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Sustainable Society
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Sustainability & Corporate Environmentalism
Greenbiz Launched by the nonprofit Green Business Network, Greenbiz.com offers a host of free resources for mainstream companies seeking to align responsibility with business success. Daily news and columnists, tools and reports, backgounders on environmental topics, mentoring programs, etc.
The Natural Step Founded by Swedish physician Karl Henrik Robert, TNS began in Sweden, with a rigorous consensus building process to determine basic principles upon which to build a sustainable society. There are now TNS organizations in half a dozen countries.
The Rocky Mountain Institute Founded by Amory and Hunter Lovins, is one of the most vital research and educational centers in existence on sustainability issues, with a longstanding practice of helping energy and transportation companies think creatively about their purpose and effect.
Sustainablebusiness.com This site has one of the better links libraries, and also publishes the terrific monthly email newsletter "Sustainable Business Insider". The current issue has an excerpt from a new book about The Natural Step, and an article that will give you a glimpse into the future of transportation.
Plausible Futures This site is a weekly, updated newslette for future studies and scenario planning.
Solstice: Crest Internet Information Service Set up by the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology, looks like a comprehensive entry point to a wide range of documents, data banks, discussions, and other sites on sustainability.
Global Change Published by the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security (Oakland, California), contains information about worldwide sustainability initiatives.
International Institute for Sustainable Development Based in Canada, IISD operates internationally to promote sustainable development, which they define as development which improvse economic efficiency, protects and restores ecological systems, and enhances the well-being of people. They publish the award-winning Earth Negotiations Bulletin, and host IISDnet.
The Center for a New American Dream A private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to reducing resource consumption and improving the quality of life in North America. Their directors include Donella Meadows, Alan Durning, and Juliet Schor.
Context Institute A nonprofit research organization, has been exploring and clarifying just what is involved in a humane sustainable culture - and how we can get there - since 1979. They invite you to join them in this adventure, as they are still willing to call it after all these years. The site includes pages on alternative diplomacy, new urbanism, and making neighborhoods sustainable.
The City of Bits An "online book" counterpart to the "new urbanism" book by William J. Mitchell, Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT.
Sustainabledevelopment.org Sponsored by the United Nations Center for Human Development and The Together Foundation, the site acts as a clearinghouse for information about sustatinable development. You can subscribe to their best practices database and case studies for sustainable development.
Clearinghouse on Environmental Research and Advocacy Monitors and reports on the anti-environmental "wise use" movement and its allies.
Greenleaf Publishing Gathers and sells books, catalogues and videos devoted to promoting sustainable development and business.
EnviroLink Hosts the Sustinable Business Network, with changing feature stories, and updated stock prices of businesses deemed "green."
Corporate Critique & Social Responsibility
The Corporate Governance Designed to provide a springboard for explorations and discussions concerning the movement to enhance wealth by creating more democratic forms of corporate governance.
The Dilbert web site Links to Scott Adams' work, provides counterpoint to the learning organization idea.
The Council on Economic Priorities A public service research organization dedicated to accurate and impartial analysis of the social and environmental records of corporations. "For 26 years, our research has been designed to enhance the incentives for superior corporate social and environmental performance and to encourage the transfer of cold war resources to a productive civilian economy."
Wealth Creation and Wealth Sharing A Colloquium on Corporate Governance and Investments in Human Capital.
We The People (organized by former California governor Jerry Brown) is a membership organization... "dedicated to political reform and social justice. Our commitment is to speak truth to power and work change - in ourselves and in our communities - through study, citizen action and local organizing."

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