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Green Libraries http://www.greenlibraries.org/ A website dedicated to documenting the greening of libraries in the United States and beyond.

Hagan Foundation Center for the Humanities (Spokane Community College) www.scc.spokane.edu/?hfch  Sustainability: Living Lightly, Living Well is the 2008-2009 theme.

Library Energy Conservation Benchmarks Report (2009) http://www.researchandmarkets.com/product/643373/library energy conservation benchmarks The report presents detailed data largely from academic and public libraries about their efforts to conserve energy and reduce their greenhouse gas imprint.

Education

Campus Efforts to Confront Global Warming | Green Education Network for Sustainability Sponsored by the US Partnership on Education for Sustainable Development, DANS is an informal network of professional associations working on education for a sustainable future.

AACC Resolution in Support of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.  (Green Education for K-12 The work of Educational Reporting, Inc. (ERI) is focused on providing important reports, trends and news regarding K-12 education around the globe, along with providing access to tools and services that help educators.

The Luce Project on Green Governance The Luce Project on Green Governance, Green Peace fosters international exchange between the University of California, Berkeley, and research institutions in Indonesia, Nigeria, and Brazil addressing the question of new approaches to environmental policy and law, conflict resolution, etc.

Promoting Excellence in Environmental Education NAAEE is the professional association for environmental education. Their members promote professional excellence in nonformal organizations, K-12 classrooms, universities (both instructors and students), government agencies, and corporate settings throughout North America and in over 55 other countries.

Dedicated to Education for Sustainable Living  The Center for Ecoliteracy is a public foundation that supports a grantmaking program for educational organizations and school communities, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area; convenes networks of its grantees; sponsors projects consistent with its mission; administers donor-advised funds; etc.

Help Students Develop Environmental Literacy The Environmental Literacy Council is dedicated to helping citizens, especially young people, participate wisely in this arena. An independent, non-profit organization, the Council gives teachers the tools to help students develop environmental literacy.

Higher Education Sustainability AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, is a member organization of colleges and universities working to advance sustainability in higher education. They work in partnership with businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies.

American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment The American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment is a high-visibility effort to address global warming by garnering institutional commitments to neutralize greenhouse gas emissions, and to accelerate the research and educational efforts of higher education.

A Climate Challenge for Campuses The Campus Climate Challenge is a project of more than 30 leading youth organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Challenge leverages the power of young people to organize on college campuses and high schools across Canada and the U.S.

Environment: Yale Podcast The Environment:Yale podcast focuses on topical issues that have a connection to research being conducted by faculty and students at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development http://www.uspartnership.org/main/view_archive/1  Integrating sustainable development into education.

Non-profits 

Green for All. http://greenforall.org/ Dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.

Other

ASHRAE. http://www.ashrae.org/ Advancing HVAC&R to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world.

NaSBAP:National Sustainable Building Advisor Certificate Program. http://www.nasbap.org/

Northwest SEED: Sustainable Energy For Economic Development. http://www.nwseed.org/ Northwest SEED works to establish a clean, diverse, and affordable Northwest energy system based on efficient use of renewable resources, with maximum local control and ownership of energy assets.

The Pickens Energy Plan http://www.pickensplan.com/ Pickens plan to stop America's addition to foreign oil.

Rocky Mountain Institute.  Why Build Green?  http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/BuildingsLand/D02-14_WhyBuildGreen.pdf

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy. http://ejournal.nbii.org/, is a new peer-reviewed, open access journal that provides a platform for the dissemination of new practices and for dialogue emerging out of the field of sustainability. The e-Journal fills a gap in the literature by establishing a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion of empirical and social sciences, practices, and policies related to sustainability. Sustainability will facilitate communication among scientists, practitioners, and policy makers who are investigating and shaping nature-society interactions and working towards sustainable solutions.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  Why Build Green?  http://www.epa.gov/greenbuilding/pubs/whybuild.htm

U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) www.usgbc.org Nonprofit consensus coalition promoting the understanding, development, and accelerated implementation of green buildings.

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.--Nelson Mandela

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