
Xalapa, Veracruz 91060
México
Phone: (52) 28-18-48-43
Website: http://www.edg.net.mx/~mathiswa
GEO
Grassroots Economic Organizing
RR 1, Box 124A
Stillwater, PA 17878
Website: http://www.geonewsletter.org/
They provide news and a bi-monthly forum on grassroots organizing to build
and finance worker-owned, democratically run, community based, ecologically
sustainable enterprises.
Sustainability Indicator Web Sites:
Redefining Progress
www.rprogress.org/index.html
Does a lot on developing indicators for sustainability.
Sustainable Community Indicators Website
www.subjectmatters.com/indicators
Designed for volunteers and community residents this site explains how indicators relate to sustainability,
how to identify effective indicators, what data sources are available, and how indicators can be used to
measure progress toward building a sustainable community. 100’s of indicators listed.
Other Useful Web Sites:
Sustainable Development Virtual Library
description: A comprehensive list of internet sites dealing with sustainable development, including
organizations, projects and activities, electronic journals, libraries, references and documents, databases,
directories or metadatabases
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/sustvl.html
INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
Key issues, such as global warming, trouble in the Middle East, trade conflicts, and cancer are linked to how
we grow, process, market, consume, and dispose of food. And the impacts are global. Converting land in
Mexico that once grew food for local consumption into megafarms for vegetable exports affects the
ecological and the social conditions around the planet. The International Forum on Food and Agriculture
(IFA) was created to address these global concerns. This site will provide you with very useful information.
Some information is available in other languages.
http://www.sustain.org/iffah/